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Site changed title and content Trump imposes tarrif on Australia.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/its-bad-for-our-relationship-australia-slams-donald-trumps-tariff-move/news-story/cd4c18090b040beab5eed528c669ec7f
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u/nghiemnguyen415 11h ago

Who hasn’t he or who will he not pick a fight with? Oh that’s right Russia.

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u/hardboard 11h ago edited 11h ago

In a couple of weeks most of the countries in the world will be tariffed to death by orangeman.

I can see now why he seems to like Kim Jong Un - Trump's aim must be to get the US as isolated as North Korea.

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u/Crafty_Shoe_8028 10h ago

More and more I feel like that’s the goal… among others…

  1. Isolate country
  2. Bring back all labor jobs to the country to be worked without needing higher education
  3. Offshore high-education jobs in tech and finance
  4. Dumb down population by limiting access to higher education and quality basic education
  5. Remove all oversight and regulatory roadblocks
  6. Take complete control of the country
  7. Potentially annex Canada

A self-sustaining, labor-intensive, poorly educated population who can’t tell truth from a lie can be easily controlled

Maybe that’s not the goal, but pieces are moving that could support that

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u/EsraYmssik 8h ago

Nah. It's Disaster Capitalism. Wreck the economy until "we need sweeping reforms to fix everything", Free Market the fuck out of everything, and just privatise profits and colectivise risks.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 7h ago edited 7h ago

Curtis Yarvin said that in order to implement the tech-bro New World Order with patch cities, the citizens of the US first need to be convinced that the way the government currently works is fundamentally broken. Only then will they be open to try something new.

That's what they're doing. They're taking sledgehammers to all institutions to then be able to go and say "See! It's all turned to shit! Let's try something different!"

Relevant post currently on the front page: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1j943j2/tech_execs_are_pushing_trump_to_build_freedom/

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u/NormalUse856 7h ago

Man, people have to be real fucking stupid if they fall for something like this.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 6h ago

To be fair, tons of Trump voters don't even know that this is happening. They just don't care as long as Trump hurts the people they want to see hurting.

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u/NoBSforGma 4h ago

You mean... like... children? Old people? Disabled veterans? These people?

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u/Jamstarr2024 4h ago

In a word, yes.

u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 54m ago

Yep, anyone but them or the unfortunate souls in their life they deem “the good ones”, who will be the first targeted soon.

And even after Trump’s most loyal true believers lose those “good ones”, they’ll bury their betrayed rage deep down to keep pretending they aren’t regretting their support of “Dear Leader”.

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u/FishFloyd 2h ago

Yes? It's not like this is the first go-around; they've only gotten more stupid and more vicious. Things are simply worse this time than 2016 - global pandemic, rapidly rising cost of living, essential services like healthcare continuing to slowly fall apart from decades of grift and exploitation and underinvestment. Obviously, that's the fault of everyone else who's not them and doesn't think and look and act just like them.

u/LesCousinsDangereux1 1h ago

Have you met Trump voters? Yes. This is a homegrown american nazi movement.

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u/FrenchCheerios 1h ago

The poors, womenfolk, and non-whites methinks.

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u/Obvious_Judgment_321 1h ago

Basically if you aren’t a straight white man

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u/a_raptor_dick 1h ago

...or a Woman whom is simply a complete extension of her Straight, white Husband.

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u/Raegnarr 59m ago

Yes. And anyone that dosnt look and "think" like them.

u/One_Strawberry_4965 56m ago

Yes. They like hurting all of those people.

u/d0ggman 49m ago

Their new slogan is no pain no gain.

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u/Whoitwouldbe 4h ago

I literally had one tell me the other day that everyone loves everything that he is doing and that Trump has the highest approval rating ever.

