Trump’s America

[The Dog 43647]

[B00M 6199]

33 minutes ago, Balcones said:

I also remember my first nuclear bomb drill. Thanks, Truman! You made me grow up so quickly and I feared for my life all during the Cold War!

This explains why you are the way you are. 

[Hmbre97 6293]

10 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Mark Cuban isn't right about much, but you're delusional if you don't think the right now controls the message in what is now mainstream media. Fox News, the bro and right-wing podcast clan, Facebook, Twitter, and Sinclair-owned local news (about the only dedicated "news" that normal people still regularly watch) draw far more eyeballs/earholes than Rachel Maddow or whoever the fuck.

That's why your incessant whining about the "MSM" always rings so hollow.

 

 

It's the same  "OMG George Soros" shit all over again while people like Harlan Crow and other billionaires pull the strings in the background.... plus Elon's autistic ass jumping around like Stuart from MAD TV at rallies and purchasing one of the largest social media companies to turn into a right wing echo chamber.

 

Could you imagine if during Hillary's run in 2016 if George Soros would have proudly proclaimed he was giving people $1 million per day to get people to register to vote? Hypocrites.

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[Incredulity 11328]

1 minute ago, The Dog said:

[Zonahorn 8055]

5 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Leopards eatings faces

[Frank Drebin 5491]

11 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Mark Cuban isn't right about much, but you're delusional if you don't think the right now controls the message in what is now mainstream media. Fox News, the bro and right-wing podcast clan, Facebook, Twitter, and Sinclair-owned local news (about the only dedicated "news" that normal people still regularly watch) draw far more eyeballs/earholes than Rachel Maddow or whoever the fuck.

That's why your incessant whining about the "MSM" always rings so hollow.

 

[aggie08 21073]

4 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

It's the same  "OMG George Soros" shit all over again while people like Harlan Crow and other billionaires pull the strings in the background

Shit, they don't even have to stay in the background. They're buying Supreme Court justices right in front of our faces, and you can't get a conservative to even acknowledge it.

[Pancho 43966]

11 minutes ago, linux said:

Cliff notes?

 

When there’s a wrong legal judgment in 1 state that harms the other 49 states, then the federal government should take corrective action. 

 

 

That’s almost verbatim what he said.

[tx 3 putt 75827]

make sexual assault great again 

 

[GenXer 2678]

18 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

 

I wonder what Reagan's donut order was?

Whatever makes sense

We’re gonna be back to the days of clowning the trump admin. They will supply endless content. How many scaramuccis until inauguration day?

[Incredulity 11328]

17 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

Leopards eatings faces

[aggie08 21073]

10 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

 

9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Congratulations. You guys won. We now have the stupidest, most poorly-informed electorate in the country's history, and it only gets worse.

Obviously, liberals have been blind/neglecting to real issues affecting real people/communities and need to own that.  But this is THE issue moving forward. Policies don't really make a shit when propaganda has created two realities.

[C-Man 26885]

1 hour ago, Gourmand said:

goddamn you're a real piece of shit. i hope bad things happen to you just for that comment. fuck off forever. 

I mean this shit-ass should really receive a permanent vacation, not just a timeout.

 

12 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

When there’s a wrong legal judgment in 1 state that harms the other 49 states, then the federal government should take corrective action. 

 

 

That’s almost verbatim what he said.

"State's rights!!!!!!"

[Pig Bellmont 8656]

Somebody please explain to me how 7 million people will be deported. Let’s forget that no one ever asked Trump how he’s going to pay for his policies, let’s just start with who will be making arrests. The military? Local police? The FBI? And how is this going to work- SWAT teams roll into an immigrant rich neighborhood with cops demanding to see proof of citizenship or visa papers for every brown person on the street? 
 

Next, I’d like to hear about how our backlogged immigration courts are going to hear and process 7 million deportation orders. 
 

Where is the government going to house and feed these 7 million people while their cases are decided?

My prediction is that they will make as much progress with these deportations as they did on building the fucking wall

[David Dennison 18244]

7 minutes ago, GenXer said:

Whatever makes sense

We’re gonna be back to the days of clowning the trump admin. They will supply endless content. How many scaramuccis until inauguration day?

