U.S. presidency and politics thread

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[VictorMarques]

The first 3 days of Trump's presidency was only about hateful speech, going after trans people and LGBTQ+ community and going after immigrants. People preferred to vote because of the price of eggs and not because of democracy and other issues.

But Trump did nothing to address the price of grocerys. He is only attacking people and spreading the chaos.

Honestly, it is impossible to be a Madonna fan, to know her trajetory and support a monster like this.

[Nikki]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFDbrAgsTJ4/

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Poor Carrie!
 

 

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[San]

My partner works in astronomy research here in Australia and they are affiliated with NASA for some work. Even though he doesn't work for NASA, they all received an email from them yesterday stating that all inclusion and diversity initiatives will be defunded immediately because they are pointless and a waste of money, and any activity related to those must cease. The kicker...staff will be rewarded if they dob in colleagues who continue any such activity!

My heart just can't cope with the weight of what is happening, and I'm not even impacted. It's all just so devastating for those who are. My heart goes out to you

[Je5u5]

2 hours ago, San said:

My partner works in astronomy research here in Australia and they are affiliated with NASA for some work. Even though he doesn't work for NASA, they all received an email from them yesterday stating that all inclusion and diversity initiatives will be defunded immediately because they are pointless and a waste of money, and any activity related to those must cease. The kicker...staff will be rewarded if they dob in colleagues who continue any such activity!

My heart just can't cope with the weight of what is happening, and I'm not even impacted. It's all just so devastating for those who are. My heart goes out to you

 

I guess it's this one

[San]

28 minutes ago, Je5u5 said:

 

I guess it's this one

So is she one of THEM? I can't reconcile that someone would communicate this so callously unless they agree. 

[Je5u5]

19 minutes ago, San said:

So is she one of THEM? I can't reconcile that someone would communicate this so callously unless they agree. 

Apparently it's a template that's been sent to other agencies but people are shocked she simply copy/pasted it and signed it with her name so her support is implied.

[Raider of the lost Ark]

Spying on your neighbours and colleagues and report certain behaviour ... Are we sure we are not talking about Nazi or East Germany?

[Jazzy Jan]

3 hours ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:

Spying on your neighbours and colleagues and report certain behaviour ... Are we sure we are not talking about Nazi or East Germany?

It is terrifying. 

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[runa]

2 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

Are we surprised?

[Cyber-Raga]

I bet half of these orders he hasn’t even read because he is an uneducated imbecile and illiterate. Once his executive orders hit the most vulnerable people and yes this also includes many of his voters, it will be too late and they will suffer a great deal. 

7 minutes ago, runa said:

Are we surprised?

Nope. Fascists be doing fascist deeds. 

[runa]

Just now, Cyber-Raga said:

I bet half of these orders he hasn’t even read because he is an uneducated imbecile and illiterate. Once his executive orders hit the most vulnerable people and yes this also includes many of his voters, it will be too late and they will suffer a great deal. 

Nope. Fascists be doing fascist deeds. 

They have no respect for anything : laws, history, allies…

[Cyber-Raga]

2 minutes ago, runa said:

They have no respect for anything : laws, history, allies…

They do respect one thing: $$$ and power

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[Raider of the lost Ark]

1 hour ago, Cyber-Raga said:

I bet half of these orders he hasn’t even read because he is an uneducated imbecile and illiterate.

No he hasn't. He couldn't be bothered going through each of the 1.500 pardon cases. Sources say, at some point he just said "Pardon them all."

[Sanctuary1995]

6 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

A recipe for a civil war 

[Jazzy Jan]

5 hours ago, Nikki said:

 

 

Why are people being so weak regarding this ? It was definitely a nazi salute and the entire media should be outraged. Instead people trying to excuse him by comparing STILL mid motion photos of other politicians and celebrities who were simply raising  their arms in either a wave or a shout out gesture - no saluting like Musk did.   None doing the gesture he was doing - an obvious Nazi salute 

Now people getting fired for criticising a Nazi salute. Musk and MAGA supporters are so brainwashed and ignorant that they try to either excuse him or deny what he was doing. 
 

Never thought I would see the day when people are blaze about someone having massive influence and supporting the President giving a Nazi salute.

[Michael.]

