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Post by Disciple of Fate on Mar 12, 2024 12:16:26 GMT -5
For how much they say they hate communists, they sure love their communist purges for insufficient 'party' loyalty.
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Mar 13, 2024 6:09:52 GMT -5
Maybe if the Republicans had cracked open a history book they could have avoided this.
They had both the Night of Long Knives and Stalin's seizure of the communist party apparatus to study.
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Post by Haighus on Mar 13, 2024 7:26:49 GMT -5
Maybe if the Republicans had cracked open a history book they could have avoided this. They had both the Night of Long Knives and Stalin's seizure of the communist party apparatus to study. What do you mean? Those are great case studies for how to take over a party! Obviously I will always be the one purging and will never get purged myself in turn! That only happens to other factions...
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Post by easye on Apr 8, 2024 10:18:02 GMT -5
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Post by easye on Apr 15, 2024 15:51:51 GMT -5
It kinda sorta makes me mad that Red States seem to be "benefiting" from Biden's actions on Infrastructure, Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS Act. Samsung gets $6.4 billion to build massive semiconductor plants in central Texaswww.npr.org/2024/04/15/1244716743/biden-samsung-texas-semiconductor-chipsI mean, in theory it is a good strategy; but does anyone think it will move the needle electorally?
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Post by adurot on Apr 15, 2024 16:06:32 GMT -5
Of course not, because the Repubs in those states that voted against it still take credit for the money and idiots believe them.
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 15, 2024 16:29:32 GMT -5
Or, as they've done in places like West Virginia coal mining towns, they'll reject the new jobs because they aren't bringing back the old jobs.
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Post by mdgv2 on Apr 15, 2024 17:05:13 GMT -5
Liz “The Lettuce” Truss has endorsed Trump.
Hopefully her history of nothing but utter catastrophe will rub off, and Trump will handily lose the election as a result.
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Apr 16, 2024 9:11:20 GMT -5
Liz “The Lettuce” Truss has endorsed Trump. Hopefully her history of nothing but utter catastrophe will rub off, and Trump will handily lose the election as a result. Not content with crashing the UK economy, Truss turns her gaze overseas.
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Post by easye on Apr 16, 2024 9:17:32 GMT -5
I am pretty sure, very few Trump voters in the US even know who Liz Truss is.
Why even bother?
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Apr 16, 2024 9:22:43 GMT -5
I am pretty sure, very few Trump voters in the US even know who Liz Truss is. Why even bother? She's probably raising the flag to try and get attention from far and alt-right after dinner and conference organisers to hire her for speeches. Grifters gotta grift.
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Post by Haighus on Apr 16, 2024 10:05:40 GMT -5
I am pretty sure, very few Trump voters in the US even know who Liz Truss is. Why even bother? She's probably raising the flag to try and get attention from far and alt-right after dinner and conference organisers to hire her for speeches. Grifters gotta grift. I've seen the hypothesis that she has been soliciting funders for a renewed campaign back here in the UK. After all, there is going to be a vacant position at the top of the Conservative party soon... Truss remains inexplicably popular with the party membership.
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Post by herzlos on Apr 16, 2024 11:00:41 GMT -5
She's also got a book out, so trying to do build up some hype.
I also assume the right wing will run with "British Prime Minister endorses Trump!" and gloss over how bad she was at the job.
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Apr 16, 2024 15:26:34 GMT -5
She's probably raising the flag to try and get attention from far and alt-right after dinner and conference organisers to hire her for speeches. Grifters gotta grift. I've seen the hypothesis that she has been soliciting funders for a renewed campaign back here in the UK. After all, there is going to be a vacant position at the top of the Conservative party soon... Truss remains inexplicably popular with the party membership. Also a completely plausible explanation. Truss had the advantage of running against someone who has a certain feature that meant he could only win the conservative party membership vote by running unopposed. She could say all the nonsense she wanted and then be proven as idiotic as everyone said by becoming the shortest reigning prime minister in history after managing to crash the value of the pound within 30 days of taking on the role, and that is including a 10 day mourning period of doing fuck all after the Queen died, and she still probably would have won the vote of the conservative party membership against Sunak after all that if she ran again because of "reasons".
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Post by Haighus on Apr 16, 2024 16:16:19 GMT -5
I've seen the hypothesis that she has been soliciting funders for a renewed campaign back here in the UK. After all, there is going to be a vacant position at the top of the Conservative party soon... Truss remains inexplicably popular with the party membership. Also a completely plausible explanation. Truss had the advantage of running against someone who has a certain feature that meant he could only win the conservative party membership vote by running unopposed. She could say all the nonsense she wanted and then be proven as idiotic as everyone said by becoming the shortest reigning prime minister in history after managing to crash the value of the pound within 30 days of taking on the role, and that is including a 10 day mourning period of doing fuck all after the Queen died, and she still probably would have won the vote of the conservative party membership against Sunak after all that if she ran again because of "reasons". I think it will be very interesting to see if she runs against Suella Braverman. I suspect Braverman is also subject to these "reasons" you are speaking of, but she is also very aligned with the Conservative base ideologically.
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