Summary
Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.
The “Signalgate” scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.
Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.
Trump has friends?
Genuinely something I’ve wondered about for a while. I guess he’s got some regular golf competitors? As long as he wins tremendously
I’d imagine he thinks that other evil rich people and sycophants whose immoral compasses are aligned are his friends, but in reality they’re around because it benefits them (or they think it does), and they’d stab him in the back as soon as it benefits them. (It’s just that so far it hasn’t benefited their morally corrupt causes yet.) So people like the deceased Epstein, and Canadian traitors Kevin O’Leary and Gretzky. AB Premier Danielle Smith wouldn’t even be an afterthought of a “friend” in this context, but she’s trying so desperately hard to be accepted, it’s pathetic.
I love how people are upset that the democrats aren’t doing anything.
First they have minorities in the house and senate and don’t have the presidency so their powers are severely limited but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?
I think the sentiment is that, by allowing the administration to continue making blunders, they are helping the democratic party in the long-term, but people are being hurt in the short-term.
I understand that their hands are tied, but a large swath of the public is furious and want their fury to be echoed by their representatives.
All that said, you could say pretty much the same thing happened from the maga pov back in 2012, and that’s how we got into this mess.
This works in a functioning society where court orders are followed, laws are followed, institutions aren’t gutted and the executive isn’t seizing control of elections. Sure in normal times let them hang themselves.
But this time is different. Even if the maga cult turns, they actually aren’t affected by bad policy, blunders, unconstitutionality, economy, polling … They’re in and they’re in for life unless they’re removed by force
True Leaders would be out on the streets, galvanizing a scared, angry but rudderless public…
They are. How many have you attended? Walz has been doing a bunch of events. Corey Booker spoke for over 24 hours on the senate floor. AOC and Bernie are having tons of meetings.
You could organize one yourself.
So the 5% of Democrats who are progressive are doing something?
Booker’s speech was a stunt that resulted in nothing. And Bernie is out there fighting, but it hasn’t escaped my notice that he isn’t a Democrat.
I wish I could, But I’m Australian…
Then I applaud your online discourse. Trump is going to cause a worldwide disruption, and even tho this is the fault of a bunch of fuckwit Americans, it’s important to focus on what we can do.
There is a saying to the effect “that when America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold”. Any non American who isn’t interested in affairs in America, especially now, is ignorant and obtuse. We are all being affected.
Like Bernie, AOC are. But that’s too much work, they gotta vote yes on what Trump wants and ship more weapons to Israel!
but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?
Hey imagine if you had a baby inside you, and then something catastrophic happened and the failed pregnancy now was threatening your life.
Now imagine you heard someone saying some dumb shit like you are now saying while you were wondering if your doctor was going to be able to operate on you before it was too late as you sit waiting to get close enough to death to be saved…
Now imagine the Democrats over decades and decades pretending like they were going to fight to stop this kind of insane cruelty towards women, raised countless amounts of money on that narrative, and then proceeded to do next to NOTHING to stop the overturning of Roe V. Wade, to put the brakes on ths descent into fascism at all?
Now shut the fuck up.
You can do this thought experiment from the perspective of an immigrant who has watched the Democratic party totally adopt a rightwing framing on immigration and lean into dehumanizing immigrants, but they would talk about it in a nicer way… (I mean look at Biden’s record on immigration, it is downright conservative)… and imagine right now you hear someone saying something like you just did as the entire country collapses into a crisis over whether immigrants should be treated like human beings or not.
The place to fight was to never accept these horrendous framings that are so twisted they are violent threats to our loved ones and the people that make up our communities, shame on you for having the smallness of vision to see how badly the Democrats failed and are failing to meet this moment by and large.
No, there is so much more they could have done and they could be doing, and many of them aren’t because they are actually fine with this along with every damn Republican.
I voted Harris not Trump or not voting at all.
I think your anger is misplaced.
Ok, good! My point is imagine being someone scared, directly at bodily threat right now, and hearing someone else casually remark on the internet right now “well, why would we stop the Republicans when they are fucking up so bad?”.
This is the kind of thing that makes people hate you, people are DYING RIGHT NOW. Yes, I know that is because of the other side making things horrifically bad, but that doesn’t give you the right to be flippant about it, to not resist in any way you can, and most importantly not to consider the lives of people who can’t just wait it out as Republicans continue to destroy their lives and kill them.
People voted this in.
This is what the majority of the voters want so what good is resisting going to do now?
That is the words of a coward if I have ever heard one
Ok, but he’s @satansmaggotycumfart is not totally wrong. People DID sit this out. However, the broader question I have is how fragile the US democratic experiment is. If all it takes for one election cycle for people to sit out, then the flame of democracy was never very strong to begin with. Checks and balances are all but gone at this point…
I’d prefer to be called a realist cowards are the eighty million that decided not to vote.
Oh? You aren’t one of those cowards that prefers to be called a coward?
This is insane.
Even if this was actually what people wanted, how do you just roll over for fascism? What fucking bizarre outlook.
This isn’t tit for tat, left of center versus right of center boring politics. We’re not getting fair elections anymore, and it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
Do you only believe in a democracy if you agree with it?
If the majority vote is a suicide pact that they’re going to drag you into as well, do you just let it happen or do you fight?
Mind you, I’m not saying that Trump got in by any democratic process. It’s more the result of crime, propaganda and expoliting defects in an old, creaky system.
Because they don’t only fuck maga they fuck the world and it will take years to build the unfucking back
Just because the Republicans are awful doesn’t excuse the Democratic party for being completely ineffective captured opposition.
