I wonder who’ll be next week’s Prime Minister?
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Someone on twitter made the point that all the main platforms are controlled by right wing billionaires. Bezos (who owns Washington Post) and Zuckerberg seem to have switched to supporting Trump. It’s all quite concerning.
I think Musk is all-in, in fact further to the right than Trump and half his crowd. He’s already declared the likes of Nigel Farage are too left wing for him and he prefers neo-Nazis like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Zuck and Bezos are just cowards. They bent the knee as soon as Trump took power because they are afraid of any repercussions on their business if they didn’t. I’m not saying for a second they are secretly Marxists or anything, they are billionaire businessmen after all and like to be taxed low and have weak unions. My suspicion is though they’d rather someone more rational in there, probably don’t like the ICE shit, definitely don’t like the tariffs etc.
The truth is that for a lot of these business leaders, it’s easier to go along with Trump in the short term compared to the potential negative effects of vocally opposing him.
In the grand scheme of things the chaos of Trump is a relatively short-term, time-limited episode that they (and a lot of other business leaders) are happier to ride out, rather than start a war with.
Even when it comes to global upsets like the trade tariffs, it’s unlikely they’ll persist past Trump even if he sticks with them for his full term, so it’s just a couple of years of disruption to get through before normality begins to return.
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…it’s just a couple of years of disruption to get through before normality begins to return.
Living in the eye of the storm (so to speak), it’s hard for me to be that optimistic about ever getting back to normal.
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Well, the US prison industry will be doing well after Trump, with all the ICE agents being jailed.
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Don’t forget, back to normal for the capitalist class is very different than that condition for the rest of us. We’ll still be dealing with the aftermath of Trump’s America in the trenches for decades.
Yeah, I was talking purely from a business perspective there. Socially I think the damage will take a lot longer to reverse.
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That, plus the six figure stipend he’s getting to tide him over will show him for sure.
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At least the royal family acted decisively and rapidly to punish him once they had the slightest inkling that something dodgy was going on, and used clear and unambiguous language to condemn him for it.
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Interesting that prince Andrew apparently has to give up the title of prince now, yet it seems there is no police investigation against him.
I want to make it clear firstly that I think he’s guilty as hell and a complete piece of shit. The next bit is not about what I think should happen, what is right or wrong, they could nail his balls to a wall and I’d be fine with it. It’s about the legal system.
I don’t think there’s any great conspiracy about a lack of charges against Andrew Windsor. There’s not a case that would stand up in court on current evidence.
The only photos we have of him with Guiffre are in London, when she was 17. The UK age of consent is 16 so there’s no ‘statutory rape’ charge or similar that could be applied to him. By her own account in her book he didn’t exert any force, she was groomed to be compliant by Epstein and Maxwell. Even if he admitted he had sex with her, and barring a surprise witness it’s impossible to prove he did, it would be difficult to find an offence he committed if he just said “Epstein said this girl wanted to sleep with a Prince”. The trafficking charges would be on Epstein and Maxwell, Epstein and the sole witness (Guiffre) are dead and Maxwell is already convicted and saying nothing.
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Yeah, I was talking purely from a business perspective there. Socially I think the damage will take a lot longer to reverse.
Also from the perspective of people who expect things go back to normal after Trump’s second term. Which I agree is probably what they’re thinking, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
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I agree it is tough to find a crime under British law then. It is still odd though, the way he is being ejected from the royal family if there is no real crime. Maybe there is more to all this.
I’m not sure there is more. It’s more than just whether a crime was committed or could be prosecuted. He’s displayed morally repugnant behaviour. He shouldn’t be having sex with teenagers set up for him as a middle aged man, he shouldn’t be writing emails wanting to meet up with Epstein after he was convicted (but let off with a pathetic sentence) for being a paedophile. Something he lied about to everyone as he told Emily Maitliss in his infamous Newsnight interview that he met Epstein the year before to cut off all contact.
For all his faults I can imagine King Charles is fucking seething at his brother and the shame he’s brought on the family, where public support is basically the only thing that maintains their status. The UK is far from an absolute monarchy in the 21st century, the institution exists by public consent and if that opinion polling ever gets deeply negative they all lose their silly titles and houses and all become “Mr/Ms Windsor”.
