Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now: We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.
What links all these things? In addition to the massive human toll they’re inflicting, they suggest that Trump is about to pull off a unique trifecta. He is squandering the advantage he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security.
As a non-american, I don’t see it. I would like to see it, but I just don’t. I’ve lost all hope for the USA, while some folk in USA have lost all sense of reality and basic human decency. Basically he could admit on live TV he has raped little girls and there would still be a Fox debate going on: “well, maybe that’s not a bad thing, maybe Trump is entitled to that”.
No hope. At this point we can only hope he drops dead soon.
I agree. He is actually The Emperor. He is GEOTUS, and it doesn’t matter what he is accused of or what he does. He will do whatever he wants (be it coerced or not), the establishment will go along with it, and the people will acquiesce.
Please no.
Trump, for all his sins, is kind of predictable. He’s a great salesman but a terrible liar. He’s not that clever, but within his information sphere, in his head, and beyond his self enrichment, I think he’s really trying to help. He believes he’s trying to help. And I think the establishment around him is kinda taking advantage of him.
J.D. Vance is scary.
He’s unemotional in that “sociopath” kind of way. He’s Harvard educated, and smart like the Devil. And the ideations of the people he’s in bed with are way more scary than Trump. Vance will will be way more “effective” than Trump.
No, thank you.
I’ll take 3 more years of Trump any day, and am begging for his heart to hold out so Vance doesn’t get an easy slide into the presidency. As a plus, Trump’s antics are going to fracture his base, wheras if he died today, they would consolidate power around him like he’s freaking Jesus Christ on the cross.
Maybe Fox would say that Trump is blessed and he has god given grace to make all of those rapes?
dumb lib garbage
Love that rash on his neck
Is it though? He still has his MAGAtards no matter what he does.
Call me when he literally free fell from the empire state building
Nooo that will spread the nurgles rot that’s been cultivating in that mass of i dare not say.
Waiting for that smack into the ground.
I’m so very tired of hearing notices that Trump’s in “free fall,” newsletter headlines that he’s had “a very bad day,” headlines saying person or other “slams” him, and he just keeps on destroying things, killing people, directly harming my country and others. He outright passes off the deaths of people in Iran with “it’s war, people are gonna die,” and until something directly stops him I will find it impossible accept told things are going badly for that ABSOLUTE IMBECILE, and anyone who ever supported him, including basically my entire family. UGH.
It’s a strategy to rid the world of Trumpism. Confidence in Trump is like confidence in the stock market: it doesn’t reflect reality, it shapes reality. Trump has strengths and weaknesses. Talking about the fact that Trump is a cruel piece of shit and an autocrat (the truth) actually helps Trump because his supporters wanted a cruel piece of shit in the whitehouse! Talking about the fact that Trump is a stupid, cowardly incompetent (also the truth) hurts Trump more. When Trump polls badly, shout it from the rooftops! It’s true, and it makes him look weak. Same goes for any blunder or chaos in his admin: point it out, celebrate it, and repeat, repeat, repeat. People think the Epstein Files are not hurting Trump because they didn’t immediately topple him: friends, it is eating at his support like acid. As Trump proved, all you have to do to make his supporters believe something is to say it often and loudly.
I’m not sure your logic works? The cruel POSes voted for this, sure, but there are more non-Trump voters than people who voted for him. If you follow your argument to its logical conclusion you can’t ever say he’s doing an awful thing because terrible people with cheer him on.
I think they’re strategies for different audiences. i don’t mean to imply that we shouldn’t write about trump’s crimes. we definitely should! what i mean is that an approach based on morals won’t work on people who voted for trump to own the libs. no andrew tate fan will abandon trump just because he did something terrible. for them you need antihype: show people that he is an incompetent whose presidency is in free fall. what looksmaxxing proud boy wants to be associated with a loser? sure, those guys might never swing democrat, but if some of them stay home on election day due to lack of enthusiasm, it could make a difference. trump can be defeated by margins - peel away a bit of support here, a bit of support there, and … down he goes.
