Random Politics Thread

[Virtual ghost]

‘Scheduling issues’ scupper Rubio-Kallas meeting in Washington

 

[The Cat]

Have people seen this here yet?

North Korea steals $1.5bn as it pulls off world’s biggest ever heist

Rogue state could fund military with crypto cash plundered in Bybit hack

www.telegraph.co.uk

We're not supposed to notice that yet. Elon and Donald aren't out of the casino yet. This is the part of the heist where the heist is revealved in small scope so the main heist can get back under way. If people are confused its only because these things arent usually summed up till the final flashback scene in the final act. This story is more here for continuity because several rich jag offs watched the heist episode of south park and realized they technically had enough money to steal a country and break democracy in favor of technofuedalism.

So yeah. This is one of the things that's really gonna had to skin peeling burn of hindsight the MSM is gonna barrage us with after its too fucking late to do anything about it.

Rant about the state of things aside, good share, keep it up, everyone needs to do everything they can to get the other humans to wake up to what's happening while there's still room to maneuver. Because once the stampede starts its too late to avoid the trampling herd.

 

[The Cat]

Well, this distraction happened...

Trump Posts AI Video Showing Colonial Fantasy of Gaza Rebuilt for the Rich

Excessive wealth is a focal point of the video, which shows a gold statue of Trump and Elon Musk being showered in cash.

truthout.org

(Witaf?? Why are we being invited into this depraved worldview? It's like they either don't understand and/or don't care how this simply isn't normal.)

Okay, back to focusing on general RIF outrage...!

Turning the water up on the frogs. These sorts of things are still subject to the laws of physics. If they just started doing it people would react with opposing forces proportional to the tragedy, but if you can get it to be just one more little droning sound in the atrocity pile that's been there the whole time, we've just been too burned out to distinguish it from any of the other large screaming fires all around. Fuck me this is why the Comedian cried. It all feels like a joke someone else thinks is funny.

They're placing a bet that Heath Ledger's Joker was right. That Curtis Yarvin is right. The only thing I can figure that can stand against that is for everyone to unilaterally declare in once voice hell no they're not right, then act accordingly as a team, push on through the pain and get ready for a long haul...but its still doable at least, for the time being. What disturbs me so much is that once upon a time...not too long ago even by the reckoning of the human mind...that clip would have been enough to tank a presidency. full stop. I grew up hearing about the horrorible unforgivable atrocity of Watergate...and now here we are....Someone should do a study. Providing anyone is left after the times get bored of being interesting.

 

[The Cat]

>_<

Cassandra of Troy from across time and space I empathize with you.​

 

[SensEye]

Well, this distraction happened...

Trump Posts AI Video Showing Colonial Fantasy of Gaza Rebuilt for the Rich

Excessive wealth is a focal point of the video, which shows a gold statue of Trump and Elon Musk being showered in cash.

truthout.org

(Witaf?? Why are we being invited into this depraved worldview? It's like they either don't understand and/or don't care how this simply isn't normal.)

Okay, back to focusing on general RIF outrage...!

I'm starting to think that Trump spewing out all this crazy shit is just a distraction from whatever his real agenda is. I mean, some of this stuff is ludicrous. I can't quite figure out what he is actually up to - although no doubt it is all about him (getting rich and boosting his ego/power).

Re: crypto - while I don't like to see stuff like this, I consider all crypto a ponzi scheme that should be completely avoided. As such, I won't be losing any of my money in this kind of stuff personally unless some idiots in my government decide to make pension investments or the like in this sector, which I suspect they are stupid enough to do, although I can only hope not.

Anyways, tariffs back on Canada Mar 4, or not, one never knows with this clown.

 

[The Cat]

I'm starting to think that Trump spewing out all this crazy shit is just a distraction from whatever his real agenda is. I mean, some of this stuff is ludicrous. I can't quite figure out what he is actually up to - although no doubt it is all about him (getting rich and boosting his ego/power).

Re: crypto - while I don't like to see stuff like this, I consider all crypto a ponzi scheme that should be completely avoided. As such, I won't be losing any of my money in this kind of stuff personally unless some idiots in my government decide to make pension investments or the like in this sector, which I suspect they are stupid enough to do, although I can only hope not.

Anyways, tariffs back on Canada Mar 4, or not, one never knows with this clown.

I'm waiting for this moment to start playing out in DC

Since we're returning to the old ways and apparently Washington is full of sentimentalists for the "good old days" I wonder who's going to try to get there first...​

 

[Totenkindly]

Well, you probably heard about the SSA letter tonight that looks like a massive push towards RIF and would gut our agency.

