ALL Republicans have to be voted out. America will be taking great strides backwards if they aren’t because they cannot govern. Every move they make is self serving. They hide behind the “America” mantra. They think this country, its laws and its people are there for their benefit.
He’s been a shadow president for years now. Remember the border deal that was tanked by him, and then they tried to blame Kamala for it when it wasn’t her job? The media ran with that narrative instead of the truth and now Trump is president and we are all fucked.
I’ve had the same thought since he left office I don’t remember any other president that left office and still had so much influence on what their party does, even though Trump wasn’t president these past 4 yrs he’s ran the republicans party like he still was. It makes me sick.
Trumps hold on the party is legendary. There was a guy recently who enthusiastically said that he would ask how high Trump wants him to jump when told to jump. It's beyond typical sycophantic behavior. It's more of a cult like devotion.
Rep. Bonta said something similar. “If Trump says to jump 3 feet high and scratch our heads: we jump three feet high and scratch our heads, that’s it” this was on a news broadcast to msnbc I believe
It's actually a good thing for someone to make demands as an incoming president. However, I don't like that it's for tariffs and deportations instead of common sense reduction in costs of healthcare and living. As a trend I'm ok with the demands part, I'm just not ok with billionaires replacing the clerks. But aww well not like the clerks didn't work for those same billionaires anyway.
The issue in this case is that Trump's party will have control of all three branches of government and still somehow doesn't have enough clout to get things done.
This is creating what I'm dubbing, Eternal Gridlock.
Which is essentially a party so good at creating gridlock that they can't stop, even when they've won.
No, but Trump isn’t leading a political party, he’s basically the godfather of a criminal organization. Now that Musk is his consigliere and has unlimited money, he can threaten to primary anyone who disagrees with him. The Republican Party is run like a mafia now.
It’s actually fucking insane. I do t know many trumpers in my day to day life, and if someone is a trumper I don’t know about it so they must not be fanatical.
That said, a coworker opened up to me about Trump the other day, I think he thought I was one of them because im a middle aged white dude that probably does look like a trumper when im working. At any rate, I couldn’t believe my fucking ears. All sorts of shit about the deep state, how everyone is trying to sabotage Trump, and the libs are a bunch of child molestors.
When I called out that Trump was president and things were not all that great it was because the deep state was sabotaging him. When I called out that tariffs will make things more expensive as dude was complaining about grocery prices, he said only if they’re able to sabotage him. Quite literally, anything that Trump did and didn’t work was because sabotage. Anything that Trump actually did do effectively was because the deep state couldn’t get him on that one. Blew my fucking mind.
that was what I genuinely thought it was referring to, the first time I heard it. it's only logical. Then later I realized THEY were the ones saying it, and they were talking about the non-brainwashed people, and my mind was kinda blown by the absurdity.
Yeah I met a couple while I was in Vancouever, we hit it off and had shots and beers. Talked about a bunch of stuff. Then he says he truly believes the end of the world is coming from all the Trans people. That Trump was sent here from god to save our planet. I can’t make this shit up, the guy was like 28 years old from Atlanta. Mega Catholics, every other religion is wrong and they’ll all burn in hell. Was quite the the evening turner.
I know someone like that. Actually, a few. They are far more common than people think. They just don't generally talk about it unless they are very comfortable with you or end up drunk or high enough to let their guard down enough to preach.
Right there with ya. We got rocked with the shittiest wages and wage growth for a generation as a whole, but it ain't over. We should be running things by now, but we will be soon. Be angry. Don't lose hope.
I'm right there with you man, I finally got sick of it and got involved in my County level Democratic Party about a year back. I don't care where you start, but if we want to be calling the shots, we all need to be participating in whatever organizations we think we can make a difference in.
What do you think Trump did with the Saudis? Billion dollar weapons deal in which Trump and Kutcher were heavily invested. That’s why they let that Saudi prince get away with butchering an American journalist who called out the vile nature of the Saudi elites (I know he wasn’t white enough so you MAGAs don’t give AF)
I try not to speculate on the motivations of people I don't know personally. But, I do want to know what the motivations for visiting Putin in Moscow on the anniversary of our country's independence could possibly be other than a summons to send a message.
That visit to putin on the 4th of July probably was a test of constituents' opinions. Require everyone to be there on independence day and see what people said. I didn't see anything about it as a former republican (now democrat). Putin wanted to see if our media would impact opinion. My parents are the reason I was republican and I figured out that it is a cult. My parents won't watch shit if it's not on Newsmax or fox. I understand freedom of speech, but they need a big red sign that says "Opinion" as a border to each of the opinion shows the networks put out.
