Donald Trump Is Sworn In as 47th President 278
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday in a ceremony inside the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda, returning to the White House after defeating Kamala Harris.
Trump, 78, took the oath of office before a packed crowd of lawmakers, dignitaries, and supporters, with Chief Justice John Roberts administering the ceremony. Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama attended, continuing a tradition of peaceful transitions of power.
In a notable show of corporate support, top technology executives including Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Tesla's Elon Musk sat in prominent positions near the stage.
Prior to the ceremony, Biden and Trump shared a limousine ride to the Capitol, maintaining another inaugural tradition despite their fierce rivalry. Biden, 82, issued several last-minute pardons before departing office, including one for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.
Trump, 78, took the oath of office before a packed crowd of lawmakers, dignitaries, and supporters, with Chief Justice John Roberts administering the ceremony. Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama attended, continuing a tradition of peaceful transitions of power.
In a notable show of corporate support, top technology executives including Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Tesla's Elon Musk sat in prominent positions near the stage.
Prior to the ceremony, Biden and Trump shared a limousine ride to the Capitol, maintaining another inaugural tradition despite their fierce rivalry. Biden, 82, issued several last-minute pardons before departing office, including one for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.
Oligarch's Table? (Score:4, Insightful)
In a notable show of corporate support, top technology executives including Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Tesla's Elon Musk sat in prominent positions near the stage, ahead of Trump's cabinet nominees.
Re:Oligarch's Table? (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't forget the head of Tiktok. https://www.forbes.com/sites/a... [forbes.com]
Re:Oligarch's Table? (Score:5, Funny)
Oligarchs and their trophy waifus in underwear.
And some lizard people who haven't seen tits up close.
https://i.imgur.com/sxNpva5.pn... [imgur.com]
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Can we use this one as well [9cache.com]?
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Yup they all paid their bribe. Took Google a while but they finally paid their $1m pay-to-play fee. One wonders how much they will have to pay next year. Or even in a few months from now.
Oligarchs know YOU (Score:2)
It's not the oligarchs you know.
It's the Oligarchs that know you.
In Oligarchic US, Oligarchs know YOU
Not the first (Score:5, Informative)
Get your facts straight. Trump is not the first president to be re-elected after a defeat. Grover Cleveland did the same well over a century ago. He was the 22nd and 24th U.S. president.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed the glaring factual inaccuracy. The laughable part is that the only link in the story is one to the previous slashdot story from November which actually DOES mention Grover Cleveland. Both submitter and editors asleep at the switch, here.
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Are those merely acceptable, or even required ?
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Grover Cleveland and Groper Cleveland.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed the glaring factual inaccuracy. The laughable part is that the only link in the story is one to the previous slashdot story from November which actually DOES mention Grover Cleveland. Both submitter and editors asleep at the switch, here.
Facts are no longer facts. Facts are only what Trump and his cohorts deem as acceptable. Trump is the first at everything! Trump is the best at everything! Just ask him. Many people will tell you.
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Re:Not the first (Score:5, Insightful)
Fascist don't scare me. I've lived under progressives.
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, nationalistic political philosophy. [wikipedia.org]
Progressivism is a left-leaning political philosophy that focuses on social reform. [wikipedia.org]
Now, stop and think. Then tell me which side is which right now.
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Don't bother. People like the one you answered to cannot think rationally.
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I was being rhetorical, but thanks for the response.
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Trump will top that by pardoning himself, I expect. Oh, wait, he does not need to. He has _immunity_ now. Nice banana-republic you have there.
Re:Not the first (Score:5, Informative)
He also ... um ... didn't defeat Joe Biden, who pulled out several months before the election. I know journalistic standards are falling these days but this summary is just wild.
Re:Not the first (Score:4, Insightful)
He also ... um ... didn't defeat Joe Biden, who pulled out several months before the election. I know journalistic standards are falling these days but this summary is just wild.
It strikes me as a very AI-like summary.
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US President Joe Biden says he dropped out of his re-election bid because he feared that the intraparty battle over his candidacy would be a "real distraction" for Democrats and that his highest priority was to defeat Donald Trump in November. In his first interview since quitting the race, Mr Biden, 81, said he had “no serious problem” with his health. He blamed his poor debate performance on being sick at the time, and brushed off concerns about his age and mental acuity.
