Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.
Americans were desperate for relief from high grocery prices and bought into Trump’s promise to make America affordable again in November 2024, partly out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy of his first term.
But the president deliberately and singlehandedly adopted policies that are almost certain to spike prices even more; that could lead to shortages; and that have CEOs and small businesses dealing with chaos and the possibility of a recession.
Trump did not do that, America did. I only say this as no one seems to be doing anything tangible to stop this miscreant.
I’m not sure what you mean by “we” in this new age of strident nationalism and creeping isolationism. I don’t even know generally what should be done, let alone exactly. It has to do with money, power, greed, human nature…all that shit and more I assume. I guess I will do one thing today that I have control over. I’m Canadian and I will vote today.
“(gets shot) the shooter didn’t do this, I did it to myself by not stopping it”
While yes, he won the popular and electoral vote, he is still the one carrying out these idiotic and dangerous policies. No one wants a bloody revolution in the streets, the majority of people are just trying to survive.
Congress could easily deal with this dictator, but the GOP are fully complicit and have zero desire to do anything to stop him. We’ve all seen the numerous townhalls of GOP reps getting torn apart over this insanity, and yet they truly do not care.
I think many Americans are still kind of shell shocked by everything. Hell, I’m still in disbelief that he even won to begin with. My disgust towards those who voted yet again for this criminal makes me not even want to fight for them.
We should be recalling the broken Congress critters at this point. It’s fucking absurd.
AIPAC, the self styled King makers of US politics, dont care who you vote for as they all support israel. It’s business as usual as far as they’re concerned.
Trump’s promise? I don’t remember him promising much anything at all until the very tail end of the campaign, and even then it was kinda offhand. OTOH, the troll farms were in absolute overdrive talking about eggs, groceries, worthless higher education, gas prices (even though they are higher now) and of course bashing Harris over tons of things that weren’t even jobs she had the authority to do.
Trump did state he was going to raise tarrifs. The problem is that a lot of voters thought he was going to govern like he did in the first term.
What was so great about the first term? The only thing that kept that from being a disaster was the fact that people stopped him from doing so many shitty things. Now he’s ignoring everyone including the courts.
Trump was relatively ineffective on his first term because he didn’t know how to be effective and didn’t choose to ignore the courts.
Trying to put myself in the shoes of a Trump supporter who isn’t an idiot, they probably thought the damage Trump could do for a second term would be as limited as it was for the first term while still keeping a governmental status quo.
Is he that stupid that he really beleives his plan will work? Or is he so afraid of Putin’s kompromat that he’ll destroy his own country in order to keep it hidden?
Why not both?
It is both. There is no reason to copitulate to Russia unless the Kompromat is that good.
In the Fantastic Four comics, Dr. Doom wears a mask because he was hideously deformed by a science experiment gone wrong. Later writers retroconned it so that Doom had a tiny scratch but was so insanely egotistical that a tiny flaw was too much for him to bear.
I like to think that the kompromat is something like Trump having premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction, or crying that his Daddy didn’t love him. Something a normal person could shrug off and move on from.
Dr Doom is a Jack Kirby creation and I’ve been living with the realization that as a forward scout for the US Army in Nazi Germany, many of his villains are reflections of what he witnessed the Nazis to be. Whatever Dr Doom is, I’m fully ready to understand 47 to be as well
He is the dictator of the US. This is how he extracts every last cent possible from the working class to fund tax breaks and handouts for the ultra-wealthy. Accountability is not a factor for someone like this who has lived his whole life with no accountability and continually failed upward to the highest office. He “doesn’t need your vote” anymore, he is there and he’s not planning on leaving this time no matter what the voters say.
Is he that stupid that he really beleives his plan will work?
Absolutely, have you seen any sign of high intelligence coming from tRump?
Or is he so afraid of Putin’s kompromat that he’ll destroy his own country in order to keep it hidden?
I am increasingly doubting this. Do you really think a tape of some prostitutes pissing on him would change anything at this stage?
I also do not buy the notion tRump is a russian asset because he is just too stupid to be recruited… he is too stupid to be easily manipulated though.
His stupidity, at full and constant display and perfectly complimentary of the USA’s population ignorance, is more than enough to explain where we are and far far more likely than any other theories…
Their plan is working. Destroy the country so people will have it tough. Create a state of emergency, a sense of crisis and instability. That can be exploited to justify increased repression, to seize control of key assets and resources and their distribution. Makes the population more reliant on structures controlled by their oligarchs and loyalists.
“Trump has issued an executive order that basically is supposed to make it possible to use military forces as “law enforcement” and paves the way for militias “aiding” the police with legal impunity. They are preparing to violently quash expected riots.”
https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/114421159120315389
“The whole thing is here. There is no misreading this: They are trying to build their SS/SA. With better pay for the people in charge of “enforcing the law” (we all know how much the law means to the Trump administration).”
It’s not kompromat. It’s flattery. “You’re such a good boy, Donald!” is doing a lot more here than you realize.
I blame Melania. If he was getting love and support at home, he wouldn’t have to spend so much time looking for affection outside the home.
Only mildly sarcastic.
Another immigrant doing a job no one else wants while citizens complain she’s performing well enough.
Let your local magats know how you feel since this is what they wanted. The business owner ones even made it easy to figure out who they are over on their Nazi safe space at public square
