Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

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verreauxi said:
I have tried so hard to find this guy insightful and interesting, but it's mostly a bunch of fairly obvious observations dressed up with clever text designed to make him look smart and a lone savior (e.g., Magastan versus wokeistan, "peace-time cleptocrats", etc.); there are also false equivalences, such as claiming "woke" is as bad of a cult as Maga or Biden versus Trump, and a dose of subtle deep state and apocalyptic references, as if there are some dark actors who are pulling the strings behind the scenes that cause people to do what they do. This is what I would expect from a narcisistic physicist-turned-financier, as he favors a view of "master marionette" over more difficult to analyze micro-sociological processes. To me, explaining a lot of what is going on in the USA is not in the clouds, it's in the weeds.
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Couldn't recall where I'd heard the term before but then it came to me... "kayfabe" and "Abe".

Wonder where he ran off to?
 
peteblue said:
@LinekersLegs , I knew I’d seen her somewhere......

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Why is she a snake in the grass Pete? Usually the phrase means “a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.”

Whose friendship has she feigned only to stab them in the back?

Especially in a week when you have had POTUS turn on his loyal VP and send a vengeful mob after him there seem much riper targets for that particular criticism.

Is Liz Cheney, a member of Trump’s party who is votng for impeachment, also a snake in the grass? Is Elaine Chao or Betsy Davos who resigned from his cabinet? And is this a sobriquet that oniy applies to women?
 
Not even trying to hide it "no you have to be sworn in on the bible". Im not even American and I know thats incorrect.

The people who vote these in a either completely racist, unbelievably thick or both. How is it possible for a country like that to have so many uneducated people, what do they study in school?

 
LinekersLegs said:
Why is she a snake in the grass Pete? Usually the phrase means “a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.”

Whose friendship has she feigned only to stab them in the back?

Especially in a week when you have had POTUS turn on his loyal VP and send a vengeful mob after him there seem much riper targets for that particular criticism.

Is Liz Cheney, a member of Trump’s party who is votng for impeachment, also a snake in the grass? Is Elaine Chao or Betsy Davos who resigned from his cabinet? And is this a sobriquet that oniy applies to women?
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I don’t know what it is to be honest Legs. I think she reminds me of someone I knew in the States. She seems to believe and act as though she were the President. It’s her little sly digs, ripping up the speech, attempts at impeachment etc, while ignoring some really bad stuff that went on in Democratic controlled cities, defund the Police etc etc. One of those people in life that you just know is a snake...sorry......and it’s nothing to do with women btw....
 
peteblue said:
I don’t know what it is to be honest Legs. I think she reminds me of someone I knew in the States. She seems to believe and act as though she were the President. It’s her little sly digs, ripping up the speech, attempts at impeachment etc, while ignoring some really bad stuff that went on in Democratic controlled cities, defund the Police etc etc. One of those people in life that you just know is a snake...sorry......
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The amount of false equivalency in that post is quite astounding and yet still doesn’t account for why she is a ”snake in the grass”.

I have grasped that you have a visceral dislike of her but that insult just seems lazy.
 
LinekersLegs said:
The amount of false equivalency in that post is quite astounding and yet still doesn’t account for why she is a ”snake in the grass”.

I have grasped that you have a visceral dislike of her but that insult just seems lazy.
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Yet your own post shows that of 4 impeachment’s in the history of the USA, she has initiated half of them.....
 
peteblue said:
Yet your own post shows that of 4 impeachment’s in the history of the USA, she has initiated half of them.....
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Pete with all due respect you are coming across like one of those loons on Facebook with your dislike of Pelosi.

Irrational summation and no substance to back up your claim. No real examples other than its the way she comes across haha!

Given her position it's only natural she helped with both of Trumps impeachment. But you are wrong on one point. Several other democrats actually initiated it not Pelosi.. Again because of her position she would naturally take the lead.

Also hilarious the amount of fox news style whataboutism you have thrown out to defend you point is hilarious. Biden son etc.... Jesus wept man.
 
SteveSC said:
Pete with all due respect you are coming across like one of those loons on Facebook with your dislike of Pelosi.

Irrational summation and no substance to back up your claim. No real examples other than its the way she comes across haha!

Given her position it's only natural she helped with both of Trumps impeachment. But you are wrong on one point. Several other democrats actually initiated it not Pelosi.. Again because of her position she would naturally take the lead.

Also hilarious the amount of fox news style whataboutism you have thrown out to defend you point is hilarious. Biden son etc.... Jesus wept man.
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I‘m not aware I’ve ever watched Fox News, so don’t really know the angle. You are right though, I just don’t like Pelosi.....
 
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