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Bucky

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August 26, 2024

Did anyone watch Umbrella Academy season 4 yet? (this is a NO SPOILERS thread)

I have questions, but I'm willing to wait till anyone who's still watching is able to finish.

I'm enjoying it, but still...

Just say below if you've watched it, are watching it, or plan to start some time.

August 23, 2024

Environmentalist RFK, Jr secures his legacy by endorsing climate denier

what a dumbfuck. He did one thing right in his life... and now he's undone it.

Well played, wormboy
August 22, 2024

Michigan Sec'y of State Reads Angry Election Tweets (and calls out Elon Musk and misinformation)

She subtly points out some of Musk's anti-Democrats shenanigans at 6:50

August 22, 2024

Trump reacts to Barack and Michelle Obama's speeches at the DNC

Trump gives a 1-hour speech. It was supposed to be on foreign policy.
Strangely enough, he doesn't really talk about foreign policy.

August 22, 2024

Hilarious! This did not get enough attention here -- Colbert in disguise chats with a possibly unaware AOC.

I can't tell if she's hip to the joke or is genuinely just this gracious and patient with her public. It's a very good disguise.



(This was actually posted earlier by Struggle4Progress, but somehow only get 3 rec's and zero kicks or comments)

August 21, 2024

a US airman vet-turned-elected official defects to Russia & denounces US aggression in Ukraine. But turns out, he's a...

Oh man, you gotta see this to believe it. It's worse than when he says "Do your own research." Much worse.

Let's just say, he's not a good person.



August 20, 2024

Is Judy Woodruff's scoop legit? Is Trump trying to dissuade Israel from cutting a peace deal?

This would be a HUGE issue, a major betrayal, if he actually did this. But is there any confirmed "reporting," as Woodruff termed it, that Trump is actually talking to Netanyahu along these lines?

"The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because it's believe that would help the Harris campaign."


https://x.com/profcarroll/status/1825910248189591637


August 20, 2024

What happens when Trump loses the election




x-posted to GD forum
August 20, 2024

Another benefit of Biden passing the torch after just one term

The pattern is pretty clear in the politics of the post cold war world, political parties tend to get two terms in office, and then voters tend to swap them out. Clinton- 8 years, Bush- 8 years, Obama- 8 years. Trump only didn't get reelected cause he sucked so hard.

Overall the American system tends to produce presidents who can get reelected. But our love of the new creates an urge for change in parties even when the incumbent party has done a good job managing the entertainment. Both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but did so with diminished pluralities weak enough to allow the Electoral College's red bias to pervert the results.

But leaving after one term allows Biden to help break that pattern. If (if!) Harris can win election this year, she should be favored to win reflection in 2028. That would give Democrats 12 years in power.

This is important because she'll be appointing supreme court replacements for Sonya Sotomayor and possibly Elena Kagen. But more importantly, the odds of both septuagenarians Thomas and Alito lasting 8 more years as they desperately cling to the hope for a Republican victory to guarantee their successors is fairly low.

Of course it's also possible Tweedlemean and Tweedlemeaner could make it to ages 84 and 86, respectively. But that's beyond our control as voters. So we must leave it to the voters of 2032 to defy history if the old devils manage to defy the mortality tables. Maybe we can encourage Neil Gorsuch to take up skiing.

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