And election campaigns only last a few weeks as opposed to the seemingly constant campaign in the US.

And parties publish manifestos with their positions on everything, as opposed to what both major parties are currently doing.

And it’s been in the news for almost a year, this article from January mentions it, in the context of the dangers of a next Trump presidency.

It’s being mentioned more now because the Democrats decided they should actually do some messaging on this instead of their usual messaging incompetence, and they’ve been at it for months as well.

What do you mean? It’s everywhere.

This is where you got him with something like: “This is a man who would rather believe made up stuff on TV than the actual officials in charge. You don’t want someone who can’t tell fact from fiction in the white house again.”

Isn’t that basically the point of the extension? Making sure you’re not tricked into watching BS content?

Pretty sure there’s nothing left to sanction. The US has gotten to the point where they’ve sanctioned so many countries that they’re building a parallel economy outside of the US dollar.

He’s been successful so far in executing his plan. The supreme court locked in for pretty much a generation, legalised corruption, made abortion illegal in some states again, etc. And it’s basically a coin flip whether he can do more after the election because somehow it’s a close election between Trump + project 2025 and the alternative.

These guys are dangerous, and shouldn’t be dismissed as delusional.

Yes, as I said, to initiate conflict.

Also, you can just mail speeding fines to people, there’s no reason to pull anyone over for that shit except to initiate a conflict.

Not in denial, I’m sure he knows exactly how much power he has. They just have to keep playing the victim to keep their base afraid enough to keep voting their way.

This might actually be one of the few things AI could be used for. ChatGPT could download the transcript and just build a short summary.

Although chances are you’re just replacing one shitty thing with a different shitty thing.

Only took them 10 months to start pushing back slightly on genocide.

And Reagan was a criminal as well. He just got Ollie North to take the fall and leaned into his dementia to play the poor victim.

That’s been really the biggest issue with the media, the inability to just call out liars. And not just that, people that have been consistently wrong keep getting invited back to give their opinions.

None of the people that lied about Iraq WMD’s for example should ever been given a platform again, but yet, there they are, pushing for the next conflict. Same with economics, everyone that said Obama was going to do a communism should be shunned forever.

Isn’t safe storage part of gun safety?

And that was the case in 2016. It’s a known quantity.

The more likely scenario is that some staffer used Google translate, and thought that Latin means the language of the Latinos.

Trump invited him to Mar a Lago as a dinner guest one night and never explained/apologised for having a Nazi over for dinner, something that would kill any politician’s career, except of course for Trump.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Sure, people will spin up their own instance and run it according to their own biases, but I don’t see Russia or Israel or whomever running bots specifically to push things one way or another like they do with Twitter, Facebook or Reddit.

Yeah, why the hell is OP using SMS?