90% of them just roll over because they love power more than standing up for what’s right.
Just because the Republicans are awful doesn’t excuse the Democratic party for being completely ineffective captured opposition.
If this was on every post they’d downvote until you get banned. They hate any criticism because the other guy is worse. Even when they agree on the same goals, just slightly different methods.
My circle jerk proves me right every time too, and is all the proof I need.
Thanks bestie
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Oh, to be a ketchup stain on the wall…
It’s probably like this downfall scene, except with dementia and pants-shitting.
100%
And Hitler was known for sharing the contents of his bowels.
Literally Shitler
That put a smile on my face, thanks :)
This is just how he is. He did the same in his first term. If you took away anger and resentment, he wouldn’t have a lot else left in his life.
he wouldn’t have a lot else left in his life.
He would still have his diapers.
I also love how he ran as a reformer candidate, as if we didn’t have 4 years of evidence of him accomplishing nothing of value for his voters. Social media and 24/7 news have given us all goldfish memories.
It breaks my brain that people voted for him to help the economy. Without even getting into how bad conservatives are for the economy, Trump’s first term had crazy high inflation, job loss, and economic crashes. Why would his second term miraculously be the solution to fixing the problems he started?
And all he had to do was shut up, and take credit for the federal apparatchik doing all the work for him with COVID. Blather at a press conference to his followers to stay home and ‘beat the China virus so America stays strong’ - and then play golf. Push on industry and suppliers to build ventilators, hospital capacity, and facilitate lockdowns and remote school/work.
Imagine if instead of nearly a million direct deaths, we had a mortality similar to Europe - better even as we bought our way to the front of the vaccine line. An actual ‘America first’ in recovery from COVID and the economic slowdown, instead of fumbling the ball so hard in his fourth year and making Biden president.
How anyone thought that he would be the right choice to manage any crisis, let alone economic woes is dumbfounding. The ‘smartest person’ in every room he enters, he’s incapable of anyone else to having the right answer.
The ‘smartest person’ in every room he enters, he’s incapable of anyone else to having the right answer.
I’ve always been told that the aim would be to to find people SMARTER than you with more education and experience and expertise than you, and surround yourself with such people, but a whole lot of people in dumbfuckistan seem to think that being a loudmouth bragging and bloviating idiot who has surrounded himself with lots of people who are even dumber and/or more inexperienced and/or too afraid to speak up is a great model for “leadership”.
People with dumbfuckistan mindset hate seeing someone smarter than themselves; they call this being “elite”. For some reason, people don’t feel the same way about athletics as they do politics. People don’t think you should put “outsiders” into their favorite sportsball team, they want elite athletes. Somehow, that’s not elitist. But having the smartest people running a government - well, that’s just elitist talk.
Boggles the mind.
Absolutely. My best learning experiences in life - both collaborative like mentoring/educational setting, or competitive like sports - have been when I was massively outclassed. Because if you put aside your lizard-brain feelings of being less than or inferior and listen/observe, you can see how it’s working for them and understand what it is you are/aren’t doing or do/don’t know.
Observe. Ask. Understand. Decide… and Review.
But humility is understated. It doesn’t sell on TV, it doesn’t captivate a crowd or rally the masses. “I don’t have the answer, but let’s find out” is honest but doesn’t have the same pull as “the problem is clear, and I know the solution”
Because something something “Bidenflation” and “Republican gud aht bidness, he billionaire”.
People are just very fucking stupid.
He has two options: 1) Stop doing stupid shit, or 2) Destroy the media, replace it with propaganda outlets.
Guess which one he’ll do.
You forgot #3, do something else crazy to try and distract from this failure. But #2 is definitely in the cards as well.
#2 is happening, but it’s too hard for Trump - fortunately for him there are people with their own agendas to do it for him. #3 is his only move because he can’t conceive of a better strategy.
People with their own agendas = opportunists who can see that Trump is 78 years old
Henry Kissinger lived to 100 …
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They’ll have him killed if his lifestyle doesn’t do it for them. He’s only alive as long as he’s useful to them.
as putin sees fit.
What’s more interesting is what happens to Trump and his goons if Putin predeceases him. What will the puppet do when the strings are cut?
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Who knew that hiring people based on how much they suck up to you would mean that everyone on your team (including yourself) is incompetent?
He also seemingly selected some of them by watching what they did on the TeeVee. I guess he thought that’s pretty much how HE got there, since he had that stupid game show, so…
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I mean, it’s worked for him in the private sector. Didn’t scale up.
Link to full article from the Atlantic - Raw Story’s version is just a summary.
“friends” 🤣
Running America like one of his businesses.
How dare they report facts! The facts are out to get me! They never favor my decisions!
Trump blames everyone but Trump.
Take direction from a rapist and you’re bound to get raped.
America; The world will happily move along without you.
Enjoy your reduced airfares to the beautiful Russian city of Siberia in one of Trumps own resorts.
Wonder in amazement on your tour of the potash fields in Belarus as you get a komplimentary Putin Tramp stamp across your backside.
“If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
Trump needs to try the opposite.
Would be hilarious to see him pull a 180 on everything.
He’d still fuck it up. He’s a mooncalf, incapable of doing right. The pixies stole Ma and Paw Trump’s baby and replaced it with a misshapen golem in vaguely human form.
I can tell this is fake news because it implies trump has friends.
What the fuck did the idiot THINK was going to happen?
He doesn’t “think”. Ever.
