I don't know, I'm looking forwards to S&P cracking and promising (the people's revolutionary socialist) death on a new minority / social strata - I don't think we've done Africa yet, it should be original at least.

That or droney threatening violence on another user through the use of Star Wars references.

His post where he threatened to chop another user's legs off a la Obi-Wan to Anakin is one of my favorite posts of all time on these forums (I wish I could remember the exact post or the exact context, but he said to another user something like, "I suggest you shut up now for I have the high ground! And if you choose to leap at me anyways, we'll see what happens to those legs, Ani!"). I understand that drone was genuinely upset at that moment, but I would be lying if I said there weren't tears of joy due to excessive laughter streaming down my face from that post.

The United States just became a victim of one of the biggest cybersecurity threats in the history of our country, and of course Dump and his goon squad are dead silent, focusing only on overturning the election and nothing else.

America is so fucked. After 4 years of Trump, they really need to... make America great again, but for real, not the racist corporate bootlickers' version of it.

Trump threatening to veto the stimulus if it doesn't include $2k stimulus checks right before the Georgia runoff is just the most wonderful sight to behold. If Mitch goes along with it, he'll be giving out money to poor people, setting a precedent for government giving money to the proletariat and ultimately siding with Democrats who have always pushed for bigger checks. If he defies Trump, he risks losing the entire Senate and incurring the wrath of Trump's base for years to come.

A lose-lose for Mitch McConnell is invariably a win for democracy. I know Trump is just doing this to punish McConnell for not doing enough election fraud for him, but who cares when it means either more money for Americans or Democratic control of all three branches?

Preferably we'd get both. The bluff gets called and the relief checks become bigger, but enough of the MAGA chuds still sit out of Georgia and both runoffs go to the Democrats, resulting in a de facto Dem majority thanks to Harris's tiebreaker vote. Realistically it'll only be one or the other, but it'd be fucking sweet if it was indeed both.

No way.

So the absolute piece of shit just pardoned more of his cronies and also as a cherry on top a few Blackwater murderers who butchered civilians in Iraq, including young kids.

At least I'm pretty sure he is miserable. I take no small joy in knowing that.

Reminder to laugh full in the face of anyone who ever says Trump was an anti-war president lol

He simultaneously hates being President yet doesn't want anyone else to have the job.

He wants all the power and protections that come with being President, yet doesn't want the responsibilities and duties that a President must fulfill. If he can't have it, he'll torch the country on the way out.

It's strange how he has wanted to hold onto a position that makes him miserable when his wealth and resources would arguably make him just as powerful, if not more so. Unless it is a subconscious admission that he truly is cash poor.

Naah it's not that strange if you consider narcissistic personality disorder and/or psychopathy.

Many people who know him have said that he hates the label of "loser", and that his philosophy (if you can call it that) is "losers" vs "winners", and he just despise being a "loser". And given his evident decline in mental capacity and his aggravating narcissism, it's possible that he cannot admit defeat. The fact that he reportedly said repeatedly "I won, I won" after he lost would confirm that, if true. He has a pathological need to be the winner, even if it makes him miserable.

He actually doesn’t have any wealth and power, if the few years’ of tax returns that NY got ahold of tell the tale. His core businesses have been losing millions for years. I wouldn’t be surprised if his personal net worth is in the negative.

As for power, all he does is hire sycophants, fire smart people, sow chaos, all so he can act like the big boss without actually having to do anything. You don’t get credit for solving only problems you created.

Well, I once watched a good documentary about him & how he started. All I can say is he could made it this far because of "his father's money" dragged him out of the business problems he created. Each and every time.

He is the perfect distillation of what America has become. He didn't deserve to be president, but we completely deserved him to be our president. Sadly, we deserve Joe Biden almost as much.

In mostly unrelated news, there are few articles that trigger me as much as this: https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco- ... lm-1557203

The SF mayor and the article manages to get so much wrong in so many ways at the exact same time and in such a short write-up that it's rather impressive. It's not missing the point, it's intentionally rocketing past it at the speed of sound. You'd think that having a black president for eight years yet not even remotely fixing racism would put this line of thinking to bed forever.

Obviously it's almost comically racist to think a random black female senator will be anything more than a sop to BLM, but considering this is trying to be presented as the "left" take on the issue, what in God's name will be the neoreactionary "right" perspective? That having a black woman in the Senate is inherently racist against whites?

All Newsom would have to do is appoint a BLM organizer to fill Harris's seat. There. Done. The issue would be rightly framed and the Democrats have successfully done an antiracism.

The small consolation is that we're getting increasingly close to Raphael Warnock becoming a Senator, and he's got the politics of BLM combined with the oratory skills and "holiness" of a pastor. And Nina Turner might become a representative, which is even better.