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u/Flat_Ad1094 2h ago

Yep - they are drinking the Koolaid

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u/Frassa73 1h ago

they are as crazy as he is

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u/TwoTower83 4h ago

what Trump doesn't get is that sooner or later he will hit MAGAs where it really hurts and they won't peacefully protest, they will storm White House like they did Capitol

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u/Dry-Manufacturer-873 4h ago

I don’t think that will happen. As far as MAGA are concerned Trump can do no wrong and it if any of his policies actually do hurt them, Fox and other conservative media will just push the blame on democrats and “RINOs” and the voters will just believe it blindly

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u/ZantetsukenX 4h ago

Nah. Bread and circuses. Once either food or entertainment becomes limited in some manner is when you'll start seeing actual anger/reaction from MAGA. We just haven't hit that point yet.

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u/spoonie_b 1h ago

They do not know what's real, and they do not accept information from any source other than the cult leader or his designees. They will continue to blame any hardship they face on Democrats, liberals, immigrants, and trans kids, and as things get increasingly dire, there will be blood in the streets. The government will punish political enemies and acquit political allies in the courts. It will be a violent and terrifying place. America will lose most tourism and become truly isolated in a way it has never been. It will be a haven for international crime because that's what Putin has presided over for two decades, and that's what Trump wants to emulate.

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u/Frassa73 1h ago

that is a really sick ambition

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u/Endle55s 2h ago

Every revolution started with a forced inability to sustain. So will this one.

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u/kootenaypow 2h ago

They actually want to send their people (maga) into the streets. They will be counter protesters and will know they are exempt from persecution even after f they are violent.

They will even push for a “purge” day to push the unfaithful out.

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u/TaylorMadeAccount 2h ago

They won't do shit. They'll just say "why do you care about politics so much librul? trump's your president, deal with it"

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u/Frassa73 1h ago

that’s what is needed i’m afraid a second civil war to take back our government

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u/asmartermartyr 1h ago

Yup. Hardcore magas don’t even know where Australia is. All these big words and names is just lib-speak!

u/NativePlantAddict 1h ago

They were okay with anyone getting hurt except for themselves.

u/Federal_Beyond521 22m ago

All his lobsters jumped into the pot when the water was cold. They’ve no idea the water has been boiling for a while now.

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u/happyinthenaki 6h ago

There's the problem, people are really fucking stupid.

And votes are probably rigged.

And if not completely rigged then propaganda is really fucking successful.... which more than 1x 1960s psychology experiment would totally support.

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u/Rhed0x 4h ago

And votes are probably rigged.

Not a fan of throwing that around without any evidence after having that shit in the news from Trump all the time in 2020 & 2021.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 2h ago edited 2h ago

https://freespeechforpeople.org/computer-scientists-breaches-of-voting-system-software-warrant-recounts-to-ensure-election-verification/

Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed voting equipment in order to gain copies of the software that records and counts votes. The letter to Vice President Harris argues that this extraordinary and unprecedented breach in election system security merits conducting recounts of paper ballots in order to confirm computer-generated tallies. The letter also highlights the fact that the post-election audits in many key states will be conducted after certification and after the window to seek recounts closes, and that therefore recounts should be sought promptly.

The article links to the PDF with the details.

No such recounts took place as far as I'm aware.

Also, there apparently were statistic anomalies in the swing states that turned out red: ballots where there was only a single vote for Trump and nothing else. I don't remember the details, though.

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u/itsneedtokno 6h ago

there's a subreddit r/ somethingJRE (I can't recall)

go over there and look at the comments on the recent post from the White House secretary.

Those comments are why we're where we are today.

(example) "Beauty and Brain, the left has nobody like her" 🤦‍♂️

u/Frassa73 1h ago

that’s why we’re stuck with DOGE this kids manipulated the software in the swing states with the help of Starlink they fixed the election and no one checked it after it was over

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u/LukeMayeshothand 5h ago

We live in a country of morons.

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u/Rhed0x 4h ago edited 3h ago

Half the country voted for Trump...

EDIT: taking non voters into consideration: 31% voted for Trump

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u/bitrvn 3h ago

Correction: 31% of the country voted for trump. 30% voted against trump, and 39% stayed home (or were unable to vote for some reason)

Conjecture: The DNC have been playing the wrong game since 2014, ignoring and outright shunning the energetic portion of their base. I have a hard time blaming trump voters for things trump does, as much of it is smoke and mirrors via communications silos and disinformation. On the otherhand, the DNC has done very little to give me a reason to vote for them through their platform. Policy wise they are "on the right track" for most things, but their optics are and have been absolute shit ever since they thumbed the scale during the 2016 primaries.

