Everyone’s eating it up, not only his supporters. He got a solid like, 2 to 3 day’s worth of news cycle out of an absolute nothingburger, while everyone is safely diverted away from analyzing all the other shit he’s been doing, say, through executive orders. I think he’s just throwing a massive amount of shit at the wall, seeing what sticks, seeing what he can get away with. Media will not contest him shitting on trans people, or removing DEI from all the government websites, or forcing government employees back into offices that don’t exist, among any number of other things.
It doesn’t even really matter if the things he proposes are even possible at all. The only way he’d be able to invade gaza with US troops in order to forcibly relocate the palestinians, conceivably, is by overthrowing jordon, which could be something they’ve been cooking up for a while, or pressuring egypt into doing so which would probably completely fuck over egypt’s domestic politics and flip the region into an uncontrollable civil war which would be another actor in the region that’s no longer amenable to israel, and the resulting blowback might even cause the total collapse of israel. Even with that excuse, which is ultimately what it would be, it would basically just be a full US backed genocide, both in the literal sense of having to kill basically everyone, and under the academic definition. That would probably kill any domestic US support for israel, and again, would maybe result in their collapse. Outside of that, outside of a full US backing and ground invasion, Israel can only really do what they’ve already been doing, to a mixed amount of success.
Despite the improbability, he might still go through with all of that. It’s not even really up to him in terms of sort of, just whether or not he’s dumb enough to do that, which he probably also is, but it’s mostly just whether or not everyone else in the administration is actually planning to do that. Will the concentration camp in guantanamo that libs failed to shut down before it got to this point get off the ground? Will the ICE officers actually be capable of running around and arresting everyone, or will that be utterly stupid as an idea for the same exact reasons that it’s always been utterly stupid, and for the same reasons that the foundation of the system is basically non-functional? Is this all just a bunch of bullshit until trump can justifiably pass almost uncontested another round of tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy? Who could say.
I mostly just find myself hoping that the admin goes careening off a cliff after the internal contradictions of the system begin to fully bear their weight, and something better emerges in the wake of that. It’s not really up to us, at the bottom, and it never really has been. It’s maybe up to, how hard the pharoah lets his heart become, or what have you.
Just that little voice… add it to the pile… it is time to get the fuck off of social media if that’s where you become politically “informed”
His follows will still eat it up. I’ve been on conservative reddits that insist that he got Canada and Mexico and Colombia to all bend to his will. This is not only bullshit, but the Colombian president even forced Trump to alter much of his terms. The media didn’t report on it and acted like he caved in when he didn’t.
And I’m still going to keep boycotting American goods and services because fuck 'em for electing that douche canoe in the first place and for making us go through one of the worst bout of collective axiety Canada’s ever had since WWII.
It sucks as an American too, half of us didn’t vote for him. We love you Canada and Mexico and do what you need to do to take care of yourselves.
A third of you voted against him, a third didn’t care if he got elected, a third wanted to see him get elected.
More like 30%/30%/40%.
If not voting counted as a vote for nobody then nobody would have won an election in the US in decades.
I guess “nobody” would still be a better president…
What about a “no body” president?
Yep, the math checks out.
So only a third of the population eligible to vote didn’t want Trump in power, not half.
Half who voted, lol. It’s just perspective.
I guess more than half did not vote him, but a large proportion did not vote at all, or voted third-party
My boss, who as far as I can tell, still supports Trump, but is getting super pissed off. One of our suppliers in Canada wrote us a very earnest letter in mid January about how the upcoming tariffs were probably going to destroy his business, but he still wanted to be there to provide is excellent made in Canada parts. He said he would be forced to raise costs 25 percent on February 2nd. My boss got worried and put in 40-50 grand worth or orders that day to several of our Canadian suppliers, just for the Feb 2 to some around and Trump to say “sike!”. Now he is pissed that Trump is going to the Superbowl “how much is it going to cost us in taxes?”. His decisions to support trump are biting him where it really hurts: his wallet. It’s hard for me to remove the grin from my face.
My wife has a business associate who went from drooling over Trump on Facebook to “OMG! He’s doing some horrible shit!” within the span of a week. The real irony? This guy is not white and is also Muslim. Literally the type of person that Republicans love to hate. I honestly don’t know what he was expecting to happen.
Sometimes it pays to be “one of the good ones”. Too bad you have to pay too, with your soul.
He called the previous deal a terrible one. The same deal he negotiated.
nafta -> nafta, but signed in sharpie.
Trump understands that the American voter is a goldfish who is easily distracted. He can just jingle some keys and say he won and they’ll pay attention and call him a winner.
Democrats lose because they expect people to be smart and remember things.
Not just Trump. He’s not so smart either. But the administration behind him and conservative think tank behind him. They are certailny aware how dumb is large portion of voting population and how little they need to be manipulated into thinking of “so much victory”.
First Trump Administration was him running the shots. It was bad, but ultimately tripped over its own incompetence.
Second Trump Administration is the Heritage Foundation and Elon Musk having a specific plan where Trump’s senile ass gets shoved out of the way. They don’t care if he spends all day watching Fox News and playing golf as long as he signs the things they bring to him.
Exactly. They came prepared, organised, with meticulous plans and goals. Trump is a figure for the masses, but administration behind him is a behemoth.
They came prepared, organised, with meticulous plans and goals.
Their plan is still basically a non-starter, though. Deporting the 11 million undocumented immigrants that live here is logistically impossible. At least, it’s impossible if you want to have a small government, which is something that they want. Even with a larger more well organized government, it’s difficult, and offers you no legitimate return financially. You’re dissecting the two-tier labor system which you already had domestically. You could conceivably have a portion of this be a privately funded and organized sector, which would be maybe slightly more capable of doing a genocide, but it would still be hilariously inefficient and unachievable and not offer you any real wins. Rinse and repeat this fundamental set of contradictions for basically every goal that they have. They want to just straight up deny the idea of gender existing at all, and that leads to absolutely no plan in how to handle trans people’s listed passport sex. Their voter base wants low egg prices, and yet they create a regulatory environment where bird flu will become a massive epidemic.
This isn’t to say that they’re totally incompetent morons, but they are legitimately disconnected from reality in a way which is both dangerous and highly unstable and contradictory at a fundamental level. The south did not lose because of some sort of fundamental lack of moral character, they lost because a slave economy is straight up incoherent and inefficient and offers you much less efficiency in the grand scheme. The nazis dedicated a shocking amount of energy explicitly to cruelty in ways which were both intrinsic to their ideals and actively made their war efforts much less effective overall.
I still don’t have any confidence that this will not be a bumpy ride or that we will get out of it or that there won’t be like, global nuclear warfare or whatever, or that lots of people won’t die in the wake of it. I’m just making the sort of more basic point that with these people, on some level, it doesn’t matter how organized they are. They’re stupid on a much harder to solve level, than that.
Certainly. Project 2025 is a wing nut fantasy. They won’t be able to implement half of it before tying their own shoelaces together. But they’ll do a whole lot of damage in the attempt.
TO DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF MY DEALS, I SAWED THE ECONOMY IN HALF
except unlike the mighty flex tape. lord diaper costs a lot more, has a shitty name brand attached, is hardly reliable, leaks like a sieve, and is prone to breaking at any time to globally disastrous results.