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For all his faults I can imagine King Charles is fucking seething at his brother and the shame he’s brought on the family, where public support is basically the only thing that maintains their status. The UK is far from an absolute monarchy in the 21st century, the institution exists by public consent and if that opinion polling ever gets deeply negative they all lose their silly titles and houses and all become “Mr/Ms Windsor”.
This is why the latest action has been taken by the royal family, of course. It would be lovely to think it was on a moral basis but it’s clearly motivated by self-interest.
I think one of the real dangers for the royals is the way this scandal is contaminating the legacy of the late queen, too. People had a lot of affection and respect for her, but looking at the history of Andrew’s activities it seems fairly clear at this point that she was aware of what went on and was protecting him, and happy to pay out vast sums of money to get him out of trouble.
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Willuam and Harry can deal with it in the traditional manner – each raises an army, then beats the crap out of the other.
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Willuam and Harry can deal with it in the traditional manner – each raises an army, then beats the crap out of the other.
Air it as a PPV event and I think a lot of money could be made from it.
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This is, of course, an egalitarian era, if Kate and Megan want in on the battery, then OK.
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Supposedly, William may have helped push Andrew out: How Prince William Secretly Plotted to Finally Destroy His Uncle
The impression that I get is that from reading various sources is that William will be a King who will not take anybody’s bullshit. I can see him deal with Harry and Meghan far more severely than grandmother and dad.
I would say that The News Agents podcast (which includes Emily Maitliss as one of the presenters) discussed and debunked this story the other day.
They would have pretty excellent access to royal correspondents after many years at the BBC and by their account William wanted to go a little easier and it was Charles pushing the full stripping or titles etc.
There’ll never be an official statement on it either way so we can just guess and choose the version that chimes the best really.
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it was Charles pushing the full stripping of titles
Andrew was totally on board until he realised he’d misread the email.
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Hideous massacres in Sudan right now. It’s time the world paid more attention to this conflict.
Unfortunately, if you get your news from an American television channel, you won’t hear a word about this. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc. have no interest in reporting about mass killings and other atrocities in black Africa. I heard about this from NPR (National Public Radio, whose funding was cut in half by Trump earlier this year) over the weekend; meanwhile, this has been going on for weeks!!
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Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral race
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Woke up, huh, all the money in the world can’t make NYC elect a perv, great result.
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Woke up, huh, all the money in the world can’t make NYC elect a perv, great result.
Trump endorsed Cuomo, so they did try!
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I’m impressed the Dems managed to only passive-aggressively try and ratfuck Mamdani and not actively sabotage him.
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Willuam and Harry can deal with it in the traditional manner – each raises an army, then beats the crap out of the other.
That’d be so fucking awesome!
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I’m impressed the Dems managed to only passive-aggressively try and ratfuck Mamdani and not actively sabotage him.
After he bested everyone in the primary, they figured their best play was to stay quiet.
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Yeah, including not even saying they’d endorse him in many cases!
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https://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-services-eu-nations-vote-6866526-Nov2025
It’s great to see this moving forward, we were promoting the petition for this for a long, long time… I think I still have some stickers with the QR code on them hanging around!
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The Netherlands is the only EU country where life expectancy decreased from 2019-2024
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Yeah, including not even saying they’d endorse him in many cases!
Yeah, the lack of endorsements was very telling.
Mamdani promised a lot of stuff he will never be able to deliver. I think voters know that, but they look at him as someone who will fight for the people and not the rich.
That is the lesson the Democrats need to take home.
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Mamdani promised a lot of stuff he will never be able to deliver. I think voters know that, but they look at him as someone who will fight for the people and not the rich. That is the lesson the Democrats need to take
Very much this. The top Democrat leadership seems to be paralysed, they won’t fight for anything unless they can win, and even in that narrow window they’ll compromise in the name of bipartisanship even though that will never be reciprocated by the Republicans. So they’ll stand there and lecture people on how the things they want just aren’t possible. Meanwhile if Mamdani fails at something, he’ll get some level of forgiveness if he clearly tries.
