Tom Clancy’s US Politics Thread

So it looks like the LHC actually reset the timeline. We had Hitler on meth at the 1936 Berlin games, so now we'll get Elon on Ket at the 2028 LA games.

These are all just waves on the surface. The real problems are wealth concentration and of course the fundamental problem of how we're destroying the ecosystem we live in. But these problems have gotten WAYYYYYY too big to even start thinking about. So we focus on immediate problems like house prices and petrol. But it doesn't matter that you can take the next two waves, when you're swimming away from the shore.

Exactly. Give the money and decisions to more local areas with minimal oversight just to stop the ridiculous things happening.

Take the decisions away from government, let them get the praise if they want.

Some other countries manage it, we aren’t special.

Yeah, you do actually need to know how to talk to regular people, in a way that isn't condescending. And preferably also doesn't require them to have a college degree to understand wtf you're saying.

Exactly like that. If you don’t give a fuck you can promise anything

If you wanted to put a pin in one issue as being the big one for why Harris lost all those swing states this is it for me.

Immigration and identity politics plays a part too but those are really the kind of hot button issues that motivate an existing base.

Realising your weekly shop is $50 more than it used to be and your pay hasn’t gone up in three years, that’s what kills an incumbent.

“Is your life better now than it was four years ago?”

Its such a perfect question to set off as a brainworm among the electorate if you’re an opposition candidate.

Big, strong men, with tears in their eyes, going up to him and saying "Sir", they say, "Sir, we've never seen human rights regressions as beautiful as yours, Sir"

It's also a bit fucked because people think "controlling inflation" means lowering prices, when what it really means is slowing down the rate by which prices increase. They still increase!

Everything has taught me that real world biology, physics and consequences do not apply to Donald J Trump.

Even if he's alive I'd imagine there's a good chance he'd have been 25th'd by then. Vance is younger, mentally fit, less of a loose cannon and still very much willing to push through all the legislation their handlers want, and having Trump around as a personality/figurehead isn't going to matter as much with the Congress sweep, SCOTUS support etc.

I could see the more level-headed cunts in the party wanting to be rid of him at some point before he croaks (maybe after two years to make sure it doesn't count as a term for Vance and sidestep the 22nd amendment), and assuming they don't go as far as abolishing term limits he can't be reelected anyway, so...

It’s like the weasel ‘GDP per Capita is rising’ metric the tories always tried to spin. If you take out the top 10% of earners, it’s actually falling for 90% of the population and people notice that (eventually)

I don't think that works in America where people actively try to deny the fact that it was built on slavery and the subjugation of minorities. Apparently pointing that out is err racist and makes kids ashamed to be white.

Doesn’t matter what I do, I cannot get the colour balance right 🤷