U.S. presidency and politics thread

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[runa]

I have the right to call you IDIOT and I swear, I will. 

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[Sanctuary1995]

4 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

 

 

Is anyone protesting… at all?

[Kilt]

6 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

 

 

The EGO TRIP is out of control 

[sotos8]

1 hour ago, Sanctuary1995 said:

Is anyone protesting… at all?

Massive anti-Trump/Musk protests just erupted in NYC.

The streets are packed, the message is loud, and the backlash is real.

MAGA keeps poking the bear—and the bear is waking up. pic.twitter.com/49HVIXhQo2

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) February 18, 2025

 

[elijah]

14 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

 

Still I saw a poll on CNN where they said that presently the Republicans are 2 percent more than the Democrats in USA. The Democrats have been more till now. This means more independents have registered as Republicans and the new electorate (youngsters) are more Republican than Dems. And this while he is gutting the federal government and US institutions, selling Europe to Putin and threatening to move out 2 million people out of their land. I really cant grasp this. Oh, and planes are falling daily.

[swimtoshore]

Kash Patel - FMD

The US is gonna go through some SHIT.

The DOJ id already sending threatening letters to Democrat lawmakers because they called Elon Musk a dick.

Patel will put them on no fly lists within days. They will eventually be arrested on some bullshit sedition charges and maybe even disappeared to Guantanamo or El Salvador....

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[elijah]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DF8EHR_t6lp/

perfectly sums up my feelings

[Raider of the lost Ark]

Good News. Canada kicked US' butt and won the 4 nations cup. Go Canada! The U.S. guys, especially that Tkachuk guys, were so icredibly arrogant, they deserved to lose.

BTW, watching reports about the Canada / US situation and why the Canadians are pissed, they (the reporters) always talk about the tariffs. But from what I understand, it is not about the tariffs in the first place, it is about Canada supposed to be the 51st state. It is basically the same situation in Europe. Nobody really cares about tariffs here. It is the Greenland situation, it is telling European countries what our freedoms have to look like, it is the love fest with the AfD. It is the sheer arrogance, the lack of decency that makes the whole nonsense coming from the US even worse. 

[elijah]

38 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:

Good News. Canada kicked US' butt and won the 4 nations cup. Go Canada! The U.S. guys, especially that Tkachuk guys, were so icredibly arrogant, they deserved to lose.

BTW, watching reports about the Canada / US situation and why the Canadians are pissed, they (the reporters) always talk about the tariffs. But from what I understand, it is not about the tariffs in the first place, it is about Canada supposed to be the 51st state. It is basically the same situation in Europe. Nobody really cares about tariffs here. It is the Greenland situation, it is telling European countries what our freedoms have to look like, it is the love fest with the AfD. It is the sheer arrogance, the lack of decency that makes the whole nonsense coming from the US even worse. 

It’s basically capitulating at even trying to look like a democratic state, let alone leading the democracies. Cosing up with Putin, rewriting history, acting like 100 years in the development of the world could simply be erased. Acting like a bully

[promise to try]

what surpirses me the most is that I don´t see any of the former president, or any other important politician, from the USA, saying anything. I mean, trump is distrying a lot of they have been working on for decades...not that I liked them, I mean, the US foreign policy has been a disaster for a lot of people since day 1, but now they are going against europe and canada! I guess all the countries that have been suffering their foreign policy may behaving a little smile now...like, well, this is like the fable of the scorpio, it will finish destroying itself.

But yes, where is Obama? Clinton? even W Bush??? because, if they say something against what trump is doing, it will be an important statement that not all the USA is in favour of all this

[promise to try]

1 hour ago, elijah said:

It’s basically capitulating at even trying to look like a democratic state, let alone leading the democracies. Cosing up with Putin, rewriting history, acting like 100 years in the development of the world could simply be erased. Acting like a bully

Yes to everything! but that´s what the big countries do, they interpret the history in their own interests.And they rewrite to make everything make sense in their favour.Putin is a Bully, Trump is a BUlly, and let´s not forget about China and Korea, that are super quite now...but are less of being friendly good human rights supporters.If all that they do is a success, I bet we will have books and films talking about how positive this was, when finally the market "fred canada and Europe from the comunism, the woke people and all the dictatorships like Ukrayne" 

[cardiganstarlet]

2 hours ago, elijah said:

It’s basically capitulating at even trying to look like a democratic state, let alone leading the democracies. Cosing up with Putin, rewriting history, acting like 100 years in the development of the world could simply be erased. Acting like a bully

And really, this is all because the patriarchy was challenged and there finally looked like meaningful change coming for everyone else. So they cosy up to all the worst elements of society to take back power and pull it all down.

Im more disgusted with people who keep falling for this when there are so many examples through history, especially in modern history. Conservative parties have literally been using the economy and immigrants as political footballs for 200 years, and it works everytime.

[sotos8]

Steve Bannon does a NAZI salute at the end of his CPAC speech. Someone try and convince me that he didn’t. pic.twitter.com/A2yo4djJzU

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 21, 2025

is he autistic too?

[jonski43]

 

[Cyber-Raga]

7 hours ago, cardiganstarlet said:

 

Im more disgusted with people who keep falling for this when there are so many examples through history, especially in modern history. Conservative parties have literally been using the economy and immigrants as political footballs for 200 years, and it works everytime.

I guess this is what happens if and when you defund education and have people participating in the squid games so that they tear each other down instead of uniting and forcing those at the top to make changes to the system. 
I don’t know what the solution is, except this shitshow right now it is not. 

