Catastrophic.
  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2471·
    17 days ago

    So, in other words, Trump is going to do exactly what he told us he would do.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    166·
    17 days ago

    A lot of people are going to die because of this conspiracy theorist.

    I think of someone very close to me who takes mediation for depression, medication that RFK thinks is bullshit, and medication that is regulated by the FDA.

    She got a bad batch of something from a generic supplier and became dangerously suicidal. We were able to report this to the FDA and send them the medication so people wouldn’t die.

    I can’t see how less staffing is going to make things better. We need more people on the ground so inspections are more regular and so deadly manufacturing problems are caught early.

    • fern@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
      79·
      17 days ago

      You just need to reference their last playbook: less data means it’s not happening, like covid.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      44·
      17 days ago

      I can’t see how less staffing is going to make things better.

      Oh it makes things better alright. Better for the drug companies who now don’t have to deal with pesky things like “safety” and “consequences for killing people”.

    • nexusband@lemmy.world
      7·
      17 days ago

      Not only are a lot of people going to die, the EU is going to be on some “bad” list very soon, because free travel and any kind of “free” shipping won’t be possible anymore - and I’d say even some Asian, African and maybe even Australia are going to follow that, heck, maybe even Canada. Although I’m not sure if Canada is able to actually do that…

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    17 days ago

    And do you think there will be a single Republican willing to do anything about it?

    Mark my words, they will vote 100% in lockstep every single time. And if what Trump is doing is illegal (like that matters anyway), they’ll just write legislation to make it legal. Not a single one of them is going to even think about criticizing him, out of fear of either violence, political suicide, or both.

    The government will be crammed with unqualified hacks from top to bottom. The corruption will be open and blatant.

    And every single Republican senator will vote to confirm. Every single time.

    RFK in charge of healthcare. Musk in charge of spending. Aileen cannon is either getting the AG job or a Supreme Court seat. Whichever one she doesn’t get, Alina Hobba gets. Steve Bannon gets pardoned and gets communications director. Alex Jones is probably going to crawl out from whatever rock he crawled under too.

    They’ll all get jobs. The Senate will confirm them all. And far-right conspiracy theories will become official US policy.

    • PDFuego@lemmy.world
      19·
      17 days ago

      Jones hasn’t crawled under any rocks, he’s been going strong even with a billion dollar judgement against him and filing for bankruptcy. Infowars is being auctioned off in a week so it might be bought by someone who will just keep him exactly where he is, but he’s been openly setting up a backup business and directing people to it, which he’s said ON AIR he’ll just fold into the existing business if all goes well. His dad has a completely independent supplement company and he’s got completely unaffiliated mates selling his merch.

      The only reason he’s less prominent now is because the politicians and the mainstream media in the US are so fucking unhinged that he’s struggling to stay relevant in his niche.

    • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      17 days ago

      Alex Jones is probably going to crawl out from whatever rock he crawled under too.

      White House Press Secretary Alex Jones is an Onion article that writes itself, 3 times a week

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      17 days ago

      There may be one or two, but as soon as they imprison or execute one (my bet is that it will be Kinzinger), they’ll all fall in line. Or mysteriously vanish.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 days ago

      There is a ray of hope. Historically when the GOP gets power, infighting flares up.

      Trump himself has been shown to be quite malleable in the face of hollow flattery, without much in the way of things he actually cares about doing specifically, apart from whatever inflates his ego. Those different camps have had a long time to meditate on how people have manipulated Trump and are likely to be better at manipulating him Putin style.

      So while they all may have decided they must be in line with Trump, they may work toward changing what policies that means. So even as they must be behind Trump, that may narrow the fixed outcome to just proclaiming Trump the most awesome president ever, with policy related stuff a bit more malleable.

      I would have preferred not to risk this scenario, but for now I’m choosing to hope that there’s a more mundane path forward that avoids permanent damage to the political structure, despite this very risky situation.

    • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Hell, why should he care if any of it is legal or not? Him being inaugurated after inciting an insurrection is a direct violation of the constitution. His entire second presidency will be illegal.

  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    631·
    17 days ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised though if Trump just ignores him and appoints a drug company lobbyist instead. RFK Jr. forgot Rule #1 when dealing with Trump: get paid up front.

    • auzy@lemmy.world
      4·
      15 days ago

      If you voted for a guy who can’t even say his opponents name properly , you are also an idiot voting for another idiot.

      Being able to learn to say your opponents name is a life skill which is useful for presidency… And Kamala’s name isn’t hard

      It’s absolutely fucked that a lot of them stood their laughing as he displayed that he never left high school

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      85·
      16 days ago

      While they didn’t help, I suspect their numbers were small enough to not matter in the scheme of what happened.

      The answer is likely mundane. My guess is overall turnout was lower because things didn’t feel as ‘crisis’ like as 2020. The needle for people barely aware of politics even as they vote stayed at the same place as it was in 2020: Things aren’t great, kick whoever is in office out in hopes the alternative does better. Last time they came out for Biden because Trump was at the wheel. Now they show up for Trump because the president was a democrat.

