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"I'm not showing up to your party."
"Well fuck you, I'm not inviting you then!"
OK?
Seriously, Americans, how the fuck did this guy win two elections? Please make it make sense.
If you are brave enough watch fox news and it might explain why. The facts run scared, the conspiracy theories are king, and hate grows on trees.
Grandma and grandpa didn’t die fast enough.
Bullshit, Trump won the young votes too.
Yay pod casts.
Thanks Joe Rogan!
It was the young vote that did it sadly.
Yes, and I'm so tired of hearing people blame every political illness on the older generations.
In the 70's we had peace movements and protests to make a better world like nothing you see today.
As I see it, it's the young generations that are failing today. There is no idealism, no goals for a better future that they fight for.
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He's basically an amalgamation of all the worst qualities of the average American. He represents more Americans than he doesn't. This is something we Americans need to come to terms with since a lot of us are in denial about that.
yup, it really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone truly familiar with america as a whole, anyone not stuck in a bubble.
dumb as shit and the only reason for relevance is his daddy's name, yet completely convinced of his own superiority. that shit is about as universal as it gets in america. and it's the perfect setup to run a puppet government
the extra funny/sad part is that all it would take for dems or anyone else to beat em is just...be authentic, for once in their miserable lives. that's literally all it takes, but these coastal elites who have been trained their whole lives to be career politicians are completely incapable of that because they're barely human anymore.
had kamala stuck to her "free universal healthcare" shtick instead of flip-flopping immediately once her campaign advisors told her that was polling bad with their donors, she would have won.
americans were promised "hope and change" by Obama and all they got was more corporate kickbacks and pointless wars, establishment politicians seem convinced things can still "return to normal" (ie. unsustainable ratfucking) when trump is gone which is why they're doing the absolute minimum to stop him and co. now
personally...i think shit goes from bad to much worse when/if he croaks mid term.
She didn't really flip flop. She had a working plan to take steps toward universal healthcare/Medicare for all that acknowledged the political realities of instituting such a system with republican pushback, but the Dems genuinely do suck ass at messaging so that got lost in the sauce. Her platform never really shifted throughout the campaign, just the PR. Which yeah was a bad move but the fix was already in anyway.
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Well said. The establishment learned nothing.
Maybe the mold will be broken I suspect false vote rigging indictments coming on dems fall 2027 in the lead up to the presidential election.
Might be able to retake it in the succession fight, but not with newsome running as status quo. Even if they did squeak a win past r cheating, denial, they would do nothing with it, be unpopular, hand it right back.
As if keeping things from getting as bad was acceptable, we need a New Deal.
Either we give it to them, or fake populist fascists will.
i do allow myself a smidge of optimism, with mamdani winning NYC's mayoral election.
if an open and honest socialist can win major seat in the most crooked/establishment heart of america, then progressives can win any seat in the country.
Not just progressive, we need reform candidates of all types, to fit their districts, cooperating in agreement on working people not getting screwed by the rich without consent.
And a citizenry organized on our own forums, maybe a Federated thing, where we can cooperate know what we agree on and organize into public and private groups to that effect, finding and grooming candidates that are not sold out cunts being one of those things we agree
i mean...there is no center in the US, all reform is "left" at this point i think. anyone running on a platform of "i want to actually spend your $ on something useful, instead of ratfucking it" is progressive in the US, that's how far the overton window has shifted to the right
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these coastal elites who have been trained their whole lives to be career politicians are completely incapable of that because they're barely human anymore.
Do they also have ivory towers?
81% of the population lives in coastal states. Are you saying inland politicians are more authentic? Or are you playing the classic Republican spiel that them city folk are the cause of all the problems? Because I haven't seen any evidence to back either claim.
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Says the guy emulating him.
Behold, the American in denial. I bet you vote third party too.
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The only viable opposition party is deeply corrupt and doesn't know how to campaign anymore
Americans, how the fuck did this guy win two elections?
This guy is the quintessential american. If you take the average of all United States residents, this is exactly what pops out. Its not surprising at all.
Well, no
You just have to scrape the grease traps of the southern states, and roll that average american together. Most Americans hate these turds
dumb as shit, completely convinced of his own superiority, and his only reason for relevance is his family name. that shit is relatable as fuck to rich/poor alike.
sprinkle in a bit of racism, an incredibly under-educated population, and an extensive propaganda machine and it should be no surprise he wins...mostly just from coming off as "authentic".
his polling was worse when he read from scripts, him going off script on completely batshit insane tangents made him "real" instead of just another career ratfuck politician
and of course the real kicker...most americans are short-sighted and greedy as fuck (which also makes trump relatable) and will just vote for whoever promises them the most $
This is how much enough Americans don’t trust women in leadership roles. They’ll make all sorts of excuses to explain it away, but at the heart, they just don’t like women.
