Scottish Leader Sums It Up

[Zema Bus]

[Grogan]

Foreign leaders are now kissing Trump's ring, because he's dangerous and vindictive... not because they approve. It makes me sick.

Unfortunately, while 100% correct and well spoken, that "green" co-leader in Scotland isn't really anyone of significance. He'll simply find himself insulted and called names.

Forget "4 years" too, you'll never get those creeps out in the next century. There won't be another fair election until these people are removed by whatever means. Donald Trump is going to have a short shelf life, but he's just the figurehead for it all right now. A useful idiot that's soon going to outlive his usefulness. They are going to replace everyone that isn't a loyalist. They are even posturing to court martial military generals for their roles in the Afghanistan withdrawal, even though it's something that Trump unilaterally negotiated with the Taliban without even consulting the Afghan government at the time. Those generals were also simply following lawful orders issues by the government. It's all about replacing people with loyalists.

[Michael_horatio]

Trump is bully and a monster and is not going to be good for anyone, but I can see why they voted for him. He looks pretty good beside that vapid empty headed Kamala and all that woke mob of Hollywood losers who failed to get her elected. It would be hard to imagine the world surviving another 4 years of them. Not that it really matters anyway. The country runs on constant war. The generals in the Pentagon will always make the real decisions. I see today that old senile Joe Biden is giving Ukraine permission to fire U.S. supplied long range missiles into the heart of Russia. We haven't learned anything in the last hundred years. I don't agree that Trump has a short shelf life. He will make the U.S. prosperous at the cost of everyone else, and as long as times are good and people are making money he will be around. He's the perfect figurehead. People love a dictator.

[Dark Angel]

That "vapid empty headed Kamala" has earned more distinction in education and achieved more in government than Trump and both his vice presidents combined.
As for using the term "woke" as a pejorative, if you substitute the phrase "human rights" every time someone says "woke" it immediately shows what they're really upset about.
AS for making America prosperous, the last time he was in office he put the country into the highest debt ever seen. Even Harley Davidson started moving factories out of the country to avoid his retarded tariffs putting thousands of people out of work. Literally the only people who will benefit from his presidency are other billionaires. If you're not already that wealthy, AND friends with him, you're fucked.

[Grogan]

Yeah, I really don't like that term "woke" either. Consider me a woke liberal.

You can't even go look for info in game forums anymore without people complaining about games being woke, for being inclusive. These people are drowning out just about everything else now. Women in leading roles, different nationalities/skin tones, some LGBT characters, and what irks me the most are people complaining because others get a CHOICE of what pronouns they'd like to see. That offends them that other people get a choice (just go with the default of he/him/she/her and STFU? I prefer normal pronouns instead of awkwardness too, but I'm glad to see them being inclusive)

He's going to sow chaos (already starting) so he can justify neutering (eliminating all but ignorant loyalists), bypass or even abolish checks and balances like the Senate and be more autocratic. That's the purpose of his utterly ridiculous cabinet picks.

It's going to be very bad for Canada, being right above them and subject to El Presidente's whims. We aren't going to get to keep our nicer society for long.

[Dark Angel]

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[Grogan]

Don't even get me started on that American brand of Christian hypocrisy. I actually do have some tolerance for people that use religion for good, but it's a weapon of evil in the hands of these vile people. It's a tool to control and pick the pockets of the stupid.

[Zema Bus]

The "religious right", they're no better than the Ori.

[Grogan]

Say what you want about the Ori... at least they were real

[Michael_horatio]

That "vapid empty headed Kamala" has earned more distinction in education and achieved more in government than Trump and both his vice presidents combined.

Very impressive! How the Hell did 77 million Americans who voted to rid their country of her miss that part?

[Grogan]

Because they are a mix of uneducated, and mis-educated assholes, that's why. Miserable creatures. They are going to be in for a comeuppance, in the coming years, and I'm probably going to see the world burn in my lifetime. It's both depressing and infuriating that history is going to repeat itself again, because it's the same types that bring it about.

[Dark Angel]

That "vapid empty headed Kamala" has earned more distinction in education and achieved more in government than Trump and both his vice presidents combined.

Very impressive! How the Hell did 77 million Americans who voted to rid their country of her miss that part?

You mean the Americans that are known the world over as the dumbest most self absorbed fuckwitts on the planet? The Americans with the 5th grade reading skills? Those Americans?
They also didn't vote to "rid the country of her". Kamala is still around and not going anywhere. They voted to put a convicted criminal, serial sex offender, traitor, and pathological liar in charge of their economy despite him putting it into the highest debt ever seen the last time they did something that stupid.

[Dark Angel]

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[Zema Bus]

He picked Dr. Oz, a physician turned snake oil salesman, to run Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). The last one I won't be surprised if it gets gutted, and the other two turned over to corporate hands since patient care taking a back seat to corporate profits has worked out so well for those of us with HMO's and PPO's that dictate the cheapest possible treatment (or no treatment) rather than what is in the patient's best interest.

[Grogan]

Also, RFK Junior (anti-vax, anti-science MORON) to lead the Department of Health, Pam Bondi, a rabid election denier as Attorney General (only because Matt Gaetz was forced to give it up because CNN outlined what they had on him), who has stated her intent to "prosecute the prosecutors", Tulsi Gabbard, a pro-Russian stooge, for National Intelligence Director, Pete Hegseth (another Fox News talking empty-head) as Secretary of Defense for his military takeover... and this prick fantasizes about deploying the troops against the public and wants to remove women from the military. The military takeover is the scariest thing of all.