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Everyone knows that Joe is the better man, that was not in question going into the debate.
And no, the debate was not a defeat. Biden looked like shit, but so did Trump. But only Biden's candidacy depends on him being perceived well. Trump could literally shit his pants, as he often does, and his voters don't care.
At least Biden has a life-long speech impediment to explain his difficulties, Trump cannot explain his. We all know though, because it was clear Trump had a stroke during his first term.
Also, n
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Where is the "first" reference? Perhaps there was an earlier headline that got changed? Doesn't seem relevant to the link?
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Was he also a convicted felon and rapist? If so, Trump may be on to something...
78 years old (Score:4, Insightful)
What, no comments on him being too old?
Sane washing. (Score:5, Interesting)
On the other hand Donald Trump lost his marbles 20 minutes into a town hall meeting and just danced for 40 minutes and those same news outlets covered it has a cozy event that brought p Voters closer to Donald Trump
The Washington Post used to have a slogan at the top of their website, democracy dies in darkness. It's been taken down. Throughout this entire election cycle I have watched a couple dozen editors at major news outlets resign from their positions. It was painfully obvious they weren't really resigning They were being fired.
The billionaires who own our media put their foot down this time and didn't leave anything to chance. There's a thing called manufactured consent in the world of journalism. What we saw in 2024 is so extreme it needs a new word. It's the kind of thing you would expect to see in North Korea given the scale of it. Hell Elon Musk spent $270 million at the drop of a hat. And I can't say it didn't pay off if you look at the stock price of his companies
Say it ain't so! (Score:2)
What we saw in 2024 is so extreme it needs a new word. It's the kind of thing you would expect to see in North Korea given the scale of it.
So the new administration will be like North Korea?
Say it ain't so!
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Your trolls are fading as badly as Trump's health. This is nothing but a retread of overplayed Biden criticisms from Trump.
If it weren't for projection, MAGAts wouldn't have a playbook at all.
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No, because a felony conviction makes you 25 years younger. So it's all good.
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Have you seen the new official portrait? Wikipedia gave him a huge gift by keeping his 2017 portrait up.
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It hasn't been put on the official channels but it has certainly made it to the press:
https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... [bbc.com]
It looks like the Vigo the Carpathian painting in Ghostbusters II.
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Wikipedia has already healed itself, I assume they'll lock the article too.
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"Now, that said there is a process of selecting people to be POTUS and Trump made it through all the steps to get where he is. I got the impression that once Trump announced he was running again the other Republicans running pretty much all gave up."
Contradicting yourself in consecutive sentences?
Trump made it through exactly zero steps, he was not selected through any process. Trump controls Republican Party funding and has since his first nomination. That's why we are saddled with him. And he won't lea
Re:78 years old (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm just seeing a general optimism with Trump as POTUS again.
The American public has a selective and short term memory. They seem to have forgotten about the hundreds of thousands who died as a result of Trump's cluster fuck handling of the Covid pandemic. If we have another similar pandemic this time around, especially with that nutjob Bobby Brainworm in charge of the Department of Health, the body count's going to be in the millions.
More relevant than ever (Score:5, Funny)
“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”
-George Carlin
Re:More relevant than ever (Score:4, Insightful)
I have to disagree with Carlin about one point in his rant (term limits). Sure, you're probably going to end up with another crop of selfish, ignorant people, but you know what you also end up with? The previous crop having to leave before they can amass the level of power and influence a Nacy Pelosi or Mitch McConnel has built over forty fucking years in office. 8-12 years or so still gives an opportunity for influence peddling and graft, but far less than what's on offer today.
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But on the other hand you lose people with experience on how to get things done. You lose alliances and other components necessary to get the sausage made. And so the gridlock you're seeing now will be 10X worse with term limits. It's also tougher on voters, who have some idea of whether the incumbent supports them or not.
I think we need a better system than the one we have honestly, in particular we need to get rid of the concept of "safe seats" to keep politicians accountable. That would be a huge improve
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You're ignoring the fact that a significant portion of the US electorate apparently prefers the government not to get anything done. They see someone with experience and derisively label them "the Deep State". They think government's only legitimate purpose is to maintain the military.
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But on the other hand you lose people with experience on how to get things done. You lose alliances and other components necessary to get the sausage made. And so the gridlock you're seeing now will be 10X worse with term limits.