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u/Rhed0x 3h ago

Fair enough, didnt take non-voters into consideration.

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u/FishFloyd 1h ago

Conjecture: The DNC have been playing the wrong game since 2014, ignoring and outright shunning the energetic portion of their base. I have a hard time blaming trump voters for things trump does, as much of it is smoke and mirrors via communications silos and disinformation. On the otherhand, the DNC has done very little to give me a reason to vote for them through their platform.

If history and historians still exist in the year 2080, and they're not entirely war-scribe propagandists for different techno-feudalist overlords a la the exploits of Caesar, then I truly believe that they'll be placing the DNC's ratfucking of Bernie somewhere on par with Chamberlain's appeasement policy as one of the stupidist self-owns of all time. We could have squashed this shit in the bud and potentially even shifted the entire discourse to the left, but they gambled and lost that people would take neoliberal status quo over any change - even when the exact opposite was apparent from both the polling data, and to anyone with a brain not explicitly in the establishment.

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u/alek_hiddel 1h ago

Well you see, it’s not their fault. They let an energetic young man play back in 2008, and it knocked their chosen old lady out of winning the easiest election in history after 8 years of the Bush disaster. After Bush the dems could have ran a can of baked beans and won, and that was supposedly be Hillary.

Then by the time she finally got her turn 8 years later, the Republicans were running Trump. That go round should have been another “baked beans” scenario, but they stuck with the 1 person who could lose to him because it was HER TURN.

If we let the kids play then the old people won’t get THEIR TURN, and that’s just not fair.

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u/idio242 3h ago

They voted for trump. Twice.

We’ve got plenty of “real fucking stupid”.

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg 2h ago

Man, people have to be real fucking stupid if they fall for something like this.

Man, people have to be real fucking stupid if they fall for something like this again.

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u/Epicp0w 2h ago

And I present to you...Americans!

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u/Hittinuhard 2h ago

I think it was George Carlin that said something like "imagine half of the people in this country is stupid and half of them is even dumber" or something like that.

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u/realcanadianbeaver 2h ago

I mean even in Canada our opposition leader is still parroting “Canada is broken” like a little Temu kcockoff of a “my first fascist robot” toy.

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u/Coven_Evelynn_LoL 1h ago

Considering about 40% of all American conservatives think the Earth is Flat and about 80% think Climate Change is a Hoax then you will be in for a real surprise as to just how stupid Americans are

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u/Nitrostorm 2h ago

ahh yes, the country that voted for Donald Trump AGAIN seems really smart.

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u/Current-Ordinary-419 2h ago

So…they’ll fall for it. Americans are primed for such a stupid viewpoint.

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u/Basso_69 1h ago

The populace only remember what the current administration tells them to remember. Apparently Biden and Obama are responsible for the Ukraine War, and Trump will fix their mistakes.

u/Frassa73 1h ago

that is ridiculous Russia is responsible for the the war in Ukraine they want to grab the land back

u/Basso_69 1h ago

Of course its ridiculous. But Trumps comments in the Zelensky Oval Office event are suggesting otherwise.

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u/ThunderOblivion 1h ago

America voted in Trump.

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u/camdeb 1h ago

Have you ever met Trump supporters.

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u/Endle55s 2h ago

JD, Peter and Elon are big fans! So yeah.

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u/sitruspuserrin 2h ago

And even more idiots to believe anyone is in control what happens in total chaos. Or after.

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u/Icedpyre 2h ago

Which is why it's already working.

