Still scary with how far/close it got.

I’m still not clear what would have happened if rioters had actually beaten Congressional Reps to the door.

Let’s say Mike Pence really did get lynched. And Nancy Pelosi had to watch her desk get crapped on. And then the capital building is surrounded by the DC police. And there’s a high profile hostage crisis, while whomever did get out reconvenes to decide what to do next.

Does anyone believe Joe Biden doesn’t still get sworn in?

This is the Presidency not a game of tag. Who is still going to take orders from a Trump admin on these terms? Everyone - Republicans included - wanted that asshole gone by the end of 2024.

Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads

When you’ve gerrymandered all the districts and you’re threatening to federalize state elections? When Silicon Valley owns all the venues those oppo ads would run? When your response to every defeat is to deny it is happening and double down on the military?

I just don’t think Scary Voice Ads during the Late Show With Not Steven Colbert Cause He’s Fired are going to make a huge difference.

Like, I’m not a doomer. I don’t think “Democracy is Over!” Because, if Trump had the means to make Democracy Go Away, he’d have done it during the 2025 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. But it’s crazy to think Ad Buys are going to be what decide the next election cycle.

I like Messiahs who aren’t dead.

One death is a tragedy.

14 million? A statistic.

I mean, I’m in favor of abolishing birthright citizenship. But only because I find citizenship to be an archaic relic of the colonial era.

Simple residency should be sufficient to convey all the rights of citizenship.

It’s very funny to see Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines complain about China, given that China’s not the one that had a boot on their necks for the last 80 years.

is Chinese

I immediately crapped myself and fainted when I read this

I’m a Chinese American

It is very funny to see a man who is going to be lined up against the wall under the current administration defend it so adamantly.

Before you laugh to hard at the Spaceballs, consider that they did very nearly asphyxiate an entire planet.

I would say that the Prince of Saud and the Prime Minister of the UK have significantly more influence over the behaviors of the US Federal Government than some random ditch-kicking voter in Peoria.

Hell, I’m cheering and clapping like a trained seal for the brave freedom-fighting IRGC right now. They’ve spent the last 40 years arming themselves and training to resist the full might of the US military. I have not.

“Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,”

Hostility towards those who hold traditional views on “morality.”

It’s there if you squint.

have Americans get off their arses and stop ICE themselves

I’m reminded of folks who thought kids doing human wave attacks would be a good deterrent to school shooters.

Sure it is. Gotta let the troops know what they’re fighting for.

spaceship circles the moon

Lemmy: Artemis II has failed it’s primary mission - emails

The planting season is happening right now

Which means the planting supplies were lined up months ago. This will be a next-year thing if it cannot be corrected for in time.

The LNG plants are going to take years to repair

One section of one country’s exports in a global economy. And that’s ignoring the fact that the Straight isn’t shut down for everyone. The IRGC is negotiating passage for a bunch of unaligned states. Pakistan is going to get their fertilizer. China and Russia will get their supplies. Italy and Spain will be fine. It’s the US-Israel block that’s in trouble. And given how much fertilizer the US produces domestically, not even that much trouble.

However, some developing countries will have genuine shortages.

The biggest threat to developing countries is western intervention. The famines happening along the Horn of Africa are the direct result of US, Israeli, and Qatari backed military interventions.

There’s almost certainly going to be a farming crisis

Over a long enough timeline, sure.

We’ve already seen egg prices skyrocket thanks to bird flu and beef production sag due to drought and Texas Cattle Fever. I have no doubt we’ll continue to see agricultural productivity drag as ecological conditions worsen.

But the fixation on the Straight of Hormuz as a but-for cause to a global agricultural crash jumps the gun for a host of reasons. The most notable of which is that we heavily overproduce agricultural goods and end up subsidizing their wholesale prices. The biggest problems populations have with famine in the modern era is of storage, distribution, and financialization, not raw productivity. A hiccup in the supply of nitrogen rich fertilizer isn’t going to empty anyone’s shelves.

The CHIPs act also favored union work and even funneled some money to worker owned shops.

It overwhelmingly favored Intel, for better or worse. And the early influx of cash did nothing to prevent Intel from axing 15,000 jobs.

I’m not here to praise Trump for any of his trade policies. But what Biden pitched through the CHIPs Act was largely a bailout for under-performing domestic producers more focused on dividends than scaled production or R&D. He’d have been better off nationalizing Intel than just handing them bricks of cash in the form of grants and low-interest loans. That is (kinda) what Trump ended up doing when he ordered the Treasury to take a 10% stake in the firm.

dissentdaily.com

Just looks like a click farming site that targets left-libertarians.

She stands in a supermarket aisle, looking at the price of baby formula.

A notification flashes on her phone. Headlines about Trump. Iran. Threats. Escalation. She reads it quickly, almost without thinking.

Then she looks back at the shelf.

Her mind starts connecting things.

Like, this isn’t journalism it’s prose

MGT is the voice of reason

She’s a contrarian. Don’t mistake Tucker Carlson tier reactionary hot takes for reasonable analysis

US Politicians React

American politics in 2026 sounding like a third string influencer YouTube stream from 2012.