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.

37 points

That put a smile on my face, thanks :)

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140 points

Oh, to be a ketchup stain on the wall…

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It’s probably like this downfall scene, except with dementia and pants-shitting.

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23 points

100%

And Hitler was known for sharing the contents of his bowels.

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13 points

Literally Shitler

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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.

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78 points

You forgot #3, do something else crazy to try and distract from this failure. But #2 is definitely in the cards as well.

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“friends” 🤣

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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?

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Because they don’t only fuck maga they fuck the world and it will take years to build the unfucking back

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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.

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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.

EDIT: Love when they prove my point for me ❤️

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My circle jerk proves me right every time too, and is all the proof I need.

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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.

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I voted Harris not Trump or not voting at all.

I think your anger is misplaced.

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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.

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True Leaders would be out on the streets, galvanizing a scared, angry but rudderless public…

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Like Bernie, AOC are. But that’s too much work, they gotta vote yes on what Trump wants and ship more weapons to Israel!

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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.

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I wish I could, But I’m Australian…

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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.

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