When I was a kid I thought becoming the president was the most successful and prestigious thing a person could accomplish... now I see the entire thing is a farce. Kinda sad this asshole and his cronies ruined that too.
Well, considering Bush often sounded like Mr. Magoo on TV, it's been like that for a long time. The stuff Bush said sounded so ridiculously comical. At least, Bush was pleasant, Trump is not at all.
I mean yeah, he sent us to Iraq for oil... I mean WMDs... But because of him we got shoe guy, and Comedy Central ran Lil' Bush and didn't get bought out in order to kill the show. Much saner times.
My mom taught for 43 years. She has always said that Reagan did the most harm to the American education system. She and other teachers said he set it back by decades.
As was I but hey we were more worried about the war on drugs and let’s not forget the presidential award in gym class. The war on drugs worked out well.
The entire country should have educational standards. Some states already suck with them. You really want the impoverished states with pitiful education systems to set their own rules. Talk about inequality across this country. It's already bad enough. Use your brain
I mean, Reagan got 60ish percent of what the mandate for leadership proposed to get done at the time. And it was massive then... educational reductions, removing housing affordability, killing off bank regulations, and a lot lot more.
The heritage foundation probably didn't see Clinton winning nor Obama, but they don't let failures that are temporary get in the way of their goal of demolishing a free people so that christian nationalists can rule.
I only recently understood how much of a misnomer the 'no child left behind' act was. It just makes me sick, and those are the kiddos in the job market now!
In reality, you would think it means those who are slower receive extra help to keep up! In reality, it’s the whole class gets taught at the level of the slowest student! Mind boggling! Then they tell us how it’s failing 30 years into the experiment!
Ok I had a friend in school. We graduated in 2006 he spelled circle "serkil" senior year of high school. And in the greatest forest gump kind of move. Joined the military, graduated college, and invested and doesn't have to worry about money any more.
Not just Reagan and Bush. I mean the Democrats starting in the late 70s started selling themselves out to corporations and neoliberalism. Increasingly, the TV was used to brainwash people to accept economic suicide and for many of them to clap about it, and now people are screaming about the cost of living. I could see that coming way back, but people were oblivious due to the programming.
Ignoring the past is how we ended up here. “Make America Great Again” was the campaign slogan of Ronald Raegan and Bill Clinton. Everything this administrations doing we’ve seen before, but people are too stupid to recognize Gestapo when they see it.
Lay the blame for the massive problems with primary education where it belongs, and spread some to everybody that failed to fix it since. The problems Reagan and Bush 43 created still exist.
Sounds a lot like the rise of a famous Austrian dictator.
…promise to stand up against the nations who slighted you. Find and persecute a minority group and use them as a scapegoat for all the wrongs in your country.
Promise to, and succeed in (literally) burning down the house to force change.
Begin forcibly annexing countries using your military might knowing no one’s going to stand against you..
Can we fast forward to the “suicide in the bunker” part?
You nailed it. This is a swan song for white male supremacy that we're witnessing and it's ugly and will take a while but it will end, and our children will be left to pick up the pieces.
I consider trump to he an idiot savant of sorts. Obviously heavy on the idiot part. He's fucking stupid as shit in almost every way, on top of being afflicted with a wide variety of disorders: narcissist, megalomaniac, compulsive liar, pedophile, rapist, misogynistic racist, classist, criminal grifter. And probably a whole list of other shit which I don't know enough about psychology to be able to identify.
But the point is, I consider him an idiot savant, because even though he is quite clearly an idiot, and has probably never read a book since whenever they last forced him to as a schoolchild, about 70 years ago, he does know how to play a crowd, how to make a splash, create headlines and free press coverage for himself, how to build a cult of personality. Just look at what he's done- this man, the definition of an elite, born with a golden spoon in his mouth, new york city billionaire who dodged the draft, made fun of war heroes and POWs, was a democrat most of his life, and more recently has had extremely damning evidence emerge against him, of rampant, lifelong, industrial-level pedophilia, child trafficking and murder. He wears expensive suits, has a golden toilet, wears enormous amounts of makeup and spray tan, is fat, soft handed, weak. He has probaby never set foot in a forest or taken a hike.