Trump intends to replace all the senior generals with loyalists. You can bet that their goals won't be to protect America, but to protect Trump and his regime FROM America and do their bidding.

He openly campaigned on a platform of nothing but hatred, retribution, with blatant lies, and those people voted for him and his fascist cronies. Oh, but you can't call them that or they'll come after you. They are making noise about prosecuting journalists for it. Elon Musk just doxxed a list of federal employees on X so they can be harassed, too.

They are already making noise about taking away hard won workers' rights too, like the right to overtime pay for low level salaried employees that was legislated by the Biden admin. Musk and Bezos now want what they paid for and are lobbying to abolish the Labor Relations Board already, too.

Kash Patel to gut the FBI.

A shit storm is on the horizon. Once they've got control of the legislature, the judiciary and the American military we're all going to be fucked. This is how fascists attain and hold power... it's very much like the conditions in Germany in the 1930's.

[Grogan]

I just went upstairs and the news was on the TV and I saw Lindsey Graham, threatening "U.S. Allies" (and mentioned Canada by name) with "crushing their economies" if they try to enforce the international arrest warrant for Netanyahu. We're a member country and we have a duty to do just that, were he to land here.

It's starting already, and this regime won't even be in power for another month and a half. This is what we have to look forward to. Sovereignty will be hegemony.

[Zema Bus]

Between all this and the recently increased threat of nuclear war I wish I could move to another planet.

[Grogan]

Do we even have a time source fine grained enough for the proximity of the doomsday clock to midnight?

[Zema Bus]

The outlook for next year

[Grogan]

They really do spend millions of dollars on think tanks and shit, to qualify things they already know. In this case, we're fucked

Speaking of The Onion, they bought Alex Jones' Infowars for next to nothing. How fitting

[Dark Angel]

Apparently it was initially going to be bought by another right-wing skidmark and Jones kept on as it's talking head effectively meaning he'd be keeping his platform, but The Onion got together with the parents Jones had been attacking for years and bought it out from under them.

[Dark Angel]

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[Grogan]

Yeah, I heard that too, but the popular vote doesn't really matter. It won't curtail the smugness either. More likely it will get Trump on the fraudulent vote bandwagon again too, because the totals came in later after his "landslide" victory.

In the 2016 election he was furious that they still kept counting votes after he "won". He was literally demanding that they stop counting.

[Zema Bus]

And in 2020 when he did lose:

Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" and overturn the state's election results from the 2020 presidential election.

At one point on the call, Trump told Raffensperger, "What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state."[7] During the call, Trump falsely suggested that Raffensperger could have committed a criminal offense by refusing to overturn the state's election results.[6] Legal experts have suggested that Trump's behavior and demands could have violated state and federal laws

On December 23, 2020, Trump called the chief investigator for the Georgia secretary of state's office, who was then conducting a ballot audit in Cobb County. Raffensperger had ordered the audit in response to allegations of fraud. Trump asked her to scrutinize the ballots and said she would find "dishonesty". The Washington Post reported on the telephone conversation with apparent quotations of Trump's comments to the chief investigator. It based these quotations on an anonymous source purportedly familiar with the call. At the time of its reporting, it emphasized that Trump had instructed the investigator to "find the fraud" and that she would be a "national hero" if she did so. Based on this reporting, some legal experts said that this phone call appeared to be bribery or obstruction on Trump's part. On December 29, the audit ended. Georgia officials concluded that there was no fraud. Trump was unhappy with those results.

From here.

[Dark Angel]

Yeah, I heard that too, but the popular vote doesn't really matter. It won't curtail the smugness either. More likely it will get Trump on the fraudulent vote bandwagon again too, because the totals came in later after his "landslide" victory.

In the 2016 election he was furious that they still kept counting votes after he "won". He was literally demanding that they stop counting.

True, it doesn't really matter, except in proving that he's a lying sack of shit when he claims it was a "landslide" victory.
We can only hope, for the good of the USA as well as the world, that The Simpsons get this right as well.

[Grogan]

We can only hope, for the good of the USA as well as the world, that The Simpsons get this right as well.

There's a fuck of a lot of Homers and Mr. Burns' out there

[Grogan]

Americans are in unimaginable trouble. I just heard that Jack Smith is filing motions to DISMISS (not postpone) Trump's January 6th charges. They are afraid of what this administration is going to do. This is going to vindicate and empower the rest of the insurrectionists and pave the way for pardons.

Also, Trump is going to impose work requirements on Medicaid (jointly funded by State and Federal). Circular logic... if you're sick and can't work, you lose your Medicaid benefits. If you lose your job, you'll have to do "volunteer" work (slavery). I'd also envision an uptick in incarceration for minor offenses, so people can be farmed out for menial labour, to replace the immigrants they are going to deport.

In the news for the rest of the world, Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, envisions America on a holy crusade and wants to withdraw from allied treaties and ignore the Geneva Convention.

[Grogan]

... and he has announced that on day one he's breaking the longstanding trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, to impose 25% tariffs. He's using it as an ultimatum... right now, he wants border security. I agree, but for the opposite reason... we should restrict anything coming out of that soon to be shithole. Just imagine the increase in crime that's going to arise under his administration.

[Zema Bus]

I've heard there are a lot of people looking to move to other countries. Especially those he has identified as critics of him and his regime, like journalists.

Ferris Bueller's teacher explains why tariffs don't work

[Grogan]

Yep... that's the only education those troglodytes will get, from watching movies, reality TV and right wing claptrap from podcasters

Unfortunately, all they'd understand of that movie would be "Oh... yeah. Oh... yeah"