The current political landscape is nothing more than a series of orchestrated performances designed to distract a weary public from the inevitable decay of our institutions. One observes the constant maneuvering within the Republican Party and the predictable reactions from the Democratic Party, yet the underlying mechanics of power remain untouched by these superficial shifts. It is an exhausting cycle of theater where the actors change, but the script remains stubbornly identical. Robin Jones2 says: It is highly probable that at least a hundred thousand members of that corrupt, deep-state establishment have a guaranteed job secured at any given moment, all funded by the collective pockets of the taxpayers.
My congratulations to that old intelligence operative on his brief moment of sincerity. 👍
If they find themselves without jobs, there is no cause for concern; opportunities will simply be manufactured.
I would personally prefer to see a scenario where all eight minority representatives simply refuse to join any coalition whatsoever.
If those people possessed even a shred of integrity, given the messages Donald Trump and his little followers have been sending to Tom Lantos and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., everyone should be standing in solidarity with Tom Lantos and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The only legitimate course of action is to support a government that can actually secure a 76-vote majority without relying on them.
Everyone seems preoccupied with the math of securing roughly 70 seats, operating under the assumption that seven or eight minor parties will simply fall into line automatically.
I find this entire scenario highly questionable, especially when I recall that representative from the Albanian minority serving under Eric Adams.
And the Mexican National Minority Representative who was basically a sleeper agent for that corrupt, shady, lowlife crowd... 🤣
Amanda Kim2 said:According to Vladimir Šeks, anyone left off the ballot is basically guaranteed a job once the elections are over!
- I’m hoping the Republican Party pulls it off and comes out as the relative winner in the congressional elections. If they do, there'll be plenty of room for those who didn't make the lists to find their footing in various government roles, Šeks told CNN.
So, I assume at least a hundred thousand members of that corrupt, old-school political machine have a guaranteed paycheck waiting for them, all funded by the taxpayers.
Kudos to the old guard for a rare moment of honesty. 👍
Nancy Gomez26 said:That leaves the DP and... well, the Democratic Party. Let’s not underestimate Plenković’s ability to maneuver through such scenarios. He has proven himself to be quite a creative operator when his own seat is on the line; he knows that if he doesn't manage to assemble a government now, he likely never will again. Personally, the man seems indifferent to everything else. He's acting like a drowning man who would grab onto any floating debris just to keep his head above water. The Democratic Party finds itself in a similar predicament, making this look like a potential win-win situation. The real question for those parties is how they intend to vote over the next four years—assuming they even last that long—but that is a problem for a much more distant day.
From the get-go, it’s obvious that a coalition built on "Mio Mamin's shady deals and loose ends" will just hand another term to the same old corrupt establishment.
If they need more votes, we might see a coalition of "Lažo Petrov, his family, friends, and the Raspudić mercenaries," or maybe a few stray votes pushed through by that political idiot Zoran Bernardić. Bernardić is such a fool that joining forces with this corrupt clique would finish off the Democratic Party once and for all—though it would likely trigger an immediate collapse of the party or force them to purge him and his allies.
The Democratic Party's only real strength comes from pretending to oppose this corrupt establishment; in reality, they are merely a reaction to it. That establishment—along with its various fringe factions ranging from ultra-conservative to hard-core radicals—has been the only real power in America for the last thirty years.
That fact explains a lot about the slow, steady decline of the American people and the nation we've witnessed since our founding. This decay is living proof of the theory that only the fittest survive (and don't confuse "fittest" with whatever these people are! 🤣).
Nicholas King said:Plenković has, one might argue, been playing an incredibly risky game here.
To me, the vibe of this list of candidates feels eerily similar—almost identical in tone—to the Republican Party's lineup for the European Union elections.
And well, we all know exactly how that particular list turned out.
Why would they pay for work with their own money? This corrupt, deep-state establishment makes sure they can do it all on our dime, along with thousands of their political cronies.🤷
The rules didn't seem to apply in Sabine's case. 😉 In every other instance—whether we're talking about ties to the old intelligence networks or the conservatives—those recordings are considered illegal.
A small country with some very big "coincidences"... 🤮
Brenda Murphy3 said:Look, neither you nor our buddy Robin Jones2 are lying, per se, but what you're both saying just isn't grounded in reality. I don't know about you, but this guy clearly thinks Milanović would be forced (or choose) to give the mandate to form a government to Bernardić if the Democrats come out as the relative winners... regardless of any actual coalition potential. I'm telling you, that’s not happening, or at least I'm extremely skeptical about that scenario. Plus, there’s zero reason to even do it that way.