Yeah, the alliances that benefit the smooth operation of the legislature are all gone at this point because apparently no one can appear to compromise with the other side on anything remotely contentious. So, what remains are the alliances built on "let's you and I get paid" which have no benefit for the American people.
I also think you are way overstating the importance of the individual legislator in terms of "experience on how to get things done." Continuity would remain at an institutional level, and
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I think we need a better system than the one we have honestly, in particular we need to get rid of the concept of "safe seats" to keep politicians accountable.
Part of what makes safe seats "safe" are a lack of term limits. You get a scenario where the worse candidate is better, because they have the cabinet positions and know how to get things done, leading to an entrenched political class. Term limits are necessary to forcibly "clean house" every once and a while and ensure that you don't wind up having to vote for the worse choice because the better choice won't be able to get anything done.
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At least not for elected positions. I could see a case made for the supreme Court because they are appointed. There is an infinite supply of corrupt politicians for the 1% to draw on. However uncorruptible politicians are as rare as hens teeth. So all term limits do is shuffle out the corrupt ones and force the uncorruptible ones out of their position increasing the odds that they get replaced by a corrupt one. I think the real problem here is we are pissed off at old people because they set fire to the planet and to democracy for some of the stupidest reasons imaginable. But nobody wants to say that out loud because we all love our grandma and granddad. Also some of us are getting up there in the years and we took part in the fire setting
Term limits help slow the corruption. It takes time to go from "corrupt, will work for cash" to "pipeline of cash already set up, what you need boss?" While 8 years is probably plenty of time to establish that pipeline, when you have thick fucks staying on the dole for forty or more years, that's a *LOT* of time running with a paid for agenda, and not nearly enough time making the money men chase new potentials.
The age warfare nonsense is just another way they keep us divided. Our grandparents had no more s
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Archie Bunker quoting George Carlin, LOL. This is not Norman Lear's Archie Bunker.
And Carlin isn't really right. Sure, it's the best we can do, but it's a product of relentless propaganda, but also a longer effort to take control of the country by an oligarchy. It is not because the public sucks, it's because the government has been corrupted by billionaires. Trump is a sideshow, an opportunistic infection resulting from a cancer that started post-Nixon. We might die from it, but curing Trumpism doesn'
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Multidimensional moderation needed. Yeah, it's funny. But it's not funny.
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It's a fun conspiracy theory until you realize that the voting booths in question are controlled by the election commissions in said blue districts.
Here in rural deep red East Tennessee we have fast, secure voting (electronic voting with paper audit trail, which the voter approves for correctness before casting their vote). We have results the night of. Yet, somehow, blue districts in blue states can't get their shit together, have six hour lines, and take weeks to get a full count of their votes... and
Re:That would be true if we got to pick (Score:4, Insightful)
First, I'm Republican - not a Trump lover - but Republican. There were a lot of very angry people over COVID-19 handling in 2020, and I'd suspect that, by itself, led to higher voter counts in 2020 vs the other years. Hatred of inflation that is on the wane is far less of a motivator to vote than hatred of masks and isolation were in 2020.
And whether you like it or not, predominately blue districts were negatively impacted in 2024 due to bomb threats and long wait times. Shutting down mail voting as many places as possible was also an issue. Like it or not, some workers have a harder time making it to the polling places and long wait times after work don't help.
We need to figure out how to get all legal voters to be informed in an unbiased way and actually vote. Yeah, that's fantasy. But it should still be the ideal we shoot for. Gerrymandering by any party needs to stop. Every voter should have the same approximate wait times to vote and each voting precinct should have the same relative average distance to voting place per voter. While we're at it, give Puerto Rico statehood. How they're treated during hurricane season is a national disgrace. If that annoys people, look at a East and West California, Oregon, and Washington. That would make a lot of people happy there. To keep the electoral college sane, go to proportional ECs based on popular vote for all states out to say 4 decimal places.
If any party can't win fairly, they really don't deserve to be in power.
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The sad thing is that Republicans are every bit as much victims of this bullshit as everyone else. What we have is a hostile takeover of the country by billionaires and religious extremists. Very little of that represents Republican values.
If the Republican Party weren't co-opted by criminal and corrupt elements, they would instead be able to offer viable, effective candidates that support traditional Republican values. How great would that be compared to what we have?
