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You're old, straight, white and rich, motherfucker -- YOU'RE going to be "ok." Everyone else is fucked.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago

Rich old white dudes are going to be ok.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

"I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together we've changed America for the better. Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let's make every day count."

Jesus fucking Christmas. Nothing will penetrate his perfect shield of fantasy.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

Easy for his old, rich, white ass to say.

[-] Avg@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

My immigrant ass is terrified.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 84 points 16 hours ago

Mildly? I'm radicalized as fuck. This is the most infuriating shit. Fucken useless ass democrats are only good at constructing elaborate and expensive footguns. They couldn't read the fucken room and hear people screaming for any change at all.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 69 points 16 hours ago

I've changed man, since then. I don't know how I feel about the Democrats, but I'm devastated over who voted Republican. So many people in this country voted for him. It wasn't just we had low turnout, but also just that he had so much. That's the disheartening thing for me, that still, with everything we know, he still carries 50% of this country easily. So yeah, we had too few, but worse, he has too many.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 53 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Right? I found pre-election solace in knowing that even though his cult will never turn on him, he couldn't have possibly gotten MORE supporters in the past 4 years.

Turns out they LOVE the hate and they want more of it.

Sorry, Mindless Americans, it's not Trump's fault anymore, it's YOURS.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 16 hours ago

That's what I've come around to. It's not him. He's a figurehead that we apply blame but it's not. It's the people - the public. They want this. They have the fear and the hate, they actively want it. If America didn't want him, they wouldn't have voted him in. Even with tampering/whatever, if America didn't, he wouldn't be there. But America does want him, and that's a very sobering and sad thought to me. I try to live with a simple code - do what you want, as long as it doesn't hurt others. I learned yesterday that most American's don't have similar values.

[-] m_f@midwest.social 18 points 15 hours ago

IMO that's way off base. People want change. They know they're getting screwed, and the grifter is promising change. He's lying and I think most people know that, but the fact that they'd take a convicted felon over what the DNC offered up is a crushing repudiation.

Bernie would've mopped the floor with Trump, because he also offers change. Someone like Obama would've too, even though there was a paucity of actual change during his terms.

We need to drag the DNC kicking and screaming off of the corporate dick it's sucking, and get it left enough to offer real change, and people will vote for it in droves.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Part of me blames the collective memory loss of the COVID years and a complete lack of understanding of cause and effect.

It's like everyone forgot there was this massive global pandemic which absolutely killed entire industries. And even though the important parts were propped up during the lean times by government support, that support ended eventually, with the economy still a mess that couldn't just be put back together like nothing happened.

I mean, people at that time didn't even have a concept of what was going on. They have no idea how much money was spent keeping the lights on. People lost their shit over the billions it would cost to forgive student loans, but had no idea how many more billions were already spent on—and abused by—businesses whose pandemic loans were forgiven by the government.

Everyone forgot the pandemic was only as bad as it was in the US because it was so completely mishandled by the Trump administration. We could have had everything back to normal a lot sooner if there was even a little bit of national preparedness, not to mention if we didn't have all the misinformation spread by his own administration.

So when the economy went to shit in 2021-2022 during the Biden administration, people shrugged their shoulders and put the blame on the old man in the white house, despite the fact that it's been on a recovery trend during this last year. And so Trump's first year is going to start with stronger markets, he'll get the credit, and then things will get worse just in time for someone else to take the blame for it.

[-] m_f@midwest.social 6 points 14 hours ago

It doesn't matter how well "the economy" recovered from Covid, when you see stuff like this:

https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/

Trump isn't going to fix that, but Biden already didn't, and FPTP means you get your pick of those two options.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Do you have figures that include 2024? That data seems to stop at 2021. Not saying you're wrong but the picture being painted is just Biden's first year as president during the height of the pandemic.

