It’s not going to hurt any less than what they’re doing nowadays with the government “working”. Hell, might even be better. ICE will stop getting their paychecks, too.

Of course, that all assumes that eel-on-musk didn’t get one of his wish.com wünderkinds to install a backdoor in the fucking treasury department a few weeks ago.

I gave him a lot of benefit of the doubt for a long while, but it’s clear he’s changed, in a bad direction, and he both refuses to seek help or acknowledge it.

You just gotta be big enough that you can buy enough people. FAANG is there (though this is Wild West politics nowadays so who the fuck knows what’s gonna happen). But when you own the people writing the laws to control you… they’re not controlling you.

He’s such a shithead. I’m kinda over giving him leeway for his TBI. There should absolutely be provisions for a recall elections in cases like this.

Fuck yeah.

Frankly, I see very little functional difference between shutting the government down and letting the government continue to “function”, where “function” is here defined as “tear itself apart using its own goddamn funding and funnel even more of our tax money towards billionaires”.

It’s not even valid to compare this to previous bullshit funding showdowns that the GOP has instigated, because the choice at that time was shutting the government down, or allowing itself to continue to function (traditional definition) as intended. The situation is completely unrelated, save for the fact that there’s a showdown.

And, now that I mention it: Fuck you, news networks, for not making it crystal clear to the public that this is, in fact, a brand new situation, despite the fact that some of us have heard the words they’re saying in a similar order before.

Honestly? I see a U-turn on that project in the future - especially if DCNS can get their shit together (one of the reasons for the pivot was a TON cost and time overruns and some pretty significant data leaks) or they pivot to another manufacturer / maybe make it a joint European project or something like that. And make them nukes, because that frankly works way better for Australia’s geography, geopolitics, and use cases.

Honestly, if I had done something like this and they twigged to it, I’d consider just fucking off and joining the French foreign legion.

Thank fucking god.

You’re not the audience Zelenskyy is speaking to. He’s speaking primarily to an audience of one. The audience is Trump.

The spectators (i.e. the rest of Europe) are also watching this and observing that Zelenskyy is still doing his best to follow proper geopolitical and diplomatic form, and will probably continue to strengthen their support for Ukraine when orangeboi inevitably fucks them over again.

And in other good news Duterte was recently arrested by the ICC and will apparently be facing charges of crimes against humanity. It’s a step in the right direction, at least.

American here. I support this. My countrymen - and the problematic ones are predominantly men - aren’t gonna learn anything unless they’re subjected to some serious trauma - economic, financial, epidemiological, you name it. There are a whole fucking lot of willful, intentional idiots over here (in addition to the, maliciously, sociopathically evil ones)

10/10. No notes.

lol I’m so exited for these to flame out hard

I am pointing and laughing at anyone who voted for this and is now being hurt by it. I have zero sympathy. Absolutely none whatsoever. It’s a sociological Darwin Award, more or less.

I mean… I think orangeboi’s idea to take Greenland of your hands is an altogether idiotic idea from our end, but if that’s the way you feel, he’ll be more than happy to grab it from you, and possession is 9/10 of the law - probably a damn sight more in the context of geopolitics, particularly given his and Putin’s worldview.

If crossing the Netherlands and Denmark up isn’t emblematically American, I don’t know what is 🫠

lol yeah this is only going to speed up the free-fall of the stock price