He doesn’t fucking care. The whole campaign was about doing and saying whatever was needed to get elected so that he could avoid lawsuits, make a profit, and dismantle government. Rich and powerful supported him because they saw ways for themselves to get more rich and more powerful. The richest man on the planet went all in, and now is personally helping to eliminate government agencies that were investigating his own businesses. They don’t care that the public gets unhappy, they’ve served their purpose.
This isn’t a surprise, it’s their plan going as intended.
It’s a surprise to the utter dipshits in the public, who thought either that he would MAKE AMERICA GREAT, or that things couldn’t possibly get worse in these wretched United States of America, so it didn’t matter if a fascist was elected.
No argument, it’s a surprise to the morons who were manipulated into voting for the guy, but most everyone else saw what was happening.
They should have thought more about his agenda beyond nodding along to his lies before voting for him. Although most people under-anticipated the insanity that has come to transpire, arguably making Trump’s first term look tame in comparison, any level-headed person should still have been able to recognize the dangers inherent to the right’s extremist rhetoric before the election and voted against it.
Just goes to show how easily swayed so many social media addicted Americans are, and although many of them might not admit it, tolerant of xenophobia and transphobia to the point of seeking perceived short-term gains at the expense of the civil rights and wellbeing of millions of their fellow Americans.
Did we though? There was a whole lot of legally cheating (gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc.) and maybe some not so legal cheating as well by his election and judge minions.
It doesn’t really matter imo, fascism is not something that necessarily gets voted in or out of power. Its a symptom of and reaction to systemic failures that attempts to preserve capitalism by whatever means necessary. It isn’t something brought about by individuals or imposed upon the public.
Name one other person that could do the things trump is doing. No one is that ballsy, has that much fan base, or is in bed with Putin the way he is.
If it was not Trump someone else would take the mantle because the system needs a person like him to preserve it. I could not name someone because Trump exists and took that position so that no one else had to.
It doesn’t really matter imo, fascism is not something that necessarily gets voted in or out of power. Its a symptom of and reaction to systemic failures that attempts to preserve capitalism by whatever means necessary.
This old canard. God forbid problems have any other causes. Loop it all back to capitalism, like evangelicals seeing Satan everywhere.
It should not have even been close. That is the problem.
Dems couldn’t have run a worse campaign if they tried.
and people don’t want to acknowledge that maybe they did, because “both sides” is a fucking meme to stop you from looking behind the curtain.
Americas owners got exactly what they paid for and the people think it was their idea.
Get rid of FPTP to open the door to third parties in the US.
They didn’t vote for Trump, though. The election was stolen.
What lies. Trump was openly a piece of human shit and voters got what they voted for. The people that voted for him do get to take responsibility for the complete shit show we will experience going forward.
#WOMP WOMP
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That’s because fascists make you look at a problem and then suggest themselves as the solution. Whatever problem ruffles the most feathers will be part of their campaign. In Trumps case it’s immigrants, deep state, and wokeism. The rest of his agenda gets ignored. Tax cuts for the rich, power to the president, imperialism, etc. It’s all meaningless as long as you are mad at something.
Bullshit, they do.
At this point, he’s not only irreprarably gutting and destroying everything for consumers, everything for the environment, etc, he is also beheading the military to ensure he can just stay in power after these four years end.
Nobody does anything, everyone let it happen. Yeah yeah, sometimes someone resigns in protest, making it even easier for trump to do all this, and sometimes someone even speaks up and says the obvious: “I think this is bad!” Oooooh, color me impressed.
Trump is speed running the USA to a dictatorship and with now the military gutted, I’d say its too late to stop him.
Where from there? Once he has full control over the armed forces what are his limits? He can simply subjugate any country he wants. Don’t want to be my slaves? Let me obliterate your capital and ask again. I truly see this as an option.
Think I’m crazy? Have you been paying attention? You have christofascists in charge who literally want to see the world end so that “Christ will return” or some delusional shit.trumo is willing to do whatever, no holds barred, no limits so far. He’s threatened Panama, Denmark and Canada and I guarantee you he’ll be back to get those countries whether they want to or not.
I’m Canadian, this situation scares the shit out of me.
I think that right now, the USA is a bigger threat to the world than China and Russia have ever been. Its military is multiple times the size of everyone else combined, they have no sense of consequences for actions so nuking a nation is fine, what is the worst they can happen? Hell, I fully expect him to drop some on Mexico City just to send a message and for fun because the racists will feel there are too many Mexicans. Again, think I’m crazy? Do you really believe that Cheeto and his theocrazy guys would not be capable of doing this?
They very very much are.
I’m at the point where I think Canada, Panama are fucked within the year. Make no mistake though, the rest of the world will follow
Should edit title to:
49.8%out of the63.9%of eligible Americans that could be bothered to vote.lazily web searched result article.
Fuck the Electoral College.
Breaking News: Americans are idiots
Americans are racist, sexist, pieces of humans shit in the majority. They have proven it by voting for Puttin’s rapist Orange Turd.
They just couldn’t vote for a black woman.
It’s obviously pretty stupid, but we shouldn’t act like the Americans are especially dumb, this is happening all over the globe.
People see: “economy is bad” so people vote out whoever is in power and vote in whoever screams the loudest that they have a magical fix. I would be shocked if the average trump, AFD etc. voter spends more then 15 minutes researching their vote (outside the endless stream of political content on yt and tiktok).
True, only with Trump we already had a round of him trying to run us into the ground while trying to sell off everything not bolted down, while also golfing like he was on the PGA tour (quantity NOT quality), and up-charging his secret service detail and foreign “reps” that stayed at all his properties and funneling all that illegal money back into his coffers while funding everything he did on tax payer dollars.
But yeah, he was clearly the choice to “stick it to the man”.
Oh please, for instance AfD got 20% of the vote, and have no real power, because Germany has an actually functioning democracy.
But yes we hear a lot of warnings against AfD, because they are like MAGA, difference is they can’t disrupt everything with lies like in USA. Because in EU you have responsibility when using your freedom of speech. You can’t parrot some idiot making history falsification, ands claim you are just “reporting” it. Unfortunately the old East Germany is unhappy with the state of things, and want to go back to before the country was split. Which means they want Nazi Germany back.this is happening all over the globe.
This is textbook false equivalence.
Exactly. Americans are very quick to deflect and turn to whataboutism when held responsible for their actions.
Dude is from the Netherlands, homey.
It’s obviously pretty stupid, but we shouldn’t act like the Americans are especially dumb, this is happening all over the globe.
Is it really, though? Which other first-world country would you say is even remotely as far down the rabbit hole of idiocy as the USA?
Did you forget about the previous Polish fascist piss government? Or Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, and there’s probably more that I’m forgetting.
Argentina, Brazil, Germany to an extent, France is flirting with it, Italy, the Netherlands (my country) is fucking around and finding out, Hungary has been at it since before it was cool, Indonesia elected a literal was criminal. And that’s all the cases I know about.
Other than Hungary those examples are not even in the same postal code as what’s happening in the US, let alone the same ballpark. Argentina and Indonesia were always a clusterfuck, and were never first-world countries.
Canada has also been flirting with it, and UK kind of already did it in a different way. There’s probably quite a few more. I’m glad you’re at least bringing up the diversity of these populations; even Russia has some good citizens ultimately hopeless at situations that are out of their control (although US has some ways to go before they round up all dissonance).
So, they are just dumb right? He said exactly what he was going to do.
