All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Smart move by someone in the Trump Administration on Iran:


https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...umn/759689001/

Fixed that for you. No need to thank me. The notion that Dolt45 dreamed that up all by his lonesome, or even with help is absurd on more levels than I can imagine, and, like Han Solo, I can imagine quite a bit.

[BeastieRunner]

On the other side of the pond, conservatives in the UK are debating the merits of capitalism.

Marx must be rolling in his grave! Capitalism, by almost imperceptible degrees, is morphing into something akin to socialized capital - a euphemism for the otherwise dirty word of socialism.

As the British lower classes are getting poorer under the Conservative government, perhaps it's time to call a spade a spade.

And Brexit is rapidly approaching no deal.

It is beginning to look like this is what the Tories want.

[Kevinroc]

“You’re making it fall apart.” Chris Cuomo nails smirking GOP rep for sabotaging Obamacare
Trump and his fellow Republicans have been unable to pass a real replacement for Obamacare, so they're just going to destroy it instead.

https://shareblue.com/youre-making-i...x1-GiI.twitter

These people are sick.

[BeastieRunner]

Beastie's Cartoons of the Week:

[Robotman]

“You’re making it fall apart.” Chris Cuomo nails smirking GOP rep for sabotaging Obamacare
Trump and his fellow Republicans have been unable to pass a real replacement for Obamacare, so they're just going to destroy it instead.

https://shareblue.com/youre-making-i...x1-GiI.twitter

These people are sick.

it's basically like the republicans are sawing the legs on a table and then claiming that it's falling apart because it wasn't made right.

[BeastieRunner]

Reince Priebus, former Trump chief of staff, interviewed by Mueller team.

[Kirby101]

"Some people just like to see the World burn."

Alfred, "The Dark Knight"

Trump seems to get joy over others suffering.

[TakoM]

On the other side of the pond, conservatives in the UK are debating the merits of capitalism.

Marx must be rolling in his grave! Capitalism, by almost imperceptible degrees, is morphing into something akin to socialized capital - a euphemism for the otherwise dirty word of socialism.

As the British lower classes are getting poorer under the Conservative government, perhaps it's time to call a spade a spade.

And Brexit is rapidly approaching no deal.

It is beginning to look like this is what the Tories want.

This the same stuff in the link I read in a magazine and heard in a political talk show about Germany`s future but social systems and capitalism aren't a contradiction.
The big rift in most of the western world isn't about social structures but about the problem which liberal economic and liberal society transformation brought.

In the economic you have a lot of deindustrialization and poor paid Job and little to no increase for a huge junk of the population of their real wages over decades. You can fix this with more education and better tax politics/systems which is independent of the companies mother country. (or better said it is the start which is necessary)

In some way I see a perversion of the system a new tax system is key but with such huge international companies on one side and on the other a huge compensation for lost jobs in form of money. You have something like a privatized planned economy. I personal hope instead we get a big breakthrough with 3D printers so that we can most of out stuff produce themselves.

The liberal society I think is more a project here in Europe in the end its suppressed a lot of identities which where key after the church lost his mayor role in society in the second half of the 20th centaury.
It is a bit hard to explain because I think this much more a spiritual problem basically you are under constant attack of the medias when you are someone of these:
* A very religiose person.
* A macho
* A woman who wants kids instead of a career
* A nationalist
* A antiglobalist
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.
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In the end a lot of people get stepped on the toe at least once and on the other hand we have huge problems and the politics often says that they have no other choice then to make it worse.(They don't say it but it what everyone hear)and then say what the people actually wants would make it worse with little proof of it and the medias support it. People get lost and getting rebellious under this this is what feed the right-wings in Europe.

[numberthirty]

You're just avoiding discussing the fact that your avatar is some weird lizard-monkey hybrid who eats flies.

Good question, just out of curiosity numberthirty, is your avatar from a music video or something?

I'm gonna need to see proof in writing that anyone could be as square as the two of you seem to be here before I would even consider going into explaining the avatar.

[numberthirty]

It's just as former Congressman Alan Grayson said. The Republican health care plan is: Don't get sick, or if you do get sick, die quickly.

And to think Republicans once whined about so-called "death panels" when Obamacare first rolled out. Now it's the GOP gearing up to oversee the systematic murder of scores of Americans when they're stuck with cut rate, bargain basement health plans that won't cover preexisting conditions. And that disaster will all be on Trump's watch.

They don't really have a "Plan". If they did, things wouldn't be happening by Executive Order. What they have is no real plan and some guesses at how the market might work under a set of circumstances that will likely never happen.

[mojotastic]

I'm gonna need to see proof in writing that anyone could be as square as the two of you seem to be here before I would even consider going into explaining the avatar.

Hey i wasnt attacking you or anything i was actually curious, but if you dont want to say that okay for me.

[numberthirty]

Hey i wasnt attacking you or anything i was actually curious, but if you dont want to say that okay for me.

Mostly kidding around.

Are you saying you really have zero idea what my avatar actually is?

[Tami]

Mostly kidding around.

Are you saying you really have zero idea what my avatar actually is?

To be honest, I'm not sure what it is either.

[numberthirty]

Alright, Dr. Gori was the villain(depending on your point of view) of the US version of the series Spectreman. Here's a halfway decent breakdown...

[worstblogever]

“You’re making it fall apart.” Chris Cuomo nails smirking GOP rep for sabotaging Obamacare
Trump and his fellow Republicans have been unable to pass a real replacement for Obamacare, so they're just going to destroy it instead.

https://shareblue.com/youre-making-i...x1-GiI.twitter

These people are sick.

I've wondered if from his wrestling days, if Jim Jordan has CTE or some other form of brain damage.