Anyone, and I truly mean anyone, who couldn't see that he is completely driven by selfish reasons (ego/wealth/power) has Fetterman level brain damage.
At this point, I can't even communicate with people that support trump. They are incapable of measured, honest, logical thought. We now have a full-blown cult that has grown to a frightening scale. c'est la vie USA.
Free healthcare and childcare polls well even among republicans. The "99% hitler" triangulation strategy that has been conventional wisdom among the dem political class for decades attracts nobody.
my parents gleefully watch fox news and right wing talking heads all day everyday, they are completely insane, and all of their friends and a lot of my extended family are right there with them. everyday i hope the new extreme insane mask off thing that drops will have them changed and capable of interacting with me, but it never happens, they just become more and more discusting cheering it all on and dismissing the impact. they love trump today just as much as 2 years ago and will vote like the discusting pawns they are, and there are shit loads more people just like them and worse. They think the gas prices and any other problems that emerge is something they bravely have to endure for their leaders master plan. They think the war is some important strategic part of making america great again. There is nothing i can say or do to help them either, they see me as a dumb animal who doesnt understand the real truth that they do no matter what i say or do. They have been cut off by beloved family members and still wont change and dont care. This is the reality of the maga cult i think people who dont have to be around it dont realize, i see it everyday because i am stuck living with them.
it absolutely sucks, not just because of them either, but i do have a lot to be greatful for to in the scheme of things and i mostly try to focus on those things, i have lost a lot of loved ones and i am very aware that life is fragile and short and the blessings we have are so important, not that we should ignore our feelings or the bullshit going on either, but i will say i am happy to use my voice and mind and speak up to anyone who will listen in the current state of hyper-fractured society and its highly curated choose your own custom reality services that keep people from understanding whats really going on with the people around them and counting on just waiting around for outcomes that are never going to happen
I have a coworker who I respect greatly because she is a nice person and she does great work. I have no reason not to like her and treat her as one of my best coworkers. We work in IT management for a large organization. She is educated, smart, coherent, and like I said, she is one of the best that I get to work with. I’m thankful for her.
But man is she brainwashed by Fox. We once got into a conversation on politics in 2024 and it became clear to me that she was voting for Trump. She thought Kamala couldn’t string a sentence together and that things had been better under Trump. We respectfully disagreed.
Politics came up again a couple of days ago. She offered that she was pissed that gas prices were so high. She offered that she felt betrayed, etc. I felt like it was progress in her opening up to the idea that Trump is a turd UNTIL she kept on with the What-About-ism with Kamala and then how both sides claim the other side cheated in elections, etc, yada yada. She has a Fox talking point for everything. So we drop it. Life goes on.
Trump’s supporters will give up a little in admitting that Trump is wrong in the Iran war because life has been made even more inconvenient and Trump has broken his campaign promises now time and time again, but it’s still a step too far for them to acknowledge that they couldn’t see this coming or that he really does smell like a turd despite it being so fucking obvious. I can agree that Kamala was going to be an another democratic establishment president, but at least she wouldn’t be terrorizing us all every day.
Our president is an evil dim-witted asshole.
He was elected by well-intentioned but equally dim-witted assholes.
Maybe this is a hot take but I think harris (or Biden) also would have ended up attacking Iran. I've seen no evidence that either one of them was willing to say "no" to Israel. Things would look different in a lot of ways but not this particular one.
Don't kid yourselves guys, you will have a civil war to fight before it can get any better. And this time i hope you don't "reconcile" with the traitors afterwards.
China's big gun manufacturer was banned because supposedly they were trying to sell machine guns and tanks to gangs. But I genuinely think this was just a pretense to justify protectionism and China wouldn't do something so cool.
Where are you going? If it's online, remember the people that run the major platforms have a vested interest in reducing your opinion of other human beings.
Plenty of videos of English white nationalists being shitheads. The rise of the AfD party. Italy has a rising fascism problem and Meloni. Hungary with Orbán. I'm sure there are more examples. Face it, the western world is having an identity crisis.