      This segment of the electorate is not particularly politically aware, let alone active, and likely has little to no opinion about the broader world. The relative likelihood of them turning up at all depends on how badly things are going (less likely to show up this time compared to the unprecedented mess of 2020), and to the extent they show up they just vote against whoever is in charge that day.

      However, those people are generally quiet, and so we turn our focus instead to the loudest folks proclaiming a refusal to vote for Harris.

      If it was close, I would agree. It wasn’t even close by such a huge margin the more mundane factors I think are the only ones big enough to explain things.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        123·
        16 days ago

        My guess is overall turnout was lower because things didn’t feel as ‘crisis’ like as 2020.

        What an insane take…

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
          91·
          16 days ago

          For the politically disengaged? It is an accurate take.

          In 2020, you had massive unemployment. People personally were stuck at home with nowhere they could go. Many of them saw a loved one suffer death at the hands of a pandemic, or personally get very sick. That is a direct and visceral experience of “things are bad”. They didn’t need to follow any news, study any charts, read any policy, they knew that their direct subjective experience was bad.

          In 2024, things for people are largely normal, but a lot of bills are high. Grading on a curve, this is much further from a personal crisis for most folks. In fact, the grocery bills eased a bit so some people might be seeing a natural ‘light at the end of the tunnel’.

          The biggest discused crisis factors in forums like this are only being considered by the politically engaged, and that’s just not most people. Whether it should be or not…

            • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
              31·
              16 days ago

              Yez, but not in the way you’re thinking. People have been radicalized by misogynists on youtube and tiktok that Russia has paid for. It’s been proven for some of them, and if you think they’re the only ones, you’re living in a fantasy land.

              • Fedizen@lemmy.world
                1·
                16 days ago

                Except gen z men voted at like a 2% more for trump in a low turnout election its like well within every margin of error that it could be decreasing support since 2020.

                The significant portion of the almost 20 million Biden voters that just checked out of politics and decided since everything seemed ok, no need to vote. Thats the media outreach problem. It guarantees that republicans will regain power everytime the economy gets patched up with duct tape.

            • jj4211@lemmy.world
              2·
              16 days ago

              Unfortunately, I think the media has blared the things people should be caring like crazy. Problems remain:

              • People only internalize their personal experience, and they only care so much about what they see on the screen.
              • To the extent they may care, they also see a counter campaign of folks claiming otherwise, and they don’t really have a good way to casually know which viewpoint to take seriously.
              • Fedizen@lemmy.world
                1·
                16 days ago

                I think that points to the democrats need for sneaker based messaging networks. Instead of buying huge expensive ads that nonvoters won’t watch and giving that money out to tv networks why not use the high volunteer base to buy t shirts and restaurant meal coupons then hand them out to people. stuff like that. I think there needs to be more lateral thinking here. Less emails, more tshirts.

        • Fedizen@lemmy.world
          5·
          16 days ago

          This is largely how non voters have responded when asked as far as I’ve seen: “feels like things aren’t broken, I can sit this out”

          Its not a take its just the reality we live in.

      • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
        32·
        16 days ago

        It doesn’t matter. A vote that was not cast or cast for anyone other than Harris we warned them and warned them, and they didn’t listen.

        If I ever hear someone say “Gen Z will save us” again, I’m going to have some strong words for them. Gen Z is a bunch of knuckle-dragging Neanderthals and they’ll be the death of us.

    • VantaBrandon@lemmy.world
      31·
      15 days ago

      The downvotes on this very obviously correct comment are nearly the same proportion of D votes missing from this election, how befitting.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
      2158·
      17 days ago

      Keep punching left and down. That will really help build the coalition to resist fascism.

      • morphballganon@lemmy.world
        182·
        17 days ago

        The people who stayed home are not the people on the left. The people on the left voted against fascism. The people who stayed home for the election are also going to be useless in an anti-fascism coalition, seeing as they couldn’t be bothered to do the bare minimum.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        198·
        16 days ago

        I’m not punching left, and I refuse to accept your categorisation of anything short of completely trashing the DNC is not left enough.

        The reason I voted for Harris is because I care about the lives of Palestinians. You can try to claim that this isn’t true, but you’re just wrong. And none of your bullshit purity tests will change that.

        If you call yourself a progressive, and you stayed home on Tuesday, I want nothing to do with you. There’s my purity test. Fuck right off.

        • acargitz@lemmy.ca
          109·
          16 days ago

          The only thing I said was don’t punch left. I literally said none of the other things you are ranting about, so go bark at someone else.

          I didn’t vote for Harris, because… I’m not a US citizen. I would have if I were, if you need to know. I’m sitting here on my side of the border, seeing fascism take over on your side and I’m shocked to see you guys bicker about pointing fingers instead of facing reality and thinking wtf you have to do to survive the next 4 years. It’s as if you don’t really understand what’s about to hit you.

