America - The Official Thread

[Korvregn]

bottle-bronze bitch king

Mango Unchained

As much I hate living in a world where Donald Trump is president of anything anywhere, I really do appreciate reading some well-founded nicknames of Jaffa the Hutt.

 

[High-Test]

As much I hate living in a world where Donald Trump is president of anything anywhere, I really do appreciate reading some well-founded nicknames of Jaffa the Hutt.

Jaffa the Hutt. I LOVE it.

Marigold Mobutu
Moammar Covfefe
Scrotus (so called ruler of the us)
Lord Dampnut

 

[UKMikey]

Abominable Showman
Assolini/Wussolini
Auric Shortfinger
Gameshow Göring
Horse's Ass of the Apocalypse
Il Douchey
Kumquat Kleptocrat
Napoleon Bonaspurs
Mansplainian Candidate
Phallus in Blunderland
Scooby Coup (© Stephen Colbert)
Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS
Tangelo-Tinged Treasonweasel

 

[Famine]

I've just been calling him 0.957, which can be conceived of as both accurate and a Stormy-reported length:girth ratio.

 

[Liquid]

I used the False Profit in the election thread.

 

[TheCracker]

There are plenty of suitable, and acurate, short four letter words that can be used, but none of them are forum-friendly.

 

[Liquid]

There are plenty of suitable, and acurate, short four letter words that can be used, but none of them are forum-friendly.

I don't think he deserves humourous epithets, it's distracting levity from a gravely serious situation, but I did independently think of mine myself.

He's a ****ing **** and I'm just letting the GTP filter do its work.

 

[p78]

@TheCracker

• DUMB
• FAKE
• LOUD
• RICH
• RUDE
• VILE
• MEAN
• UGLY
• LIAR

 

[TheCracker]

@TheCracker

• DUMB
• FAKE
• LOUD
• RICH
• RUDE
• VILE
• MEAN
• UGLY
• LIAR

All good. But there are better.

 

[Blitz24]

All good. But there are better.

Weak

 

[Tornado]

I do want to give Trump voters a bit of benefit of the doubt regarding tariffs now, because I realized last night from seeing people freak the hell out on Twitter and Bluesky about anime figurines and the like that probably 98% of the people in the US don't know about import duties on a conceptual level because for the past 20+ years of buying stuff directly from China on eBay they've never had to pay them. The idea of declaring items that you bought from other countries is basically an alien one.




Broken clock moment for Trump, perhaps.

 

[Liquid]

What laden bale of straw could possibly break this camel's back?

anime figurines

Ah.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I keep getting this pervasive feeling that the very idea of liberalism (for those getting up to speed, the philosophical concept of liberalism - born out of the enlightenment and that gives us liberty, human rights, rules-based order & law, and itself the unique foundational principle of the United States, rather than the conservative fever dream of whatever happens in San Francisco) is close to its expiry date, if not already passed. We seem to be racing towards a weird 17th century-esque mercantile-imperialism "order" where powerful nations try to one-up each other for supremacy via trade surpluses and land grabs. The problem with that is that it tends to lead to a near-constant state of war. Liberalism & law based civilization will soon seemingly be limited to continental Europe...and there probably not even much longer.

But hey! At least facebook generated a lot of ad revenue, right?

Liberalism - ~1689-2025 R.I.P.

 

[Liquid]

@Eunos_Cosmo Reminds me of this:

 

[dylansan]

Oversight Committee Dems just tried to subpoena Elon Musk but the vote failed. Seems they were trying to catch Republicans off guard while many weren't present, but there weren't enough Dems present to succeed.

There's a screenshot going around claiming Ro Khanna abstained, but he was physically in California at the time and says he would have voted yes, had there been more notice. I'm unclear whether there are any means of voting by proxy for things like this, but presumably if there were, Republicans would use it too.

Not that I particularly care to defend "Progressive Capitalist" (an oxymoron if I've ever heard one) Khanna, who wrote that garbage about cooperating with DOGE.

The fact that any Democrat in congress is spending any time outside of the capital right now is ridiculous. It's all hands on deck. States have their own leaders, now is not the time for optics—get the F to work.

 

[p78]

So the riviera of the Middle East. And 2 million people need to pack up and leave so he can build Mar-A-Gaza.

 

[TexRex]

Mitch McConnell needs to step down.

