Trump is officially president today

[Thought Art]

3 hours ago, integral said:

@Talinn 🤦 Good for health coach’s, more business 

Yeah, because poor people are great clients for health coaches... People who need surgery? Yeah, get them a health coach. Dying of thirst? Here is a shovel so you can dig your or well.

[Inliytened1]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

Bro, you are blind. What is taking place should disgust and terrify you. Trump is a conman, criminal fascist with a very clear agenda. He will gut you.

Anyone claiming the left is fear mongering is seriously ignorant, uneducation, frankly stupid and dangerous. You are the problem with your country. Your ignorance is the problem. People voted for this. 

 

We shall see what happens in four years

 

Edited yesterday at 12:05 AM by Inliytened1

[Inliytened1]

@Thought Art  @Leo Gura you don't think that all of this paranoia is a little off base.  That's perry strong words.  He will gut you.  He is a fascist.  We're screwed.

 

[Adi996]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

Bro, you are blind. What is taking place should disgust and terrify you. Trump is a conman, criminal fascist with a very clear agenda. He will gut you.

Anyone claiming the left is fear mongering is seriously ignorant, uneducation, frankly stupid and dangerous. You are the problem with your country. Your ignorance is the problem. People voted for this. 

 

From the left:

 

[Thought Art]

@Inliytened1 Strong times call for strong words. 

[integral]

2 hours ago, Thought Art said:

Yeah, because poor people are great clients for health coaches... People who need surgery? Yeah, get them a health coach. Dying of thirst? Here is a shovel so you can dig your or well.

So you’re saying I should invest in shovel manufacturers.

One of the things is whatever Trump does people have to adapt to it. Got to find the opportunities and be a part of it. 

Edited yesterday at 01:28 AM by integral

[aurum]

1 hour ago, Adi996 said:

From the left:

 

This was not a good segment by Stewart.

I get the point he is making. Yes, discernment is needed. And yes, you shouldn't just yell fascist at everything Trump does. We don't want a "boy who cried wolf" scenario.

But it should also be obvious what Trump's larger agenda here is. As well as the fact that he only follows democratic rules when he is forced to.

The fact that Trump has so far mostly acted within democratically given power means little. He will bulldoze democratic rule as soon as it benefits his larger agenda. And the whole point of removing things like inspector generals is to get away with even more egregious acts in the future.

Democratically enacted or not, you should be concerned about decisions like this.

If anything, I'd argue people are mostly being too complacent about Trump. We need legacy media doing their job of calling out MAGA nonsense more than ever. 

Edited yesterday at 02:36 AM by aurum

[Whitney Edwards]

41 minutes ago, aurum said:

If anything, I'd argue people are mostly being too complacent about Trump. We need legacy media doing their job of calling out MAGA nonsense more than ever. 

Do you think calling him out will do anything? 

[aurum]

26 minutes ago, Whitney Edwards said:

Do you think calling him out will do anything? 

Absolutely yes.

Every authoritarian state needs to strongly control the media. That's the only way it works.

As long as legacy media retains freedom of the press, Trump will have a hard time doing true authoritarianism.

Imagine if we didn't have legacy media calling out all of Trump's lies over the years. Things would have degenerated much, much worse.

Journalists and democrats need to be doing a full court press against every corrupt, devilish thing Trump does. Blow it up, hammer it home. The public will not understand otherwise.

Edited yesterday at 03:46 AM by aurum

[Frylock]

The corruption is happening far faster than I expected! I thought a lot of it was just political theater, but nope. They're all in on tearing down the fabric of this country.

[Whitney Edwards]

42 minutes ago, aurum said:

Imagine if we didn't have legacy media calling out all of Trump's lies over the years. Things would have degenerated much, much worse.

This is true. But the media calling him out cannot change his decisions and the outcome of those decisions. Like he banned trans in the military. These decisions will impact people mentally as well as their livelihoods. So. That aspect cannot be handled. It's just that he is the president and he can sign any executive order and that's a threat to the integrity of the people. I mean the consequences remain. 

[Leo Gura]

Keep in mind that the real work is happening outside of news headlines.

Right now Trump's cabinet of goons is furiously working to disable all checks and balances of the federal government, filling as many positions as they can with corrupt MAGA ideologues and loyalists. This will not be visible in the news. What you see in the news is just the tip of the corruption iceberg.

The corruption and rot will be staggering and beyond anyone's imagination. But it will take a few years to blossom.

Edited yesterday at 04:22 AM by Leo Gura

[Joel3102]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Keep in mind that the real work is happening outside of news headlines.

Right now Trump's cabinet of goons is furiously working to disable all checks and balances of the federal government, filling as many positions as they can with corrupt MAGA ideologues and loyalists. This will not be visible in the news. What you see in the news is just the tip of the corruption iceberg.

The corruption and rot will be staggering and beyond anyone's imagination. But it will take a few years to blossom.

Odds of Impeachment by the end of it? 

[Inliytened1]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Keep in mind that the real work is happening outside of news headlines.

Right now Trump's cabinet of goons is furiously working to disable all checks and balances of the federal government, filling as many positions as they can with corrupt MAGA ideologues and loyalists. This will not be visible in the news. What you see in the news is just the tip of the corruption iceberg.

The corruption and rot will be staggering and beyond anyone's imagination. But it will take a few years to blossom.

Bro you don't think the democratic party is corrupt?  Biden is so corrupt the only way he sleeps at night is via dementia.  

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

Bro you don't think the democratic party is corrupt?  Biden is so corrupt the only way he sleeps at night is via dementia.  

When you do this false equivalence you terminate deep understanding.

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, Joel3102 said:

Odds of Impeachment by the end of it? 

Zero, unless Dems have some miracle mid-term election victory.

[Joshe]

22 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Right now Trump's cabinet of goons is furiously working to disable all checks and balances of the federal government, filling as many positions as they can with corrupt MAGA ideologues and loyalists.

he’s trying to buy out all the positions. @Inliytened1. What do you make of this? Does this seem normal to you? They’re first going to axe as many people as possible and then build back with only loyalist. 

Edited yesterday at 04:45 AM by Joshe

[Talinn]

I think there is a vanishingly small percentage chance that Congress, even Republicans, will turn on Trump, if he does too much damage. I'm definitely not counting on it though.

Edited yesterday at 04:35 AM by Talinn

[aurum]

11 minutes ago, Whitney Edwards said:

This is true. But the media calling him out cannot change his decisions and the outcome of those decisions. Like he banned trans in the military. These decisions will impact people mentally as well as their livelihoods. So. That aspect cannot be handled. It's just that he is the president and he can sign any executive order and that's a threat to the integrity of the people. I mean the consequences remain. 

Yes, legacy media can only do so much.

But still, things would be much worse without it.

The only reason we are aware of things like trans people being banned in the military is because of legacy media.

Politics is primarily information warfare.

[Joel3102]

He might be impeached if Dems take the house. He’ll have to do something really fucked up for the GOP Senate to convict him though. I reckon his approval ratings will start to plummet once the honeymoon is over