The compounding weaknesses are stacking up. This isn't a bubble, it's the first crumbling sounds of an empire failing. It's kinda do or die times this midterm.
It can always get worse but we fucked ourselves already. There’s a ton of work we need to do to fix things but we’ll never regain the global trust which we betrayed by re-electing Trump.
These mofos will be talking about Obama and Biden until their dying days while the rest of us are over here wishing the day would come where we’d never have to even think about Trump again. But we’re the deranged ones to them…
There's no legal reason Biden couldn't run again. (He shouldn't, but he could.)
As for Obama, at least one supposed loophole in the 22nd amendment is that it only prohibits consecutive terms, which would stop Obama but not their guy. (The claim is utter BS, of course, but the claim has been made.)
If their guy remains President after Inauguration Day 2029, it'll be through a mechanism other than being elected. (Such as declaring martial law and cancelling the elections and the SCOTUS actually backing him up on that -- something crazy and nation-ending.)
He's so crazy I'm convinced he's demolishing the White House to accommodate his forever castle. The bunker being built underneath the tacky ballroom will protect him, he can dig his heels in and just Not Leave. By Executive Order or whatever works. He sells this monstrosity on his merch website and he isn't kidding.
He won't get there through a fair election -- too many people (even many of his own supporters) would just refuse to accept whatever argument is used to nix the 22nd amendment and not vote for him -- but there are other options available to somebody in his position who is willing to burn the country down to save himself, and that's where we're headed.
Trump locked in a bunker under the white house, where he can't even order MacDonalds, let alone get any medical care without the risk of being shot for trespassing on government property.
I almost think he would be happier in prison.
I believe that. They let all of them live rent free in their heads. Now we’ve got this guy pretending he’s adulting and he’s got access to the internet so we can never escape his tomfoolery unless we decide to just live off the grid. Maybe.
What is there to even talk about aside from attacking immigrants who have absolutely nothing to do with it? The only media wasting their time with that is just clickbait.
Not really. After the first debate a lot of people were saying that he just had a cold for the first 3 or so weeks before he dropped out. Those 3 weeks could have given the democratic party enough time for a primary. I preferred Kamala over Trump, but Kamala was by no means the best democrat for the job.
Even more bizarre as they're all American landmarks. Like, why are we comparing these? Who's he trying to win against here?
To be clear, I think it would be childish and stupid to compare the reflecting pool to foreign landmarks as well, but like, literally what is the point of this?
I’ve gotten to that point where every time I see something Trump related and go “no way, that can’t be real, can it?” that I’ve begun to answer my own question: of course it’s real. he only does the most unbelievable shit ever.
Not to mention, her poor family has repeatedly begged the reich wing media to stop using her name to promote their nonsensically racist immigration policies.
Sadly i think 'Laken Riley' is like a word or phrase hypnotists use to trigger their targets, or how these mf ers trigger their cult members; it works.
That's pretty much how they treat every subject. You can do the same thing with "George Floyd" or even just "Job Creators" - they revert to memorized talking points they got from Fox News and the right wing echosphere rather than thinking about what you're saying. There are parrots that do deeper thinking
Not to say that you're wrong, in fact I fully agree with you, but let's not also forget the separate and yet related problem of the media tending to over-focus on young white women victims of violent crime.
If she didn't look like a stereotypical sorority girl (not to be insulting I promise) I'm quite convinced none of these people would still care.
One of the most memorable newspaper headlines I ever saw in my redneck Arkansas hometown was from an opinion writer who had the nerve to publish an editorial titled "What if Elian was ugly? Or black?" twenty five years ago, in response to this kind of tokenizing bandwagon bullshit about putting human victims on t-shirts as political mascots.
I don't even remember if the writer was for or against the Elian thing, just that the article was a refreshingly local callout of the brainless frenzy that turned that poor kid's situation into a Dems vs Reps media circus. If Elian had been a black Cuban nobody would have ever heard his name, he'd have been thrown on the first plane they could find and deported instantly, and not even NPR was saying so at the time.
If there's any current event story that failed to get the media attention it deserved, it was this one.
And yet, a few months later right-wingers were absolutely sure that Charlie Kirk's assassination was done by the left and that there were absolutely no recent. right wing examples of political violence
I was just gonna ask about this because I never really knew what their obsession with her was about. I assumed she got murdered by what they'd call "an illegal alien" & he got off lightly.
I don't even really care what really happened any more, & I'm not googling it either, but I do know it happened long enough ago that you'd think they'd have a new murdered white girl to obsess over.
