needless bothsiderism

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

~ Julius Nyerere, a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, political theorist, and Russian botfarm

Democrats will take office on Jan 2nd and announce the need to compromise with Moderate Republicans about three days later. They’ll pass enormous bailouts for the tech industry, a marginally increased spending package for ICE and the Pentagon, a massive tax cut plan for middle class people with over $40k in auto loans, the Joe Manchin Memorial Coal Energy Independence Act, and then advance the “Act to Declare Donald Trump a Naughty Boy” which… gosh darnit… we just can’t get it out of committee because we don’t have the votes!

Nonetheless, Democrats will declare that they outsmarted Trump, by tricking him into signing the “Make Israel Great Again” Act. And we’ll hit a bipartisan consensus on adding antisemites to the concentration camps. Also, Elon Musk will be given a trillion dollars, in a bag, out the back of the Capital Building. Please don’t ask how or why.

I will be called a Russian bot for predicting this.

I don’t think Cuba has any kind of leverage that would cost the US anything.

Cubans have their own military and mid-range weapons. They aren’t nearly as fortified as the Iranians, and they don’t have a straight line to Russia or China for support, but they can absolutely put missiles all along the Gulf Coast if push comes to shove. They’re - bare minimum - as dangerous as Yemen is to Saudi Arabia.

It would be hell on earth for the island, though. Nobody actually wants a shooting war with the US. God only knows how many civilians would die as a result.

And the real second-order consequence of a US invasion of Cuba would be the flood of refugees. People would flee the island in droves. Jamaica, the Yucatan, the Bahamas, Haiti, hell Florida - they’d be inundated with people fleeing the country. As bad as US relations are with the Caribbean states, this would make things so much worse. You’re talking about and island of 10M people. It would be chaos.

Firing NATO’s biggest arms dealer is a bit like trying to kick the NFL out of football.

At some point, someone has to be out there willing to fuck with the machinery of the election. The problem Orbán has is his shrinking pool of people willing to do that. He’s running against his own PM, ffs. It’s not like we’re seeing a sea change in Hungarian politics. It’s just local plutocrats deciding they’ve had enough of Orbán’s ego and are trading him out for someone more pliable.

Same thing happened to Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine. He fucked around way too hard and galvanized the whole country against him.

• Crypto

• Oil

• Religion

All practically the same thing at this point.

Iran doing the hard pivot to become the new Singapore was not what I had on my 2026 Bingo Card.

Ceasefire is threatened

What ceasefire? Who has ceased firing?

Remember when Osama Bin Laden killed all the NYC plutocrats and the US gave up on its imperial ambitions in the Middle East?

Polymarket bets in shambles.

Spain and Italy withdrew access to their military bases

He just TACO’d.

Fascists do love using lack of citizenship to legitimize violence.

its nominal allies in the EU and the democratic West

Orban has been a cuck for Silicon Valley and the Western plutocrats longer than he’s been a Putin stan.

Given that there’s a straight line between America’s fascists and Russia’s fascists, that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

But liberals keep insisting Putin is a regionalized phenomenon contained East of Ukraine. Not a model for modern fascist politicians the world over.

The US isn’t the only audience for this defiant display.

Boo hoo, a country doesn’t let a fascist in.

It does let them in. The UK has no problem with fascists, just so long as they’re British Fascists.

West, who is legally known as Ye, made an application to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation on Monday but it has been blocked by officials.

Listen, he’s a loser and a POS. I don’t particularly like the guy. All is current music sucks.

But this whole UK fascist turn wrt to Israel is not the way. Straight up blocking people from entering your country, because someone in the Home Secretary’s office as beef, is a bleak way to run a country.

The number of Musicians, Politicians, and Religious Leaders on this list really leaves the impression that it’s arbitrary and personal, especially when you consider who is coming and going through the UK at will.