Makes sense. South Korea just jailed their last president for insurrection because he used the military against his political opponents for being “against the state”. Not something I’d think Trump would appreciate.
Johnny Somali is our president, apparently.
Trump’s platform was to become a dictator and he won the popular vote for that.
Yeah but that’s not because the majority of people wanted a dictator, it’s because they are gullible. Both my parents (64) would say it was all exaggerations and he never said he wanted to be a dictator. He just says things to upset people. Why did they think that, because the news channels perpetuated misinformation every night at 9pm 10 pm, 11pm, which ever one they watched before bed… And still are.
September 25th, 2024 a poll came out showing 4% of the population viewed project 2025 in a good light. Only 7% of Republicans viewed it in a good light.
That means to me that 93% of Republicans did not know what they were voting for other than the “feelings” that were being fed to them on the news. At that point 4 states had already oppened early voting, and Illinois opened the next day. If they were voting for 100% tarrifs on China, clearly they didn’t know how tarrifs worked.
I think the majority voted out of anger and fear which is what the Republican platform ran on. And the Democrats ran a platform of reactionary anger and fear of what Trump did and would do.
Not every Republican voter was evil, but Democrats did a good job at pushing that type of narrative which helped lock everyone in camps. That also probably hurt the Democrats because if 5% of the population said, my partner/spouse or whatever isn’t evil, those people must clearly be exaggerating, and their partner is pointing that out… It becomes easier to believe rather quickly.
A lot of emotions got/get stirred up around how bad out politicians are and the media is there pouring gasoline on the fire the whole time to make profits.
I think the truth is if there was a legitimate vote tomorrow not between candidates, but a simple do you want Trump to be a dictator, we would see 90% of the population vote no.
Both my parents (64) would say it was all exaggerations and he never said he wanted to be a dictator. He just says things to upset people.
And they found this to be a desirable quality in their candidate.
Well the alternative according to the news was from fixing the economy. With no plans of how they would fix the economy. They went from Obama voters to Trump voters. So it wasn’t complete racism. Although my dad never said anything racist until Trump ran for president the second time. Fox and such did a great job at teaching hatred. Having a hardship, they gave you someone to hate. Anyone’s fault but the people syphoning up the money out of your reach.
Because those people own the media companies giving you the information…
Yeah, I’m more and more convinced letting them bail out the banks, instead of bailing out legit homeowners during the housing crisis would have saved the Democratic Party.
The argument against it was always “but the banking system and payrolls would collapse”.
Then the pandemic hits and they send out checks and expand loan deferment (could have been forgiveness, but we let the Republicans fuck us over on that too) practically overnight. They still have too much money to businesses that shouldn’t have needed it (like the NBA or whatever).
Can you expand on what you mean by it could have been forgiveness, not sure I understand what you meant there.
Are you talking about a system where we would have submitted our bills that need to be paid monthly and the government essentially paid those minimum payments until the go back to work things occurred? That would have helped a lot of people if so, but a lot of people can be manipulated quickly to not like anyone they don’t know, so I imagine that would be extremely hard to pass. "Well Steve filled his credit cards doing stupid shit, why should he be receiving so much when I don’t get anything more because I was “responsible”. If there was a way to freeze the majority of all new credit being used during the pandemic that would have been a great solution maybe. I just don’t think we can get people to care about others hardships, rather than blame others for hardships.
Sorry should be a been more clear.
There should have been a nationwide pause on foreclosures like was done during the pandemic. Review the loans, refinance to reasonable levels. Revalue houses where prudent, fix predatory loans and fuck those banks that sold them.
And instead of giving banks a trillion dollars we could have spent that on a universal basic income that would have been up to the individuals to spend. Like any other income.
The big argument for bank bailouts was that the payroll system would collapse. A UBI could have made it at least not dire.
Yeah but that’s not because the majority of people wanted a dictator, it’s because they are gullible.
I don’t give a fuck what any of these people thought they were getting into. All the information they needed to make a rational decision was easily accessible to them and they refused to look at it. They took zero action to verify that their feelings lined up with reality and that is how shitty people conduct themselves. I hope every single person who voted for Trump gets a personal taste of the absolute chaos their ignorance has unleashed on the rest of the world.
epstein files was one of his main platforms too, which he is desperately trying to escape from. he thought it would be dropped immediately after he got elected.
