jakee

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  1. Or maybe there's a single line of code that wasn't working quite the same as it used to in this resurrected site and Bill didn't realise that at the time? Either that or the conspiracy against you goes just as deep as the one against your friend with the supersonic underwater alien bases.
  2. You can't get more compliant than dead. Chauvin refused to let go even when Floyd was already dead. But sure, any act of non-compliance with an officer is an irrevocable death sentence, no matter how quickly you change your mind. As I said, you don't care that Chauvin murdered him, you're just sad you didn't get to help do it.
  3. jakee

    Trump

    Interesting. I did think you sounded an awful lot like a Winsor sock puppet for some reason. Thing is, apart from the stuff about making it harder for black people to get an even break, he’s not really doing any of the stuff you want - least of all fiscal responsibility. The damage they’re doing to the government is going to be hugely expensive to repair. As for running it like a business - the 28 year old programmer overseeing the IRS told the staff he’d run it like a tech startup… despite presumably never having worked, much less managed, a tech startup. Still, most startups fail so there’s probably more than a grain of truth to it. His first act? Axing the department in charge of making it easier for people to pay tax because rando on X told Elon it was a hotbed of leftists. I guess tech startups hate revenue?
  4. jakee

    Trump

    Did you ever think through the implication of the fact that the only President who's ever been willing to do the things you want is a dumb, revolting sonofabitch? Call me crazy but I can't help thinking that might say something about the merits of the policies. Nah, you're right - it's probably just a coincidence.
  5. jakee

    Trump

    It isn't. There isn't. 1) It can't. Europe is already giving a lot of aid, but it is not capable of replacing US arms supply. Ukraine needs weapons from both sides of the atlantic. 2) That's not the goal. As things currently stand, doing business with Russia is the goal.
  6. I'm sorry but I think you're falling into the trap laid by extremist politicians of setting impossible standards for anyone else to follow. The system isn't broken. The system is not robust enough to stand up to malicious actors like Trump, but it can't ever be, really. There will always be a case that if you elect enough people who don't care about the law, the leadership will be above the law. But the answer to this is literally as simple as voting for grown ups with some sense of public service. That's all you need. Now ideally (IMO) this person would be willing to have serious conversations about the consequences of 40 years of increasingly pure neo-liberal economic policies and the need for imposition of responsibility for content onto the tech/media giants... but that's a wishlist for another day when the choice is between two grownups who haven't stated their intent to destroy the system. When the choice is between one normal person and one wrecking ball, under the normal person everything will work just fine. Maybe a little better, maybe a little worse, but absolutely fine. Handwringing about exactly who is the perfect person to oppose the wrecking ball has them laughing all the way to the ballot box. You'll see this template from the extremists time and time again - create a problem and force the conversation to happen on their terms that the problem now independently exists and who can give you a perfect plan to solve it.... when the real answer is that we just need to stop enabling them. One of the best examples is election security in the US. The extremists lied and lied and lied about utterly absurd schemes - dead Venezuelan presidents hacking in via satellite FFS - then pushed through sweeping reforms to weaken what was in fact an extremely robust system on the basis that too many people had lost faith in election security. Again in that case anyone engaging in a conversation with those people about how the system can be better protected has already lost because they have accepted the fraudulent worldview.
  7. Did you though? Did you really? "We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, major life events, and running for higher office. Legislators running for president or vice president typically miss votes while on the campaign trail — that’s normal." And since you held up Klobuchar as a contrast to Harris in the Senate, I'm guessing you never looked at her record for the same period before the election. Or you did, and you're just being slippery again. If she'd become the Dem nominee at any point, even against Trump, you'd just have used the same bullshit attack lines against her.
  8. Trump and Vance really showed the true depth of their depravity today. Petulant scumbags putting their own fragile egos above global security and the life and death of tens of thousands of people.
  9. It’s curious to find a traditional Republican declaring that only beltway insiders and career politicians are able to showcase their leadership qualifications. Real work just… doesn’t count? She was the California AG, right? She was the leader of that entire organisation. In what way does a Senator actually experience leading anyone, in comparison? That means you think she was actively incompetent. Why? You have given no reason whatsoever for this allegation. Just as you have given no reason for claiming she would be a puppet. Of course you’ve given no reason for that claim because you know it’s absurd. Why would she be a puppet? The President doesn’t have to do what the party tells them, the President sets the agenda of the party. If any party insiders disagree the President tells them to go fuck themselves.
  10. A Supreme Court ruling. If the briber doesnt explicitly say 'I am only giving you this money so you will do the thing I want' and the bribee doesn't explicitly say 'Ok I will do the thing but only because you gave me this money' then it's not a bribe.
  11. Now Trump isn't just spending time on his golf game while he's on holiday, he's literally making golf his job too. He's personally spent less time on Gaza and Ukraine peace deals than he has mediating White House meetings between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, something that is quite definitely not a government issue. So why's that going on? Well the Saudis will pay him a shit ton of money to host events on Trump courses again if he helps them out.
  12. Amazon has billions of dollars worth of government contracts that now exist at the whim of Jeff Bezos's greatest rival. Amazon has just agreed to pay Melania Trump $28M (seriously that's just her personal cut) for a documentary about her - over bidding the competition by three times the closest offer. Does that matter anymore? Do James Comer and Jim Jordan give a shit? Is it because they support Trump that he gets a pass on cash for access, or does literally no-one care about corruption that happens out in the open? It seems more and more that people only care about the stuff they think is being hidden from them, so only the fake allegations of corruption ever get any traction.
  13. After personal intervention by Trump's envoy his administration has successfully pressured the Romanian government into letting serial rapists and incel influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate travel to the US, essentially letting them off scott free from their numerous criminal charges across Europe because like fuck are they ever going back for any court date. This is the family values Republican party. Celebrating and defending despicable individuals about whom the absolute best, least controversial thing you can say is that they are professional pimps. Everyone down the chain even remotely involved in actioning this is fucking disgusting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4kkv3e1v9o
  14. jakee