Those people 100% exist and they are not an insignificant minority. All I'm saying is that platforms like YouTube, X, Facebook, etc are amplifying those voices. They have an outsized voice in online communication.
I screamed and pounded the keyboard back in 2020 at family. Those same family didn't listen, posted their alternative facts, and voted for him again in 2024. I was a pile of raw nerves back then. Now I am numb. heartbroken and numb. Maybe this was how Cassandra felt when Apollo cursed her.
Trump1.0 might have been excusable, but 2.0? I felt physically sick when they announced election results in '24, halfway across the globe.
This is not about being conservative, or even politics anymore. Or "different opinions". This is an absence of basic decency & common sense. Decades of brainrot. A people spoiled (sorry to the good apples in this analogy).
It already was. Fun fact, Penn Wharton just came out with a full breakdown of federal spending as it pertains to civil benefits with regards to your age. In other words, how much the government spends on its citizens according to age. For fiscal year 2025, the federal government is spending $43,700 for every person over the age of 64. Conversely, it spends $4,300 on every person under the age of 26. That works out to the government spending 10x more on elderly people than children.
The full breakdown is here if anyone is interested. We're great again!!
You can do democracy, its just not compatible with capitalism. When's the last time Cuba gave arms to a dictator so their populace doesn't rise up and stop giving them cheap labor and resources?
Back in 2019 I was certain that putin only had a couple years left in him. He started stuttering, mixing up words, could barely walk by himself, always looked disoriented etc. And yet a pandemic, war and 7 years later he's still fucking alive and relatively well.
If you have an unlimited budget, you can now extend your life by decades. Honestly trump may actually make it to 100 or something.
Biggest theft of wealth in the history of human civilization, this racket that they've been running for the past half century and more. It's as successful as it is impressive as it is evil.
A war they started with no clear benefit at that. Its not like a foriegn nation unexpectedly invaded the US causing war which in the right circumstance could justify suspending these funds until peace.
The benefit is murdering brown people on behalf of another crusader nation with pedophile leverage on the person in what was at least the most powerful office on the planet. Duh.
Well if we didn't have the middle class shouldering the highest effective tax bracket and if you and your cronies stopped pocketing it then maybe we could afford healthcare, daycare, and destruction!
Yeah it's like that meme with the old white guys laughing at the gullible able poors. I think that every night he laughs at the magats for being so gullible.
No way he ran on healthcare and childcare. Maybe im dumb and dont remember, but maga is very much against aca and medicare for all, and any kind of socialized service.
He ran on "LET ME TELL YOU, IT'S GREAT, VERY GREAT, IT'S THE BEST, IT'S VERY BEST, YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE, THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA, EVERYTHING FAKE, I'M AWESOME, THE MOST AWESOME, THE BEST MOST AWESOME, MANY PEOPLE SAY"
And people literally fell for that shit. That was his whole program.
Trump ran on "It sucks now, and I have a concept of a plan for the best healthcare ever".
Trump spoke towards a truth we all feel about how bad it is, then lied about the cause and what he was going to do, democrats told us better things aren't possible, america is already great, but if you vote for us, we miiight consider doing .01% less genocide.
People fell for it because the alternative "Shut the fuck up and vote for tax cuts for small business owners and The Most Lethal Military Evar!" is too depressing.
In 2012 i paid 6k a yr
In 2015 i paid 12k
In 2018 i paid 18k
In 2021 i paid 23k
In 2023 it was 29k
This year is 36k.
From from 2004-2010 my plan went up about 5% a yr. After 2010, my insurance went up about 20% a year. The only difference was the ACA, and it was talked about a lot in the years. The trade off was people who could afford healthcare or has there own business should pay more to cover the subsidized people who couldn't afford it. It actually caused a significant amount of people to take pay cuts, increased premiums, or refuse insurance and just take the tax penalty. I took the tax penalty for 2 years because i couldn't afford the increase in rates at first. I assisted my rates i charge my customers and i was able to get back on after 2 years.