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Mamdani promised a lot of stuff he will never be able to deliver. I think voters know that, but they look at him as someone who will fight for the people and not the rich. That is the lesson the Democrats need to take
Very much this. The top Democrat leadership seems to be paralysed, they won’t fight for anything unless they can win, and even in that narrow window they’ll compromise in the name of bipartisanship even though that will never be reciprocated by the Republicans. So they’ll stand there and lecture people on how the things they want just aren’t possible. Meanwhile if Mamdani fails at something, he’ll get some level of forgiveness if he clearly tries.
And when they have all the cards, they don’t do anything. I genuinely believe that if they had done more, especially under Biden, Trump 2.0 may not have happened, or at least he could have been somewhat curtailed.
Gavin Newsome is gearing for a POTUS run. Yeah, trolling Trump was funny in the beginning but that got old quick. Yeah, you got Prop 50 passed, but what else have you done? No much.
Pelosi has said she won’t seek reelection next year.
Small miracles.
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Gavin Newsome is gearing for a POTUS run. Yeah, trolling Trump was funny in the beginning but that got old quick. Yeah, you got Prop 50 passed, but what else have you done? No mu
Hey, he has transphobia, a deep love of persecuting the homeless and is willing to platform the far right. If that doesn’t cream left-wing candidate, I don’t know what does.
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Gavin Newsome is gearing for a POTUS run. Yeah, trolling Trump was funny in the beginning but that got old quick. Yeah, you got Prop 50 passed, but what else have you done? No mu
Hey, he has transphobia, a deep love of persecuting the homeless and is willing to platform the far right. If that doesn’t cream left-wing candidate, I don’t know what does.
You forgot that he also looks like a Republican!
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Newsome has no chance of winning, the left in America hate his guts and the Democrats can’t get elected without the left.
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Well you need someone who can convince the independent voters in Ohio and Wisconsin to vote for him or her. They voted for Obama and even Biden.
And what does Newsome offer them? Is he going to go over Ohio and Wisconsin and smash up their homeless encampments with a big shit-eating grin on his face too?
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That’s the very cynical MO of the Democrats for years, eat a 10% crap sandwich instead of a 80% crap sandwich. They should be offering good 0% crap sandwiches instead.
Talking of, Mamdani’s “radical policies” ain’t that radical outside the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal
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Compared to president Lindell?
Did Lindell smash shit up? Because you know Newsome literally did that? He literally smashed up homeless camps.
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I’m impressed the Dems managed to only passive-aggressively try and ratfuck Mamdani and not actively sabotage him.
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Scrap that, satire became treated as actual info because no one can tell the difference anymore where the Trump II Administrstion is concerned.
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US Right-wing nuts: Reconsider same-sex marriage. (Translation: Kill it.)
US Supreme Court: ….No.
Didn’t expect that, but good.
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Everyone ready to accept that the Democrats are controlled opposition now? How yet again, juuuuust enough of them crossed the aisle to confirm what the Republicans wanted to do, and this time it was the eight Dem senators who are the farthest away from their next election?
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Just checking, we’re all accepting that Trump gave Clinton a blow job at an Epstein party, right? Doesn’t matter if it turns out to be false, that’s our consensus reality?
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Apparently Epstein had a meeting with the Macron government in 2019.
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Just checking, we’re all accepting that Trump gave Clinton a blow job at an Epstein party, right? Doesn’t matter if it turns out to be false, that’s our consensus reality?
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Paedophile enablers enable paedophile.
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That brief video segment is online where Kelly defends 47 as only going after the older teens (15-17) and not the 13-14 range. It was her attempt to differentiate him from Epstein but she came across as saying after they were too old for one they went to the other and she was making it normal to perv at that age range. <Sigh>
And as for releasing the files… Let’s also get Putin to post the pics 🤣
And Bill Clinton to address the media possibly?And now Marjorie Taylor Greene is said to be under attack over the files.(He shot down her Georgia Senator run a few months ago.) They are turning on each other.
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Everything below the age of consent is simply wrong for an adult and arguing it’s not “pedophilia” but “hebephilia” or whatever is stupid. It is still the same fact, no matter what term you use for it.
