2+2=5 I guess. Seems like a nice fella.
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2+2=5 I guess. Seems like a nice fella.
I am still waiting for the day that Penny Wong actually manages to answer a question she is asked.
I also cannot get over this golden plated submarine thing.
So Albo gave Trump a bribe so that he would allow Australia to bribe America more to pay for the right to pay America for a submarine?
Mahmoud Khalil is hatred? Lmao.
It's worked so far. Hence why every time a vote is forced progressively more of them support it.
Seriously impressed with how embarrassing the behavior of the Australian government has been the past week.
Straight up vassal state behavior.
The way around this is to add costs for NOT supporting your side. If you make it super annoying for them to not support impeachment, a lot of them will eventually do it to get people to stop annoying them.
We are seeing this right now with impeachment.
Sure they could back it. They know it might piss off a notoriously vindictive and terrifying president as well as their own colleagues. Why bother? News cycle going to keep going on regardless about other things.
I would imagine the way this works in practice as a result is they omit tons of details to the aristocrats and the aristocrats rarely know what questions to ask that reveal the unsaid information.
Hiding the ball is a very old game in Washington.
Also to be blunt, I truly do believe this might the dumbest ruling class we've had in a LONG time. Smarter corrupt selfish people would be doing a lot better. Most of their problems they are experiencing are traps they have created for themselves.
I'm not exactly a huge fan of the American military industrial complex but I can only imagine how annoyed these people who could go to prison for spilling even tiny details must be briefing congress.
All that hard work and they just blurt everything out to whoever sticks a mic in their face.
Just as an aside, "classified" briefings to senators are hilarious.
They spill everything!
I think in less existential times, this might be a bit different. When the system itself isn't under attack.
Though there are always important struggles in any time its not that difficult to be on the right side of.
Most of the time these politicians are just being corrupt selfish assholes. They aren't carefully weighing what is just and good.
I was a philosophy major in college and once I started working in politics, I actually got annoyed at how few problems were that complex morally.
The fascist ruling class are just as terrified as their enablers. It is a very dangerous equilibrium.
I remember once before COVID I wanted to do a post about reminding people to get their flu shot and a senior staffer told me that is not a good idea because the anti-vaxxers might get really mad.
Corruption? Sure. They just didn't want to get some angry emails or bad publicity.
A lot of corruption in Washington isn't super fancy.
Politicians have to care about a lot of different topics and if they know they pay too much attention to one specific topic then special interests will get really mad, they just avoid it.
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
"Oh no, what happens if I become President and no one likes me??"
He is extremely insecure but not in that kind of way.
It has literally never occurred to me once that Trump had any of this kind of nagging self doubt.
I get the sense these companies are "founded" by teenagers because they are useful stooges for whatever crimes happen on the side.
I think this is true everywhere. A lot of Americans don't even know!
Murphy I'm sure is aware of them. He just likes hiding the ball.
My guess is Murphy doesn't even have a security clearance. Members don't need to. They are trusted to work out the details of who gets access to what themselves.
He actually can for the record. Just not on BlueSky. It would have to be on the Senate floor.
A good question always worth asking is what exactly is constraining Trump's goals.
His own goals are quite obvious: enrich himself and kill everyone who could stop him from having power.
So whenever there is a delta between that and reality, it reveals something about how our system works.
People talk a lot about all the ways the GOP are in lockstep with Trump. I find most interesting where they are not and how that affects things.
One thing that is also clear from this is that Trump still believes he needs Congress to do things. The Noem episode is another such example.
On one hand, good that the Republicans are nervous about the midterms being affected by Iran. It implies they still believe there is a competition.
On the other hand, Trump is explicitly saying that if they support the SAVE Act, “It’ll guarantee the midterms...If you don’t get it, big trouble.”
This guy is going to be completely unaccountable to Illinois voters. Completely. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/r...