One massive silver lining is that he enters office as a lame duck. There is no guarantee he can get through legislation even if Senate Republicans get rid of the filibuster.

[tx 3 putt 75827]

 

[Incredulity 11328]

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

One massive silver lining is that he enters office as a lame duck.

Wat?

[Guadaloopy 10867]

18 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

leopard eats face, this will pass jan 21 

 

 

46 minutes ago, nbmishoid said:

Glad I cashed mine out 12 frickin years ago.  My first Ss payment is to start this month.  

It won't be passed, because it has been tabled (i.e. removed from consideration by the House).  

The Twitter OP gets the mechanism of what is happening wrong.  No payments will be reduced by this latest action, but a bill that would have INCREASED payments for certain state govt employees and others is now dead.  It's not that payments will be reduced, but that potential increases in payments will no longer happen.  

[Gandalfish 332]

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

What you should be concerned about the incoming administration actually fires 75,000 lifetime, professional civil servants who will be replaced by people who have to pass a loyalty test to Trump, as outlined in Project 2025.

Also worthy of inclusion in the list. I’d file it under “Degradation of Democracy” and give it a 60% chance of happening on such a large scale.

[Guadaloopy 10867]

5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

One massive silver lining is that he enters office as a lame duck.

 

3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Wat?

He cannot be re-elected as president.

[Sbbruin 21643]

4 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Somebody please explain to me how 7 million people will be deported. Let’s forget that no one ever asked Trump how he’s going to pay for his policies, let’s just start with who will be making arrests. The military? Local police? The FBI? And how is this going to work- SWAT teams roll into an immigrant rich neighborhood with cops demanding to see proof of citizenship or visa papers for every brown person on the street? 
 

Next, I’d like to hear about how our backlogged immigration courts are going to hear and process 7 million deportation orders. 
 

Where is the government going to house and feed these 7 million people while their cases are decided?

My prediction is that they will make as much progress with these deportations as they did on building the fucking wall

I've been saying that.  He's not going to follow through with shit.  He just dog whistles the hot buttons and throws shit at the wall.  Now that he won't be pursuing another term, I doubt he gets jack shit accomplished.  And he doesn't care if the R's retain the white house after he's gone.  If it's not going to be him, then fuck 'em all is his motto.

[wild_turkey 3123]

Yea you dont reproduce and you are a bottom feeder. You do nothing for this world. The greeks would have made you a slave. 

One of my big concerns about Trump America is that there are a lot of people like Johnny Sack and HellesBier who have been somewhat subdued for the past few years, but putting an asshole back in office will give them a license to resume being openly hateful. This post is a prime example. What kind of a person talks like that?

[tx 3 putt 75827]

someone know the correct interpretation of the law ?

 

[linux 1551]

5 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

 

He cannot be re-elected as president.

I mean he wanted a third term, was pushing it hard on his first term, it is naive to assume he will not try really hard, and who will stop him?

[tx 3 putt 75827]

7 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

 

He cannot be re-elected as president.

 

yet 

[Pam Cummings 9469]

7 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

 

He cannot be re-elected as president.

 

Buddy accept reality. These people are gonna wipe their ass with the constitution and any remaining "norms" you think we might have.

[GenXer 2678]

29 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Okay. That’s some grade A elitist trolling. Reminds me of the rockefeller / carnegie rivalry.

[Incredulity 11328]

6 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

 

He cannot be re-elected as president.

Which isn’t the correct usage of “lame duck”.

Lame Duck is the period after successor has been elected. Joe is a lame duck president 

 

[Incredulity 11328]

1 minute ago, GenXer said:

Okay. That’s some grade A elitist trolling. Reminds me of the rockefeller / carnegie rivalry.

If there are two people in the world who deserve that kind of cunty snarkiness it’s Cuban and Trump

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[David Dennison 18244]

Just now, linux said:

I mean he wanted a third term, was pushing it hard on his first term, it is naive to assume he will not try really hard, and who will stop him?