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Also “the Catholic League” is a bullshit group, led by a crazy right winger named Bill Donahue, that doesn’t really have anything to do with mainstream cathlicism. I think this guy used to have debates with people like Christopher Hitchens. He’s been around for a long time.
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arguing it’s not “pedophilia” but “hebephilia” or whatever is stupid.
Yeah, whenever anyone makes that argument in any situation, it’s a massive red flag, because… why would you be trying to make that distinction, my dude? They’re both pretty awful. Guilty conscience? And not to play into stereotypes, but they often have some kind of anime waifu avatar too.
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Everything below the age of consent is simply wrong for an adult and arguing it’s not “pedophilia” but “hebephilia” or whatever is stupid. It is still the same fact, no matter what term you use for it.
Yeah, the question is why Kelly would even throw the distinction of “He only raped post-puberty children” into the mix. And the answer is probably that Trump’s team are floating this and trying to make it stick as not-as-bad-as-proper-pedophilia because they know there’s no way they can get Trump out of this completely at this point. So they’re hoping Trump’s crowd will be okay with him raping thirteen-year-olds when it all comes out into the open.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Fun Daily Show bit about Marjorie being weirdly reasonable recently:
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So they’re hoping Trump’s crowd will be okay with him raping thirteen-year-olds when it all comes out into the open.
History shows that people can and will overlook this stuff when they want to – it didn’t hurt David Bowie’s reputation too much, for example – and I think it’s likely Trump won’t be too damaged by it.
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Maybe not. But Qanon and all that crap that was a big part of Trump being elected was all about organised child sex trafficking, after all, and currently it doesn’t seem like that crowd is going to completely switch realities again when it comes to Trump and Epstein.
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Eh, I think that crowd is pretty good at switching realities when they need to.
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Absolutely. Which is why it’s such a surprise that they haven’t instantly done that when the current round of accusation. I am just describing how they’ve reacted up to this point, I am not assuming to be able to actually predict how those crazy people will behave in the future.
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How to sell FIFA World Cup tickets:
Pay through the nose for tickets
Pay for the flight, hotel, food
See game
Get told to fuck off back to where you came from
Yep, genius tourism strategy here, total genius.
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I have this fear that they’re going to try to release the “Epstein files” with all the Republican names scrubbed…
That’s Trump’s goal. He’s already said he wants to go after Democrats.
I can’t wait till he’s dead.
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Expect the horny honey monster to do column after column of total denial of his chaotic attitude leading to +20,000 more covid deaths in the pandemic:
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Mamdani seems to be having a great time with Trump. Weird. But it could be good.
Elon Musk had a great time with Trump, too…until he didn’t.
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Mamdani seems to be having a great time with Trump. Weird. But it could be good.
Wait until tomorrow morning. Trump is highly volatile.
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Greene is positioning herself to take over MAGA from Trump. Don’t mistake her for having had a change of heart or having found the light.
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Greene is positioning herself to take over MAGA from Trump. Don’t mistake her for having had a change of heart or having found the light.
MAGA, as it exists now, dies with Trump. That is a fact. They are inexorably linked. Trump’s ego and narcissism would never let anyone share the spotlight with him, nor would he ever name a successor.
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating:
MTG is seeing the tide turn against MAGA. She sees Republicans get eviscerated by their constituents in town hall meetings. She sees the polling of Trump and the Republicans going down the toilet. She sees the Republicans covering for Trump over the Epstein files and the backlash that’s generating among her own party.
She sees all this and knows she has to distance herself if she wants to have a viable political future. The ship is sinking and she’s grabbing a lifeboat. She’s vocally flipping on unpopular issues that she knows her constituents agree with her on while trying to remain quiet on the ones she still backs.
Make no mistake, this is all about political survival. She doesn’t care about anyone but herself. If others benefit from the issue flips, that’s just gravy for them. But that’s just collateral. This is all about her and her future in politics.
That all being said, Trump is unwell and there’s a very high probability that he will die before the end of his term. He has dementia. Everyone knows all this and they are planning for a post-Trump Republican Party. The power players already consider him a lame duck president. The GOP is going to have a civil war. It won’t be quick or easy. It will be messy.
And they have no clear successor. The Republicans, for the last 10+ years, have put every single chip they have behind Trump. And because of that, they have fucked themselves.
