America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump
America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump
A man with 34 felony convictions can’t win the presidency in a nation where trust in institutions is high. It’s only in a culture where the justice system has long since lost its legitimacy that a man with such a thick criminal record as Trump glides by relatively unremarked. That one man can so effortlessly game American institutions to his own benefit says as much about the decrepit state of America’s institutions as it does about the moral decrepitude of the crook.
Well, no shit. It's the same shit that sane people have been saying for a long time. If only the media wasn't completely dominated by the billionaire class, we might actually be able to organize around collective outrage, but most people seem content to just consume whatever Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump tell them to consume and not think beyond that.
Their media is dominated by whispers in an echo chamber and at some point we're gonna have to acknowledge the profound impacts. Someone makes a joke about kitty litter boxes for the furries in the school on telgram, next thing you know it's on discord, then people are talking about it. Wildfire. That literally happened in Minnesota. These guys think they're the counterculture and don't watch news
This has been the major talking point in our house today. Rewinding the time, how did first-time 18 year old voters spend their very formative teenage years? What media did they consume at the time, and how?
Also, a question to the open because I can’t remember exactly: When did yall learn about the holocaust in american high school? For me it was maybe sophomore year? Weren’t these kids either social distancing, “attending” virtual school, being nutrient-deficient all the while, and also possibly running for their lives from a school shooter?
It’s possible these kids don’t even know what the holocaust is, and a large portion of eligible youth that only hears news from the Joe Rogan podcast just voted to repeat hell because “orange man funny, woman didn’t go on my favorite show”?
When you look at what the mainstream media spew 24/7, it's obvious that aggressive propaganda works. And by "mainstream media" I mean the network with the greatest reach: Fox&Co-conspirators.
Just like the UK and Brexit. Both foreseeable political disasters.
I don't know how much the UK collectively regrets Brexit yet. I come from a heavily Leave voting area and it was depressing as hell being a part of the vote count. Leave, Leave, Leave, Remain, Leave, Leave, Remain. Now in the most recent election, Farage's Reform party got a concerningly high vote share, especially in areas like where I come from.
I was glad to see the Tories go, but I can't be too happy about the UK election when I consider Reform. I think back to how UKIP were like at local government level. They'd campaign on absurd promises like "we'll slash council tax and increase public services funding. Lots of things are possible if we get rid of those fat-cat Labour councillors". Then they'd get enough councillors that they could cause real harm to their constituents by obstructing progress; it helped their cause to make the Labour majority council look bad. They could promise the world because they knew that they were never going to get enough councillors to change much, so they could blame their utter failure to do anything useful once elected on Labour (in my area at least. Apparently the same playbook works in Conservative majority areas too)
Brexit was unambiguously a political disaster. Many of the people who voted Leave have been actively harmed and I can't even feel any schadenfreude at them because they haven't connected the dots there. Like, I see people having their faces eaten off by the leopards they voted for, and they're going "this is really hurting. See, this is why we needed the leopards eating faces party". It's honestly heartbreaking to witness.
I don’t know how much the UK collectively regrets Brexit yet.
Well, not collectively, but it starts to hurt in so many places I've seen, it will get into even the thicker skulls in time - if those don't just die out.
Not yet. Not for a little while. First, a few things have to happen:
- When the Department of Education is obliterated and schools nationwide collapse, it will also cause economic turmoil, because a lot of MAGA idiots work for federally-funded school systems in red states. They just voted to have themselves fired.
- The inevitable nationwide ban on abortion will kill a lot of women who believed it wouldn't happen and voted for him - despite how much he bragged about killing Roe.
- Measles, mumps, and rubella will all make startling comebacks as vaccination plummets. Seriously guys, get vaccinated while you can. Oh, and COVID-19 is going to have a massive resurgence once RNA-based vaccines are banned in the United States.
- With the purging of civil servants from the FBI, the IRS, and various other letter agencies, we're going to have a giant, stupid government staffed primarily by incompetent sycophants. Expect actual, productive work associated with any of them to grind to a halt. Expect the FBI to expend resources needlessly investigating whoever Trump hates at the moment. Expect the IRS to make mistakes that aren't in your favor, and you can't do anything about.
- Infrastructure week will forever be in the future, while actual infrastructure will be falling apart due to lack of funding. This problem will be felt the most in red areas, despite efforts to punish blue ones for voting for Harris.
