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Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’
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He's basically an amalgamation of all the worst qualities of the average American. He represents more Americans than he doesn't. This is something we Americans need to come to terms with since a lot of us are in denial about that.
It's really surprising and disappointing how many of my countrymen are assholes.
yup, it really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone truly familiar with america as a whole, anyone not stuck in a bubble.
dumb as shit and the only reason for relevance is his daddy's name, yet completely convinced of his own superiority. that shit is about as universal as it gets in america. and it's the perfect setup to run a puppet government
the extra funny/sad part is that all it would take for dems or anyone else to beat em is just...be authentic, for once in their miserable lives. that's literally all it takes, but these coastal elites who have been trained their whole lives to be career politicians are completely incapable of that because they're barely human anymore.
had kamala stuck to her "free universal healthcare" shtick instead of flip-flopping immediately once her campaign advisors told her that was polling bad with their donors, she would have won.
americans were promised "hope and change" by Obama and all they got was more corporate kickbacks and pointless wars, establishment politicians seem convinced things can still "return to normal" (ie. unsustainable ratfucking) when trump is gone which is why they're doing the absolute minimum to stop him and co. now
personally...i think shit goes from bad to much worse when/if he croaks mid term.
Do they also have ivory towers?
81% of the population lives in coastal states. Are you saying inland politicians are more authentic? Or are you playing the classic Republican spiel that them city folk are the cause of all the problems? Because I haven't seen any evidence to back either claim.
The President isn't elected in a popular vote, and small states in the middle of the county have vastly more relative voting power than states on the coasts? It isn't that inland politicians are more authentic. It is that inland voters, who have double the voting power, choose to vote for people who ACT like salt of the earth, whether they are from a long-wealthy family or not. So if you act like a coastal elite, you are at a disadvantage compared to someone who acts like a cowboy even though they went to Yale. Or if you talk like a normal person and use complete sentences, you are at a disadvantage to someone who yells and screams about being a Christian even though they aren't.
So they believe one act and not the other, despite the behavior (and votes in congress) to the contrary. So we're back to lack of education being the problem, unless you're a conservative, in which case it's a benefit.
Pretty much, yeah. Millions of Americans still think the guy who would be cool in high school is a better leader than the biggest nerd in school. They vote for the guy they want to have a beer with.
Also, millions of Americans care more about saving their money in taxes over hurting other people.
Yeah, I had that conversation. Someone would rather pay more for healthcare than have someone who doesn't 'deserve' it have access.
...the US doesn't have proportional representation for presidential elections, nor for the House in most states considering how gerrymandered everyt is, so it doesn't matter where most of the people live.
until it does, how rural america sees you is all that matters. you want to win battleground states, you have to atleast be able to pretend to be an actual person.
doesn't matter what your positions are, becaude most US voters are just selfish anyway, be a complete piece of shit long as you come off as a "real" piece of shit.
Well said. The establishment learned nothing.
Maybe the mold will be broken I suspect false vote rigging indictments coming on dems fall 2027 in the lead up to the presidential election.
Might be able to retake it in the succession fight, but not with newsome running as status quo. Even if they did squeak a win past r cheating, denial, they would do nothing with it, be unpopular, hand it right back.
As if keeping things from getting as bad was acceptable, we need a New Deal.
Either we give it to them, or fake populist fascists will.
i do allow myself a smidge of optimism, with mamdani winning NYC's mayoral election.
if an open and honest socialist can win major seat in the most crooked/establishment heart of america, then progressives can win any seat in the country.
Mamdami is absolutely a template for how progressives can win nation wide. But the key is to treat it is as a toolkit, not something to be copy-and-pasted exactly. Mamdami wouldn't win in, say, Idaho, but there are people who can. They just have to keep hammering on the shit that matters to the average voter.
Biden and Kamala sank because they promised to keep doing exactly the same shit they'd been doing for the last four years, while refusing to acknowledge how much worse the average person's quality of life had gotten over the last four years. Mamdami won because he focused, hard on cost of living issues. Make that your core message and people will flock to you. Healthcare and groceries. That's what it's all about right now.
Not just progressive, we need reform candidates of all types, to fit their districts, cooperating in agreement on working people not getting screwed by the rich without consent.
And a citizenry organized on our own forums, maybe a Federated thing, where we can cooperate know what we agree on and organize into public and private groups to that effect, finding and grooming candidates that are not sold out cunts being one of those things we agree
i mean...there is no center in the US, all reform is "left" at this point i think. anyone running on a platform of "i want to actually spend your $ on something useful, instead of ratfucking it" is progressive in the US, that's how far the overton window has shifted to the right
The sentiment is widespread amongst conservatives as well however. We actually agree on a lot with a lot of of these people. And out and out Progressive will not be able to win rural Nebraska or whatever, but a different flavor of reformer could. And we could all agree but the rich should not be allowed to take our hard-earned freedoms and lower our quality of life, or dump their toxic byproducts in the ditch and poison us all. The rich captured both conservative and liberal parties.
She didn't really flip flop. She had a working plan to take steps toward universal healthcare/Medicare for all that acknowledged the political realities of instituting such a system with republican pushback, but the Dems genuinely do suck ass at messaging so that got lost in the sauce. Her platform never really shifted throughout the campaign, just the PR. Which yeah was a bad move but the fix was already in anyway.
You are pretending you do not know how politics is played, and excusing the dems refusal to play it, to be popular, to offer reform.
To LEAD the party. If 2024 did not wake you up nothing will. You will forever be a de facto tool of the rw preventing a party that can unseat these republicans.
Scratch a both sideser, find ruspublican agitprop. Every time.
Us military bootlicker.
I don't think 1/3 of the population counts as the average.
Says the guy emulating him.
Behold, the American in denial. I bet you vote third party too.