US Politics Thread

Bigga said:
Amusingly, I've read this thread for the last few days and not one peep about Biden at loggerheads with the WH on policy...



Laughable to ignore this.
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No one cares because the US has been doing this for decades.

You can search and find Biden, Trump, Obama & Bush all coming out "too strongly" in defence of Taiwan and then the official White House spokesman rowing it back a bit.

It's called strategic ambiguity, and stems from the belief that the 1996 missile crisis was caused by Clinton being too passive towards China.
 
The jury selection for the seditious conspiracy trial of Stewart Rhodes and fellow Oath Keepers Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins and Thomas Caldwell starts today. His lawyers will base their case on his claims that they were acting on Trump's orders. This and the fact that three other Oath Keepers also indicted have already pleaded guilty and are co-operating with the authorities makes this unmissable. Stock up on the popcorn.
 
laserblue said:
The jury selection for the seditious conspiracy trial of Stewart Rhodes and fellow Oath Keepers Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins and Thomas Caldwell starts today. His lawyers will base their case on his claims that they were acting on Trump's orders. This and the fact that three other Oath Keepers also indicted have already pleaded guilty and are co-operating with the authorities makes this unmissable. Stock up on the popcorn.
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So much good court TV right now with Alex Jones also on the stand this week. My pillow guy will end up in court too soon enough.
 
Gaudion M said:
The dream scenario for the Dems is that Trump is mired in civil and criminal trials and puts himself forward from a weak position (this seems inevitable). RonD Also goes for it in a stronger position and is early favourite. Trump basically starts his run by calling out RonD in endless rants. This would be a gift to the Dems - two idiots trashing each other.

Liz Cheney comes in late and enters the primary process on the last possible day - avoiding the early shit show served up by Trump and RonD. Then you have a 3 way process where Trump is the worst candidate but has the MAGA hardcore base and spends the whole process ripping into the other 2. RonD becomes a kind of middle ground between the shit crazy Trump and respectable Cheney.

The next GOP primary process and full campaign will be a strange one. They have already floated the idea there will be no big televised debates (i'm not sure that works on the primary circuit). If Trump wont turn up to and answer tough questions then something has to give. Either the party steps in and tries to shut down debate and fix the process (very possible - but there are limits to what they can do) or you end up with RonD on stage with Cheney where Ron has to repeat the Trump lies and Cheney can call him a liar and not just a liar but a subservient liar who does not have the courage to stand up to Trump. Trump meanwhile not even willing to defend his own lies in person.

The above all hinges on Cheney standing - or another similar candidate. And also the GOP could be just engineering the candidate in the background with no challenge. If there is a challenge it gets very ugly for them.
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Any other time, any other person, any other millenium, I would agree, but this guy will have em voting for him, regardless.

In fact the worse it gets for him, I suspect the more ardent they will become. It's surreal.
 
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