American Politics from 2019 on

[JimC]

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/ ... /106374092

Arab and Muslim nations have strongly condemned comments made by the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Mr Huckabee suggested Israel could claim a biblical right to territory beyond its borders in the Middle East.
The foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine labelled the comments "dangerous and inflammatory".

A sop to the fundamentalists within MAGA?

[Brian Peacock]

Not sure about that given the "Jews will not replace us" sentiments of the US right. Seems more like a declaration of support for the governors of a colonial outpost.

[Tero]

The US will return to somewhat more normal behavior after Trump. Years pass and the academics will have to make documentaries with interviews from this era. Otherwise future college students will not believe the size (30-40 million) of hard core Trump supporters. Trump was able to express what theu thought, but throwing in phrases that were code, like DEI. The reader of that future text book on politics (political histroy has little shelf space in bookstore, only ethnic and minority writers hava a section) will lose interest in 2 pages. You have to put in some terrible things that can be proven. Otherwise it all gets lumped as conspiracy.

[Tero]

Wealth

"The Federal Reserve, for example, found that by the third quarter of 2025, the share of total wealth held by the top 0.1 percent had grown to 14.4 percent from 8.6 percent in 1989. The share owned by those in the remaining part of the 1 percent grew to 17.3 from 14.2 percent."

"This is not about the proverbial pie getting much bigger. Those gains at the top have been at the expense of everyone below."

so the 1% owns 17% plus 14%
NYT Thomas B. Edsall

[Tero]

hstrandtandrews
21h
It’s the same mindset as the old Russian joke:
There once were two poor farmers, living side by side. Each poor farmer was barely scraping by, & each had an old cow.
One day, one of the farmers’ cows just gave up and died. The poor farmer raised his eyes to Heaven & pleaded with God to send help.
God said, “I have heard your pleas. How can I help? Perhaps another cow, to bring you better fortune.”
Poor Farmer: “I want you to kill my neighbor’s cow.
And this pretty much sums up MAGA.

[Tero]

Holy F**K!! A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to user in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming.

https://www.rawstory.com/military-2675544403/
https://www.threads.com/@deanobeidallah ... ZDK&slof=1

[Tero]

Graham Platner Isn’t Going Away, No Matter How Many Nazi Gaffes He Makes
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/g ... -he-makes/

Could the Maine Senate race determine the future of the Democratic party?
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/10/17 ... lins-maine

evemgold
4d
Replying to @dnmeinster
Who in a democratic primary has a Nazi tattoo?? Some context would be nice here.
adamdean18
4d
Graham Plattner who’s running in the democratic primary for senate in Maine. Got a Nazi tattoo on shore leave when he was in the Marines somewhere over in Eastern Europe iirc. Didn’t get it covered up until it came out last year it was a Nazi tattoo.

Maine primary is June 9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Unit ... n_in_Maine