American Politics III: New President, Same Old Country

[Trollzyn the Infinite]

the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad.

Tyrants are illegitimate by default. They belong at the gallows, not in office.

[Picairn]

The most important is the agreement of neighboring countries with Assad because the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad. Political Islamists in Turkey have difficulty understanding it. The fight against terrorism cannot be continued by supporting another terrorist group. The only thing America has to change politically is not to see the Middle East as its backyard. cold war is over

That's rich coming from you, mate. Your country profitted from US intervention and now you're here criticizing the US while simultaneously defending Turkey's invasion as part of its own War on Terror, in the same breath. Because imperialism is only bad when the US does it, amirite?

[Arvenia]

The most important is the agreement of neighboring countries with Assad because the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad. Political Islamists in Turkey have difficulty understanding it. The fight against terrorism cannot be continued by supporting another terrorist group. The only thing America has to change politically is not to see the Middle East as its backyard. cold war is over

That's rich coming from you, mate. Your country profitted from US intervention and now you're here criticizing the US while simultaneously defending Turkey's invasion as part of its own War on Terror, in the same breath. Because imperialism is only bad when the US does it, amirite?

I agree with you. Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Japan and China have all been equally guilty of imperialism, so America is not alone.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Erdogan is embarking on a campaign to carve his own Ottoman Empire out of the Middle East and Hakinda has the gall to criticize US intervention.

Erdogan is so clearly trying to recreate the past empire. He even has the ottoman moustache.

[Washington Resistance Army]

the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad.

Tyrants are illegitimate by default. They belong at the gallows, not in office.

Hard disagree. This idiotic mindset has killed well over a million people in the Middle East for no gain.

[Ifreann]

I wonder why there weren't more. It's meant to be civilians running the military, not retired generals.

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K-Pop fans have taken to flooding various far-right hashtags with K-Pop stuff, thus ruining the hashtag for the far-right.

What do you have against him?

Exactly what I said.

The rule got waived. Biden clearly felt he was the best person for the job,

Bit pointless to have a rule if you're just going to waive it.

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K-Pop fans have taken to flooding various far-right hashtags with K-Pop stuff, thus ruining the hashtag for the far-right.

K=pop fans have done a lot of cool stuff.

Big praxis.

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I wonder why there weren't more. It's meant to be civilians running the military, not retired generals

So by that logic, veterans should be excluded from the presidency?

That might be a bit much, maybe just make them wait a few election cycles after leaving the military before letting them run.

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Our first president was the general who won the Revolutionary War, but people are upset a retired general is SecDef? And not even the first time its happened in recent memory. 70% of SecDefs have been veterans.

I've criticised your first president at length.

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I don't really see the problem here, the SecDef reports to the President who is a civilian.
Civilian leadership of the military is still there.

Also the guy is a civilian technically now. He’s no longer in the military anymore

So much a civilian that there's a rule against him being Secretary of Defence that had to be waived.

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Press secretary lady (haven't learned her name yet) seems to indicate that the office of the President's position on impeachment is 'not my division.' She just gave an answer to a question about it by saying something to the effect of 'Biden thought he was unfit for office, so he ran against him and won. Anything outside of that is the business of the legislature."

Also I guess someone somewere is thinking of giving Air Force One a new color scheme? She just said that the president hasn't spent a second thinking about what color to paint the plane, but now I'm wondering who has...

Gotta figure there's some kind of official Decorator Laureate of the United States or something. Someone standing on the tarmac looking at Air Force One with that "looking at a painting" facial expression, thinking about whether this colour scheme sparks joy.

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So according to zip-tie guy, it was his mother's idea to enter the Capitol and that he followed her to "keep an eye on her”

*scrolling up*
Pretty modest arsenal, as these things go. I suppose that happens when you have to share space with someone else.

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Schumer says he will turn down McConnnell's request for Democrats to protect the filibuster as part of the 50-50 Senate

If they remove the filibuster, it's going to be great seeing all the Pikachu faces when the GOP takes back the Senate in the future.

If a Republican Senate is such a fearful prospect then the Democrats shouldn't turn over control of the Senate to the Republican Minority Leader now by giving him the power to filibuster them. Instead they should run roughshod all over the Republicans, force through as much good shit as possible, and in two years let McConnell try to retake the Senate on a campaign of being mad that people have money in their pockets, guaranteed healthcare, a vaccine in their system, and a secure right to vote.

