If Nigeria kicks our ass I give up.
I know things were pretty fucked - I haven’t been a lifelong cynic for no reason - but still, it’s amazing how quickly snd completely the US has descended into screeching insanity.
And all at the hands of this demented lunatic, his psychopathic enablers and his legions of angry and stupid followers.
What a world…
And all of it because billionaires want to fuck children and not pay taxes.
Exactly, that’s all we want. Why is that so bad?
— billionaires
Not even the end of Y1
That’s the most astonishing part of it to me.
Reality has gone completely off the rails. Virtually every day, I read another account of blithering insanity, and painfully obviously dangerous and destructive insanity, from this administration, and then I watch as all of the official entities that are meant to check that sort of insanity just treat it as another day and another press release from another President’s office.
It’s like The Emperor’s New Clothes, only far far worse.
And all in less than a year…
The media is highly complicit in how they sanewash the most insane shit we’ve ever seen
People still doubling down on their actions in 24, not acknowledging that those very actions led to the orange idiot being elected. Again.
As long as there is no acknowledgement, we can expect a repeat of the very same in 28, possibly with the literal devil on the other side, while the voters smugly criticize the minutae of the more sensible candidate and sit it out.
Sometimes you put yourself aside in the interest of the country.
Oh look - it’s the DNC Defense Force, here to get an early start on guilt-tripping leftists who won’t vote for whichever shitty center right neolib hack the DNC will likely end up trying to foist on the voters at the behest of their corporate donors.
Fuck that. It’s not the voters’ responsibility to vote for a piece of shit just because they stink a little bit less than the other piece of shit - it’s the DNC’s responsibility to run candidates people actually want to vote for. And when they can’t (or more accurately won’t) even do that, then they and nobody else are responsible for the consequences.
And this is how we got to Trump, the other side acts like psychos but at least they have kind of a coherent football team mentality going on, even if they’re fucking ignorant racist sons of bitches. They don’t focus on the minutia of how they disagree with each other at every turn and spew vitriol and divide themselves like this. Nobody fucking hates the other factions on the left like a lefty. We are all so fractured and individual it’s a fucking joke. Like herding fucking cats, buddy. We should be able to use the anger from this moment to unite, but none of us can even decide what the fuck we should be uniting around. Meanwhile violent sociopathic pedophiles can corral enough morons to crash their way into the capitol whenever they want. We all have lofty ideals about the best possible form of government and the people to staff that government, but in order to have an operational government you have to have a team of people who are united. We can’t even agree on the morality of violence, much less point of finger in the direction we should go from here. Fucking frustrating homies.
Oh and…
The fact that this whole norion of a lack of lefty unity is complete bullshit was neatly demonstrated by leftist voters coming together to overwhelmingly support Zohran Mamdani.
And who didn’t support him? The fucking establishment neolib hacks - the exact same people who keep fucking us over by putting up shitty candidates then trying to guilt trip leftists into voting for them. We finally got a candidate we wanted and they couldn’t even be arsed to endorse him.
Enjoy the next 3 then. It’s not even what I’m implying. In fact, I’m positive you will - the fact that the two comments above sound the same tell me all I need to know.
At least flip your scripts once in a while.
Supporting genocide is not fucking “minutia.”
oh look, another votescold so thoroughly convinced that everything would have been fine if only everyone followed their campaign strategy, that they’re literally blaming anti-fascists for fascism. How about blaming actual fascists instead?
Ok, I’ll take the non raping, non narcissist, non child abusing, non twice impeached, non trying to save his fat lardy ass, non looking to use the office to take revenge on anyone and anything he disagrees with one, thanks.
votescold
touch grass
It’s unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.
Nigeria’s government has said armed groups target both Muslims and Christians, and U.S. claims that Christians face persecution do not represent the complex security situation and ignore efforts to safeguard religious freedom. But it has agreed to work with the U.S. to bolster its forces against militant groups.
At this point though, that’s just noise.
Unfortunately, the mass media is complicit in the insanity - they’ve abandoned principles, integrity, honesty and accuracy in pursuit of profit and/or the owners’ agenda, whichever might be deemed more important in a given organization.
That’s not to say that that story is necessarily false. It’s simply that if it’s a spin that serves someone’s agenda, as this obviously is, then it will be published somewhere, entirely regardless of whether it’s true or not, so the fact that it has been published means nothing at all.
Mainstream media is just billionaire media.
