Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Nigel Farage got the milkshake treatment and says these people have been “”“radicalised”””.
 
How does anyone take this numpty seriously.

@Terton  
I mean, imagine if he were allergic to dairy

@Terton  
Cry me a river Nigel. If they were radicalized they wouldn’t have thrown a milkshake at you, they would have killed you

@Terton  
I honestly don’t know

@Terton  
Nigel Farage bragged about the Brest campaign having won without a single bullet fired 8 days after Jo Cox, a labour MP was shot and killed by a far right fuckwit
 
Fuck him

@Commune
 
And now shitheads like Katie Hopkins are comparing Farage’s milkshaking to that murder.
 
What the fuck kind of world are we even living in right now.

@Terton  
The same one where a Navy Seal who killed an afghan girl in cold blood is about to be pardoned by Donald Trump

The interview was priceless.
 
Just this dry, British nerd in a Street Fighter shirt quipping about how he was really looking forward to his milkshake.
 
That might be the most British thing I’ve seen all day.

@Commune  
Yeah he’s a dick

what’s a “milkshake treatment”?

@Angrybrony
 
When you throw a non-vegan milkshake at a politician.

While China’s draconian control over its populace is distasteful, it puts them at an advantage in this trade war.
 
They know they’d only need to starve us out till 2020. Their death-grip on political dissent, and their control of internal market forces, allow them to just sit there and eat the damage for much, much longer than us. Sure, there may be economic contractions in the long run, but that’ll be nothing compared to a horde of pissed off US farmers, contractors, and industrialists. Trump will throw a few bones there way will bailouts, but with Congress holding the purse-strings that will only be of limited help. Especially if Dem’s get savvy and beat him to the punch, branding any bailouts as them stepping in where Trump is failing them. Warren’s townhall in Trump country proves that it’s a message that can resonate.
 
Meanwhile, China just has to sit there and not budge. Once produces and retailers start raising prices on common goods, and farmers start losing entire harvests, dissent will grow.
 
Couple this with rising oil prices from the Iran debacle, and a possible trade war with the EU, and you’ve got a recipe for an economic crunch.
 
The Healthcare and Abortion fights are two battles the Republicans don’t want to get involved with. They want the message to be on the economy. Trump is making that very difficult.
 
 
I said a few months back that no single big event would end Trump’s presidency. What we would see is death by 1000 stupid cuts. And this trade war might be one of the cuts that hits an artery.

@Zincy  
Yeah China can hold out for a longer time than the USA can with a trade war.

China also doesn’t treat profit the same way as we do. As long as they’re still bringing in more than they’re spending, they can grow. Where as if we lost some amount of profit in the present moment compared to another: we’re failing. We don’t use profit, we let it accumulate. The Chinese turn profit over into services and growth and they can keep on promising exorbitant job growth in as far as they got the positive income to spend on it.
 
And they have Africa.

China is slowly growing in power and is an authoritarian shithole while America declines.
 
I think God refused to help us when the pilgrim settlers massacred the American Natives.

@AaronMk  
I find China’s way of profit to be more reasonable than America’s, by your definition.

I’ve noticed that right-wingers are quick to callout violent leftist incidents, while often ignoring the fact that a majority of terrorist events in the past 5 years in the US have involved right-wing attackers.

@Zincy  
they are also quick to do this outside the containment thread to avoid being challenged, relying on the left and centrists to follow the rules, to allow them to peddle their narrative unchallenged,

@Zincy  
It’s called “whataboutism” and “never playing defense”

@Background Pony #3A25  
Never playing defense seemed to work for Trump but I feel like it’s going to end.

Alabama Public Television refuses to air ‘Arthur’ episode with gay wedding
 
More like Alah-bama, amirite
 
(except being a racist, misogynist, homophobic neanderthal is OK if your symbol is a cross and not a crescent, ofc)

@Zincy  
It also seems to happen a shocking amount of times here with a lot of Right-Wing people on this site…
 
 
@The Smiling Pony  
Why do you need to be like this Alabama?

@The Smiling Pony  
I don’t…huh?

@The Smiling Pony  
Alabama also banned abortion at this point. So I’m not surprised.

@The Smiling Pony  
Not all people from Alabama are wife beaters