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Better to have gridlock and get nothing done than to compromise in ways that are more harmful than literally doing nothing, yes.

And since no one can agree that means government shutdown with no hope of it ending due to neither side being able reach a deal.

Why would both sides need to be able to reach a deal when the Democrats have a majority in both houses of the legislature? Lumen, your party won the election, why are you so desperately arguing that now they need to give up the power they were just given by the electorate?

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In the greatest court filing I've ever seen, Blacks For Trump and Latinos for Trump ask a Federal Court to establish "Trump's Cabinet as the Stewards of Gondor in the Absence of Aragorn"

they also want the entire congress and biden barred from doing anything

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So which of Trump's kids is Boromir in this analogy?

The kid he likes? Ivanka. Don Jr. and Eric get to take turns being Faramir.

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Jesus H Christ folks.

It's very reasonable to be upset if Biden does not make strong changes to the treatment of people in those camps, but it's quite unreasonable to get angry that he's not doing anything after two or three days. It could be that he's looking into ways of doing it which aren't so simple and easy to override as an EO, or he could be a big fat liar but we can't make that determination from just a few days.

People are suffering right now and Joe Biden, being in charge of the agencies causing that suffering, has the power to stop it. There should be legislation preventing future presidents from abusing people like Donald Trump did, but there is no reason that the victims of Donald Trump should have to continue to suffer while that legislation is drafted, debated, amended, and eventually passed into law.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Tyrants are illegitimate by default. They belong at the gallows, not in office.

Hard disagree. This idiotic mindset has killed well over a million people in the Middle East for no gain.

Actually most of those deaths were for oil. The US is as committed to democracy and freedom in the middle east as George Wallace was to peace and equality.

[Hakinda Herseyi Duymak istiyorum]

the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad.

Tyrants are illegitimate by default. They belong at the gallows, not in office.

Nobody deserves death. I hope you can tell the difference between us from this death advocacy phrase you used. America comes a president who is not hungry for the oil of other countries that do not support the execution, and the mentality of defending this evil death disappears.

Erdogan is embarking on a campaign to carve his own Ottoman Empire out of the Middle East and Hakinda has the gall to criticize US intervention.

Erdogan is so clearly trying to recreate the past empire. He even has the ottoman moustache.

Erdogan only thinks about himself.Ottoman and religious values ​​are not important to him. He is the enemy of the Kurds, the Turks and everything beautiful

[Agarntrop]

He lied.

Just because you have a cult-like dedication to the DNC that would mean you would vote for a cup with a blue D on it doesn't mean the Democrats are a perfect party.

I don’t have a cult like devotion. I understand unlike you that if you don’t compromise nothing will get done. It’s part of politics and without it you’d have total gridlock and nothing would get done.

Warnock promised $2000 checks and then went back on it, literally a day after he was sworn in.

That is called betrayal not compromise.

[San Lumen]

I don’t have a cult like devotion. I understand unlike you that if you don’t compromise nothing will get done. It’s part of politics and without it you’d have total gridlock and nothing would get done.

Warnock promised $2000 checks and then went back on it, literally a day after he was sworn in.

That is called betrayal not compromise.

Perhaps because there is not enough support in the Senate for it. If everyone stuck to their corners like you want and refused to budge from what they want nothing would ever get done. A government shutdown like what we had in late 2018 to early 2019 would never end because no one would be able to reach an agreement.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says “everybody across this country has some responsibility” for the attack on the Capitol

No. It was the fault of MAGA hats that refuse to admit defeat and Trump for spurring on that bullshit ""the election was stolen"" garbage.

Just there faults. Only there faults.

[Atheris]

Erdogan wouldn't have had a chance to carve out a new Ottoman Empire if not for US intervention in the first place. Maybe if America hadn't armed the totally-not-moderate rebels in Syria, Assad would have won the war sooner. Instead, the Syrian government has weakened so much that Turkey invaded and there was nothing they could do.

The most important is the agreement of neighboring countries with Assad because the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad

No, he's not.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Tyrants are illegitimate by default. They belong at the gallows, not in office.

Hard disagree. This idiotic mindset has killed well over a million people in the Middle East for no gain.

March 20, 2003, the day the hospitals shut down, the day schools were destroyed, the day the streets became unsafe, the day lives ended forever, the day God weeped
-Iraqi proverb

[Ifreann]

Warnock promised $2000 checks and then went back on it, literally a day after he was sworn in.

That is called betrayal not compromise.

