Hardkill

True.

However, there’s a reason why the solid majority of high propensity, highly informed/educated voted against Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

Yet, even authoritarian leaders such as Xi Jinping or Putin don’t impose tariffs on other countries unless they got hit with tariffs from that country or countries. Trump could’ve just sit back and not touched Biden’s economy and would’ve gotten a major amount of credit for the prosperity and strength of the US economy under him while he just plays golf at Mar-A-Lago.

Tragically, the justice system never gets everyone it should. Even if his reputation gets tarnished, I fear that he will be able to get enough people to come back around to him, just like with Trump, especially in this day and age where we live in an era of very low trust in legitimate Institutions, am extremely fractured media environment with unprecedented widespread internet/social media brainwashing, and celebrity level charisma/status forgives virtually everything. This is why I now think that we or some other people out there outside of the law may need to take matters into our own hands by becoming vigilantes.

Having no morals and committing a crime didn’t matter for someone like him. Also, most people in today’s world probably don’t care or won’t believe it. It’s not even clear that it will matter that much for history. All we can do is pray that he faces some kind of justice of comeuppance. So, then what was the whole point of this thread? Also, I really don’t believe that he’s a true mature stage Green. He’s still too much of a degenerate low life to have earned that kind of recognition.

I am not surprised that Russell Brand has been charged with rape even though he’s an A list celebrity with extreme levels of charisma. He has had a really fucked up past including having been a raging addict. Plus, he’s bipolar and I am sure that he has a very deluded sense of self. Not to mention how much he’s been brainwashed by various conspiracy theories, Trumpism/MAGA, and echo chambers/epistemic bubbles that align with his own strange views of the word. Sadly, I am not sure though that enough people in the world will care about him raping women. Too many people in this day and age including those in western governments don’t care about anything else besides their own finances, affordability, financial success, status, power, etc. Hell, they don’t even trust any news information unless it’s coming from their own echo chambers/epistemic bubbles that they are so comfortable in. Just like how a majority of Americans didn’t care about all of the crimes that Trump committed and elected him president again.

The way the tax rates were set up in our country just before the Reagan era were practically perfect.

It’s also because of this broken media environment and the Democratic party’s terrible messaging and spineless attitude.

Yeah ChadT is right about Peter Schiff being a constant doomer on the US economy, particularly when the country is lead during a Democratic presidency. However, I fear that you’re right, Leo. The broad consensus amongst top economists and financial experts now is that Trump’s tariff policies are absolutely beyond stupid and more than likely to cause the US economy to crash for no good real reason. Even Zandi and his team of economists and Krugman, all of whom rightly predicted the 2008 financial crisis and rightly predicted that the economy during Biden’s president would achieve a soft or softish landing, have been saying for a while now that Trump’s policies are not only going to be inflationary, but also could likely cause a recession if Trump doesn’t back off with his tariff policies. Not to mention that Trump’s moronic tariff regime is seriously jeopardizing millions of Americans retirement funds and ruining the stock market. This completely outdated and extreme tariff policy is not how our country will be able to address the unfair practices that have occurred for decades.

Fortunately, Musk failed to buy the crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race that happened tonight: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

Oh, God! That is very tragic. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims and their closed ones.

Oh, yeah.... That definitely keeps me up at night. I hope that if that happens that widespread civil unrest, protests, and riots in Washington happen.

So, then how much was the idea of Trump and his party taking away your freedoms and opportunities overhyped? In retrospect, I realize that even people in authoritarian countries like China or Russia have a lot of the freedoms that we have.

I generally agree with the OP. However, at the same time, many older people tend to be more stubborn with old world views that are outdated and need to be replaced by new modern-day views.

But aren't millions of innocent people going to suffer and die under Trump if his administration and the Republicans in Congress cuts funding for essential government services like Medicaid, public education, vaccines, and medical research and guts important regulations protecting the environment, the economy, and human rights in our country this time?