Every elected politician in Washington and the Supreme Court, no matter what liberals think. I think most elected Republicans are thrilled at the prospect of never having to see Donald J. Trump on a ballot ever again.

His political career is over after his term ends. Donald Trump holding on to power after January 20, 2029 is literally the last thing you should worry about.

[aggie08 21073]

1 minute ago, wild_turkey said:

One of my big concerns about Trump America is that there are a lot of people like Johnny Sack and HellesBier who have been somewhat subdued for the past few years, but putting an asshole back in office will give them a license to resume being openly hateful. This post is a prime example. What kind of a person talks like that?

It's hard to put into words, but that was something the hit me pretty hard on Tuesday night. After Trump, after COVID and vaccines, I feel like we were just getting back to "normal" with each other. Maybe not complete acceptance but at least civility and relative ignorance of politics. Trump brings the temperature right back up. He just does.

[Ghost of Shag 2560]

15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Oh man.

What if the media gets this one thing right?

[4th&Five 41368]

well, every economist said it too.

[David Dennison 18244]

3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Which isn’t the correct usage of “lame duck”.

Lame Duck is the period after successor has been elected. Joe is a lame duck president 

 

Technically, you're right, but it's also true that presidents don't get much accomplished legislatively after their first two years in office. The next Congress will be his fifth and sixth years in office.

So Ima call him lame.

[Incredulity 11328]

1 minute ago, Ghost of Shag said:

Oh man.

What if the media gets this one thing right?

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[WinningIsHard 3975]

13 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

A portion of this is just pure fantasy, Obama deported more than 3 million people during his 8 years. That's more than clinton and bush during their 8 years, and a fuck load more than trump. Trump didn't even deport a million people his last 4 years. He just likes to talk shit. 

[Incredulity 11328]

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

but it's also true that presidents don't get much accomplished legislatively after their first two years in office

Correlated to losing control of congress….

 

 

 

[Goofyboy 3063]

Why do the democrats have to be the adults in the room? If everyone thinks Trump and co are going to wipe their ass with the Constitution, why not go first?? Fuck peaceful handover of power. They won’t do it - why should we at this point? Biden or Harris - dictator it up. They have immunity. Go for it.

[DigglerontheHoof 20901]

14 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

One of my big concerns about Trump America is that there are a lot of people like Johnny Sack and HellesBier who have been somewhat subdued for the past few years, but putting an asshole back in office will give them a license to resume being openly hateful. This post is a prime example. What kind of a person talks like that?

Christians.  Christians talk like that b/c they're scumbags. 

[Pig Bellmont 8656]

1 minute ago, Goofyboy said:

Why do the democrats have to be the adults in the room? If everyone thinks Trump and co are going to wipe their ass with the Constitution, why not go first?? Fuck peaceful handover of power. They won’t do it - why should we at this point? Biden or Harris - dictator it up. They have immunity. Go for it.

Oh because the Supreme Court (in it’s current composition) won’t allow for that immunity to be applied to a Dem

[Constant 6678]

7 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

well, every economist said it too.

Like- all of them. 

[wildcat09 29068]

Just now, Goofyboy said:

Why do the democrats have to be the adults in the room? If everyone thinks Trump and co are going to wipe their ass with the Constitution, why not go first?? Fuck peaceful handover of power. They won’t do it - why should we at this point? Biden or Harris - dictator it up. They have immunity. Go for it.

I wouldn't be opposed to it morally or out of respect for norms or whatever, but I honestly think it would be counterproductive. Like it or not, the American people just gave Trump the first real democratic legitimacy he's ever had. He won a popular vote. There's absolutely no way Biden going dictator goes well for us because the military wouldn't support it.  

The one thing I think he absolutely should do is declassify absolutely everything they know about Trump and everyone around him and publish that shit far and wide. 

[David Dennison 18244]

19 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Which is why I don't believe for one second that mass deportation will happen. They'll be content with harassing just enough people to make the base think they being tough on immigration. It's completely cynical.

