“Gentlemen, you can’t kiss in here! This is a war game!”

…an elf?

And his spiritual daughter is the Prime Minister

In two words: it’s complicated.

In many more words, courtesy of Wikipedia:

China has been Israel’s third largest trading partner globally and its largest trading partner in East Asia. Bilateral trade volume increased from $50 million in 1992 to over $10 billion in 2013 Israel has traded significantly with China in technology and arms. Some commentators note similarities between the culture and values of the two nations. Following the October 7 attacks, commentators generally note a worsening in relations between the two countries. In the United Nations, China has long voted in support of the State of Palestine and against Israel.

a move that would draw fierce opposition internationally and within Israel

The most powerful countries in the world are all either total simps for the fascist apartheid regime or publicly pretending that it doesn’t exist while supplying it with weapons and ammunition.

You’d be 100% right, which is illegal in Texas under Governor Greg the little piss baby and AG Ken the embodiment of corruption.

I bet Italian fascists do.

They have for decades.

It’s starting to be covered in the media now not because it started recently, but because the Overton Window only recently shifted enough that journalists can comment on it without committing career suicide.

I read that as ASMR at first. It amused me 😁

Fuck I hope not! 😬

The cardboard kind? 🤷

It wasn’t exactly free, but yes 😁

This kind 😁

Cats for scale.

would have killed the Trump presidency.

Nope. The cult’s feelings don’t care about the fact and, even as the markets were panicking, none of them were actually changing their minds about their “Messiah”

I’m 99% sure that Trump wouldn’t be president right now.

You’re so extremely welcome! I love the song too and am happy that reminding you of it brought you some needed positivity!

I’m gonna go ahead and post it in a couple music communities in case anyone else needs to hear it 😁

I KNOW that people are already dying, I’m not denying that.

Letting things get even worse than they already are so that many MORE people die in the hope that it’s going to suddenly make the Mango Mussolini unpopular with his own cult of people who think he can do no wrong, though, is like fighting fire with kindling.

TL;DR: Shit’s fucked for the time being, and making it worse won’t help.

Powell getting replaced by a trump bootlicker is probably the best that could happen.

Absolutely not

Sure, in the short term it would massively fuck up the economy

Which will inevitably lead to misery and the deaths of thousands of people. People who can’t afford to stay alive die.

but that would bring trump’s downfall all the quicker.

Nope. That’s not how it works anymore. Like other tyrants such as Putin, Netanyahu, and Orban, whether Trump stays in power until his death is not a matter of how popular he is. It’s a matter of someone stopping him when he suspends or rigs elections, starting as early as next year’s midterms.

On the contrary, poverty and desperation is an ADVANTAGE for a fascist leader since that makes them look to a “strong man” to save them.

The fact that he’s making everything worse doesn’t register with his cult, but the fact that more clearheaded people points it out only strengthens their “us versus them” resolve.

The only peaceful way left to topple him would be to replace the entire Dem leadership with uncorrupted, talented, and brave people who care more about the outcomes for regular people than ancient rules, procedure, and rich donors.

Of course, the only way to do THAT is through primaries that said leadership control and guard with MUCH more ferocity than the fate of the nation and indeed the world.

Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it’s an ethos!