“I can hear those champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow — like it’s Christmas every fucking day": US Politics, February 2024

Not on the basis of them being far too old and fragile for the job.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, February 9, 2024 11:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

*cough* REAGAN *cough*

oh, you said post-88, so....n/m

but hey Bush puked at a dinner once

From a UK perspective where Reagan was always considered a dimwit, it was only later on the senility jibes started

even your Iron Lady privately mocked him.

I don't know if anyone here thought he was a genius either

How dare you speak ill of dear leader

he was a deer leader

btw am I the only one who remembers Biden vowing during the primaries he'd only be a one term president if elected? weird how no one's asked him about that since.

iirc he has said he wouldn't be running if trump wasnt running

The point I was making is the UK media - including the right wing press - is almost entirely pro-Biden so people weren't saying, "Oh my God look at the state of this guy, we are so fucked" because they dislike him.

Biden never explicitly said he would serve just one term, but multiple outlets reported that he and his advisers discussed making such a pledge. His allies reinforced the notion, even as Biden himself denied it. “It is virtually inconceivable that he will run for reelection in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president,” Politico reported in December 2019, citing four unnamed sources who spoke regularly with Biden.

conceive the inconceivable

Never again is what you swore

inconceivable

You keep saying that word.

The point I was making is the UK media - including the right wing press - is almost entirely pro-Biden so people weren't saying, "Oh my God look at the state of this guy, we are so fucked" because they dislike him.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2024 17:19 (seventeen minutes ago) link

Oh that's interesting that even the right-wing press in the UK is pro-Biden (despite his infirmities).

Why is that - is there a single issue like Trump's threat to pull out of NATO or being chummy with dictators - or what do you think it is?

Trump's a fascist idiot, apart from a few ultra right wing columnists (and Jacob Rees Mogg) no-one's going to admit to supporting Trump, not even Boris did that.

Johnson wrote a Mail piece just the other week saying 'Trump again would be good actually'

He can say that now because he's not an MP and is free to pull in readers to his jolly japes columns.

I was reading about a Tory MP the other day who had tweeted support for Trump on 2016 and was now having to backtrack and say she was young when she tweeted and had changed her viewpoint since. You know, like she'd tweeted something racist or something!

reminiscent of the clip of Tucker asking Putin if he feels god's hand at work and Vlad just going "uh, no" - even reactionaries elsewhere think the American right-wing is weird and scary

It's certainly an odd idea to ask a former KGB officer if he feels god's hand at work.

I've seen this a lot, though: U.S. right-wingers think of people like Putin as the reincarnation of the Crusaders or the Vikings--while having no idea what the Crusaders or the Vikings were actually like, of course.

Putin actually is religious of course.

Is he? It's hard to tell. He sure hasn't taken the lessons to heart.

how many people has putin killed with his bare hands? 50? 60? he was in east germany slitting throats wasn't he? he scary.

https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/be1515a5-d7c5-4ebe-812c-6b2906dd4ffe_w1024_r1.778_fpx54_fpy39.png

hey there, lonely boy...

I'm not sure he's personally religious, but more than happy to exploit the Russian Orthodox church for political purposes

xpost just sitting here, putin about things

how many people has putin killed with his bare hands? 50? 60? he was in east germany slitting throats wasn't he? he scary.

None.

Putin actually is religious of course.

he's religious the same way Italian mob bosses are practicing Catholics

Yeah probably never murdered anyone directly, hence all the shirtless posturing

Not unless he stapled or photocopied someone to death, I think he was mostly office based.

like ordering a hit from your goomar's bed Saturday night but you make it home in time for Sunday Mass.

Remember when George W. Bush saw a crucifix around his neck and thought he was addressing a Christian?

(xp) Well, yes, but they still believe in God and the Church.

On a completely different note, here's Georgia, once again leading the way in going backwards.

Opposition to Georgia's cash bail bill grows amid legal and constitutional concerns

https://www.wabe.org/opposition-to-georgias-cash-bail-bill-grows-amid-legal-and-constitutional-concerns/

juliana huxtable also present … by one way to reconcile the contradiction might be that they hold that mtf transition is cool but not ftm

🖼

Have no idea how the rest of that got there

Should've asked Claire Huxtable to represent.

Judge Cannon just ordered that by tomorrow February 10, Jack Smith provide Trump with information about the death threats against a confidential witness in the Mar-A-Lago document case which Cannon previously allowed Jack Smith to file ex parte (meaning Trump can’t see it) and under seal (meaning the public can’t see it) as part of his motion for reconsideration

Smith will certainly file a response to this. Meanwhile, this could further delay the doc trial

How did RFK Jr get an ad on the Super Bowl?

With right-wing dark money.

Time for a Sirhan Sirhan pardon

apparently the guy who founded LimeWire is behind the PAC that paid for that RFK Jr. Super Bowl ad

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) February 12, 2024

Did he pay for Kanye’s ad too?

All of these people need to meet Mr Choppy

yeah i always joke that ‘pretty soon it’s yr own head in the basket,’ but many of these sv money types seem so worth it

if you step back it’s the same weird anti-vax group (pre-Covid!) with a through line. The people saying a measles vaccine gives you autism

This is a real tweet from the Biden team:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccrabc6xdnjx4l7btvynnng4/bafkreibdxktca3hfbuuemtksfkwremsfc6kf23kscmiixp4dxdrbtcn4ue@jpeg