[Pig Bellmont 8656]

5 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

A portion of this is just pure fantasy, Obama deported more than 3 million people during his 8 years. That's more than clinton and bush during their 8 years, and a fuck load more than trump. Trump didn't even deport a million people his last 4 years. He just likes to talk shit. 

He sure did separate thousands of children from their parents at the border, including breastfeeding infants. Oh and so many were never reunited.  

[David Dennison 18244]

5 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Correlated to losing control of congress….

 

How are those Senate rule changes coming?

[Frank Drebin 5491]

4 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Christians.  Christians talk like that b/c they're scumbags. 

How nice and bigoted of you.

[Pancho 43966]

 

[Goofyboy 3063]

Oh because the Supreme Court (in it’s current composition) won’t allow for that immunity to be applied to a Dem

Rules don’t matter anymore. Remove the ones that don’t agree with you. Again - wiping ones ass with the constitution. If Trump and co can do it, Biden and co should do it first.

[wildcat09 29068]

3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Which is why I don't believe for one second that mass deportation will happen. They'll be content with harassing just enough people to make the base think they being tough on immigration. It's completely cynical.

No it fucking isn't you moron. The people he is hiring are racist true believers and are absolutely rabidly dedicated to deporting and/or simply murdering as many immigrants as they can.

[Hagbard Celine 10594]

3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

This was the issue. This was the newsstory. This should have energized a vast majority to reject Trump's clearly stated intentions for the future backed by the evidence from what he has done in the past. This is the real paradigm of conflict. The old paradigms of policy are so secondary as to be basically irrelevant. 

I had to spend time in the car yesterday to get a knee looked at in Austin. I grit my teeth and turned on public radio to hear show after show tease their upcoming analysis of the election from their experts. I'd turned off the coverage at 930pm Tuesday and only come here to confirm what was evidently happening. So, I'll listen to some radio.

Show after show talked about exit polls and why the electorate rejected Harris: inflation. the economy. Biden.

Sometimes there would be a mildly stated footnote that actually these things were doing pretty good. The perception was wrong. Hmmmm, why? They were not interested in pursuing that.

In the discussion of important issues, what softlynow describes above was left out. As for the public's misperception of reality, nobody wanted to explore that. They said evidently Proposition 2025 didn't matter as much because Trump had distanced himself.

The complete corruption of good faith discourse was not discussed. That's a too fancy way to say the Trump campaign's stream of outrageous lies was not discussed as a strategy and the danger it poses to productive political discourse.

The degree to which the electorate knew what Prop 2025 was was not discussed. Certainly the reason for the ignorance was not addressed by those responsible for reporting.

Digging into why so few Trump voters cared about the stated intentions to wreck the republic wasn't on the shows' agendas.

Their own failures were evidently not even recognized. They can't even report the disaster this poses for the country considering who will fill key rolls and why it's bad. 

It was the usual tired template repeated over and over. The giant story of the election of a felon who stole state secrets and sent a mob to invade the Capitol and what this means about this country's processes and character was not discussed. 

Lastly, in discussing the female vote not one person mentioned Christian Nationalism as a possible element swaying female voters about reproductive rights or even privacy rights once (correctly) taken for granted. In fact, Christian Nationalism was never mentioned whatsoever while I was listening.

Of course, nobody talked about the larger problem of the white man. Nobody ever does.

fantastic post

i would add zero discussion about the woefully criminally uninformed electorate, specifically genZ

raised and educated with no knowledge of the 20th-century paradigm we take for granted as a baseline reality, addicted to their phones and brainwashed by social, the entire dem message sounded like charlie brown parents voice to them: unintelligible, incomprehensible, based on concepts and vocabulary entirely foreign to their understanding

then the flip side of that: genZ has zero ability to hear the dotard and his hate engine and process what they say - here in the post-truth future the drone class has emerged - and the christofascists will be impossible to stop until they age out - the boomers in the '30s and genX in the '40s

can't remember who wrote it yesterday - the only thing that will stop this vector is another great depression - otherwise we're looking at 2050 before the electorate regains enough intelligence to think, not just critically, but think, at all

the drones are here