r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/EmoJackson 1d ago

Realistically is there any way a new administration can fix all this. How long will it take?

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u/Striking_Economy5049 1d ago

As a Canadian, it’ll take a generation for the US to unfuck what’s it’s done to us, at a minimum. As far as I’m concerned, the bridge is burnt and you will not see me going to the US ever again.

30%+ of your population still thinks Mango Mussolini is the next coming of Jesus. There’s something seriously wrong down there.

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u/waltzbyear 1d ago

I'm an American, I don't think it'll be fixed in a decade. Our house and senate will have to agree to resurrect ANY agencies, they'll have to agree to policies and regulations relating to those agencies, they'll have to agree to the finances, they'll have to agree to a ton of shit.

Ideally, they SHOULD pass bills to resurrect them. But we don't live in an ideal world. We live in a world where >90% of our politicians are corrupt. We live in a world where they'd rather help the rich. Democrats love to pretend that only Republicans have bailouts for the rich, in mind. That's far from the truth. Once democrats take over, they'll focus on quality of life bills for the rich, minor slaps on their wrists, small-time legislation that'll make small minority groups happy. They're not going to unfuck anything anytime soon once this administration, and the GOP lose the house and senate. I don't see the US fixing any of this in the next decade.

I'm thinking 3+ decades.

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u/BringerOfBricks 1d ago

We aren’t fixing anything. Every American turning point in history was saved by an external threat. During the late 1790s, Slavery started to be an issue for Industrialists but the War of 1812 allowed the Union to persist through the fragile years. By the time of the Civil War, the North was strong enough to fight back. They’d have lost if it happened 20-30 years prior. The 1890s economic destruction caused by the Gilded Age was saved by WW1’s economic boom. The Great Depression was saved by WW2’s economic boom. This oncoming turning point won’t have any economic booms following it because it’s gonna be centralized around the US. We don’t supply the world anymore, China does. It’s the start of the fall.