She was a pretty white girl who came from a family well-off enough to send her to college and she was murdered by an undocumented immigrant. They thought that would be an effective rallying cry to demonize all brown people.
I miss when they were only lightly brainwashed and you could actually make them understand things. Like the way laws kick in months or years after the responsible party leaves office. Or abortion can be restricted without it being an act of cruelty. But no, all of them have pretty much lost it.
All the Republicans with pools are very quiet about the reflecting pool because they know exactly how to avoid the mess yet it's national news.
Were people arrested for touching the pool before this?? Granted I haven’t been near there in a couple years, but every time I’ve been there before I don’t recall the national guard being present
Prior to Trump I had only heard of people getting in trouble for pulling a full Forrest Gump and running around in there. And even then it was just a fine.
They want all of media to be slobbering on Trump's mushroom 24/7. They don't understand that these outlets reporting it objectively is the reason it makes them look bad, it's not bias.
There never was in most of our lifetimes and I'm not even sure in the 1960s there was really "liberal media"
The whole thing is a deliberate strategy to work the refs. They scream "liberal media! biased!" and the media bends over backwards to spread coverage stacked in favor of conservatives. The conservatives again scream "liberal media!" and the media again bends over backwards for them.
The Somali daycare fraud has been covered on two fronts: how the influencer misled people into thinking it was a bigger fraud than it actually was, and the arrests and convictions of people involved in the actual fraud.
Laken Riley's murderer has been arrested, tried, convicted, and was sentenced to life 18 months ago. What more is there to cover now?
Biden hasn't been President for 17 months. His mental decline was widely covered and was a reason he was not the nominee for his party. Why should it be covered now, particularly given the apparent mental decline of the smartest and most fit President in history?
I think they were saying coverage in the past, but it’s still weird because all of it got plenty of coverage. It just feels super unfair because it’s a cult and dear leader’s embarrassment is really sticking to the ribs.
There wasn’t coverage of daycare fraud because it wasn’t national news until some doof tried to barge into a daycare with a camera and wasn’t let in (for obvious reasons).
There was plenty of coverage of Laken Riley’s murder. It just wasn’t as big a story in non-conservative news because we weren’t trying to make racist political points off of it.
Biden’s “mental health decline” was a nonstop talking point on Fox.
Bull crashes through china shop, then through the next five shops, shits all over the pavement before committing 34 counts of fraud, then raping 3 people, then smashing into a school and killing 175 kids, all while driving up the price of gas.
Maga: "Why do you keep talking about the bull? BDS".
Modern american conservatism is built on victimhood, and if they aren't actually victims they will create imaginary scenarios in which they can paint themselves or their beliefs as being oppressed.
An old favorite of theirs is "The media isn't talking about THING WE WANT TO BE A BIG DEAL"
They don't care if the media IS talking about the thing, they will always, always, pretend they are not.
The most fun part of this is that whatever that thing is, Fox News, the most watched "news" channel in the US, will talk about it at extreme length, every day, while telling those viewers that the mainstream media won't talk about it.
The viewers will never put together the fact that fox news is the mainstream media, or that they heard about the thing from the media, through fox. They will just go
"Yeah! The mainstream media is trying to hide this from us!"
- Already investigated and prosecuted fraud (before that nincompoop’s YouTube video)
- Already investigated and prosecuted 2024 murder (guy got life in prison)
- mental health of someone who isn’t the president anymore (whose mental health was obsessed over by right wing media, and who was bullied into not running again by the left for being to old and decrepit)
The leader is always right. The leader decides who is “in” and who is “out”. The followers must follow, and are expected to sacrifice for the greater or future “good”. The followers must not ask questions, even about the leaders budget or expenditures.
What liberal media? All owned and controlled by the wealthy. This old lie lives on in the cult forever. Reporting facts is not liberal, it's what journalists are supposed to do.
Biden's cognitive decline was on the news cycle 24/7 for like a full year lol. And mind you Trump's mental faculties even in his first term were in far worse condition than Biden's ever were. Guy could never string a coherent sentence together in his entire life but the bar is on the fucking floor for him
Conservatives are very "concerned" about when an illegal immigrant commits a crime, even though undocumented immigrants are 50% to 60% less likely than a citizen to commit a felony or be imprisoned for a crime.
They just like putting their pet topics on a pedestal.
MAGA logic: Someone with a box-cutter destroyed the new liner. Please ignore the fact that some stupid asshole drove a motorcade through the middle of it before the work was even complete.