And the government is just billionaire government.
The only war is class war.
Sorry for being picky, just wanted to point out this bit of redundancy:
in pursuit of profit and/or the owners’ agenda
That agenda ultimately is and always will be profit for any company even a hundredth of that size, let alone a straight up monopoly.
Other than that, no notes 10/10
It’s accelerated a lot recently, but this has been in the works for a long time, and many people were ringing alarm bells.
I’m old. My first awareness of the world of politics was the Watergate hearings, so I actually lived through most of the run-up to this.
It’s certainly the case that the US has been moving more or less steadily toward plutocratic oligarchy since at least Nixon, and progress has definitely accelerated (though it really started accelerating with the Wall Street bailouts in the wake of the 2008 real estate bubble collapse and hasn’t really let up since), but that’s not really what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about the literal insanity of Trump and his sycophants. They aren’t merely corrupt tools of the plutocrats like so many past politicians - they’re deranged lunatics. That’s not hyperbole - it’s simple fact, plainly obvious to anyone who takes a step back and honestly looks at what they do and say.
It’s not that the US has accelerated toward autocracy in less than a year (though it has), because yes - that’s the direction it’s been headed for decades. The astonishing thing to me is that the US has effectively gone insane in less than a year.
If the US was a person, it’d be on a psych hold. And that’s something I wasn’t prepared for, even as cynical as I’ve always been.
I’m sorry, you think this sort of behavioral escalation is distinctively Trumpian? Go look up the military actions of Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc. This is the the US - nonstop mass murder, constantly, unending, brutal, insane. Trump is just rubber stamping what the military puts in front him. He isn’t planning these things out.
bOtH SiDeS eXaCtLy ThE sAmE. Bullshit like this is all I hear from people who want to suck Trump’s dick these days
Odd that you think believing that the US is a violent, terrible, evil, exploitative globe-spanning empire exporting death, destruction and poverty is equivalent to liking Trump.
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You can’t convince me the person that wrote this comment is not a Russian fucking troll. You’re going to lecture me and use the r word in the same comment? You really got your head up your ass buddy. I’m not deflecting shit, just not throwing every leader we’ve ever had into a trash bin out of hand. Equating Democratic leadership and conservative leadership right now is exactly the playbook of trump supporters that’s what I’m trying to say.
100% bot assault, it’s so painfully clear
ZERO US citizens would equate Obama and OrangeShitsHisPants, because only a Russian bot (or someone cosplaying a Russia bot) would see them as the same
Nobody sees them as the same, sure. Some people see Obama as worse. 30% of the country think Trump is doing great.
everyone I disagree with is a Russian troll
Real free thinker vibes
From the article:
“In November, CNN reported that the president’s initial threat against Nigeria came after he watched a Fox News segment about violence in the country.”
World police again!? Didn’t our diddler and chief explicitly say he was against this. What a moron.
The real morons are the people who voted for him thinking he’s the anti-war candidate.
The real morons are the people who vote
Just cause the cops retired doesn’t mean he can’t hit black kids…
Another Epstein diversion.
How old ARE the kids he fucks? 4? 5?
Put a blindfold on this mother fucker and tie him to a pole atop the Capitol Steps.
Draw and quarter
THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR IS PEACE
THE RADICAL LEFT IS SLAVERY
FOX NEWS IS STRENTHHAIL BIG BROTHER
Ok Hitler guy
The book reference is “1984”
“I really deserve a peace prize” > bombs people for Christmas
I hate this man so very much.
Don’t just hate him alone. Remember: he is a puppet and he is being used. Doesn’t excuse him, but see the bigger picture and don’t forget about the motherfuckers that surround him.
Other presidents had families they spent Christmas with, Donnie. This motherfucker spent it in some bunker ordering murder across the world
Would you spend time with Eric and Junior?
Well, if you have to choose…
And ranting dementedly on social media
Still angling for that Nobel Peace Prize…
The victims are the right color so he’s got a chance.
I’m just so grateful that all the previous presidents refused to do this and setup safeguards to ensure that Trump will be punished. \s \s \s
Previous presidents are only part of the equation.
The other part is having a society that isn’t stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.
The situation we find ourselves in is as much American’s fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American’s decisions.
The alternative was an outright jingoist who ran to the right of Trump on foreign policy, insisting that she would massively ramp up military spending and build “the most lethal military in the world.” Given the history of Democrats with how much Biden and Obama loved drone strikes, it is rather disconnected from reality to think that Democrats wouldn’t be bombing as well.
