USA Politics

[Diesel 11]

I’ll say this: As much as I disagree with the concept, blaming DEI right off the bat for this crash before the facts can be revealed is a rare bad move on Trump’s part.

This is what the right does all the time though. Just look at the recent shit at the turn of the year. When the New Orleans attacker's name was leaked (Shamsud-Din Jabbar), the right immediately latched on and ranted about open borders. Turns out, he was a US citizen and had been a realtor until he was radicalized.

Meanwhile, after the Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump hotel, people were calling it yet another assassination attempt on Trump himself, regardless of the fact that he wasn't anywhere near that seen. Then, as it turned out, the dude was a Trump supporter who did all this to signal his support.

What was the next move? No retraction, just a shift towards, "Wow, look at how bad our own citizens are. Think of how much worse the people flooding over the borders are!"

Shit is insane.

 

[Flaming Blimp Crash]

Soooooooo we slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian imports because of, let me read my note card here...

...40 (that's four zero) lbs of fentanyl that came over the border in 2023.

 

[Perun]

Soooooooo we slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian imports because of, let me read my note card here...

...40 (that's four zero) lbs of fentanyl that came over the border in 2023.

Of course, the real reason is that Trump is an idiot who doesn't know jack shit about economics and is advised by people who only care for their own personal well-being America needs to be protected from foreign meanyheads.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

blaming DEI right off the bat for this crash before the facts can be revealed is a rare bad move on Trump’s part.

You misspelled “one in a series of endless bad moves”

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

insidemedicine.substack.com

Whatever your stance on gender topics, you will have to admit that this is censorship of science.

No, that’s the beauty: they don’t have to admit anything. They will ignore it, pretend it’s something other than what it is, or, at best, blame someone else for it.

Well, there's now 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. The government here will counter-tariff American goods, and may eventually put export taxes on oil - or turn off the taps altogether. I firmly support counter-tariffs.

Trump's tariffs may add 20 cents to the gallon to the price of US gas instantly, but that's nothing compared to what'll happen if we take retaliatory action.

This man is an idiot and he's going to drive both countries into bankruptcy.

Surely, tariffs will help the American people! Surely, this is going to directly impact our economy in a positive way and is not just a baby having a temper tantrum! Surely, this will result in these pitiful other countries bending the knee and kissing Trump’s diaper!

Trump supporters: we’re still waiting for a rational response as to why any of this stuff is positive. I’m sure we’ll be waiting forever.

 

[Yax]

Well, once the tariffs (and there needs to be a lot more tariffs for that to sort of work out) are hitting prices enough, Trump can then lower taxes, and poof: The billionaires win.

 

[Diesel 11]

No, that’s the beauty: they don’t have to admit anything. They will ignore it, pretend it’s something other than what it is, or, at best, blame someone else for it.

Nah, they’ll just say it’s fake woke science.

By the way, here’s some more fascism for your Sunday morning:

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

I have a great suggestion for making voting simpler and less fraudulent, but I don’t think the House would like it as it does involve the use of guillotines.

 

[LooseCannon]

I've never seen Canada this united. This feeling is bigger than post 9/11.

r/Canada, a notoriously right wing subreddit, is cheering Trudeau. The Bloc and Parti Quebecois are committing to full participation with the government on tariff responses. Even Danielle Smith, Canada's Quisling, is getting onboard. Canadians are fucking furious right now.

The Americans do not seem to realize that we buy things they make that we don't need, because we like them. They buy our oil and gas, our iron and nickel and potash and uranium, because they need it.

 

[Perun]

Starting a trade war with Canada is the dumbest and most unnecessary thing a US president could do apart from starting a real war with Canada, and I'm not putting it past that idiot anymore either.

 

[Diesel 11]

starting a real war with Canada, and I'm not putting it past that idiot anymore either.

I was half thinking earlier that maybe after the US feels the repercussions of Trump’s actions he might use it as an excuse to declare war on Canada. It’s probably just my paranoia talking but after all his talk about annexing the country my brain inevitably goes there.

 

[Perun]

He's probably going to go after Panama before that to distract from his, very obviously and already proven after less than two weeks catastrophic, domestic policy, but you can't know what his lizard brain is cooking up.

