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Despite the back-slapping in the White House, there is limited reason for cheer. Britain was already in the lowest group for the “Liberation Day” across-the-board tariffs, only ever facing a rate of 10%, and it received no relief in this regard. Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to Washington, called the agreement a “springboard” for further liberalisation. Yet Mr Trump was less sure. He suggested both that the deal was going to “get bigger” and that it was “maxxed out”.

Leave it to Trump to create a crisis and then “solve” it such a way that leaves everyone worse off than before.

I agree this is what should be done, but the reality is this will not be done. This requires a majority in Congress to bring the charges and impeach, and then 2/3rds of the Senate to convict. Democrats would gleefully jump at the chance to do both, but they haven’t had that type of majority in generations. And we all know the GOP will never impeach, let alone remove, one of their own.

The democrats are extremely limited in their institutional power right now. The only institution that stop Trump is Congress, and they’re in his pocket.

He may very well be dead. Regardless, I think we have to try; somebody’s father was literally sent to hell on earth without even being charged for a crime or seeing a judge. Trump has defiled this man’s “unalienable right” to due process. The fifth amendment to the constitution of the United States also specifies that this right belongs to each person and not citizen for this exact reason.

This is probably the biggest constitutional crisis since the US Civil War. The foundations of the entire legal world sit upon established precedent, and Trump getting away with this would basically mean the Constitution and our laws are entirely up to the executive and therefore not worth the paper they’re printed on.

We have no choice but to make this a complete PR disaster for Trump; Is he strong, or is he weak? If he is so strong, then why is a dictator of a tiny country able to tell him no? If Trump even had a shred of guilt or decency (he has neither) he would remind Bukele that a single aircraft carrier is all it would take to level everything he has.

(Note: I am not saying we should launch a military invasion of El Salvador. I am merely pointing out how laughable it is that Trump says he can’t do anything. He is, as he has always been, a weak and pathetic man whose only extraordinary talent is lying without remorse.)

In April, NBC News found that on X, at least 150 pro-Nazi accounts were able to purchase verification on the app and boost pro-Nazi content that was viewed millions of times on the app.

“If I’m not able to drive any consistent views to my newsletter from Twitter, why am I here?” Lavin said about her decision to move to Bluesky. “All the replies were AI bots and Nazis, and none of the earnestly engaged readers are seeing my content. So what was the point of subjecting myself to psychic damage?

I don’t think many of us on lemmy are that surprised to see this is happening. It’s just a shame it’s happening after the US Presidential election.

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was never about “Free Speech,” so much as it was a means to drive right-wing propaganda to masses on a platform that had been largely used by the mainstream media, politicians, celebrities, sports media, etc. Twitter was basically the place where all of this could be found.

As a side note, I haven’t used Bluesky so I cannot personally speak to its merits. I do wonder how it compares with Mastodon though, which I have used.

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I mean to be fair, the foreshadowing was there and GRRM would have done an infinitely better job at writing it than D&D did.

It’s also not clear which parts D&D added, and which parts they took out. It could also very well be that Cersei was supposed to fill the “Mad Queen” arc, and not necessarily Daenerys.

Ultimately though, the show was just so, so rushed towards the end. That is what ruined it. If GRRM ever finishes ASOIAF (a big if lol) it will be much better done, not rushed, and actually make sense.

Very true

If I were them though, I would be so done with my royal ambitions after that lol

Seriously though, Vermithor looked like he was having a great time last episode.

Damn Vermithor was having a blast this this episode.

For this reason, I would much, much rather JD Vance stay on the ticket.

Nikki Haley… I think she could so some damage to Harris’s election chances. It’s gonna be a tough fight to win this November, and Haley is much more palatable to moderates than JD Vance is.

It’s a good thing we had no chance of winning those states then lol.

If they did, it might actually drive up voter enthusiasm around the country. So I could see it backfiring spectacularly.