Happy New Year fellow Push Squareites, hope your 2023 has been going well so far. 2022 was a great year for gaming and I can't wait to see what surprises this year brings us on top of some great looking games that have already been announced.
I've been loving these stories about Thor the Walrus turning up around the country. It's like he decided to take a holiday to the UK and is doing a coastal road (sea?) trip.
I know I am personifying the walrus but i am finding it quite fun!
I played Kung Fu Rider PS3 just now, one of very unique game on PS3 with PS3 Move to play and you take control of either Toby or Karin to pass through the mafia gangs in Hong Kong to the van by riding a wheeled stool or ridiculous vehicles to slide like Tony Hawk games. 😆
And this was my candid reaction from the gameplay. 😂
Duh... This was the only my B score.
The others just only disgusting D scores. 😆
@LN78 The media is positioning it as hardliners vs moderates, but the truth is that the GOP doesn't have a moderate wing anymore, and the few that are left are being primaried or leaving of their own volition. McCarthy is a hardcore Trump fashy, but the thing is that, in this sort of political environment, there's always someone more extreme who doesn't think your particular brand of right-wing politics is pure enough. It's an environment where loyalty doesn't exist, no matter what your accomplishments are (Mitch McConnell is becoming increasingly unpopular nationally among Republicans despite effectively handing the Supreme Court to the far-right on a silver platter, for example).
I would say this is as good an example as any of Trump's waning influence on politics, btw, considering the man explicitly endorsed McCarthy for Speaker recently.
In terms of what happens if this keeps going on? Presumably, at some point, Republicans would have to reach across the aisle for support and find someone sufficiently tolerable that Democrats would be willing to vote for. I don't think it'll come to that, though.
It seems like this is going to be a game of political chicken between the anti-McCarthy bloc, who obviously has immense power atm, and McCarthy himself. Either the dissidents fold, or McCarthy backs down.
It's pretty funny. Despite being the minority party, the Democratic candidate for House Speaker is actually getting more votes than McCarthy. That's how close the split is in the House.
Even funnier is that McCarthy had already moved his stuff into the Speaker's suite.
Funniest of all is that the 19 Republicans who are causing all this drama are just doing this to be a nuisance. The guy they chose to give their votes to, Jim Jordan, was chosen precisely because he made a speech trying to convince them to support McCarthy, so they voted for him out of spite.
@LN78 A fractured ethno-nationalist party would be preferable to a united one, for sure. The party is likely still freaking out internally about the absolute drubbing they received during the mid-terms, and stunts like this aren't going to help them attain the sort of cohesion they'll need to be politically effective.
At this point, I hope Trump continues to refuse to bend the knee, as his influence on conservative politics is now a net negative for them.
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@EaglyTheKawaiiShika We tend to self-moderate here anyway. Politics isn’t usually discussed unless it’s something purely intellectual like the above exchange or pretty much universally agreed upon like basic human rights or Trump being a fascist loser. Something that’s a bit more divisive will get shut down but I can only really think of that happening once if you discount times when just one person (usually their only posts on the forum) tried to start something and were drowned out.
@LN78 I wouldn't call them Trump loyalists (I mean, they'd totally go back to sucking up if he regained his mojo, but I mean ideologically). Trump loyalists probably would have heeded his calls to vote for McCarthy, right? This all makes Trump look very weak atm compared to where we were a few years back, where he had an almost cult-like sway over elected officials in his party. This is a power play against a politician they really don't like, but also against the "GOP establishment" more generally.
As far as legislative gridlock goes, they definitely won't be launching any of their million bogus investigations into Hunter Biden and impeachment votes against Joe Biden just yet, and this does make them look chaotic and disorganized, but in the last decade or so, obstruction has been THE goal of the GOP, so I'm not sure how damaging that is to them nationally unless it causes enough chaos to swing more voters against the GOP. But in terms of not passing bills, not passing government funding, not tending to the basic needs of the nation? They'd be obstructing all of that anyway, since it'll damage the country, and they can just blame that on the president. It's the reason why we've had debt ceiling drama every time a Democratic president has been in office since the Tea Party movement first swept into power.
After all, Dems hold the Senate and the White House, so it's not like they'd be able to push any crazy hyper-partisan nonsense legislatively anyway.
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika "It’s a bad look other countries are mocking the US as usual."
I wouldn't worry about that mate, hating the USA is seen as a requirement in some social and political circles no matter how the country behaves.
I think it's because the USA is a largely successful country and some people just hate that.
It happens in England, there's a contingent of English people who utterly loathe England, its past, its present, its culture and any other country is preferable. They're delusional and have absolutely zero nuance in their argument but they exist.
The point of this long post is basically people are just going to hate you and your country for reasons both genuine and invented, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it as nothing will change their mind.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Seneca
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