That’s because there is no “republican” party anymore. I started calling them “Trumplicans” shortly after his election, and the term fits better and better with each passing week.
5 Likes
Somewhat Off-Topic
Ukraine just captured a key piece of pipeline infrastructure in Russia.
Medusa.io
17 Likes
Trump gives the occasional nod to American exceptionalism, but spends a lot of time praising Orban. Republicans used to talk about freedom, now they spend more time accusing Dems of being Marxists/Socialists/Communists. The Right really wants what Orban has- power. They claim to not want Project 2025, but it really is a pathway to authoritarian power.
10 Likes
Civ VI players know what to do when a war is not going your way. Just send a couple of warriors or horsemen on a suicide mission toward the AI civ’s capitol, and if you ask, they will agree to end the war every single time. When I heard that Ukraine was pushing into Russian territory, I thought, duh.
2 Likes
Orban also learned a lot from Berlusconi, who parlayed media control into political control. Including what mistakes not to make.
7 Likes
LOL! Brutally hilarious…
·
JD Vance is going to be so jealous when he finds out that Donald Trump is cheating on him. We can only hope the marriage survives.
VID: x.com
4 Likes
6 Likes
As I read it, Ukraine is in a position to at least get the money it’s owed… unless Russia prefers a big chuck of its oil service shut down.
All I know is DON’T ASK TRUMP : - )
7 Likes
And understand that this isn’t just about suits he wants to bring, but also suits he knows he’s going to have to defend…
9 Likes
Major questions doctrine just used by 8th Circuit…2 Trump fuckers and 1 Dubya fucker…to eviscerate the SAVE program for student debt relief…cited Gorsuch’s “I completed mommy’s vendetta!!!” decision from the EPA case…
Major Questions Doctrine: “Was it a Dem or Republican POTUS?”
8 Likes
“Does it affect our sugar daddies’ quarterly results?”
2 Likes
I will be a happy camper should I read tsf has had a coronary event or a debilitating stroke
3 Likes
I take everything with a grain of salt these days (despite my own joy with the Harris/Walz ticket), but it seems like we’re seeing on screen and in print, same as his criminal behavior, the glaring real time mental and physical breakdown of a social media cult personality.
7 Likes
Josh K’s article concludes:
"For her, the presence of Americans is mildly annoying — conservative figures are known to receive a large sum of money for the lectures they give in Budapest, paid out of Hungary’s budget — but it goes to a deeper point about the feedback loop that’s come to exist between American and Hungarian illiberalism.
“‘I think most of the people who are so, so happy with Orbán basically like him because they can see that their policies, which are oftentimes Orbán’s policies, were born in the radical think tanks in the U.S.,’ Szelényi remarked. ‘They learned a lot from the U.S. and then they adapted it to the Hungarian circumstances.’”
Hitler also learned much from studying American institutions, practices, and “illiberal” writers and politicians, and he had many American admirers. Fascistic impulses are part of who we Americans have been for at least a century.
8 Likes
Mark Twain said, “I have never wished someone dead, however there have been obituaries I have read with some satisfaction.”
He hadn’t met TMF.
7 Likes
Aug. 9, before Harris/Walz’s rally in Arizona, Nate Silver’s 538 poll average for Arizona has Trump at 48.8%, Harris at 48.4%, with the trend favoring Harris.
The NYT posted an article on Aug. 9 (at the top of the online site as of 11:00 p.m. EDT) with the headline:
Democrats Fight Uphill Against Trump in Arizona, Backed by a Revived Party
The battleground state, where Vice President Kamala Harris will rally on Friday, has drifted toward Donald Trump. But Democrats are hopeful.
6 min read
The article makes some valid points about Harris’ liabilities in the state but saves her advantages for the latter part of the article and fails to mention some obvious ones. Many of the commenters provide correctives. (Btw, the comments at the NYT are, on the whole, much more informative and interesting than those at WaPo.)
12 Likes
Or maybe, they’ll just juggle and toss about he and his wife’s coffins during the procession.
Similar to the Ceausescu’s in Romania.
5 Likes
Firmly ensconced and cleverly hidden in the collective NCAA football staff.
1 Like
If you are a far-right American, what’s not to love about Hungarian corruption? The April 2014 parliamentary elections in Hungary showed the model for both the Brexit vote in the UK and US presidential in 2016. Orban’s genius is his flexible, opportunistic approach to corruption, turning institutional protections on their head. The result, however, is the EU’s worst performing economy and a war on Rom people who migrated to Europe from northern India nine centuries ago. Making Hungary Great Again derives from a very tired anti-immigrant trope.
7 Likes