U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

Hulk Hogan as Secretary of Defense, why not?

piss off the people w/ rocket launchers

well when it comes time to round up all the Dems and put them in camps, he can't have squeamish officers getting all concerned about civil rights and the Constitution

this is very very real and very very dangerous. joke all you want— i do. but this is not funny shit imo.

i mean the military turnover, not dems in camps. that’s hilarious

For the people playing pathetic fanatsy football about Biden suddenly finding a spine in his last weeks:

As the deadline expires, a scorecard issued by eight aid organisations including Oxfam and Save The Children, found there has been no improvement on most of the metrics, and Israel in fact “took actions that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground, particularly in northern Gaza” (AP).
The Biden administration nevertheless said Israel has made good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and it will not limit arms transfers

he will go down as one of the worst presidents of our times, and rightly so.

he’s not as good as bush trump1 or obama but who is

he will go down as one of the worst presidents of our times, and rightly so

So not true
When the Trumpconomy collapses, everyone will wax nostalgically about the days when you still get a decent carton of eggs for a shiny five dollar bill

I'm gonna have to block Kamala soon, it breaks my heart but it's the only way forward

Wake Up

Andrew, you probably didn’t think you were going to start your day by giving a donation to support the Harris Fight Fund program.

But that’s what we’re asking you to do.

Gotta pay Oprah's bills.

Maybe her campaign will become a full-time concert promotion outfit.

You could make a lot of money with #Resistance Tour 2025

Re: wealth, mortgages etc

"The most difficult housing markets saw the greatest median shift in vote toward Trump."

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/housing-market-trump-win-2024-election-rcna179153

gonna be peddling commemorative coins soon enough

Weird coins and Walz NFTs

he will go down as one of the worst presidents of our times, and rightly so.

Maybe, but I suspect it will have more to do with failing to prevent Trump's return rather than any particular policies undertaken by his administration.

My sister is 53 and in a rented townhouse for like $2.5k/month and as we all know, she votes chud. When I mentioned the $25k home grant Harris/Walz were proposing, she said she and her partner made too much to qualify and also she believed it was not for white people 🙃

So many of his voters are just permanently living in an alternate reality.

and also she believed it was not for white people

White Trans people yes, everyone else no

Maybe her campaign will become a full-time concert promotion outfit.

There's a Pitchfork-sized hole in 2025's Festival roster...

The Harris plan was pretty stupid and complicated - you qualified if you hadn't been late on rent and as a first-time first-generation home buyer and blah blah blah. If your parents owned a home your sister wouldn't have qualified.

also led with some YIMBY shit about encouraging private industry to build more affordable homes with tax incentives and whatever

so it was just for the undocumented, got it

Nope, both their parents had property. My sister is busting a gut now because her earlier years were what I’ll politely call a little bit grifty.

Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Sec of Defense, just... jfc

it's like the Khmer Rouge, purging all the qualified educated and appointing loyalist lackeys

Scanning the table of contents of his 2020 book American Crusade ... comforting.

https://i.imgur.com/IIKuX5Z.png

Khmer Orange was RIGHT THERE

Hegseth's a Major in the Army Reserves, and he's very photogenic. Trump was probably favorably impressed by his ratings.

And, just so I confirm my understanding, he's using the recess nom loophole to ensure there aren't any confirmations either, right?

(er, confirmation "hearings" that should be)

He reportedly persuaded Trump to pardon three American soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes related to the shooting of non-combatants in Iraq. Hegseth, who was a platoon leader at Guantanamo Bay during his military service, defended the treatment of inmates detained there.[3]

fucking hell

only the most wantonly cruel need apply

Xxxpost no it requires Senate confirmation. He can't officially nominate anybody until he’s actually in office

He's gonna get it tho, at most two people will defect

Hope Washington gets invaded Day 1.

Doesn't even matter who.

Pete Hegseth is a husband, father, patriot, and Christian. He’s also on wife #3 in 20 years and while still married to #2 Hegseth had a daughter with Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet.

I just wish that fucking idiot kid hadn't missed this summer.

Hope Washington gets invaded Day 1.

What? That would instantly unite the country around the newly sworn-in POTUS, giving him near dictatorial powers under the resulting National Emergency and Declaration of War? Bad plan. Better he should just choke on a pretzel and fail to revive.

"Maybe, but I suspect it will have more to do with failing to prevent Trump's return rather than any particular policies undertaken by his administration."

so, right down at the bottom with Buchanan, then!

jfc just saw some clips of this new SOD and he’s worse than I imagined

https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/78f943a88c6379731455f2696df87a3d/3799545

Pete Hegseth apparently has a white supremacist tattoo on his arm.

Well, isn't that special! Any pics so we can appreciate the prison-quality aesthetics of it?

http://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did%3Aplc%3A2bgyffsojo7y7d6nnmrdohwn/bafkreihecn2qjqq2gt7lv33jzzjve7vmvnqlarsfp4hvatroht5ubhpldm@jpeg

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/04/548505783/scholars-say-white-supremacists-chanting-deus-vult-got-history-wrong

The jokes write themselves

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump.html

Yes the acronym is DOGE

Much shit. Wow

Also i kinda want to hear more about suzy’s chud sister

ILX is already full of me venting about my mom/sister, if you know where to look!

At least there was one vote missing from the TFG pile - my mom’s. Dead people can’t vote…

https://prospect.org/power/2024-11-11-kamala-fell-billionaire-class-cabal/