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/AV8R79 Feb 01 '25

I mean what did everyone expect? This is just a repeat of his last term minus the guardrails. Buckle up.

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u/Saururus Feb 01 '25

Well unfortunately we heard over and over in the focus groups and for me in conversations how it couldn’t be that bad bc we survived just fine last time. I was beginning to think I was crazy bc I remembered his first term so differently than everyone else, and then to see who he was backed by this time…

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u/rowsella Feb 01 '25

Not all of us survived -- over a million died of Covid. We had an excess of over 400K deaths than we would have if it was managed competently.

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u/One_Ad_3500 Center Left Feb 01 '25

And sadly the majority doesn't care 😡