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The fact is that your 3.2 [million] voters only showed up in 2020, they didn't show up in 2016, 2012, 2008, etc. Look it up.
I'd chalk that up to (a) it was easier to vote because of mail-in ballots being popular during the pandemic; and (b) there was a highly-motivated voting public that was not happy about the pandemic response. Regarding (a), the Republicans took measures to make it harder to vote after the 2020 elections.
So, those 3.2 million votes you keep on talking about were probably fake votes.
"Probably fake votes?" Well that's a stretch. You'll need evidence to back up that claim.
The 2024 election was more closely watched by both sides so there was simply less voting fraud.
The 2020 election was arguably the most closely scrutinized election in recent history. The losing presidential team la
Historic Firsts (Score:5, Informative)
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How about when he "drained the swamp" and filled it with criminals? https://www.axios.com/2024/03/... [axios.com]
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He probably feels comfortable with these people as they resemble himself.
Re:Historic Firsts (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Historic Firsts (Score:5, Interesting)
Not only that! Trump is also the first rapist resident, even if he did not get a criminal conviction for that, just a civil one. (Yes, he is a rapist: https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com])
That will be hard to top, because he _also_ did it running for the "tough on crime" party. I think this may possibly be the all-time record we have here.
You really cannot make this shit up. Nobody would believe it.
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Don't forget, he pardoned the Jan 6th crime congress committee, Fauci, the crime doc, Milley, the crime general and the Jan 6th crime policemen that testified against Trump.
What do they all have in common? They all pissed off Trump at one point or another.
Re:Historic Firsts (Score:5, Insightful)
When you have an incoming president who has promised to prosecute everyone he thinks has wronged him, what do you expect? He shouldn't complain about any pardon Biden has made when he's planning to pardon all the insurrectionists from Jan 6 who were indicted by grand juries of citizens and convicted by juries of their peers.
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Charles Kushner ring a bell?
https://www.justice.gov/pardon... [justice.gov]
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We literally heard Trump committing felonies on multiple recordings covering crimes that resulted in two impeachments. And the felonies he was convicted of were not even related to this! And there were 34 convictions! And he is an adjudicated rapist!
Of course it was not a "political hit job", no one would ever consider for a second that it was. Ignorant tribalism is a disease that some thankfully have immunity.
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Honestly, anyone who actually lives in and around New York City knows that Trump has always been a con artist. It's the people who live further away who don't actually know anything about "The City" who think he has been wronged. Just from how he has done business, screwing over anyone stupid enough to do contract work for him without getting paid up front for the job is his standard operating procedure where if you have a signed contract to do a job for XXX amount of money, then at the end, Trump will
So here's the best case scenario: (Score:3, Informative)
This spikes inflation because those 1%ers aren't just gonna sit on that money, they're gonna buy houses, apartments and the competitors to their businesses. With little or not anti-trust law enforcement they can do it. When your famous they just let you, you don't even ask.
Now, he's backpedaling on tariffs so we're probably safe there, but let's say he does it. He might because he's got a few crazy deficit hawks in the House that he might have to placate with new taxes.
Now He's also backpedaled on mass deportation (going so far as saying he wants more work visas) but let's say he does it, he'll need even higher taxes to offset those costs.
If he does that inflation spikes even more.
Finally, let's talk about the Federal Reserve and inflation.
The way we "fight" inflation is with higher interest rates. How many of us understand *why* high interest rates fight inflation?
See, most companies are cash starved, and the few big ones that aren't have those cash reserves earmarked for stock buy backs to maintain the stock price during a crash.
When companies have a cash crunch if borrowing is cheap (low rates) they borrow.
If borrowing isn't cheap? They fire you.
The idea is you lose your job, blow through your savings, get a job paying less money for more hours worked. Anyone that isn't fired is forced to work harder and at best doesn't get raises or bonuses and maybe gets paycuts.
That forces us all to spend less while being more productive, which is supposed to cut inflation.
But remember that $4 trillion we gave the 1%? Remember what they did with it? They own all their competitors, so they have no reason to cut prices.
This is how/why countries enter a permanent recession.
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So he is backpedaling on all his core promises? Did somebody explain to him what utter disaster they would have been? Or did he know all along? Naa, strike that, not smart enough.
Laughable (Score:5, Insightful)
Kamala Harris ran against trump, not biden. You can’t be denied a second term, when you don’t run.
continuing a tradition of peaceful transitions of power.
