Attacked Venezuela. Largest oil reserves in the world.
Bombed Nigeria. Largest oil reserves in Africa.
Expressed an interest in invading Greenland. Guess what?
Sure, i get it, Trump is orange bad boi living the dream in USA or whatever, but you do realise that this type of behaviour isnt new to USA, regardless of what party the president is a member of. USA will continue to bomb odd targets, stage coups and train terrorist groups to do their dirty work.
Yeah, but the US used to be a bit more subtle.
Do you prefer the subtle party or the unsubtle party?
Hahahahaha
The USs brand loyalty was shinier. That’s literally it.
No it didn’t?
You had better P.R., but we all knew the shit you were doing.
That’s true. However, no matter how good the food tastes, it ends up the same in your belly. Just do the best you can, mind your own business, live a happy life, and do whatever the hell you feel like. As long as you’re not actually hurting anyone, go ahead.
cant just distract from the epstein files, gotta profit from the distraction to.
cause hes a greedy pig.
I wonder, if in some future timeline where conservatives have managed to drill the absolute fuck out of the planet and use it all up, will their attitude towards EVs and windmills and nuclear change then?
bold of you to assume there’d still be a habitable planet left by then
In that scenario we would end up with FF7.
When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius…
Dude, desalinisation is right there.
bro, russia is right there
his distraction escalates as epstein news escalates.
THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR IS PEACE
THE RADICAL LEFT IS SLAVERY
FOX NEWS IS STRENTHHAIL BIG BROTHER
Ok Hitler guy
The book reference is “1984”
Killed 'em with kindness like I have never seen!
That’s an excellent user name as well, for what it’s worth.
No new wars, but plenty of “special military operations”.
We haven’t technically had an official war since WW2. Every “war” was a special military operation. So this is business as normal because no president wants to have to go through Congress to declare war officially. But hey why should we care about checks and balances on power?
Another Epstein diversion.
The really sad thing about this is I think you’re right
I never would have thought that the recipient of the great FIFA Peace Prize would do something like that 😮
It’s in the game!
Hey, they gave him that prize because they knew he was the kind of dictator who would only use regular bombs on (most likely) random civilians. He’d never be so heartless as to use a nuke.
FIFA is just a club for racist colonial grifters… Trump should be president of FIFA.
If Nigeria kicks our ass I give up.
How old ARE the kids he fucks? 4? 5?
Put a blindfold on this mother fucker and tie him to a pole atop the Capitol Steps.
12-15 apparently, he likes them ivanka young.
Draw and quarter
President Donald Trump announced on Christmas that the U.S. has bombed “ISIS Terrorist Scum” in Nigeria.
Well merry Christmas to you too, I guess?
This is normal now. Christmas is about bombing scum, thanks giving is about retards or something.
I want my normal world back
Super Christian of him
wasnt aware ISIS was in nigeria.
Lost of splinters and cells scattered around the Muslim world as I understand it, but the amount of ranges between major insurgent army to dumbfuck backwoods militia.
Trump is a terrorist
I know things were pretty fucked - I haven’t been a lifelong cynic for no reason - but still, it’s amazing how quickly snd completely the US has descended into screeching insanity.
And all at the hands of this demented lunatic, his psychopathic enablers and his legions of angry and stupid followers.
What a world…
And all of it because billionaires want to fuck children and not pay taxes.
Exactly, that’s all we want. Why is that so bad?
— billionaires
Not even the end of Y1
That’s the most astonishing part of it to me.
Reality has gone completely off the rails. Virtually every day, I read another account of blithering insanity, and painfully obviously dangerous and destructive insanity, from this administration, and then I watch as all of the official entities that are meant to check that sort of insanity just treat it as another day and another press release from another President’s office.
It’s like The Emperor’s New Clothes, only far far worse.
And all in less than a year…
The media is highly complicit in how they sanewash the most insane shit we’ve ever seen
People still doubling down on their actions in 24, not acknowledging that those very actions led to the orange idiot being elected. Again.
As long as there is no acknowledgement, we can expect a repeat of the very same in 28, possibly with the literal devil on the other side, while the voters smugly criticize the minutae of the more sensible candidate and sit it out.
Sometimes you put yourself aside in the interest of the country.
Oh look - it’s the DNC Defense Force, here to get an early start on guilt-tripping leftists who won’t vote for whichever shitty center right neolib hack the DNC will likely end up trying to foist on the voters at the behest of their corporate donors.
