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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 80 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Next american president will be like a janitor cleaning upp all his bullshit.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope we get there. But even that would be a return to status quo.

The typical cycle is democrats come in, do crisis control, enact stable (if lacking ambition) policies and leadership, and at year four or eight, the voters have forgotten the crisis and... Promptly vote back in republicans, who spend the next years systematically dismantling all progress until we're back in crisis. Repeat. Happening since at least 1992.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

what democrats have done anything progressive? all i see from everything post ...Eisenhower... is completely unabashed balls deep ratfucking galore by everyone.

i guess we don't call people removed or retard anymore, cool. hardly seems worth handing over all media companies to 4-5 people who coordinate to throw any and all elections whichever way they want.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i'm disabled. the ADA cut my medical costs from twice my annual income to two thirds my annual income.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

cool, so your still just 1 medical emergency away from bankruptcy. barely able to save anything towards the future regardless.

meanwhile, you and all the other taxpayers are subsidizing record level profit taking for the US healthcare/pharma/insurance industry, costing the public more $ than literally every other countrie's healthcare for zero material gain over a single-payer/universal system.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

so your still just 1 medical emergency away from bankruptcy. barely able to save anything towards the future regardless.

i love when people don't know who they're talking to. i have that emergency twice a year.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

bundle of sticks

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

From the outside it was like a blame game, especially with the debt, say the otjers make debt, get voted on and create massive debt and crash/strain the market/economy until the otjers get back in to fix it somehow(you can't just pay back those kind of sums without oeople feeling it, so they must be onboard, which americans never seems to be).

Maybe it's gone so far something peoductive will come out of it (like people figuring out politics are important), but I'm not holding my breath.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Next? Shit, I'm still under the belief that by 2027, this will become a full on dictatorship.

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's secret police kidnapping people in the streets, he talks about running for another term, human rights are being rolled back constantly. They are actively rigging future elections and the Supreme Court and congress are giving him more and more power.

We're already there.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you think you're supposed to do in this situation? Get rid of the fascists.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay. Then do nothing and let it happen I guess. Those are your two options. Do something about it, or do nothing and let it happen.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A real "draw the rest of the fucking owl" comment

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Not my responsibility to fix your weaponized helplessness. Do something about it or whine impotently. No one is coming to save you.

[–] JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Next american president

lol. lmao, even

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's not going to happen. Everything gets left in place unless it specifically blocks some new agenda moving forward. Guantanamo is still a prison.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I hope they bring in a prosecutor instead of a janitor...

Gotta fill those prisons Trump is building and I have seen plenty of illegal behavior.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

(Emphasis mine)

Does this mean he's dead? Is it time for me to do a jig?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago

No, the performing arts are dead

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I like the interview where he acts shocked about the renaming, but he is literally the chairman of the board he hand picked.

He then went in to say how the board members were the best and highest most esteemed people in the country.

I wish MAGA could read, they would be very upset if they actually learned what he has been up to, Epstein , tariffs, wars, all things they supposively were totally against.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope he meets a similar end.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I personally hope he chokes to death on a Fillet-O-Fish sandwich and shits himself on live TV.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

this another one of those "congress needs to actually name it this but we're going to pretend until he's dead" things like the department of ~~defense~~ "₩Ⓐℜ"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate that everyone, including the media, have just agreed to give this piece of shit a pass for literally everything he does

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

me too, but let's not generalize that much. how many people on this website have really been given an opportunity to smack a bitch ass

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

They didn't change the name, they vandalized the building. Only an act of Congress can change the name.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago

America is a pastiche

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] PhatalFlaw@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jesus H. Trump-Christ - FTFY

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

More like TRUMP Jesus H Christ. He can’t stand playing second fiddle to anyone or God. Gotta have first billing, Donny!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

greasy don?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've always wondered what the H stood for.

Homeboy?

HillthatIdieon?

Hank?

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It stands for Harold.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name...

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.........wouldn't that be Gods middle name? Jesus was the son.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The father, the son and a ball of fire are all the same guy

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's a hot mess .. because of the fire .. and time travel or something ..

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you just reply to yourself? And he's the hot mess???

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ha haaaa nice one

[–] human@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Or as Sean Connery would say, JesusH Christ

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope the next Democratic candidate doesn’t run entirely on reversing all this cosmetic shit. Liberals would probably elect the person who says “I’ll erase any trace of Trump if I take office”.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I hope they don't run on it, but I hope they quietly do it.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

So, rename the Epstein Files to "The Trump Epstein Files".