You’re kidding, right? Jan 6th, 2021. The traditional was broken and not continued by trump and his band of criminals.
Re:Laughable (Score:5, Funny)
Who in the fuck wrote this lying bullshit?
Kamala Harris ran against trump, not biden. You can’t be denied a second term, when you don’t run.
continuing a tradition of peaceful transitions of power.
You’re kidding, right? Jan 6th, 2021. The traditional was broken and not continued by trump and his band of criminals.
Actually, Trump ran against Obama. According to the latest MAGA conspiracy theory Obama had a sex change operation and ran as Kamala Harris. The original Kamala Harris is now being kept in a stasis pod in Area 51 and the Obama that shows up in public is a body double paid by George Soros.
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As a trump supporter, this is 100% true.
Except, Obama was never a real person, he was a mole person from the planet Melmac brought to destroy America and bring the mole people up from the underground to rule us all.
God damn it! You can't even keep the Obama is a reptile narrative going! You're ruining a good conspiracy for a lame one! Stop it!
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The secret base under the Denver airport begs to differ.
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Target selection does matter. Yes, I get that you are too dumb to understand that. Does not change reality.
Bill Clinton (Score:3)
Bill Clinton born August 1946, president 1993.
Donald Trump, born June 1946...welcome to the gerontocracy
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Well good. You got the point.
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And on that note, also worth pointing out that Kamala Harris was born in 1964, and is currently 60. Had she won, she would have been the most-recently born president, but by far not the youngest.
And she's about the youngest Democrats have left in their party, since their gerontocratic leadership has steadily helped keep young people out of positioned of power, guaranteeing that they had no one to step in when their octogenarian leader started to very visibly have his brain leak out. (The few exceptions, lik
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Not sure what you're crowing about. This morning your guy became the oldest person to raise his hand and take the oath.
"after defeating Joe Biden in a historic rematch" (Score:4, Insightful)
Where has the author of this summary been for the last year? It's like Kamala Harris just ... never happened.
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Trump has threatened the press with retaliation for publishing things he doesn't like. And most of the press is owned by people who prefer profit over legal issues or ethics anyway.
I think you can expect all American press to be about as honest as Fox going forward.
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So much pomp and fluff! (Score:2)
Christ, what a palaver that was. Over here it's voting on Thursday, swearing in on Friday. Even the coronation was less elaborate than today's events.
But the first convicted felon! (Score:3)
The US is really the land of limitless opportunities! If you are rich and powerful, that is.
Well, I am looking forward to watching the show from afar. Because one thing Trump cannot do is fix anything. He can break a lot though. My prediction is that he might do a few other firsts and will manage to make history as the worst president ever.
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Well, I am looking forward to watching the show from afar. Because one thing Trump cannot do is fix anything. He can break a lot though. My prediction is that he might do a few other firsts and will manage to make history as the worst president ever.
I think he did that already, my dude.
Re:At last! (Score:5, Funny)
For example, there's less than 24 hours until Russia removes all their troops from Ukraine. That's going to be a damn impressive feat, whether you're on the repeal-the-Espionage-Act side, or still want stealing sensitive government documents to remain illegal.
Another impressive feat that's coming, is that Trump is going to order the Central Committee to reduce prices despite the big tax increase Trump says he's going to impose on everyone. To reduce prices that much, is unprecedented, and all Trump voters should be proud that their vote for Communism is going to work out despite conservatives' unanimous condemnation.
Government of, by, and for who? (what and why)? (Score:2)
The famous version was of, by, and for the people, but apparently that was too simple. For a while it was of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 1%, but apparently that was too complicated, so they (we?) are now trying to simplify it. We'll soon find out if it's going to be of, by, and for the Donald or of, by, and for the richest 0.01%.
But if I had any money to wager, then the richest 0.01% would want that money.
Re: Government of, by, and for who? (what and why) (Score:3)
The democrats may have been the party of the working class, at one point in history, but today the dems are the party of the elites.
Trump literally just had the first, second and third richest Americans at his inauguration.
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If you don't know...
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Perhaps because some people in this benighted country still actually have a modicum of human decency and compassion; and think it's trollish to revel in hatred of, and the opportunity to inflict suffering upon, others?
Personally, I would have gone with flamebait over troll. But either way, it sure as shit ain't the case that the GP deserved to be rewarded or anything.