Fuck that. It’s not the voters’ responsibility to vote for a piece of shit just because they stink a little bit less than the other piece of shit - it’s the DNC’s responsibility to run candidates people actually want to vote for. And when they can’t (or more accurately won’t) even do that, then they and nobody else are responsible for the consequences.
And this is how we got to Trump, the other side acts like psychos but at least they have kind of a coherent football team mentality going on, even if they’re fucking ignorant racist sons of bitches. They don’t focus on the minutia of how they disagree with each other at every turn and spew vitriol and divide themselves like this. Nobody fucking hates the other factions on the left like a lefty. We are all so fractured and individual it’s a fucking joke. Like herding fucking cats, buddy. We should be able to use the anger from this moment to unite, but none of us can even decide what the fuck we should be uniting around. Meanwhile violent sociopathic pedophiles can corral enough morons to crash their way into the capitol whenever they want. We all have lofty ideals about the best possible form of government and the people to staff that government, but in order to have an operational government you have to have a team of people who are united. We can’t even agree on the morality of violence, much less point of finger in the direction we should go from here. Fucking frustrating homies.
Oh and…
The fact that this whole norion of a lack of lefty unity is complete bullshit was neatly demonstrated by leftist voters coming together to overwhelmingly support Zohran Mamdani.
And who didn’t support him? The fucking establishment neolib hacks - the exact same people who keep fucking us over by putting up shitty candidates then trying to guilt trip leftists into voting for them. We finally got a candidate we wanted and they couldn’t even be arsed to endorse him.
Enjoy the next 3 then. It’s not even what I’m implying. In fact, I’m positive you will - the fact that the two comments above sound the same tell me all I need to know.
At least flip your scripts once in a while.
Supporting genocide is not fucking “minutia.”
Should the DNC have run a better candidate? Yes!
Was Harris a dream president? No!
Would she have been better than Trump? Undoubtedly!
Should people have voted for her? Yes, if you oppose Trump’s fascism. But no, if you don’t really care about your fellow citizens who may be at risk for deportation/prosecution/dehumanization.
Harris and the DNC would’ve been a bit more amenable to the popular opinion than trump and the GQP have ever been. So after her election, people could have protested in Washington dc against Israel’s genocide and have found a listening ear in Congress.
You shouldn’t base your presidential vote purely on one single issue. Especially not if it’s a foreign affairs issue, which is what the Israeli genocide in Palestine is. You need to look at the much broader picture. Look at the other policies and ideas that both candidates have.
We knew about trumps desire to hurt his political enemies, we knew about his hatred for trans people, we knew about his desire to deport immigrant, before he got elected. So you could have based your vote on that.
oh look, another votescold so thoroughly convinced that everything would have been fine if only everyone followed their campaign strategy, that they’re literally blaming anti-fascists for fascism. How about blaming actual fascists instead?
Ok, I’ll take the non raping, non narcissist, non child abusing, non twice impeached, non trying to save his fat lardy ass, non looking to use the office to take revenge on anyone and anything he disagrees with one, thanks.
votescold
touch grass
It’s unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.
Nigeria’s government has said armed groups target both Muslims and Christians, and U.S. claims that Christians face persecution do not represent the complex security situation and ignore efforts to safeguard religious freedom. But it has agreed to work with the U.S. to bolster its forces against militant groups.
At this point though, that’s just noise.
Unfortunately, the mass media is complicit in the insanity - they’ve abandoned principles, integrity, honesty and accuracy in pursuit of profit and/or the owners’ agenda, whichever might be deemed more important in a given organization.
That’s not to say that that story is necessarily false. It’s simply that if it’s a spin that serves someone’s agenda, as this obviously is, then it will be published somewhere, entirely regardless of whether it’s true or not, so the fact that it has been published means nothing at all.
Mainstream media is just billionaire media.
And the government is just billionaire government.
The only war is class war.
Sorry for being picky, just wanted to point out this bit of redundancy:
in pursuit of profit and/or the owners’ agenda
That agenda ultimately is and always will be profit for any company even a hundredth of that size, let alone a straight up monopoly.
Other than that, no notes 10/10
The scariest part is how surprised and unprepared the rest of the world was. “Sanity will prevail!” Really? Why?
It’s accelerated a lot recently, but this has been in the works for a long time, and many people were ringing alarm bells.
I’m old. My first awareness of the world of politics was the Watergate hearings, so I actually lived through most of the run-up to this.
