AXD Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jan/26/stephen-breyer-retires-supreme-court-biden-pick-justice Quote Stephen Breyer to retire from supreme court, giving Biden chance to pick liberal judge New US Supreme court nomination incoming. Let's see who Biden picks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Every time I check in to US politics it leaves very feeling very depressed and sad. I know our climate political climate is also dreadful, but in the US I can see a possible civil war in the future. Or at least hundreds of militia groups causing chaos. The system is ungovernable, Biden is past it and Trump is still lurking in the background ready to go again in 2024. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straggler Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 23 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Every time I check in to US politics it leaves very feeling very depressed and sad. I know our climate political climate is also dreadful, but in the US I can see a possible civil war in the future. Or at least hundreds of militia groups causing chaos. The system is ungovernable, Biden is past it and Trump is still lurking in the background ready to go again in 2024. Yep, totally feeling the same. If you were running a playbook on how to turn a democracy into an autocracy, it would look a lot like this. The Republicans are basically fascist now, deliberately undermining their own democracy, and the Democrats are extensions of large corporations with a President who was happy to be a lame duck from day 1. If Trump gets back in, I can see the need of a number of fairly prominent opposition leaders needing to leave the country (Ilhan Omar, AOC etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 44 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Every time I check in to US politics it leaves very feeling very depressed and sad. I know our climate political climate is also dreadful, but in the US I can see a possible civil war in the future. Or at least hundreds of militia groups causing chaos. The system is ungovernable, Biden is past it and Trump is still lurking in the background ready to go again in 2024. I think the main function of the American political system, for the British, is to allow us to maintain the fiction that our own system is somehow better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) Trump at his rally yesterday said he was going to pardon those convicted of Jan 6th crimes when he’s re-elected in 2024 but then on Hannity he said they were Antifa. So he supports Antifa now if he’s going to pardon them? Edited January 30, 2022 by nick76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2022 America is really looking like the next fallen Empire. China will be the next power to run the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 To be honest, every Republican president (doesn't have to be Trump) will immediately pardon everyone involved in January 6th as their first act in office, and that's been clear for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: To be honest, every Republican president (doesn't have to be Trump) will immediately pardon everyone involved in January 6th as their first act in office, and that's been clear for a while now. Which is a thoroughly depressing state of affairs. Jesus. I could say a lot about Bill Maher, but for some reason I keep watching his show every week and I am beginning to share his complete and total pessimism with regards to the future of US democracy. It really looks f***ing grim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 30, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 30, 2022 2 hours ago, sidcow said: America is really looking like the next fallen Empire. China will be the next power to run the world. American banks and corporations own more than 50% of the global economy - it's democracy that's the fallen empire - America may be the last nation-state empire we see for a while. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Democrats just released their maps for new Congressional districts in New York, and they look like they've had fun designing this one: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 (edited) His released statements are just getting more and more like a child’s tantrum. How he was ever President I’ll never know. feels appropriate Edited February 5, 2022 by nick76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A'Villan Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 (edited) On 30/01/2022 at 21:30, sidcow said: America is really looking like the next fallen Empire. China will be the next power to run the world. That would be Greece. I personally don't think it coincidence that the origins of democracy lost sovereignty over its own water and land, while the so called democracy of today, the USA, leverages more power for the powers that be, and divorces the world as we know it further into turmoil and chaos. @OutByEaster? Edited February 5, 2022 by A'Villan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 The right are absolutely livid about the appointment of this bloke Only a graduate of MIT with 2 masters in Nuclear science. But he looks a bit odd so it's the downfall of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 14, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 14, 2022 The Trump Organisations accountants have just shat on him from a great height. They’ve released a statement saying that they no longer believe that the last ten years worth of accounts can be relied upon which has serious implications for the probe by New York State. It will also affect their ability to borrow money and of course they now need to find new accountants it’s always the tax that brings them down in the end 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 10 hours ago, bickster said: it’s always the tax that brings them down in the end That's because the IRS has long been weaponised by the party in power to attack their political opponents. Chomsky used to get audited every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 how's the old empire doing? still holding up by a thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 15, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 15, 2022 36 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said: That's because the IRS has long been weaponised by the party in power to attack their political opponents. Chomsky used to get audited every year. Yes it has, so if you know that will happen.... do they never learn? This isn't the IRS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 52 minutes ago, osmark86 said: how's the old empire doing? still holding up by a thread? Ben Franklin's experiment looks like a venal, dystopian circus, while Canada, Australia and New Zealand, edge towards crackpot authoritarianism, with added pronouns. England is a beacon of mediocrity but still manages to preserve the privileges of the middle-classes, and the working-class still know their place. In short: plus ça change plus ça reste pareil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Happened to watch a Louis Theroux on the American far right this morning. Pretty interesting (to me as I'm not well versed in the characters and under-pinning views): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0014khc/louis-therouxs-forbidden-america-series-1-1-extreme-and-online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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