Trump had the unique charisma that appealed to the base so completely. (Reagan was probably the last Republican to do that.) Because they put everything behind Trump, they never groomed someone to succeed him. And let’s be honest, Trump simply wouldn’t allow it. But now that the sun is setting on the Trump era, they are starting to scramble. Who do they have? JD Vance? MTG? Mike Johnson? Some tech billionaire? They don’t have anyone. Trump spoiled them, and I use “spoiled” because it applies on multiple levels. They went all in on him and now, they have nothing left.
Whoever the Republicans choose, they are going to have deal with the fallout of Trump’s biggest legacy: a tanked economy. It was slowly recovering under Biden, but it was still in critical condition. Then Trump came in and shot it in the face, with his tariffs and “gifts” to the ultra wealthy. All indications show that very soon, it’s all going to crash and it will be devastating. It may take a decade or more just to stabilize things. Because Trump burned so many bridges internationally, they may be much help from abroad. To be fair, the world will also be affected as well. Even if the US elected the most leftist administration possible, it would still take long time to recover. This will be Trump’s legacy.
So yeah, we’re pretty fucked. Here’s hoping something good will eventually come out of all this madness.
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I mean, call it America First, call it neo fascism, whatever. Greene is positioning the Trump White House as Neoconservative so she’s trying to get out in front to be the person they flock to when the current framework collapses – either when Trump dies or when his coalition collapses under his inability to fulfill promises.
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Who do they have? JD Vance? MTG? Mike Johnson?
The democrats have a high likelihood of picking a candidate so shitty he or she will lose to JD Vance.
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Who do they have? JD Vance? MTG? Mike Johnson?
I never gave much thought to Mike Pence during the first Trump term, but he’s managed to distance himself from his former boss while maintaining a party-line Republican persona. Don’t count him out in 2028.
And @Todd, I must say it’s always refreshing to find a Texan who ISN’T a Republican/MAGA. My cousin and her husband, who grew up in New York and should know better, are both GOPers (their gay son, however is definitely not!!) Thank you restoring my hope for a better American people.
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And @Todd, I must say it’s always refreshing to find a Texan who ISN’T a Republican/MAGA. My cousin and her husband, who grew up in New York and should know better, are both GOPers (their gay son, however is definitely not!!) Thank you restoring my hope for a better American people.
I appreciate that. I’m in the Houston area, which is a very blue city.
I will admit in my youth, I was a bit conservative. But as I get older, I find myself hard charging to the left.
It hit me not that long ago that I am probably more leftist than liberal, and have been for some time.
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I mean, call it America First, call it neo fascism, whatever. Greene is positioning the Trump White House as Neoconservative so she’s trying to get out in front to be the person they flock to when the current framework collapses – either when Trump dies or when his coalition collapses under his inability to fulfill promises.
I definitely see that. Unfortunately for her, I’m not sure she has charisma to pull it off.
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And @Todd, I must say it’s always refreshing to find a Texan who ISN’T a Republican/MAGA. My cousin and her husband, who grew up in New York and should know better, are both GOPers (their gay son, however is definitely not!!) Thank you restoring my hope for a better American people.
I appreciate that. I’m in the Houston area, which is a very blue city.
I will admit in my youth, I was a bit conservative. But as I get older, I find myself hard charging to the left.
It hit me not that long ago that I am probably more leftist than liberal, and have been for some time.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she is resigning from her seat January 6, 2026.
I did not have that on my bingo card.
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I mean, call it America First, call it neo fascism, whatever. Greene is positioning the Trump White House as Neoconservative so she’s trying to get out in front to be the person they flock to when the current framework collapses – either when Trump dies or when his coalition collapses under his inability to fulfill promises.
Yep, she clearly is. But it’s a good thing that this already happening right now – splitting the movement already at this point lowers Trump’s chances of making himself a forever President.
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It s tough to predict how much of MAGA or this type of radical right direction will remain if Trump is gone. If MTG were the one to lead it, I think it might become too unpopular to win elections. But I’m not sure of that.
