The US Presidential Election Thread

[Chadwiko]

The people who voted for him know exactly what they wanted and they're getting it.

Except they really don't.

For example, search trends for "what is a tariff" spiked massively in the last 30 days.

 

[Chadwiko]

They do. They wanted an aggressive take no crap Make America Great Again President who will treat other countries with contempt, and they've got it.

Thing is, liberalising trade with Canada and Mexico via NAFTA was hugely detrimental to so many Americans that the impacts of restoring barriers, well, does it matter to them?

NAFTA made food cheaper. It led to a marked reduction in childhood hunger.

Isolationism and protectionism is a terrible policy that doesn't work.

 

[Chadwiko]

Jesus. How did I know it’d be the Russians. It’s always the Russians.

Literally today;

 

[Val Keating]

Literally today;

Ok, so now you’re using Jackson Hinkle as a source?

Do you know much about him? You know he’s a grifter right?

 

[Chadwiko]

Ok, so now you’re using Jackson Hinkle as a source?

Do you know much about him? You know he’s a grifter right?

No I'm not using him as a "source".

I'm saying he's a pro-Russian, neo-nazi, anti-semite.

And the fact he's allowed on Russian state-TV and sings the praises of Michael Flynn (who was literally convicted for his involvements with Russia) and Tulsi Gabbard isn't a coincidence.

 

[Val Keating]

LOL

 

[bengrina]

why is devils chessboard thread locked?

Why would Israel agree to ceasefire with Hezbollah, what do they have to gain from it? Makes no sense to me?

 

[Bojan KantKick]

why is devils chessboard thread locked?

Why would Israel agree to ceasefire with Hezbollah, what do they have to gain from it? Makes no sense to me?

Israel has plenty to gain from a ceasefire. The IDF are being slaughtered and they can't be reinforced. Ceasefire allows Ben Gvir and his genocidal Nazi friends to start building more settlements on stolen land.

Ceasefires are temporary.

 

[Chadwiko]

why is devils chessboard thread locked?

Abuse.

Why would Israel agree to ceasefire with Hezbollah, what do they have to gain from it? Makes no sense to me?

There's arguments to be made (and it's up to you to decide how much weight you give them) that Israel entering into a ceasefire with Hezbollah further isolates and weakens Hamas.

Beyond that, reports are that Biden and the US were putting hard pressure on Netanyahu to not **** with Lebanon.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

My god what an idiot. I used to like AOC.. she couldn’t be any more wrong. Tulsi’s whole shtick is about stopping the US from getting involved in foreign wars.

AOC & Joy Reid are morons.



If the intelligence community were really worried about Tulsi Gabbard then they would kill her.

She's an anti war, war veteran. Another Democrat who has switched sides. Someone the Neocons despise.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

I think they’re going to use those new hypersonic missiles and not just one this time.

You know the one they used for the first time ever on the 21st of November as a direct response to the UK saying they would allow Ukraine to use NATO ATACMS? Yeah, more of those, hopefully not the ones that carry nuclear warheads though.

Maybe they will take a page out of the Americans book and use Nuclear weapons on a major city to end the war.

 

[Val Keating]

why is devils chessboard thread locked?

Why would Israel agree to ceasefire with Hezbollah, what do they have to gain from it? Makes no sense to me?

An opposition supporter came on to troll and I let them know what I thought of them.

I messaged with a mod and they’re just annoyed by the constant reporting that they have to deal with.

It’s ok, we’ll just use this one.

 

[Val Keating]

Maybe they will take a page out of the Americans book and use Nuclear weapons on a major city to end the war.

That wouldn’t just end the war, it would end the world as we know it.

 

[Val Keating]

why is devils chessboard thread locked?

Why would Israel agree to ceasefire with Hezbollah, what do they have to gain from it? Makes no sense to me?

Israel bombed Lebanon like 4 minutes after Biden released the statement about a ceasefire…

 

[Bojan KantKick]

That wouldn’t just end the war, it would end the world as we know it.

It's amazing how little the Neocons care about this. They just keep prodding.

 

[Val Keating]

Lol nah, London, Paris and Washington aren't going to sacrifice themselves for Kyiv or Lwow.

But if Russia did use nukes, it'd be cut off by the rest of the countries it's sucking up to and trying to draw away from the US.

I hope you’re right.

That’s the only reason Russia might hold off, if China Ok’d it then we’re in trouble.

 

[DesertRoo]

Trump just appointed one of the authors of the great Barrington declaration as head of the NIH, just waiting for martin kulldorff now..

Jay Bhattacharya, prominent physician and economist, nominated by Trump for NIH director

Stanford-trained physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next director of the NIH.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Chadwiko]

Lol nah, London, Paris and Washington aren't going to sacrifice themselves for Kyiv or Lwow.

But if Russia did use nukes, it'd be cut off by the rest of the countries it's sucking up to and trying to draw away from the US.

I disagree with your assessment of the situation.

It's not a case of "sacrificing themselves for Kyiv".

Any country in the world these days that used nuclear weapons in an offensive / first strike manner like what is being hypothesised here in regards to Russia nuking Ukraine would be met with swift and total destruction by a coalition of essentially all major powers.

For my money, there's no chance that the other nuclear powers like the EU/UK/US or even China/India/Israel would allow the use of nuclear weapons to go unpunished. Such use of nuclear weapons would be the single most destablising action to the status-quo of the geopolitical stage in modern history - more than 9/11, more than Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and more than the collapse of the Soviet Union to name just a few comparisons.

To let it go unchecked would be acquiescing the world to the perpetrator.

For what it's worth, I do not think Russia is dumb enough to use nuclear weapons. Not over Ukraine. They know that doing so would be signing their own death warrant, and to use your terminology; they aren't about to sacrifice themselves over Kyiv.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

If Russia were to use nukes it would tell the other powers about it in advance.

 

[Chadwiko]

It's a moot point anyway because unlike the bloodthirsty Americans, the Russians are quite rational and wouldn't risk MAD or even have the stomach for nuking civilian cities.

Like the US did. Twice.

They're literally the only nuclear nation to threaten the use of nuclear weapons in the last... 40 years? 50 years? Since the Cuban missile crisis, perhaps?

And they've done it repeatedly.

This pedestal you put Russia on has no basis in reality.

 

[Chadwiko]

Ummm, you wear the flag of the only country to ever USE nuclear weapons as a fashion statement you nong.

First things first; hilarious you keep bringing up my shorts.

Secondly, I don't support the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Thirdly, that was 80 years ago.

You need to stop getting the logos of US sports franchises tattooed on yourself, thr ink has leaked into your brane

Ad hominem attacks are the sign of a strong argument, buddy. Keep it up.

 

[Chadwiko]

Threatening to use nukes is worse than actually using them lol

Hey you followed the ad hominem attacks up with a strawman argument!

Classic stuff.

(Literally no one said 'threatening to use nukes is worse than actually using them'. Stop inventing arguments).

 

[bengrina]

Do any of you work?

 

[Chadwiko]

Thing about the shorts is they'd actually be really cool on pretty much anyone apart from you

I love how you are ferbs and DR love to act like aggrieved victims whenever big bad Chad comes into this thread and disrupts your echo-chamber, but time and time again the only people to roll-out the personal attacks is you guys.

 

[Val Keating]

Do any of you work?

I’ve been stuck at home with COVID. Back working tomorrow though