There was literally no way for Newsom to handle this that wouldn't have pissed off some ethnic political bloc in California. Personally I liked Ro Khanna for that seat, but it was pretty obvious from the start that wasn't gonna happen, so I guess he could've done worse than Alex Padilla, and it's not like nobody saw it coming. I do agree that this way of thinking about antiracism is dumb and useless, and really just a way to avoid doing the hard work of actually fighting racism. Representation is great-- actual legislative progress is better.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... -BfK_0tJmE

The House passed a bill to increase the new relief checks to $2000. Now watch as the Senate adds a bunch of garbage legislation to the bill, Dems say no to it since it’ll be some nonsense like repealing Section 230 or even more abortion restrictions or repealing parts of Obamacare, it dies, and idiot conservatives nationwide blame Dems for it. This always happens, and will continue to happen for as long as McConnell is in charge.

What really sucks is that conservatives will dogpile the dems and so will a lot of online leftists who don't seem to know that Republicans have control of the senate and think they and/or trump are "outflanking" pelosi

I'm pretty strongly left oriented but my god has it been jawdropping watching lefties and lefty pundits online look at Republicans do something and then attribute it to Pelosi and the Dems

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/531 ... A_m9jgZwVA

Exactly as expected, McConnell blocked the vote on $2000 relief checks.

Send all your love to these three badasses. The fact they're my three favorite Senators in the country fills me with pride (though I like Wyden a lot and Warren a bit too--hope they'd consider joining as well).

I really hope Sherrod Brown runs for president one day.

I was hoping he'd run this year-- figured he was planning to if he thought Biden wasn't gonna jump in. Sadly, I think his window closed with 2020.

US needs riots and probably a couple of politics lynched to death by the mob. Only then the political class will feel some degree of fear and will do their job, at least to some extent.

Riots accomplish absolutely nothing that would cause a positive outcome.

They never have and they never will.

Concentrated marches against actual politicians? Yes. That would be a much better idea. But, the vast majority of Americans are too fucking stupid to do it the right way.

Look, I'm not pro-riot as long as other paths to the same outcome exist, but to claim that they have never in history led to a positive change is a blatant falsehood. Yes, the cases with positive (or more positive than negative) outcomes are exceptions rather than rule, but they do exist. (See e.g. Stonewall)

...and the entire labor movement...which saw riots get so violent that they almost turned into full-on sedition after military units were called in...

Yeah, saying riots achieve nothing is such a hote take and a lie you've been told by the ruling elite so you stay home instead of fighting injustice. It's specially ironic if you consider the whole American history is based on a riot.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed directly as a response to the race riots that popped up in the aftermath of MLK’s assassination. He was killed on April 4, 1968, riots broke out immediately afterwards across the country, and the act was made law within a week.

So yeah, that guy up there is completely wrong and will continue to be wrong.

2021 starting great. Both Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell's houses have been vandalized within the course of 24 hours.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/ ... pigs-head/

https://www.wdrb.com/news/sen-mitch-mcc ... vIEIwNCrmo

I've never really agree with vandalizing politician's houses like that. Sure, I don't agree with Pelosi and McConnell's beliefs, but vandalism is kinda going too far.

"Vandalism is too far" is a nice way of admitting you forget how often assassinations used to occur.

Pelosi's and McConnell's beliefs are pretty far removed from eachother so if both instances turn out to be connected, the perpetrators are idiots. If they're not connected, only the people that hit Pelosi's house are.

But I don't mind McConnell's house being vandalized, at all. No one should.

You need some SERIOUS history lessons, bro. Just a couple of examples:

- Modern Democracy was born out of a massive "riot" called French Revolution.
- Women, people of color, workers in general got rights after massive, violent riots and some deaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/02/ted-cruz-republican-senators-reject-election-result-biden-trump

And after that another commission and then another one and then reading from a coffee cup and after that they will ask whether some rodent has seen its shadow.

Watching Trump put the torch to the GOP on his way out is both bizarre and extremely satisfying. The Republicans are now split into two camps: those that realize that the party is now the Cult of Trump, and those that are going to get a rude awakening when they don't get re-elected.

I hate sounding like "that guy" but Pelosi's house vandalism stinks to high hell of a false flag perpetrated by a MAGA cultist. Look up the guy who vandalized his own property by spray painting "blacks rule" on his driveway and you'll see a similar throughline. A bunch of anarchy symbols and a pig's head is not how a person affiliated with antifa rolls, but it's exactly how a MAGA moron thinks they do.

On the other hand, the McConnell vandalism could totally have been done by a leftist .

- before or after the revolutionaries murdered each other, started a twenty year war, and declared an empire, bro ?
- the massive riot being the First World War ? One or two deaths there, granted



It's certainly going to be interesting to see how they recover (if they do) from Donald - that'll largely depend on the tone of the incoming government, I suppose.

I dunno. I was thinking both were done by ride or die trumpists. I don't think they like McConnell anymore after he said no to the 2000 dollars. In their minds it's Trump and only Trump who's fighting for that.