Thereās a lot of very stupid, hateful, abusive, selfish, rapey bully types in America. Most just werenāt born rich and gifted the power and access that propelled Trump. They would be horrific as well.
I say this because even once Trump is dead and gone, the danger of electing someone just as incompetent and malicious will still be possible.
The brain dead cattle that fell for his utterly obvious bullshit and made him a religious figure to be worshipped will still be around once their God king is gone. They can be fooled again. They'll be begging for it.
Not just begging for it, actively pursuing it again. They got a taste of power over the past decade. They're not going to let that go, especially once most of the Media is under rightwing billionaire control.
We're living through the fulfillment of the Seven Mountains Mandate. The takeover of the United States by White Christian Nationalists.
Moreover, those abusive cretins aren't a minor fraction of America. Insofar as Trump's approval rating serves as a proxy, perhaps ~40% of American voters are at least OK with hateful, rapey, bully types, if not that type themselves. We are literally surrounded by monsters.
My only hope is that he was the perfect storm for these idiots. I donāt know anyone else will be able to dig his hooks in as deep trump has with his brain dead supporters.
We see populism rising all over though. It mostly isn't clawing out of maga because there really can only be one king. But many movements of various stripes from various countries are emulating the cultish anti establishment "only trust us" vibes to some good success.
My family lived in Europe during the Nazi regime (not Jewish, so they were safe). They said that some of the people said it was wonderful to be given an excuse to hate someone.
āItās like we scraped everything bad about America off of the floor, wrapped it in an old hot dog skin, painted it orange, and taught it to make random noises with its face.ā
And a perfect representation of his voters. I agree they are being hammered with misinformation constantly but at the same time I canāt really forgive people immediately willing to jump to hate.
I guess a felon and pedophile has nothing to lose. He was able to get away with almost everything in his life. Multiple allegations of rape including the his loss from E Jean Carroll's case and yet he is the president. We failed as a society.
These are the people he pump and dumps all over with his crypto meme coin scam. They seem to love Trump wrecking their finances, they will just blame Biden for them buying his coin anyways. This country is cooked.
It's funny/infuriating that the right thinks that you must have complete total 100% control in order to be a dictator, rather than it being a character flaw. They're thinking of a dictatorship. We're describing a dictator in a system barely holding him back from turning it into one. They also don't seem to grasp the concept of "if you let this happen, you can't undo it, which is why we always work to stay several steps away from it".
There's no world in which he hasn't been a dictator his entire life. He's just trying to do that in government, where it explicitly doesn't belong. That he ignores the very document that grants authority means he has none beyond might-makes-right and whatever violence his supporters will engage in, which Republican politicians have repeatedly said worries them and guides their Benedictian choices. (edit: fixed some aphasia issues)
He's telling you you can't count on him at all. Even if you elect all Republicans, someone in your statehouse says one critical thing about him and he's withholding emergency funds.
The only viable option is electing people who will stop him from exercising his petty grudges.
They basically already did when they murdered those citizens in Minneapolis. If there was any confusion it was cleared up when leadership instantly defended both murders.
Had a red hat "threaten" me with the "fact" that Clinton is in the Epstein files. If we arrest and throw Trump into prison we'd have to arrest and throw Clinton into prison too!
Without missing a beat I told him that was fine. And it could actually help the government cut back on unnecessary spending. Make Trump and Clinton cell mates and we could have one secret service team watch the two of them instead of two different full teams!
They honestly can't comprehend that other people think differently than they do. They know that they'd never let someone from their team come to justice no matter the circumstances, so everyone must also play by that same rule.
Put every powerful and/or rich person back to reagan under a fuckin microscope.
I only stop at reagan because any further and even our military budget wouldn't be enough to fund all the investigators.
Any confirmed to have connections to the major and sickening crimes that are at the same level as epstein, trump, etc are put in an actual, non-resort-style prison, and 100% of their assets are seized and disbursed to the victims or their descendents.
I'm thinking that the population of billionaires would drop to about 2% of what we currently have.
I know that this is just a vivid fantasy, but if I don't have my hopeful fantasy, it's harder to believe the more banal hopes of basic justice.
Not only this, but all the January 6th Capital rioters would not have been pardoned and their leaders sentences commuted and nor would many supporters of the currently sitting President or rather Dictator-In-Chief.
Not only this, but our Constitution would not constantly be violated and our laws broken by the currently sitting President or rather Dictator-In-Chief.
Not just this, but our country's healthcare and security would not now be compromised.
Not only this, but the 47yo war with Iran would probably not have continued sparking higher gas and diesel prices.
Not only this, but cost of living would be easier not harder.
Not only this, but warnings from AI tech CEO's would not go ignored sparking AI regulation at the Federal level.
Not only this, but we wouldn't have a President or rather a Dictator who likes to threaten other countries and foreign business's with tariffs if they don't fall in line to his demands
Not only this, but the United States would still be in the Paris Climate Accords and all climate regulations the EPA established for several decades would not be rescinded.
Not only this, but the USAID (the U.S.Agency of International Development) would still exist.
