He’s not a potential future rival. He’s the sitting Polish president and head of the biggest party in the country.
Tusk is holding together a shakey coalition of smaller liberal parties. He’s not the most popular politician in the country.
236M of America’s 343M residents were eligible to vote. So we’re talking about 70% of the population, baseline.
Of the eligible pool, only 174M were legally registered, because our voter registration system is archaic and deliberately exclusionary. We also nixed mail in voting after 2020, driving down participation for rural and minority communities enormously (because our voting infrastructure is dogshit). This depressed actual turnout to 153M.
Of that 153M, it broke out 77M Trump and 75M Kamala. But get under the hood and recognize only five states actually mattered by vote margin - Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Georgia. Every absent voter in California turning out for Harris couldn’t help her. Record turnout in Texas helped Trump more than Biden in 2020.
Of the five swing states, four (excluding Georgia) produced statewide wins for Democrats. These were winnable elections for Team D. They came within a razor thin margin - less than 2% of total votes each - at both Presidential and state levels.
And yet Harris was so fucking unpopular that people refused to vote for her in states other Democrats won.
Let that sink in.
I don’t think a lot of westerners can comprehend the idea that Iranian religious conservatives might be as angry with their liberal president as expat liberals are with the Guardian Council. The county isn’t going to secularize because of a drought.
Nevermind how Masoud Pezeshkian getting the Maduro treatment (or the Ismail Haniyeh treatment) summons desperately needed rain and snow.
This is a climate change disaster, but people keep talking about it like Iran’s water shortage can be solved at the ballot box. Might as well try voting for the Titanic to stop sinking.
“Cancelling the election” is not a thing that ever could or would happen.
It’s certainly possible. It would create chaos for a bunch of downstream offices - retiring/dead elected bureaucrats wouldn’t be replaced (except, presumably, by appointment?) You’d have a bunch of very angry primary challengers (Ken Paxton wants John Cornyn’s Senate seat, but he can’t take it without an election). There’s a ton of money that normally changes hands during an election cycle and now just… wouldn’t. You’d bankrupt at least a few TV and radio stations absent this enormous influx of revenue.
It would create an enormous amount of social friction at the highest levels of power across both parties to just stop doing office replacement the way we’ve been doing things for 250 years. But sure, Trump could just order Delta Force to parachute into every State Secretary’s Office in the country and punch out anyone caught tabulating ballots.
Nor is a new constitution, as that would require 34 states to even call a convention and then 38 states to ratify one.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s been trying to make a Constitutional Convention happen for the last twenty years. Even when Republicans had enough states to try convening one, the enthusiasm just wasn’t there. Why change the Constitution when you can just ignore it? Why bother stacking the Courts with Yes-Men?
Conservatives and their plutocrat friends already have a free hand to do virtually whatever they please. Who needs a formalized archaic rule-writing convention to dismantle institutions that DOGE and the courts have been shredding far faster than any institution loving liberal can put back together?
If you’re going to break all the rules anyway, there’s nothing sexy about issuing a new list.
Why did the Romans fail?
I remember learning that the Romans fell because they were too gay and debauched and woke, so they lost their manly vigors.
Nevermind, history doesn’t like copypasta
I suppose its worth noting that the Roman Empire lasted centuries (millennia, if you see the Byzantine/Ottoman Empire as a continuation of Roman history). The UK is more comparable than the US, which flourished after WW1 and made it barely a century before fumbling.
But also, the book is hardly closed on the US as an empire. China, India, Persia, Rome, France… they all had their ups and downs.
The US writes the history books, runs the universities, and manages the international media networks.
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Can’t imagine why these guys would be excited about a “liberated” Iran.
Awarding a distant relative of Hawaii’s last king the Star of Lenin while declaring ownership over all the pineapples on the island chain.
Class solidarity. The bourgeois defend one another while the proletariat are easily divided.
One of the more novel takes I’ve heard recently is to describe the current Trump ICE beef up as a war of the Unemployed against the Working Class. He’s literally vacuuming up jobless white men and turning them into an armed force against the migrant labor force.
I am so fucking disgusted in the 88 million idiots who voted for Trump…
Trump won 2024 with 77M votes to Harris’s 75M. Where you are finding the extra 11M?
Traitorous scum, every last one of them.
Liberals call them Terrorists
Conservatives call them Freedom Fighters
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They seem to find no issue judging the Uygurs as needing to die
Are they killing Uyghurs by the millions or teaching them Mandarin?
So much of the hysteria around China seems to stem from domestic campaigns of infrastructure development. The Three Gourges Dam, the rapid expansion of urban infrastructure, development of schools and hospitals in the historically rural corners of the country, expansion of universities, trade with East Africa, the BRI - all described as brutal forms of colonial oppression by a savage and sadistic Far-Left Totalitarian Communist government.
Nobody described Bolsonaro’s Brazil in these terms, as his administration clear cut the Amazon and rapidly displaced tens of thousands of migrants. Nobody described The Phillipines or Indonesia this way, even as Red Tagging was used as an excuse for vigilante executions and toxic dumping sent cancer rates stratospheric. Hell, its hard enough to get Israel described in these terms in any major western publication of record, and they’re outright shooting children in the head before labeling them “Hamas Terrorists”.
Why are liberals so eager to re-characterize literacy programs as a form of holocaust? Why do they seem so gleeful at the prospect of a China-Taiwan hot war? Why do we have a President threatening to invade Venezuela, Nigeria, and Greenland all at once, while his biggest “critics” complain that he’s not bellicose enough?
Fucking wild times.
Taiwan is America’s property in the same way that Venezuela is America’s property and Greenland is America’s property and Nigeria is America’s property and everything is America’s property.
They were famously at odds over that … at least publicly.
They were the modern James Carville / Mary Matalin power couple, sure. Just entirely encapsulated within the Republican Party. Conway worked closely with Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge, ffs. He was at the forefront of decades of smears and hatchet jobs aimed at public health care, anti-war activism, and civil rights.
More neocons in the democratic party.
They came over like rats fleeing a sinking ship. And then the ship had the audacity not to sink, in large part because they weren’t weighing it down.
his only Democratic bonafide being anti-trump
His wife was legal counsel to Trump during the first term. Absolutely laughable to call him “anti-Trump”.
Excited to hear the Vote Blue No Matter Who brigades come out in force for this clown.
In November 2025, less than two months before Trump’s operation to take over Venezuela, Singer’s investment firm, Elliott Investment Management, inked a highly fortuitous deal.
It purchased Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, for $5.9 billion—a sale that was forced by a Delaware court after Venezuela defaulted on its bond payments.
The court-appointed special master who forced the sale, Robert Pincus, is a member of the board of directors for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Elliott Management hailed the court order requiring the sale in a press release, saying it was “backed by a group of strategic US energy investors.”
Singer acquired the Citgo’s three massive coastal refineries, 43 oil terminals, and more than 4,000 gas stations at a “major discount” because of its distressed status. Advisers to the court overseeing the sale estimated its value at $11-13 billion, while the Venezuelan government estimated it at $18 billion.
Trying to imagine the outcry if this had been done by a Russian firm on Ukrainian assets or a Chinese court on Taiwanese property.
Is any major US news agency covering this as a story, I wonder?
How much TrumpCoin did the host country buy in advance?
Forming an agreement to protect Poland at all costs and calling it the Warsaw Pact.
What? No? Is that one taken?
“Water exists! Food exists! They’re just hiding it from us!” is going to be the Big Lie of global politics as the climate crisis compounds.
That, and lots of people doing prayer circles for rain that never comes.