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Steve Cohen, the Jewish Democratic congressman from Tennessee whose district was redrawn, has decided to quit rather than fight for reelection now that he knows he can't win. (Archive) Apparently not only would he have faced & in all probability lost to a black Republican woman (Charlotte Bergmann, who's usually been the Republican candidate in that district since 2010 or so) in the general election, but he was in danger of getting primaried by Justin Pearson (the nigger state rep who's been trying, like so many other black grifters on the left, to LARP as the second coming of Malcolm X) if he had insisted on staying.
 
So is the NYT, apparently
Massie really has the establishment shook if the #1 propaganda outlet for the liberal economic order is deepthroating his cock!

There was probably some Executive Branch arm twisting done to get this to happen. If so, I hope they take a victory lap.
They've uncovered a whole lot of "vote irregularities" recently. Maybe they threatened the Colorado gov with accomplice charges for jailing a whistleblower if/when they find something?
 
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Massie really has the establishment shook if the #1 propaganda outlet for the liberal economic order is deepthroating his cock!


They've uncovered a whole lot of "vote irregularities" regularly. Maybe they threatened the Colorado gov with accomplice charges for jailing a whistleblower if/when they find something?
It should really make voters pay attention that his enemies are endorsing him so eagerly.
 
Im watching Trump on Bret Beir tonight, Trumps stance on Taiwan is interesting.

His stance is the only reason why we are so invested in them is because of their chip industry and its not worth going to war for a country 9500+ miles away. To be fair, thats a large reason why its so important. If China seizes the chip industry, the US electronics industry is dead in the water. He is for reshoring the industry to the US but thats easier said than done. Thats something 3-5 years down the road.
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I have no experience in Sino relations so I don't know the ins and outs of the issue but it seems like a fair point.
 
Im watching Trump on Bret Beir tonight, Trumps stance on Taiwan is interesting.

His stance is the only reason why we are so invested in them is because of their chip industry and its not worth going to war for a country 9500+ miles away. To be fair, thats a large reason why its so important. If China seizes the chip industry, the US electronics industry is dead in the water. He is for reshoring the industry to the US but thats easier said than done. Thats something 3-5 years down the road.
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I have no experience in Sino relations so I don't know the ins and outs of the issue but it seems like a fair point.
I always understood Taiwan didnt want to give away their chip manufacturing so we would rescue their asses
 
Im watching Trump on Bret Beir tonight, Trumps stance on Taiwan is interesting.

His stance is the only reason why we are so invested in them is because of their chip industry and its not worth going to war for a country 9500+ miles away. To be fair, thats a large reason why its so important. If China seizes the chip industry, the US electronics industry is dead in the water. He is for reshoring the industry to the US but thats easier said than done. Thats something 3-5 years down the road.
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I have no experience in Sino relations so I don't know the ins and outs of the issue but it seems like a fair point.

Honestly china keeping us dependant on taiwan is better for them then cutting us off. If we had to go balls to the wall on it we'd dominate the field within a decade.
 
Im watching Trump on Bret Beir tonight, Trumps stance on Taiwan is interesting.

His stance is the only reason why we are so invested in them is because of their chip industry and its not worth going to war for a country 9500+ miles away. To be fair, thats a large reason why its so important. If China seizes the chip industry, the US electronics industry is dead in the water. He is for reshoring the industry to the US but thats easier said than done. Thats something 3-5 years down the road.
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I have no experience in Sino relations so I don't know the ins and outs of the issue but it seems like a fair point.
Taiwan has invested like... Idon'tknowhowmany billions of dollars into building multiple, massive chip plants in the Arizona desert. The first phase is already up and running. There's two more massive plants in the works.

Reshoring Semiconductor and microchips has been a thing since 2020 and is well on its way.
 
Im watching Trump on Bret Beir tonight, Trumps stance on Taiwan is interesting.

His stance is the only reason why we are so invested in them is because of their chip industry and its not worth going to war for a country 9500+ miles away. To be fair, thats a large reason why its so important. If China seizes the chip industry, the US electronics industry is dead in the water. He is for reshoring the industry to the US but thats easier said than done. Thats something 3-5 years down the road.
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I have no experience in Sino relations so I don't know the ins and outs of the issue but it seems like a fair point.
At this point it’s a bet of whether the US can build a domestic chip industry faster than China can get their military in shape to actually mount a successful invasion of Taiwan. Neither of which is really something that can be accomplished within the next 10 years, IMO. I think kicking the can down the road instead of going hard in the paint on Taiwan is kind of the right call here.
 
Massie really has the establishment shook if the #1 propaganda outlet for the liberal economic order is deepthroating his cock!
The usual suspects in media will "pounce" on any wedge issue about Republicans for the sake of causing division. We see it every single day in this thread, especially around lunch time in India. It's the reason entire organizations exists, like The Lincoln Project, or the "conservative" woman on The View. For all the progressive changes the DNC has made in the last 30 years, they're still clinging to a very old idea that the general public feels better about policies with bipartisan support.

"If the cats and dogs can agree on it, then it HAS to be good for America!" was a boomer motto. Gen X started realizing that was bullshit around 9/11 with the PATRIOT Act and the National Defense Authorization Act. Now, if I see both sides of the aisle agreeing on a piece of legislation, I don't have to read it to know that it's designed to fuck Americans over.

Massie might be a principled Libertarian, and that's generally pretty popular in Kentucky, but he voted like a RINO on too many important issues and now people are getting sick of him. He's no more or less of a threat to the admin than any of the dozens of other people that have fallen to the Trump curse. The only leverage he ever really had was saying he had Epstein victims willing to testify while implicating Trump over and over again, and since that never manifested, everyone just assumes he's bluffing. If he's not, he might wanna jump on that before he gets voted out.
 
Libertarianism is a philosophy propped up by establishment figures in order to direct conservative minded people away from social conservatism in favor of open boarders free trade neoliberal goals by casting it as hip and edgy. The greatest accomplishment in all of Libertarian history is The Joe Rogan Experience. That's their high water mark. Not public office. Not legislation. A podcast.
 
Taiwan has invested like... Idon'tknowhowmany billions of dollars into building multiple, massive chip plants in the Arizona desert. The first phase is already up and running. There's two more massive plants in the works.

Reshoring Semiconductor and microchips has been a thing since 2020 and is well on its way.
These cannot build the latest chips. They expand capacity for legacy models, but the high tech stuff is limited to Taiwan.

Trump’s words sound very similar to the sort of nonsense that led to the loss of Hong Kong. Reunification will be a tremendous blow to democracy, like actual democracy, not ‘Democracy’.

Also how is fighting a war against a nuclear, Communist power expanding its reach not worth fighting for while fighting a war against a fairly weak Middle Eastern country that doesn’t have nuclear capabilities is? That doesn’t make sense. Further, Rubio is anti-Chinese. He personally sees China as the biggest existential threat to the United States.

Applying Occam’s Razor, it seems Trump was glazed by the CCP well enough that he’s convinced they are ‘friends’ or some shit. The idea that he’s become obsessed with deals may be true. He was not rosy with China until the Iran War. It’s super weird.
 
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