U.S. presidency and politics thread

[Cyber-Raga]

59 minutes ago, svperstar said:

I have just about had it with you. Go take a break. *flush*

Thank you 

[Martin B.]

1 hour ago, svperstar said:

I have just about had it with you. Go take a break. *flush*

[elijah]

4 hours ago, Martin B. said:

"Is this what we lived through, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.

There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, abstracted as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like bad dreams dreamed by others.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." - Margaret Atwood, 1985.

Chilling!!!

[Je5u5]

2 hours ago, svperstar said:

I have just about had it with you. Go take a break. *flush*

[SOON]

4 more years of this

 

[Lolo]

32 minutes ago, Je5u5 said:

I feel like we needed a good ole flush to lift the spirits! 

[SOON]

 

[Jazzy Jan]

11 hours ago, Camacho said:

4 more years of this

 

 

7 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

He truly is a revolting, heartless, lying and moronic fool. Frightening though because there is such a cunning and opportunistic method in his madness. While people are horrified at his words and logic, it is diverting their attention from all of the other sinister stuff he is doing. Project 2025 is being implemented already and unless Americans start protesting and fighting back now, it could be too late. 

[Lolo]

30 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:

Project 2025 is being implemented already and unless Americans start protesting and fighting back now, it could be too late. 

Coming back to this! 
People of the US: when and where? Stop making excuses! There’s no military action being taken against protesters- YET! Don’t waste time. I really expected more of the land of the free. You all wanted Russians to stand up against Putin. Now you just sit there, already afraid of repercussions… it’s honestly so pathetic. 

[elijah]

The majority seems to like him

[Sanctuary1995]

16 hours ago, Camacho said:

4 more years of this

 

He is so disgusting 

[Sanctuary1995]

2 hours ago, elijah said:

The majority seems to like him

Because the majority is stupefied 

[Martin B.]

32 minutes ago, Sanctuary1995 said:

Because the majority is stupefied 

How can they be? There are no surprises in the unfolding disaster. His first mandate had already very well established his dangerousness. His deteriorating mental health compounding his narcissism and sociopathy have been on display 24 hours a day on medias over the past years. A 900-page plan outlining the authoritarian regime he was going to implement was available to everyone months before the election. The comfort of democracy has led the American population to believe that all politicians are equal and that one politician is no worse than the other. This is false and it is when democracy disappears that they will understand what they have lost. The toxicity of social media have completely dissociated the population from reality and what is currently happening in politics is the main tragedy.

[SOON]

NEW: Federal employees were told to remove pronouns from their email signatures by end of day Friday, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

"In my decade-plus years at CDC I've never been told what I can and can't put in my email signature," said one recipient, who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution.

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/PRi11g

 

[KalamazooJay]

I hate to be dismissive of what's going on, but there's a part of me that's just like 'fuck it'. 

If his behavior in office the last time - ESPECIALLY in 2020 with the pandemic, racial unrest, not conceding the election, causing a riot at the Capitol - didn't deter people from voting for him AGAIN, then fuck it. The vast majority of his supporters don't blame him for a damn thing, it's always the deep state, the dems, the media. But never him.

So if those people can't grasp what's about to hit them with some of these grotesque orders he's putting out there, if they can't see what the MAGA movement REALLY stands for, then fuck them. I don't have it in me to deal with them anymore. They'll find a way to say it wasn't him took away their healthcare, their prescriptions, their rural clinics. So let them shrivel up and find a way to figure things out when it all happens. Again, sorry to sound to harsh, but what's the point in fighting for these folks? 

I will say, for the first time in my life, I'm concerned about my marriage. I believe that having the Supreme Court repeal or drastically roll back the rights of gay couples would be another feather in has cap of wins for the evangelical assholes that see him as a gift from God for their cause. 

[elijah]

He is a gift for the Evangelicas of USA and Putin. I wonder how the great Gays For Trump excuse his behaviour?

[SOON]

https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/1885407728073662623?s=46&t=nVM3A9JQ856GgygehDHrrw

NEWS: CDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policies

The federal health agency began removing all content related to gender identity on Friday, I report for @NBCNews with @BerkelyJr. 

HIV experts told us they are concerned that Trump's crackdowns could decimate the CDC's vital HIV prevention efforts, given that focusing on disparities related to race, sex and gender identity is fundamental to addressing the epidemic.

