There are folks on this forum that live in $1 million dollar homes with a matching garage experiencing heaven on earth oblivious to hell it causes for most of us. Americans will always make this decision every single time.
UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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There are folks on this forum that live in $1 million dollar homes with a matching garage experiencing heaven on earth oblivious to hell it causes for most of us. Americans will always make this decision every single time.
Damn that’s a good point
This should be expected. With all the shit this man has done so far, I don’t know why this isn’t the expectation rather than a possibility.
I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
Wow I didn’t know that
“Murica’s most trusted news source”
What if he’s the reason abott can’t walk anymore? Lord Jesus.
Smart kid.
Why would Tebow randomly bring this up? LOL
Crazy how those Jews look Arab like Palestinians yet they trash them. Reminds me of Dominicans shitting on Haitians but look the same. That bitch could pass for a sand cracka
Happy womens international day.
Where’s the lie
Yet, some will get offended when an Iranian military commander says "U.S. bases are ghost towns".
This Administration treats U.S. soldiers far worse than any truthful comment from Iran, perceived as "shade", mocking" or "talking shit" ever could. Announcing deaths as "accidents" to possibly void benefits, then throwing bodies in tightly packed cargo vans like disposables is on par with the President's statement of "suckers and losers" concerning military personnel.
Despite the U.S. and Israel taking HEAVY losses, some folks still believe in G.I.J.O.E. and the Apprentice style "regime change".
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This is all a money grift.
These fools staked private and public funds shorting the oil markets and then bomb the shit out of Iran to collect/reap rewards
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