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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.

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[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Sure, but have you considered that Kamala had a weird laugh

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

She was enjoying the dead babies a bit too much

[–] gaja@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Musk will light your taxes on fire. Obama was huge on deportation. Kamala is a gun owner. OK, why won't you vote for Kamala then? "I just don't like her. She laughs weird." I couldn't believe it, but it shouldn't shock me. How do you even keep going after that?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I remember reading that immigration groups called Obama the deporter in chief. Trump wishes he could get a nickname that would go that hard with his base.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It wasn't really about the laugh.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, some of them also noticed she is a minority and a woman. Sadly our country has not accepted those groups are just as capable as white men to lead a country.

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe the broligarchy currently in charge will finally disabuse people of the notion of white male superiority. Maybe…

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[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also, those dumbass's who think a woman can't be president.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately that includes a lot of women, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most of those women were raised brainwashed by their church and family to be subservient to their man. In retrospect, giving those women in particular the right to vote might've been a mistake. It essentially just doubled the weight of their spouses vote.

That's the drawback of universal suffrage, not just women's suffrage....most people are idiots and easily manipulated. Women just moreso because of countless generations of oppressive patriarchy.

But there's no real good way to test a voter without opening the floodgates for fraud and discrimination...so here we are. Idiots in charge.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.

-Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

He had such a way with words, he did.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I really, sincerely hope that this current series of events leads to a period of American Enlightenment where we have a renewed focus on education, science, and the arts.

The weakest point in a representative democracy is very much so the uneducated public. The bigger their voter pool, the more they can drag down everyone else.

Probably won't, most of us will probably be dead long before that happens, and certainly before we could reap the rewards of it. But it would be nice.

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

My mom will still tell you that things would be much worse if Harris had won. Can't say how, but she doesn't hear the sarcasm when I suggest we'd all be learning Mandarin online while recovering from forced gender reassignment surgery and seems to consider that a legitimate possibility.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Americans will delude themselves into thinking Harris lost because of identity politics all the way to the concentration camps.

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[–] Steve@communick.news 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What actual percentage of the American people do you think believes a woman can't be president? And I mean, believe her nature as a woman makes her unfit, not people who believe the electorate won't vote for her.

Do you know any polls in the last year that indicate how big a contingent that would be?

I'd be shocked if it was over 0.5%. Even over 0.2% would be very surprising to me. Of course to get pols that precise you'd need to ask like 100,000 people.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it's not black or white. I recall a woman saying she wouldn't vote for Kamala because she thought America wasn't ready for a woman president.

Is that her nature as a woman or people that believe the electorate won't vote for her?

It almost sounds like passing the buck, I won't vote for her because of everyone else's opinion 🤷 idk, I don't have the answers.

[–] Steve@communick.news 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That would very clearly be an example of thinking "the electorate wouldn't vote for her".

If it was her nature as a woman, the reason would be some thing like "Because women are bad at _______".
Something clearly misogynist. Instead of just thinking everyone else is misogynist.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean Biden was personally killing Palestinians so let's all make sure Trump does worse too so checkmate lIbRuL. Ps I'm morally superior because I think my self righteous social media posts matter way more than the outcome I cause with my actions. And if you disagree? Well, you love genocide! /s

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is such a stupid argument and I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for my dad. He keeps talking about her laugh and I explain to him that it’s appropriate to express all emotions…. And he doesn’t believe it. He’s also unable to connect me being in therapy and his behavior.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The statistics of who stayed home VS who voted for a white man with the same policies (older white men/women and older hispanic men) shows most of the votes lost are from Kamala being a colored woman and our most bigoted groups responding accordingly.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (13 children)

100%. A woman of color? No way.

This is why AOC can't run for president. We would just be stuck with Trump 3.0 or some Republican poser.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

She also was hugely supportive of genocide, is a cop, huge opponent of sex workers, promised to outflank trump to the right on immigration and crime, had a terrible climate change plan including backtracking on things like fracking, terrible health care policy, denied any economic problems and her solution to massive poverty and increasing inequality boiled down to increased ease of first home buyers. She had terrible policies no reason to whitewash her.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Trump did not do that, America did. I only say this as no one seems to be doing anything tangible to stop this miscreant.

[–] liverbe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And what exactly do you propose we do?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"(gets shot) the shooter didn't do this, I did it to myself by not stopping it"

(gets hit by drunk driver) the driver didn't do this, I did this by not supporting prohibition

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

We should be recalling the broken Congress critters at this point. It's fucking absurd.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

When you manipulate the market and increase tariffs to every country… it didn’t take a country to do that. It took a fool and his moron Admin and Republican Congress to fuck shit up.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Victim blaming is always a totally defensible and cool thing to do

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The brink? lol we’ve gone off the cliff and are in free-fall

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

U.S. "at the brink" circa 2025

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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?

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is both. There is no reason to copitulate to Russia unless the Kompromat is that good.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

there is other reason, corrupted money

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know who else was a forward scout in WW2?

Kurt Vonnegut! Billy Pilgrim runs into a pair of them before he gets captured by the Germans in "Slaughterhouse Five."

That was one of the most dangerous jobs in the infantry, because your mission was to locate enemy troops far ahead of any support.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

yup. and both of them would explore how deeply terrifying it was being forward scouts through their art, and particularly how being an artist made them valuable as scouts

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I think he believes it will work for him. Which is the only concept that has ever mattered to him.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

Yup, polls don't mean shit anymore

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

What kompromat could Putin possibly have that could do anything to him? He could have underaged girl pissing tapes, no one will give a shit. He’s found guilty of dozens of crimes and never locked up. It doesn’t hurt his voting numbers. So why should he care?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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...

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