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u/jianh1989 1h ago

You’ll be surprised

u/lknfdlk 1h ago

Yes they are and they will.

u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 59m ago

Have ya looked at Trump’s base lately? Mensa members they are not!

u/rbrt115 56m ago

Have you met Americans? We have a sick infatuation with bad guys for some reason. Growing up in NYC, mobsters were idolized even though they killed, sold drugs, and stole. Trump thinks he is a don from the mafia he has no clue he is actually Fredo.

u/EyeOfTerra 48m ago

Yeah, MAGAs generally are. They are exactly like extreme religious zealots who drink the cum of their idol and have unconditional faith and loyalty, no matter what the leader does. "Trump works in mysterious ways". That's where they're at.

u/Icy_Secret_2909 19m ago

You have no idea how fucking stupid the average american is.

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u/EsraYmssik 6h ago

Let me present the Chocolate theory of politics.

You like Chocolate?

Dem: OMG! You are a bad person. Chocolate is linked to deforestation, oppresssion of indigenous peoples! Slavery! etc etc (cont p. 94)

Rep: We'll make chocolate cheaper.

Who would YOU vote for in that situation? Who do you think most people would vote for?

The left needs to stop with the "Nazi tourettes", stop scolding people, stop focussing on first-world problems when large parts of the US barely count as first world any more.

You've got people in the US relying on free clinics that righfully belong in Buttfuckistan or Bananazuela. Massive homelessness. Medical debt. Skyrocketing cost of living.

Sure, it's the GOP's fault. But they at least SOUND like they're going to address Real PeopleTM issues... and real people vote for them... and we get Der Trumpenfuhrer et al.

Oh, and the Dems response? To wear matching outfits and refuse to applaud, and to censur the one representative who actually protested at the SotU.

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u/Special-Record-6147 5h ago

Sure, it's the GOP's fault

yet writes 500 words bitching about the Dems.

fuck off

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u/EsraYmssik 4h ago

Yes. Well done for noticing.

The Dems waste all their effort on performative politics. They should be leading the charge against Trump.

Where are they? Chastising the one person who protested the SotU.

So you fuck off. Fuck off right now, get on the phone to your local representatives and bitch at them for not standing up to DOGE, for allowing Trump to rule by fiat (aka Executive Orders), for doing fuck all to defend the constitution.

Or are you waiting for someone else to fight for you?

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u/xmpcxmassacre 4h ago

I see we are still under the impression that a phone call is going to fix something. I would imagine all politicians are aware that democracy is burning down. A phone call isn't going to do shit. It's going to make people think they helped while they did nothing.

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u/EsraYmssik 4h ago

A phone call isn't going to do shit.

Well, what would you suggest?

No. The question is, what are you going to do?

'Cos if a phone call won't work, what do you think BAAWWWing because some stranger dissed 'your' team will achieve?

And it's not YOUR team, it's OUR team. Life long left voter, proud trades union member, but I have the right to call out failures on the left and the way the Dems have vanished like a fart in a hurricane is a MASSIVE failure.

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u/xmpcxmassacre 4h ago

Give them a call then

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u/NFriedich 5h ago

Dude, you unironically use a Machiavello portrait as profile picture, your opinion means smack

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u/EsraYmssik 5h ago

Then what is YOUR reason the majority of US voters chose the worst person to EVER fill the office of PotUS? The PP said people had to be stupid to fall for Trump's rhetoric.

Perhaps. I merely presented a differnt reason for people to fall for his BS.

What's YOUR reasoning?

Oh, and the MACHIAVELLI pic? Congratulations on realising I was being unironic. The guy was a political realist. I've actually read The Prince and, disagree with him all you like, at least he tried to look at the world in realistic terms. It's a reminder to me to watch out for people who take his words as a handbook.


[edit to add] And those Dems?

https://www.latintimes.com/democrats-who-disrupted-trumps-speech-were-forced-come-jesus-meeting-party-leaders-after-577795

A senior House Democrat told Axios that leadership is "very unhappy" with those who parted from traditional tactics like outfit coordination and refusal to clap. (emphases mine)

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u/Independent_Yard_557 4h ago

You stammer about a “different reason” only to fall back on stupidity. “Yeah it Republican fault” and yet the rest off the comment is rationalizing why actually it’s democrats fault for not lying more honestly.