Vance is difficult to see what he is about. He could be playing the long game, like I think Pence was doing, pretend to get along with Trump, but then when he is gone try to steer the Republicans back to “normality”. It looks like Vance is trying to maintain some kind of balance between the different factions that inform the Republican mindset, the tech oligarchs, the postliberals, the Christian nationalists, and the groypers.
The important thing to remember about Vance is that he’s Peter Theil’s puppet. He pushed to get him on the ticket.
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That blew up in Elon’s face rather spectacularly…
Elon Musk’s new X policy unwittingly exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls
Changes at Elon Musk’s X may have unwittingly revealed that many MAGA accounts are actually foreign actors profiting from the sowing of division in the U.S.
On Friday, X introduced a feature called “About This Account,” which allows other users to see where an account was based when it joined the site, how often it’s changed its username, and by what means they downloaded the X app.
Once the feature was live, political rivals began to dig into each other’s accounts, and a trend began to emerge — many popular MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts were not based in the U.S.
The discovery led Democratic influencer Harry Sisson to call it “easily one of the greatest days on this platform,” the Daily Beast reports. “Seeing all of these MAGA accounts get exposed as foreign actors trying to destroy the United States is a complete vindication of Democrats, like myself and many on here, who have been warning about this”.
Dozens of right-wing accounts pushing U.S. political content were actually started in places like India, Russia, and Nigeria.
MAGANationX, for example, includes a bio line that reads “Patriot Voice for We The People,” but was actually started in Eastern Europe, according to the new feature.
Another account, using an image of President Donald Trump in a tuxedo and using the name “MAGA Scope” with an American flag emoji, was found to have been started in Nigeria in 2024.
Micah Erfan, a left-wing influencer, noted that “like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
There is some question over the accuracy of the information on the “About This Account” pages, as users pointed out that anyone opening their X account while using a VPN could have an origin reflecting the VPN’s use and not the actual country where they reside.
Nikita Bier, the head of X’s product development, said on Friday that the company was planning to resolve any potential discrepancies that might have been caused by VPNs. She also said that the feature had “a few rough edges” that the company is planning to smooth.
X users noted on Friday that the feature was removed a few hours after it went live, leading to some speculation that the sudden change was a reaction to the discovery of the right-wing accounts’ countries of origin. The feature does appear to be functional again as of this report.
There is virtually nothing stopping someone from a different country using social media sites to sow political division via U.S. politics and earn a profit by doing so.
“Just think about the foreign influence operations that are happening right now on this app,” MeidasTouch co-founder Brett Meiselas said in a video on social media about the development. “Think about the lawmakers who feel pressured by accounts like this. Think about the disinformation that spreads as a result of all these accounts out there.”
The revelation that some MAGA accounts are fabricated is not a revelation to some social media monitors. During the 2024 election cycle, the Centre for Information Resilience, an independent, nonprofit research group, found more than a dozen accounts that stole the photos of European models and influencers and used their images to pose as young, attractive women who support Trump and the broader MAGA-sphere.
Liberal influencer Ed Krassenstein speculated that the MAGA accounts from outside the U.S. were working for foreign governments, though there has been no concrete proof of that for any specific accounts.
Last year, the Department of Justice discovered that a number of popular right-wing influencers were — reportedly — unwittingly working for a company that was actually a Russian influence operation, meaning they were taking payment from a Russian company to push their ideas.
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Mamdani seems to be having a great time with Trump. Weird. But it could be good.
I think Mamdani is clever as hell. Some on the left decried this but some on the left are obsessed with gesture politics over delivery.
He asked for the meeting, knowing Trump responds well to personal discussions over rhetoric in the media, and in the end he walked out of there conceding nothing. None of his agenda has changed but he’s got Trump (for the moment at least) not to withhold billions in federal projects for New York.
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About Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think her current actions are in part because of her antisemitism. Her crowd of Jew hating supporters are obviously very much anti-Israel, and Trump strongly supports Israel, so that is a reason to create distance between herself and Trump. Also the Epstein thing involves a number of Jews, so her supporters have turned against Trump for hiding the “files”.
(Just to make myself clear, I don’t think it is bad to be against Israel, but MTG supporters are not against Israel for the right reason – the war crimes – but because they are Jews.)
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