Breaking News: Convicted Sex Offender, power mad megolomaniac, and very disloyal American neofascist scum Loser Trump wins Iowa before going on to lose the GOP the general election again.
Well that would also seem OK too. It's major news and while I don't known where you saw it, it's likely for an intended audience that's been following events thus far so it's not exactly misleading since it can be reliably predicted that people reading it, like yourself will understand what was won.
I understood this one, the "Trump wins Iowa" had me wondering.
Not that Sky News is anything of a respectable source.
I'd also question whether this is "major news" given that everyone saw this outcome coming months ago. Trump is the leading Republican, by far, the real question is whether he can legally be President again, or whether he can win the vote without a massive increase in the kind of fraud his party undertook in the last election.
The real problem is outside the votes, unfortunately. Even if Trump loses, there's a bunch of people who think their decision is more valid than any majority. Civil war is looming.
I agree with what you're saying, but remember that a lot of new-to-politics people are starting to pay attention, and they might now understand how the Iowa stuff works.
Shit, I barely do and I've been following politics since early 2020.
this is in no small part because, i think, he's the only guy in the entire race who's actually an entertaining speaker. he's literally an entertainer, he just does riffs for an hour rather than droning on like every other politician ever. i know he's also evil, but it's a brilliant strategy. no one cares if you got the minutae of the 1994 pipeline marginalization act correct, people want to have a good time! simple as that
Americans can see entertainers everywhere else if they wish to. But now, it's time to choose a good president, not a clown. So, if they do otherwise, well, too bad for them.
Too bad for us all. However, it's not just the entertainment. People are miserable and scared. They want to blame someone for it. No one wants to blame themselves. So, who are you going to blame? That guy over there. Trump is not afraid to point fingers and he's happy to tell people it's not their fault, it's the fault of specific other people AND that they are better than those other people. Just as ue blames everyone else and thinks he's better than everyone else.
It's natural for him. He couldn't read a speech and sound good at all, and he sure as hell couldn't talk about policy for a couple hours. The content of what he says is jingoistic, self-aggrandizing, vindictive, often nonsensical and generally awful, but that works great for his target audience, who have been raised on pastors saying nonsensical crap and outlets like Fox who were talking nasty nonsense years before Trump was a politician.
I hate hearing people like Hannity or Limbaugh more, or whatever wretched people they have on Fox now whose job is to make nasty faces when they mention Democrats, but have definitely been sick of Trump’s shit for quite a while now.
Which democracy?, both parties are owned by the NWO, there is no democracy in the US since decades ago LMAO.
There is just the illusion of choice, people really think the president of the US can do whatever he want but they don't understand there are powers behind him, the real powers who rule over anyone with a public figure.
At the end both parties follow the agenda, it's just matter of time all politicians will take the same direction. I am not talking about if someone it's red or blue, the powers behind them obey to the elite interests.
Anyway if you think you have some kind of influence by voting for whatever party you want it's ok, It is called the American dream for a reason. It's because you have to be asleep to believe it.
It's not doing very well without him, definitely won't survive with him. Tired of voting for slower erosion of democracy rather than having the option to vote for expansion of democracy. The US is not long for this world as a democracy. We'll soon have Putin style "Democracy".
Legitimate question: I understand the Suez Canal is this major shipping route and it's owned and operated (slightly indirectly) by the Egyptian government. But why do all the news stories I see about the Houthi attacks say the US, the EU, all these other countries are sending ships to secure safe passage?
I know these countries want to protect their people and their goods going through the canal. But Egypt owns and operates the Canal and they make over half a billion dollars a month off it. They have the largest navy in the middle east, the largest navy in Africa, and the twelfth largest navy in the world. So why aren't they doing more to protect transiting ships from attack?
Political sensitivities. Some of the multinational coalition currently patrolling the area have declined to be named, and it's widely speculated that Egypt is among them.
they gave control of the red sea task force to the US last year.
theyre the 12th largest navy in the world.
their navy us split into 2 fleets: Mediterranean and red sea.
they have 2000km of busy coastline to patrol.
the attacks are also happening beyond their coastline in the gulf of aden.
Djibouti has a military base of loads of other countries because uts also in their interests to protect the shipping
a weak navy and large coastline means they have limited ability to project naval power before considering protecting the gulf of aden or putting airstrikes into yemen.
oh, and Egypt has a track record of having an incompetent military, so there's that...
Canadians are also more clear than Americans that this isn't a Trump problem. He's just the symptom.
Canadians who are old enough remember the Bush II presidency, where Canada decided it wasn't going to join the US on its adventure in Iraq, and Americans freaked out. Americans started boycotting Canadian goods, and saying that if Canada wasn't siding with the US it was siding with the "terrists".
The election of Obama restored some hope that maybe things were getting better, but the reaction to that with the whole Tea Party thing, and then the Trump presidency showed it wasn't a blip, and that almost 50% of Americans were not rational people. Then there are things like the frequent government shutdowns, the constant gun massacres, the overtly political Supreme Court and its recent stance that precedent doesn't matter.
Back when Reagan was in power, the US conservatives were making terrible decisions, but at least they had a coherent philosophy, they believed in democracy, and the conservative ideals were more or less shared by other conservatives around the world (Thatcher, Mulroney, etc.)
These days, the US right wing is an incoherent mess of conspiracy theories, religious extremism, and chaos. Conservatives want to ban or burn books, but they still claim to stand for freedom of expression and speech. They talk about passing laws banning non-heterosexuals from everything, while simultaneously wanting the government to get out of their lives.
And, with a nearly 9000 km shared border and massive social and economic ties between the two, whatever happens in the US will affect Canada. There's no escaping that fact. Canadian democracy is almost irrelevant. If Trump comes to power again, there are no votes that Canadians can cast that will shield them from the chaos.
Regardless of the outcome of the US elections, I hope this makes the Canadian government realize that it needs take a more independent stance from the US in terms of its policies. Because right now our politicians don’t even want to change the daylight savings time policy without US states agreeing to it at the same time.
DST changes make sense. Why would Canada switch to a different clock system than our largest trading partner and neighbour? All hell would break loose.
I understand where you are coming from but I don’t think it would be that bad. I mean if I recall correctly even within the US there are some areas that use daylight savings and some that don’t. And Canada switching would encentivize the US to switch.
This has been an ongoing issue/argument for years now and I think you're giving more power to Canada than we have. America doesn't listen to us on anything. In fact we don't count, except to support the US in whatever it chooses to do. And when we don't they often bring up the fact our military warhorse is a pittance of America's and we should be spending billions on building it up instead of having universal healthcare and an active social safety net.
I agree. The US doesn’t listen to us and if they go all fascist we shouldn’t listen to them either. Regardless, we should endeavour to set an example for them to follow. Whether they follow it or not is up to them of course.
Ha! And technically, SK is always on DST. Solar noon is around 1pm rather than noon, so I get the gripes from those on DST.
Many don't want to lose that sunlight outside working hours, so I think just keeping everyone on DST would be the best solution. Have timezones set so solar noon is closer to 1pm clock time.
I don't like having morning sunlight pulled from me only to gain those sunlight hours in the evening when I don't care for it. I really enjoy morning light much more so than evening light.
My dogs also hate it because they have no idea why I'm feeding them 1 hour later than usual.
True. Up here there's not much sun in winter anyway, so shifting back wouldn't really be of much benefit. Sunrise is 9:02 today. Sure, it could be 8:02, but sunset would then be at 16:14.
Right here with them. It's kind of scary how close we had come before, but it's even scarier to think that there's a good portion of Americans who are like, "Yes, we've had first Trump term, what about infinite Trump terms?"
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