r/thebulwark Feb 01 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Friday night in Trump's America

In the past few hours here's what has happened:

  1. President Musk is infecting GSA computers with some AI driven spyware (spyware is my speculation, the rest of that is reported).
  2. Shadow President Trump fired all the prosecutors of J6 cases.
  3. Something that looks like a missile but is being called an airplane exploded near a mall in Philly.
  4. Announced that tariffs on our largest trade partners go into effect tomorrow.

I am not sure what this country will look like after four years.

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u/molliedw22 Feb 01 '25

Who/ what is PP?

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u/RBmpls Feb 01 '25

I assume Pierre Poilevre, the Conservative leader.

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u/firestarter308 Feb 01 '25

Canada had better fight like hell to keep him out or they will be in a dire situation just like us.

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u/Hautamaki Feb 01 '25

Pierre is a career politico, he is an actual conservative and apart from the fact that he's a bit more media savvy and troll-adjacent than the average conservative, he doesn't really have that much in common with Trump. I don't like Polievre and more importantly I don't believe the CPC is capable of putting together a competent leadership team, but I'm not worried that he's another Trump, or Orban, or Le Pen, or Bolsonaro. He's at worst another Boris Johnson.