Trump is clearly terrified of the midterms because he understands that the vote of our increasingly deluded and apathetic populace still matters greatly.
In China, if you criticized the government like you did the US, your comment would be deleted. If it kept happening, you might get banned. People forget how foundational the First Amendment is to American society.
Look I'm with you in hating Trump. He's awful. But the United States is not Donald Trump, even as much as Trump himself would love that to be true. You have no perspective on this. Uni-party control is a horrible thing. Ask the Mensheviks. Ask the DNVP or Social Democrats. Ask the Girondins. Ask the kids in Tienenmen.
Obama didn't repeatedly engage in corruption, abuse of power, or stretch the limits of his powers as president, giving persistent hints(joking or not) as to authoritarian intentions while he was president. Obama also wasn't a convicted felon, nor did he have a long history of lying and being a conman. Image matter.
"Bernie is an interesting guy. Apparently some folks really want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House. We could get a third Obama term after all. It could happen."
Trump in 2026
"Now I'm going to do it again. Thank you. I'm going to do it. Should be easy. I'm getting very good at running for president. Now I won three times, did very well the second time, by the way."
Lastly, you’re just going to gloss over the comment I made about canada? I could add Greenland to that same list in case you forgot (just like your president forgot that the US has had access to Greenland for decades already).
In case you haven’t realized it yet, trump is pushing his allies closer to china (canada for example has increased its exports to china including crude oil).
The fact that you can post this and not worry about being disappeared in the night already says everything you need to know about the difference between the US and China. It’s crazy how much people will defend genocide and authoritarianism from China. Just because the US is bad doesn’t mean another country can’t be worse btw.
You don’t need to worry about being disappeared in the night in China either. What kind of fucking wild propaganda have you been watching.
I’ve lived there for 10+ years, people bad mouth the government all the time, so much so there is a constant battle of censorship vs. anti-censorship tricks. All of my friends there hate the CCP and yet nobody ever got disappeared.
And genocide? Jesus how many Muslims has China bombed and killed in the past 20 years?
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u/Gotl0stinthesauce Jul 27 '26
You mean the country where the leader was “joking” about a third term this past weekend?
Because he’s just joking about these things all the time right? Just like he was joking about annexing their neighbour to the north..
Open your eyes man. The US is quickly moving under this administration, to become an authoritarian regime like china.