It’s certainly the case that the US has been moving more or less steadily toward plutocratic oligarchy since at least Nixon, and progress has definitely accelerated (though it really started accelerating with the Wall Street bailouts in the wake of the 2008 real estate bubble collapse and hasn’t really let up since), but that’s not really what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about the literal insanity of Trump and his sycophants. They aren’t merely corrupt tools of the plutocrats like so many past politicians - they’re deranged lunatics. That’s not hyperbole - it’s simple fact, plainly obvious to anyone who takes a step back and honestly looks at what they do and say.
It’s not that the US has accelerated toward autocracy in less than a year (though it has), because yes - that’s the direction it’s been headed for decades. The astonishing thing to me is that the US has effectively gone insane in less than a year.
If the US was a person, it’d be on a psych hold. And that’s something I wasn’t prepared for, even as cynical as I’ve always been.
Quickly it was not. This has been in the works since Nixon. Now it just when it’s coming to a head. And it’ll only get worse from here.
No, that’s what
I know things were pretty fucked
was seemingly referring to
I’m sorry, you think this sort of behavioral escalation is distinctively Trumpian? Go look up the military actions of Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc. This is the the US - nonstop mass murder, constantly, unending, brutal, insane. Trump is just rubber stamping what the military puts in front him. He isn’t planning these things out.
bOtH SiDeS eXaCtLy ThE sAmE. Bullshit like this is all I hear from people who want to suck Trump’s dick these days
Imperialism is fine if I agree with it
Obama literally got the Nobel peace price while bombing civilians with drones in the middle east, do you really think that what’s happening in Nigeria is significantly worse?
There is a difference yes, equating the two allows the people who are less justified and also currently doing things to get away with more than I think you’re realizing. I’m also pointing out that that is basically the main strategy for people who support Trump right now, pretend the bad things Democrats have done are basically exactly the same level of bad as this straight up fucking evil bullshit fascism we are seeing. I’m simply saying that equating everything and calling it all the same amount of bad is not productive and allows the worst to become more normalized than they would otherwise. I’m not justifying anything bad that any Democratic president did, just saying that we need to have gray areas here and recognize some level of tiers of evil, not just pretend that somehow Obama and Trump are the same person.
There is a difference yes
Ok, point out the material difference between war crimes conducted by obama and trump. “Decorum” or “justifications” don’t count as material differences.
trump is worse on many other topics, from outright fascism in the US to openly supporting fascists abroad to cutting USAID and such, but in terms of military action this administration is mostly just following the long-established bipartisan war crime traditions.
For support for fascism, look no further than Truman (D) presiding over Operation Paperclip which collaborated with the Vatican to save many Nazis and relocate them all over the US and South America, give them new identies, jobs, money, and protection.
I’m not saying D are all paragons, in fact fuck much of what they have done, and fuck them for being beholden to the rich, fuck them for a bunch of other stuff besides, but there was more genuine intent for good than this absolute filth fascism horseshit. Lefties are supposed to be the side of the spectrum that can actually parse differing levels of evil, but it seems more like many of us want to make perfect the enemy of good
My point is the opposite of normalizing Trump. What needs normalizing is the (correct) view that the USA has always been a genocidal war-crime state, and that a mere change of leadership back to Kamala “most lethal army in the world” Harris-type democrats will not suffice. I equate them because, in international policy, they’re indistinguishable, geopolitics are bipartisan in the USA and they’ve always been. Trump surely is worse for USA inhabitants than democrats, no doubt, but I’m a Spaniard, not an US citizen.
You’re failing in your goal
They’re not wrong tho, how do we stop the libs from going back to brunch while Gavin Newsom continues 98% of Trump’s policies, and then hand power back to the republicans in 2030?
That’s your opinion, good to know
The nobel peace prize really has never been an indicator of someone not causing wide spread death and destruction both indirectly or directly.
The name is kinda misleading. The whole peace aspect is an ideal not a reality sadly.
Not defending it in any way, but he got the award before the drone campaigns I believe. I think he got it like as soon as he took office?
Also, it’s not just Nigeria. If this were a vacuum, sure. But these kinds of arguments just come off as disingenuous these days.
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Odd that you think believing that the US is a violent, terrible, evil, exploitative globe-spanning empire exporting death, destruction and poverty is equivalent to liking Trump.
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You can’t convince me the person that wrote this comment is not a Russian fucking troll. You’re going to lecture me and use the r word in the same comment? You really got your head up your ass buddy. I’m not deflecting shit, just not throwing every leader we’ve ever had into a trash bin out of hand. Equating Democratic leadership and conservative leadership right now is exactly the playbook of trump supporters that’s what I’m trying to say.
