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He's making moves like he's expecting to be around another 50 years when he probably has 10 at the most. I'm way more afraid of who he might be paving the way for.
No way he has 10 years in him. Motherfucker is mentally gone as is. Weekend at Bernie's.
Those red neck scars are an attempt to relieve his dementia with a blood flow stent.
I don’t think he is going to last his whole term. He looks like absolute shit, and sounds even worse. Fuck, he makes Biden’s last years look energetic. And Biden was a fucking reanimated corpse.
The DNC made damn sure we wouldn't have one minute at Bernie's let alone an entire weekend.
He could die tomorrow. Pandora's Box is already open.
For the remainder of our lives we will see copycat politicians who strip more and more of our rights away when they gain power because they all watched and saw and know they can do what Trump did and more without suffering repercussions.
America put up a big sign letting them all know we are too weak to make them pay. They will take advantage. Why wouldn't they?
Weird how everyone who was told they were overreacting are not being told that anymore.
I can remember when lots of the reactionary centrists and not a few on the left, oh, and of course, the right wing blow-hards, were playing Tone Police for everyone in 2016, and 2020 and again in 2024: lecturing us all about how uncivil it all was to be talking about fascism in relation to conservatives.
I wonder where all the WELLACKTUALLY guys are now.
lecturing us
Also about not understanding the law system, that it takes time and Trump was done. Really condescending shit. I noticed just before I got permabanned from Reddit that they were disappearing or gone.
not a few on the left,
Nah, was a lot actually. I know a lot of people that were really upset after the election and after the first few months. Then it stopped being a problem. "You're overreacting." "Don't think about it." "We'll be fine next election."
All right, everybody needs pitchforks and torches. And we need four horses with four long ropes
Why do you think almost the entire cabinet lives on military bases.
Or, instead of the horses, and hear me out, we just need some green saplings maybe 20 feet tall and some rope in a sort of circle around a spot...
Let's be honest, the US was no shining beacon of democracy even before Trump. The system was rotten and everyone knew it. However, those with the power to change it have no incentive to do so. It was basically held up because the poeple in charge had some common decency. At that point it's just a matter of time before someone came along that didn't have this basic decency.
I think the people of the UK should take a long, hard look at how the situation has evolved in the US and decide if they want to change their system to avoid having only two parties dominate the political climate. Ironically, being a monarchy means they are probably more resistant to going down the same route, but I suspect the parties are going to get more radical as time goes on and the royals aren't terribly popular these days.
(Opinion to be taken with a pinch of salt. I am no expert in these things and don't live in either country; We've got our own radicalization and issues with our own democracy.)
the poeple in charge had some common decency.
The people in charge were scared of the public a little bit. It was not their decency that was stopping them, it was the danger of losing next elections if they took it too far. Bush attacked Iraq and he didn't lie about the WMDs out of decency. He lied to cover his ass. Lindsey Graham was the same guy he is now back then. He didn't lose his decency along the way. He realized he can be himself and people will still vote for him.
the US was no shining beacon of democracy even before Trump
he didnt create that corrupt system, hes just taking advantage of it..
actually he and the other pedo billionaires did help to create the corrupt system who am I kidding?
I think the people of the UK should take a long, hard look at how the situation has evolved in the US and decide if they want to change their system to avoid having only two parties dominate the political climate.
There are currently 5 parties vying for position here, but your point is still generally true. Hopefully with the rise of smaller parties, we might start to see a move towards a more proportional system, but I'm not holding my breath.
There are currently 5 parties vying for position here
I know you're not disagreeing, but I find it absolutely hilarious (in a bad way) that UK political parties will put out flyers of who is most likely to win, as a way to convince people to vote for them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLxgEquxA0
All while having rejected bringing in preferential voting at a referendum, not even that long ago.
As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one. We have issues in our electoral system too, (mostly around lower house electorates being single-member, and not say 3-member to more accurately represent the electorate), but thank Christ we have preferential voting.
As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one.
I take exception to that. The law which allowed for the referendum required Royal Assent, but that is the same law which would have allowed for the implementation of preferential voting. It was the statutory repealing of that law where things really went bad.
I would say we statutorily fucked it up.
Worldwide, democracy has regressed to its lowest levels since the mid-1970s
I've been saying over and over again here, that it's generally been going backwards since the 70's. This goes for democracy, respect for human rights and minorities, and the peace movement.
And many people here simply don't believe it. (I'm guessing younger ones)
It's not just younger ones. I talk to a large group of boomers and they are all in the same boat of "everything is fine, we'll just vote the next election. We've had presidents like this before."
We’ve had presidents like this before.”
On that they are seriously mistaken, of course there have been bad presidents like Bush, but Trump is a whole new class of bad.
I hope they are right, and that all this can be solved by a simple election, but I'm not betting on it.
Yeah I really don't think so. The damage is already done to democracy. I can believe we used to have a shared common decency. But it's been rotting for a while now.
Plus boomers aren't known for actually fixing problems. The things I bring up to them, their responses are always like "well we will figure it out sometime" as they continue doing what they want. So uhhh... I don't have a lot of confidence.
Isn't it about time the next generation begins to take responsibility.
Let’s talk about what this really means, though. Why would that happen?
Could it be anything like:
What’s the next big realization here for mankind?
The pedofile class doesn’t want democracy
As far as I'm concerned, everyone who is a billionaire has to prove they had nothing to do with Epstein or pedophilia in general.
I feel like that’s reasonable but billionaires should automatically be abolished also
They're going to let him tear the country apart, and then 25th amendment his ass just after January 20th 2027. That lets Little Smokey take over, and he's still eligible for 2 full terms. Mark my words...
No one will grow a ball and stop him, so it's already too late. If you're an American, your life will never be the same.
It's not a single person issue. The entire system is broken. Taking out one leader is not going to fix anything.
But will it make things better? Worse?
Who knows? On one hand Trump's dementia means he's acting erratically. On the other it means that it's harder for the Nazis to follow whatever plan they have for the US. The next leader may stabilize things but the fall of democracy may be even faster.
Only thing that can stop him is his incompetence.
Here is a link to the report: https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf
It went from being four weapon manufacturing companies pretending to be a democracy to four weapon manufacturing companies pretending to be a dictatorship.
Here's a press release from the source org about this:
