Summary
Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.
The “Signalgate” scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.
Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.
He is surprised that he’s getting bad press. That’s how stupid Trump is. Not only does he think the things he’s doing are good ideas, he legitimately thinks people will actually praise him for doing it.
Once he sees not everyone will he’ll start censoring those who don’t. He’s fixated on getting things done his way regardless of how it affects anyone else.
It will end up like brexit. Most people who voted for him will stay in the sect no matter what. When enough people finally switch to hand power back to the democrats it will be too late to simply reverse most of what Trump did and slow rebuilding will start. If Democrats elect competent leaders they will actually fix things. If not they will just continue working with what Trump left for them (like with Starmer)
and slow rebuilding will start.
And then Democratic voters will get complacent, or get all pissy about how their pet project for change isn’t getting enough attention fast enough, and not vote the next time leading to a Republican getting back in office BECAUSE SURELY THAT WILL HELP THEIR FUCKING PRECIOUS INTERESTS. It worked out so~ well this past Fall, didn’t it? Nothing at all~ to be concerned about, worried about, uncertain about, or terrified about now.
If Democrats elect competent leaders
Pelosi and Schumer, and all their fanbois (people listening to them even when they aren’t in office), would need to go.
And to anyone who has eyes to see with, the press is largely sanewashing Trump and toadying to his imbeclic destructiveness.
Wouldn’t be wild to say that there’s some dementia and cognitive decline going on with Trump. I’m not saying this as a joke or insult, the guy is seriously behaving randomly and people around his are too scared to disagree.
It wouldn’t be wild, it’d be accurate. The man has dementia. I’m on mobile and not inclined to tap out all of the indicators, but remember when he abruptly stopped speaking at a campaign rally, and just kind of swayed to his music playlist for 39 minutes, or when he described in detail the literal, giant faucet in British Columbia that he seemed to think that Canada uses to control water to the West Coast? (Or the literal dome over Israel?) Both losing track of time and losing the ability to process metaphorical speech are symptoms of dementia. Why else would his doctors have administered that cognitive test that he bragged that he aced?
It’s definitely possible. We may just be seeing his true self more though
Like when no one wants to take Grandpa’s car keys.
I love how people are upset that the democrats aren’t doing anything.
First they have minorities in the house and senate and don’t have the presidency so their powers are severely limited but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?
but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?
Hey imagine if you had a baby inside you, and then something catastrophic happened and the failed pregnancy now was threatening your life.
Now imagine you heard someone saying some dumb shit like you are now saying while you were wondering if your doctor was going to be able to operate on you before it was too late as you sit waiting to get close enough to death to be saved…
Now imagine the Democrats over decades and decades pretending like they were going to fight to stop this kind of insane cruelty towards women, raised countless amounts of money on that narrative, and then proceeded to do next to NOTHING to stop the overturning of Roe V. Wade, to put the brakes on ths descent into fascism at all?
Now shut the fuck up.
You can do this thought experiment from the perspective of an immigrant who has watched the Democratic party totally adopt a rightwing framing on immigration and lean into dehumanizing immigrants, but they would talk about it in a nicer way… (I mean look at Biden’s record on immigration, it is downright conservative)… and imagine right now you hear someone saying something like you just did as the entire country collapses into a crisis over whether immigrants should be treated like human beings or not.
The place to fight was to never accept these horrendous framings that are so twisted they are violent threats to our loved ones and the people that make up our communities, shame on you for having the smallness of vision to see how badly the Democrats failed and are failing to meet this moment by and large.
No, there is so much more they could have done and they could be doing, and many of them aren’t because they are actually fine with this along with every damn Republican.
I voted Harris not Trump or not voting at all.
I think your anger is misplaced.
Ok, good! My point is imagine being someone scared, directly at bodily threat right now, and hearing someone else casually remark on the internet right now “well, why would we stop the Republicans when they are fucking up so bad?”.
This is the kind of thing that makes people hate you, people are DYING RIGHT NOW. Yes, I know that is because of the other side making things horrifically bad, but that doesn’t give you the right to be flippant about it, to not resist in any way you can, and most importantly not to consider the lives of people who can’t just wait it out as Republicans continue to destroy their lives and kill them.
People voted this in.
This is what the majority of the voters want so what good is resisting going to do now?
This is insane.
Even if this was actually what people wanted, how do you just roll over for fascism? What fucking bizarre outlook.
This isn’t tit for tat, left of center versus right of center boring politics. We’re not getting fair elections anymore, and it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
Do you only believe in a democracy if you agree with it?
If the majority vote is a suicide pact that they’re going to drag you into as well, do you just let it happen or do you fight?
Mind you, I’m not saying that Trump got in by any democratic process. It’s more the result of crime, propaganda and expoliting defects in an old, creaky system.
