I wonder who’ll be next week’s Prime Minister?
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(It’s the same raid, but it turns out Pete Hegseth talked about it in a general Signal chat including his wife and brother-in-law)
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(It’s the same raid, but it turns out Pete Hegseth talked about it in a general Signal chat including his wife and brother-in-law)
A series of leaks about military planning for the Panama Canal and the Middle East, about a possible consolidation of the combatant commands, and about a classified China briefing for Elon Musk at the Pentagon had deeply rattled Hegseth by mid-March, sources told CNN. So he and Kasper launched a leak probe, complete with polygraph tests.
Following the press reports — including one in The New York Times about the questionable success of a massive military campaign against the Houthis — Hegseth began to lash out and grew suspicious that senior military officials, as well as some of his closest advisers, were leaking to undermine him, the sources added.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/hegseth-second-signal-chat-military-plans/index.html
Man, to be a fly on that wall.
I’m kinda hoping that one day, Armando Iannucci will write a Death-of-Stalin style movie about the Trump administration.
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Yeah, it’d be funny. Not tragic because we’d still be getting the US funding a genocide, and using the cudgel of false antisemitism charges to curtail free speech and persecute college students. We’d still be getting the erosion of women’s and LGBT rights in the face of rising fascism because Democrats would sooner compromise with the far right than consider enabling even the moderate left. We’d still be witnessing the death of the state in favour of more neoliberalism.
But Biden, who didn’t even run last year might be senile. Unlike Trump, who talks a non-stop stream of bullshit, doesn’t even know who half his cabinet is, who’s had the White House Press Corps packed with conspiracy theorists and fruitcakes because they’ll publicly claim he’s tough and strong and virile.
At least you’d be able to laugh.
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After the last three months we’ve had, I genuinely didn’t think we’d ever see another “Democrat presidency would be just as bad as Trump” post, but here we are.
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Honestly the Biden administration would be just as funny, or even funnier. Dems let a senile man lead the world.
And yet under his lead, there was a competent administration quietly doing pretty good work like investing in the US infrastructure, lowering the cost of insuline, advancing regenerative energies and supporting labour unions. And they did all this without leaking shit about Biden’s health to the press.
That’s not Ianucci material, that’d be Sorkin. If you can’t see how fucking hilarious a Ianucci depiction of the continuous meltdowns and backstabbing and insanity of Trumpworld would be, well, I recommend watching Veep. Because I am doing that right now and it’s like two sides of one coin.
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he talked about other countries like in the Middle East that he felt were living too lavishly in luxury and they depended on US involvement there. He was saying they should pay the US more. So back then, he had in mind an international “shakedown/protection money” arrangement, like its a schoolyard or what organized crime did with neighborhood businesses.
That was back in 1988. He was on Oprah and was talking about Japan’s huge investments in the US as if they were taking over, and he was talking about Kuwait citizens living like kings at the time. (Before Saddam invaded in 1990 but I digress.) He didn’t exactly understand international trade, or even how a trade deficit can work in your favor. He only thought in terms of “protection money”, tariffs, even back then.
Now we have this:
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Guys, I can’t tell, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
It can be two things!
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And yes they covered up Biden’s cognitive decline. As well as they could anyway.
If by “they” you mean the White House, of course they did, or tried to. And you linked to an article where journalists are self-questioning whether they fought hard enough to nevertheless draw this into the spotlight, because of course they reported on it. Look at your original post and at what you claimed happened if apparently anyone dared mention his mental state. And did the media let the White House get away with too much in trying to cover up his problems? Maybe. But all of this is still a pretty normal process; hell, it’d happened before with Reagan and to a much greater extent. The point is that during all this, the Biden admin was still doing normal, and often actually pretty good government work and you called that a worse shitshow than Trump right now, which is just as insane as it gets.
Dude, Western countries are completely dysfunctional.
And this is a completely different point and I agree with it to an extent – though obviously not entirely, just go to one of the failed states in the world and try to build a life there if you want to know what completely dysfunctional means. But there are a lot of problems that are not being addressed, and this has led to the current state of things in which too many people are opting out of democracy and becoming fascism curious. But there are also a lot of people working on actually making things better and finding a way to switch tracks. There are many, many productive groups you can support if you’re so desparate about the state of affairs instead of just spiralling over extremist news you algorithm feeds you.
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