 

[Biggles]

I keep getting this pervasive feeling that the very idea of liberalism (for those getting up to speed, the philosophical concept of liberalism - born out of the enlightenment and that gives us liberty, human rights, rules-based order & law, and itself the unique foundational principle of the United States, rather than the conservative fever dream of whatever happens in San Francisco) is close to its expiry date, if not already passed. We seem to be racing towards a weird 17th century-esque mercantile-imperialism "order" where powerful nations try to one-up each other for supremacy via trade surpluses and land grabs. The problem with that is that it tends to lead to a near-constant state of war. Liberalism & law based civilization will soon seemingly be limited to continental Europe...and there probably not even much longer.

But hey! At least facebook generated a lot of ad revenue, right?

Liberalism - ~1689-2025 R.I.P.

Exactly.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

I keep getting this pervasive feeling that the very idea of liberalism (for those getting up to speed, the philosophical concept of liberalism - born out of the enlightenment and that gives us liberty, human rights, rules-based order & law, and itself the unique foundational principle of the United States, rather than the conservative fever dream of whatever happens in San Francisco) is close to its expiry date, if not already passed. We seem to be racing towards a weird 17th century-esque mercantile-imperialism "order" where powerful nations try to one-up each other for supremacy via trade surpluses and land grabs. The problem with that is that it tends to lead to a near-constant state of war. Liberalism & law based civilization will soon seemingly be limited to continental Europe...and there probably not even much longer.

But hey! At least facebook generated a lot of ad revenue, right?

Liberalism - ~1689-2025 R.I.P.

Yep. But this time is worse (there's something that repeats itself as a farse). Back then, no one had nuclear weapons or the ability to commit mass genocides in an instant. Nation-states that went to war didn’t have anything close to the capacity to mobilize an entire population. Today, even a failed state such as Russia is capable of this.

Wars were fought by tens of thousands, with some territorial exchanges. The king celebrated, and the aristocrats were happy. If you lost, no big deal—there was always the next war to look forward to get some land, humiliate a hated neighbour and get some outrageous conditions on a treaty. We needed Napoleonic wars, the conflicts spawn by it through decades and two world wars to learn that this is not going to last.

Now, wars are far more destructive and costly. An era where everyone is constantly at odds with each other will inevitably lead to more conflicts. Add climate-driven crises and catastrophes as a catalist, and the future looks increasingly bleak.

 

[CTznOfTime]

To tell you the absolute truth, I didn't think Trump was THAT extreme. I thought the whole "far right" narrative was just a pointless beat-up by the left-wing media. Turns out it's the truth and I now wish to distance myself from him. It's a total clownshow.

trump was a bad sign and omen the moment he went down that escalator....

People way underestimated his stupidity and he him way to much benefits of their doubt, to him

All of you have have supported him pretty much gave him carte blanche...

Mitch McConnell needs to step down.

At least 10 years overdue

 

[MatskiMonk]

the left-wing media.

Where has a left wing media? I think I'd like to move there.

 

[Danoff]

I keep getting this pervasive feeling that the very idea of liberalism (for those getting up to speed, the philosophical concept of liberalism - born out of the enlightenment and that gives us liberty, human rights, rules-based order & law, and itself the unique foundational principle of the United States, rather than the conservative fever dream of whatever happens in San Francisco) is close to its expiry date, if not already passed. We seem to be racing towards a weird 17th century-esque mercantile-imperialism "order" where powerful nations try to one-up each other for supremacy via trade surpluses and land grabs. The problem with that is that it tends to lead to a near-constant state of war. Liberalism & law based civilization will soon seemingly be limited to continental Europe...and there probably not even much longer.

But hey! At least facebook generated a lot of ad revenue, right?

Liberalism - ~1689-2025 R.I.P.

The world-wide trend is not good recently, but this sentiment strikes me as a little too America-centric. I think the US is quickly becoming a cautionary tale that others can learn from.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I think the US is quickly becoming a cautionary tale that others can learn from.

It's nowhere near bad enough for that yet, we need the blood of mountains of dead, white, average income men, blatantly on the hands of the government before it'll move the needle. You'd be amazed how many people here in the UK just want a strong leader like Trump/Musk who tells it like it is.

 

[Blitz24]

Mitch McConnell needs to step down.

He did. He just had a poor landing.