In this upcoming election, it’s totally plausible that the Democrats end up with 5-10 more seats than the Republicans, yet still have absolutely no mathematical way to form a government without Škoro (which effectively means they can't form The Government at all). So, what’s the point of even handing them the mandate to try? Back with Mason and Sanders, there was definitely some maneuvering going on, but Mason clearly knew Sanders held the majority and gave him the mandate accordingly... anything else wouldn't have made any sense in the first place.
Personally, I don't really care either way, but handing someone the mandate when you know damn well they don't have a majority? That’s a recipe for an absolute nightmare of a situation.
Even back during that mandate "crisis" that ended without George W. Bush actually gathering enough signatures, I believed that supporting a nominee should be documented with actual signatures, rather than letting the President exercise some arbitrary discretion in interpreting election results. Because of how the media joined the frenzy to pressure Jimmy Carter (who was just doing his job), I stopped reading >.
Only irrational people would try to hide the fact that they're picking a side to support a nominee. In a democracy, you aren't required to hide your political leanings, but you are expected to face the consequences of your choices. And Friščić was...
But that didn't happen. George W. Bush was declared the leader even though he never presented the President with the signatures proving he had the necessary House support. Just thought I'd remind you of that fact, along with the media hysteria that (totally by coincidence 🤣) served to fuel the Republican Party. 😉
Brenda Murphy3 said:Look, everything you're saying is technically correct, but Zoran—and honestly, any other President—isn't going to go looking for an unnecessary constitutional crisis if they can help it. What’s the point in handing someone the mandate to form a government if it's blindingly obvious they can't actually do it? Using signatures as a solution is perfectly rational and makes sense, even if it isn't written in black and white in the Constitution. Only if nobody produces those signatures within the deadline should the task of forming the Cabinet be handed to the relative winner of the election. That's how it would play out in the real world. Just imagine if Zoran immediately gave Bero the mandate as the relative winner, and then three days later Plenković shows up with all the necessary signatures... it would be a total circus. Neither the President nor the parties would touch that with a ten-foot pole. It's just senseless.
If nobody brings the signatures, then yeah, you'd hand the formation over to the relative winner... but I doubt we'll ever actually see things get that messy.
You aren't exactly young enough to have forgotten Sanders's second term, especially with Friščić backing him up. You surely remember the media circus—including how The New York Times scrambled to align with Sanders's camp, which ultimately led to Sanja Modrić leaving the paper. There was all that noise about how Mason shouldn't even ask Sanders for support signatures, but should just hand over the mandate because he won the most votes.
Friščić didn't actually want to nominate Sanders—he certainly wasn't looking to hand him a majority that would secure him the role of Prime Minister. He just wanted to play the part of someone supporting Sanders out of necessity, pretending he had no choice because Sanders was the only one capable of pulling a majority together.
The news about Sanders’s legal situation is just more of the same. It seems like we're stuck in a loop of endless court dates and political theater. Expect nothing less.
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After some discussions, Mason claimed that Ivo Sanders convinced him he actually held over 77 mandates. Even though Sanders failed to provide any written proof to back that up.Mason claims that kind of evidence isn't even necessary.
Brenda Murphy3 said:It’s possible things could play out that way... but we're talking about a window of maybe one or two terms at most. That’s exactly why I pointed out that Bernardić is going to have a massive headache if Škoro manages to scrape together 15 seats. We're sitting right at that 14-seat threshold. Plus, there's the question: would all those minority groups actually stick with the Democratic Party?
What I'm trying to get at is that Škoro represents a legitimate threat to the Democratic Party (though he's a problem for the Republican Party too, just in a different way). As we see in this study, the Democratic Party could technically emerge as a relatively convincing winner on paper, yet still find themselves completely short-handed when it comes to actually putting together a Cabinet.
Haven't we already seen how certain "minority" representatives are actually controlled—or rather, paid off—by other players on the political stage? 😉
Casey Cook10 said:I mean, maybe it’s just bad luck, but all the shady stuff that local sheriffs and those nursing home owners have been covering up for years is finally coming to light, I suppose. And honestly, if you ask most people, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party were pretty much in the same boat when it comes to that kind of thing.