- If you receive health care through the Affordable Care Act and you're MAGA, you'll be very surprised to learn that "Obamacare" was another name for it, and that you've just lost your health care. [insert "congratulations, you played yourself" meme here]
- You think things are expensive now? The inevitable flood of tariffs, with no adults in the room to tell Trump it's a stupid idea, will jack your prices up enormously. If you thought COVID-19 inflation was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
- The deeply, deeply stupid MAGA people who believed that Trump would leave their LGBTQ+ friends - well, former friends - alone will find out the hard way that voting to remove people's rights is a good way to make them disown you.
After things are going really, really badly, and there are only Republicans in government to blame, a few will begin waking up and realizing they've been had.
And by then, it will be too late.
You didn't even mention that the FTC will greenlight any merger and stop anti trust enforcement. Lina Khan did an amazing job, and that's a long term, sustainable way to keep inflation at bay. After consolidation across industries combined with tariffs, inflation will go through the roof.
Wegmans, Kroger, Giant, Tops, Meijer, Whole Foods all part of the Amazon Family.
Also:
- When NOAA is dismantled, the National Weather Service gutted and privatised, the National Flood Insurance Program abolished, and FEMA ‘overhauled’, the government’s ability to predict and respond to increasing climate disasters will be severely hampered. Private insurance companies have already been fleeing at-risk areas, so the impact of future hurricane seasons will be devastating.
Ha well at least there is one silver lining for me. National Flood insurance being abolished would be great for me personally. I live inland and have a stupid river from a 40 year old map that doesn't even exist now causing me to pay. The process to remove it is long and typically requires a surveyor that can cost thousands.
Subscribe to weather alerts for $5/mo!
Saving this for future discussions because it's absolutely spot on.
Also, for any Republicans complaining about Obamacare, kindly remind them that it was started by Republican Mitt Romney.
At this point, Romney would have been expelled and disowned by the modern-GOP; that’s how far right the Overton window has shifted over the past decade.
They're gonna blame democrats and republicans are gonna believe them, I guarantee it.
And the fruit and vegetable prices when they're forced to pay minimum wage to pick it - or worse - pay that is attractive enough to get people willing to pick it in the summer sun and heat. $30/hr? Welcome to a half pint of raspberries costing $25.
Please, none of the problems from Trumps presidency will be his fault. It will all be blamed on Democrats/Jews
And immigrants. And occasionally black people.
And queer people of every variety.
We know. Most of us already do at least. The others will follow later. But it'll be much, much too late.
They'll deny they ever voted for the guy, same as all the Republicans that suddenly realise Bush and Cheney are the worst after cheerleading for them for 8 years.
Unfortunately I'm not sure it's "most" hence the way the popular vote went.
Correct. Slightly more than one third of the population are still celebrating and slightly less than one third are already regretting it. Those are the two thirds who actually voted. The final third haven't actually noticed we had an election yet because they never bother to participate. If any of them pull their heads out of their asses at some point, they will likely regret it too, but I wouldn't put money on it.
Maybe, or maybe all their problems will be the Democrats fault and if it is Trump’s fault then at least his heart was in the right place
Or if it is Trump's fault, it's actually a 4D chess move that will make things better in the end, we're just too dumb and educated to understand.
No, they’ll just blame it on minorities
They'll blame it on the Democrats, progressives, liberals, gays, trans, atheists. They blame anyone but themselves.
They’re afraid of their own shadows, aren’t they?
... If we're allowed to
Narrator: They were not allowed to
I don't mind the whole "our president is a felon" thing, I mind that he was able to use the smallest loophole imaginable to escape any consequences of being labeled a felon. Well, I guess the smallest loophole would have been leaving the planet, and I'm just as pissed that wasn't his exit strategy.
Do you mean leaving to Elon’s Mars colonoscopy, or leaving per the airlock?
Maybe that means we could go through that same loop hole right? LoL, I couldn't hit reply before laughing.
Give him time...
Turns out the strategy of talking down to people with "this election is too important to listen to voters" didn't work. Too bad regular Americans will be saddled with the consequences while the incompetent politicians whose job is to get votes will still be sitting pretty. Looking forward to the next time I get spammed to donate to millionaires to "save democracy" while they continue ignoring voters.
America first
to go down.
We're all gonna get what MAGAts deserve.
They'll regret it so much that they're not gonna elect him a second time
America will regret its decision to stay at home and let the cult reelect DT
I mean, same thing kinda but like...