USA Politics

What the hell is with his capitalization. All the time.

I can't believe I'm saying this but is there a chance he's doing it on purpose. E.g. if he has black on white, in some sort of a diploma, certified knowledge of English language American standard, can he try getting out of legal trouble by claiming what he wrote is not what it meant. Election fraud are two common nouns but written Election Fraud mid sentence, they stand for one proper noun. Like a name/surname combo or a trademark.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Jer
What the hell is with his capitalization. All the time.

I can't believe I'm saying this but is there a chance he's doing it on purpose. E.g. if he has black on white, in some sort of a diploma, certified knowledge of English language American standard, can he try getting out of legal trouble by claiming what he wrote is not what it meant.
Nah... Trump would never intentionally refer to himself as “very stupid, or very corrupt”.
 
I saw a really good Youtube video that discussed Trump's communication pattern and how it works with lower-education people, he basically croons a song in a common vernacular and for native English speakers without an in depth knowledge of the language, it connects as far more authentic.

In other words, "anybody who doesn't think there wasn't" is something an average Trump voter might say in conversation, intending for it to mean, "If you think there wasn't", and critically, the person to whom that Trump voter is speaking would reasonably be expected to understand his meaning.

Frankly, making fun of his grammar is a level of elitism that turns off those people. But it is also very funny.
 

I believe USA has known since 30 years ago when first cooperation between these two happened. The public statement about this signifies a downwind in alliance between USA and KSA.
 
Dropping this here because it shows the grand negative effect of the healthcare implementation in the states. The map is two years old, in 2021 situation is even worse, additional countries have surpassed USA in this metric, such as Cuba and Poland.

muwjjere0b881.jpg


There are two relations here, the availability of healthcare is lower and the availability of bad-for-you cheap food is larger. Although USA enjoys some of the best medical institutions and staff, and there's enough of them, it simply does not reflect on the statistic - which means the system does not work well if you score it by the service it provides to the average citizen.

For comparison, Croatia's medical institutions are sort of OK, the staff is better than the equipment. It's nowhere near the level of western countries with universal healthcare. More than twice more relative smoking population in Croatia than in US. An emigration country, not an immigration country. The fattest country in the Europe, yes Croat regional cuisines that your mom does at home are some of the world's best, but the shelf product in the store is bad. Low standard - 4 times less GDP per citizen than US (!) , equal reliance on buying cheap foods.

I think the first target of USA people (that's already on the desk) is the refactor of the healthcare system, people are realizing that business class is sucking most of the money out of the system, placed in the 'insurance' layer between companies, hospitals and patients. But when that gets done, and healthcare starts being optimal, they'll realize that further cost cutting needs to happen by raising general population health standard. And that's when the fight against the food industry and their lobby probably happens.
 
In case anybody's missed the revelations of past few days:

"Congress on Wednesday opened an investigation into President Trump's handling of White House records after he denied a report that he flushed official documents down the toilet and insisted he handed over boxes to the National Archives willingly.
'Also, another fake story, that I flushed papers and documents down a White House toilet, is categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book,' he wrote in a statement Thursday morning."

So this old video gets a fantastic new dimension:

Two questions remain:
1) Why did Donald Trump mistake the problems with his personal toilet for a national issue?
2) Why did he trumpet from the rooftops about it, when nobody was suspicious of anything?
 
I have to post it here as well:

Fox News has blocked me on YouTube for the following comment: "Biden, Trump, Obama, blah blah blah! Do you guys have anything else in your mind than 'which American president can we blame for this?'"
The other comments are full of illiterate insults and stupid comments that don't get deleted, because apparently they fit Fox's agenda. "Free Speech", Fox? "Cancel culture", Fox? Fucking liars, that's what you are!
 
I have to post it here as well:

Fox News has blocked me on YouTube for the following comment: "Biden, Trump, Obama, blah blah blah! Do you guys have anything else in your mind than 'which American president can we blame for this?'"
The other comments are full of illiterate insults and stupid comments that don't get deleted, because apparently they fit Fox's agenda. "Free Speech", Fox? "Cancel culture", Fox? Fucking liars, that's what you are!
Sadly that is pretty much every news outlet nowadays
 
Honestly, I am really pissed at the majority of new channels and the keyboard warriors on social media. Let's be honest, the world was given a great chance in the early 1990s to move past this shit and it totally fucked it up. US Presidents (GOP or Dems) and the EU turning a blind eye to Russia on Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine (Crimea and in the eastern parts of the country).

Now Ukrainians are having to pay the price for it and people are engaging in petty disputes. If you want to say it was Trump .. you are right, if you want to point to Obama .. you are right, if you want to point to Bush or Clinton .. you are right .. if you want to point to Germany, the EU, NATO, etc ... you are also right. But if you point to one and ignore the others, it is just pointless. All these pseudo-intellectuals on Fox and MSNBC can just fuck off.

