Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary

Well that didn't last long. I thought stinky promised to staff with the best and brightest?

22 hours ago, rjshae said:

Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary

Well that didn't last long. I thought stinky promised to staff with the best and brightest?

I felt a little sorry for her

Her first press conference was an absolute; disaster but she would have got better with time

But Trump can't afford anymore scandals and she misrepresented her lawyers qualification and didn't have much understanding of geopolitics

And now before the midterms is not the time for her to learn and all she was doing was getting negative media attention

What I found more hilarious is Leavitt getting a job at FOX after saying she was leaving the WH to focus on being a mother 😝

4 hours ago, BruceVC said:

I felt a little sorry for her

Her first press conference was an absolute; disaster but she would have got better with time

But Trump can't afford anymore scandals and she misrepresented her lawyers qualification and didn't have much understanding of geopolitics

And now before the midterms is not the time for her to learn and all she was doing was getting negative media attention

What I found more hilarious is Leavitt getting a job at FOX after saying she was leaving the WH to focus on being a mother 😝

$200k in year is quite high salary for intern. Usually such positions come with expection that person is at least bit familiar with the job.

Alberta rejects a move toward independence from Canada in a victory for Carney

Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney's push for national unity amid U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and annexation threats.

Didn't that entire "independence" movement seem driven by a Trumpian oil company agenda? I mean, an independent Alberta could be environmentally exploited by big oil to extract every last drop of petroleum without oversight from the Canadian government. Alberta could have ended up like Venezuela with a puppet government run by the US. Well good on them for sticking with our friends to the north.

Edited October 20Oct 20 by rjshae

50 minutes ago, rjshae said:

Alberta rejects a move toward independence from Canada in a victory for Carney

Didn't that entire "independence" movement seem driven by a Trumpian oil company agenda? I mean, an independent Alberta could be environmentally exploited by big oil to extract every last drop of petroleum without oversight from the Canadian government. Alberta could have ended up like Venezuela with a puppet government run by the US. Well good on them for sticking with our friends to the north.

current canada regime are pro oligarch too

just much less crude about it

With the House likely being lost to the Dems, Stinky now seeks to legally overrule a particular Senate race election outcome in Alaska... before the votes are even counted. I wonder what the voters up there think of this?

Trump says he ordered the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Alaska’s US Senate race

The long ruling party in Serbia lost the elections convincingly. No one expected it to be that much of a difference. Now we see how and if our foreign policies change.

Bolsonaro lost, apparently he refuses to concede though.

His dad never conceded either; far right are hardly the most graceful losers.

8 hours ago, Sarex said:

The long ruling party in Serbia lost the elections convincingly. No one expected it to be that much of a difference. Now we see how and if our foreign policies change.

Its a fascinating outcome and its surprising how very little global attention this election got

What really surprised me is the student movement was started by the corruption and mishandling of the Novi Sad train station disaster in 2024

Im concerned the student movement has no defined leaders and no political experience but lets wait and see how things unfold

They do have a 11 point manifesto so that's something they can focus on. But this must be the first time I can ever recall that this type of grassroots movement has won an election so quickly. Its more about overall issues around corruption and inefficiency with Vucic but its an impressive and unexpected election outcome

"The elected MPs will have the task of fulfilling what is in effect a manifesto.

In the words of the students themselves, they were looking for people who could enter institutions "do their jobs responsibly and not forget why they are there".

Under an 11-point programme, the student movement wants to:

• Eradicate corruption by forming a police unit to arrest those responsible for it

• Purge officials in the internal affairs ministry of anyone who broke rules on cracking down on protesters, or anyone linked to organised crime

• Reform Serbia's skewed media scene and free the public broadcaster of political control

• Stop recruiting party loyalists to head public enterprises.

Vučić and the SNS party deny corruption and seeking to influence the media."

The difference was too big and the party leader conceded before the results were out. He was preparing for conflict in case the results were close, but he lost by 13%.

The big scare is that the ones pulling the strings for this winning party are the powers from the west.

1 hour ago, Sarex said:

The difference was too big and the party leader conceded before the results were out. He was preparing for conflict in case the results were close, but he lost by 13%.

The big scare is that the ones pulling the strings for this winning party are the powers from the west.

Yes but its foundation was because of the Novi Sad train station disaster which was only 2 years ago

Its the first time I have ever heard of any outrage protest creating a political party that ends up winning an election

The normal reason for most protests is based on established party ideology and what they already believe or its just about raising issues

This is something truly unique and impressive. Its too early to say how successful they will be but its definitely something unexpected

I typically dismiss these types of student protests because of how inconsistent and unrealistic there demands are in countries like South Africa and the USA. But here we seeing an election being won because of something that students started