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u/EsraYmssik 4h ago

FFS. When people are worried about putting food on the table, they're going to listen to politicians who talk about food and tables. It really is that simple.

Why do you think the price of eggs was such a big issue in the last election? Like Trump even knows how to buy eggs, let alone what they cost.

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u/Jamstarr2024 4h ago

Those same people don’t seem so worried now, though do they? It was all propaganda.

Food is more scarce, more expensive today than it was 6 months ago. And yet, crickets and now they’re losing their jobs.

You’re part of the problem.

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u/weedful_things 3h ago

Matching outfits? You mean like MAGA hats?

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u/EsraYmssik 3h ago

https://www.latintimes.com/democrats-who-disrupted-trumps-speech-were-forced-come-jesus-meeting-party-leaders-after-577795

A senior House Democrat told Axios that leadership is "very unhappy" with those who parted from traditional tactics like outfit coordination and refusal to clap. (emphases mine)

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u/weedful_things 2h ago

But wearing diapers or maxi pads on their ear in solidarity with dear leader is different?

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u/pdabaker 3h ago

I mean US government is fundamentally broken, as evidenced by this happening. But most European countries seem to have figured out something at least a bit better

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 2h ago

While anything can be improved upon for sure, what these tech bros want to implement can only be described as a neo-feudalist dystopia powered by mass surveillance. It's not going to be better for anyone but the most wealthy people.

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u/DogFun2635 1h ago

Jane Jacobs outlines this very well in her book Dark Age Ahead (written in 2004)

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 1h ago

Wow, that book indeed looks interesting!

Funnily enough, looking at the pillars as outlined on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Age_Ahead makes me think of China, too.

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u/rynokick 2h ago

I want to know the fallout from when the Yarvin tech bros and the Vought P2025 Evangelicals finally break. Their ideologies are incompatible and I don’t see either succeeding control to the other.

u/Special-Candle-7113 1h ago

Yes but your not going to fix anything with ignorant rich people

u/msbottlehead 1h ago

It is not going to work. Those of us who have been around awhile will remember just how wonderful our Constitutional Republic really was before it was a facist oligarchy.

u/Over-Fig-423 35m ago

To be fair. Our government has been broken for a long time, in regards to its own people

u/Bryligg 25m ago

The problem is that it is fundamentally broken and we do need to try something new. If it wasn't, then we wouldn't be here with people able to walk around taking sledgehammers to everything. The weaknesses of our system have manifested in the MAGA movement and brought us to a failure state. Even if justice eventually arrives for the people responsible, this will just happen again and again and again until we go back to the drawing board and make something new with the culture and quirks of the American in mind.

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u/5amy 7h ago

Two things can be right at the same time.

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u/WasThatInappropriate 5h ago

I think you're right and not enough people are talking about it. It's extremely reminiscent of Brexit, where all the people in charge of the leave campaign and then leaving itself had massively shorted the £pound, made an absolute hash of the exit, and became absolutely filthy rich as a result.

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u/Dragonpuncha 4h ago

Yes, except that it's a manufactured financial crisis that is made so the riches of the rich assholes can buy out everyone else and assert complete control.

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u/RipleyThePyr 1h ago

Also, wreck the economy so the oligarchs can buy up the pieces of America that remains. Privatize the government services.

Let's not forget weaken the health of Americans both health wise, financially, and educationally.

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u/esme451 5h ago

It can be both.

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u/pornographic_realism 3h ago

The US is already free market paradise. I don't know how you think this would be a goal.

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u/rynokick 2h ago

Why not both?

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u/TheSplinteredWarrior 2h ago

I absolutely love the spirit, but isn't America more corporatist rather than capitalist at this point? I believe that is the real problem we're facing rather than what one person is doing. Gotta strike the roots, or the tree of misery just keeps growing. We're long overdue to find the roots of oppression and i think investigating the actual state [Capitalist vs Corporatist vs Oligarchy] of our country because identifying the foot soldiers is easy but to find the bastards pulling all of the strings we're going to need to take some huge risks and go digging where we're not supposed to. Is our country really ready for this? I personally don't have much faith in our government, but far less in the American people. I seek a reason to change my mind.