Do something useful, donate to Ukraine, urge officials to ban Russian oil/energy exports and show some fucking backbone instead of being worried about pissing off some constituency and ramping up inflation even more. Be a leader, like the one in Ukraine.
 
So if Roe v. Wade is actually overturned, as it now appears it will be, it will be interesting to see what all the short- and long-term effects on the U.S. political landscape will be.

First, on the merits: while I have no issue with abortion prior to viability outside the womb, and it certainly seems crass and un-American to remove a right that people have held for multiple decades, I also have to say that the original Roe decision hinged on a pretty audacious interpretation of the 14th amendment, so there is a credible argument to be made that it was decided incorrectly on the legal merits the first time around. So while I may not personally like the outcome of a reversal, it may actually be the technically correct legal decision.

Anyhoo, in the short term this suddenly makes the midterm elections way more interesting at both the federal and state levels. Any refederalization of abortion rights would now require an act of congress, which would mean both killing the filibuster and having a majority of pro-choice members in the Senate (which would not include Joe Manchin), and that would require Democratic gains in at least the Senate to even become possible. Of course, even if they achieved this then you’d see federal abortion law flip-flop every time one party got control of the presidency and both houses of congress (another reason to not kill the filibuster for general legislation), so realistically this would become a matter for the states long term.

With Republicans locking down an ever-increasing number of state legislatures, this might create a real problem for them in larger red states with big cities. Suddenly a lot of people would have a pretty compelling reason to vote against them — but will they? Purple states are likely to lean more blue after this, but for “light red” states it’s hard to say.

Unfortunately, I think a more likely long-term outcome of this is more left-leaning folks leaving red states where state law continues to become more and more reactionary. If this effect is pronounced over time, it could lead to a permanent Republican majority in the Senate as they fully lock in a large number of smaller states. The House would be more evenly divided, but if the filibuster is killed in the Senate, good luck getting anything accomplished nationally if you’re not a Republican.

Or maybe this will be a wake-up call and all those left-leaning people who don’t bother to vote will start getting off their duffs and doing something about it, assuming new Republican laws haven’t already kicked them off the voting rolls. But I’m not holding my breath.
 
Last edited:
As far as left goes, Obamacare was quite left, but generally unless I'm missing something I haven't seen much left coming from US during my lifetime. I remember Krugman saying that in some way, Nixon was the last New Dealer, meaning that he was more left than the Democrats that followed.
It's hard for me to imagine that people will actually move to other states due to this, but you certainly know much more on this country that I'll never will.

First, on the merits: while I have no issue with abortion prior to viability outside the womb, and it certainly seems crass and un-American to remove a right that people have held for multiple decades, I also have to say that the original Roe decision hinged on a pretty audacious interpretation of the 4th amendment, so there is a credible argument to be made that it was decided incorrectly on the legal merits the first time around. So while I may not personally like the outcome of a reversal, it may actually be the technically correct legal decision.

Yeap there should be some technicality there, it was my initial guess.

Draft --> https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

Interactive map of where is likely to be banned --> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-bans-restrictons-roe-v-wade.html
 
It's hard for me to imagine that people will actually move to other states due to this
This is something that’s already been going on for quite some time, and this may just further accelerate it. Some context:


The recent trend is people leaving blue states for red states due to loosened COVID restrictions, but this sorting behavior has been going both ways for a while. And it’s true, I’d never consider living in a right-leaning state because I don’t want to put up with the bullshit that would go along with that. Minnesota barely leans left anymore as it is, and I already live in a traditionally right-leaning congressional district (though we did manage to flip it Democratic in 2018 and hold it in 2020).

If you have the choice of living somewhere where your life continues as normal, or somewhere where local politicians are going out of their way to make your life harder, in the era of remote work, why not move? The same thing goes in reverse if you’re a right-winger who’s upset about sanctuary city policies, “defund the police” movements, and ongoing debates about bathroom access for trans people — they’d probably feel more comfortable living somewhere that was more hostile to things they don’t like thinking about, and much more lax about separation of church and state.

Unfortunately, these perfectly reasonable individual decisions could have some major negative consequences for the health of the U.S. democracy long term.
 
This does not happen in other countries. What a bunch of stupid idiots.

