US Politics

Ofc but she likely has a background and upbringing that "demands" other priorities. Ppl who are born rich ofc takes for granted beeing rich and i suspect power and influence is what one strives for as the next step in these type of circumstances or so i imagine. If wealth cant give u a sense of success im betting power will. Or so they believe. Much like many of us thinks more money will somehow make us more happy and successful which it likely will not.

Ossoff might talk good, but he’s a total empty suit. With Democrats like him who needs republicans?

I wondered if it was something like that. There does seem to be something about slickness that coincides with shallowness.

Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't been following any of that.

There's so many rich people like this. What's the matter with them? I always think they must have absolutely no imagination; why aren't they off living in utter luxury, or climbing mountains, or saving orangutans or something?

Instead they get their fulfillment from making peoples lives that much harder.

Isn't it often (quite apart from wanting yet more wealth/influence) that political power is attractive because it's something they don't have yet? Also, if you assume that, while few wealthy people are as damaged as Trump, she does have a secret craving to be/feel popular and not just wealthy, that people actually like her, I'd say that's more than enough motivation.

Yeah - but to what end? She could have been doing whatever anyone could ever want to, instead she tied herself to a stressful civil service office for some stretch of time.

Well you might find it stressful, but you're just an ordinary oik, right? These people see themselves as 'high achievers' and better than others, e.g. they don't even know the meaning of 'stress'. That, and it's quite possible that they don't actually feel the pressure of public service and/or do a terrible job in such a position.

Like Pete Buttigieg?

Like Pete Buttigieg

I don't see him as shallow.

He's just super smart and arrogant enough to know it. And a bit of a wanker. Slick maybe a bit, but he's not shallow.

Funniest thing about Loeffler is that she owns a WNBA team and the players on her team and all the other teams hate her and campaigned for Warnock most of last season in the bubble.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/georgia-senate-race-loeffler-wnba-warnock

was going to add that to @kl 's list.

Find it really interesting how political the WNBA and its players are.

Worth mentioning that the team pictured are the Seattle Storm, the WNBA champions, not the Atlanta Dream, the team Loeffler owns.

The Dream look like this:

https://www.powerplays.news/p/how-the-atlanta-dream-reclaimed-their

Like Pete Buttigieg?

I don't know anything about him. I didn't follow the primaries much.

I am having fantasies about the player on the right just lifting Loeffler up and smashing her through the hoop head first. Leaving Loefler hanging upside down screaming and flailing whilst the player calmly walks away without looking back.

If billionaires don't fight for the rights of the wealthy, who will?

LFGUSS emailed me the original version of this post LOL

It's kicking off in Washington.

Let's see some tear gas unleashed on these motherfuckers, or is that reserved for anti-fascists only?

they're " storming the barracades "

History buffs. When was the last time a sitting President addressed a crowd and it kicked off minutes later? Has it ever happened? Do we have to go back to the 1800s?

Getting a taste of that Police brutality they've all been saying doesn't exist all year eh?

What a reckless self serving prick!

I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

Let's just hope there won't be any shooting.

There won't be, that's reserved for unarmed black people.

Kent State massacre? Waco?

US authorities are happy to overreact to any group that scare them.

This is insane. Live stream of the senate just cut out. Fucking children.

Kent State was white kids siding with pinkos and black people so ... you know.

And Waco was a PR disaster which left the powers that be even more terrified of libertarians.

Ah. This Twitch channel exhibits why it has all gone tits up.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/863654534

Jesus christ.