US 2024 Presidential Election

[Hades]

Another day another instance of the complete vermin in the White House making clear they despise us, and that they want to betray us and do us harm.

The governments, the GOVERNMENT'S memo actively calls for fostering internal resistance against Europe, and that WE not they are the dangers to democracy and at risk of civelisational collapse. Us, the actual shining city on the hill, and not them where the filth did an actual coup to crown Trump president and where they want to replace civilisation with Russia style barbarity. That the American electorate is inbred enough to replace democracy with Russian styled barbarism is their problem, but they should leave us the fuck alone. Right now we're not allies with those freaks. They're filth, they''re vermin and they are our direct enemy.

I don't even care how. The disgusting vermin must be dealt with before they can abuse their position to do Europe harm and drag us to their barbaric level. Be it impeachment, a coup or a Luigi. Just stamp the vermin out. They want us destroyed and I completely return the sentiment.

The US Security Strategy, published by the White House, speaks of the “risk of the disappearance of European civilization” in the context of an alleged “undermining of political freedom by the EU”. At the same time, the American administration asks whether some European states will “find their place again” in NATO if, in the coming decades, they become, through migration, “majority non-European”.

The Trump administration has released its National Security Strategy, a document that is usually unique to a presidential term and serves as an official statement of the United States' global priorities and intentions. This time, the Strategy states that the deployment of US forces in the Western Hemisphere (in the Caribbean and South America) is not temporary, but rather permanent, and that this will be the priority of the US administration.

The chapter on relations with Europe is only two pages long, and although it seems to emphasize some strategic importance that the US will give to the transatlantic link, it speaks of "a civilizational decline," suggesting that migration and EU policies could lead to the risk of the disappearance of European civilization.

“The economic decline is eclipsed by the real and even harsher prospect of the erasure of [nr – European] civilization. Among the great problems facing Europe are the activities

of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political freedom and sovereignty, migration policies that transform the continent and create conflicts, censorship of freedom of expression and suppression of political opposition, declining birth rates and the loss of national identities and self-confidence” .

Apparently, Americans are dissatisfied with the European effort to rein in far-right parties , described as "truly patriotic", notes that many European governments are minority and unstable , because they would "trample on the basic principles of democracy, to undermine the opposition" and suggests that migration will cause some European countries to no longer have "a majority European population" which would question their place in NATO:

"In the long term, it is more than plausible that, within a few decades at most, certain NATO member states will become predominantly non-European. As such, it is an open question whether these countries will find their place in the world or in the alliance with the United States in the same way described in the NATO Charter."

Although the strategy states that it is in the fundamental interest of the United States to negotiate a rapid end to the war in Ukraine and mitigate the risk of Russia's confrontation with other states in Europe, it notes that " the Trump Administration is at odds with European officials, who have unrealistic expectations."

Regarding China, the US wants to prevent a possible war in the Indo-Pacific, and specifically talks about preserving the current status of the Taiwan Strait, which could suggest that America could intervene to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China.

 

[Agema]

"certain NATO member states will become predominantly non-European."

What they mean is non-white. But they're not going to say so because most racists are still too chickenshit to come right out and admit it.

"Regarding China, the US wants to prevent a possible war in the Indo-Pacific, and specifically talks about preserving the current status of the Taiwan Strait, which could suggest that America could intervene to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China."

Fluff and nonsense. The USA wants to "prevent a possible war" because if one kicks off, it's not willing to fight it and so it (its allies, more strictly) will lose. Trump is heralding is a delaying action, gradually conceding the Pacific Rim with a managed withdrawal. That's an attractive option to China because although China will achieve its policy aims of regional supremacy slower, it avoids (as much) military confrontation.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[tippy2k2]

I can excuse the Gestapo and War Crimes and Discrimination and Corruption and

But THIS?!?!?!


This is fucking treason!!!!

 

[Chimpzy]

I can excuse the Gestapo and War Crimes and Discrimination and Corruption and

But THIS?!?!?!


This is fucking treason!!!!

Eh, fuck it. Do it! Make it law even.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I can excuse the Gestapo and War Crimes and Discrimination and Corruption and

But THIS?!?!?!


This is fucking treason!!!!

