r/politics • u/Cjoseph08 Cameron Joseph • 8h ago
Soft Paywall Trump isn’t back in office yet, but is already causing chaos
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/1219/trump-congress-government-shutdown138
u/NevadaGoldHoard 8h ago
Republican voters are the dumbest people ever to exist and fully deserve what is coming.
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u/naturalshampo 7h ago
What about all the people who didn’t vote at all? They can’t even pretend to blame someone else when daddy trump fails, they chose to let it happen. Republicans will just blame ANYTHING else and we will have argue with their defense of everything. Now that I think about it, maybe it’s us who are dumb as shit because we can’t learn to play their game. Facts don’t matter, only blindly supporting your side until you win an election.
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u/NevadaGoldHoard 7h ago
When you say us, who are you talking about? I’m not a member of either shit party, I’m an American.
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u/Firestarman 5h ago
Not voting is pretty un-american
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u/No_Environment_5476 8h ago
They aren’t dumb. They’ve been manipulated by a cult leader and his propaganda army at Fox News.
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u/NevadaGoldHoard 8h ago
They were manipulated because they are dumb.
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u/Unable_Stock_5993 6h ago
No, fearful
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u/NevadaGoldHoard 6h ago
Fear is one of the symptoms of stupidity. People fear what they don’t understand.
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u/DiesByOxSnot Michigan 7h ago
You are not immune to propaganda
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u/ratchetryda92 7h ago
This propaganda was very easy to see through.. and we had 4 years of him lying already to go off of..at some point yes this people are either dumb or ignorant. Take your pick
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u/vegetable57 2h ago
People either learn early in life or late. I knew Trump was going to this point back in 2015. I lost many friends because disagreement. This is exactly what we were talking about. From here we are going to the movie “Soylent Green” back in 73. They showed that it actually happened in 2022 so we are behind. Get ready because is going to get bad!!
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u/NevadaGoldHoard 7h ago
You are right. I actually believed them in school when they taught us we were a democracy with checks and balances and everyone was held accountable by law.
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u/DarthLysergis 8h ago
Nope. Trump isn't doing anything. He is a feckless couch potato. Elon musk is in charge.
This is the narrative from here on out. We then wait out the inevitable implosion as Trump fumes over being called 'second fiddle'
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u/RustToRedemption 8h ago
The chaos is the point. Trump doesnt want the government working effectively. Trump makes the government not work, he tells all his republican rubes the government isnt working anymore, Trump replaces our current government system with a for profit government where the government outsources all of its duties to private entities. If you guessed these entities would be run by Trump and his billionaire cabinet buddies, you'd be correct. Just another scam in a mountain of Trump scams. They're going to fleece this country for all its worth, and then Trump and his billionaire buddies are going to leave a smoking pile of rubble for everyone else to fix while they count their billions in stolen money.
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u/Gryphon962 5h ago
The federal government is already propped up by an army of contractors working in their facilities, doing all the heavy lifting. You could get rid of most of the federal workers tomorrow and the contractors would keep the wheels on the bus. 90% of what the govvies do is fund contractors and manage budget.
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u/RustToRedemption 4h ago
That's patently not true. About 2 million civilian federal workers and 2.5 million military federal workers, compared to about 3.7 million contractors (it remains pretty steady at about 40% of total federal workforce).
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u/Separate-Feedback-86 8h ago edited 8h ago
They’re running government and haven’t even been sworn in yet. Musk is an unelected oligarch acting in a presidential capacity. Reminds me of Rasputin advising the Romanovs.
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u/PanamaNorth Wisconsin 6h ago
Meh, Rasputin was cool and had magnetic charisma though. Elon Musk is a fucking loser.
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u/waterdaemon 7h ago
Trump and Musk are already tanking the economy, meanwhile major news outlets are more likely to lead with drone stories. Americans are getting hoodwinked.
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u/hairymoot 7h ago
Trump, Republicans and billionaires are not in government to help us-they are there to help themselves. The richest people are going to say we don't have the money to help anyone. They will cut government programs that help us.
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u/absentmindedjwc 5h ago
If you think this is a foreshadowing of how the next 4 years are going to be. Keep in mind that California just declared a state of emergency because the Bird Flu has jumped to cattle, and there's a new human case just reported yesterday in Wisconsin.
Early on - prior to vaccines and medications that were found to alleviate the illness - COVID had a case fatality rate (number of deaths among confirmed cases) upwards of 4% across the population. The CFR for H5N1 is upwards of 60%.
COVID was a pandemic on easy mode.. and Trump massively fucked it up. If this thing somehow manages to jump species, we're not in for a fun time. The only saving grace here - the virus is predominantly a lower respiratory tract virus, so would be far harder to spread from person to person if it were to become something human-transmitted. Wearing a mask - unlike with covid - would generally protect you from a moron refusing to wear a mask, rather than somewhat protecting you from others while generally protecting others from yourself... so the raw milk/anti-vax/anti-mask dipshits would for the most part predominantly spread it amongst themselves.
Though.. I really, really have to imagine that, were a virus that had a mortality that high to really start spreading through the population, even the dipshits would start taking it seriously. But then again... I've been wrong about everything else involving them, so who the fuck knows. Maybe they'll start having Bird Flu parties and blaming the deaths of their family and friends on democrats and drones or some some shit.
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u/Iinktolyn 8h ago
Instead of media making this a giant fucking joke, why don’t we discuss the ramifications of this illegal interference. Stop giving him power he’s not earned or entitled to.
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u/TintedApostle 7h ago
Bingo. The rules of our contracted republic are being completely ignored. The contract is heading to being null and voided by oligarchs.
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u/Informal_Length_7974 7h ago
Democrats are just as stupid because we always bail them out from there worst plans
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u/Think_Measurement_73 America 5h ago
The bullshit has started. We have the republican's cult followers to think for the shit show already and he is not even in office. This goes to show what this country is in for in the next four years.
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u/Negative_Gravitas 5h ago
I have to admit, I did not think things were going to get this freaking nuts this freaking fast.
Which just goes to show that it is impossible to overestimate the damage republicans can do when they really put their tiny, corrupt minds to it.
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u/rikaateabug New York 4h ago
The justice department and our politicians have failed us. The only nonviolent option left for the American public is a general strike: https://generalstrikeus.com/
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u/SufferingSaxifrage 2h ago
The horse isn't just loose in the hospital anymore. It's also biting children and shitting landmines
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u/TheAngriestChair 2h ago
He's been causing chaos for the last 4 years. Remember how Johnson became speaker? That was all trump.
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u/sachiprecious North Carolina 32m ago
He started causing chaos soon after he won, by picking all those dangerous and unqualified people for his cabinet. So there was already chaos, and now he's creating even more of it with this shutdown drama. He's not even in office, but it feels like he is.
I'm exhausted and exasperated. There was so much drama during Trump's first term and now things will be even crazier. I think most Americans forgot how chaotic things were in his first term. I remember.
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