Foreign policy is something that Democrats and Republicans have always agreed upon, have always been warmongering parties and CNN and Fox News always come to agree on every war the US ever gets involved in. There literally wasn’t an option to avoid US imperialist wars.
Well, there are third parties, but if you talk about voting for third parties then everyone will claim a third party is secretly a vote for Trump and then try to paint you as equivalent to Trump supporter.
Morbid Elon fixed the election as he basically said he did.
It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.
It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.
European countries have a variety of electoral systems, and to my knowledge right wing parties are gaining significant vote share in all of them. Is there a country whose electoral system you see as best helping them deal with populist reactionary figures?
I am currently a proponent of ranked choice voting - Australia is the country I know of with the most widespread use example. They aren’t magically utopian, but it seems to be helping there. Always on the lookout to learn new things, though, so interested in pointers.
European countries have a mindset of colonialist countries that will try to reach for their roots. Unfortunately, that’s part of their political struggle. I actually like the way it is in my country, Mexico. You have one 6-year term only, you can’t have any re-elections, ever. It’s possible to ask for a referendum in the middle of the term, in case the person in chair is not doing as they promised. In the legislative power, we don’t have dinosaurs thanks to this, politicians can go from lower to higher level cameras in this bicameral legislative power, but that’s it. “No reelection” is ingrained with blood in our culture. Of course, electoral systems can only do so much against populist reactionaries, as you put it.
I like the idea of ranked choice voting a lot, but I don’t know how viable that is for the USA. They need change, urgently, and ranked choice voting would be as good as it gets in terms of change.
An people have done nothing to change it. That’s the point.
The people have done what they can. Politicians have failed to them. That’s why Trump was headed to last 4 years in power only, and then the Democrats handed him, on a silver plate, another presidential term by being essentially equal to their rivals. As I see it, the political class is the one failing, by showing the people there is not a real path for a leftist government once and again. Americans need brutal leftist politicians as they have brutal right-wing ones in spades. The people is eager to support a younger Sanders-like face, someone that won’t compromise the benefit of the majority’s views.
I’ll believe it when you’re a Republic again. Until then you’re all accomplises.
I live in a republic, don’t know what you mean.
Just fyi Nigeria has the 11th largest oil reserves in the worl.
There I was, 10,000 years ago, when Nigerian’s oil was stolen from the US by Nigerians. That oil is rightfully ours.
Every day I see a new headline and think, it’s almost like this guy is trying to instigate WWIII by any means necessary because he wants to kill us all.
You know how these fascists are obsessed with patriarchy and authoritarianism? Sometimes narcissists commit familicide before they off themselves.
Yardley, Wilson, and Lynes divide familicides into four groups: anomic, disappointed, self-righteous, and paranoid.
In this typology, the “anomic” killer sees his family purely as a status symbol; when his economic status collapses, he sees them as surplus to requirements. The “disappointed” killer seeks to punish the family for not living up to his ideals of family life. The “self-righteous” killer destroys the family to exact revenge upon the mother, in an act that he blames on her. Finally, the “paranoid” killer kills their family in what they imagine to be an attempt to protect them from something even worse.
I have Trump pegged as the anomic type. Possibly disappointed.
If dude wanted ww3, he would attack a fellow empire (russia, china, etc).
Instead he’s just another coward murdering the poorest people on earth.
Like any president.
Yup. The NPD family annihilator Anthony Todt pulled the same stunt but he was too chicken to fuck himself so he ended up at trial for the murder of his wife, and his three kids.
But the kicker was his testimony during. It’s the most narcissistic display I’ve ever seen. He tried to pin it all on his wife and her, get this, “lyme disease”. I know, wtf, as if that causes you to go on a murder spree on your family.
He was literally caught red handed with their putrified corpses still in the house.
Trumps says he killed ‘ISIS scum’ who terrorized Christians in Nigeria
- When will he tackle MAGA scum for the same crimes within the US?
- Does he demonstrate that his magical weapons kill only ISIS, excluding from harm, any non-ISIS Muslims and Christians?
- Has he set a date to annex the oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria?
oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria
Oh. I thought the choice of country was strange. Now I understand.
We only need consult the list of countries by proven oil reserves to identify the next attack.
Has he set a date to annex the oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria?
Pretty sure this has been ongoing for decades.
