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Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now: We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.

What links all these things? In addition to the massive human toll they’re inflicting, they suggest that Trump is about to pull off a unique trifecta. He is squandering the advantage he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Call me when he literally free fell from the empire state building

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Nooo that will spread the nurgles rot that's been cultivating in that mass of i dare not say.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Is it though? He still has his MAGAtards no matter what he does.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Love that rash on his neck

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

As a non-american, I don't see it. I would like to see it, but I just don't. I've lost all hope for the USA, while some folk in USA have lost all sense of reality and basic human decency. Basically he could admit on live TV he has raped little girls and there would still be a Fox debate going on: "well, maybe that's not a bad thing, maybe Trump is entitled to that".

No hope. At this point we can only hope he drops dead soon.

[–] CatalpaRed@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

I agree. He is actually The Emperor. He is GEOTUS, and it doesn’t matter what he is accused of or what he does. He will do whatever he wants (be it coerced or not), the establishment will go along with it, and the people will acquiesce.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Please no.

Trump, for all his sins, is kind of predictable. He's a great salesman but a terrible liar. He's not that clever, but within his information sphere, in his head, and beyond his self enrichment, I think he's really trying to help. He believes he's trying to help. And I think the establishment around him is kinda taking advantage of him.

J.D. Vance is scary.

He's unemotional in that "sociopath" kind of way. He's Harvard educated, and smart like the Devil. And the ideations of the people he's in bed with are way more scary than Trump. Vance will will be way more "effective" than Trump.

No, thank you.

I'll take 3 more years of Trump any day, and am begging for his heart to hold out so Vance doesn't get an easy slide into the presidency. As a plus, Trump's antics are going to fracture his base, wheras if he died today, they would consolidate power around him like he's freaking Jesus Christ on the cross.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe Fox would say that Trump is blessed and he has god given grace to make all of those rapes?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago

dumb lib garbage

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not to mention the fact the child rapist is referred to more than 30,000 times in just the released Epstein files, and more than a million times in the rest of them.

Maggots love the fact that one of their own is in the White House, the rest of us not so much.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's bipartisan. The more dangerous sociopaths are those more skilled at masking. MLK Jr called it decades ago.

Eta: https://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/sociopath/high-functioning-sociopaths-and-the-damage-they-cause

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Saying it's bipartisan isn't wrong, but it's a little like saying "Black people are racist against black people, too."

Like, sure. That can be true. But is the real problem not the white supremacists?

This comparison isn't a stretch... In fact, they're the same picture. The GOP is a cancer. This said, the democrats as they stand today are not a solution to the entire mess here. We need minority democrats like Bernie and AOC, or something else entirely.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm so very tired of hearing notices that Trump's in "free fall," newsletter headlines that he's had "a very bad day," headlines saying person or other "slams" him, and he just keeps on destroying things, killing people, directly harming my country and others. He outright passes off the deaths of people in Iran with "it's war, people are gonna die," and until something directly stops him I will find it impossible accept told things are going badly for that ABSOLUTE IMBECILE, and anyone who ever supported him, including basically my entire family. UGH.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a strategy to rid the world of Trumpism. Confidence in Trump is like confidence in the stock market: it doesn't reflect reality, it shapes reality. Trump has strengths and weaknesses. Talking about the fact that Trump is a cruel piece of shit and an autocrat (the truth) actually helps Trump because his supporters wanted a cruel piece of shit in the whitehouse! Talking about the fact that Trump is a stupid, cowardly incompetent (also the truth) hurts Trump more. When Trump polls badly, shout it from the rooftops! It's true, and it makes him look weak. Same goes for any blunder or chaos in his admin: point it out, celebrate it, and repeat, repeat, repeat. People think the Epstein Files are not hurting Trump because they didn't immediately topple him: friends, it is eating at his support like acid. As Trump proved, all you have to do to make his supporters believe something is to say it often and loudly.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure your logic works? The cruel POSes voted for this, sure, but there are more non-Trump voters than people who voted for him. If you follow your argument to its logical conclusion you can't ever say he's doing an awful thing because terrible people with cheer him on.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I think they’re strategies for different audiences. i don’t mean to imply that we shouldn’t write about trump’s crimes. we definitely should! what i mean is that an approach based on morals won’t work on people who voted for trump to own the libs. no andrew tate fan will abandon trump just because he did something terrible. for them you need antihype: show people that he is an incompetent whose presidency is in free fall. what looksmaxxing proud boy wants to be associated with a loser? sure, those guys might never swing democrat, but if some of them stay home on election day due to lack of enthusiasm, it could make a difference. trump can be defeated by margins - peel away a bit of support here, a bit of support there, and … down he goes.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh this, I can’t stand YouTubers for this.

“Trump dealt devastating death blow bombshell in court”

Sure, sure,… but what will you say when something actually happens to change all this shit?

[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Recommend DeArrow extension to drastically reduce YouTube clickbait. PeerTube of course is preferable to YouTube but DeArrow makes YouTube tolerable

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

According to media, he's been on the edge of political disaster his entire successful career.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's always been disaster, but he gets propped up and retains power because the fascists in the government won't remove him

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

And that's his success.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Privatize gains, socialize disaster.

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[–] cnirrad@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can it really be in a free fall when it's been at rock bottom?

Oh, of course it can. Everyday is a new low.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His presidency is declining every day when a few hundred Maggot cultists have those leopards snack on their faces. One or two of those regrets their vote but would still vote for him again.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago

How do you know that when literally every single interview with a magat who has had their face eaten and gone bankrupt has said "I would vote for home again"?

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

it’s been at rock bottom?

It's not at rock bottom until the US collapses as a country and Trump gains the dubious honor of being the last president of the United States.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Waiting for that smack into the ground.

Good thing Gallup stopped doing presidential approval polls JUST in time for this, otherwise we would be getting objective scientific measurements of how pissed people are.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

None of that matters. The rulers are the ultrarich and they are pleased. The mouth speaking for them is interchangable, depending on the mood of the masses.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It is but there is no bottom.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.

What? How did this happen without me hearing about it at all?

First, thank fuck she's gone. But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?

Markwayne (somehow, that's his actual name) Mullin.

He's perhaps best known as the senator who challenged a union leader to a fistfight during a Senate hearing.

He's also a former MMA fighter (3-0-0), loves violence against women, and hates limits on profiting from holding political office.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

A community college graduate (Construction Technology) with zero experience doing anything that has to do with that job or anything like it. We're in for a new kind of Trump dumpster fire.

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[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Republicans typically lead on the economy (.. snip ..)

heh sure they do, it's certainly not like the economy tends to do worse under republican admins

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

props to Murdoch's propaganda empire, for somehow convincing the majority of americans (rich too, via WSJ, not just MAGA idiots) that republicans are actually good for the economy.

their entire modus operandi for the last 40-50 years has been that of disaster capitalists, purposefully collapsing the economy to buy up distressed assets on the cheap

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

The problem though is that he's insane, so his response is to move to expand his powers and crush dissent, and all too much of the rest of the corrupt and compromised political establishment - the vaunted checks and balances - are, if not actively assisting him, conveniently failing to stop him.

Popularity only matters in a democracy.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So “score” is 20.

Killing scores if children would be twenties of children.

165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.

Also Noem isn’t fired, she’s being shuffled.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.

But it's also not "hundreds", which is the next step up from "scores". And anything more accurate would require more than one word to convey.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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