Perhaps because there is not enough support in the Senate for it. If everyone stuck to their corners like you want and refused to budge from what they want nothing would ever get done. A government shutdown like what we had in late 2018 to early 2019 would never end because no one would be able to reach an agreement.

You should really stop trying to compromise with the people who want to take away your rights.

[Major-Tom]

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says “everybody across this country has some responsibility” for the attack on the Capitol

McCarthy was never an intellectual heavyweight, nor was he ever generally smart either, if we're being honest.

[Atheris]

the legitimate leader of Syria is Asad.

Tyrants are illegitimate by default. They belong at the gallows, not in office.

Depends on your definition of a tyrant.

[Gravlen]

I don’t have a cult like devotion. I understand unlike you that if you don’t compromise nothing will get done. It’s part of politics and without it you’d have total gridlock and nothing would get done.

Warnock promised $2000 checks and then went back on it, literally a day after he was sworn in.

That is called betrayal not compromise.

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

[Silvedania]

Warnock promised $2000 checks and then went back on it, literally a day after he was sworn in.

That is called betrayal not compromise.

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

I really don't get it.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Millions of economically disenfranchised Americans (especially of color) are soon going to be receiving the financial and medical assistance that they desperately need in order to survive the pandemic. Apparently that's not enough for a bunch of bourgeoise, middle class white kids LARPing as anarchists.

Protesters gather, damage Democratic headquarters in Oregon

"Fuck Trump! Fuck Biden too! They don't give a fuck about you!"

Meanwhile, pro-Trump protesters are virtually a no-show across state capitols.

The few who did show up have been entirely peaceful. Did the FBI and Secret Service overestimate the threat of violence? Not that they were wrong to do so but still.

Why does the President use a new pen for each Executive Order he signs?

To spread the coronavirus around A silly tradition

Meanwhile, QAnon implodes while the Proud Boys have turned against their former idol.

Proud Boys are going through civil war anyways, so this may just add another faction to that

[Washington Resistance Army]

Warnock promised $2000 checks and then went back on it, literally a day after he was sworn in.

That is called betrayal not compromise.

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

Surely you can understand how people who are struggling to put food on the table don't see $600 now and $1400 at some point in the future as the same thing as getting a $2000 check.

[Cannot think of a name]

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

Surely you can understand how people who are struggling to put food on the table don't see $600 now and $1400 at some point in the future as the same thing as getting a $2000 check.

People who are struggling to put food on the table are generally pretty good at basic math.

[Omniabstracta]

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

Surely you can understand how people who are struggling to put food on the table don't see $600 now and $1400 at some point in the future as the same thing as getting a $2000 check.

But at the time of the campaigning, when that messaging was created, the $600 checks weren’t sent out yet, so $600+$1,4000 would be a single $2,000 check. Especially because the first time it took weeks for them to start coming out, so it was understandably thought by the campaign teams that Warnock and Ossoff might have been sworn in and working on that by the time they were in office. The check delivery was just faster than anyone expected, but it still didn’t happen until the campaign was essentially done and finished.

[Eahland]

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

Surely you can understand how people who are struggling to put food on the table don't see $600 now and $1400 at some point in the future as the same thing as getting a $2000 check.

Surely you can understand that it's not the fault of the people who weren't even in office yet that the bulk of their $2000 check was delayed by the other party?

[Gravlen]

"Here, let me give you $2,000."
"Yes please!"

*Counts out bills*

"100, 200, 300, 400..."
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Giving you $2,000?"
"No, you're giving me $100, and then giving me another $100. You promised me $2,000, you liar!! What a betrayal!"

*Flips over table*

Surely you can understand how people who are struggling to put food on the table don't see $600 now and $1400 at some point in the future as the same thing as getting a $2000 check at some point in the future.

I had to change your post slightly to more easily underline my point. My change is in red.

No, I really can't understand it. In fact, based on what you say, I can see them being happy getting something right away and the rest later instead of having to wait for the entire sum to appear later.

[San Lumen]

Perhaps because there is not enough support in the Senate for it. If everyone stuck to their corners like you want and refused to budge from what they want nothing would ever get done. A government shutdown like what we had in late 2018 to early 2019 would never end because no one would be able to reach an agreement.

You should really stop trying to compromise with the people who want to take away your rights.

Yes everyone should just stomp their feet and say my way or the highway and if nothing gets done so be it. I’m standing up for my beliefs. So want if that new bridge never gets built or money doesn’t get appropriated for vaccines?