100% bot assault, it’s so painfully clear
ZERO US citizens would equate Obama and OrangeShitsHisPants, because only a Russian bot (or someone cosplaying a Russia bot) would see them as the same
Nobody sees them as the same, sure. Some people see Obama as worse. 30% of the country think Trump is doing great.
everyone I disagree with is a Russian troll
Real free thinker vibes
I will, fuck US imperialism and fuck the soapbox they gave you to stand on and the propaganda they emboldened you with.
I don’t owe the murder capital of the world anything for being born there.
Russian Troll
Now who’s fake news?
Emotional overreactions aren’t discussions, and devolving into name calling is the same thing a fascist would do on Facebook,
Good job!
I hear you, and I empathize, genuinely. But this attitude isn’t exactly fuckin productive now is it? Expressing things this way is exactly what those fuckers want to think about lefties. Why would anyone try and parley or have a constructive discussion with a person who says shit like this?
Da comrade, extra bread for you dis veek
None of them made their policy decisions based on short entertainment segments on Fox.
Why? To ruin Christmas
I’m not even mad at the rotten orange, this is just mold.
Every single person who swore an oath to the CONSTITUTION, not a person, should present themselves for Captain’s Mast at the very least.
How fucking could you pull the trigger
I’m just so grateful that all the previous presidents refused to do this and setup safeguards to ensure that Trump will be punished. \s \s \s
Previous presidents are only part of the equation.
The other part is having a society that isn’t stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.
The situation we find ourselves in is as much American’s fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American’s decisions.
The alternative was an outright jingoist who ran to the right of Trump on foreign policy, insisting that she would massively ramp up military spending and build “the most lethal military in the world.” Given the history of Democrats with how much Biden and Obama loved drone strikes, it is rather disconnected from reality to think that Democrats wouldn’t be bombing as well.
Foreign policy is something that Democrats and Republicans have always agreed upon, have always been warmongering parties and CNN and Fox News always come to agree on every war the US ever gets involved in. There literally wasn’t an option to avoid US imperialist wars.
Well, there are third parties, but if you talk about voting for third parties then everyone will claim a third party is secretly a vote for Trump and then try to paint you as equivalent to Trump supporter.
It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.
It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.
European countries have a variety of electoral systems, and to my knowledge right wing parties are gaining significant vote share in all of them. Is there a country whose electoral system you see as best helping them deal with populist reactionary figures?
I am currently a proponent of ranked choice voting - Australia is the country I know of with the most widespread use example. They aren’t magically utopian, but it seems to be helping there. Always on the lookout to learn new things, though, so interested in pointers.
European countries have a mindset of colonialist countries that will try to reach for their roots. Unfortunately, that’s part of their political struggle. I actually like the way it is in my country, Mexico. You have one 6-year term only, you can’t have any re-elections, ever. It’s possible to ask for a referendum in the middle of the term, in case the person in chair is not doing as they promised. In the legislative power, we don’t have dinosaurs thanks to this, politicians can go from lower to higher level cameras in this bicameral legislative power, but that’s it. “No reelection” is ingrained with blood in our culture. Of course, electoral systems can only do so much against populist reactionaries, as you put it.
I like the idea of ranked choice voting a lot, but I don’t know how viable that is for the USA. They need change, urgently, and ranked choice voting would be as good as it gets in terms of change.
An people have done nothing to change it. That’s the point.
The people have done what they can. Politicians have failed to them. That’s why Trump was headed to last 4 years in power only, and then the Democrats handed him, on a silver plate, another presidential term by being essentially equal to their rivals. As I see it, the political class is the one failing, by showing the people there is not a real path for a leftist government once and again. Americans need brutal leftist politicians as they have brutal right-wing ones in spades. The people is eager to support a younger Sanders-like face, someone that won’t compromise the benefit of the majority’s views.
I’ll believe it when you’re a Republic again. Until then you’re all accomplises.
I live in a republic, don’t know what you mean.
Morbid Elon fixed the election as he basically said he did.
Ehh… Wouldn’t put it past him having told some engineer to rig it and boast about rigging the election, all while the engineer did fuck all, because they were just a janitor fixing the thermostat in the office of some rich douchebag high on ketamine.
The ruling/owner class has waged a decades-long war to undo the forward momentum of the New Deal.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but most of it belongs to generational wealth and the “haves” not the average person brainwashed by poorly funded and heavily propagandized public education.
