The revised lawsuit came hours after a poll showed the President’s approval rating tanking.

In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump announced that he was revising a lawsuit against The New York Times to include the organization’s polling research, which currently shows him tanking on everything from the economy and immigration to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    who the DNC openly rigged

    edit: spacing; Kinda supports the rest of what I said no?

    I do not think America is salvageable. I

    edit: spacing; quite possible.

    someone looks around and realizes that the USA is functionally gone.

    edit: spacing; We’re already there. That’s how this happened.

    ironically-fundamentally-undemocratic DNC offers no path to that outcome.

    edit: spacing; I agree. But we need a bigger shift, this isn’t going to happen because one guy or even 5 sensible people get elected. Until that point, DNC is by far the lesser of two evils, but we can’t afford to ride that. We need grassroots that can organize and reform, back the lesser of two evils and work their way into proper control.

    • 7101334@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      We’re already there. That’s how this happened.

      The nation started with only white, land-owning men being able to vote (land which they stole from indigenous people using genocidal violence). Now it’s mostly only wealthy, land-owning, disproportionately-white men and women influencing the direction of the nation (at least “through the proper channels”).

      I think you might have a mythologized vision of America based on the Civil Rights era. That was the exception, not the rule.

      Until that point, DNC is by far the lesser of two evils

      Once you reach the point where you’re guilty of genocide, I don’t think you’re allowed to play “lesser” evil anymore. Even if you “only” genocide 400,000 people and ‘the other guy’ genocides 800,000 people, you’re both just irredeemably evil.

      We need grassroots that can organize and reform

      Again, we already had that with Bernie Sanders and the DNC rigged it. “Grassroots reform” in the capacity you’re talking about is a democratic function. You cannot play democracy with a fundamentally un-democratic institution.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The nation started with only white, land-owning men being able to vote (land which they stole from indigenous people using genocidal violence). Now it’s mostly only wealthy, land-owning, disproportionately-white men and women influencing the direction of the nation (at least “through the proper channels”).

        fair

        I think you might have a mythologized vision of America based on the Civil Rights era. That was the exception, not the rule.

        I disagree, but it’s not worth pursuing, also fine.

        Once you reach the point where you’re guilty of genocide, I don’t think you’re allowed to play “lesser” evil anymore. Even if you “only” genocide 400,000 people and ‘the other guy’ genocides 800,000 people, you’re both just irredeemably evil.

        So the answer is moonshot for independent, which will fail and keep RNC in office. That’s your plan? Let’s just genocide the non whites here?

        Again, we already had that with Bernie Sanders and the DNC rigged it. “Grassroots reform” in the capacity you’re talking about is a democratic function. You cannot play democracy with a fundamentally un-democratic institution.

        Kind of tiresome to keep covering the same ground, Bernie wasn’t fucking grass roots. You’re not going to encact change by chaning out the head. You need to start at the bottom, push congress, then roll over the SCOTUS. You’re not going to move shit by putting in an ineffective president over a butthurt congress.

        • 7101334@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          I don’t have a plan for salvaging America because I do not believe it’s salvageable. I already said that earlier in this discussion. I’ve spent days and days and days thinking about it, and that’s the conclusion I’ve arrived at. This political discussion we’re having here isn’t me suggesting how to save the nation; I just refuse to sign my name on endorsing a genocidaire to command the world’s largest military. I’m under no illusion that that will stop the genocide, it’ll just alleviate my own complicity to the extent possible while still living within America. (As well as being sure to avoid buying any Israeli goods, supporting BDS boycotts, etc.) I believe any person of conscience should also refuse to be complicit in such a manner.

          My activism is not aimed at saving America, it’s aimed at helping innocent people survive what I view as its inevitable collapse with as little suffering as possible. Building community and food sovereignty. It’s nothing glorious but it’s more glorious than starving.