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Love how the media is just accepting that kidnapping a world leader means you own the place, now we're just worried about logistics and investment
I love how journalistic institutions are now framing the annexation of Greenland as "an option" for the administration in the most tepid analysis of potential "costs." I mean, Associated press, what are you doing.
No AP, you meant to say "Unhinged global superpower threatens world stability and possibly world-war with absurd expansionist goals for no fucking reason, US citizens blamed for being fucking dumbasses to let this pile of wood-shavings in a human skinsuit run the country. The cost of doing this would mean plunging the USA into fully being a third-world country with ICBM's and the whole world needs to unite and remove this entire house of fools."
I am souring on mainstream, respected news outlets, using timid, middle-of-the-road language talking about any of this. They are complicit in normalizing this entire destruction of the USA and our potential slide into disaster and suffering around the world because of irresponsible leadership.
I am souring on mainstream, respected news outlets
What do you suppose their job is?
What do you call 9 people having dinner with 1 Nazi? 10 Nazis. At this point, the main stream media is complict in helping the fascists.
Exxon doesn't want to invest... So trump will block them from investing if they don't comply. Art of the deal, folks.
Wow im so tired of winning
Trump has the baton of a 6 year old bully
In other words, guarantee my investment, and the only way MAGA can do that is with a complete takeover and full control of the country.
That's not even a guarantee. We're going to do our best to return Venezuela to Venezuela's control as soon as Trump is gone, I'm sure. And I suspect that government will be disinclined to honor agreements made at the barrel of a gun.
Given the widespread support for the Bolivaran revolution in Venezuela, MAGA is going to have a hard time gaining full control.
Venezuela is one of those countries where a guerilla insurgency could tie up the American military for years, when they'll finally get out after accomplishing nothing but shifting trillions of tax dollars to the military-industrial complex.
So, the system working as intended then.
MAGA faithful will shortly be claiming Trump to be an oil expert. We add this to his other specialisms, including, but not limited to climatologist, genetacist, economist, peace-priziest etc. For some reason, perhaps humility, they play down Racist and Fascist.
That's the correct response from a leader. If someone disagrees with you, penalize them. It's only fair. /s
By telling them they can't do something they just told you they didn't want to do.
For oil companies that help steal Venezuelan resources, I’d like to say I’ll join the boycott …. But I already drive an EV and all the other products generated from that do not have a clear line back to them
Regime change costs money and blood. It would be so funny for oil companies to send a bunch of people down there only for them to get merced
They should send their CEOs to scout it out. I hear there's oil deeeeeep in the woods
"How dare you distract from distraction!! Now people will start talking about all those child rapes I did with my best friend Jeffery Epstein again!!!"
It's wild that people still think that the Trump administration's brazen steps towards world domination are a distraction from the Epstein files.
If anything the Epstein files are the distraction. Even if he's implicated in them, nothing will happen to him. Just like nothing happened to him when he led a violent insurrection, stole classified documents, etc.
Trump watches Landman and obviously knows better than ExxonMobil.
Nice guy Trump
Exxon was just holding out for the us to underwrite loans for the investment there I suspect. Prez probably will as extracting money from the federal government is their primary mission in life, for congress as well, in both parties.
The us will shell out benefits for oil companies to make a killing for no benefit to the us citizens paying for it. Exxon and their investors pay less tax than we do.
Then resistance to foreigners stealing oil and polluting will lead to guerillas and the de facto government, the generals that gave up maduro and stood down on hitting us helicoptors, (no question, the us would not have tried that mission without that agrrement helicoptors are vulnerable to multiple weapons that mobilized ven. had at the ready at one of their most protected sites. Truck mounted machine guns, rpg's, manpads, other shoulder fired russian anti made weapons, etc.) will stamp it out, making paramilitaries to do the collective punishment type death squads through villages around unrest that will be financed through cia fronts in the drug and weapons black markets.
Exxon likely forsees all of that and the liabilities it would bring. The US will likely have to pay them, they kickback to leaders, oil makes them money eventually, with no benefit to us taxpayers or venezuelans, and indeed repression.
Jesus fuck you people and your both sides. Shit is disingenuous and carries water for maga. Fucking without fail every bitch bringing up both sides is either a Russian propagandist or a MAGAt with some shame. And it always reads like copy paste from a gpt because none of y'all can think for yourselves. So. Which are you? Or you just stupid enough to actually think both sides are the same?
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