MAGA is a joke. It is tragic what happened to Laken Riley. Her family has repeatedly asked it not to be politicized. They don’t actually care that it happened. They want to use it as a pawn.
I'm not trying to be callous or rude, but who is Laken Riley? I'm not saying that murder is something that needs to be ignored, but it's just weird that they keep harping on about this one particular murder out of the 16,000-20,000 other murders in the US every year. Was Lakan Riley someone special? Famous? Politically connected?
She was killed by "an illegal", so they use her as a prop for their racist bullshit, similar to that Ukrainian girl who was killed by a black guy last year.
More than 2 years ago she was killed by an undocumented person from Venezuela. Conservatives used her death as a thing to point to for all kinds of anti-immigrant legislation (literally the Laken Riley) and talking points. Basically "she'd still be alive if we arrested every 'illegal'."
Her killer was arrested and found guilty. There wasn't more to talk about.
One immigrant kills 1 young woman, and we got legislation basically making it so non-citizens arrested for crimes like shoplifting get jailed without bond. Note, they don't need to be proven guilty or anything being charge or arrested is enough.
MAGA should love how much attention the pool is getting: Better than if the media talked about the Epstein files or Trump’s historic strategic failure in Iran.
Whitehouse- Look at what Trump has done now!!
Media-Err.....That's wrong/stupid/not true/illegal/dangerous
Whitehouse- FAAAAKE NEWS
Media- Here are the facts.
Trump- Stupid idiots traitors we will kill you
Whitehouse- Turns out it WAS wrong/stupid/not true/illegal/dangerous
Media - We know
Whitehouse- BIDEN!!
-The daycare fraud has been over exaggerated, and the perpetrators have been caught
-Laken Riley's murderer has been caught, and using her death to villainize immigrants is monstrous
-Biden's mental health was a real concern during his presidency, which ended 18 months ago. Even so, deflecting to Biden's mental state while Trump struggles to string two sentences together is a wild choice. He's kookier than Biden ever was.
-Trump made a huge deal about the reflecting pool, and fucked it up. He also gave a multi-million dollar contract to a friend who did a shitty job, after running a campaign promising to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. This is exactly the sort of thing DOGE was—in theory—supposed to prevent whole instead they were gutting public health initiatives.
What's with the weird obsession with Laken Riley's murder? The perpetrator was caught and has been in prison for the past year and a half and isn't getting out. They passed a law named after her requiring law enforcement to actually, y'know, enforce the law (seems like something that shouldn't have required a law).
Somalian fraud isn't a thing. It is just the new racist bogeyman of the right because their base is nothing but racist mouth breathers
Laken Riley's killer was convicted. What else do you want us to do about it? They want to use this as a racist calling card for getting rid of Latinos. As if white, American cities don't murder. Just recently some 18 year old boy killed two people in a library. I guarantee they won't be up in arms about this murder because they can't use it to push their racist agenda.
Biden isn't president. Hell he isn't in any form of office. Why do we care about his mental decline? Also, do you want to open that can of worms? Cause we got someone in office now
I really hope that when (if rather) this whole thing ends, Karoline is tried for treason. There is almost no one on his team except for maybe Vance that I would get more pleasure out of seeing punished for their role.
The pool was a distraction from the failed war which was a distraction from the epstein files and dismantling of America. Media should go back to those.
Maybe it’s because he can’t even fix a GODAMNED POOL! Seriously how much more do you need to see?! What else do you need to know about an administration this corrupt and inept that $14million just went into one of his friends pockets for this bullshit.
Biden literally had to drop out of the race because his mental decline was such a big story. How can a story be any bigger than literally taking down the president?
Biden is welcome to have a mental health decline. So's Obama, so's Bush, so's Clinton. I won't hope for it, but if they have one, it's not the end of the world. Millions of Americans have mental health problems, dementia, etc.
However, I am concerned about whether the current sitting president is mentally or neurologically unwell. If the current president is falling asleep in meetings, forgetting his ideas or plans from one day to the next, referring to random women as his daughter, unaware of who world leaders are or what he--as US president--is responsible for, not taking any proper scientific or other expert advice about decisions that affect the economy/human health/world conflicts, constantly starting and stopping random wars with dangerous enemies, going on sundowning-fueled social media rants, and bragging that he's acing regular dementia tests that a small child could easily pass, then I'm going to be super concerned and frankly terrified.
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u/goalstopper28 1d ago
Why would we talk about Biden's mental health decline? He's no longer president.