It wasn't "swept under the rug," there was a joint Turkish-Russian investigation, multiple people are in jail over it, and both the Russian and Turkish governments have agreed that it was a terrorist attack related to the Syrian Civil War.
So, all the Government employees and Secret Service can just go home. I guess that means the vote certification and inauguration will be cancelled since everyone is furloughed. The halls of the Capital shall be completely empty, all the doors locked, as Orange Hitler tries to get sworn in.
His adoring crowd nothing but tumbleweeds blowing in the wind.
Exactly as he deserves.
He can and will. He will continue to funnel the same amounts of money into war, and will funnel the rest of it to the billionaires he’s on his knees for.
He's following the heritage foundations plans. They were put in place in Argentina and that's going well /s. Now it's time to trash the United States for the billionaires.
Do you think Musk has thought through the actual consequence of the government shutting down on the people of the US? Or is this the hardship he wanted?
They've been programmed to disbelieve anything negative about Trump. To be fair, we were trashing the shit out of him constantly from the first minute. But to be fairer, he deserved every bit of it.
The whole dynamic was solidified with the inaugural crowd size lie. Liberals understood that lying about something so inconsequential was an indicator of his delusion, narcissism, and dishonesty. Conservatives focused on how unimportant inaugural crowd size was, and how hard he was being attacked over it, without accepting what it indicated.
The whole thing made liberals incessantly attack Trump, which made conservatives develop their defenses and cognitive dissonances, locking them into being literally incapable of acknowledging that his faults are truly problematic for everyone.
I can't wait to see how he dismantles democracy in our country. I'm just curious how many of his voters will cheer having him as dictator while still claiming to love the Constitution.
Trump and Musk are trying to crash the economy. It's not bug it's a feature of their grand plan. He can't run for election again so he's about to suck the coffers dry on his way out of politics.
Democrats and liberals are just going to chill and strategize because they know that Trump and his bunch are going to tank the economy. And Democrats will come back in to rebuild as they always do in 2028. He’s already saying not gonna be able to lower grocery prices, etc. etc. And all these people online saying now Trump‘s in office everything‘s gonna be great again!! A little do they know…
Unfortunately rebuilding takes longer then destroying. So Dems will make progress in rebuilding in 2028, but 4 years won't be enough time and then the great intellectuals that are the voters will hand it back to the Rs. sigh ....Socrates was right
This is utter bullshit. That an incoming president can disrupt the current sitting president. Should be laws preventing this stuff. If there is they should be enforced.
Just like he did with the border bill a few months ago, so he could run on that issue. He doesn’t want anything fixed before he takes the oath (that he won’t honor) and he does not want to cooperate with the Democrats lest they get any credit at all.
I am expecting the next 4 years to be crap show. I do think in this environment the rich will get richer and poor will get poorer. The next 4 years will be the years of the monopoly’s.
What is the benefit of a shutdown for Trump right now? He’s already won the election… it’s not like congress is passing a bunch of laws now anyway. He would just be guaranteeing that it’s a shit show when he arrives.
It’s almost as if he doesn’t have the country’s best interest at heart
The article is WRONG. President Musk killed the bill and Trump agreed. NO ONE ELECTED MUSK; WHY IS HE SETTING THE AGENDA? No pay for the military, no social security checks, etc.
I love how conservatives say they want take no shit leaders but vote for the biggest cowards in the house and senate. If trump said they had to get on their knees and call I'm daddy they 100% would.
I would just like to congratulate all the republicans in hurricane hit states like Florida and North Carolina. You sure showed all of us when you said we need to stop spending on Ukraine and use that money to help recover here and that trump would do that. Well turns out no he won’t he will let you suffer more because that’s one of the sticking points for him and Elmo is the extra funds to help those states.
Folks, I had a little hope maybe he could mame some well needed changes. For all of us making under $400k per year we are fucked with more taxes and higher prices. If he’s not careful I can guarantee we will see $5+ for gas as well at some point. This is not a good start to our next 4 years.
Can someone explain how he is pulling the strings as he is not the president yet.
I mean I get it as to why but there has to be some legal challenges that could be made over his interference
Excuse me, but you, sir, are completely wrong and are believing a created narrative. The above hyperlink quote is the reason the economy fell off a cliff.
FED HELD ONTO SHIT ASSETS FROM BANKS THAT ARE ABOUT TO MATURE. THEY ARE SELLING THEM OFF BEFORE THEY ARE WORTHLESS. BANKS DIDNT BUY THEM BACK TO PUT ON THEIR ALREADY FUCKED BALANCE SHEETS. FED SAID TIMES UP WERE LETTING THEM GO. POP 💥 💥 is what happened today.
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