But like, his credibility is (and always was) total shit. How can there be 75 million people that gullible? To me, it couldn’t have been more obvious he was lying if his pants had literally been on fire.

If the stable genius in charge says that prices are falling, then it is consumers who are wrong. Believing that the economy is bad when Trump says it is good is thought crime. This economist should expect a visit from ICE.

Really, though, it says a lot about how shitty the democratic party is that the headline says “since 2018” instead of “since the beginning of time”. Trump is a disgusting, rancorous idiot. Everything about him is vile, from his appearance to his voice to his tiny reptilian brain. The fact that the democrats came in second to this human shitstain strongly suggests that the must have, oh i dunno, badly and repeatedly disappointed the american people.

Maybe they could shit-can their entire leadership and get behind someone like Mamdani. Or just disband and make room for a new party.

I accept your point. An insurgency can drag on for decades. Look at afghanistan for a more recent example: all that time, money, and materiel wasted for the Taliban to pop back up the instant US troops left.

Maybe progressives could drag out an insurgency long enough that MAGA will give up and hand power back to the people. Trump and his gang would have to flee the country, but i suppose it could happen. American troops had somewhere else to go: back home. Where will Trump’s millions of supporters go? I don’t think the people who pledged their lives to avenging St. Charlie have anywhere else to live.

In the meantime, though, there will be purges, bombings, terrorism, secret police, torture, surveillance, massacres, etc. The vietnamese people had to endure unbelievable horrors before they drove out the Americans. Trump has bragged, though, that if he had been in charge, the vietnam war would have ended in US victory. I wonder what he had in mind: death camps? nuclear weapons?

The responses i have had so far have not addressed the second part of my argument: that strikes, protests, and civil disobedience can be wickedly effective. Trump’s friends are making money like crazy right now - that is, some of them. The farmers hit by his tariffs? They’re mad. The ranchers who are about to see their market flooded with Argentine beef? They’re mad too. That is Trump’s greatest weakness. He promised the ultra-rich that his presidency would make them even richer. If they start to think that Trump is costing them money, his ass is grass.

The groups you mentioned have the implicit backing of your government. In some cases these people were pardoned by Trump himself for their various crimes. Trump is the real problem. The klan and the proud boys are gonna keep coming as long as Trump is in power. Small arms can’t fix Trump.

Also, i think you have it backwards: the implicit threat of gun-toting progressives is not going to keep the authorities at bay - it will be the excuse Trump uses to escalate. He is going to escalate anyway - I understand that - but it is harder for him to order the army to shoot a guy in a frog costume than to shoot somebody who just killed an ICE agent.

I feel like i need to emphasize that i really fucking despise MAGA. There will be a party at my house when decent Americans turn on Trump and put him in the ground. I just think that small arms fire is going to prove ineffective.

I fervently hate Trump, his cronies, and his supporters. However, buying guns is a laughable response to a serious threat.

Maybe you buy a 9mm. Maybe you buy an AR15. The US government has stealth fucking bombers. Tanks. Fighter jets. Satellites. ICBMs. Your pea-shooter is fucking useless against a government that has decided its own people are the enemy. Trump is in the midst of authorizing the military to fire on civilians. Do you think he is going to specify that they use commercially-available firearms just to keep things fair?

You know what is not useless? General strikes. Civil disobedience. Protests. Boycotts. Journalism. Do you want to hurt Trump? Sell your stocks before the bubble bursts. Don’t shop. Cancel your phone and read a newspaper. Call in sick. Organize. Collaborate. Help each other. Bring the economy to a screeching halt and the billionaires who put Trump in the white house will put his ashes in a shoebox in about 10 days.

Everybody is talking about Platner and that is fine, but i wanted to recognize the Jacobin for publishing this.

Here is a socialist magazine defending a man with a sketchy tattoo on the basis of the bulk of his posts. Jacobin (and Marcetic, the author) are cutting against cancel culture accusations and upholding the truth-finding principle of good journalism. Bravo.

Republicans should be thanking Ford for revealing that Reagan was an extreme-left antifa whackadoo. To fully realize its potential, MAGA will have to turn its back on Marxists ideas like competition, free markets, and trade.

Really. His brain was already a pile of debris when he entered politics. This is further erosion, not a collapse.

This reminds me of the time Trump tried to excuse his “grab em by the pussy” anecdote by calling it locker room talk. Well, i go to the gym regularly and have done so for years. I never hear (and never say) shit like that. Same goes for my college chats. Creeps like Vance probably think everyone is a bigot, but some people are shy about it.

There is no left in the USA. The Democratic party doesn’t even want people to have healthcare. This is Trump’s attack on the centre-right.

Yawn. Wake me when it’s JD Vance and Mike Johnson. Not a single republican in the USA gives a shit about what 2 key democrats think.

You are dead right on that point. That is the true failure of almost every democrat in the US: they all want to go back to a shitty status quo. Let’s get rid of Trump AND usher in something better.

While i agree with you up to a point, posts like yours minimize the harm that the current administration is doing. The system was bad and unfair under Biden and his predecessors, but people still had access to trials and lawyers. Police did not hide behind masks. If the government detained you in the United States, they had to acknowledge it. You didn’t just disappear, kidnapped by ice and moved to a black site outside of the country. (It was another story with afghanistan etc.) You can deplore the system that existed before Trump and still acknowledge that Trump is much, much worse.

Oakleys were cool when they were in high school. They stopped updating their worldview when they graduated (or, more likely, dropped out).

Note: I am old and I also wear sunglasses that are probably cringe. I don’t wear them in my profile photos, though.

Yeah! Isn’t deporting your workforce kind of anti-capitalist as well?

MAGA learned this technique from previous Nazis: “The Jews are inferior in every way to us Aryan supermen. That’s why they’re the greatest threat we face…”

Can someone please send the dictionary on audiobook to these morons?

What’s really funny to people outside of the US is that cheap labour and a bailout is exactly what they would hve received from Harris.

Good education is the main bulwark against this type of decline. Any political party that starts banning books, denigrating teachers, or cutting education funding should set off major alarms. Making people stupider is step one in the long game of authoritarian takeover.