Tales from Uh-merica

Not bad but it’s no Mini Cooper S

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0.3694 metric Astras.

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From the New York Times International, Friday April 3rd 2026.
US journalism in action.

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The optimist in me would hope they are trying to get the public onside with NATO by pitching it as a “home” thing.

But then again it is the NYT

It’s probably how they’ve always known it.

She’s not holding back :laughing:

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She’s from Alabama. The climate (with the weather on top) can be enough to drive you crazy there, and the front man says the young people are ‘terminally online’. I don’t think he means terminal in the sense of the DEC VT100 :face_with_raised_eyebrow:.

You Tube channels are as polarised as the rest of the US.
The only real indicator of public opinion will be the Midterm elections in November.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested.
Republicans currently hold 218 seats while the Democrats have 213. There are 4 vacant seats due to deaths and resignations (the US does not have by elections)
Republicans have the majority in the Senate with 53 seats to the Democrats’ 47 seats, including two independents who vote with the Democrats.

it won’t take much to flip both the House and the Senate despite Trump trying to redraw voting district maps and introducing stricter ‘in person’ voting regulations.

Trump is then a ‘Lame Duck’ President for the next two years and much of his power is curtailed.

Trump does still ‘control’ the Supreme Court, but if they stop supporting his ‘Executive Orders’ he is done.

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The House I can see going over; the Senate is a little more involved.
It’s tied to the map, not the mood… and that map is weighted toward traditional Republican states, smaller and more rural, that don’t flip easily.
In effect, taking the Senate means entire states switching, many of which are structurally red before a vote is even cast. -
That said I’d deeply love to see him hamstrung

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Actually they do, called Special Elections. Depends on the state you’re in (each state controls its own elections), some hold them in the same year the seat becomes vacant, some wait until the next calendar yeat

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Nation at war and Republicans looking at getting stomped in the Midterms, but let’s send JD Vance to campaign for Viktor Orbán.
Trumps people must be really worried about a 25th Amendment take out

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Biltong?

Builtrong

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Without a doubt.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid animal genitalia researcher in his spare time, once pulled the family sedan to the side of the road after spying a dead raccoon and swiftly cut off its sex organs so he could “study them later.”

We’re encroaching on serial killer pathology here I suspect.

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Or just a perv :man_shrugging:

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