American Politics Impeachment: 2 fast? No, we're 2 furious

[The Marlborough]

He can't leave fast enough to suit me. He's four years late.

Election Wars Episode V: The Donald Strikes Back coming Fall 2024.

[Omniabstracta]

Yeah, I think the floor dropped from 43 to 36% or something along those lines in these final hours of Trumpism.

Can we stop saying "Trumpism" as if its some sort of ideology? It’s just corrupt despotism, plain and simple

No, because Trumpism does represent something specific, a particular precipitate of American populism and anti-intellectualism arising out of a long chain of specific cultural characteristics and electoral politics. It's not "ordinary" corrupt despotism, and its useful to distinguish it, especially when we're about to see where it goes from here.

[No State Here]

Sure but wind and geothermal can't fuel our colony ships to other planets. Gotta think of our glorious space empire future where our sick nuclear starships seduce all those sexy blue xeno babes.

Mexico is going to be the country that saves humanity should we get to that stage.

Space quesadillas

[San Lumen]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/p ... irman.html

Jamie Harrison is expected to be named the next DNC chair.

[Senkaku]

Nuclear is a good baseload option and some of the new SMR technology is very promising, but it's not the alpha and omega of green energy. New geothermal technologies also seem like very promising options for very large base-load power plants.

I also don't think the "normal" renewables (solar and wind) should be neglected-- Equinor's new offshore wind project in New York is going to be huge. The nuclear bros do not know everything, though they are at least closer to the right track than the anti-nuclear nutjobs.

Sure but wind and geothermal can't fuel our colony ships to other planets. Gotta think of our glorious space empire future where our sick nuclear starships seduce all those sexy blue xeno babes.

Of course they can, they're just as capable of powering lasers or hydrogen production as any other power source.

[Omniabstracta]

Sure but wind and geothermal can't fuel our colony ships to other planets. Gotta think of our glorious space empire future where our sick nuclear starships seduce all those sexy blue xeno babes.

Mexico is going to be the country that saves humanity should we get to that stage.

They're already out there.

[The Untied State]

Cars are bad for the planet, though.

<Electric cars intensify>

you were expecting ford, but it was i, elon!

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Another interesting thing is for years we collectively considered ourselves superior and different from our Southern neighbors, but with our own coup attempt and wannabe Caudillo, it seems we’re not so different

[The Marlborough]

Mexico is going to be the country that saves humanity should we get to that stage.

Space quesadillas

Espaciocorridos to tell the story of the voyages.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Yeah, I think the floor dropped from 43 to 36% or something along those lines in these final hours of Trumpism.

Can we stop saying "Trumpism" as if its some sort of ideology? It’s just corrupt despotism, plain and simple

It's not a coherent ideology but it does more or less boil down to fanatical faith in Trump's brilliance and anything he messes up being secretly the fault of covert nefariousness by the other side. Cults are sometimes named after their leaders too.

[The Marlborough]

Another interesting thing is for years we collectively considered ourselves superior and different from our Southern neighbors, but with our own coup attempt and wannabe Caudillo, it seems we’re not so different

Tbf the PRI was the perfect dictatorship so Mexico has that on the US.

[The Untied State]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

[San Lumen]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

That’s if Trump isn’t renominated

[The Marlborough]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

The best move would be someone as charismatic but competent and without the baggage but similar policies and views on things like trade and foreign policy. Tbh had it not been for the pandemic, I think Trump would have won. A lot of people seemed to have not minded or even actually like his policies just not the man.

[Tarsonis]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

That’s if Trump isn’t renominated

the primary system was a mistake

[San Lumen]

That’s if Trump isn’t renominated

the primary system was a mistake

Why?

[Senkaku]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

Well, we know Cruz, Hawley, Haley, Paul, and Pence are all still angling for a run, who else is on the list? I guess of those Haley is probably the most "average and mainstream" but that's really only because she got out while the getting was good and has mostly kept her trap shut since

[Ifreann]

Um, why? Surely different states can have different procedures regarding the amendment of their constitution?

I doubt it can be done by executive order in any state. If it can what do you need a legislature for? The executive would be a king or queen in all but title.

Well that's beside the point. The Governor of Maryland planning to do something by executive order doesn't mean anything for what the Governor of Wisconsin might do. At least as far as I'm aware, state governors don't all have the same powers.

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Yeah, I think the floor dropped from 43 to 36% or something along those lines in these final hours of Trumpism.

Can we stop saying "Trumpism" as if its some sort of ideology? It’s just corrupt despotism, plain and simple

Trump's political career has centred entirely on him personally, not on his politics or ideology, but his personality and style. It's perfectly apt to refer to this as Trumpism.

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Mexico is going to be the country that saves humanity should we get to that stage.

Space quesadillas

Space-adillas.

[The Marlborough]

Tulsi Gabbard should unironically go for the GOP nom for the hilarity it would bring. Double points if she got it. Triple points if she won and became POTUS.

[Washington Resistance Army]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

Well, we know Cruz, Hawley, Haley, Paul, and Pence are all still angling for a run, who else is on the list? I guess of those Haley is probably the most "average and mainstream" but that's really only because she got out while the getting was good and has mostly kept her trap shut since

Cruz, Hawley and Pence are done for imo. They'd never stand a chance in the general.

Haley could potentially do well I think.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Tulsi Gabbard should unironically go for the GOP nom for the hilarity it would bring. Double points if she got it. Triple points if she won and became POTUS.

Wow I could vote for someone in good conscience finally

[San Lumen]

I doubt it can be done by executive order in any state. If it can what do you need a legislature for? The executive would be a king or queen in all but title.

Well that's beside the point. The Governor of Maryland planning to do something by executive order doesn't mean anything for what the Governor of Wisconsin might do. At least as far as I'm aware, state governors don't all have the same powers.

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Can we stop saying "Trumpism" as if its some sort of ideology? It’s just corrupt despotism, plain and simple

Trump's political career has centred entirely on him personally, not on his politics or ideology, but his personality and style. It's perfectly apt to refer to this as Trumpism.

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Space quesadillas

Space-adillas.

In no state can the executive amend the constitution via executive order. If they could there is no need for a legislature as they are effectively a monarch.

[Page]

This will be the first inauguration I'll watch since 2009. Back then I skipped English class to watch it on the TV of the campus administration building, felt like an important moment in history that I shouldn't miss. Of course back then I was a teenage liberal who said cringey shit like "post-racial society" and I genuinely thought the wars would end.

I don't remember where I was on Obama's second, my guess is I was asleep because this was a time when I'd go the gym at 3AM.

Then in 2017, it was my first time back in America since moving abroad, I was with my wife and my mother-in-law came too, we went out for breakfast and then when we got to my parents' house they put on the TV. I said something to my parents along the lines of "This is fucking sickening, I can't watch this" which I think my MIL got the gist of despite not speaking English. The language barrier kept her and my parents from an awkward discussion. I left and my wife caught up with me after a few minutes of watching in horror.

[The Untied State]

wonder if whoever runs against biden/harris in 2024 will be decent, surprisingly nice, or uncannily similar to trump, my bets on extremely average and mainstream, which is an improvement

Well, we know Cruz, Hawley, Haley, Paul, and Pence are all still angling for a run, who else is on the list? I guess of those Haley is probably the most "average and mainstream" but that's really only because she got out while the getting was good and has mostly kept her trap shut since

well i hope it's not cruz or pence. i assume by paul you mean rand paul, but there are several pauls i think. didn't haley do some bad foreign policy stuff? presidents should generally be good at foreign policy, but then again i don't want the republicans to win so if they have a terrible candidate that's on them.

[Ifreann]

Well that's beside the point. The Governor of Maryland planning to do something by executive order doesn't mean anything for what the Governor of Wisconsin might do. At least as far as I'm aware, state governors don't all have the same powers.

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Trump's political career has centred entirely on him personally, not on his politics or ideology, but his personality and style. It's perfectly apt to refer to this as Trumpism.

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Space-adillas.

In no state can the executive amend the constitution via executive order. If they could there is no need for a legislature as they are effectively a monarch.

Well that's beside the point. The Governor of Maryland planning to do something by executive order doesn't mean anything for what the Governor of Wisconsin might do. At least as far as I'm aware, state governors don't all have the same powers.