US deliberately orchestrated Zelensky-Trump Oval Office clash, Friedrich Merz says
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Its weird now, because there used to be political theatre carried out by world leaders for the benefit of the pleb voters (us). Now it really feels like the world leaders are performing this theatre for trump. Like he's a toddler and out of the loop, so the adults are doing their thing without him.
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Zelenski has the patience of a demigod for not slapping the shit out of Vance.
He handled the no-win situation as best as he could; I hope it raises Europe's will to back Ukraine since it was obvious how he was ambushed by a supposed ally.
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Did you read that straight from your handler or trying to earn some over time pay on your own comrade?
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It was like an episode of Veep except more obnoxious.
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Some 60% of Americans feel that what Zelenskyy said was 'offensive'.
We're fucked on a societal level.
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The dude literally invited Russian state media and said “this will be great TV”.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but…
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https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-rigged-donald-trump-elon-musk-2019482
https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-voting-custodio-elections-philadelphia-f8a6453dc9e211ef20e9412d003511b1
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/voting-experts-warn-of-serious-threats-for-2024-from-election-equipment-software-breaches
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436etc etc. There's a lot of stuff parroting the company line of 'Oh, well starlink couldn't have done anything to change the vote, these machines aren't online!'
Except we already know they're vulnerable, we already know that if you get into one of the machines, you can spread the malicious to code to offline machines, we know that secure USBs and drives WERE stolen and modified, we know they're online despite countless claims they aren't, we know they were going through starlink, and (while i was no longer able to find proof of it, because they went through and scrubbed their resumes, work history, online presence) last I saw at least one of the DOGE team goons was part of a research group for voting machines. Admittedly, I can no longer find the proof of that, so you may take that as you wish.
Fact is though, computer and security scientists have been desperately crying out for years that these machines are compromised in ways that do not get caught by standard checks.
Finally, saying something is 'within polling error' is kind of a red flag in and of itself, in my opinion- the polling was HEAVILY democrat, prior to the vote, and the dropoff was absolutely not what we have ever seen before.
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https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-rigged-donald-trump-elon-musk-2019482
https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-voting-custodio-elections-philadelphia-f8a6453dc9e211ef20e9412d003511b1
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/voting-experts-warn-of-serious-threats-for-2024-from-election-equipment-software-breaches
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436etc etc. There's a lot of stuff parroting the company line of 'Oh, well starlink couldn't have done anything to change the vote, these machines aren't online!'
Except we already know they're vulnerable, we already know that if you get into one of the machines, you can spread the malicious to code to offline machines, we know that secure USBs and drives WERE stolen and modified, we know they're online despite countless claims they aren't, we know they were going through starlink, and (while i was no longer able to find proof of it, because they went through and scrubbed their resumes, work history, online presence) last I saw at least one of the DOGE team goons was part of a research group for voting machines. Admittedly, I can no longer find the proof of that, so you may take that as you wish.
Fact is though, computer and security scientists have been desperately crying out for years that these machines are compromised in ways that do not get caught by standard checks.
(sorry for the copy paste, but yeah. This isn't even touching the literal known billions spent on voter suppression, gerrymandering, advertising, concerted media sanewashing, etc etc.)
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I blame the couch for that
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Poland and the baltics would like to have a word.
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It's a known tactic that has got its own meme.
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... for the second time.
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how low do we have to go before everyone wakes up and sees this orange shitstain for what he is?
"It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled." - Mark Twain
We have our work cut out for us when dealing with republicans.
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His faithful MAGAts are probably waiting for him to tell other elected world leaders that they're fired. Just because it'll be funny to hear him say his catchphrase in his weird little voice. And that's as seriously as they'll take it until the lights go out and it's blighted poultry rations for dinner again.
Rotten state of things.
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No shit. They sat him down like a naughty schoolboy and took turns berating him into selling half his country to the yanks for no guarantees on stopping the Russians.
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"hello fellow human female, I require a dozen of you confectionary,manufactured wheat based breads in the shape of a doughnuts, we require for human consumption"
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With the growing anti-intellectualism in the US, scientists and would be stem would have to go to other countries for their research opportunities, it's already bad that you have to chase grant money in the US for research, and there is very little support for undergrads to become scientist in general, other than "hope you can find wet lab work somewhere".
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Getting a script right from RT via Putin no doubt on what to say
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Where do those numbers come from? I can't find any source.
But I did find that 46% think no one won the exchange, perhaps unsurprisingly strongly split along party lines
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5173356-trump-zelensky-meeting-poll/
