General Politics Discussion (IX) [ARCHIVED] • Page 618

I think Washington

 

she probably forgot to mention their white hoods and police badges.

 

Manchin: [pulling on hot dog costume] "We have the responsibility to be the adults"

 

there's a non-zero possibility my country will be without a government again within a week lol

the state department just raided our chancellor's office, his party headquarters and our treasury department and they found evidence of bribery and corruption

Austrian chancellor under investigation over alleged misuse of funds

 

Cool, lock them up.

 

lol the House will do exactly nothing to punish them for defying the subpoenas

 

What are the legal ramifications of ignoring a subpoena?

 

If they had the guts to do it, they could have them arrested and thrown in jail until they agree to comply. But they don't, so they won't.

 

Get absolutely fucked with that last line especially.

 

I'm going to steal the trillion dollar coin

 

Everything is fake

 

That racist audio story has been all over the Virginia discussions lately with basically nothing happening. So disgusting.

 

Also nailed GG

"
While there are commonalities, gender-critical gay men in the U.S. have a disctinct flavor. “GC gay men in the U.S. tend to be part of what I'd call a kind of anti-identitarian scene where everyone sees identity as a kind of red herring of politics — a distraction from things that actually matter,” explains P.E Moskowitz, a writer based in New York. “From what I've seen, transness is posed as this newfangled identity that takes too much energy to uphold and demands too much out of movements. Worst of all, it's kind of cringe to them, because it requires sincerity, and I think sincerity is the scariest thing to these people. "