President Zelensky suggests Trump's election can strongly affect war.
The result of the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election can "very strongly" influence the course of Russia's war against Ukraine, President Zelensky said during a press conference on Dec. 19.
As GOP voters seem increasingly “meh” on culture war rhetoric, it’s bad news for the politician who has most publicly positioned himself as an anti-woke warrior.
McConnell: Border talks not done, quick vote would ‘not succeed’
There is a “lot of very technical work on drafting which takes time to get right,” McConnell wrote in a note to Republican senators. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA#Biden
"Why is the US far right finding its savior in Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?" by Jason Wilson (#TheGuardian)
"Some US far-right figures have made renewed attempts to rehabilitate the 20th century Spanish dictator Gen Francisco Franco in recent months, praising him as an avatar of religious authoritarianism, and praising his actions during and after the Spanish civil war as a model for confronting the left in the US."
"The critics of this flurry of neo-Francoism say that the real target of this revisionism is domestic attitudes to US democracy."
"For Faber, parts of the the American right are captured by “the dream of order, where social order is more important than democracy, and democracy is a threat to social order”."
It doesn’t surprise me. Probably the same crowd that praises the “Chilean Miracle” and thinks that “Pinochet did nothing wrong.”
I also don’t doubt that the idea of summary executions (a mainstay of Franco even years after winning the war) secretly appeals to them. Such an efficient way to purify society.
Unfortunately, the idea of a society that must be "pure" (in its various variants) is very attractive to those people who seek above all Order and Hierarchy.
Seriously, what really grinds my fucking gears is how Americans — especially American politicians — will refuse to see misery and suffering around the world as anything but in reference to #USA.
Israel-Palestine, the Rohingya crisis, the Yemeni crisis, Iranian state violence, Russia's genocide against Ukraine, Kashmir, and so on — these aren't fucking games.
Not everything revolves around your stupid, annoying, irritating elections. Learn to speak for yourselves and not in or as the tongues of your ̶c̶u̶l̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶ favourite politicians. Practice universal empathy for all loss of life.
"These are real-world political issues, yet they have a stereotypically recognizable form and a predictable narrative content.
They in their turn also produce predictable reactions from public and politicians.
It is as if under cue that the public becomes outraged by some events and utterances, and worried, sending their ‘thoughts and prayers’ during other events.
At certain stages of the script, politicians feel compelled, or a proper tone requires them to express their opinion, while specialists are urged to explain the contents of the issue at hand (Thunström and Noy 2019).
There is thus a certain choreography to how asocial drama is being performed and mediated in the public sphere. The characters and circumstances in these social dramas change, but the plot and the performance remain schematic and stereotypical."
@academicchatter@politicalscience This paper DEAD-ON describes America, its politicians, its media, its coverage of international crises, and EVEN how its politically charged public (especially public figures, officials, and so on) RESPOND TO CRISES.
You can then imagine just how fucking frustrating it is to watch them treat us all like cartoon characters and TV show co-protagonists/antagonists. I'm not exaggerating, there is actual discourse into this phenomenon.
GOP speaker nominee Mike Johnson played a key role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election
Johnson, the latest Republican nominee for House speaker, led an amicus brief in support of a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory in four battleground states. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA#Trump#MAGA#Republicans
Kevin McCarthy floats proposal to return him to power and make Jim Jordan assistant House speaker
McCarthy was ousted as speaker this month, and Jordan later failed three times on the House floor to secure the votes needed to win. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA
GOP speaker chaos: 9 Republicans will battle for top post
Each candidate faces the near-impossible task of succeeding in both an internal vote and then a tricky floor vote. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA