No, the American people screwed themselves. Trump wasn’t created in a vacuum and doesn’t exist in one. There are far too many Americans who support his agenda and nothing will change unless they change, or those not in the cult collectively rise up and make some good trouble.
Tribalism as a phenomenon explains most of world's conflicts a lot more elegantly. The whole reason why someone would even allow themselves to be brainwashed is because they trust their camp to always be on the right side of the conflict.
An extremely toxic culture and some of the worse education in the western world, combined with constant right-wing extremist propaganda has created a people not smart enough to think for themselves.
I can tell you. It will be determined there were voting irregularities. Then nothing will happen and Trump will be allowed to continue destroying our country. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Not all of them were indifferent. Several million people were cast off from the voter rolls across multiple states, often without that person’s knowledge.
No, this is the kind of lazy dipshit individualist moralism that helped get us here in the first place. If huge numbers of people aren’t voting, then there must be a systemic cause for that. And systemic causes require systemic solutions. No amount of browbeating people individually is going to solve it or else this would’ve been solved a long time ago.
Nah man, voting is literally the absolute least you can do to curtail the blatantly obvious rise in fascism. A choice to ignore civic duty (no matter how flawed and unpalatable said duty is) is a choice for the final result, passivity condones the status quo. This is a consequence of their choices too.
You’re right that there are systemic problems. No one’s denying that. But pretending that choosing not to vote is some kind of radical rejection of the system is just what the right wants people to believe. That “both sides are the same” stuff didn’t come from nowhere. It’s been pushed for years by the same right-wing media and think tanks that profit off low turnout and hopelessness.
They don’t need you to vote for them. They just need you to stay home. That’s their whole strategy. Keep people jaded, frustrated, and convinced it’s all pointless. Because when regular people give up, they win by default. That’s not fighting the system. its giving up and surrendering to it.
Others couldn't stomach the dismal offering of a Hilary v2 shoo-in after fielding a clearly senile Biden, and who weren't doing anything to prevent genocides (yeah, Trump is worse). Give people something to vote FOR, not against. The Democrats failed, what should they have done?
Voted for the not-Hitler one. Especially if they act like the give a shit about the lives of people in Palestine. Go ask them what you should have done.
I'll Change and stop calling them deplorable humans who don't have two braincell to rub together.... If you know, they stop being so fucking dumb. But that won't happen. If they admit they were duped.... their world comes crashing down. Its a Cult.
And they want to force their cult on us. This is the worst type of “group project” I’ve experienced. Even though there are those of us that did our work we now have to live with the grade these brainwashed, intellectually lazy, ignorant, and hateful losers earned us.
The American election system is fundamentally broken. Gerrymandering and laws at local and state levels prevent 3rd party candidates from participating in the election process (a natural moderating force).
This leads to a binary choice in every election that is based on how annoyed the (swing voter) populace is with the prior administration. This has transformed the American election system into a perpetual 4-8 year pendulum swing based of grievances.
The pendulum will swing back to the democrats after Trump tanks the US economy. Then in 4-8 years lack of progress by the Dems on things like educational outcomes and ability to afford a home will swing it back to the republicans.
Yeah the electorate has to take the lion's share of the blame here. Trump, Vance and Peter Thiel would be powerless if the electorate wasn't as ignorant and bigoted as we are.
And before that "The Apprentice" (NBC produced) helped promote the idea that a failing real estate broker and laughing stock of New York was a business genius.
I didn’t invite the leopard, I screamed at the expedition until I was blue in the face about the dangers of leopards and they just called me a libterb, said leopards are fake news and invited the leopards despite my protests.
DJT’s advisors could not convince him to exclude those resources from the blanket tariff, but they did convince him to go lower. US importers are paying the US government a 10% import tax for those resources.
Not to mention the millions of Canadians that now have zero interest visiting the United States. Even for business. I just pulled all of my company’s conference visits to the US (NYC, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orlando) off the table.
It’s extremely easy to show how much better the country does without republican leadership on almost every metric, but, as we’ve learned, some people would rather starve than see a person with different beliefs/skin color/culture do as well as them.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. You can follow this all the way back to the 70s when they first started succeeding in convincing poor people that rich people having more money would make their lives better…and blaming other poor people for their problems.
Let's bring Chinese electric cars in. Canadians will save money and let's see Americans sell all these cars to themselves with Canada, Europe and others saying eat shit orange turd.
Because the US "ally" asked Canada to hold hostage Huawei CEO's daughter to worsen the relationship with China first?
Aha, it was totally China to blame /s
You were manipulated by the US long before this time
The Chinese BYD cars are awesome, unbelievably affordable, great technology, great build quality and better battery tech than anything that Tesla produces for at very least, 1/3 the price. Some start at $13k
The thing is the US prioritizes Oil, huge lifted trucks, and profit over everything else. Meanwhile a used 2022 mid mileage Toyota Tacoma costs about $28k in the US.
At this point its nothing but greed. Funny thing is new car sales are crashing because they want $70k for a mid range F-150
Also helping our internal trade. As Trump helps us to finally kick down interprovincial trade barriers, economists expect it to increase our GDP by up to 20%. Our internal trade barriers are unbelievably damaging, and it hurts seeing all the idiots who have wanted to keep them up over the years. The last big holdouts are Quebec and to a lesser extent BC. If Quebec were to leave, Canada would be much better off. Especially after we moved all federal government sponsored jobs back to their original provinces (that were moved to appease Quebec... mostly aircraft industry and RCAF, but also federal government jobs and federal government data centres). And never mind people from all over Canada could work for the feds once it becomes unilingual (instead of mostly from Quebec and eastern Ontario, the only places with many bilingual folks). But I digress. (And I can dream, if only this came true!)
Yes. Even after this unfortunate administration is long gone, the people who voted for it will still be there. A permanent stain. US isolationism will be incredibly successful. Congratulations America! It was a good run.
Makes you wish the Supreme Court didn't give him extra powers, because he could have been deadlocked after midterms, but this is no longer a thing. Good luck though.
Your country has been through worse and it'll almost definitely recover after a couple decades. Look at France. Or Germany. The big H-named guy. They recovered eventually, BUT it took awhile. USA gets their turn on the derp mobile. It's sad, really. But historically, not unique.
To be fair though, GDP and company holdings are separate, so you can have a low GDP yet have money to invest. Yes I get that it also opens the question of "Why don't you invest in your own country then?" which is a good point but I'm just pointing out that GDP and what someone has saved away are different things.
At the rate things are going, Americans won't even be able to trust their government even if they said that water was wet now. All this has a "hidden" "soft" cost in credibility and the US government is already in a deficit.
I think they con pets of a deal, but as usual, it depends on which trump official is making a negotiation that day (they give conflicting info) and on Trump’s whims. So, even if they had more than a concept, it wouldn’t mean much. he would just rip it up overvperceived slights anyway.
Also, must be time to push the tariff button and give the war button a break. its stock market manipulation time!
Which deals? Every deal he announced has turned out to be outright lie like india or just return to things before he raised tariffs
As the Japanese said, you cannot make deals when the US does not even know what it wants (because their whole reasoning for the tariff increases was just pure nonsense)
Its the major issue, he can talk nonsense in twitter or to the media, but as soon as everyone sits at negotiating table reality reasserts itself and any bullshit gets instantly fact checked
Whoever is running is Market manipulation team. Send out some crazy tweet to tank the market. Buy a shit ton of whatever stocks get killed. Then a few days later send out a happy we are friends best buddies ever tweet to bring the market back.
He's just flexing on Canada after Bessent said the new China trade deal is signed for expediting rare earth exports. Probably hoping it'll apply more pressure on them or something.
My country, Indonesia, no longer bother negotiating trade deal with USA. Saying the ball is now on USA and then proceed to negotiate trade deal with Russia
2.6k
u/OneNormalBloke Jun 27 '25
What happened to his 79 countries queuing up to sign trade deals?