US Politics Megathread

[Goodspeed]

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Chuck Schumer is an idiot

What did he do now

He's pushing for sending everyone back to school.

Source?

Dude how is that your source?

[gibson]

They are losing the poles show it and they are scared.‎‎‎‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎To late they lost the narrative American's are not stupid.‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎Proud of our Republicans‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎today. Stood up to the blackmail.‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎Took the political risk for what is right.‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎No more money un accounted for the agenda of the democrats pet projects. If they cared about the people would have dropped it and got her done.‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎Thank you Republicans I love winning for the right reasons.

That was the exact one I read before I typed my post

[deleted_user]

We are losing the poles to global warming.

[n0el]

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Chuck Schumer is an idiot

What did he do now

He's pushing for sending everyone back to school.

Source?

Dude how is that your source?

first thing on youtube, i didnt even look. lol

[fightinfrenchman]

Perhaps try looking

[n0el]

Perhaps try looking

I first saw it on Twitter from NYT, so I just googled it and that was the first result. So much for social media censoring right wing voices.

[fightinfrenchman]

Perhaps try looking

I first saw it on Twitter from NYT, so I just googled it and that was the first result. So much for social media censoring right wing voices.

As a general rule you shouldn't get angry about 10 second clips taken out of context

[n0el]

Perhaps try looking

I first saw it on Twitter from NYT, so I just googled it and that was the first result. So much for social media censoring right wing voices.

As a general rule you shouldn't get angry about 10 second clips taken out of context

It wasn’t actually out of context. He was talking about the administrations failure on covid and then said that about schools, then went back to saying we need money for states, Etc.....

[fightinfrenchman]

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Perhaps try looking

I first saw it on Twitter from NYT, so I just googled it and that was the first result. So much for social media censoring right wing voices.

As a general rule you shouldn't get angry about 10 second clips taken out of context

It wasn’t actually out of context. He was talking about the administrations failure on covid and then said that about schools, then went back to saying we need money for states, Etc.....

Yeah so you calling him an idiot for that doesn't really make sense

[fightinfrenchman]

"Fmr. Senior Advisor @berniesanders"

God what a disaster Bernie would have been in picking actual government staff

[n0el]

What’s your issue with that?

[fightinfrenchman]

What’s your issue with that?

Democrats passed a bill doing that until September of next year, and it also cancels thousands of dollars of debt.

[fightinfrenchman]

Like seriously, what the fuck does this mean?

[n0el]

Like seriously, what the fuck does this mean?

I don’t know. That’s dumb

[fightinfrenchman]

Democrats are actually holding their position and not compromising. Why is this bad, it's what you people claim they should do all the time

[fightinfrenchman]

Nice test

[Dolan]

Fascist orangemanbad wants to help the Lebanese, after their port got blown to pieces, leaving 158 people dead, 5,000 injured and 300,000 homeless.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53710556

[gibson]

Orange man bad

[deleted_user]

I need to find serenity.

[duckzilla]

Looks like your most venerable Lord Trump became jealous after seeing Macron walking through the ruins of Beirut, shaking hands with and consoling victims, and generally behaving like a proper leader. After his visit, there were even petitions asking for Lebanon to be put under French administration for ten years. That sounds like exactly what Trump would love for himself.

[fightinfrenchman]

Looks like your most venerable Lord Trump became jealous after seeing Macron walking through the ruins of Beirut, shaking hands with and consoling victims, and generally behaving like a proper leader. After his visit, there were even petitions asking for Lebanon to be put under French administration for ten years. That sounds like exactly what Trump would love for himself.

Trump almost certainly didn't see that and if he did he didn't care. That kind of stuff doesn't register in his brain

[Dolan]

Do I have to state the obvious and say that Macron saw a business opportunity for French construction firms to get some nice contracts for rebuilding the Beirut port?
Even if the funding is also secured by France (and others), it's basically state contracts for French firms that keep French jobs funded and promote their influence in the Middle East. It's a nicer form of colonialism.
Macron made it clear they won't simply give Lebanon money, for fear that local power brokers would just funnel it all away. So, I think they will go for contracts for reconstruction awarded to French firms, that will be funded by the French state.
On top of it, you can also parade in the media as a saviour and international leader.

[fightinfrenchman]

Macron made it clear they won't simply give Lebanon money, for fear that local power brokers would just funnel it all away.

People in Lebanon also seem to be asking him not to give money to their government since it's so corrupt and their incompetence caused the disaster to begin with

[Dolan]

Yeah and he's more than happy not to do it, lol, since that means the French state can give the money to French companies and ask the Lebanese government to accept this arrangement in exchange for France supporting the costs.
It all becomes just a question of national French politics, they're funding their own companies with state money and scoring PR points on the international stage for it.

It's just business-as-usual politics.

[fightinfrenchman]

It's just business-as-usual politics.

The gigantic explosion was somewhat unusual