The 2025 season of the “USA” reality show will be awesome! 😎🍿
hope they don’t go with the cliché world war plot this time, tho
I’m so fucking tired of this shit.
Better buckle up. It’s going to be a wild ride…that’s on fire…at a haunted amusement park…in a war zone.
Guarantee the house and senate are going to be full of this kind of shit to the exclusion of anything even remotely useful
Can only hope this is the case. If they’re not being useful, chances are they’re not being genuinely destructive either
And it’s an omnibus law that also bans abortion, with meaningless exceptions for rape, but only if the perpetrator is sentenced before the first trimester; or life threatening conditions, but only if the mother is actively dying. And if you vote no on that, you’ll be smeared forever as the traitor of America.
Freedom fries all over again
Definitely very important things to be spending time on. And not something his cultists would be yelling about if it was Biden.
Hey look, another 4 years of Republicans not doing anything of value for the American people.
Meanwhile, Democrats just banned medical debt from showing up on credit reports.
The differences between parties couldn’t be more obvious and Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party. That’s how I know this country is barreling down a path to collapse. It’s not Trump. It’s not even Republicans. It’s braindead stupid Americans.
Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party.
Yeah disinformation and social media slop has diminished the little confidence I had that America could turn it around. It’s over and we are simply running out the clock, imo. Even if we are able to slice off the Republican fascist hydra head the climate change head will have grown too powerful at that point and devour us all
Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn’t work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can’t responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we’re failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don’t stand a chance.
It’s not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It’s going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.
I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign
Same. At this point I’m exhausted though. I don’t see a way through and people have proven themselves far too stupid and susceptible to misinformation for there to be a way. A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation on something as simple as birth control and have actively shown distrust toward multiple medical professionals. Simply no energy left to fight against the tide of stupification. We’re cooked
A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation
This is probably the most depressing aspect of it all to me. Finding out that people who I thought were intelligent and good are actually anti-intellectual and amoral.
You know when you have a society rebelling against vaccines, one of the greatest things to ever happen to humanity, that you’re witnessing a downward spiral.
But God forbid you call it depressing and ruin someone else’s high on the way down.
Damn, my medical debt that is currently affecting my score must have not gotten the memo.
Edit: Holy fucking shit you’re right, PLEASE GOD LET THIS FUCKING LEGISLATION STICK! DO ONE THING!
Another edit: Can the Trump administration kill this on day one?
Yeah. It’s a big deal.
“BUT DEMOCRATS DON’T DO ANYTHING!!!”
Honestly, I’m not sure how possible it is for Trump to undo this. I haven’t looked deep enough into it. I read something about Biden doing what he could to make it hard for it to be undone. There’s so many nuances to our legislative system and the powers that the president has that it’s hard to tell how safe this from Republican fuckery.
From what I’ve read, Trump actually can kill this on day one. Whether or not he does is a different story, he’s taken a populist slide lately and I don’t think his supporters would be too happy with him undoing it.
Who knows though; unprecedented times.
Also, there has already been a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration for this rule. Fucking god damn it
Why not replace First past the post voting so more political parties can participate in the electoral process with no spoiler effect?
Don’t democrats support democracy? Are democrats afraid of having to compete for our votes?
Do you mean democrats or Democrats? Because the latter is absolutely not looking to compete any further.
This is the best case scenario, relying on their utter incompetence, although the will pillage state funds
to be fair any folk from any country would elect the dumb but good at talking dude before the smart bad debater woman. That is a well known problem about democracy
To everyone here.
I know most of you are fed up, exhausted and disgusted. The key is to never give up and roll over. Once you do this the idiots will have won and we we’ll be permanently screwed. We had already gone through four years of Trump’s Idiocracy. Four more years sucks but you need to keep fighting the good fight. We can get through this!
Oh I’m never gonna stop fighting. They can send my gay ass to the camps and I’ll still fight. IDGAF
We’ve always been permanently screwed, it’s just new people getting added to the screwed side of the equation.