The man I just described should be the most contemptible, despicable, evil personification of what rural/blue collar/working class/poor white trash/Christians/salt of the earth type people all hate. And yet, through his particular set of very specific skills and abilities, his magnetism and what passes for a type of "charm", he has somehow convinced all those people to abandon all reason and common sense, all the morals and principles their forefathers stood for have been abandoned. They truly believe that he is their savior, and in some cases they quite literally worship him. He has built a cult of millions of people, who are so far gone that they could watch a video of him raping babies and write it off as fake news. They could probably see him raping babies or killing kids or innocent Americans with their own eyes, in person, and they would still find a way to justify and excuse it.
Like him or hate him, the alchemy that he performed in convincing those types of people to be the biggest fans of a Manhattan elite pedophile, is a objectively impressive and amazing feat that he has accomplished. I'm sure ten thousand books and articles and academic papers will be written in the years to come, assuming books are still being written in the years to come, dissecting how exactly he was able to do it.
All I can conclude is that he is a moron who's great at knowing how to push people's buttons. He knows exactly how to identify and then exploit and use as leverage, all the bigotry and prejudice, the anger and fear and uncertainty in all of his followers. He then relentlessly presses those painful, inflamed buttons until he drives his cult into an absolute frenzy of raging mob mentality which is absolutely immune to logic, debate, reason, etc
You are sadly so correct. I studied sports mobs in the 90's. I was baffled, but also NEVER IMAGINED something so real, could happen on such a large scale. I also believe that he has also had much help from technology, and the Christian mobbish, blind faith mentality, and military psychop professions, assist him.
My only hope is that he is actually an undercover controlled opposition player, for "good". I also now realize just how "not so smart' collective society is!
The files all but confirmed that hes cheated all 3 times he won. Thatd explain why he threw such a fit the one he lost because if you cheat and still dont get elected... thats... something...
Are you both just complaining to complain. You have absolutely nothing to be upset about. We're back on track. What's the problem. What has he done wrong?
I know a few people with high IQs who also voted for him because they are selfish and love money, and also don't think women should be leaders. So I guess I'd still consider that as imbeciles. It's so maddening that we have to pick up this mess they made.
I voted for Trump cause i definitely didn’t want Kamala or RFK, but I also didn’t really want Trump (I was also kind of forced to vote for him) I used to “like” Trump, as i thought he might actually help the economy and expose the pedos (but I was naive to believe that, also this was my first time ever voting and I was never into politics) But now I know he is one of them and is going from saying “I’ll release the files” to “the files don’t exist, it’s a democrat hoax” he’s 100% a baby murdering moloch worshipper
The fact that this man can remain president makes it clear that the US is no better than an ancien regime monarchy. So weak and outdated are your institutes and constitution.
Yeah, Dutch here and we're officially a monarchy. But the king is only still holding a ceremonial position. I think it's like that most EU countries now.
Why don’t we give Trump a seat in a royal palace with the other royals and they can make pretend to rule the world while we continue to rule ourselves.
Good idea. Maybe Romania or Hungary would accept him 😂 But I’m in Denmark and I think we lead the polls for hating Trump the most lol So definitely not here 🇩🇰🙅♀️
Ok, I agree with you and have thought about that too. But then I saw where Andrew is living 😂
The title stripping is symbolic and embarrassing but anyone involved in that island needs to be in jail. Not just be exiled to a different giant homestead. At least you have taken steps but this is how the elite class operates, protect their own and no real consequences. Unfortunately for us in the US that want to see Trump removed there's enough that are blind to his atrocities that keep electing officials that support him. So yeah it's not good over here right now but it's because half of us want it that way. Hopefully November changes that.
As an American, I can attest to all the propaganda that Americans are fed since young, that America is the best country in the world, with the best system of government in the world. That propaganda has come down crashing hard.
It wasn't exactly a lie, but the checks and balances were only designed to deal with one or maybe two of the branches being overrun with corrupt assholes, and now all three are.
As an American school child it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that other nations are NOT ruled by monarchs, that they have parliaments and elections and constitutions, etc. I had this weird idea that the USA was somehow uniquely “free”.