This couldn't possibly have anything to do with FIFA giving Trump their very first oh-so-special peace prize, could it?

Perish the thought that the leader of the free world is so easily swayed oh who am I kidding the asshole is as flighty as a helium-filled hummingbird.

 

[meiam]

Eh, fuck it. Do it! Make it law even.

After gulf of america, american football for soccer.

 

[thebobmaster]

 

[Chimpzy]

After gulf of america, american football for soccer.

Yes, brilliant! Renaming soccer into American football is the ideal solution. Trump, get on that executive order!

 

[Agema]

This couldn't possibly have anything to do with FIFA giving Trump their very first oh-so-special peace prize, could it?

Remember guys: keep politics out of sports!

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FIFA makes a loss three years out of four. The year it makes a profit is World Cup year.

As a result, FIFA is geared to maximising revenue in that year, and the way to maximise revenue is to screw every last dollar out of the host country. Of course they want the World Cup hosted by countries desperate to sportswash their tyrannical regimes: because those countries are most likely to give them colossal tax breaks and other gifts that maximise revenues. Of course they want to hand it to the worlds largest (in nominal GDP) economy every year they don't hand it to a human rights-abusing petrostate, and bribe its president into similarly friendly measures. And don't forget: if there's one type of person that corrupt, authoritarian narcissists have an affinity for, it's other corrupt, authoritarian narcissists.

This is the genuinely hilarious thing about FIFA. They were famed for massive corruption and got done for massive corruption a few years ago with multiple heads rolling, and they just leaned even harder into corruption. All the institutional vulnerabilities to corruption it had then have been made worse: because that's helps it make money. Ironically, it was US pressure that drove Swiss authorities to intervene in FIFA's bad habits last time. Infantino has surely realised the importance of bribing the man with ultimate authority over the DoJ.

 

[tstorm823]

I mean, football is a silly word, and gridiron sounds way cooler anyway.

 

[Hades]

Its kinda amazing, but not unsurprising that Infantino gave Trump a bogus ''peace prize'' for his efforts to legitimize and legalize war in Europe, and his scheming to have Russia invade us a second time.

 

[BrawlMan]

Fuck you Trump. You can't actually get rid of those days within people's hearts. Especially my people, you fuckwad, ass fuck, dipshit.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

But he's not racist, folks! He just wants to erase the celebration of black people and replace it with celebration of himself.

 

[Hades]

Tump being racist with the holidays and celebrations is bad of course, but its peanuts between him and his fellow vermin scheming to topple his European allies and force Russian style barbarism on us.

I kinda wish the US public would put the focus on that one. I'm mostly noticing a lot of silence and apathy. Oh perhaps plenty find it bad, but they don't view it as the existential scenario, and downright treason that it truly is.

 

[Bedinsis]

I mean, football is a silly word, and gridiron sounds way cooler anyway.

Not for the sport that the majority of the world calls football. It's a game where feet interact with balls. Quite descriptive.

I contextualize this news item with another news item that occurred recently: the prices to national parks will increase for non-US citizens. The image I get is that it is hard to enact any big changes as president without approval of the rest of the government, so therefore he enacts the changes that won't have much resistance. The changing of national parks' policies seems to be one of the things that is easier to enact; that is not some big systemic change.

 

[tstorm823]

Not for the sport that the majority of the world calls football. It's a game where feet interact with balls. Quite descriptive.

And ice hockey is a game where a stick interacts with a puck. This, we shall call is stickpuck.

 

[Chimpzy]

Not for the sport that the majority of the world calls football. It's a game where feet interact with balls. Quite descriptive.

Not sure we wanna define it like that. I can think of at least one other game where feet interact with balls. Tho I suppose that one is more play than game.

 

[Bedinsis]

And ice hockey is a game where a stick interacts with a puck. This, we shall call is stickpuck.

Had it been the widely accepted word for the sport noone would think it weird to call it stickpuck.

Not sure we wanna define it like that. I can think of at least one other game where feet interact with balls. Tho I suppose that one is more play than game.

Do tell.

 

[Chimpzy]

Had it been the widely accepted word for the sport noone would think it weird to call it stickpuck.

Do tell.

Well, the feet are bare and so are the two balls.