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Vindicare605
United States16121 Posts
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Phyanketto
United States601 Posts
On October 25 2025 05:27 Vindicare605 wrote: Trump's gonna start bombing Venezuela. This excuse that we're dispatching an aircraft carrier to Latin America to combat drug smugglers is hilarious. Very cost effective, surely. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26499 Posts
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Legan
Finland577 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20154 Posts
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Yurie
12077 Posts
On October 25 2025 11:20 Legan wrote: I wonder how the situation with ICE, national guards, and local police departments will affect the views on law enforcement and any potential reforms among democrats. One could assume that people and politicians would see how they are linked to Trump's ability to commit illegal acts and would like to ensure that in future states have more control and the personnel are not likely to support any discriminatory, racist, supremacist, authoritarian policies. To me, it would seem weird if democratic candidates showed strong support for law enforcement after it has been used extensively against them. Support for law enforcement agencies is likely to decrease further. You have non-democrats such as GH that wants to tear it all down and perhaps a few democrats will move over to that camp. I don't see democrats supporting states having more power. Historically a large part of the democrat fight has been in enforcing civil rights in the south-eastern states. Giving states more power is likely to put that back. So you end up with a problem, you want civil rights in the entire country but don't want a fascist to take over easily. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45431 Posts
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, ending an extended holdout that was being closely watched. “Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a Mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support his candidacy,” Jeffries said in a statement issued Friday, just before early voting begins in the mayoral race. The top House Democrat had long set early voting as his self-imposed deadline to address the race. For months, he had been among several senior Democrats who had declined for months to back Mamdani after his surprise victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the primary in June." https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani On one hand: better late than never. On the other hand: This kind of feels like Jeffries has decided to hitch his wagon to Mamdani because he thinks the writing is on the wall for a Mamdani victory. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45431 Posts
On October 25 2025 07:30 WombaT wrote: Trump really took not winning the Nobel Peace Prize badly He's pretty much the sorest loser of all time - given how he tried to overthrow the government after losing the 2020 election - so I think his decision to arrest, starve, and sicken Americans... while bulldozing part of the White House just so he can build the Epstein Ballroom... is on brand for Donald Trump. | ||
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Fildun
Netherlands4123 Posts
Man will go into the historybooks as one of the greatest neocons of all time | ||
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Vivax
22269 Posts
On October 25 2025 07:30 WombaT wrote: Trump really took not winning the Nobel Peace Prize badly He‘s kinda in a tough spot. He’s also the one they elected so in his stead I‘d be pissed. It‘s just what the US wanted. Collective responsibility innit. It‘s like voting in Duterte and then going ohh, ahh. If he wanted a prize he‘d start milking the super rich. But that‘s probably dangerous. Not that the Venezuelan government is exactly a paragon… Guess that happens when poverty prevails. The political landscape is just all around awful. Too polarized. Makes it hard to form a proper opinion. Maybe having none is better, but on the other hand it‘s like watching legalized murder. | ||
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Legan
Finland577 Posts
This interview will be airing on Sunday morning. This article makes me expect clusterfuck. However, I have seen relatively little from Harris after the election. It is good to move the spotlight away after an election loss, but people should know how she views things, as it will tell quite a lot about the future. You do not want to repeat a similar denial to Biden's, only dropping out too late. "How does a centre-left party with mainstream leaders take on a right-wing populist leader? Is the answer to focus on Trump? Or is it to argue more forcefully for Main Street?" Nice to see that Democrats are now considered centre-left by the BBC. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23797 Posts
"Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that," he told The Economist on Oct. 23. "At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is," Bannon said. "But there is a plan." www.usatoday.com Would Trump officially running for a third term be people's trigger point for leaving the US? Is it him winning a third term? Maybe if he takes a third term? Or do people have some other moment in mind that would make them pull the trigger on leaving the US/when they would advocate accepting anti-Trumpers as political refugees? | ||
micronesia
United States24767 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22190 Posts
On October 26 2025 01:00 micronesia wrote: as per the 12th amendmentWho said he would run for a third term? It's probably something stupid like JD Vance runs with Trump as VP, then they swap after inauguration day. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States Trump is no longer eligible to be a VP | ||
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micronesia
United States24767 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18250 Posts
On October 26 2025 00:47 GreenHorizons wrote: Bannon is teasing a Trump 2028 presidency. www.usatoday.com Would Trump officially running for a third term be people's trigger point for leaving the US? Is it him winning a third term? Maybe if he takes a third term? Or do people have some other moment in mind that would make them pull the trigger on leaving the US/when they would advocate accepting anti-Trumpers as political refugees? Well, yes, he'll be president in 2028. Unless he dies. It's beyond inauguration day of 2029 that he should no longer be the president. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23797 Posts
On October 26 2025 01:05 Gorsameth wrote: as per the 12th amendmentTrump is no longer eligible to be a VP There is a legal argument that the "eligible" there applies to age, birthplace, and residency, not the 22nd amendment, which obviously came later. Not that Trump has a problem with violating amendments or that the courts are capable of stopping him anyway. On October 26 2025 01:16 Acrofales wrote: Well, yes, he'll be president in 2028. Unless he dies. It's beyond inauguration day of 2029 that he should no longer be the president. I expected this post from oBlade, but yeah, he could be trolling. Reminds me of a line from a Nelly song. I got a friend with a pole in the basement (What?) I'm just kiddin' like Jason (Oh) Unless you're gon' do it | ||
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Introvert
United States4922 Posts
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ChristianS
United States3304 Posts
But also, I think this is kind of a silly hypothetical. Bannon loves to say that kind of grandiose bullshit and terrify everyone. There’s lots of good reasons to be terrified, don’t get me wrong, but you shouldn’t let Bannon manipulate your perceptions too much. I think Trump’s odds of *surviving* that long aren’t incredible, and he’s committing impeachable offenses every other day. He’s not popular and he’s getting less popular. Don’t mistake that for a rosy outlook – fascists don’t need to be popular to win – but the specific scenario of “Trump stays in power, everything continues working normally, he runs in 2028 and wins” is, imo, pretty remote and not worth overanalyzing. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20154 Posts
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