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Didn't take long for this to be moderated down. The hate in the U.S.A. is getting worse and will destroy it...
You're mistaking hate for dread. There's good reason to dread the next four years. We had four with this guy already.
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Hate and fear are very closely related and one of the easiest ways to instill hate is to make someone fear that thing.
If and its a big if, the US is going to fall apart in the next 4 years, I think the most likely reason will be because it tears itself apart with each party dreading what the other side will do. Or alternatively its because the economy is one big ponzi scheme and Trump is the straw that breaks the camels back, but not the root cause of the problem.
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Pretty much the whole of the 2024 campaign could be summed up by Yoda: "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate...leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."
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You survived the first four and will survive the next. I'm not American nor do I like Trump. But as an outside admirer I offer that America is way stronger than one personality, and even if he does do horrible things (what politician doesn't?) no one person has the power to ruin the USA. The separation of powers at the US federal level is truly the envy world and something that people who "dread", "fear" or "hate" the incumbent might want to remind themselves of any time they allow the democratic process t
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Separation of powers only works when there's separation of powers. With Donald in control of the executive branch, the Republicans in control of the House and Senate, and with a packed Supreme Court things have the potential to get ugly.
The sole saving grace lies in the divisions within the Republican Party itself. Some of Donald's policies are too extreme for some, and not extreme enough for others.
Re:At last! (Score:5, Interesting)
And which were better, the four years with President Trump or the four years with Braindead Biden? Because I know which were better for me - and everyone I know, for that matter - and it's not even close.
Yep. Biden was better, and you're right, it's not even close.
2020 was the nightmare year. Not just how covid-19 was managed, but the crash of the economy in general.
When President Trump took office in January 2017, he inherited an economy in its 91st month of economic expansion. Trump broke the budget and crashed the economy. It took Biden pretty much four years to reverse the crash and bring the economy back up and running. Trump now inherits a good economy... but if he implements the policies he promised, he will bankrupt it.
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Yes, of course - we need to take away the nobel prize for the discovery of ivermectin,
Not sure what your point is here. William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura won a Nobel Prize in 2015 "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites."
Roundworm parasites are not really a problem in the US, except possibly for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Hating Nazis is actually a normal thing. The problem is there's not enough hatred of Nazis any more.
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The problem is that you can accuse anyone of being a Nazi and then start hating them. Many Nazis may support Trump, that does not make him a Nazi, just like if drug dealers support democrats, it doesn't democrats drug dealer.
The problem is hate, the Nazis hated, they saw their hate as justified, and in there righteous hate of the Jews and others, they became monsters. Its extremism its when people stop seeing people as people, stop truly listening to each other and start believing the group they oppose is s
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Funny that's the point you brought up. The Nazi's hated trans people and sent them away to be executed in their camps. Anyone with a passing knowledge of history knows you're arguing against your own point here.
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That's the equivalent of eating a shit sandwich so someone else can smell your breath.
Two steps forward three steps back (Score:5, Informative)
This really got going in the '90s under something called the contract with America. It was a plan by newt Gingrich to obstruct anything positive the Democratic party would do for America and then blame the resulting disasters on the Democrat party. It was starting to break down because voters had sort of figured out the pattern but the billionaires who own our media just put their foot down and would not allow any negative coverage of Trump and put out absolutely crazy negative coverage of Biden. I mentioned on another post how Biden was listening to someone ask a question off camera and multiple news outlets reported this as if it was a example of him spacing out during a press conference.
As for the racism I wish I could disagree with you but I have seen multiple people celebrating the fact that they can use various slurs again. It is genuinely frightening how many Americans are upset they can't say the n word anymore... Also a pew research poll show the public thinks 20% of the country is trans. The actual number is 0.6%. basically 40 times what the actual number is. I don't know what you do with moral panics like that. Where people are just terrified that the school nurse is going to cut their kids dick off.
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I think this time they might have overdone things. Good. It is hard to watch this cycle of stupidity.
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Same here. The mix of people showing up here is really not good at all.
No idea what I am doing here though. Accident? Learning about dysfunctionality? Doing a stop on a longer journey? Well, one thing is sure, if I have a choice, I will not reincarnate with this bunch or retards again.
Re:Embarrassed (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks to a font issue, Al Gore gets elected president instead of AI Gore.