Tag: politics

Discuss amongst yourselves. The left-wing Greek government has already called for a general election after unexpectedly losing to the center-right party. In the UK, the Brexit party is expected to take 37 percent of the vote, so it will be interesting to see if they underperform or overperform the polls. In that vein, although Brexit is supposed to take most of its votes from UKIP and the Conservatives, one of its first two seats won tonight was taken from Labour.

Salvini and La Lega are projected to have won in Italy, with nearly one-third of the vote, which will tend to confirm their strength vis-a-vis their governing partner M5, which looks like it will finish third, behind the Socialists. Forza Italia, the other right-wing party, is also doing quite well and will finish fourth.

BNL reports the BREXIT party is doing better than expected in rural areas and that Theresa May’s Conservative party is doing far worse than expected. Labour and Liberal Democrats doing what was expected.

UPDATE: Brexit just surpassed UKIP’s total in 2014… and there are still 17 seats left. This is the worst election result for the CuckConservative Party in 185 years. I was sorry to see Daniel Hannan lose his seat as an MEP, but then, I did tell him to throw in with Farage the last time we talked.

56/73 seats declared:

BREXIT: 25 MEPs
LDem: 13 MEPs
Lab: 8 MEPs
Greens: 6 MEPs
Con: 3 MEPs

PC: 1 MEP

I really, really want to see a Creepy Joe and Buttplug ticket offered up as the last hurrah of the white men in the Democratic Party:

Joe Biden holds a 30-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential field, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill, further signaling that the former vice president is cementing his place as the primary contest’s front-runner.

Forty-four percent of Democratic voters surveyed said they are most likely to vote for Biden in the 2020 Democratic primaries. Sanders comes in second place at 14 percent, while Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) places third with just 9 percent, the poll found.

The survey results show a surge for Biden since he launched his presidential campaign last week. A Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey from March pegged his support in the primary field at 35 percent, though at the time he hadn’t yet entered the race. The poll results are largely in line with other surveys conducted in recent days that show Biden widening his lead in the sprawling Democratic primary field.

It doesn’t matter anyhow. The Trumpslide is inevitable in 2020, as I have said since the day after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

It’s astonishing how so many Members of the British Parliament simply refuse to understand that they are not in charge and they are going to be replaced because they’re a collection of traitorous, anti-democratic Remainers even after the very clear warning of the local council elections:

Theresa May has led the Conservative Party to a humiliating 1,300-seat loss in local elections – its worst performance in a quarter of a century – after furious voters punished her and the party for its Brexit failures at the ballot box.

The party’s drubbing meant it has surpassed its worst case predictions to put in its worst performance since John Major led it to a loss of more than 2,000 seats when faced by Tony Blair’s Labour in 1994.

Votes took place in 248 English councils and 11 Northern Ireland authorities amid a backdrop of Brexit anger. The Tories held on to 93 councils, while Labour now have control of 60; the Lib Dems have 18, and the number of councils with no overall control or other parties in charge rose to 77 – an increase of 43.

The Conservative Party now hold 3,559 seats – a loss of 1,335 – followed by Labour on 2,020, and the Liberal Democrats won an additional 704 seats, giving them 1,351….. Returning officers reported that at least 39,000 ballot papers were spoiled. Angry voters had scrawled messages on them about Brexit in protest at the parliamentary shambles.

Needless to say, instead of indicating that they understand that the British public is demanding No Deal Brexit, they are trying to do the redefinition dance. Just read how these Conservative Party morons are reacting to their near-historic beating that exceeded their worst-case scenario.

Michael Gove: ‘At the moment the arithmetic in the House of Commons is opposed to leaving without a deal,’ he said.  ‘There would be economic challenges. We could get through them but they would undoubtedly be there in the short term.’ Mr Gove added that leaving without a deal would ‘undermine the Union’ and that the best way of ‘bringing the country together is to leave with a good deal’. 

There is no good deal. And no one cares about “the arithmetic in the House of Commons” except the idiotic Members of Parliament who are going to be voted out at the next opportunity.

Theresa May: ‘There was a simple message from yesterday’s elections to both us and the Labour Party: just get on and deliver Brexit,’ Mrs May said.

So why is she still babbling about her stupid, thrice-rejected Withdrawal Plan? Why is she still rambling on about deals that will never happen? Whatever happened to “no deal is better than a bad deal?”

Former Tory MP Nick Boles said a compromise was now the only way to leave the EU. He added: ‘Conservative MPs will be toast if they do not deliver Brexit soon. But I and a majority of MPs will never allow the UK to leave the EU without a deal. So Conservative MPs who want to survive the next election need to vote for a compromise deal with Labour.’

That’s why he’s already a “former Tory MP”. After the next election, he’ll just be a “former MP” along with any other Conservative MPs who vote for a compromise deal with Labour.

The fact is that Nationalism vs Foreign Imperialism is the only issue that matters today. Left vs Right, Labour vs Conservative, Conservative vs Liberal, all of these past divisions are totally irrelevant because if you are all ruled by a foreign, anti-democratic imperial master, it makes no difference what your local politics are. Which is precisely over 1,300 Conservative councillors learned yesterday.

Politicians love to talk piously about “bringing the country together” but if they actually cared about national unity, they wouldn’t have permitted a massive foreign invasion of the country or its demographic destruction in the first place.

After some contemplation, I think this would be the funniest Presidential ticket the Democrats could possibly offer up as sacrificial lambs to the God-Emperor in 2020. The creep factor would be off the charts.

