Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Latecomer  
What does that even mean? Your country is screwed.

By the way, for almost a month now Dems have been promising $2000 relief checks within the first week of Biden’s inauguration. The spent a whole lotta hullabaloo about it in order to win the Georgia runoffs.
 
Then they won the Georgia runoffs, and now it was $1400. And now we’re 8 days into the Biden administration and they still haven’t passed the $2000 $1400 relief.
 
Sounds about right.

@Dustcan  
Nice pun

@Background Pony #0DE7  
A lot of countries are screwed right now - we’re better than some and worse than others. Adding guns would push us more towards the latter.

@Dustcan  
The Democrats are just going to run the concept of “empty promises” as their next presidential candidate
 
Yes I stole this joke from the onion

 
Not sure which is better, the over-night millionaires sprung up over the tears of former billionaires, the unmasking of capitalism, or the memes from it all.
 
It’s the little guys getting a big break and the big guys going broke. That’s the best part.

@Background Pony #0DE7
 
That’s why I vehemently in favour of at-home abortion kits being sold in supermarkets (alongside machine guns). That way, you’re whole “state providing murder” BS is sidestepped.

@Latecomer  
How do you know? Things are worse in the UK now than they were back in the day, when you were more heavily armed society. Countries are never fucked because of guns, they are fucked because their useless governments have destroyed them. No one shouldn’t be allowed to defend themselves.
 
@Ebalosus  
The state allowing home abortion kids to be sold is still the state allowing murder.

I wonder where all the MAGA’s are gonna go from here.
 
They said fuck you to the old GOP as a whole on Jan 6th so it’s gonna make them look pathetic if they crawl back to resume supporting them and they’d sooner die than support the Democrats.
 
They’re kinda stuck.

@Ebalosus  
@Dustcan  
I will say that there is a case to be made that all the pumping could lead more than a few folks hurt. Regardless, in this case my stance is burn the rich. They have them scared and whining about social justice as a cover like normal And preventing big tech and wall street from gaining more power is a win win.
 
The only thing that team wallstreets bets/populist left/populist right/gamers/who else supports this needs to do is be truly constructive with it and make a deal out of buying things at Gamestop so it’ll truely be robbing hedge funds and saving jobs. Same for any other targets chosen. Pumping stocks like AMC doesn’t make as much sense with COVID at the moment with this strategy however.
 
@CaptainXtra  
Nah, they are still going to try to wrestle for control of the GOP

@Background Pony #0DE7  
I’m pretty sure we’re worse for a lot of reasons guns wouldn’t solve at all - like Brexit.

@Dustcan  
HA. Karma’s a b###h.

@Background Pony #F752
 
He still trying! And himself!

@Background Pony #F752  
Three whole weeks ago. Come off it, lady. We need to move on. For unity.

@Background Pony #F752  
That was so three weeks ago. We need unity.

Democracy is failing in the middle east, many long for a return to strong leaders. China is seen as the new role model. Read an interview with a young woman from Libanon, saying democracy is not compatible with their culture amidst the regions ongoing massive brain drain. We must hedge around our freedoms it seems, the west is a very special and fragile place in the world today.
 
No point in linking to a norwegian interview, but here is a big survey about this and other topics for anyone interested: Site with PDF

@silbasa  
“Democracy is failing in the Middle East”
 
…yea, no shit. Maybe we should stop giving weapons to Saudi Arabia and making shit worse there. See, this is why we can’t have nice things!

Just when I thought the far-right couldn’t get any dumber…fire starting Jewish space laser.
 
 
Can we just fire that bitch. Preferably out of a large cannon, into a wall at subsonic speeds.

@Zincy  
A space laser? What is this? Austin Powers?

@Dustcan  
They have no intentions of getting any of that done quickly. When it finally passed it will probably be $1200, get passed in April, and half the people won’t actually get it til May.
 
I know people, who have no income whatsoever btw, who won’t be getting their $600 for a couple more weeks still, according to the IRS.

@Zincy  
.. ok i need to hear abut this “jewish space laser”

‘Blame Trump’ defense emerges among Capitol riot suspects  
Wonderful.

@Zincy
 
I’m not sure if it’s worse that my first thought was “Marjorie Taylor Greene”, or that I was right that it was the Qanon nutjob.
 
 
@Background Pony #1F81
 
It’s as dumb as it sounds.

@Dustcan  
I sure feel sorry for her constituents. They must be really embarrassed. Now, I’ve got to go to a self-pity party.