Until Trump and Yarvin are hanging by their ankles, I won't believe that the United States will get better.
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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but he isnt reversing any tariffs? he must be really obsessed with them.
It's a simplistic solution and he's simpleminded, so it's hard for him to let go of it since all the other approaches are harder.
He's been obsessed with it since the 1980s.
yea i know, and conveniently thats around the time the soviet union starting working with him, laundering money through his real estate.
Nothing says "I am the master of making a deal" like having to back off of nearly all of them every time anyone calls your bluff.
I'll never see how so many think Trump is one of the smartest people in any room.
He's a slumlord, just like his father. It is just unfortunate that the entire country will be his shitty government housing block by the time he gets done with it.
Trump just allowed Republicans to be racist and bigoted out in the open without censure. They saw how trump doesn't get much flak for his bigotry
I'll never see how so many think Trump is one of the smartest people in any room.
"He's rich so he must be smart. You have to be smart to get that rich. This must all be part of the plan for the smart rich guy."
Mix that in with a 'Just World Fallacy' (Good people succeeded and bad People fail. Therefore anyone who has as much wealth and power as Trump must be a good person worth listening to) and you have the people who support Trump.
Honestly i saw so many interviews during his first run with trump supporters that said exactly that first phase you said
Way to entrench the status quo benefiting the rich. Get people to believe only the rich are smart and therefore worth listening to.
That's what fascists do when you stand up to them.
Trump: "Nuh-uh. I won because I have economy-proof armor"
China should tell us they'll drop their tariffs by 20% a month until gone barring further impulsive fuckery to dissuade further infantile American shenanigans.
As an American, someone's got to be the geopolitical adult in the room, and we don't qualify.
Why would China do anything that helps us pick ourselves up and onto our feet? This is the goal they and Russia have been working towards for decades.
Nah-uh. No blaming China or Russia on this one. The United States did this squarely to themselves with the world pleading otherwise. They inserted their own head in the vice and started spinning the handle.
Sure, it aligns with the communist block's benefit, but the US really needs to be held accountable for its own idiocy on this one. Its the first step in recovery.
What "communist" block are you talking about? Is this 1989?
it aligns with the communist block’s benefit
Neither Russia nor China are communist anymore. Russia is run by corrupt capitalists and has been since the 1980s, and the only thing Communist about China is the name of the totalitarian party that runs its government, which consists of a mix of state-funded and private capitalist enterprise.
russia maybe, because putins directing trump to do this, more or less it helps russia in the long run.
I'm starting to feel like this is a controversial opinion, but maybe the American people should be the ones holding their own government accountable? Interventionism is the worst way to fix a country and I very much doubt it even could be done for a country like America.
I am hoping the US splits apart, allowing the red states to destroy themselves. Conservatism is a cancer, and the condition would be easier to excise if it was a solid tumor.
Difficult to argue against, except America is doing this too us as well, and we don't get a vote.
All the more reason to not do anything about it. Let America implode and their interventionist power also takes a hit.
It's been fucking wild as a resident of a non-us country seeing some of the commentary coming up. We must radical empathy! How dare other countries take advantage of X Y or Z? The shoe is on the other foot, and by GOD is it a problem if anyone but the US starts doing what the US has been doing to everyone else on the planet my entire freakin' life
We all know they're propaganda riddled exceptionalists but goddaaaamn. Need to learn to accept cause, effect and consequence
Trump provided China an excellent excuse to start a trade war and look like the heroes while doing it. This is absolutely Trump's fault, but China has no reason to not take full advantage of it.
That's true. The US has been interfering in other country's domestic affairs for decades. Organising the odd coup, overthrowing elected leaders. Suddenly people are shocked to learn that it can work both ways.
A country with strong democratic institutions are pretty resilient to these tactics. You might not trust the politicians, but you trust the officials, the military and the courts.
It seems that the US has dismantled trust in these institutions for a long time. It has let corporations run the show. So Russia and China have an easier task.
A country with strong democratic institutions are pretty resilient to these tactics.
That's a bit tautological, like "It they could break it, it needed fixing anyway."
And that's a bit too much like "If Hitler could invade France, it's the French's fault for not fighting back harder."
Russia has been at war against the American people since Putin and traitorous US oligarchs imposed Trump on us in his first term. It's victim-blaming to say that's the American people's fault.
Ah, yes, the famous denial of fascists in your own country.
YOU VOTED IN TRUMP WITH A MAJORITY KNOWING HE IS FASCIST.
This is squarely the fault of the American people. Lack of education and political will might be to blame, but to say that you are victims is such a farce that I don't believe you live in reality.
Oh so we're denying that Russia and China led disinformation campaigns squared solely at disrupting American politics for decades? Are we also ignoring the Murdochs from Australia?
Just wanted to get that straight before I started saying whatever the fuck I want.
i believe russia be to blame, it kinda obvious weakeaning america helps putin, it has been his goal for 10years,.
it has been his goal for 10years
Trump was getting fat on Russian mob money since the 1980s, probably as a reward for him ratting out the Italian mob to Giuliani, which created expansion opporunities for the Bratva.
The embarrassing thing is a lot of that disinformation was shared on social media networks that were created in the US.
Creating the tool that your enemy uses effectively against you is not a good look.
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Spinless dipshit reverses course when confronted with consequences. More on this at the top of the hour...
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Kennedy was assassinated for less. This man has fucked with some higher powers’ money I’m surprised they haven’t ousted him for a canon slightly less loose, but I suppose he is quite the distraction.
They want their business plot 2.0.
consequences are for progressives
But Kennedy was a liberal. They don't assassinate their fellow conservatives.
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