The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?

[Malcador]

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/bessent-warns-of-us-embarrassment-if-tariffs-ruled-illegal

Not the greatest argument when discussing legality of something, that to reverse course if it's illegal would be embarrassing.

As if these mother****ers are capable of shame or embarrassment 

[Gorth]

Honest Government Ads take on Norway...

 

[Zoraptor]

Another interesting example of how bad western media has got at regurgitating state propaganda: Ursula von der Leyen's plane hit by GPS incident. Plus dozens of other articles.

Number of articles citing flightradar24's statement that it didn't happen: zero. Number of articles that had been corrected: zero. Fact checkers that had checked the facts: zero.

Note that the plane's transponder includes GPS consistency values, so it indicates there was no spoofing as well as no appreciable interference. While there certainly is GPS interference close to the Russian border central Bulgaria isn't close to it by any stretch. The whole incident appears to have been quite literally made up then published without asking anyone who could refute it about it.

Expectation that the record will ever be corrected: also zero. 

[rjshae]

9 hours ago, Malcador said:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/bessent-warns-of-us-embarrassment-if-tariffs-ruled-illegal

Not the greatest argument when discussing legality of something, that to reverse course if it's illegal would be embarrassing.

As if these mother****ers are capable of shame or embarrassment 

Speaking of illegal, a judge has ruled that deployment of the National Guard to LA was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. They have no shame.

 

[Malcador]

So wonder when Rubio will move on Cuba

[Malcador]

https://apnews.com/article/florida-childhood-vaccines-mandate-eliminate-desantis-363323dcdd3811ca9ad7def5f9a30fb2

Oh boy.

[rjshae]

Apparently it's okay for the US to shoot up non-military ships in international waters now. What are we, Somalia? I suppose it's easier to maintain a constant state of emergency that way.

[majestic]

3 hours ago, Malcador said:

https://apnews.com/article/florida-childhood-vaccines-mandate-eliminate-desantis-363323dcdd3811ca9ad7def5f9a30fb2

Oh boy.

"Here lies beloved Timmy, he died of measles at the age of three. We are proud of his sacrifice to own the libs."

By the way, that is one of the few ways to break the toxic positivity of current LLMs. Copilot called me a cynic for saying something similar when I used it to look up Derek Huffman's name and presented me with news about how he was stationed at the Ukrainian front after joining the army in Russia and potentially killed in action. I replied with "At least he owned the libs." and Copilot was all "That is a very cynical comment on a complex and multi-faceted issue".

 

[Malcador]

1 hour ago, rjshae said:

Apparently it's okay for the US to shoot up non-military ships in international waters now. What are we, Somalia? I suppose it's easier to maintain a constant state of emergency that way.

So Trump watched Clear and Present Danger