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[The Cat]

 

[Kephalos]

Donald Trump’s shadow looms over Republican debate he plans to skip (Financial Times): Former US leader and his legal problems set to upstage primetime GOP event.

Trump’s absence from the first Republican primary debate sets the stage for a two-hour brawl on Wednesday night between the remaining candidates — one that political operatives say could strengthen the hand of the former president, as the alternatives turn on each other rather than attack the frontrunner. It also tees up a possible split-screen scenario, where Republican hopefuls tiptoe around criticising the former president while he attacks them in a separate broadcast interview or public appearance.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Virtual ghost]

Someone is really pushing hard the Vivek guy. This scale of attention doesn't happen on it's own.

 

[The Cat]

 

[SensEye]

Someone is really pushing hard the Vivek guy. This scale of attention doesn't happen on it's own.

I've heard him described as Trump 2.0.

He strikes me as a real psycho (as in - zero moral compass whatsoever). In this sense, wealthy corporate backers would find him appealing. He'd lower taxes on the rich, turf environmental laws, turf labor protection regulations, etc. etc. He has already said he would end all support to Ukraine if elected. Although I could see him reversing course here if his backers are from the military industrial complex. Big money in the war business. He's a religious wacko too, so the fundamentalist crowd might also be backing him.

I find it somewhat amusing, in a tragic way, that the two leading alternatives to Trump are the worst of the worst, DeSantis and Ramaswamy.

Between this Republican clown show and the hapless Biden/Harris ticket, on wonders where has everyone's common sense gone?

 

[Virtual ghost]

I've heard him described as Trump 2.0.

He strikes me as a real psycho (as in - zero moral compass whatsoever). In this sense, wealthy corporate backers would find him appealing. He'd lower taxes on the rich, turf environmental laws, turf labor protection regulations, etc. etc. He has already said he would end all support to Ukraine if elected. Although I could see him reversing course here if his backers are from the military industrial complex. Big money in the war business. He's a religious wacko too, so the fundamentalist crowd might also be backing him.

I find it somewhat amusing, in a tragic way, that the two leading alternatives to Trump are the worst of the worst, DeSantis and Ramaswamy.

Between this Republican clown show and the hapless Biden/Harris ticket, on wonders where has everyone's common sense gone?

The truth seems to be that in US mentally ill strategies are totally legit (and often legal). Therefore if the public doesn't know for anything better they will play this game. Plus they don't have multi-party system that provides various options. The media are offering you "this guy" or "that guy" and that is basically it. So you either play the game or you just stay home.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

 

[Virtual ghost]

BRICS group invites 6 new members to join next year

To me it is kinda fascinating that this summit is going basically "unnoticed" in most of US media. I mean this is kinda the talk of new world order (although not the one that conspiracy theorists had in mind). I mean if it really happens that Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and Egypt join BRICS on next January 1th that basically means that China took over the Middle east. Therefore when the ties deepen enough the Petrodollar can be torpedoed. What would basically be the end of US global dominance. Not to mention that in Ethiopia's capital is the HQ of the African union where all countries of the continent have seat at the table. Plus Argentina is coming in. What in combination with Brazil that is already in the block and countries like Venezuela basically means that there will be a domination in South America. It is just 6 countries joining but 6 ones that really matter. Plus the list of countries that want to join is long and consists of dozens of countries. However they can't take all of that at once. So at this point they only took 6 more important ones. But with time they will probably bring in more of them.


So as I said in this thread a few days ago: you guys just don't have the time for petty partisan politics anymore. So ether you will manage to patch the country and fight or this is basically going to be all she wrote. Since loss of influence basically means collapsing under the debts that aren't small. Especially since all of this means that the good old money printing will not be effective option. In a way the whole drama around Trump is convenient smoke screen, so that you don't have to talk about real problems that are evidently starting to knock at the door.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Totenkindly]

What a Few Seconds of Hand Raising Said About Trump’s GOP

It was a moment the eight Republican candidates on the stage in Milwaukee should have known was coming. Though the question took an hour to arrive, they still seemed unsteady in their response: If Donald Trump is the party’s nominee for president as well as a convicted criminal, will they still...

www.yahoo.com

 

[The Cat]

No plan for the environment. Nothing but flash in the pan talking points and culture war bullshit. Talk about DOA.

 

[Totenkindly]

No plan for the environment. Nothing but flash in the pan talking points and culture war bullshit. Talk about DOA.

Don't forget endorsing a traitor and potentially convicted criminal... mainly to grovel over scraps of votes.

 

[ceecee]

No plan for the environment. Nothing but flash in the pan talking points and culture war bullshit. Talk about DOA.

This is what happens when politics is treated as entertainment rather than the life and death issue that it is.

 

[The Cat]

Don't forget endorsing a traitor and potentially convicted criminal... mainly to grovel over scraps of votes.

And Teeth grinding. Lots of teeth grinding.

 

[SensEye]

Ramaswamy sure lived up to his Trump 2.0 billing. I can see him as a very likely candidate for Trump's running mate assuming Trump delays his legal problems long enough to go into the general (which I think is likely). Also assuming racism doesn't factor in a negative way (which it might under the covers). Imagine those two in the oval office. Yikes!

I'll have to put my wishful thinking eggs into the Nikki Haley basket as best alternative to Trump. The two nobodies on the edges seemed decent and might have some potential as reasonable leaders, but I figure they won't be around much longer.

 

[Tomb1]

That debate put me to sleep...literally.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Trump posts on X for first time in over 2 years

Just as I said, the trials are going to be his campaign. What again means that basically all attention will be on him.

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]