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In most cases, yes. In the case of the most richest man in the world who doesn't have many redeeming qualities outside of his wealth, I would argue no.

It's laughable - LAUGHABLE - that anyone, especially the oligarchs, tech bros, and cryptoscammers, thought that Trump's "policies" would be beneficial to them. We're only 3 months into this thing, still have a long ways to go. How much worse can it get before Trump and his cronies are dragged out into the streets?

The issue is how this is being implemented. It takes longterm planning and commitment, not just a quick signing of the pen and expecting manufacturing jobs and plants to magically spring up overnight. There's ways to ease into it, but this approach is basically just setting the forest on fire without a proper plan of reforestation.

Trump himself doesn't really frighten me, he feels like a figurehead. It's what happens after he bites the dust. Maybe the Republican party will be fractured enough so that their power declines. But more than likely, they'll rally around another despot and continue toward the path that we've been heading down.

If you love him so much, why don't you marry him?

Just a token right wing buffoon. Nothing spiritual about him.

Is there any way out of this, or are we doomed to continue down this path?

Just like circumcision, it's an antiquated, vestigial social practice that is not relevant to the modern age.

I should know better than to have hope in the uneducated, lizard brained electorate, but the only thing we can hope for now is that the non-radicalized swing voters pull their heads out of their asses and rightfully condemn the Republican party. Russia has been an authoritarian country forever, basically. The US has been a democracy since its inception. People aren't going to like their rights, power, and money being impacted in the long run.

https://x.com/axios/status/1900216149675040801 Such efficiency!

Yes, but more importantly: r duh libz own3d yet?

So, business as usual

What would jeebus do?

What have you got against Canada? 😜 But for real, I'd join Canada's side, as an American. Hell, I'd join Mexico's side if he invaded them. This as a lifelong American patriot.

Lmao, baby Elon is feeling the burn to stage this publicity stunt. Too little too late, that's what you get.

Holy crap this got a chuckle out of me 😂 If I recall, quite a lot of not-so-unsubstantial moderate/swing voters went for Trump because, and I quote, "He'll be good for the economy." That's like saying that the loggers will be good for forestation. Or the poachers will be good for endangered animals. We live in a time period where all of the world's information is readily available at our fingertips. And we choose not to do some basic fucking research from credible sources. The irony isn't lost on me.

It's textbook late stage corrupt corporate capitalism. Crash the market, the rich swoop in and buy everything up, everything is now privatized and ran by the elite wealthy few. Never thought America would devolve into this dystopia in my lifetime, but here we are.

Ironically, it's not the hardcore MAGAts that I disdain the most. They're so far gone, so delusional and distorted that they're basically certifiably insane. The swing voters, on the other hand, are the ones most at fault. They're supposed to be the middle ground, the more rational side. What in the hell did they misunderstand about Trump and his blatantly obvious corruption? Trump basically plastered in bold, neon colors saying "Hey, I'm gonna cause chaos and fuck over the economy!" and they missed the cues.

I mean, who's to say that the world is better off now than when the dinosaurs ruled the planet? An asteroid really fucked up that dynasty.

This is what pisses me off the most. I have great 401K standing. I didn't vote for this. And yet I'm gonna suffer because of brain dead goat fuckers. I hope those who voted for him suffer the worst!

It's unconstitutional and against the law. But so is everything that the current national government is doing, so who cares about that minor deterrent? California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, etc. should exit the USA. They will have opposition in their own state for sure, but from what we've seen from the Republican town halls, previously red voters have their own frustrations.

America, unfortunately, is deeply fractured. I agree that this is not ideally what we desire for our own national security and power as a nation. But right now, we're despised on a global scale. We're facing economic disaster. 50% of Americans did NOT want to disrupt the global economy, so why should the world's fate be handed over to a few goat fuckers in North Dakota? We're due up for a systemic upheaval. We had every opportunity to push against this anti-democratic regime in the world's most powerful nation, with the most influential democratic processes. But we got seduced and suckered, and here we are isolated. We should not all have to deal with this. Those of us with some sense and intelligence should not have to align with this bastardized version of a pathetic, feeble USA.

Who cares? The Trump administration is "immensely self-destructive and pointless" as well. Blue states are basically governing themselves right now. They have the highest GDP anyways, so it's not like they're going to feel hurt the most compared to the welfare red states.

Trump is intelligent... in his own, sick and twisted way. It takes a certain level of competence to mass manipulate enough people on such a large scale. So, no wrong statement there. However, countering it with also calling him dumb was a very slick move. Probably something Trump and his goonies aren't used to, either.

Tariffs on Mexico and Canada go live tomorrow. Stocks are tumbling. America!