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I wish a lot more leaders would stand up to him and to his face
 

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?

JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here

TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?

JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law

T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

JM: See you in court

T: Enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics

 

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[ULIZOS]

16 hours ago, Camacho said:

I wish a lot more leaders would stand up to him and to his face
 

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?

JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here

TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?

JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law

T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

JM: See you in court

T: Enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics

 

He’s such a little bitch. This completely contradicts everything he has ever stood for, which is that the states should decide these types of matters. 
 

You can see in his face how much it bothers his fragile male ago that someone, especially a woman, stood up to him. I’ve worked with these people before, they’re the damn worst and it feels so damn good when someone stands up to them publicly. 

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https://x.com/meiselasb/status/1893430241202446667?s=46&t=nVM3A9JQ856GgygehDHrrw

At Donald Trump’s speech at CPAC the following happened:

1. He said he was “angry” repeatedly and made odd noises saying “angry.”

2. He said he and Elon were searching Fort Knox for “gold” and hopes it’s “not missing”

3. He starts cursing at Biden and blames the crashing markets on him.

4. He says MSNBC is a threat to democracy.

5. He attacks CNN and says he doesn’t talk about CNN.

6. He says he should go against Rachel
Maddow “in the ratings.” 

7. He says his first four years in office are like the “first holes of golf.”

8. He says he’s demanding Ukraine give us “rare earth and oil and anything else.”

9. He says the thousands of govt workers fired are actually “radical left liberals.” 

10. He says Elon’s position is not head of DOGE but it’s “patriot.”

11. He says the 2024 election was rigged and he got more votes.

12. He says his approval rating is highest ever when in fact it’s the lowest ever at this time since 1953. 

13. He says America was the wealthiest in late 19th century so we need to go back to that.

He said this and more. Here are receipts:

https://youtu.be/AX7ELE4Bu9w?si=qugvvlGKRr7EcTJN

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[promise to try]

Santiago Avascal is not conservative, he is from the far right. I hope all the things Trump is doing help his political party to have less votes, because it´s not going to help a lot of his voters´economy

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https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1893792870634860948?s=46&t=nVM3A9JQ856GgygehDHrrw

Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "I am communicating closely with a lot of prime ministers, and heads of EU states and for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step...

I never thought that I would ever need to say something like that, on television, but after the latest statements made by Donald Trump last week, it is clear, that the Americans — at any case these Americans, this administration — mostly don't care about the fate of Europe one way or another."

 

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1893798349590905078?s=46&t=nVM3A9JQ856GgygehDHrrw

Merz also condemned Elon Musk’s election interference, saying that these “interventions from Washington were no less drastic, dramatic, and ultimately no less brazen than the intervention we have seen from Moscow."

[elijah]

Friedrich Merz sounds like the man we NEED right now. Hope those words are put into actions!

P.S. Germany is split between Western Germany and Eastern Germany in those elections. Estern Germany voted for the neoNazi party. It seems the ex communist states are most  susceptible to Russian=neoNazi propaganda.

[Raider of the lost Ark]

7 hours ago, elijah said:

Friedrich Merz sounds like the man we NEED right now. Hope those words are put into actions!

P.S. Germany is split between Western Germany and Eastern Germany in those elections. Estern Germany voted for the neoNazi party. It seems the ex communist states are most  susceptible to Russian=neoNazi propaganda.

But it needs to be said that those states are less populated than other federal states in the west. So the amount of people may not differ much. Of course, percentage-wise the picture is different. 

As someone who grew up in East-Germany (well, East-Berlin, which was different) I myself have no idea why they vote the way they vote. There are so many things that do not add up. It's schizophrenic. The AfD is a West party. It was founded in the West, their leaders are almost all from the West. Somehow they managed to convince people in the East, they are working in their interest. Of course, what works in their favor is that they never actually have to prove that they can deliver results since they are not part of the government. Even more strange, their understanding for Russia. Those are the very same people defending Putin but always reminding everyone about the evil Russias that raped German women back in 1944/45. I suppose they hate the Russian people but very much like the way Putin deals with his people. Another thing that have all those Eastern states in common: after the reunification, many young women left those regions for better working opportunities. The young men were rather lazy to step up. They were left behind because they didn't get their asses up. Of course, it was everybodies elses fault. Mainly immigrants. Which is interesting because in those regions the number of immigrants (not counting asylum seekers) is rather low. Taking all those things into consideration, the picture is pretty similar to many other countries: the US, the UK, it is the angry white man that likes the cruelty that comes with those parties.

BTW, another big winner was the left party (Die Linke). They actually had the most votes in Berlin (the rest is relatively split between other big parties). Their rise is rather suprising because they were failing in recent years. But ever since Sara Wagenknecht (which I believe is very much a Russian asset) founded her own party BSW and left Die Linke, they became bascially the anti-AfD party and mainly concentrated on social issues and no longer favored Russia, which I think opened the door for more people to vote for them.

Also, Die Linke and especially the AfD have a high percentage of young voters. The AfD, one may wonder. The young people who are supposedly so liberal and openminded? Well, the AfD is by far the most active on TikTok. Through TikTok they get access to those young people and can manipulate them. There was a documentary a few days ago and it was shocking how relatively easy they were able to play the algortihm to spread their videos. Because of this all those social media platforms are heavily involved with spreading misinformation. The amount of videos by what I consider Russian players, I get in my recommendations on YT ever since that JD vance speech in Munich is unbelievable. 

[Raider of the lost Ark]

But good, that there is general concensus among the parties (except AfD) that we (and the rest of the World) needs to become far more independent from the U.S.