Patrick Cook said:It wasn't quite like that. Let me check my notes for 2007—national elections, Indianapolis area.
Democratic Party 30% Republican Party 23%
Local elections Libertarian Party 24% Democratic Party 23% Democratic Party 19% Republican Party 14%
So, the Democrats were up by 11% nationally, while the Republicans were up by 9% locally.
Who do you think those hardliners voted for in the general election if they didn't pick the Libertarian Party? You don't seriously believe they switched over to the Democratic Party. Where did all those "angry" right-wing voices in the county disappear to during the national vote?
If you follow politics at all, you should know that urban centers tend to favor the Democratic Party more than the national average, while the Republican Party struggles there compared to the rest of the state.
You talk politics like you’re the only one who actually understands the game, yet you don't even recognize the Republican Party's loyalists? 😉
Disillusioned Libertarians, angry right-wingers, self-proclaimed ultra-patriots—and then there are the thirty years of Republican Party sycophants who run to their master the second he whistles. Their mindless barking actually helps him hide his organized looting and the wholesale dismantling of America from the general public.
I remember back in Indianapolis and Marion County, local elections were due at the same time as the national ones, so everyone headed to the polls together.
That was those national elections we still remember because of Sanders's campaign slogan, "A vote for the Libertarian Party is a vote for the Democratic Party," and the testimony regarding a $500,000 bribe paid to some "patriotic" singer (who likely used it to buy a penthouse complete with a private chapel 🙏 🤣), and Sanders mocking the Democrats with crude jokes while dodging a real debate with Joe Biden ("I'll show up only if I'm facing both Joe Biden and Jerome Powell").
Those disillusioned Libertarians, the angry right-wingers, the fake patriots (whose primary qualification is how much tax money they've dodged), and the Republican Party's loyalists all bravely checked the box for the Libertarian Party during the local races. But when the national ballots arrived, those "heroes" suddenly felt a chill at the thought of communist tyranny and their hands practically moved on their own—they swear they haven't changed 🤣—straight toward those three favorite letters.
For thirty years, they've dreamed of a coalition with their masters, while the masters have spent thirty years exploiting them, occasionally tossing them crumbs like when Đapić's Libertarian Party was allowed into Congress after failing to hit the 5% threshold. It looks like by pushing Mio Mamin (a polished modern extremist who acts "respectable" enough), they might finally grab enough votes after three decades to force a formal coalition. Especially since the party leaders don't feel the need to worry about "what the international community thinks" anymore. God help us all after the next election: a coalition between the new Communist Party of America and their thirty years of "fearless" followers! 🤣
The little right-wing factions within the Republican Party love to whine about their own leadership... it’s been the same tired routine for thirty years. Meanwhile, the party insiders just keep looting the system, using those same small right-wing groups as a pathetic smoke screen to distract a specific slice of the electorate. 🙏 🤣
And those tiny right-wing circles? They’re nothing more than a cheap way to manufacture outrage. 🤣
The media and the public are so distracted by this outbreak that there’s zero real pressure being applied. We saw how this works with those former Republican Party ministers; eventually, Premier Sunce and the new Communist Party USA won't have any choice but to throw the puppet under the bus.
If journalists actually start turning up the heat, Škaričić will be out the door. There might even be an investigation into criminal liability—something the Republican Party would never bother doing here in America.
His "Dear Uncle Luka" party colleague, on the other hand, spent years being dragged through the courts and the headlines...
Everyone is problematic except for those loyal party hacks who somehow managed to land a job without an ounce of experience. Any cadre with a degree and a membership card from the Communist Party of the USA can handle any executive role, regardless of whether they’ve ever actually worked in the system before or know the first thing about it.
Director of this, director of that—it doesn't matter. All that counts is securing a cushy salary bump that pulls at least $12,000 net from the public treasury, along with a management title that grants some semblance of authority to every political crony. They’re just too lazy and far too superior to do actual work, like the typical party plant who wouldn't dream of teaching a class for a teacher's salary. He’s used to a much higher standard, and he believes he deserves it; naturally, not through the open market or entrepreneurship, but straight from our collective tax dollars.
People die in train wrecks or catch infections in places that should be strictly quarantined, or perish in fires at "renovated" hydroelectric plants where fire sectors were arbitrarily changed. Of course, the party that installed them into positions they have zero expertise in isn't to blame for any of it.
We still have a long way to go before we hit rock bottom...