[VictorMarques]

 

Are you ready for a 15% inflation?

 

[svperstar]

Reckless cunt. I loathe him like a gushing hemmerhoid. 

[elijah]

17 minutes ago, VictorMarques said:

 

Are you ready for a 15% inflation?

 

He always DESPISED the EU. It feels like a late move.

[Confessit]

I understand the principal and the thought to try and get production and products made and exported inside America rather than being shipped in cheap from offshore cheap labour.

However, this over night tariff introduction will only result in trade wars and will only work if America are in a position to roll out some major rejuvenation in industries.

Is America in that position ? 

I mean all countries in the West import cheap goods from China and elsewhere, the morality of that is one thing, but it’s been done now for years and is engraved into the industry culture and mechanics of the West.

I just don’t know if the tariffs is going to benefit America, especially in the short term which it needs to.

I can see prices going through the roof.

[Cyber-Raga]

Uschi von der Leyen, do your thing. Thanks. 
 

1 hour ago, svperstar said:

Reckless cunt. I loathe him like a gushing hemmerhoid. 

He is such a cunt indeed. Despicable human being. 

 

1 hour ago, elijah said:

He always DESPISED the EU. It feels like a late move.

And so has the EU him (minus the ultra right wing nutjobs of course). 

[SOON]

 

[promise to try]

what? another airplane crashing? I guess it could happen, but that´s weird...anyways, let´s see how Trump twists evereything to blame Biden

[pithy]

2 hours ago, promise to try said:

what? another airplane crashing? I guess it could happen, but that´s weird...anyways, let´s see how Trump twists evereything to blame Biden

She's talking about DEI initiatives, suggesting in this case that black pilots are being hired to meet quotas and not because they can do the job. She's a moron.

Edit: Posted this before hearing about the Philly crash and thought you were commenting on the press secretary's example from this morning. Oops.

[SOON]

 

[Nikki]

 

[Jazzy Jan]

On 1/31/2025 at 7:25 PM, Lolo said:

Coming back to this! 
People of the US: when and where? Stop making excuses! There’s no military action being taken against protesters- YET! Don’t waste time. I really expected more of the land of the free. You all wanted Russians to stand up against Putin. Now you just sit there, already afraid of repercussions… it’s honestly so pathetic. 

Americans can kiss democracy, freedom, essential services etc goodbye if they don’t fight for their rights and fight now.  He is even worse than imagined and with the Billionaires around the world cheering him on, he will cause havoc everywhere. 

[Lolo]

2 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:

Americans can kiss democracy, freedom, essential services etc goodbye if they don’t fight for their rights and fight now.  He is even worse than imagined and with the Billionaires around the world cheering him on, he will cause havoc everywhere. 

The worst thing (for now) is that all these indoctrinators of my East German childhood must feel vindicated now. They always painted the US as a potential fascist regime. I just hate the thought of them feeling in the right. Also all the tin foil hat preppers. It is bad on all thinkable levels…

[Raider of the lost Ark]

41 minutes ago, Lolo said:

The worst thing (for now) is that all these indoctrinators of my East German childhood must feel vindicated now. They always painted the US as a potential fascist regime. I just hate the thought of them feeling in the right. Also all the tin foil hat preppers. It is bad on all thinkable levels…

Talking of indoctrination, two days ago they had a report on CNN (hardly watchable nowadays) about an elementary school in Texas and every morning teachers and students assemble at their sports hall or mensa and do the pledge of allegiance. Even worse, they were kind of enthusiastic about it. Not even the GDR went so far. I think to remember there was Fahnenappell twice a year and you had those morning greetings "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit ... Immer bereit" and "Freundschaft". But at least where I went to school, hardly anyone took that shit serious. People were playing alone (because we knew to be careful and not adress certain issues publicly) when we all thought "Yeah, right". Of course, the GDR and the FDR were never as patriotic as the U.S.. For obvious reasons, I suppose. Let's face it, the patriotsm (on its way to nationalism) in the U.S. has so many similarities to Nazi Germany. The amount of flags alone. People may think, it's just a flag. I think this is where the indoctrination starts. And what about those U.S.A. chants? 

Contrary to the GDR, people in the U.S. still have their constitutional freedoms which protect them from persecution and punishment by their own government. They may use those freedoms to raise their voices publicly and demonstrate to fight back and save their democracy, as imperfect this democracy is. It may be too late at one point.