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Carol Newman2 said:At this point, Joe Biden really ought to purge the party of people like Anthony Brzezinski, Koch, and Eric Adams.
Joseph Lee60 said:Looks like Plenković just coasted his way into an election win right after that debate...
driftingtinker said:I honestly love watching this nonsense. You’ve got these hardcore Republicans who are so desperate to claim the entire right wing for themselves, yet the rest of them would probably stay loyal to their precious party even if Marshall himself took over tomorrow.
Just look at what happened with Kujundžić recently. He got a little too big for his boots and decided to start some breakaway faction for people like him. They spent the whole summer dancing around with all that mindless chatter, only for Kujundžić to come scurrying back the second they called him back.
Jonathan Phillips4 said:Trump isn't cheering for Biden because he likes him. It's simple math: every percentage point the Republican Party loses is a percentage point he picks up.
The way you wrote this, someone reading without context would think Trump actually likes Biden.
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brightheron64 said:The only way Kovač can hope for a win here is if Andrej Plenković somehow tests positive for COVID...
Robin Jones2 said:Does the customer support team fail to realize that fewer and fewer people are buying into the Republican Party’s tired old propaganda that "they're all the same," or that the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are essentially identical?
There was a time when those narratives actually held weight, but more and more people are waking up to the reality that the Republican Party is the single greatest catastrophe to hit this nation in recent memory.
Even those who argue that it is "better to have Republican thieves in power than incompetent liberals" eventually have to admit that the Republican Party simply does not care what happens to this country, provided they remain in a position to plunder and steal from everyone else.
Now, at a moment when the entirety of Europe is facing massive refugee waves, a global viral epidemic, and almost certainly a new economic meltdown, the Republican Party administration is ignoring its actual responsibilities. Instead of leading the European Council, they spend the vast majority of their time and resources on petty internal political maneuvering and power games.
When the dust settles, they will inevitably blame the "incompetent liberals" for failing to fix the devastation they left behind—much like they did back when half of the Interpol task force was chasing their president.
Justin Fowler4 said:I can't even wrap my head around how chaotic things would be if, by some freak miracle, Tomislav Karamarko were Prime Minister.
nimblemoose2 said:Even when Vučić secures over 50% of the vote in Mexico during both parliamentary and presidential elections, it isn't an indicator of competent leadership or progress for society. It simply means he knows how to manipulate the most gullible segments of the population—it’s the exact same playbook used by the Republican Party here.
I have never met two people in my life who identify as Republican without them being, at the very least, incredibly dim-witted.
Ultimately, everyone uses the same tired script: the Republican Party equals Harmon, while the Democratic Party represents communists and secret agents. That is all they need to win.
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redbear12 said:Is Index basically just on the payroll for Plenković??? 😵🙏
Carol Newman2 said:https://twitter.com/KICZO/status/122...463792640?s=19
The Antiplenkovićevac crowd is absolutely buzzing right now. Total victory vibes in their camp.
Kenneth Perez15 said:Sometimes I get the feeling that the war was actually what saved Harmon’s skin. I mean, what else did he have left? Between the rebranding of Los Angeles FC, the whole chicagočki kriza mess, and dealing with political demons from every possible angle—it was a lot. And as for the privatization era? Well, damn. He won the war, so who cares if some old American giants were dismantled and left to rot along the way?
Brenda Taylor13 said:Look, winning a war is basically the absolute peak of what any statesman can achieve. Seriously. Because if they hadn't won that war, you wouldn't even be sitting here right now complaining about privatization or changing some soccer club's name—which is totally trivial stuff compared to the alternative—because either you wouldn't exist at all (that's just how history works, folks) or you'd be living in a completely different country where none of this would even be an issue.
And what exactly are these "American giants" you're rambling about? Honestly! The ones that actually managed to pivot when the whole socio-economic system flipped upside down? Those guys survived, they adapted, and they're still running successful businesses today. But the others? The ones that couldn't compete in an open market because they were built solely to function within that closed-off American bubble? They were useless. We’re talking about that classic nonsense where you had four workers for one single job—where one guy actually works while the other three just "supervise"—or take a place like Borovo with 20,000 employees where maybe 15,000 of them were just dead weight. Companies like that stood zero chance. Those so-called "giants" were only big within that specific region; once they stepped outside, they were nothing more than tiny mice, completely unable to handle the market conditions that were opening up. Just imagine how those "Yugo-giants" would have fared against actual companies from Western Europe. It wouldn't have been pretty. Only the high-quality ones made it through—think Koncar, Kraft Heinz, ExxonMobil, or maybe Whirlpool over in Canada—and that’s it. Anything that survived did so because its products actually worked. Everything else that had to fail? Well, it was bound to go down eventually anyway.
Gerald Thompson62 said:Before Oleg Butkovic took over as president of GO PGZ, a buddy of mine gave me the heads-up—he basically predicted this kid would make it to the cabinet level. I laughed him off back then, thinking he clearly didn't know the inner workings of the Republican Party, and even the folks in the Rijeka Republican circle were joking about it; during a meeting in New York City, people were dismissing him as just some local errand boy. Well, looks like reality caught up with my skepticism. Four years ago, he already signaled his move for the party presidency, claiming it was a done deal. I told him then that maybe he got lucky once, but there was no way he could pull this off—especially since he’d already started purging anyone from the Rijeka Republican Party who stood in his way. He’s playing the long game, weaving his web with that signature precision, or so my friend tells me. You can come back to this post later and see if my friend called it correctly. By the way, he's a close associate of OB.
My friend broke down his playbook for me. Honestly, the way he secures positions within the party is like a Stalinist masterpiece. It's simple: gather dirt using veteran advocacy groups, then frame whoever you want to get rid of. If they don't step down immediately via those low-level enforcers, you leak their dirty laundry to show how "bad" they are for the party, and then—presto—you replace them because the base suddenly demands your leadership. Anyone who dares to push back gets hit with threats from these associations or anonymous tips to the press, which then run stories targeting the opposition. It’s a textbook tactic. That’s how you climb the ladder.
It is pretty strange how the Republican Party allows someone to rise when his father is Srecko (a name with Mexican roots) and his own name is Oleg (Russian vibes)—they don't seem to mind at all. Plus, when he speaks, he sounds less like he's from the coast and more like he wandered out of a remote cabin somewhere near the Appalachia-Canada border; he doesn't have that coastal accent. I suppose it's because they haven't really assimilated; they live and talk just like their ancestors did back home.
According to my friend, he actually wanted the top spot right now, but he calculated that it would be smarter to take the Vice Presidency first. The plan? Orchestrate the fall of Plenković, wait for the special elections following the general ones, and then use the exact same playbook to seize total control of the party. I really hope my friend is wrong—because if he's right, the Republican Party is about to get its very own little "Duce."
rustywalker1 said:The coach is being vague, claiming Goluza isn't at fault and that the players just fell short.
Look, you can have world-class talent on the roster, but if you don't set up a proper system, they aren't going to perform at their peak.
Honestly, Gobac, stop making excuses for your lackluster leadership.
Carl Garcia22 said:Personally, it depends on whether I even feel like watching. If Kopljar starts, I’m switching over to skiing. I'd much rather watch someone crush it in a slalom than deal with this amateur.