So wasteful. Feed them into a mulcher and use them to reseed the rainforests.

We’re in Australia. The idea of home ownership is completely off the table, and the prospect of retirement is laughable, but we have some really bloody nice beaches!

I moved my American wife and our US-born daughters back to my home country in November 2015. Ultimately the decision turned out to be financially devastating for us, but I haven’t had an ounce of regret since November 2024, I’d rather live in poverty here than any kind of life in the US, especially with teenage daughters. My wife says she’ll never set foot in the US again and would also happily remounce her citizenship.

HIS death, hopefully.

Have these experts not heard of America?

It’s one thing to go off-grid when your country has a functioning infrastructure and supply lines. It’s more than a little different when pretty much everything has collapsed, people are starving and desperate, and disease is running rampant due to lack of clean water and sanitation. I really don’t think many people in Cuba right now are thinking thank GOD I have my electric scooter!

Given that Cuba’s entire grid has now failed, sewage is backing up into the streets, and nobody has access to food, water, medicine, or communications, I doubt a few Teslas are going to save them. Cuba is about to be known for mass starvation and disease, not electric vehicles.

Funny how republicans never have any problems finding enough democrats to support their shitty policies.

Fun fact - when Obama declared that he was going to close Guantanamo Bay, mitch mcconnell decided that he would do whatever it took to keep it open, because his sole purpose for existing at that time was to obstruct Obama’s policies. He did that in part by pushing legislation that made it illegal to transfer foreign detainees to American soil, effectively making it so that there was nowhere else to keep them. It was less to do with people tolerating detainees presence and more to do with mcconnell just gumming up the works because fuck Obama.

It didn’t seem very cool in the movie. Or maybe that was your point… 🤔

Are the far left in the room with us right now?

That’s exactly what I’m talking about, a progressive version of redmap. Subverting the Democrat party is the only viable option within the system, starting a third party is pretty much off the table unless you have countless billions. I think we all need to unite on that.

How about rather than “work with” the DNC, take over the DNC. It worked for the tea party/maga. Go back to 2010 and there were still a lot of moderate republicans in the party, now you could argue that there are basically none. True progressives need to do a similar thing with the Democrat party, take over at every level until conservative Democrats are just a memory. I’m no political strategist, so there could very well be something (or a great many things) I’m missing, but if it worked for them why can’t it work for us?

You sure you really want that? If republicans start backing off now, people will forget all this, repubs will start winning elections again, the country will carry on like none of this ever happened, and we’ll be right back here a few cycles from now. The only way to solve this problem for any length of time is to follow it to its bitter end, anything else is just kicking the can down the road.

The first comment. 🤣

I’d argue that everything that has happened since and the “consequences” for everyone involved in J6 is the most irrefutable proof that America already was broken.

You’re thinking like the old rules still apply. We’re in the end game now and those at the very top aren’t thinking about profits, they’re thinking about outright ownership over the ruins of civilisation.

If there’s still enough left of America to function after trump is done, I imagine the new government will come up with all kinds of new ways to undo a previous corrupt and disastrous presidency.

I think that’s being a little dramatic. It’s not like the US has a history of ignoring extremist political movements to the point that they achieve legitimate power in government.

It’s insane that any country is still sharing any intelligence at all with the corrupt, inept US government.