BUt then this also came through tonight. Kind of a big deal.

Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers

The order by Judge William Alsup, who called the OPM directive "illegal," does not reinstate any recently dismissed government employees, but it could affect future attempts at firings.

www.aol.com

The judge instructed the Office of Personnel Management to communicate to the Department of Defense on Friday — ahead of expected probationary terminations — that he has ruled they are invalid.

Alsup has also ordered a hearing scheduled in which acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell will testify. The timing of that hearing is unclear.

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” Alsup said Thursday night. “It can hire its own employees, yes. Can fire them. But it cannot order or direct some other agency to do so.”

“OPM has no authority to tell any agency in the United States government, other than itself, who they can hire and who they can fire, period. So on the merits, I think, we start with that important proposition,” he said.

Alsup called probationary employees “the lifeblood of our government.”

“They come in at the low level and they work their way up, and that’s how we renew ourselves and reinvent ourselves,” he said.

Probationary workers are employees who are recent hires or sometimes longtime employees who were recently moved into new positions...

 

[Virtual ghost]

EU to Trump on tariffs: Go ahead, make our day.

Macron’s told-you-so moment


It seems we are going straight into trade war (a large one).

 

[The Cat]

More are coming...​

 

[The Cat]

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. No Meta. And no Google or YouTube. I will not be posting on YouTube tomorrow in support of the economic blackout. I encourage you to join me. Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses. And use cash. If politicians won’t hear the voices of average Americans who are being shafted by corporate America, we have to deliver our message to corporate America directly.​

 

[Totenkindly]

But reckless hubris is his modus operandi...!

 

[Totenkindly]

 

[Red Herring]

At the same time the world is discussing the fallout at the White House Russian drones hit a medical facility in the center of Kharkiv, setting it on fire.

 

[Virtual ghost]

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Exactly, he still has about 98% of the term left.

At this rate ....

 

[The Cat]

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sadly truer words have seldom been spoken with regards to American History

 

[Virtual ghost]

At the same time the world is discussing the fallout at the White House Russian drones hit a medical facility in the center of Kharkiv, setting it on fire.

That is dramatic, but this is simply sad reality of life in Ukraine at this point.
Literally every day they hit various hospitals, power plants, supermarkets, water infrastructure, churches ... etc.
However this is exactly why the nation stands as one, since local people take this personally. Because for them there is very little politics in all this, because for them this is the game of survival more than anything else. Watching it on TV in some censored version and seeing it happen in your own street 24/7 are two completely different things.


Here is how this war looks like for real.

Etc.


Just saying.

 

[Red Herring]

That is dramatic, but this is simply sad reality of life in Ukraine at this point.
Literally every day they hit various hospitals, power plants, supermarkets, water infrastructure, churches ... etc.
However this is exactly why the nation stands as one, since local people take this personally. Because for them there is very little politics in all this, because for them this is the game of survival more than anything else. Watching it on TV in some censored version and seeing it happen in your own street 24/7 are two completely different things.


Here is how this war looks like for real.

Etc.


Just saying.

I know. That was my point.

 

[The Cat]

Trump has fucked the spirit of america so hard he just tried to fuck over the damn freedom fighters defending their country from authoritarianism.

 

[Virtual ghost]

I know. That was my point.

I know that you know.
That was aimed at anyone who doesn't know too many details on the subject.

 

[Totenkindly]

We know there's been an ongoing war, but the US has been very very sheltered.
Aside from 9/11, we haven't had modern wars laying waste to our own cities.
So I think it's useful to see actual pictures and get a sense of what they are dealing with and what they have lost.

edit: I think it puts it perspective.
Like, can you imagine the grocery down the street where you used to shop, scorched black, beams twisted, and now no longer able to provide food so you wonder where your food is coming from?
Or the gas station where you used to fill your tank, blown up and just rubble?
Or your child's school? Where will they go to school now? Do the kids go to a non-descript building elsewhere to learn?

Now imagine a lot of the area around one, left in this condition, which not only is horrific but also leaves you without available resources. Now even if your house is "safe" you might still need to go elsewhere, because the area doesn't support your needs for actual living.

so then that leads to thinking about the Ukranians, and what they are sacrificing to keep Russia at bay. How they weigh their priorities. What tenacity they need to have, the losses they've had to learn how to carry, etc.

Which leaves me also really pissed off Z had to deal with two pompous fat oafs who have no real idea about sacrifice, loss, and pain and are not currently deprived of anything. And they're trying to either grift or humiliate him, when he's forced to negotiate because his people are in need.