The Politics Thread

[DRW50]

Ugly  smears and hysteria going around about  Judge Brown. We'll see if Manchin and others  in that ilk cave in.

 

[marceline]

Someone referred to this as the QAnonification of politics. Just accuse someone you don't like of being a pedophile. The truth is that Republicans want to kill the rest of us. Accusing Dems of being sexual predators is the pretext. Just like how Putin is accusing Ukraine of being filled with Nazis even though Zalensky is Jewish. It's all designed to give right-wing authoritarian an excuse to do what they really want to do: kill the rest of us.

Edited March 18, 2022 by marceline

[DramatistDreamer]

Is any ruling ever final in Peru? So interesting that the courts can give consideration to release in humanitarian grounds when under the Fujimori regime, indigenous women were forcibly sterilized, and torture of political opponents was enforced regularly. But when his daughter Keiko can run repeatedly and get closer and closer to winning and his party has only gained seats, I guess it's not beyond consideration that Alberto Fujimori would repeatedly be granted release, for one reason or another. Wild.

[Vee]

Arnold nails it once again:

 

[DRW50]

 

[marceline]

A perfect example of how this was never about masks or mandates. It's about dragging this country back to the 1930s. 

[DRW50]

Don Young, the very long-serving Congressman from Alaska, has passed away.

I doubt I agreed with Young on much of anything, but I also have little doubt that whoever replaces him is going to be much worse. (it's also why I'm not a big term limits person - it would just get us even MORE of Boebert, MTG, Cawthorn, etc.)

Edited March 19, 2022 by DRW50

[marceline]

The Ohio Republican Senate primary y'all. Josh Mandel is such a deeply disturbed person.

 

[Khan]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: wypipo have always lived under this cloud of existential doom, because they're the only race (for lack of a better word) without a true, ancestral homeland.  Wherever they've traveled, they've always ended up being escorted out.  Ergo, this is their last stand for supremacy (at least, in this country).  If they can't beat back the changing demographics here, then that's pretty much the ballgame for them. 

[I Am A Swede]

^^

Maybe the answer is obvious and I'm just clueless, but....what is wypipo??  

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[Khan]

It's just my stupid way of saying "white people," I'm afraid.

[I Am A Swede]

^^

Aha, ok   

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[dragonflies]

 

[Khan]

It truly doesn't pay to be Joe Biden.

[DramatistDreamer]

I just got finished watching a Frontline episode called Putin's War. It recalled so much awful history and devastating events like the massacre at Beslan.

I know many Americans think they see the solution is to take up arms or establish a no fly zone but if they were to actually sit down and watch this documentary, they would see that, not only are there no straightforward solutions but the options are all very unsavory. When a person is willing to sacrifice the lives of six year olds, their teachers and their babushkas taking them to school on their first day, what choice, what path can be taken that won't lead to chaos and mass death?