I watched this a few weeks ago. Despite being incredibly terrible subject matter, it's borderline required viewing. This fucking Wormtongue is reprehensible.

WATCH!

I was just saying tonight - the fact that we're seeing more and more of racist Nosferatu means things are getting much worse. They are have dropped all pretense of giving a shit. They're not even giving us lies anymore. It's now just "fuck you that's why".

His role is to throw shit around. It has two purposes.

It works as a distraction from what the actual administration is doing, but they're also watching if any of the shit sticks.

Vance is doing the same.

A lie needs to be told 3 times for anyone to believe it, so they're "priming the pump" for Trump to deliver the final lie and make his followers believe that it's the right thing to do.

Same logic for any violent unhinged asshole.

It's always been like this. This is how America acted for decades, but just denying it.
Tbh it's great they are just calling it openly, no need to convince people that they want to enslave latin America.

They likely really screwed though - cuz if u announce this moral foundation they won't get any support from locals, they basically killed it themselves.

That's the thing that binds together the youngest techbro and the oldest oil baron.

Antisocial "might makes right and I'm going to win" mentalities.

What world did you think we lived in before? Just curious.

I mean effectively that's basically what they are calling for... Hell I think that's half what they are hoping for... either another country makes an attempt to attack and we get to test out our detection and defenses before launching a sharp counter and claiming whatever country attacks as our own. Or everyone's too afraid to, and then we leverage our position as the unstable psychopath bully that everyone just gives whatever it asks for in the hopes that they can avoid being the next bullying target.

As an American, I hope for the same. The New England Federation will probably be pretty chill. Probably high taxes even for the poors though

He's a true believer in white nationalism. And he's not strictly wrong, either. In a world of Might Makes Right, the uncontested heavyweight champion can and does have a "right" to send in the goons, because there's no countervailing force.

Miller's got the reins of this monster and he's outspokenly using it in a way the advisors for Obama and Bush and Clinton admins were more sheepish about. But you're foolish to believe the Bin Laden raid into Pakistan was any less internationally criminal than the attack into Caracas. It was just more politically palatable. In the same way, the US support for the overthrow of Assad and the installation of form Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Ahmed al-Shara and our proxy war against Yemen has absolutely been "just about the oil" passing through the Suez Canal.

Miller's committed the unspeakable crime of saying the quiet part out loud. And his voice is annoying to listen to. But he's not breaking from our international policy in a material sense. He's just coming at it like he's six whiskeys deep at the Klan Rally rather than four martinis in at the Yale Business Club.

Miller is a Nazi ballsack

Miller isn't even a politician, nobody voted for him.

He is just the evil puppet master of Trump.

Except that, if China went full cold war with the US, all they'd have to do is stop selling to the US and the entire US economy would collapse. Not to mention that economic sanctions against the US would cripple the country completely, because Trump would just immediately default on the country's debt (as he loves to do) and, oh yeah, the entire NYSE would crater to 0 in about 5 minutes flat.

Trouble is, China and Russia are quite happy to have spheres of influence that don't overlap with the US'. The only issues are places like Taiwan, where the US still has some kind of residual genetic memory that letting China take it over would be bad - though as the US regime manifests its destiny ever harder I expect they'll realise that makes no sense in their own worldview.

It really doesn't leave many big players interested in a rules-based international order. My understanding is that African nations by and large don't give a shit about Ukraine.

The problem for anyone still interested in it is that they're torn between trying to keep whatever scrap of interest the US has in upholding national sovereignty in Ukraine and making any meaningful progress on what happens when Trump finally abandons it for good, or annexes Greenland.

Trying to keep Trump onside makes short-term sense, but in the long term European citizens need to be prepared for worse standards of living as the cost of defence and goods increases because we need to become independent of the US. If you fail to articulate the necessity of that independence, there'll be more backlash against the sacrifice. Far-right parties will be the beneficiaries of that backlash, who will happily put their respective countries under the boot of whichever fascist autocrat they prefer.

the majority of america is either so disillusioned with the system or so inherently selfish that they simply don't care at all unless something "political" directly effects them

Flensing seems worth a shot

That's true, but not having a personal reason is not the same thing as not being compelled to pay taxes... Tax season is coming up and we are poorly organized at best.

An upvote just for PeeWee Himmler. 🫠

PeeWee Himmler

Please don't stop at "this administration". It's a lot bigger than that, these are just the mooks

So that little shit finally grew up?

He's sharp. He's agile. If you try to beat George, you will only be beating AROUND the Bush

I don't think occupational surnames count for nominative determinism.