          You’re in deep crisis mode. Being mad at Muslims and Stein voters and non-voters is going to be a barrier to building a coalition of resistance. That’s just the plain reality of what strategic organizing will require. Don’t burn bridges with the people you will need in the next 4 years. You hit the iceberg, now is not the time to point fingers about whose fault that it is, it’s time to get to the boats and every one who can help with that is valuable.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            67·
            16 days ago

            The only thing I said was don’t punch left. I literally said none of the other things you are ranting about,

            Ok then, what the fuck does “punching left” mean?

            • acargitz@lemmy.ca
              71·
              16 days ago

              Third paragraph of my previous comment:

              Being mad at Muslims and Stein voters and non-voters is going to be a barrier to building a coalition of resistance. That’s just the plain reality of what strategic organizing will require. Don’t burn bridges with the people you will need in the next 4 years.

      • wpb@lemmy.world
        102·
        17 days ago

        I feel like you have a misconception about how democracy works. When there’s position that enjoys broad popular support (such as universal health care, or a cessation of the genocide in Gaza), it isn’t on the democrats to take that position so the electorate will vote for them, it’s on the electorate to either change their mind on the issue, or vote for the democrats regardless.

        It’s important to internalize this lesson. Next cycle you’ll likely get to practice it with trans rights, if the talking heads on MSNBC who are blaming wokeness for the democrats losing the election are any indication. The idea that politicians and their policies are responsible for losing/winning elections is silly. You’re here for them, not the other way around.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    17 days ago

    Remember to thank all the dipshits that supported diaper donnie and his insanity. Remind them that: “YOU did this.”

    • would_be_appreciated@lemmy.mlEnglish
      27·
      17 days ago

      They won’t hear about the bad things, or they’ll be told it was the Democrats that did it, and they’ll be believe it. Convincing MAGA of reality is pointless while they’re still feeding from the trough of conservative shit. We’re better off protesting and being disruptive in combination with getting our shit together for next round, where hopefully we’ll have real primaries and get our first competent general election candidate since Obama.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        We’re better off protesting and being disruptive

        I guess that depends. The fascists are practically itching to call out the military to put down anything perceived as violent.

        • would_be_appreciated@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          True, but that’s not new. George Floyd, Occupy Wall Street, Seattle WTO, and the entirety of the civil rights movement all were met with state violence. The more they crack down, the more necessary it is to protest it.

      • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
        73·
        16 days ago

        Probably complaining about Gaza or some shit lmao. What are you trying to say here?

        Democrats sounded the alarms and 15 million people, idk, pressed the snooze button.

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      11·
      17 days ago

      In not alarming news…Maybe the annual tradition of pardoning a turkey will remain largely unchanged

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      17 days ago

      Given his age, there is a non-zero chance that he may die while in the presidency?

      JD Vance isn’t exactly a charismatic individual (some might even go so far as call him ‘weird’); so this entire neo-fascist movement may very well fragment and flounder in the not too distant future.

        • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          17 days ago

          Why is that? He lacks the cult of personality to be able to carry on after Trump IMO, and was largely picked as a ‘Yes Man’.

            • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
              7·
              17 days ago

              No doubt he’s smart, he hitched his wagon to the Trump train after all - but I don’t think that’s particularly important.

              He doesn’t have Trump’s charisma, so he’d struggle to maintain control over his fan base and would likely face challenges from key faces in the cohort (eg. Ron DeSantis, MTG etc.)

              • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                16 days ago

                This is basically my reasoning as well, he will most likely be eaten alive by the true believers and power brokers will break him over knee. All of Vance’s influence is derived from Trump. And especially if Trunp dies before inauguration he may very well become irrelevant depending on certain factors.

          • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
            3·
            16 days ago

            If he dies before they are able to really get the structural changes in P2025 off the ground, Trump’s death will likely instigate the death of the movement. If it dies after that the P2025 restructuring has happened, won’t matter.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    36·
    17 days ago

    Headline from the future:

    “Displacing heart disease, the primary cause of death in the USA is now ‘easily preventable disease’”

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    17 days ago

    Why is anyone surprised. They said what they were gonna do. They’re now making concrete plans to do the things they said they were gonna do.

    I’m gonna fuckin leave.

  • P_P@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    17 days ago

    State agencies will still be in place, will they not? I wouldn’t eat the food or drink the water were I in a red state…

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      27·
      17 days ago

      Most, if not all in some cases, funding for state-level regulatory agencies comes directly from their federal counterparts. This will essentially kill state agencies as well.

      Or at the very least, they will be severely reduced in terms of staff and purview.

      And that’s just the states that don’t decide to follow the administration’s lead and do the same thing to their state level agencies.

    • CPMSP@midwest.social
      4·
      17 days ago

      Aww come on, maybe your kid will have super powers then, like an extra arm or glowing in the dark. Where’s your sense of adventure?