JFC

[xtaticboy82]

2 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:

Why are people being so weak regarding this ? It was definitely a nazi salute and the entire media should be outraged. Instead people trying to excuse him by comparing STILL mid motion photos of other politicians and celebrities who were simply raising  their arms in either a wave or a shout out gesture - no saluting like Musk did.   None doing the gesture he was doing - an obvious Nazi salute 

Now people getting fired for criticising a Nazi salute. Musk and MAGA supporters are so brainwashed and ignorant that they try to either excuse him or deny what he was doing. 
 

Never thought I would see the day when people are blaze about someone having massive influence and supporting the President giving a Nazi salute.

Really scary times ahead. People traded morals for a cheaper price of a dozen of eggs. But i guess this is the consequence of capitalism. 

[Mozo1]

And Nazi Rapist Hegseth was just confirmed as Defense Secretary. 

I don't recognize my country at all. 

[Jazzy Jan]

11 hours ago, Camacho said:

 

Everything he is doing is straight out of any fascist playbook.. Banning the  review panels of cancer research Is disgustingly and morally and ethically wrong. 

[Nikki]

9 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:

Why are people being so weak regarding this ? It was definitely a nazi salute and the entire media should be outraged. Instead people trying to excuse him by comparing STILL mid motion photos of other politicians and celebrities who were simply raising  their arms in either a wave or a shout out gesture - no saluting like Musk did.   None doing the gesture he was doing - an obvious Nazi salute 

Now people getting fired for criticising a Nazi salute. Musk and MAGA supporters are so brainwashed and ignorant that they try to either excuse him or deny what he was doing. 
 

Never thought I would see the day when people are blaze about someone having massive influence and supporting the President giving a Nazi salute.

they're always complaining about "the left" calling trump nazi or fascist.. but perhaps they should stop giving us every reason to call them that. it's like the world is upside down. you criticize the person who did something wrong, not the people reacting to it

we can thank much of this to piers Morgan too, by the way. almost every video gets more than a million views, and it's filled with trump propaganda. he'll find the smallest mistake from the democrats and blow it out of proportion, yet ignore/downplay all the trump rhetoric or say "he's just joking". when someone from the left on the panel makes a good point, he just ignores it and finds something else. it's so dangerous  

and it's not about being republican or democrat.. it's about maga.. 

soon almost all our social media will be run by maga and nothing will get factchecked (and community notes will be manipulated by trolls)

it's so much worse than when he first became president

[Jazzy Jan]

1 hour ago, Nikki said:

they're always complaining about "the left" calling trump nazi or fascist.. but perhaps they should stop giving us every reason to call them that. it's like the world is upside down. you criticize the person who did something wrong, not the people reacting to it

we can thank much of this to piers Morgan too, by the way. almost every video gets more than a million views, and it's filled with trump propaganda. he'll find the smallest mistake from the democrats and blow it out of proportion, yet ignore/downplay all the trump rhetoric or say "he's just joking". when someone from the left on the panel makes a good point, he just ignores it and finds something else. it's so dangerous  

and it's not about being republican or democrat.. it's about maga.. 

soon almost all our social media will be run by maga and nothing will get factchecked (and community notes will be manipulated by trolls)

it's so much worse than when he first became president

Nikki,  I truly believe that Rupert Murdoch was the beginning of this.  When Fox News become an echo chamber for ultra right wing and conspiracy theorists to vent their over the top racism, sexism and fanatical religious views, it gave people a chance to be proud of being racist, sexist and conspiracy theorists.  Piers Morgan has always been a misogynist, hateful and lying creep.  He should have been arrested years back.  Murdoch should have gone to jail for the phone hacking scandals.  Fox News simply payed out people instead of going to court and they did not even have to inform their brain washed viewers that they were settling out of court or payed millions to their victims for lying. 

So now too many have gone down the rabbit hole.  To think people are either laughing at Musk doing Nazi Salutes or trying to argue that he was not (  the video footage is so obvious )  it shows that we have reached a time that anything can happen.  People could have different political views years ago but the kind of stuff that is celebrated and supported now would never have happened years ago.  Watch any documentary about Nixon and Watergate.  Republicans who loved Nixon also could see he was corrupt and supported his demise.  Democrats and Republicans could debate things in a civilised and intelligent manner despite their different views.  They had a sense of what was unacceptable.  Today,  they would be applauding Nixon and instead claiming that Watergate was all fake news.