Not only this, but the East Wing would not be completely demolished to make way for a new "grand ballroom" nor would funding approved by Congress for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing arts be diverted to other "pet projects" and receive constant threats of being demolished due to disrepair all because the current President's name can't be on the building without Congressional approval.
Not just this, but many migrants who legally came to the United States and even those migrants seeking U.S. citizenship or seeking medical help would not now be held in Concentration camps awaiting deportation to non-native countries and several other migrants now killed.
Not only this, but we wouldn't have a no-good HUGEly egotistical President who's constantly posting AI-generated pictures and videos on his beloved Truth Social as a way of attacking his political enemies and everyone else who gets in his way.
Not only this, but we wouldn't have a Dictator for a no-good President who's constantly threatening our democracy.
Not only this, but we wouldn't now have a pathological liar for a no-good dimwit of a President or rather Dictator-In-Chief nor an unqualified Presidential Administration full of dimwits and idiots.
All these are just the few major highlights I can think of from the top of my head of how Trump has been actively destroying our country.
ICE will come after Democrats states for sure after the elections. They have been saving all of the worst for after the elections. Hold on people, itās just about to get started.
We have outnumbered "them" since the beginning of this insane administration.
We are the most heavily armed country on earth and never cease to brag about it.
You know what all that has gotten us?
A whole bunch of people loudly doing nothing on line and at ineffectual protests.
Not to be dramatic, but it kinda feels like we are in the time post Boston Massacre. The government kills people in the street, people protest, and then there is an uneasy rest for a bit
I believe your right. It's like ICE is quickly becoming Trump's personal police force more and more the way they've been constantly breaking the law, threatening peoples lives and even killing people all in performing their duty of apprehending and detaining migrants for the President or rather the U.S. Dictator-In-Chief Trump.
I did nothing when ICE came for legal immigrants
I did nothing when ICE came for political opponents
When ICE came for me there wasn't anyone who could do anything
This is gonna sound worse than I mean it but bear with me. I actually think Trump loves America. Because where else could he rape and pillage his way to the top and then have people pay him more money to continue pillaging? Dude probably loves this place like no other.
This POS wouldn't exist as POTUS if it weren't for the GOP and their billionaire overlords. Trump is just the tip of the shit-berg, with endless support.
It's kind of hard to argue against this. In a normal world, this would be overstepping a bit. But with the way the GOP went all-in with Trump, bending at every whim just to ruin the country, it has killed their party. We don't live in a normal world anymore, they made sure to see to that.
The worst part is that it seemed like an obvious outcome for quite a lot of people. But once they turned this strictly into a matter of tribalism, they did their best to attack and silence anyone outside their group. Especially intellectuals.
You can't just hit a reset button, or pray to your God to take it away and fix it. Reality is insurmountable, no matter how deep your delusions run.
The US will need a deMAGAfication program similar to denazification after WW2. This time we must be sure to finish off the racist, seditious, treasonous, billionaire broligarch attitudes.
I think Kruschev's Destalinization is probably a closer parallel. DeNazification was forced on Germany after losing a war. Stalin's cult of personality was dismantled relatively peacefully by his successor.
He's a wannabe dictator. Hes a clown in fact. The result of half the population electing someone without even thinking about the consequences of their actions. Stupid!
How much longer are you guys going to let him do this until you finally do something? In any other country this man wouldn't have made it to his first term before being imprisoned. People in France, Germany, Nepal, etc. have done more over smaller things. At the same time the Americans are just sitting at home complaining on reddit as if that will change anything.
They can get as dumb as their voters, so this is more disturbing when we stop attributing his actions in isolation and instead realize it is representative of one third of America. That is also why maga gets upset when something negative is said about Trump. It really is an attack on them as well.
I mean a lot of the stuff they fear is fabricated nonsense born from their crippling insecurity and total lack of self worth.
Thereās not an actual monster under the bed. A trans immigrant is not more likely to murder them than some American born meth head, theyāve just been brainwashed to be certain of this bullshit. They certainly arenāt lacking a job because an immigrant wants to pick lettuce, wash dishes or clean hotel rooms, they could pick crops tomorrow if they wanted.
Well, not the average American, but a certain type of average American; he indulged their xenophobic and racist fantasies. For a lot of them that was worth it.
Nothing. There's no way hes made the average person's life better. Some people with some lucky guesses on the stock market or crypto might be doing better, but thats not through policy changes.
Whatever people might think has help them, is massively offset by how he's hurt them.
Truth is people didn't vote Trump because he's so good, people voted him because the democrats were so bad.
You have to pander to the average voter. Being overly judgemental towards people who aren't vegan, drive electric cars, are members or allies of LGBTQ+, etc. doesn't work out (this is how the average voter sees the democratic party btw). Focusing too much on "there's more than 2 genders", etc. rather than what the majority of people actually care about lands you with an idiot/pedo as president.
Trump promised these people what they wanted: prices lowered for gas and groceries, the epstein files to be released, and "no more wars". (obviously that didn't work). That is something, in my opinion, every voter in the US wanted. Most voters probably thought they were voting for common sense.
