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

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/

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Biden revoked Musk’s citizenship and deported him based on his being illegally in the US when he walked off his Stanford course? If we are cracking down on migrants, it ought to be without fear or favour, and the chudderati would have no comeback because all they do is bay about ‘illegals’.

Probably will never happen, but it would be possible to do it before 20/01/2025

wouldn’t happen because it’s illegal

Pro-Pakestine groups today, what else tomorrow?

US House voted 256-145 to pass HR 9495—short of 2/3 required.

Would empower Treasury Sec.
to revoke nonprofit tax status of orgs based on judgment they're “terrorist-supporting.”

Concerns it'd help government (esp. Trump's) attack pro-Palestine groups.

52 Democrats in favor. pic.twitter.com/Cd9trvXpDX

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) November 13, 2024

Pathetic shiteaters

How is it illegal? Explain.

A president can't revoke citizenship.

Donald Trump would love to, though.

legality not a blocker for mr trump iirc

None of these scenarios of epic for the win shit Biden should do are as funny as him simply not waking up tomorrow

Otm

also much more likely

frustration. we elected pharaoh only we- this time

it is bad enough when others seek to strip your agency (and your opponents and enemies will) but it is worse to repudiate the agency you actually had. because you will do it again.

No change in policy till Trump comes in.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱Secretary of State Blinken has decided that there will be no change for now to military assistance to Israel following the deadline the U.S. gave Israel regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza and that expires today, two U.S. officials said. The officials said Israel…

— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 12, 2024

Isn’t Blinken from a family of really prominent Zionists?

less than 10 years ago he was advising israeli drone and AI companies

business is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-tRTD1lqU

Enraging:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/13/opinion/focusgroup-young-undecided-voters.html