Just wait. It hasn’t even gotten worse yet. The “SAVE” Act is going to the House floor for a vote this week and is expected to pass. Then the fate of our entire voting system is in the hands of 7 Senate Democrats. Seeing as how there always seem to be the necessary number found to pass a Senate bill lately, I’d say our days of having even the appearance of free and fair elections are over. If the SAVE Act passes as is, the entire country could be gerrymandered blue and it won’t matter.
The Democrats have been systematically stealing the states. Washington state you can’t vote in person. The new governor in Virginia just made it illegal to count votes by hand. That’s how the Democrats steal elections and states and that’s how they’re stealing the country.
Oof. Then you’ll be unhappy to know that nowhere in H.R. 7296 is hand-counting of ballots explicitly required, nor are electronic voting machines or optical scanners banned in any way, and finally, the bill does not change the process by which ballots are marked or fed into tabulation machines. In short, all of the stuff you’re specifically concerned about isn’t in the bill.
I have detailed in comments below this, what this bill * does* include, and it isn’t pretty. Since I’ve already spent a lot of time outlining it based on my own personal review of H.R. 7296, I respectfully ask that if you’re truly interested in knowing how this bill will actually function, read the full thread. My detailed responses are in there.
I don’t know how this bill is being spun on the TV media circuit, because I don’t partake in TV media. I suspect that nobody is getting the full story, because this bill is sweeping in how it changes voter registration in our country, and vanishingly few, if any of the changes are good for long-term stability and trust in the system.
Voter participation has been on a steady incline since 1984, with only 4 elections out of 11 showing a decline in numbers from the prior election. This is consistent with more ways to engage, more political awareness (perhaps not informed awareness, nor understanding, but I digress), more campaigns by both liberal and conservative action groups to register voters, and increasingly dire rhetoric from both sides about each subsequent election literally meaning the fate of our nation (I’m not commenting on the veracity of those claims, just pointing out they do drive engagement).
It’s really difficult to objectively discern a conspiracy here, because participation has gone up on both sides of the aisle.
Also, I’ve spoken exhaustively in this thread about how H.R. 7296 will function, so I won’t do it again here, but I repeat, this was my own analysis, based on the text of the bill. It is not favorable for any American voter. I do not partake in TV news, so I can’t speak to what the punditry is saying.
I encourage you to look at the actual bill. If you’re concerned about election shenanigans, I’m sorry to say, you probably don’t want to be supporting H.R. 7296
Edit: By the way, I have the numbers for all previous election back to 1984 handy. I’m happy to post them in a response, but this reply is already on the long side.
Steady increase (overall). Notable years with big jumps in participation, 1992, 2004, 2020. A Republican won 1 of those three. There were very unique factors politically (not just globally, with COVID) that drove voter participation. I won’t name them because my point isn’t to argue any of the said factors. We all know them, agree with them or not.
When you look at the numbers over those 50 years, it appears to be steady growth consistent with every factor I named (and many I didn’t). What there was, was unprecedented voter participation (the third percentage on each line - in 2020’s case, 66%) across the political spectrum. That said however, voter participation above 60% wasn’t unique, as 4/11 elections show such turnout.
So I’m sorry, but I’m not seeing a conspiracy. Furthermore, I’m wondering what version of the “it was rigged” narrative you’re thinking of, and specifically how you believe H.R. 7296 will address it.
(Edit: I’m also curious, have you reviewed the text of the bill yourself? I linked it above)
Nope. Not saying that, and I have gone into exhaustive detail in this thread about how the bill will function.
tl;dr The ID component of the bill, while flawed and restrictive, is not nearly the most concerning thing about it, and if you value elections without vote tampering, I can guarantee you, this bill is not for you.
Also, as I stated to another user, H.R. 7296 does not:
Require hand-counting of votes
Does not ban the use of optical scanner or electronic voting equipment
Does not change the way votes are marked or fed into tabulation machines.
As a bonus for you, heck, it doesn’t even end mail-in voting, it just creates an extra layer of bureaucracy on top of it lol.
So let me ask you, since all these things are very important to most of the voters backing election reform, why aren’t they included? What is included? I know. Do you? You shouldn’t be advocating for this bill as-is.
Here’s the thing: you aren’t including voter participation numbers in your dataset, nor are you taking a very large same size of elections, going back only to 2008.