What has trump done to change healthcare prices? As far as me personally he got rid of the penalty which saved friends i know a few thousand a year. Other than that, not anything else because the prices have continued to go up faster than inflation. Biden was the same to, but the rates going up so much was probably due to covid because I'm not aware is any policies he did that would have effected the rates.
That's right. The average people pay in is 18k a year, but a lot of people have employers that help cover some of it. Small business owners it self enjoyed people don't have that privilege.
It's still the Confederate army, they never went away. They were defeated, then left alone for a century and half. It's basically a 160 year long insurgency, kind of like Afghanistan, rural uneducated land controlled by faith based extremism. The South never stopped fighting, after the war they just kept waging it by other means.
trying anything and everything to distract from epstein files, and the fact that he got rid of bondi in the hopes delaying the deposition for the EPSTEIN files.
I tried to tell my elderly family members this would happen. He isn't going to honor a promise to not touch it. If he is talking about it on tje campaign trail, he is planning on getting it.
Anyone, and I truly mean anyone, who couldn't see that he is completely driven by selfish reasons (ego/wealth/power) has Fetterman level brain damage.
At this point, I can't even communicate with people that support trump. They are incapable of measured, honest, logical thought. We now have a full-blown cult that has grown to a frightening scale. c'est la vie USA.
this was clear from back in 2016
millions of people knowingly voted for him.
millions of people didn't vote cause of gaza (or cause both parties are the same)
his own VP called him a Nazi
now all these people will vote him out cause gas prices are high
i still won't be able to talk to them
God i wish i had the hope you have.
They will never vote for a D
They would vote for a democrat if there were:
Please elaborate on 2.
Free healthcare and childcare polls well even among republicans. The "99% hitler" triangulation strategy that has been conventional wisdom among the dem political class for decades attracts nobody.
True, I agree completely.
you might be right. it's known that Republicans increase unemployment and the national debt. but millions vote for them anyway.
my parents gleefully watch fox news and right wing talking heads all day everyday, they are completely insane, and all of their friends and a lot of my extended family are right there with them. everyday i hope the new extreme insane mask off thing that drops will have them changed and capable of interacting with me, but it never happens, they just become more and more discusting cheering it all on and dismissing the impact. they love trump today just as much as 2 years ago and will vote like the discusting pawns they are, and there are shit loads more people just like them and worse. They think the gas prices and any other problems that emerge is something they bravely have to endure for their leaders master plan. They think the war is some important strategic part of making america great again. There is nothing i can say or do to help them either, they see me as a dumb animal who doesnt understand the real truth that they do no matter what i say or do. They have been cut off by beloved family members and still wont change and dont care. This is the reality of the maga cult i think people who dont have to be around it dont realize, i see it everyday because i am stuck living with them.
I'm sorry you have to live with them, sounds exhausting.
it absolutely sucks, not just because of them either, but i do have a lot to be greatful for to in the scheme of things and i mostly try to focus on those things, i have lost a lot of loved ones and i am very aware that life is fragile and short and the blessings we have are so important, not that we should ignore our feelings or the bullshit going on either, but i will say i am happy to use my voice and mind and speak up to anyone who will listen in the current state of hyper-fractured society and its highly curated choose your own custom reality services that keep people from understanding whats really going on with the people around them and counting on just waiting around for outcomes that are never going to happen
I have a coworker who I respect greatly because she is a nice person and she does great work. I have no reason not to like her and treat her as one of my best coworkers. We work in IT management for a large organization. She is educated, smart, coherent, and like I said, she is one of the best that I get to work with. I’m thankful for her.
But man is she brainwashed by Fox. We once got into a conversation on politics in 2024 and it became clear to me that she was voting for Trump. She thought Kamala couldn’t string a sentence together and that things had been better under Trump. We respectfully disagreed.