 

[Spaldy]

His defenders on this thread have gone suspiciously quiet, haven't they?

 

[Perun]

No, they're just busy.

 

[LooseCannon]

they're really excited for inflation to skyrocket because of 40 lbs of fentanyl that crosses the northern border.

 

[LooseCannon]

He's probably going to go after Panama before that to distract from his, very obviously and already proven after less than two weeks catastrophic, domestic policy, but you can't know what his lizard brain is cooking up.

Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Marco Rubio has presented an ultimatum to the President of Panama regarding the Panama canal, per Axios: "Absent immediate changes regarding Chinese influence, the US will take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty"

bsky.app

You are completely correct.

 

[Azas]

 

[Flaming Blimp Crash]

No, they're just busy.

Breitbart hadn't marched out the talking points yet as to why you should want to spend more money.

 

[LooseCannon]

Brietbart is anti-Trump.

It is important to recognize:
1) Donald Trump does not have a true mandate. He did not win a majority of the votes and he only barely won the popular vote.
2) Donald Trump did not run on destroying the liberal order. He specifically disavowed Project 2025 on multiple occasions, but now Project 2025 is being enacted in full.
3) The Constitution is under threat. The Executive Branch does not get to break laws like the Impoundment Act nor to stop distributing funds Congress has allocated. The judiciary and the legislative branches are paralyzed and especially the Republicans in Congress are complicit. They clearly do not want the United States to survive as a functioning democracy.

It's time to take action, Americans. General strikes, protests, whatever it takes, because if you don't, your country is done.

 

[Mosh]

I agree with you in principle but I'm not sure I have the same reading on those things.

is anti-Trump.

It is important to recognize:
1) Donald Trump does not have a true mandate. He did not win a majority of the votes and he only barely won the popular vote.

This talk about mandate, idk. He won a decisive electoral vote victory, Republicans carried both houses of congress, and while he didn't win a majority he did win the popular vote. This idea of who does and doesn't have a mandate is philosophically important but functionally meaningless imo. And if we're talking about the philosophical side of how this administration should be perceived, then I think we need to discuss the mandate that was given to Trump not just by his voters, but those who signaled that a second Trump term was an acceptable outcome by staying home. That + Trump's actual share of voters equals a sizeable majority of Americans.

2) Donald Trump did not run on destroying the liberal order. He specifically disavowed Project 2025 on multiple occasions, but now Project 2025 is being enacted in full.

He disavowed Project 2025, but campaigned on many things in Project 2025 including dismantling institutions such as the FBI and egregious tariffs. I'm sorry but there are people on this forum who voted for Trump because they think action against your country is going to boost the USA. Saying that Trump pulled the wool over everybody's eyes because he kept saying he didn't know anything about Project 2025 just gives these people an opening to say that they didn't know any better when the economy crashes.

3) The Constitution is under threat. The Executive Branch does not get to break laws like the Impoundment Act nor to stop distributing funds Congress has allocated. The judiciary and the legislative branches are paralyzed and especially the Republicans in Congress are complicit. They clearly do not want the United States to survive as a functioning democracy.

It's time to take action, Americans. General strikes, protests, whatever it takes, because if you don't, your country is done.

The time for that was in November. The fact that after inciting an attempted coup against his own government and running a campaign promising to throw out the constitution and be a dictator on day one, Americans decided that that was an acceptable choice for president is a sign that we're past the point of no return. I think his voters (and non voters) need to feel the consequences of Trump's actions so we can ensure that, if given the opportunity to rebuild from here, someone like that isn't allowed to hold this kind of power again.

When those people are ready to admit they were wrong and apologize, I will be happy to join them in the picket line.

 

[srfc]

I think his voters (and non voters) need to feel the consequences of Trump's actions so we can ensure that, if given the opportunity to rebuild from here, someone like that isn't allowed to hold this kind of power again.

Agreed. This is life, not trolling on the internet.

 

[srfc]

Re: Canada

Charles is the head of state is he not? I wonder will the brits still be allies of Trump if he continues to try and take one of the Kings realms.