U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the United States will begin to strike drug cartels on land in Mexico, claiming the groups control the country, during a television interview. Speaking Thursday night during an interview on Fox News’ Hannity, Trump said the United States has reduced drug trafficking by sea and will now focus on land […]
He’s openly talking about just suspending the midterms. So if he does that, I expect he’d suspend 2028 too. At this point, I don’t think they’re expecting to let go of power at all, ever.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, “in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
I personally think it doesn’t really matter if the Democrats win (I am not American, but I lived there for multiple years and have travelled extensively).
I can’t imagine the Democrats doing anything substantive to address criminality and corruption (which is arguably the root cause of Trump’s rise).
This is true of both party leadership (that always avoid prosecution of criminal elements) and much of the party’s electorate who are too well off to risk rocking the boat and generally do not see real anti-corruption reform as a priority.
Consider the fact that Meta was found to have gained $16 B (10% of their 2024 revenue) via a premeditated policy of gaining commissions from fraud on their platform. They even developed a “playbook” to manage this process; so they knew what they were doing.
It is comical to suggest that the Democrats will do anything beyond a nominal fine and asking Zuckerburg to promise to not get caught the next time he runs a scheme (if even that)
When a genuine desire to fight criminality would require Zuckerbeg and all senior employees being locked up for multiple decades while having all their asset seized (Zuckerburg directly profited from this mass scale fraud scheme via his ownership stake in Meta).
One can look at Obama’s inaction against financial oligarchy in the late 2000s to predict the behaviour of the US centre-right should they win elections. Funnily enough Obama is once again pushing his shallow and meaningless “What’s needed now is courage” rhetoric.
For everyone in the world that believes in liberal democracy, human rights and opposes corruption, it is reasonable to assume that corruption and criminality in the US will not be addressed any time soon. I hope I am wrong though, but I wouldn’t count on it.
There are things that, once broke, can’t be mended. I doubt that a new “moderate” US president would be capable of undoing half the mess the Big Orange Turd commited.
The next democratic president will be blamed as always, clean up the mess, and the subsequent republican president will get the credit.
He’s openly talking about just suspending the midterms. So if he does that, I expect he’d suspend 2028 too. At this point, I don’t think they’re expecting to let go of power at all, ever.
Why would they? The biggest consequenses would involve a few democrats writing some very serious signs and maybe even write a stern tweet.
I personally think it doesn’t really matter if the Democrats win (I am not American, but I lived there for multiple years and have travelled extensively).
I can’t imagine the Democrats doing anything substantive to address criminality and corruption (which is arguably the root cause of Trump’s rise).
This is true of both party leadership (that always avoid prosecution of criminal elements) and much of the party’s electorate who are too well off to risk rocking the boat and generally do not see real anti-corruption reform as a priority.
Consider the fact that Meta was found to have gained $16 B (10% of their 2024 revenue) via a premeditated policy of gaining commissions from fraud on their platform. They even developed a “playbook” to manage this process; so they knew what they were doing.
It is comical to suggest that the Democrats will do anything beyond a nominal fine and asking Zuckerburg to promise to not get caught the next time he runs a scheme (if even that)
When a genuine desire to fight criminality would require Zuckerbeg and all senior employees being locked up for multiple decades while having all their asset seized (Zuckerburg directly profited from this mass scale fraud scheme via his ownership stake in Meta).
One can look at Obama’s inaction against financial oligarchy in the late 2000s to predict the behaviour of the US centre-right should they win elections. Funnily enough Obama is once again pushing his shallow and meaningless “What’s needed now is courage” rhetoric.
For everyone in the world that believes in liberal democracy, human rights and opposes corruption, it is reasonable to assume that corruption and criminality in the US will not be addressed any time soon. I hope I am wrong though, but I wouldn’t count on it.
I personally don’t see why people think we will have elections again when the people in charge have said over and over that we won’t
Because we always have? Because of tradition?
How has that ideal been working out lately?
There are things that, once broke, can’t be mended. I doubt that a new “moderate” US president would be capable of undoing half the mess the Big Orange Turd commited.