Politics came up again a couple of days ago. She offered that she was pissed that gas prices were so high. She offered that she felt betrayed, etc. I felt like it was progress in her opening up to the idea that Trump is a turd UNTIL she kept on with the What-About-ism with Kamala and then how both sides claim the other side cheated in elections, etc, yada yada. She has a Fox talking point for everything. So we drop it. Life goes on.
Trump’s supporters will give up a little in admitting that Trump is wrong in the Iran war because life has been made even more inconvenient and Trump has broken his campaign promises now time and time again, but it’s still a step too far for them to acknowledge that they couldn’t see this coming or that he really does smell like a turd despite it being so fucking obvious. I can agree that Kamala was going to be an another democratic establishment president, but at least she wouldn’t be terrorizing us all every day.
Our president is an evil dim-witted asshole.
He was elected by well-intentioned but equally dim-witted assholes.
No, they are definitely not well-intentioned. They are as equally evil dim-witted assholes as he are.
Maybe this is a hot take but I think harris (or Biden) also would have ended up attacking Iran. I've seen no evidence that either one of them was willing to say "no" to Israel. Things would look different in a lot of ways but not this particular one.
Don't kid yourselves guys, you will have a civil war to fight before it can get any better. And this time i hope you don't "reconcile" with the traitors afterwards.
Short of France bankrupting itself again to fund an overseas militia would incentivise a revolution movement.
China's big gun manufacturer was banned because supposedly they were trying to sell machine guns and tanks to gangs. But I genuinely think this was just a pretense to justify protectionism and China wouldn't do something so cool.
I completely lost my faith in humanity in 2016, don't see any chance to regain it.
let's not equate USA with Humanity.
I'm not. But everywhere I go i see less and less "Humanity".
Where are you going? If it's online, remember the people that run the major platforms have a vested interest in reducing your opinion of other human beings.
Plenty of videos of English white nationalists being shitheads. The rise of the AfD party. Italy has a rising fascism problem and Meloni. Hungary with Orbán. I'm sure there are more examples. Face it, the western world is having an identity crisis.
Those people 100% exist and they are not an insignificant minority. All I'm saying is that platforms like YouTube, X, Facebook, etc are amplifying those voices. They have an outsized voice in online communication.
Oh for sure. I think if the Internet didn't exist their voices would be much smaller.
Mainly western Europe. Most people consider their comfort way more important than other people's survival.
I screamed and pounded the keyboard back in 2020 at family. Those same family didn't listen, posted their alternative facts, and voted for him again in 2024. I was a pile of raw nerves back then. Now I am numb. heartbroken and numb. Maybe this was how Cassandra felt when Apollo cursed her.
Trump1.0 might have been excusable, but 2.0? I felt physically sick when they announced election results in '24, halfway across the globe.
This is not about being conservative, or even politics anymore. Or "different opinions". This is an absence of basic decency & common sense. Decades of brainrot. A people spoiled (sorry to the good apples in this analogy).
Oh, there were signs that Trump was lying:
Killing children is a priority over taking care of their children.
Pro-life, amirite?
their life not the poors
It already was. Fun fact, Penn Wharton just came out with a full breakdown of federal spending as it pertains to civil benefits with regards to your age. In other words, how much the government spends on its citizens according to age. For fiscal year 2025, the federal government is spending $43,700 for every person over the age of 64. Conversely, it spends $4,300 on every person under the age of 26. That works out to the government spending 10x more on elderly people than children.
The full breakdown is here if anyone is interested. We're great again!!
Representative democracy only represents those who vote and the olds have more incentive unfortunately.
Compulsory voting would be great except most folks are dumbasses.
Democracy is the lie that a million voices are smarter than one, but idk what a better alternative is tbh.
You can do democracy, its just not compatible with capitalism. When's the last time Cuba gave arms to a dictator so their populace doesn't rise up and stop giving them cheap labor and resources?
his poll numbers arn't looking that bad.
edit: source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
Approval rating of arsonist who is currently burning down the neighborhood:
57% disapprove
39% approve
4% undecided
joe's for contrast:
edit: source: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/approval-rating
dear trump voters,
"we cant take care of you, we have so much wars we provoked to take care of at your expense".
