• Knusper@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Do not negotiate with fascists. The guy is going to move the goal posts ad infinitum.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Oh I didn’t realize felons in prison wielded so much power. This orange motherfucker is gonna rot.

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        11 months ago

        Look at the Speaker votes. To agree on someone they had to pick someone that even most congress people hadn’t even heard of. Like a day after he won maga is mad at him for calling George Floyd a victim and already wanting to kick him out despite him supporting Trump’s insurrection

        MAGA demands candidates agree with them 110%, non magas want to go back to passive evil that has plausible deniability. They’re both incredibly stubborn and while they won’t vote D, they’ll stay home or protest vote if it’s not their favorite candidate. If Trump is the candidate a significant amount of non trump Republicans won’t vote for him. If it’s anyone besides trump, the magas will still vote trump or just stay home.

        On the democratic side a lot of voters really dont want Biden as their president, but will vote for him just to not get a Republican.

        It’s a shitty political situation, but it’s unlikely to result in trump as president again.

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          11 months ago

          Why won’t the democrats support a moderate republican speaker? This way they could rob the extremists in the republican party of all power. It’s not like they’ll get a democratic speaker atm anyway.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Could be a great opportunity to boost European defence.

    Time to replace US military bases by European ones, and time for France to look more at east and for Poland to look more at south

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      11 months ago

      Not while the EU isn’t federated and a single fascist like Orban can blockade the capacity to act.

      Also, it’s too expensive. The US can afford it because they don’t really pay for it: as the USD is the reserve currency of everyone else, and as oil is traded in USD, everyone pays for their military through inflation. The Euro isn’t in the same position.