And she also voted against releasing the Epstein documents. So, yeah, there’s that too.

Because some idiot will definitely want to buy it

I’ll take “le tits now” for 300, Trebek _{HEH HEH}

For the record, MBDA has also stood up an assembly line for PAC-2 GEM-T missiles (amongst other things) in Schrobenhausen, Germany. So there’s at least an alternative supply line for that particular model. Yes I know the logistics are complicated and a lot of US components are still used, but worst comes to worst, I don’t think the EU would have too hard of a time finding regional alternatives if our government decides to pull the rug on technical support for that (which would have much greater and more far reaching implications than a single PAC-2 assembly line).

If you’re under the impression that that precedent is going to be used and enforced by the Tribunal of Six in anything resembling an even-handed manner, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.

Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.

I mean, yeah, it’s reasonable to check what the fascists are saying from time to time, but I honestly don’t take the vast majority of what something like The Daily Caller says seriously.

The AMA should revoke her license for malpractice tbh

No, this is Patrick.

Dude I’m right there with you. It’s dire. But refusing optimism when it’s reasonable only just hurts morale. This is reasonable.

Hey so let’s not go ham on the pessimism just yet. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong in a lot of places, yes, but we’re seeing a lot of good things so far. Let’s not assume he and the movement he’s starting is gonna fail a priori.

It was like watching a dude clutch dump a Mustang and shatter the transmission, thus forfeiting the circuit race to this

…yyyyes? That’s what I was saying.

But I barely know her! 😱

They tried to, and tons of people immediately twigged to the fact that the footage was altered.

I want to believe this is going to start their house of cards collapsing, but unfortunately, I’m pretty certain most maga dipshits have skulls so thick that a GBU-57 would have trouble reliably impacting their trains of thought.

Yeah - the centrists and neoliberals will take this to mean “do more centrist and neoliberal things”; progressives will take this to mean “do more progressive things”; the DNC will take this to mean “give more money to centrist and neoliberal consultants and ignore what people are actually saying”. Not helpful in any sense.

So, in an unironic, but still very sarcastic and disappointed sense: thanks Obama 😒

Seriously, maybe tell the Democratic leadership to pull their head out of their ass and listen to people - as you did back in 07-08, which carried you to victory. And then gasp follow through on what they say, up to and including taking a page out of the GOP playbook - just do things that are helpful to normal people and say “fuck you, make me” when centrists and republicans try to stop you. We now have an imperial presidency, after all, so why not try to use it to do some good when (or if 😓) non-fascists get into power again.

So, yeah, it was fucking dumb, and orangeboi is a categorical fucking imbecile, and it’s comically obvious that - up until about a week or two ago - he was infuriatingly russophilic, and disturbingly friendly with Putin.

With that said: it is also absolutely true that Biden slow-walking military aid for Ukraine (largely at the behest of his NS advisor, Jake Sullivan) was an absolute ass-tier strategic play. The constant haranguing of “oh, the F-16s are too complex” (they’re not), “oh, we don’t want to peeve the ruskies too much” (relying on scare tactics is one of the core elements of Putin’s geopolitical playbook), “oh, ATACMS would trigger a real response from Putin” (it didn’t), “oh, we didn’t mean THIS red line, we meant THAT red line” (hello, noncredible defense policy desk speaking, just a moment) has been, since very shortly after the start of the more active phase of the war in Feb 2022, deeply infuriating to a LOT of people, and it served as a milquetoast example of strategic leadership that the EU frustratingly refused to step beyond.

If orangeboi simply says “fuck it” and opens the floodgates for military aid… well, I will still fucking hate the guy for what he’s doing to my country by being in charge of it, but meaningful and significant aid to Ukraine is one hell of a silver lining. I was convinced Putin and orangeboi were just gonna try to slice Ukraine up like a Molotov Ribbentrop pie, but color me very pleasantly surprised that Putin’s intransigence has somehow actually gotten orangeboi to completely lose his patience with Russia.

So it’s specifically this sort of shit that makes me want to fuck off from the US for good. I don’t think I can mentally handle dogmatically voting idiots of this caliber and prevalence.

Yes - but, point of order: kidnapping is unlawful by its very nature

That’ll never happen, because we don’t give voting day as a holiday (should be mandatory, imo), and old (retired) people ALWAYS have the time to vote, and moreover, our legislature is largely a gerontocracy. The way things are structured in the US now makes this effectively a non-starter, despite the fact that it’s clearly a good and necessary idea.