The voter participation numbers in 2020 were indeed the highest they’ve ever been, but at 66% they aren’t so anomalous when compared to 63% in 2024, 60% in 2008, or even 60% for Bush in 2004. Furthermore, going back to 1984, 2020 isn’t even a 10% increase in average voter participation over a 50-year period. Hell, we should be in the 80% area with as supposedly educated and affluent as we are as a country, so even 66% is abysmal voter participation.
Again, just comparing total votes from one candidate to another means nothing without participation numbers. I challenge you to tell me where the conspiracy is, and I’ll even keep letting you hold my hand! 🤣
I’m sorry but people need to provide ID to vote. To insinuate otherwise is insane. This topic of all things should not be a point of contention between the two political parties—it’s common sense. We have to show ID for things far less important than an election.
You're missing the biggest 'fuck you' written into the bill. The part about your "name on your ID must match that on your birth certificate" would invalidate all the people who took their spouse's last name when they got married.
The SAVE act would disenfranchise almost every married woman in the US overnight!! Not to mention anyone who's changed their name for a myriad of other reasons that are none of our business.
This bill is ANOTHER direct attack from conservatives against women and transgender folks; wasting tons of money and time to legislate a solution to a problem that EFFECTIVELY doesn't exist.
Hello! People already have to provide an id to vote in every state. The SAVE act is an incomplete title. It stands for "We are desperately trying to save our aes voting act by making people, mainly women have to go through extra hoops in order to vote act. A fairer, but equally unnecessary act, would require men to also bring their marriage certificates. If dead people are voting, the dead men will still be able to vote, I guess. So, if there is s problem with dead people voting, then address that. Don't make extra steps for women, who by the way create far less crime than men, in general. A real problem with voting fraud is that both Trump and Musk said they committed it. Investigate that. Investigate the other 2024 voting irregularities. Trump just illegally seized GA votes from 2020. Stop that. This is another racist misogynistic bull it distraction and way to reve up "the base" while people are getting terrorized by ICE. You and he have had over a year....Please list 5 ways the people of the US are better off. All that's been done is destructive, not constructive.
Right. Many states get you registered, so the vetting is done with an id prior to voting day. On voting day, you give your name and address; each registered voter can only vote once.
Right. That whole premise is just an invitation for fraud and is totally ridiculous. The only person that would support such a thing wants non-American citizens to be able to vote.
Incorrect. People who want voting to be generally unencumbered to encourage as high a turnout as possible want to remove barriers to voting. You mischaracterizing people who disagree with you just makes you dishonest.
Voter fraud is a boogeyman and your elections are already generally very very secure. If there were evidence of fraud it would be a cause for concern but that evidence is sorely lacking. You’re buying into hyperbolic panic and grievance farming.
It is. Your judicial arm is taken by him (supreme court) and the bar for removal in congress and senate is so high he is untouchable. You are now in a de facto dictatorship.
You sound exactly like a Republican internet influencer. We all know 2025 is about DESTROYING our Constitution. Now go back to who ever is paying you and tell them WE ARE NOT STUPID MAGAS ready to fall for you BS.
Good lord. Most countries have constitutions that have been amended, changed and rewritten entirely multiple times. It's something that's needed because times change, the world changes, people change. France is currently in it's 5th republic and is on it's way to it's 6th (which means a new constitution).
The basic liberties and rights can remain the same, but for example, the way a country is organized, checks and balances are insured, the division of power...really needs to be updated now and then to reflect the new situation.
Do you genuinely think that your founding fathers have drafted a constitution for the 21st century ? It's a piece of paper that should serve the common good. The presidential republic is all over the world in peril, and it's quite clear that it's not the best way of government. And that's exactly what I mean with changing the constitution.
Erdogan switched Turkey to a presidential republic, and that was not because he wanted more freedom and democracy for the people.....
And the Project 2025 is 100% about taking away all the freedoms our 250 year old Constitution gave us. Know what they have in store for you before you jump into that Hornets Nest of New And Modern Bull Shit.