Isn't this the worst kind of corruptiom possible?
A government that can't warranty their own citizens even basic human rights, but rip them off their money constantly for private interests.
Sometimes it feels like the entire country has stockholm syndrome
Oh my God you guys, I think this career conman might've *gasp* lied to us to get the power he wanted to do what he wanted. 😱
Who could've predicted this?!
Maybe elect him one more time, just in case?
He learned his lesson.
Should say Child Rapist
"We can't afford to use the money we forcibly take from you or the money we create on your behalf, to do anything that would benefit you."
Man, he just looks worse by the day. Won't be long now...
I bet you eleven Internet points he's invading Iran hoping to find some ancient magical artifact to make himself immortal.
Back in 2019 I was certain that putin only had a couple years left in him. He started stuttering, mixing up words, could barely walk by himself, always looked disoriented etc. And yet a pandemic, war and 7 years later he's still fucking alive and relatively well.
If you have an unlimited budget, you can now extend your life by decades. Honestly trump may actually make it to 100 or something.
He ran on racism and bigotry. That's what people voted for. He's been delivering massively on these so his base still love him.
Biggest theft of wealth in the history of human civilization, this racket that they've been running for the past half century and more. It's as successful as it is impressive as it is evil.
A war they started with no clear benefit at that. Its not like a foriegn nation unexpectedly invaded the US causing war which in the right circumstance could justify suspending these funds until peace.
The benefit is industrial scale insider trading for family and friends.
The benefit is murdering brown people on behalf of another crusader nation with pedophile leverage on the person in what was at least the most powerful office on the planet. Duh.
Well if we didn't have the middle class shouldering the highest effective tax bracket and if you and your cronies stopped pocketing it then maybe we could afford healthcare, daycare, and destruction!
You tired of winning yet, magats?
This isn’t even a meme. It’s more like a quote citation with a picture. He really said this folks!
I can't wait for that fuck to be dead.
Be the change you want to see in the world
The new motto should be: "This is a war country, not a healthy country!"
I’m sure he could rename healthcare to war care anytime soon.
Something I said day one to some dumbass on reddit was "He's a scam artist and you've been scammed. Again."
I don't know how people are so stupid that they fell for it a second time, but here we are. Just sucks that stupid people breed.
Yeah it's like that meme with the old white guys laughing at the gullible able poors. I think that every night he laughs at the magats for being so gullible.
"I love the poorly educated"
And last September he followed that up with: "Smart people don't like me."
Feel me once, shame on me. Fool me twice and you know cannot get fooled again.
Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice... fiddle-dee-dee
Proofread, sometimes.
No way he ran on healthcare and childcare. Maybe im dumb and dont remember, but maga is very much against aca and medicare for all, and any kind of socialized service.
If you were saying he ran on "no new wars", sure.
He ran on "LET ME TELL YOU, IT'S GREAT, VERY GREAT, IT'S THE BEST, IT'S VERY BEST, YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE, THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA, EVERYTHING FAKE, I'M AWESOME, THE MOST AWESOME, THE BEST MOST AWESOME, MANY PEOPLE SAY"
And people literally fell for that shit. That was his whole program.
Trump ran on "It sucks now, and I have a concept of a plan for the best healthcare ever".
Trump spoke towards a truth we all feel about how bad it is, then lied about the cause and what he was going to do, democrats told us better things aren't possible, america is already great, but if you vote for us, we miiight consider doing .01% less genocide.
People fell for it because the alternative "Shut the fuck up and vote for tax cuts for small business owners and The Most Lethal Military Evar!" is too depressing.
I hear your point.
He actually said that, he said that with his magic tariffs ™ there will be billions available for daycares https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-harris-corporate-taxes-15ba5ecfdf5e907bd9b2c349b07222b8
Im pro medicare for all, but im anti aca. The ACA raised my health insurance massively. I paid 6k a year in 2012, and now i pay 36k a year.
