Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[Rorschach]

This is worth an hour of your time...Heather Cox Richardson an exceptional political historian, she dissects the election result holistically and with clarity.

So that was pretty good. She did confirm a lot of my priors with regards to how successfully the current administration legislated and how little credit they got for it. And the disconnect was largely due to the distorted information space we find ourselves in. The right-wing media have constructed their own reality that is pretty much all fiction but with Musk's control of X and other media tools the fiction has spread.

One other thing I thought was interesting was her comment that the only real bulwark left against the worst policies of this incoming fash party might be the state governments themselves. This ties in with something else I read where the prediction was as federalism is dismantled the US might end up in a situation more like the EU, i.e. free trade and travel zone.

 

[Rorschach]

This is powerful stuff in the NZ Parliament.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1857094907640398049

That is great.

 

[Gutter Boy]

That is great.

We need more stuff like this in Westminster. Like Welsh MPs singing Men of Harlech in protest everytime a 20mph speed limit gets introduced, or MPs of Caribbean origin doing some skanking in favour of euthanasia laws.