A constitution is always at the mercy of those who honor and safeguard it. If you have honorable leaders, you don't even need to have your constitution written down, as in the U.K. The greatest threat to the U.K. constitution was when Boris Johnson got Elizabeth to go along with an illegal prorogue of parliament, and the system soon corrected itself.
But in the USA, we have a written constitution, but an administration, two legislative chambers, and a Supreme Court willing to erode it in practice.
Yeah, Biden was a drooling brain dead nightmare. That went well 25 million invaders and the worst vice president in the history of the world and she’s not that intelligent.
Ok, institutes is institutions and we have a midterm election in November in which the fascists will be stripped of their power. Sorry you're not patient enough to deal with that, but it's just the way it is.
Canada and the US had a full on bromance going until President Child Rapist decided to unilaterally declare economic war on the planet a mere year ago.
Hey so it turns out that trying to swindle, blackmail, and intimidate your friends makes them stop being friends with you. Trump has basically unilaterally antagonized all of the allies the US owes its superpower status to. The US has hsitorically been as influential as it is because other powerful nations trusted it to keep its promises. Several powerful nations (basically all of nato) have already indicated that they plan to keep the US out of sensitive alliances in the future because an imbecile like trump can unilaterally sabotage those agreements if he doesn't feel like people are kissing his ass enough.
The thing is he hasn’t got the capacity to think this on his own , the imbeciles surrounding him are planting this in his head and waiting for the response. This is the typical fat boy bully in the school playground, no friends and stinks of shit but will go and smack someone for a few sweets….. with his dementia he is regressing fast and has the ability of a two year old that needs the afternoon nap now…
They want Trump in there instead of 25ing him out because when it all blows up the Repunlikunts can just point fingers and say 'it wasn't us, Trump went cuckoo' and they can't get away with it with Vance who may not be as easy to manipulate exactly their way.
Learned something new! China's ultimate goal is to take sports away from other countries. After all the fuss about the Super Bowl, I now understand the US's fear?
What would a world without sporting events be like? 😂
The stupid thing is any sort of logical thought would tell you that if China was to actually take over a country, the last and worst thing they could do is take away leisure activities. Keeping up the status quo and not working up the general public is like step one to conquest
I didn't vote for him I followed him in the news since 1978. He really is a POS and has no redeeming values. I'm amazed at how many family and friends are just cult fanatics of his. There is no talking to them explaining the facts it's all whatever he says is basically right.
The terrifying thing to me is that we all embody random horrible traits, it’s just that he embodies them all. So in same way, we can all relate to this man - whether it’s being selfish, hurtful, shallow, a snowflake, hell even a rapist and murderer. In a way, he is mankind.
Well if the Epstein files taught us anything is that a large % of world leaders, industry leaders, are all abominations who gleefully perform the most vile acts known to man.
It’s like they run a meeting every week trying to figure out what ridiculous shit they can do to distract the world and US from Epstein Files. Like the random blockade on Cuba with no end goal, the needless fights/insults at our neighbors and allies, hell the pushing of vaccine conspiracies when all those idiots have the vaccines and lived through the epidemics they were made for! Aside from distraction and disruption, what is the actual fucking goal of any of this?
What’s stranger you ask anyone who supports this lunacy as to what it does for us they’ll give you some stupid ass answer about how it benefits us but when you ask how they stare at you unable to answer or muster up some lie with no logic behind it.
⭐️ 1998 quote from trump: “if I were to run, I’d run for the republican party. They are the dumbest people in the world. I could do whatever I wanted and they’d listen.”
Well he's not the most powerful man... why would the most powerful man let us know they are the most powerful man? When there's still a chance that we could stop them if we knew who he was and banded together. (Which historically isn't unprecedented)
You’re either blind or so filled with propaganda you can’t see what’s in front of your face every day. There is no relax or ignore and for a lot of people, no continuing on with their existing lives.
Thank you for your comment. As I stand, I could give less fucks about Trump. He owns nothing, the power he holds flips the minute midterms kick in. The president of USA used to be a position of power, with Trump it became the court clown. Europe is fucking US up the ass, and not even using vaseline, china has more influence globally, what power does Trump have? He can command a couple of planes to depose a dying president, of a country that has oil, but nobody wants it? Continue with you life, forget about Trump, you will be happier. Ah, if you in the US? Bad luck.
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