    Trump

    And is there any indication that this will be the case? No. So why are we speculating about ‘if’ he will do that? We might as well be talking about how great it would be if he could literally fart sunshine and piss rainbows. As it stands right now Putin is in line to get an actual, genuine massive win. All the territory he possesses. All the natural resource wealth he’s stolen. Access to global markets restored so that he can profit from it. No reparations for his wholesale destruction and heinous war crimes. No security guarantee to stop him reinvading in 4 years time when he’s rebuilt his army. According to Trump, that’s the deal that’s on the table.
  15. No shit Sherlock. Klobuchar served under a Dem President in a Dem controlled senate next to a Dem controlled House. You can’t tell the difference? What did Klobuchar achieve while Harris was in the Senate?
  16. jakee

    Trump

    Trump releases AI video of himself perving on transgender belly dancers. Always the same with Republicans - the thing they complain about the loudest is the thing they're really doing.
  17. What would you normally expect a 4 year senator who served in the minority, with the opposition party in the White House, to accomplish? Not advocate, actually accomplish? Get real, dude. Your complaint about her senatorial record is absurd, your claim that there is nothing else else you can judge in her entire career apart from her laugh is absurd. Your rank dishonesty and deflection fools no-one.
  18. Did you know the moon is in freefall? Has been for quite a while. Will be for even longer.
  19. And the Republicans will still tell you that silicon valley is a nest of subversive ultra-liberals.
  20. What makes you think you have any idea what floor you're on? Your claim is that incredibly drastic action needs to be taken right now or it's too late. But to me an anecdote about the fate of a 250 year old wartime currency of a start-up nation isn't a particularly good reason to think that the US dollar is going to impode tomorrow.
  21. Given that you know this is a stupid question you are being intentionally dishonest now. You're saying you can't possibly know anything good about any political candidate unless they have already successfully sponsored legislation or wielded executive power - and if they haven't they're just as bad as an insurrectionist, rapist and fraudster? Get a fucking grip, man.
  22. Why would you think that? If you’re so ill informed you think that Harris does nothing at all that you could mention except have an annoying laugh then why are you even bothering to comment? What could you possibly be adding to the conversation?
  23. It's so noticeable that no-one, no-one, who says that Harris is so bad has anything but the vaguest of platitudes to offer to explain why she is so bad.
  24. What qualities or career achievements would you accept as satisfying the criteria ‘war’?