I would honestly support this historical reenactment

DOGE aide:

conflict deeze nuts lololol

Given how they’re fucking with the electoral mechanics and bureaucracies, I’m honestly becoming pretty convinced that they have no real intention of allowing free and fair elections to ever occur in this country again.

Vive la resistance, I guess? :(

While that may be the statistical correlation, it’s not true as a blanket statement

I think you’d be surprised how many of them did

I hope all the zoomer dudes who voted for orangeboi enjoy this delightful financial punch in the dick

I’d love for any military officer involved with this to explain why this isn’t a flagrant violation of the Posse Comitatus Act

That’s what we needed to do with the Republican Party. They’re one and the same at this point.

Letterkenny and Shoresy are great fucking shows. Fight me; see what happens.

I know exactly what the RTO mandates are about.

My point is that I don’t care, and it’s not my problem, and I ca. elucidate specific ways in which it makes my job harder as a data pipeline engineer.

It’s a fucking dumb requirement, and it’s a particularly fucking dumb requirement for my particular job role.

As an American, I’d like to say “I’m sorry that we have inflicted this Orange Buffon on the world. TWICE.”

Hey Israel, how’s that Lebensraum coming along?

In light of this, Carney really should just walk into the Oval Office, say “fuck you, eh?” and then walk out.

I’m being entirely serious. Orangeboi wants to play hardball? Play hardball.

I say this as an American.

Which, as a salaried engineer, is the stupidest fucking thing ever, and something I’ve dealt with over the vast majority of my career. You pay me to solve problems, not warm a chair and look over my shoulder. If you give me stupid metrics to hit (coughRTO metricscough), I’m going to maliciously comply and hit them in a stupid way that you won’t like, but that still abides by the rules and regs. If you are the problem, I will solve you.

I think it’s low key telegraphing “I do not care about pissing off constituents anymore because I have a firm control on all the electoral machinery now”

Hope the baffling subset of gen Z dudes who voted for him thoroughly enjoy this punch in the dick

I mean, nominally, they don’t; it’s a legacy of the Cold War. But instead of drawing things down after the USSR fell, Russia held on to thousands and thousands of them, and the US felt it would be irresponsible to allow such a clear imbalance of power with a recent foe… that turned into a current foe. And China, being a neighbor of Russia, and also now a pretty clear adversary of the US, wasn’t about to let themselves get outpaced by strategic rivals either.

There was an opportunity in the 90s to just calm things down a ton, but that came and went.

TL;DR: a sound modern nuclear policy for a reasonably wealthy country is to have a reasonable enough number of weapons deployable via at least two vectors (one as sub-launched, if possible) to serve as a credible and ironclad second-strike force. That is the backstop that’ll keep your borders and sovereignty safe in the long run.

The problem that’s arising now is that all of the major nuclear powers (UK and France aren’t really “major”) are now run by authoritarian regimes. The obvious implication is that there’s a sharply increased risk that they’ll decide to start using nukes to get what they want, and that they’ll all be more or less on the same side.

The rest of the world DOES need to seriously start exploring nuclear arms programs. The complete and total abrogation of the Budapest Memorandum (flagrantly by Russia via invasion; passively by the US and UK for not doing much of anything in response to Russia invading in 2014, and not providing more direct and overt support in 2022) has laid bare that the security agreements therein were worth less than the paper it was signed on.

Our failure to do ANYTHING meaningful to defend Ukraine when they gave up thousands of Soviet nukes in the wake of the fall of the USSR has made it painfully clear that nuclear proliferation is coming back in a big way, by simple virtue of the fact that they are clearly the final word in terms of guaranteeing a country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Russia would absolutely not have invaded Ukraine if one of the possible consequences was “Moscow and St Petersburg get turned to glass”.