There is no more quiet part anymore [Feb 2024, referring to Obama]
There is no more quiet part anymore [Feb 2024, referring to Obama]
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It was awkward and racist, but if you watch the video the crowd cheers as he instantly relates it to money. I'm tellin' ya, we're fucked if every Dem and Trump hater dont come out of the woodworks to put this guy in his place. His support is way more entrenched than Lemmy will have you believe. We have to descend upon the polls like the Golden Horde.
I was shocked to hear my next door neighbor last night tell me "be prepared if Kah-mala wins. They think January 6th was bad? That was a drunk frat party compared to what's coming. She never even got the nomination. I got my guns ready and I know people with more than that. If these democrats steal the election in November, you better be ready. There's going to be blood in the streets."
You reported him to the FBI, right?
In Texas? For what? Being too Texan?
It'd be more efficient to drive to the nearby FBI campus and insult someone's mother if I wanted to get harassed by a federal agency.
I wish I were joking and I wish I weren't so scared.
The F in FBI stands for Federal. They don't give a fuck what State they're in.
But the workers are still average Americans.
There's nothing average about an FBI agent.
She never even got the nomination
Well, she did though. There was a whole convention for it. But of course facts don't poll well with that demographic.
"They didn't even vote for her, they voted for the other guy in the primaries."
Me complaining about how fucked up two-party primaries are in the first place
"It's in the constitution! They claim this is a democra-..."
Me tuning out until his stupid words turned into violent words
The convention didn't have the right color fringe on their flag, so it doesn't count. Or something, I dunno.
compared to what's coming [...] got my guns ready [...] blood in the streets
Never ceases to amaze me how people boast about “what's coming” like they wouldn't be the first to turn into cannon fodder were something to actually happen
I'm not saying they're not going to try, but it will be much harder for them to do anything like they did last time on Jan. 6th. They had police, the DOJ, local officials and all kinds of state help last time while trump was still in office. This time, a lot of them have been put in jail and are certainly on lists. You have to be willing to put your world on the line and can't claim innocence, so you'd have to be an idiot to try anything. I understand how it feels to be surrounded by the worst of them, but I really don't think that's the deal.
January 6th and certifications are a known issue. I'm more worried about domestic terrorism from the anger. Hopefully they're loud about what they're planning, the current administrations seems to take that stuff seriously.
I can't do anything but watch across the pond and wonder how the US can survive whatever the fuck happens there.
It would be entertaining if it was a TV show.
Be happy you have the ocean in between. Canadian here. It's bleeding north as well. Expect an even more fucked up shit show.
Fortunately, it's a TV show for you.
Sadly, I mastered the ability to feel empathy.
Hmm, you might not fit in here then, we like to shoot first and ask questions later.
The good news is that most people don't care what the president says, so as long as Trump doesn't start WW3 or a civil war, we should be alright. If not, well, at least we had a good run.
True, but I don't want him to sell my neighboring states to Daddy Putin
What, you don't believe he's mastered The Art of the Deal?
Honestly, the US should stick to either funding or not funding other countries' defensive wars, we really shouldn't be sitting at the table unless both sides request it.
My impression as someone from Europe is that people wouldn't even care if Trump started any war, as long as it isn't named "Civil War" or "WW3"
Fair. A civil war an WW3 impacts us directly, any other war would just run up our national debt and therefore isn't an issue. Bombing brown people is fine, we draw the line at shortages at the store (that's why we to war against Covid, after all).
That's a short sighted view of the world. We are very much affected when morons across the pond vote a madman into power.
Fair, but my point is that most of the BS that happens here doesn't really impact anyone, such as:
- Jan 6 - would've mattered if Trump retained power, but he didn't
- mass shootings - blown out of proportion IMO (lots of misleading statistics), but also doesn't impact anyone
- LGBT issues - some states have truly terrible policies, but in general, things are pretty okay; I live in a red state too
I'm certainly no fan of Trump and have voted against him every election so far and plan to this election, but I also don't think he's nearly as dangerous as the posts that get attention here on Lemmy make him out to be. He's certainly dangerous, but I think it's more from a "stupid economic and foreign relations policy" perspective than the "next Hitler" perspective that so many online try to label him as.
The net result of a Trump vs Harris presidency probably won't impact too many people outside the US. Neither seems particularly keen to start a massive war, and they both are championing policies that will likely make the economy worse (Trump's tariffs and Harris' price fixing and corporate tax hikes). Harris will probably be less bad overall for both Americans and non-Americans, but I highly doubt Trump will do anything truly atrocious, he really does want to be seen as "the best President" or whatever.
I certainly won't convince you, and my post was largely meant to be funny, so take this for whatever it's worth (probably what you paid for it).
I certainly appreciate where you're coming from. But whereas I've no idea exactly what Biden did during his tenure, Trump's mandate was a nearing constant barrage of WTF proclamations and online logorrhea, with some of his delirium actually affecting me personally and I for one, as a foreigner, like to have quiet, well-behaved neighbours. So if we could have another four years of peace and quiet, that would be nice.
another four years of peace and quiet
Yes, that would be nice.
That said, for all of the nonsense Trump spewed, his actual changes were pretty mild:
- increased deficit and probably contributed to COVID inflation (cash handouts and whatnot tend to cause inflation)
- capital punishment - US previously had a moratorium on executions, which he lifted
- immigration - reduced number of refugees admitted, increased border security; family separation was pretty awful too
- trade - withdrew and renegotiated some agreements, levied tariffs; trade deficit increased
- Russia - weakened sanctions on Russia
- Afghanistan - negotiated withdrawal of US troops
- Iran - withdrew from nuclear arms agreement and increased sanctions
Most of that doesn't impact anyone, except maybe the weakened sanctions against Russia encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine. But that's really hard to say, since the invasion didn't happen until 2 years into Biden's presidency, so it probably would have happened regardless. the trade negotiations were mostly directed at Asian trade partners (mostly China).
He was a terrible president, yes, but most of the impact to regular people was him spewing rhetoric on social media. I honestly just ignored that noise and was relatively happy during his presidency (and the tax cuts were nice).
You guys should get your own fascist rise to power in check before worrying about ours. The amount of surveillance you've got going on is nothing short of Orwellian.
Europe is fucked as well dude. The far right is on the rise.
It is, but it's not like "Nazi Benny Hill trying to keep himself afloat" kind of absurd.
And besides that, the people voting for them are not completely removed from reality. They're assholes, but I can see a path back. Trump supporters though? Uh, that's gonna be hard.
The British Union Of Fascists or whatever they were calling themselves at the time (BNP, NF, UKIP, Reform UK...) were literally chased out of Liverpool (I think) to the Benny Hill theme!
I could enjoy that. Got a link?
Best I can do is a Poke article with an embedded shitter video I'm afraid https://www.thepoke.com/2018/11/05/flashback-far-right-chased-liverpool-benny-hill-theme/
Thanks, that was a great example in how to handle these assholes ❤️
Oh shit this is real? I thought i was at a movie theater in the front row and non-americans were all just sitting really far back.
Me when I head to the polls next month.