Okay, well then I guess I’ll just wait for that to happen

Israeli settlements

Strange that the prohibition would extend to cat’s paw of the fascist regime, but not the massive genocidal police state that enables it.

Let’s not glorify Hezbollah

Well, they’re Evil Brown Muslims, not Righteous European Judeo-Christians.

On day 1 they’d institute hijab requirements and stone gay people

Westerners discover gay rights (kinda) and five years later they’re slapping the rainbow flag on tomahawk missiles.

The whole “democracy” thing is little more than a show, if you ask me.

American Democracy has a lot of angles to it. If money was the only object, Jeb Bush would be in his third term.

Given the way that impeachment ended, I’m sure a lot of people would like if we did

Do you really think that Trump and his billionaire cronies don’t have the media under their thumb?

I think media owners regularly have to discipline Trump with negative news stories and right wing hecklers.

Neocon Hecklers got him into the Iran War. Wall Street hecklers got him to sign a deal. And Zionist hecklers will likely convince him to blow it up again.

The fact that he’s still in office at all borders on a miracle

Once you prove you can get elected, you develop a level of inertia that keeps getting you elected.

Yes, Eisenhower was a scumbag. But compared to

The big difference between Eisenhower’s two terms and Trump’s two terms boils down to the alignment of the US national media at the time. Eisenhower had them under lock-and-key day one. Trump’s had an off-and-on relationship going back to his Central Park Five ad.

The dirty truth of Presidential politics is that lots of these guys are corrupt, lots of them are incompetent, and lots of them are complete assholes. But public opinion hinges on whether the national media wants to scream at them. Trump getting into a four month long disastrous war with Iran is - frankly - a huge improvement over the Bush Jr (decades in Iraq/Afghanistan) or Reagan (instigated the Iran-Iraq War which killed millions) or Eisenhower (toppled multiple liberal Middle Eastern governments from the inside). Assuming this peace deal sticks, he’s going to go down as one of the least reprehensible US Presidents to meddle in Middle Eastern politics, by volume of atrocities committed.

Drump is actually the best representative this country has ever had.

He’s definitely a symptom of the US decline. But given our nightmare run at foreign policy across the region, that’s somehow managed to be an improvement.

Biden is responsible for not prosecuting Trump when he was in the crosshairs. And Biden is responsible for ratcheting tensions in the Middle East when he should have been fortifying Europe. And Biden is responsible for falling into the same “Looming Threat of China!” trap that Dick Cheney set nearly 30 years ago, forcing the two countries together after Nixon/Kissinger had so neatly split them apart.

If it were up to that orange pedo, all support would be cut off.

Trump was dumping billions of dollars into the Ukrainian defense budget in 2018.

This blind insistence on Trump being a “Putin Puppet” is in direct odds with US foreign policy going back to Obama. Trump’s interested in Trump and has been more than happy to break bread or turn coat on anyone and everyone.

Eisenhower was, compared to today, still a reasonably decent person

glances at the Korean War, the Dirty Wars south of the border, CIA operations across the Middle East and East Asia, backing for the early Apartheid government in South Africa, Operation Plumbbob, Nixon…

this country isn’t sending billions to Ukraine

It absolutely is. What are you talking about?

Hezbollah should make Israel pay. But they won’t, because they don’t have the hardware or the manpower.

If Kiev could have leveled Moscow, they’d have done it already.

he is the secretary general of NATO

He has little to do with the US

Jesus fucking Christ. Guy’s been a lapdog of US foreign policy since Iraq in 2003. Get the fuck out of here with this Know Nothing bullshit.

Tell you what, I’ll start condemning China for fighting “Taiwanese Civil Society Participants” when I hear your people start condemning the mass forced closure of Confucious Centers in the states.

The number of Confucius Institutes at U.S. universities and colleges declined since 2019, from about 100 to fewer than five. Schools most commonly cited the potential loss of federal funding and external pressures as contributing to their decision to close their Confucius Institute. More than 60 percent of the 74 respondents to GAO’s survey stated that the potential loss of or ineligibility for federal funding, such as Department of Defense funding subject to limitations in the FY 2019 and FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Acts, contributed to “a great extent” to the institution’s decision to close the Confucius Institute. Schools also cited pressure from U.S. government, congressional, or state representatives among other factors that contributed to their decision.

every time China wants to cancel a human rights event in Zambia

RightsCon 2026

Bow-motherfuckin’-wow.

I do like how you rebutted the “China builds a hospital, UK sends a lecture” by linking to a series of TED Talks, though.

The same is true for Kenya

I bet it is.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte accused China, North Korea and Iran of helping sustain Russia’s war against Ukraine

tapping the brakes

Hey, Secretary General Mark Rutte, what were you doing back in February when the US abruptly ended nuclear nonproliferation talks with Iran by assassinating its leadership and killing tens of thousands of its residents in a surprise attack?

Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture

~ Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia

Direct disenfranchisement is a drop in the bucket

It’s more than enough to swing elections by margin of victory

we could not get them to vote

The 2020 COVID crisis gave us some of the most lax voting laws in the country’s history, for a brief and magical window of time. Consequently, voting - particularly mail-in voting - surged nationwide and the nation experienced the biggest turnout in proportion to population to date. Democrats won in a landslide.

Over the next two years, nearly every single state in the country clawed back voting rights and slammed down novel new restrictions. This was under a Democratic Majority and Presidency, with windfalls of state legislatures and gubernatorial wins across the country. Democrats got absolutely shellacked as a result.

2022 midterm turnout plunged under the 2018 level. 2024 Presidential turnout saw liberals - particularly those “purity test” liberals - turned away from the voting booth in droves, by a combination of malicious conservative vote caging / registration purging and liberal administrative apathy. Much like with the reactionary campaign against GOTV groups like ACORN in 2008 and the lawfare conducted by anti-enfranchisement litigators in 2013 and onward, taking anti-VRA cases to the SCOTUS time and time again, the damage was done to turnout before the election began.

Probably didn’t help that ruling liberals annulled the possibility of a primary before dumping Harris into the top of the ticket over the objection of the sitting President, too. You’d think they would have known better. But I guess it’s just easier to fuck up and blame Palestinian and Transgender voters for your catastrophic defeat, when your Senate and Gubernatorial candidates are outrunning your Presidential nominee by a winning margin of votes.

It continues to get me that Americans are perfectly fine with doing over $300B in infrastructure demolition to the Islamic Republic of Iran, but go into hysterics when they get handed the bill for damage done.

Drill, baby, drill!