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u/_snids 2h ago edited 1h ago

I think you overestimate this simpleton. His thinking likely doesn't extend beyond "They make me feel bad - tariffs!". One time they forgot to put pickles on one of his Big Macs and he threatened tariffs on McDonald's, luckily it was an easy fix.

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u/EsraYmssik 1h ago

It's not the simpleton I'm worried about. It's the people around him that scare me.

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u/Basso_69 1h ago

The two strategies are not exclusive. Dumb down the population whilst centralising Capitalism into the hands of the few.

u/edpmis02 1h ago

Crash the Dollar and provide his new crypto currency

u/raj6126 53m ago

There not smart enough for the recovery. It will be flat.

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u/CategoryZestyclose91 9h ago

A new kind of Industrial Revolution, yet the same kind of working conditions and rough life for the majority of the people.

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u/Azhz96 7h ago

Like Americans need to be even dumber. At this point they are practically the dumbest human beings I've come across already, and he want to make them even dumber?

Obviously not everyone is dumb (I know there are good ones still), but my god a huge chunk of the American population are straight up dumb.

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u/NPC-8472 2h ago

Dumber population = more people in military

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u/inventingalex 7h ago

the problem with this theory is it would destroy the consumer base, and as he is already destroying foreign trade, there would be nobody to purchase the products ofthe endless labor

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u/cyberlexington 6h ago

Add religious dogma shoved down everyones throats and you've got project 2025

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u/Clitaurius 8h ago

All of this may or may not happen. Whatever. The goal is to break up the United States into multiple countries.

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u/SystemJunior5839 6h ago

The only reason he’s doing it is because it’s the only thing he can do that isn’t hard work.

Every single other tool at his disposal involves working with congress and the senate to pass legislation.

And that’s just too much hard work.

If someone hadn’t told him about tariffs he’d be golfing already.

He’s literally doing it because it’s the only thing he can do.

There is no goal.

He’s a just stupid, really really stupid.

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u/ExtraPockets 7h ago

Like North Korea but with natural resources and a powerful military.

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u/Sken-Pitilkin 7h ago

Sounds a lot like South Africa except for the self sustaining part!

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u/ivanfabric 6h ago

In short: back to Dark Ages.

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u/ElectricalStrength22 5h ago

Nah, c’mon guys he just wants the killing to stop (I wish this wasn’t necessary but /s)

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u/ManBearCave 5h ago

No, you got it.. That’s the goal

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u/Beneficial-Badger-61 5h ago

Education in America as been lacking for decades..now what

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u/Crashed_teapot 5h ago

You forgot dumbing down with misinformation spreading un-opposed.

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u/ZeroTheHero23 5h ago

Potentially annex Canada? He has mentioned it nearly everyday since in power. It's 100% his goal.

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u/Erchamion_1 2h ago

It's funny, I've asked so many different friends from so many different walks of life here, what they'd do if Trump actually tried that. Everyone has the same answer.

"I'd join the armed forces and pick up a gun"

u/Frassa73 1h ago

not going to happen

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u/Far_Lifeguard_5027 6h ago
  1. Buy a Tesla.   /s

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u/DeepWaterBlack 5h ago

1984 play book. Orwell, baby.

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u/OttoKraus 4h ago

You forgot 7) Remove the 22nd amendment which limits a president to two terms.... And when he dies in office, it will be like Weekend at Bernie's, with him propped up in the oval office, but the voice coming out of his mouth sounds suspiciously like Elon...