Comparing things like rates of inflation and the consumer price index, we see the numbers drop dramatically within the past two years, which seems to have been improving cost of living somewhat (or, ruining less quickly, at least) for the average American, though there is still a lot more to be done.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 15 hours ago

Apparently people see him as the strongman lesser evil who’s gonna bring back economy, "fix" illegal immigration (both of which the current administration has done), and keep status quo on energy and abortion. I blame the Democrats for not campaigning on their successes.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

They DID campaign on their successes, but nobody believed that anything had gotten better because they still couldn't afford groceries.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 10 hours ago

The food scarcity percentage (sometimes or often not being able to afford groceries) is down 1%, but yeah it might not be noticeable. I don't think Harris's campaign did anything substantial on the other economic stuff, though. In trying to campaign a message of change, it seems like they neglected their incumbent successes and failed at both.

[-] toasteecup@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I've tried talking and that doesn't work, I've also tried being kind and all that shit no dice. But everyone gets upset when I say let's shoot them, so please tell me more about how it's my fault.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I'll say it for you. Thomas Crooks was THIS close to being an American hero.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

I’ve tried talking to trumpers to point out the double standards, contradictions, and outright lies. They don’t listen, just ad hominem or whatabout out of it.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

So much whatabout. Are they actually convincing themselves this way, or do they realize it's stupid but just don't have anything else to say?

Trump sexually assaulted people and was convicted of fraud.

Whatabout Hillary's emails and Hunters laptop?

First off, those people aren't running for president AND it's not fucking RAPE AND FRAUD!!!

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[-] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

I'm radicalized too. Wanna start a club? We could be the happy fun clan against fascism. Need a shorter name though

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

No, I want to join an existing massive one and change it at its very core to be something radical that we can wield. Wait a minute....

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

How about the Kool Kids Klan?

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I can't really blame the Democrats. The public is who failed. The Democrats ran a sane adult. That alone should have been enough to beat Trump.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

No its not when people are in agony. To them, this is their torch. This is how fascism rises.

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

We made it through the Recession and COVID-19, but now people are in agony? No fucking way. They chose fascism because they are awful.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah. Fascism rises further because Americans voted for it, not because of the candidate.

More important to have a Chad than anything.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 41 points 16 hours ago

Not encouraging in the context of implementing harm reduction in the short time we have left. This stupid old fuck is going to smile and nod his way into the grave while wishing us all the best.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 22 points 15 hours ago

In the long run, we will all be dead, and none of this will matter.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago

Just a bunch of suffering between now and then. No big.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

There's a lot of time left on the clock.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 14 hours ago
[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Maybe we can just do project sundial now and call it good (thanka Kurtzgesagt for letting us know it exists right before election day lmao)

[-] sapphiria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

I had to unsub from them during the pandemic. Too much existential dread and they just kept piling it on with video after video lol

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Honestly I thought about it, I'm terrified by the results, but even if things have to get worse over the next 4 years before they get better, the young generation has the time to turn it around. The will to improve? That's still unknown to me.

I feel bad for Jimmy Carter seeing what his country has become...

At least following MAGA logic, starting next year we can say that Trump is causing the hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes and floods. Mother nature asking nicely hasn't seemed to get it in people's heads.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

How Keynesian.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Thank you President Seymour!

[-] frazw@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

Why do people insist on saying "The American experiment"??

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Because there's no "wrong" answer in an experiment. AKA no accountability.

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

From what I know, its a communist idea that all governments are inventions and that we are "trying them to see if they work".

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I mean, what part of that is a communist idea? And of course they are all inventions that we are trying. Every country around the world is hoping their government system works best for their population. That said they are all for the most part , different.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 0 points 10 hours ago

İt'z ƿėn v ðoz "ſitı ȯ ė hil" ſentimintſ. İt u̇pſetſ bumṙz t ægnȯlidj ðæt n ė lȯt v "ekſpırimentıŋ" hæz bin gœıŋ ȯ ſinſ ð ſivil ruıts eırė.

spoilerIt's one of those "City on a Hill" sentiments. It upsets boomers to acknowledge that not a lot of "experimenting" has veen going on since the civil rights era.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 30 points 16 hours ago

'We're going to be OK' is copium for 'we're not ok now.'

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago

Such patronizing comments.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

So do something about it. Where's the Dark Brandon we fucking need?

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

There was never a dark Brandon, it was only a meme Libs used to cope and pretend their wet cardboard of a president was respectable.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 16 hours ago

Beyonce, Taylor Swift and LeBron's kid are also doing fine.

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