They have already pump and dumped the market enough with the tariff threats that it’s not reacting anymore.

On to a new grift I’m sure

Presumably it would actually be worth it for them.

They would provide Mexican level services to the new Mexicans which is presumably lower than the current services they receive suckling at the teat of the federal government.

If you ask someone if the Internet is full of bots they will tell you yes. However 5 minutes later they will be on social media and forget about it.

It’s impossible to think critically all the time.

It’s just regular old dementia.

At this point it isn’t even just Trump. Feels like half of Congress is geriatrics who don’t know where they are being weekend at Bernie’s-ed by a staff to vote on things they didn’t read and don’t understand.

I’ll be honest, I would not have had the left campaigning on “lock him up” but I’m not sure there can be any other option.

If they cop out with some unity bullshit it will just happen again in 4 years when people forget or decide they need a change or whatever.

Yay 2 party systems.

I think the fact that people can easily find similarities to Trump’s bullshit in recently recorded history proves that he is not a black swan at all. Just run of the mill populist bullshit wrapped up in a fat orange package.

The fact that Americans thought " it could never happen here" is part of the problem.

The mouth breathers are used to that type of shit.

It’s the same hell and brimstone they’ve been fed from a young age so as stupid as it sounds to you, they are steeped in it.

Maybe but if they do manage to win going forward the absolutely must not let any one off the hook for all this bullshit.

If there is literally no witch hunt for the people responsible for all Trump’s bullshit it will just happen again. All time ICE agents need to be made to think twice about what do because “just following orders” should not be a viable excuse.

You know, I bet they fumble this in the name of “unity”.

Yeah, the pedo Pizzaria turned out to actually be an island, and it was actually a bunch of Republicans ( some Democrats too)

It’s always projection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Comedy_Festival?wprov=sfla1

???

Please highlight where I said that

In Zimbabwe, which has a ton of problems.

Whether those problems are better or worse on the whole from the ones prior to decolonisation I’m sure will be argued back and forth below by people who just read the Wikipedia article.

This is not how it’s always been.

Unions etc used to be reliably Democratic.

Over time the unions have been hollowed out and the Democratic party has increasing had an image problem.

These lower workers think that the Democrats are only pandering to “woke” problems which that population obviously doesn’t think affect them(and in some cases is actually detrimental).

This is not really true but it is what they think and it’s one of the reasons Trump does so well in that demographic regardless of what he does.

The thing to understand is that people don’t see outside of their silos.

While it’s obvious when you line then up like that most people will never see that posts. The interact with social media passively and they’re likely to only see one of those posts as they scroll.

The US is famous for its advanced weapons but those depend on massive supply chains all over the country.

They can’t even supply Ukraine with artillery shells.

All the factories the US had to spin up in their last conventional war are gone and are the people who knew how to run them and work them.

A civil conflict would be pretty short unless an external power started supplying one side with arms.

Nah this is all unique. This has definitely never happened anywhere else and they’re are absolutely no parallels that can be drawn.

The US is such an exceptional democracy, land of the free and all that.

Keep in mind I can run an LLM that can churn out the low effort comments that sub is known for on 2 year old gaming hardware.

It’s one of the problems with social media now (including this one)

Aha loads of SS got away. There was like a quarter million members and the Allies didn’t give a shit about them because they were focused on the Soviets. A couple at the top got pinched but the vast majority who lived through the war didn’t get harsh punishment.

Sure but it’s just preaching to the choir. People’s short attention span, lack of critical thinking, and siloed media consumption means they are unlikely to see the call out.

They will see the 10 second sound bites of someone “owning the libs” or whatever and then keep scrolling.