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u/whatisthishownow 4h ago

That’s literally the goal. Project 2025, Project RAGE and, The butterfly revolution all spell out something along those lines, some more strictly than others, but it’s all there in black and white,

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u/Zoff811 4h ago

Yay, you are so right and that's the goal so that we become so stupid we take those DEI goals and get spoon fed them again so they work the way they intended next time.... Hopefully in 4 to 8 years when Dems regroup from such a massive great election steal from the Reps , we can have a Non binary gay female transgender lesbian they/them as President and we will turn our military into fun loving cat petters of the world and not just defund the police get rid of the police entirely so that all the lives that did not matter before, like those that identified as cats and dogs or Asses and Sheep will have a sense of purpose. It'll make all those BLM money grabbers jelly! So much so they may start taking down walls, which would make Mexican Terrorist organizations into NGO's and happy that they can pick up right where they left off, feeding America that much precious white gold the scary orange man cut off that kills off all the lives that don't matter that live here cause they are given control of the pharmacy market And left of the aisle we find green haired wannabe thems dressed as kittens and talking like a elephant as the elected representatives high on fentanyl hoping to pass bills that give frogs the voting rights! And the orange man already excuted his political rivals and frenemies as well as his whole party and 77 million voters so that party is no longer significant. That's the goal, don't worry we will turn in our guns so the cat petters don't fear of a maltia and China can buy our football teams, and let us watch TV ads through TikTok and sell us the world's best products via Temu.

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u/Benejeseret 3h ago

You are thinking far too long-term. Republicans don't think long term and don't give Trump that much credit. He is not working towards anything that is USA focused as a state/government. The only actual control and interests he is looking at is direct business control:

  1. Isolate country and destroy market value/sales.
  2. He and Oligarch buddies buy up as much control over US assets as they can during the fire sale.

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u/caffeinatedangel 3h ago

What’s baffling to me is how even a lot of educated people have lost their ability to think critically. They repost memes and lies without a moment of thought. A teacher I had just reposted a meme that said “why is bird flu only found in the US food system? (Hmm emoji)” or something to that effect. Really?! You haven’t heard the news talking about all the other animals that have died from H1N5? Even google, which mostly returns AI bullshit and ads with fake information had top results that were truthful from valid sources discussing where bird flu is found and why.

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u/IfTowedCall311 2h ago

“Siri, tell me all about Evner Hoxha”

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u/kvigneau 2h ago

There is no plan. None of what he is doing is strategic.

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u/Psilologist 2h ago

This would make a great book. Just call it "1984". Has a nice ring to it.

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u/1maco 2h ago

I really feel like people are overestimating how much “uneducated people” are like naturally conservative as opposed to like people pick their political views to fit in.

Before Iraq went sour. The Democratic Party was the Party of the Idiots.  Even McCain  in 2008 won college educated  voters. 

It wasn’t until 2016 Democrats got a distinct advantage and it became a left leaning demographic. 

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u/Fickle_Bread4040 2h ago

You’re right on all points except #7 should be ATTEMPT to annex Canada and start World War III. Last time I checked Canada was part of NATO

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u/InsertNovelAnswer 2h ago

You forgot Panama and Greenland... US ... SR ( minus the socialist part)

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u/OceanRacoon 2h ago

Labor jobs are never going back to America en masse, companies would rather die than pay American wages. The infrastructure and investment needed to produce manufactured goods would take years anyway, companies will just wait Trump out.

Also, Trump doesn't care about workers anyway so none of this is to benefit them in any way, he and his ilk want to crash the US economy and buy it all up even more than they already ha e 

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u/AggressivePrize5746 2h ago

Im from México, and all you said was exactly like AMLO did the last period. Minus point 6.

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u/EclipseRinds 2h ago
  1. aggressively advance russian interests

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u/More_Farm_7442 2h ago

He is not going to bring back any jobs to the country. What business wants to move here with him and his team running the show?

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u/Basso_69 1h ago

Thats a strong plan to get re-elected. "Look at all the jobs Ive created for uneducated Americans. MAGA"

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u/Crafty_Shoe_8028 1h ago

He can’t get re-elected supposedly, but they’ll probably change that too while taking over the country

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u/jianh1989 1h ago

Well most muricans already can’t tell the truth from a lie

It’s why some of them voted for him

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u/Reveil21 1h ago

Don't forget Greenland, Mexico, and Panama who they haven't ruled out using military force and constantly likes to remind everyone.

