I genuinely can't imagine how this pedophile billionaire could sound more out-of-touch and apathetic. Anyone who still approves of him is a fucking idiot.
That’s the point. He’s not talking about himself or his fellow swampdwellers. He’s talking about the plebs, who will have to get used to having less while working harder - because Trump and his oligarch buddies have taken it all.
Trump and his oligarch buddies have taken it all.
And they demand MORE.
Anyone who still approves of him is a fucking idiot.
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Always has been.
No, it's the America you lot voted for.
How's it feel being great again?
I voted for Kamala Harris. Before that I would have voted for Bernie Sanders.
Kamala Harris targeted Republican women for a good portion of her campaign, and dropped a lot of the very popular Democratic platform, resulting in millions of Democrats sitting this one out.
Do you think this is because they are stupid? Why would they do this if not to take a knee? And I still thought that Trump would lose, I couldn't believe that he would be re-elected. I'm never cynical enough.
Imagine if she ran on a $15 an hour minimum wage increase, helping many millions of our poorest Americans, with over 60% voter support (not Democrat). Our consumer economy would get millions of new consumers participating.
Ds and Rs are now 30% each, independents are 40% of the voters. Both parties know that they cannot win without a majorly popular independent issue. Why was this ignored?
Oh, almost forget, yes, I know, BoTh SiDeS and so on.
Imagine if she ran on a $15 an hour minimum wage increase
To be extremely clear. THAT WAS ONE OF HER POLICIES
I have been an Unafilliated Independent since I registered to vote in 1977. Neither party can win without me, but they can't count on my vote. If they want my vote, they have to EARN it, and they even seldom try.
In the nicest possible way, and only judging from this post, you are part of the problem. Hear me out:
They don't actually need you. Either party. There's a solid base of voters who are going to vote blue or stay home, or vote red or stay home. If you require being courted, then you're either effectively random, staying home, or lean towards one side over the other.
You're possibly upset that none of your choices are good. That's pretty true. 'both sides' have reasons to not vote for them. You need to help fix that: pick a side, whichever one you lean towards, and go make the choices better.
Local politics (the ones at the precinct, county, state levels) decide how we choose our candidates in the larger races by deciding who represents us on those larger stages internally to the party. Example: the general public was not polled for the dnc chair election, it was only people put into dnc leadership, who were voted for, several steps down, by people at the precinct level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Democratic_National_Committee_chairmanship_election
Is there corporate bullshit here? almost certainly. Can it be overcome? Only if people are paying attention and care to get involved. Voting only in November elections and expecting the candidates to cater to you specifically will not resolve the problems.
The candidates don't need to work for your vote. You need to work for better candidates. Or shut up and vote for the least harm.
BoTh SiDeS and so on.
One might argue the sides are Labor and Capital, but we only have representatives from the Capital Party to choose from every year
The vast majority of Americans didn't vote for this. Two thirds of us didnt vote for this. If you think this is the voters' fault, you dont understand the world very well, my friend.
1/3 of them didn’t vote, which is very much a vote in and of itself and don’t dare absolve them by letting them continue their “I didn’t vote for this” narrative. You fucking did the moment you chose not to vote.
A great Canadian philosopher once noted, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"
Wise words. He also said "I will choose the path that's clear," and I feel like none of the people who didn't vote were paying attention. It's been pretty clear, to anyone who's actually paying attention, what's been going on for a long time now.
The majority didn't vote because there are flaws in the voting systems we have. They are disenfranchised, not at fault. I dont blame a poor person for being poor, but I mean, if you want to blame people for being subjugated, thats your prerogative.
I voted for Harris. What else was I supposed to do?
In the average Lemmy twat's view, try to overthrow the government at the cost of your life and possibly your family's while they pontificate on the internet about Americans not doing enough.
I mean, you're not wrong. They are full of brave, anonymous invective.
Work on shifting USA culture from alienating individualism, which says "I did a thing, so don't blame me", to a collectivist understanding that society requires mutuality of action and responsibilities.
If my co-citizens fail to vote, or actively vote against our interests, then that's on me, to the extent of my abilities to contribute.
TL;DR: talk to people about civics
Me too, man. Stay vigilant.
Im watching to news, ready to do what makes sense. If ICE comes to town, I'm there baby.
America has a two party system where both parties are controlled by capitalists and the entire system is designed to keep the populous divided and distracted so that the capitalists can continue to extract wealth. In such a system, participation itself is the moral choice, not the choice between one side or the other.
Voters give legitimacy to the false dichotomy that capitalists present us.
I'm confused by your comment. Are you saying two thirds didn't want this specifically, or are you counting non-voters as opponents of Trump?
My guess is that most of the non-voters, if forced to vote, would have voted Trump. He had name recognition. These types of citizens couldn't name the current Vice President any more than they could find the USA on a world map.
Unlikely voters, as opposed to likely voters which are the pollsters darlings, are low information, "just trying to pay the rent" kind of people. Why a low information voter with no reason to believe their life would change with either result would by default be a Trump voter speaks to your personal prejudices.
How does it feel to be a smug, unhelpful asshole?
We didn't all vote for the the orange clown.
It's just a reminder that the American people are the problem. Even when Trump is gone, the people will remain, so it must remain the top priority of everyone who values democracy and human rights to reduce the power that the United States exercises on the world.
No, it's a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
This is the United States of Consumerism gosh darn it and my child deserves at least 30 Chinese made toys.
Only soulless monsters don’t feel the warm embrace of conspicuous and gratuitous consumption
When asked to respond to the president’s call for parents to possibly limit doll purchases when approached while returning to his orifice. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, a fellow Republican who has a 5-year-old daughter, quipped that he wished someone would say the same to her.
Appropriately funny typo, but the punctuation is fucked up, too. Does anyone proofread these pieces?
So, did he recently spout off about dolls and pencils again? Because this all happened in May:
Trump says U.S. girls 'could be very happy' with lots fewer dolls under new tariffs
If he did repeat the same nonsense it would be extra wacko this time.
He did. It's so weird that he uses the number 37, specifically, because every time I hear it, I think of Clerks, LOL:
Pencils and dolls, so hot this holiday season of 1934.
Krasnov swings, back and forth, from fascism to communism.
Watch it, some brickhead will be along soon, claiming the two are the same!
But Kamala laughed funny.
Maybe not the Soviet Union. More like Putin's Russia, as proxied by Cheeto McPedo.
When his followers have to stand in line for whatever slop Walmart is willing to sell them that week, they'll blame Democrats.
It goes without saying that Trump, who is friends with that communist Mamdani would want to make America more like the USSR /s
He only used one colour when he drew his pervy picture of a young girl for Epstein.
"They're eating the pencils! They're eating the erasers!".
They're eating, THEY'RE EATING THE LEAD.
Well, sort of. When you give one man supreme power to do whatever he wants it kind of turns into a dictatorship.
What a dull colourless life he must live with only 2 pencils
No, he has the most pencils. HUGE beautiful pencils. He doesn’t want us to have more than two.
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