It is documented in history that the left succeeds best when it panders its social and economic policies to the average person. 4% of Americans are vegan. 12% are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
I'm a democrat, a disgruntled one for sure. It is an objective truth that the democratic party is better for the US than the republican party, but we are not going to win any elections any time soon if we don't start pandering more to the average person. That doesn't mean we should lessen the importance of these minority groups in our policies, but maybe we shouldn't focus the entire campaign on >16% of the population...
Iād really like to see MAGAts get this treatment from the next real president
Iām done pretending theyāre just dumb people who made a bad choice. Theyāre traitors who invited fascism in and love it because it lets them be bigots openly
These aren't Americans. These are Amerikkkans and Democrats just don't want to admit that Republicans are actually at war with them and will do anything to win.
He's not lying - he's been stopping money from blue states all year. Biden used to ensure red states got money but Trump is proud to do the opposite. If MAGA was moral they too would be outraged.
This is a great illustration of why the two party system has got to go ... it's no longer about disagreement on what is the best policy to benefit the American people, all of whom are supposed to be served by the Executive...the American people have simply become pawns in the quest for power. This should be grounds for impeachment and more ...
He's not president of the United States then. Trump is ONLY president to some tax paying American citizens, not all of us. That's taxation without representation, for one.
Who's he helping anyway??? The people he is motivated to help don't go to his rallies. They don't donate and they don't work. They sit in their ivory towers and suck America dry while sipping cocktails.
Itās interesting with all the floods, hurricanes west coast, islands that there is little to no federal mention of them or assistance. An associate in HI is still without infrastructure and a cousin in AZ is with flood damage and no sign of federal assistance.
He is not, and never has been, a leader. He is a petulant child. he was elected by an uneducated mass of people that like the fact the he demonizes and belittles the same people that they hate. That is all that matters to them.
What kind of president is he. Did Clinton, Obama, Biden, the Bush's, Regan, JFK, FDR, say or do anything like this to their opposing party? NO. Has any other president withheld funds authorized by Congress to opposing part states? NO. So why are you still supporting this idiot who is denying your fellow Americans assistance? š¤¬š”šŗšøš
So basically no incentive to vote republican because they donāt seem inclined to do anything helpful anyway. Unless you believe gaslighting is helpful, then weāre all rich and the affordability crisis is a hoax.
I wonder if that's how Trump won in North Carolina after the hurricane. My theory is that people assumed if Trump lost N.C. but won the election, he'd pull all funding, and a Democrat president would help N.C. either way.
P.S. Trump didn't help N.C.
He a cowards and a bully and the only way for him to get what he wants is threaten people. Absolutely disgusting behavior from anā Presidentā heās the worst one ever!
Meanwhile, figures like Putin, Tony Soprano (and MAGA):
"Might Makes Right"
People, there are literally stacks of ancient sources for 1,000's of years that have a lot to say about this issue, which we know as the Thucydides Trap, or how the hubris of Athens brought about the collapse of the Greek Golden Age. ...You see, this was this one guy called Plato. Pretty smart guy, some people say.
You can take Thucydides, or Plato, or Sun Tzu, or Machiavelli, or modern Military strategy from West Point, but all agree that this is wrong. All wrong. Totally wrong. 100% the wrong thinking.
And if it's your thing, we also have it from the Bible: "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18)
History is not kind to men who play God. ...We are witnessing true darkness.
This kind of crap happens every single day with this foreign actor. He does not care about you. He's using you and he's using our country to further enrich himself and his family. If you ever voted for him, you were duped, conned and straight up lied to.
Another one of the hundreds of things that Trump has said that should have absolutely ended any politicianās career
I canāt believe that there are still hundreds of millions of voters who are still undecided or still support Trump. He represents the opposite of effective and good governance for the public good. He is ineffective, destructive, unethical, divisive, and corrosive for democracy and a free and just society
He is a stupid man for stupid people. Arrogant and stupid people put him in power. Never think that the stupid and the downtrodden deserve your grace. This is what gives liberals that high brow. You are just dumb and voting against your self interests and when we look down upon you we see this as your grace to us. Wars and high gas prices and groceries I cant afford. The most corrupt President and his pawns and his sons in history. The worst people in power cause the majority of the electorate dont vote.
Thereās a certain type of person thatās likes what he says and loves to follow but doesnāt hold themselves accountable. Stay away from those people, people.
Well thatās what we elected a selfish arrogant narcissistic authoritarian. Even though I never voted for this convicted elected official we as a nation put him in office.
The shame is there is a large group of people that think heās doing a good job, and actually like him.
And in two years, despite all that's happened, 75+ million Americans will still vote Republican in 2028 and 85+ million eligible voters will still abstain from registering an opinion.
These are not the words of a leader. These are the words of a wanna be tyrant. Threats dont make a person a good leader. Pushing one's will upon others doesn't make a person a leader. This man has forgotten who employed him and to what his job actually is.
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u/_GoddamnitDonut 16d ago
I can't imagine there being a worse person as President of the United States. He just seems like a caricature of how bad a person can possibly be.