Forcing everyone to pay into for profit health insurance doubled healthcare in a few years.
The average health insurance cost per person should not be 18k a year, no one should be paying 36k a year like i do.
How much did you pay in 2015 though?
How much of your increased payment is because of Trump et al?
These are rounded to the nearest 1k.
In 2012 i paid 6k a yr In 2015 i paid 12k In 2018 i paid 18k In 2021 i paid 23k In 2023 it was 29k This year is 36k.
From from 2004-2010 my plan went up about 5% a yr. After 2010, my insurance went up about 20% a year. The only difference was the ACA, and it was talked about a lot in the years. The trade off was people who could afford healthcare or has there own business should pay more to cover the subsidized people who couldn't afford it. It actually caused a significant amount of people to take pay cuts, increased premiums, or refuse insurance and just take the tax penalty. I took the tax penalty for 2 years because i couldn't afford the increase in rates at first. I assisted my rates i charge my customers and i was able to get back on after 2 years.
What has trump done to change healthcare prices? As far as me personally he got rid of the penalty which saved friends i know a few thousand a year. Other than that, not anything else because the prices have continued to go up faster than inflation. Biden was the same to, but the rates going up so much was probably due to covid because I'm not aware is any policies he did that would have effected the rates.
The Trump admin, for both terms, has attacked the ACA causing the prices to skyrocket by making it harder to get coverage.
This is by design.
Premiums are up as much as 150% in places.
It’s wild you’re saying he didn’t do anything to the prices but point at presidents who attempted to sure it up.
The ACA sucks relative to the idea of Medicare for all BUT it’s not the reason your insurance costs so much.
My point is I really doubt he ran on a pro-healthcare pro-daycare platform. I could be wrong, but I would be shocked to learn otherwise.
He made statements that we’d have the money to pay for things if we didn’t go to war.
So to now say that we can’t pay for something because of war is in direct contrast.
I don't think trump ran on pre healthcare or prodaycare either, and I'm pretty sure Republicans are anti paying for that stuff in general.
How much are you paying now?
My plan is 36,468 per year for kiaser HMO.
I pay monthly, $3039. It for the kaiser family plan. It's for me, my wife, and two kids.
...
You pay $3039 PER MONTH for health insurance?
That's right. The average people pay in is 18k a year, but a lot of people have employers that help cover some of it. Small business owners it self enjoyed people don't have that privilege.
Ok.
Wow. Don't know what to say man.
That's why his candidates are all losing elections.
People want a Zohran for president.
I would say 3nd biggest scam. The 1st and 2nd are Tax Cuts for the rich will pay for themselves and more guns will keep us safe.
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Trump is the symptom of the disease that is the Dis-United States Located in North America (DUSLINA).
It's still the Confederate army, they never went away. They were defeated, then left alone for a century and half. It's basically a 160 year long insurgency, kind of like Afghanistan, rural uneducated land controlled by faith based extremism. The South never stopped fighting, after the war they just kept waging it by other means.
And currently they're winning.
trying anything and everything to distract from epstein files, and the fact that he got rid of bondi in the hopes delaying the deposition for the EPSTEIN files.
I tried to tell my elderly family members this would happen. He isn't going to honor a promise to not touch it. If he is talking about it on tje campaign trail, he is planning on getting it.
There's yur president, folks. Total contempt for us all. Thanks for nothing, jerk.
We have to defend ourselves from the rest of the world that we're constantly starting fights with. Please fucking d** you orange shit-stain.
Just doublethink!
Don't worry about it, we'll just put the sick people on the front lines, and the problem will take care of itself.
Looking at the USA, I am very much continuously and uncomfortably reminded of this quote:
"The last remedy of all is war which provideth for every man through victory or death".
America 1ish.
I saw a very interesting video about Trump World Order, which theorizes about what the real goal is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk
I think there is a bigger plan than we realize when watching current events.