Thurston High School.
Columbine High School.
Heritage High School.
Deming Middle School.
Fort Gibson Middle School.
Buell Elementary School.
Lake Worth Middle School.
University of Arkansas.
Junipero Serra High School.
Santana High School.
Bishop Neumann High School.
Pacific Lutheran University.
Granite Hills High School.
Lew Wallace High School.
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.
Appalachian School of Law.
Washington High School.
Conception Abbey.
Benjamin Tasker Middle School.
University of Arizona.
Lincoln High School.
John McDonogh High School.
Red Lion Area Junior High School.
Case Western Reserve University.
Rocori High School.
Ballou High School.
Randallstown High School.
Bowen High School.
Red Lake Senior High School.
Harlan Community Academy High School.
Campbell County High School.
Milwee Middle School.
Roseburg High School.
Pine Middle School.
Essex Elementary School.
Duquesne University.
Platte Canyon High School.
Weston High School.
West Nickel Mines School.
Joplin Memorial Middle School.
Henry Foss High School.
Compton Centennial High School.
Virginia Tech.
Success Tech Academy.
Miami Carol City Senior High School.
Hamilton High School.
Louisiana Technical College.
Mitchell High School.
E.O. Green Junior High School.
Northern Illinois University.
Lakota Middle School.
Knoxville Central High School.
Willoughby South High School.
Henry Ford High School.
University of Central Arkansas.
Dillard High School.
Dunbar High School.
Hampton University.
Harvard College.
Larose-Cut Off Middle School.
International Studies Academy.
Skyline College.
Discovery Middle School.
University of Alabama.
DeKalb School.
Deer Creek Middle School.
Ohio State University.
Mumford High School.
University of Texas.
Kelly Elementary School.
Marinette High School.
Aurora Central High School.
Millard South High School.
Martinsville West Middle School.
Worthing High School.
Millard South High School.
Highlands Intermediate School.
Cape Fear High School.
Chardon High School.
Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
Oikos University.
Hamilton High School.
Perry Hall School.
Normal Community High School.
University of South Alabama.
Banner Academy South.
University of Southern California.
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Apostolic Revival Center Christian School.
Taft Union High School.
Osborn High School.
Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.
Hazard Community and Technical College.
Chicago State University.
Lone Star College-North.
Cesar Chavez High School.
Price Middle School.
University of Central Florida.
New River Community College.
Grambling State University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.
Ronald E. McNair Discovery Academy.
North Panola High School.
Carver High School.
Agape Christian Academy.
Sparks Middle School.
North Carolina A&T State University.
Stephenson High School.
Brashear High School.
West Orange High School.
Arapahoe High School.
Edison High School.
Liberty Technology Magnet High School.
Hillhouse High School.
Berrendo Middle School.
Purdue University.
South Carolina State University.
Los Angeles Valley College.
Charles F. Brush High School.
University of Southern California.
Georgia Regents University.
Academy of Knowledge Preschool.
Benjamin Banneker High School.
D. H. Conley High School.
East English Village Preparatory Academy.
Paine College.
Georgia Gwinnett College.
John F. Kennedy High School.
Seattle Pacific University.
Reynolds High School.
Indiana State University.
Albemarle High School.
Fern Creek Traditional High School.
Langston Hughes High School.
Marysville Pilchuck High School.
Florida State University.
Miami Carol City High School.
Rogers State University.
Rosemary Anderson High School.
Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
Frederick High School.
Tenaya Middle School.
Bethune-Cookman University.
Pershing Elementary School.
Wayne Community College.
J.B. Martin Middle School.
Southwestern Classical Academy.
Savannah State University.
Harrisburg High School.
Umpqua Community College.
Northern Arizona University.
Texas Southern University.
Tennessee State University.
Winston-Salem State University.
Mojave High School.
Lawrence Central High School.
Franklin High School.
Muskegon Heights High School.
Independence High School.
Madison High School.
Antigo High School.
University of California-Los Angeles.
Jeremiah Burke High School.
Alpine High School.
Townville Elementary School.
Vigor High School.
Linden McKinley STEM Academy.
June Jordan High School for Equity.
Union Middle School.
Mueller Park Junior High School.
West Liberty-Salem High School.
University of Washington.
King City High School.
North Park Elementary School.
North Lake College.
Freeman High School.
Mattoon High School.
Rancho Tehama Elementary School.
Aztec High School.
Wake Forest University.
Italy High School.
NET Charter High School.
Marshall County High School.
Sal Castro Middle School.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Great Mills High School
Central Michigan University
Huffman High School
Frederick Douglass High School
Forest High School
Highland High School
Dixon High School
Santa Fe High School
Noblesville West Middle School
University of North Carolina Charlotte
STEM School Highlands Ranch
Edgewood High School
Palm Beach Central High School
Providence Career & Technical Academy
Fairley High School (school bus)
Canyon Springs High School
Dennis Intermediate School
Florida International University
Central Elementary School
Cascade Middle School
Davidson High School
Prairie View A & M University
Altascocita High School
Central Academy of Excellence
Cleveland High School
Robert E. Lee High School
Cheyenne South High School
Grambling State University
Blountsville Elementary School
Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)
Prescott High School
College of the Mainland
Wynbrooke Elementary School
UNC Charlotte
Riverview Florida (school bus)
Second Chance High School
Carman-Ainsworth High School
Williwaw Elementary School
Monroe Clark Middle School
Central Catholic High School
Jeanette High School
Eastern Hills High School
DeAnza High School
Ridgway High School
Reginald F. Lewis High School
Saugus High School
Pleasantville High School
Waukesha South High School
Oshkosh High School
Catholic Academy of New Haven
Bellaire High School
North Crowley High School
McAuliffe Elementary School
South Oak Cliff High School
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Sonora High School
Western Illinois University
Oxford High School
Robb Elementary School
 
Back
Top