Donald Trump Reloaded!

[McAvoy]

Okay, I don't follow the news or much social media outlets but I just heard about this and wanted to know if it's true; Did Trump post or repost an image of himself on his own social media site with him in the outfit of the Pope?

I cannot confirm that at this moment. But someone I forgot who suggested that perhaps tongue in cheek that Trump should be the next Pope.

Honestly I wouldn't look too much into it. Usual Trump antics and all, even if he is not involved himself.

[ProfessorDetective]

Okay, I don't follow the news or much social media outlets but I just heard about this and wanted to know if it's true; Did Trump post or repost an image of himself on his own social media site with him in the outfit of the Pope?

https://bsky.app/profile/youranoncentra ... alax5fns2y

[hammerofglass]

So the Australian election also had a complete reversal where the anti-woke party that was expected to win not only got completely trounced but the guy who was expected to be PM lost his seat, exactly like happened in Canada.

You know what, if the fallen United States can't be a good example to y'all I'm glad we're apparently effective as a horrible warning.

[clearspira]

So the Australian election also had a complete reversal where the anti-woke party that was expected to win not only got completely trounced but the guy who was expected to be PM lost his seat, exactly like happened in Canada.

You know what, if the fallen United States can't be a good example to y'all I'm glad we're apparently effective as a horrible warning.

In the UK we have something called local elections. These are to elect councillors whose job it is to oversee things like waste collections, pothole repair, cutting the grass etc. This is different to the general election whereby the MPs are voted in. Preferably, ideally, these elections are voted on those aspects. The party who is best poised to pick up your bins is not always the same party who is best poised to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. In practice however it is always treated by the people as an opinion poll on the ruling government. Winning or losing the local elections is a very good barometer as to the mood and voting intentions of the country.

This week about a quarter of England went to the polls in the local elections and Nigel Farage's Reform UK absolutely cleaned up. It wasn't even close. They went from nothing to gaining something like eight Councils. The Tories have been demolished into irrelevancy and Labour was at best disappointed.

All signs are pointing in the UK right now towards us having a Trump-style government in four years time. Hopefully Labour can get their finger out in that time and repair things. The big one to watch will be the Scottish and Welsh elections next year. Farage almost certainly won't win Scotland because they passionately hate the man for Brexit, but Wales is a different story as they voted to Leave the EU back in 2016.

The truth of the matter is that the UK and the US are alike in many ways. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it isn't.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Unfortunately, one thing we have in common is that neither party has a great track record with trans rights. The best I can say is that Democrats are in the "frequently willing to throw trans people under the bus" category compared with Labour's "Actively seeking to eradicate trans people from all arenas of public life".

[Madner Kami]

Unfortunately, one thing we have in common is that neither party has a great track record with trans rights. The best I can say is that Democrats are in the "frequently willing to throw trans people under the bus" category compared with Labour's "Actively seeking to eradicate trans people from all arenas of public life".

There's good reason for why us Europeans consider your political system to be a one-party state, lead by a party consisting of two right wings. The Democrats are, by european standards, best described as socially conservative. They certainly have their good moments (hey, even Germany's CDU opted to legalize gay-marriage), but if in doubt, rather than reconsidering their position, they'd always take a goose-step to the right.

All signs are pointing in the UK right now towards us having a Trump-style government in four years time. Hopefully Labour can get their finger out in that time and repair things. The big one to watch will be the Scottish and Welsh elections next year. Farage almost certainly won't win Scotland because they passionately hate the man for Brexit, but Wales is a different story as they voted to Leave the EU back in 2016.

Same here in Germany. Overall, people made a vote against far right extremism, but unfortunately largely elected a party that made a lot of goose-steps to the right in the past and positioned itself to do more of those in the future. Worse yet, that same party is known to actively make things worse in that regard. We had Kohl, we had Merkel, now we get Merz. More of the same. Best case: Complete stillstand. Likely case: Slow slip to the right. The SPD is a wet blanket that forgot it's an at least nominally left party 20 years ago under Schröder, so they won't help much to temper things in the third "Big Coalition". As if third iterations of the same thing ever was a good thing in Germany. Either way, both the stillstanding and the slow slip to the right will lead to the exact same thing: Further polarization and a trend towards the right. I predict the AfD at 30-35% in four years, with a CDU as the junior-partner. Funtimes.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Unfortunately, one thing we have in common is that neither party has a great track record with trans rights. The best I can say is that Democrats are in the "frequently willing to throw trans people under the bus" category compared with Labour's "Actively seeking to eradicate trans people from all arenas of public life".

There's good reason for why us Europeans consider your political system to be a one-party state, lead by a party consisting of two right wings. The Democrats are, by european standards, best described as socially conservative. They certainly have their good moments (hey, even Germany's CDU opted to legalize gay-marriage), but if in doubt, rather than reconsidering their position, they'd always take a goose-step to the right.

No shit, Sherlock. I wouldn't piss on Chuck Shumer if he was on fire, but you don't see me crowing about it.

[hammerofglass]

Unfortunately, one thing we have in common is that neither party has a great track record with trans rights. The best I can say is that Democrats are in the "frequently willing to throw trans people under the bus" category compared with Labour's "Actively seeking to eradicate trans people from all arenas of public life".

There's good reason for why us Europeans consider your political system to be a one-party state, lead by a party consisting of two right wings. The Democrats are, by european standards, best described as socially conservative. They certainly have their good moments (hey, even Germany's CDU opted to legalize gay-marriage), but if in doubt, rather than reconsidering their position, they'd always take a goose-step to the right.

No shit, Sherlock. I wouldn't piss on Chuck Shumer if he was on fire, but you don't see me crowing about it.

Just as an Upstate New York resident I've gotta say, hating Schumer has been something that unites people of both parties for basically his whole political career. He's the very model of an empty suit politician kept in place purely by institutional inertia.

[ProfessorDetective]

"Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

First he angered GamersTM, now he goes after the weebs... And possibly US productions that do any location shooting?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ign-movies

[m4a2000]

"Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

First he angered GamersTM, now he goes after the weebs... And possibly US productions that do any location shooting?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ign-movies

If this impacts anime I don't know what that will do to some fans.

That joke aside something like this would cripple some online services I think. Heck expand this to TV, which it might be, and all those shows filled in BC are going to have a bad time.