Fingers crossed.

I can only hope that Democrats believe the polls and nominate Creepy Joe because they think he can upset the God-Emperor:

As former Vice President Joe Biden prepares to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, he’s doing so as the front-runner, polling ahead of both fellow Democrats and President Donald Trump.

A new Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted April 19-21 among 1,992 registered voters found Biden leading the president by 8 percentage points in a hypothetical matchup, 42 percent to 34 percent. Biden has a significant edge over Trump among women (17 points), millennials (22 points) and independents (10 points).

The national, online survey has a 2-point margin of error.

And by “point” they meant “order of magnitude”.

The Brexit Party is crushing both the Tories and Labour in the European Election polls:

The Brexit Party has surged into the lead in the race for the European Elections after a top pollster predicted Nigel Farage’s new party could win its first election. A second YouGov survey on the state of the party’s ahead of EU Parliament elections shows the Brexit Party rising dramatically from 15 per cent to 27 per cent.

Most of the gain comes at the expense of Ukip – which when led by Mr Farage won the 2014 contest – which plunged from 14 per cent to 7 per cent.

Labour falls to second place on 22 per cent, down two, and the Tories are now third on 15 per cent.

The sensational new result comes after YouGov Political Research Manager Chris Curtis said it was ‘entirely plausible’ Mr Farage could upset conventional wisdom about new parties to top the poll.

Mr Curtis said a combination of a weak Tory party and Mr Farage’s direct attack on Ukip’s drift toward the hard right would all help the Brexit Party.

Adding to the trouble for Theresa May’s party are fears of a ‘donor strike’ amid fury at the Prime Minister’s handling of Brexit.

It would be more than ironic, it would be revolutionary if Theresa May manages to completely destroy the Conservative Party over her treasonous refusal to keep her word and accept that No Deal was better than a bad deal.

A single early poll concerning European elections that should never have taken place is a long, long way from winning in an actual UK Parliamentary election, but it is one hell of a start.

The Week suggests three reasons:

The question, then, is whether or not capitalism seems to be improving American lives. If so, it’ll remain dominant. If not, alternatives will look increasingly attractive. Here are three pieces of evidence that the capitalist system in America is, indeed, broken:

1. Leaders are paving the way for a second massive economic crisis within a generation.

Regulators are starting to ease the rules put in place after the economic meltdown that led to the Great Recession a decade ago. The Fed, for example, wants to loosen requirements for big banks to have plans in place to close in an emergency without requiring a government bailout. Congress and regulators are making it easier for those same banks to make the kinds of high-risk loans that led to the last economic disaster. The government last year rolled back the Dodd-Frank law that enshrined many economic protections into law.

2. It is becoming more and more difficult for the average American to live life sustainably.

3. The party of capitalism put Donald Trump in the White House.

All three reasons are legitimate, though not as significant as two additional reasons. The first is that there are now tens of millions of US citizens from nations with strong socialist traditions. For example, two of the three major Mexican parties are members of the Socialist International.

The second is that the media is dominated by individuals whose politics range the gamut from Marxian to Trotksyite.

A progressive embraces the Ineffectual Dork Weasels:

The vast majority of people in the IDW are extremely liberal on all of the core issues like abortion, climate change, gay marriage, etc. They’re not neocons, they’re not alt-right, and they’re not racists. They’re the opposite of that, actually, and the main thing they have in common is the desire to preserve and amplify good-faith conversation.

Rather than bash them due to something you heard from this one place—or that one friend—take the time to actually listen. Most of them are progressive just like you and me. And if you’re not liberal that’s fine too—listening will show you that true discussion is still possible.

The author suggests that Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson as partial exceptions who are not “extremely liberal”, but of course, he also mistakenly believes the Littlest Chickenhawk “doesn’t want to impose his religious ideas upon you through government” which is unintentionally hilarious to anyone who has read Shapiro’s book dedicated to the notion that both America and Western Civilization are Jewish.  But he did produce this useful chart:

Replacing Kirstjen Nielsen with Ann Coulter would take care of the problem of immigration very nicely indeed:

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen abruptly resigned Sunday, as the president continues to fume over continued illegal border crossings. CBS News first reported Nielsen’s impending departure, which Mr. Trump confirmed in a tweet after a 5 p.m. meeting with Nielsen at the White House.

Nielsen’s resignation is effective immediately. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will serve as acting DHS secretary, Mr. Trump announced.

“Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service,” Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday. “…I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!”

Nielsen’s exit comes as Trump eyes “tougher” approach on immigration
Nielsen’s departure is a part of a massive DHS overhaul engineered and directed by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, according to a senior U.S. official. It’s unclear whether Nielsen is deciding to leave voluntarily, or whether she has been pressured to resign.

You probably think I’m kidding, but I’m totally serious. The God-Emperor could use a good hatchet-woman to shake up his administration.

Neon Revolt points out that South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg is the Deep State’s candidate for president in 2020:

But who is this guy, exactly? Buttigieg was a complete unknown until just a few weeks ago, when he announced his Presidential campaign. And as of today, he’s either tied or tracking just above BIDEN(!!!) for 2020: So where did this guy come from? What has he done? And what accounts for this sudden rise to prominence from utter obscurity?

I think they get carried away from time to time. Just because they can fake popularize a media creation like Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson, they think they can create popularity for a politician out of thin air. But Obama was a one-off and was only possible due to the way white people think supporting black politicians will magically absolve them of racism.

The Democrats running a gay nonentity with a silly name like Buttigieg would make Reagan-Mondale look close.