We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do
We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do
These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.
I like your optimism but I think he was just the test run.
Trump and team don't need to win the election. They just need to make it tainted with enough irregularities that it forms the basis for the entire thing to be called into question. Even if that evidence is created by them. And this time they're more prepared for that outcome. They've had years to work on his scenario.
The court cases and investigations will go on for years.
Doesn't need to win a vote at all.
Hahahahhahahaha you think Trump is the last guy to feel threatened by? The dude was just the starter. There's a whole movement now with tons of corrupt politicians who will try to get a shot at the presidency. I'm thinking about the Florida governor for example.
USA is a country with a lot of inequality, if not rising inequality, so a fertile breeding ground for populists. And it has an ancient voting system that always gives a two party system so perfect for this kind of polarisation. The system with campaign contributions will also make sure nothing changes about inequality and is making things worse. Yeah, it'll happen again.
The voting system is so insane. I mean sure, back in the 18th century it made sense due to the travel required, but the fact that americans still use a voting system from that time says it all really...
You’re right in concept but DeSantis utterly fizzled nationally. Even in Florida he’s aging like last week’s fish.
Trump is still around though. I bet FL man takes a big step up in popularity once that's no longer true.
You mean Dicksantis?
Like. Did people forget how insane everyday was when he was President? Like you never knew what was gonna happen he was always wanting the attention.
I woke up every day worried that we'd nuked Spain overnight.
It's crazy that the vote is apparently close. Really goes to show how many "average" americans have utterly lost any connection to actual reality and have guzzled enough of the kool-aid to believe the weird whacky world of wonders the religious fascists constantly conjure up.
I wonder though, is this ultimately a failure not of the education and internal offices, decades ago? We let schools let people down, leading to them becoming undereducated terrible parents who let their kids down and made them vulnerable to be exploited by republicans and churches and crypto grifters. :(
I'm just going to keep writing this horse until it fucking dies but the very first thing he did was take everything Obama did during his presidency and throw it out the window, including the pandemic playbook.
That playbook would have given us step by step instructions and reactions to deal with any type of suddenly erupting national pandemic like Ebola or coronavirus.
And because of this, which was by all measures a racially motivated attack on Obama, more than 1 million Americans died in a badly managed pandemic.
Trump's racism killed a million Americans.
It undoubtedly exacerbated the problem for the entire world and his total kill count is likely much more than that.
How can you let somebody who genocided millions of people through racism sit in the oval office?
It's a cult. They have people denying COVID ever existed. Heartily rejecting vaccines.
There's just too much to list but it only ever makes sense if you take whatever he's doing as right and readjust everyone around him to work does it ever make sense.
The fact that this election is even close is absolutely insane to me.
Se simply by popular vote because people are supporting that shit, knowingly or unknowingly
exactly what i was thinking about. it was such a tense and shameful period.
I just hope if he loses, it’s by a wide margin so there’s no challenge. Just decisive victory and we can all move on….
Don’t underestimate their tactic. For the republican presidential campaign, they will recognize only one of two outcomes: victory, or election tampering/fraud/manipulation. And, the wider the margin of win, the stronger the rhetoric will be.
As long as he loses I think it’s mostly good. He currently does not hold the levers of power, and I think as much as his supporters like to play the victim, I think a second loss will lead to evaporating support. Hard to pretend to be a strongman when you look weak
His rallies have fizzled and I suspect this year (unlike 2016) a lot of these attendees were paid for their attendance, hence the common early exodus we have seen from his “supporters”.
I hoped for his removal.
I voted Trump but I completely agree. We need a landslide, even if Harris wins. Anything else gives the bad actors on either side fuel for an already out of control fire.
Expect the challenge. I've been watching the usual suspects on Twitter, they're completely bwashed into thinking there's only one possible outcome, and if it goes against them it means there's been election fraud. They're already calling it a landslide.
This, after ten years of this orange baboon dominating the headlines and flinging shit everywhere I’m ready for it to end.
I wonder if those folks who cast a protest vote for Jill Stein will be sleeping soundly tonight... I sure hope not. I hope they're fucking terrified.
Of course they are sleeping soundly. They'd literally be marching into the camps convinced they did the right thing.
"F ė brıf momimt, Uı þıŋk ð establicmint lṙnd itſ leſėn...."
spoiler
"For a brief moment, I think the eetablishment learned its lesson..."
With how few actual thoughts go through their minds I'm sure they'll sleep well enough.
Honestly, I doubt it. Even if he loses, he's still going to be spewing his mouth diarrhea nonstop and his cult will still believe the shit he says. Also, I'm thinking the Republican party will continue his shit. He created a new Republican party. They'll keep pushing candidates who will act and do shit like him since he's been very successful in fooling his base.
Policy-wise it is the same Grand Old Party. The vibe and rhetoric is different, but the policy is mostly all there.
Indeed, he didn't create the party, he just says the quiet part out loud.
There's surely no chance he can win.. the last fortnight has been an utter shit show.. I can't see how it would even be a contest to be honest
ive been disconnected. what happened?
Relax ull be fine.
As opposed to the last four years of being afraid of all the things the president was failing to do.