Better late late late laaaate then never I guess.
Just like the fucking Nazis and Communists changing names of cities, roads, etc… to suit their fucked up agenda. Chemnitz was once Karl-Marx-Stadt and the fucked up Nazis changed many Slavic city and town names along the Polish border before the outbreak of WW II.
Mexican here. This is happening as much as “the wall” happened. Don’t let him distract you from the H1B issue.
The unfortunate thing is that “the wall” kinda did happen. Really shittily, but even Biden continued building it and Kamala ran on continuing to build it. The idea itself is really stupid sure, it’s ineffective and ass. But there do be a wall getting built to this day.
Did Mexico pay for it, though? That was the important part.
Was it the important part? Really? Sounds like your so stuck on the silly part you missed the clusterfuck
It’s not about doing the things it’s about the optics of saying you’ll do them. The wall isn’t done and never will be. Even if it was it would never deliver what was promised.
Its all about optics and it’s why Trump sabotaged the immigration reform bill. It would show democrats are capable of actually executing/delivering in a way he can’t.
And on that front, trump was super successful. He was so successful that the Democrats full ass abandoned hispanic folk and immigrants in general and fully adopted Fascist Trump Immigration policy. In terms of optics, Trump won so hard the Dems tried to be like WE ARE JUST LIKE TRUMP BUT EFFECTIVE.
The dems would rather chase racist white “”“”“moderates”“”“” than any person of color. Even their POC’s cant help but beg for that racist white moderate because they crossed that wealth line that made them forget what they are to those folk. Trump won the optic war because Dems surrendered as soon as they physically could.
the people concerned dont care about the real result, they are just are happy to have a nationalist president
This is why fascism works. This will happen. Trump is incompetent and idiotic but he’s got a government worth of yes men and people scared of losing their jobs or otherwise motivated to just pass his insane “presidential” bullshit through the pipelines created by liberals in more peaceful times.
He doesn’t need to know how to do anything, but now that he’s in power a handful of his batshit insane things he proposed still get pushed through the system by people who know how to do it who’ve been drolly passing similar but more sane legislation across their desk for decades.
why is the media giving this idiot the time of day. no it’s not called the “gulf of america” and no congress can’t do squat about it. it’s a stupid distraction from an idiot.
The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/President_of_the_Imperial_Galactic_Government
Because people voted for him
The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.
Where the fuck are the Democrats hitting the issue while it’s hot with 3 interviews a day agreeing with the average Republican over Trump and Musk?
where the fuck are the democrats?
Pointing fingers at each other and drifting further to the right, probably.
Ignoring everyone. Then when it’s election season again, they’ll act like you’re a Russian troll who just started talking to spread division.
Ah a classic then.
This is not good obviously, but it’s also very US-centric to think that name Gulf of America indicates it belongs to the US. In an alternate timeline it would totally make sense to have a gulf between two Americas called the Gulf of America or even the American Sea. But the US has effectively hijacked the name America
We could then call it Gulf of
theAmericas, by simply adding something. (Vandalizing Maps is easy that way)All you need is a sharpie to vandalize maps!
Correct!!!
Politics aside, “Gulf of Mexico” sounds way cooler. Easier and more fun to say, too.
Don’t tell him Mexico is part of the Americas though.
Actual, literal toddlers are really taking over the US, aren’t they?
Voted in by folks of similar mental capability.
That’s not fair. Some of them are scamming the large toddlers!
Plus folks of similar mental capability refrained from voting in the first place, when they could have prevented this.
Actual toddlers are less hateful then them. Still stands. Hateful toddlers.
I don’t know, but toddlers tend to make more sense…
More meaningless culture war bullshit.
President Musk will be livid that his suggestion to call it ‘Gulf of X’ was shot down.
President Musk will get his way and they will make a compromise and call it the Gulf of X-ico.
*Gulf of X-ica