Oh this, I can’t stand YouTubers for this.
“Trump dealt devastating death blow bombshell in court”
Sure, sure,… but what will you say when something actually happens to change all this shit?
Recommend DeArrow extension to drastically reduce YouTube clickbait. PeerTube of course is preferable to YouTube but DeArrow makes YouTube tolerable
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Good thing Gallup stopped doing presidential approval polls JUST in time for this, otherwise we would be getting objective scientific measurements of how pissed people are.
According to media, he’s been on the edge of political disaster his entire successful career.
Privatize gains, socialize disaster.
This is the beginning of the end. The walls are closing in.
He will just move on to another endeavour to bankrupt after bankrupting a whole country.
It’s always been disaster, but he gets propped up and retains power because the fascists in the government won’t remove him
And that’s his success.
Republicans typically lead on the economy (… snip …)
heh sure they do, it’s certainly not like the economy tends to do worse under republican admins
props to Murdoch’s propaganda empire, for somehow convincing the majority of americans (rich too, via WSJ, not just MAGA idiots) that republicans are actually good for the economy.
their entire modus operandi for the last 40-50 years has been that of disaster capitalists, purposefully collapsing the economy to buy up distressed assets on the cheap
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Breathes*
Remember, the e on the end sounds like eeeeee. Without it, it ends in h and sounds like ehhhhh
UNFORTUNATELY, you don’t spell breathing breatheing, because you get rid of the e on the end when adding ing. English is certainly a language.
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Yikes. Sorry.
I once thought people who corrected spelling without being asked were just pompous twits. Then I read a paper that explained how people with low reading comprehension have trouble parsing sentences with spelling errors, so now I feel sorry for them.
Trump is a symptom not the disease
The symptoms are what kill you
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Do you think Just Dance Vance will be better?
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Okay, will the current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, be any better?
Not him. Okay, maybe the next guy: President pro tempore of the Senate, Chuck Grassley.
No? How about the next guy: Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
No? How about Scott Bessent? Pete Hegseth? Pam Bondi? If you go far enough down fucking RFK Jr is in line for succession! The rot in this government is deep. That’s why we say Trump is merely a symptom.
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He could drop dead tomorrow and the decline would continue
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That is irrelevant
“Arresting the decline into apocalyptic fascism is irrelevant, my personal parasocial hatred of Orange Man is what is important”
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No one here is “defending Trump”, dumbass.
It might fail at a slightly decreased rate without his orange influence
Unlikely. Don’t let Great Man Theory affect your analysis.
Orange man theory is that all his sycophants think he’s their ticket to riches and without him they’ll squabble and eat each other to each be on top
So, Great Man Theory
There’s nothing great about him
Are you 12?
Who better to lead us in these failing times than the self-proclaimed King of Bankruptcy?
Agreed.
No it’s not
It is but there is no bottom.
Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.
What? How did this happen without me hearing about it at all?
First, thank fuck she’s gone. But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?
But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?
Markwayne (somehow, that’s his actual name) Mullin.
He’s perhaps best known as the senator who challenged a union leader to a fistfight during a Senate hearing.
He’s also a former MMA fighter (3-0-0), loves violence against women, and hates limits on profiting from holding political office.
Holy crap, I forgot about that one. When Bernie told them to settle down.
She still works for the administration, just got moved to something less public facing… And Markwayne Mullin, the asshole senator from OK.
A community college graduate (Construction Technology) with zero experience doing anything that has to do with that job or anything like it. We’re in for a new kind of Trump dumpster fire.
Well the primary, and in fact only, skill required is being able to say yes to trump.
So “score” is 20.
Killing scores if children would be twenties of children.
165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.
Also Noem isn’t fired, she’s being shuffled.
165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.
But it’s also not “hundreds”, which is the next step up from “scores”. And anything more accurate would require more than one word to convey.
IMO, “scores” is fine to refer to anything between 40 and 200.
None of that matters. The rulers are the ultrarich and they are pleased. The mouth speaking for them is interchangable, depending on the mood of the masses.
