This is great journalism
Did Elon fly his rocket yet? I’d like to purchase bits of whatever is left when it comes back. I want to pee on the pieces and then watch the stuff circle around the bowl as they flush down. Its therapeutic according to the experts.
The funniest thing has been the people who voted Trump in also supporting this Gunman. Like … do you know the piece of shit you have just voted in?
Class consciousness still exists even in today’s fractured USA. Ben Shapiro and (I think it was) Matt Walsh are currently getting clowned on by their own fans for criticizing the anger that has been ignited.
Americans are stupid and respond to solutions. Harris offered no solutions, while Trump at least offered ineffectual shit like deporting twenty gazillion migrants.
The healthcare situation has boiled all that facade down to reveal that everyone across party lines is both sick and aware of their oppression under corporate greed. I really wish that the opposing party would at least try to capture some of that rage, but every Democrat except maybe Bernie is sticking with the “corporations are our friends and this is so sickening frfr” narrative. :(
Real solutions that don’t bypass the system are difficult to implement. Harris proposed hiking up the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% that their CEOs financed and used their corporations to begin to favor Trump. She was also upping the taxes rich people payed. It’s funny how people who want to “eat the rich” and want to fight “corporate greed” often play to their interests.
Trump is not going to be uselessly providing solutions. Don’t confuse his public-to-private funneling schemes catering to populisms as his policy. He’s going to provide very real solutions - for the rich - and the US, as known to the middle “you can actually play by the rules and be assured a relatively comfort rich place in society” class, will likely never recover from a second term now well aware of what it is and what it should cater to. In the years to follow, I don’t think the “one nation, undivided” Civil War legacy is going to remain the sacrosanct gospel of times past, and some states that never have considered it before will have to consider secession - while states that have had no problem screaming about it in the past will suddenly become “defenders of the union”.
I think you’re talking past each other. Their point is not that Trump is the only one offering real solutions, their point is about messaging. Trump is willing to say very loudly something along the lines of “we have a big problem and I have a big solution.” The general public knows something is wrong. It makes him popular. Democrats have responded to this by effectively saying “we do not have big problems. We are going to make some improvements.” This is what you might call a less popular message. They need to be saying “we do have some big problems, but those aren’t solutions—these are solutions.
And then they need to actually provide real solutions instead of more neoliberal rot, but hey! First things first, maybe stop running campaign messaging that opposes popular opinion
For at least tens of millions it’s not so much class consciousness, more like class cluelessness - somehow they think they have something in common with a guy like Trump. They don’t grasp that they’re expendable peasants he doesn’t give two shits about. Even when he buses them out to his rallies and strands them, they still don’t get a clue.
or our trans neighbors
I don’t know this for a fact, but I just know it’s true: Heath Insurance CEOs have hurt more people and caused more suffering than all of the illegal immigrants combined.
It is really not, Trump is a symptom of people despising the status quo and feeling helpless in an unfair system.
Trump has tapped into a populist message. Of course he will only do what is in his self interest and does not give a shit about his supporters. But to the average person who just consumes Fox News and social media he looks like he can change the world for them… Or at least hurt those who are hurting them.
The right wing media has steadily eroded social norms and echo’s the extreme right when they call for violence against the left.
It’s not to far of a leap to say that an ignorant victimized populace which has been desensitized to violence and wants to punish those who they believe have hurt them would cheer just as hard as the left when a CEO of a deeply unpopular company is killed.
The right has been feeding the population violence and extremism for years. All the while targeting their anger toward other groups while taking advantage of the population. I don’t think they understand the monster they have created.
It almost seems like you are responding to the wrong message—I agree with everything here except your setting off with “it’s really not” in response to illegal migrants?