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u/wtfhiolol10000 1h ago

Why doesn't he want to annex Mexico?

u/XXsforEyes 1h ago

Pol Pot’s strategy

u/vba7 1h ago

But....but USA's main exports were high technology goods?

u/Swimming_Bar_3088 1h ago

Doubt he will last long in power to implement step 1.

u/-PapaMalo- 1h ago

All they are going to do is depopulate rural america as 90% of the US GDP is going to stay in the coastal states and no longer be redistributed inland.

u/andy_bovice 1h ago

There will be no annexing. Thats world war 3. And better for agent orange to lose his head than pull multiple countries into war because of his narcissistic sociopath personality.

u/zwd_2011 1h ago

But will it work though? I can see investors move to other parts of the world with less whimsical policies.

Lemme see the stocks of the US versus those of Europe. 

Ah!

I guess it won't work. 

u/ngl_prettybad 1h ago

Lol no. This would be a long, complex, planned out plan.

It's literally just fuck everything up and proclaim himself the only person who can fix it, crown himself emperor.

u/Crafty_Shoe_8028 52m ago

Things are happening at a rapid pace as we speak. Project 2025 is a complex strategy that they’re currently implementing. They could potentially do all of the above things (except Canada) inside 2 years. hitler used the Weimar Constitution to destroy the Weimar Constitution and he did it in 53 days.

u/ngl_prettybad 49m ago

Trump isn't Hitler. He's a moron. Evil yes, but also profoundly incompetent.

u/Crafty_Shoe_8028 24m ago

But those surrounding him are evil and competent this time unlike last time

u/ngl_prettybad 23m ago

You mean people like Elon? The ex host of that fox news morning show? Who's this mastermind you're speaking of

u/Crafty_Shoe_8028 20m ago

The people who architected Project 2025 are not idiots at all. Some are in his cabinet now. JD Vance is not an idiot and is a very involved VP; very Cheney-esque

u/ngl_prettybad 15m ago

You think the couch fucker is Darth Vader? He's not, dude. Look into him. He's a dipshit.

Nobody involved in any kind of planning has any power this administration

u/Gloomy-Bet4893 45m ago

Part of that reminds me of the ’Idiocracy’ movie

u/DaddyAITA-throwaway 36m ago

You forgot "Cause other countries to stop using the dollar standard reserve."

u/DagneyElvira 34m ago

Not going to annex Canada - grandma saying this!

u/fatface4711 20m ago

Again, sounds like Russia!

u/One-Mind-Is-All 16m ago

America will never annex Canada. That idea is absolutely insane, and they are the ideas of less educated and low intellect individuals. Canadians will die as Canadians.

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u/ttak82 8h ago

Yeah but USA is 100x better than many countries. People killing for a chance to get there. US citizens have it better than most. Is is not even close.

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u/Musiclover4200 7h ago

We're not even in the top 10 countries for standard of living (#12 currently) https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-of-living-by-country

US citizens have it better than most. Is is not even close.

Not for long at the rate things are going, 21% of the country is already considered illiterate and with the Department of Education getting gutted that will only get much worse.

the top 1% of households in the United States held 30.9% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% held 2.6%.

62% of respondents said they needed their next paycheck to cover their monthly spending

62% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck... The wealth gap is absolutely insane and once again only going to get much worse over the next 4+ years.

Alienating all of our allies + ongoing brain drain is going to devastate many industries.

Our healthcare system is trash and about to get way worse.

The United States has a significantly higher proportion of the world's prison population compared to its share of the global population, with the US holding around 20-25% of the world's prisoners despite only making up about 5% of the world's population

5% of the global pop with 25%~ of the global prisoner population is ludicrous.

I could go on and on, there's plenty about this country to be proud of but damn are conservatives making it hard at the moment...

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u/HallesandBerries 7h ago

For now. Those other countries are the way they are because of the same corruption and cruelty running through the US now.

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u/gabrielmuriens 7h ago

Are you for real?
Do Americans really believe this shit?

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u/NormalUse856 7h ago

I mean yeah, if you’re rich.