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.

Guy stepping out of a cave three days after everyone thought he was dead and kicking off a campaign to topple the greatest empire on earth?

Sounds like a parable favoring Iran.

the USA was not the major part of in saving us from the Germans

Strictly speaking, they were more pivotal in the Pacific front of the war, where they saved China from Japan.

But you’ve really got your blinkers on if you’re going to ignore the Lend-Lease program, which provided the Soviets with 400,000+ trucks, 14,000+ aircraft, 13,000+ tanks, and 4.5 million tons of food.

Like, it was a team effort. No single country single-handedly won (or lost) WW2. The real tragedy of the war’s end was our inability to disarm and diplomacy our way to a real unity planet. In that sense, everyone ultimately lost WW2.

Okay, but the Soviets were bad because they did Evil Communism. So what they did during WW2 doesn’t count.

If more congressional republicans would’ve went along with the fake electors, then yes maybe.

The problem with American democracy is that half of your allies are just in line for your job. Especially in the Senate.

They weren’t going along for the ride because they weren’t interested in the destination.

Still scary with how far/close it got.

I’m still not clear what would have happened if rioters had actually beaten Congressional Reps to the door.

Let’s say Mike Pence really did get lynched. And Nancy Pelosi had to watch her desk get crapped on. And then the capital building is surrounded by the DC police. And there’s a high profile hostage crisis, while whomever did get out reconvenes to decide what to do next.

Does anyone believe Joe Biden doesn’t still get sworn in?

This is the Presidency not a game of tag. Who is still going to take orders from a Trump admin on these terms? Everyone - Republicans included - wanted that asshole gone by the end of 2020.

Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads

When you’ve gerrymandered all the districts and you’re threatening to federalize state elections? When Silicon Valley owns all the venues those oppo ads would run? When your response to every defeat is to deny it is happening and double down on the military?

I just don’t think Scary Voice Ads during the Late Show With Not Steven Colbert Cause He’s Fired are going to make a huge difference.

Like, I’m not a doomer. I don’t think “Democracy is Over!” Because, if Trump had the means to make Democracy Go Away, he’d have done it during the 2025 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. But it’s crazy to think Ad Buys are going to be what decide the next election cycle.