American Government Thread 2: RIP John McCain, 81

MCP · January 6, 2018, 4:54am

China’s approach is more ambitious. In recent years, it has taken steps to accrue national power on a scale that no country has attempted since the Cold War, by increasing its investments in the types of assets that established American authority in the previous century: foreign aid, overseas security, foreign influence, and the most advanced new technologies, such as artificial intelligence. It has become one of the leading contributors to the U.N.’s budget and to its peacekeeping force, and it has joined talks to address global problems such as terrorism, piracy, and nuclear proliferation.

And China has embarked on history’s most expensive foreign infrastructure plan. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, it is building bridges, railways, and ports in Asia, Africa, and beyond. If the initiative’s cost reaches a trillion dollars, as predicted, it will be more than seven times that of the Marshall Plan, which the U.S. launched in 1947, spending a hundred and thirty billion, in today’s dollars, on rebuilding postwar Europe.

Yea, they know it works, the U.S. did it. Why not repeat at bigger scale?

Also, this got me hungry:

So good.

ShinjiGohan · January 6, 2018, 10:48am

Optimus124 · January 6, 2018, 1:24pm

. . . . but that’s only the US

ShinjiGohan · January 6, 2018, 9:43pm

Does anywhere else even matter?

Spirit_Juice · January 7, 2018, 1:50am

The world revolves around America, so nope.

regulate · January 7, 2018, 4:15am

Taco Bell wins, did you not watch Demolition Man?

Darksakul · January 7, 2018, 4:20am

Only if you value shits that are so nasty you bleed out of your ass hole.

Cyntalan · January 7, 2018, 5:18am

That sounds less like you ate Taco Bell and more like you ate Krusty-Os.

crotchpuncha · January 7, 2018, 5:16pm

You should probably have a doctor check that put, that’s not normal, even for Taco Bell. I think you might have a serious digestiv track problem.

Or your partaking on verbal diarrhea, either way you’re full of shit.

Infernoman · January 7, 2018, 11:46pm

I like how Jewish is there twice

Reticently · January 7, 2018, 11:53pm

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/950071816156041216

CDB2 · January 8, 2018, 1:44am

IS THIS NIGGA FOR REAL?

Wasted · January 8, 2018, 2:03am

Is Michael Wolff for real? Not that I can see, no.

Gravity · January 8, 2018, 2:48am

I believe he would do it. He’s extremely petty. I think his handlers would talk him out of it though.

dodgers2213 · January 8, 2018, 8:54am

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/949983837009924101

Shin_Jr · January 8, 2018, 9:57am

Spoiler

https://img1.etsystatic.com/025/0/7292104/il_570xN.577617449_p7fi.jpg

Azure · January 8, 2018, 9:59am

'Dat Gonorrhea uphill.

dab00g · January 8, 2018, 12:57pm

Trump said the national enquirer is trustworthy and says infowars is reliable

po_pimpus · January 8, 2018, 1:08pm

Cite your sources, children.

There’s enough misinformation and second-hand accusations flying around as is.

Wil · January 8, 2018, 1:09pm

Just say “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” to make people think everything’s okay!