Trump

[Birdman1811]

Initially aghast, I'm starting to feel comforted.

We can see you America.  The most truly capitalist country in the world behaving as capitalists do.  Happy to have some fasc to put more money in their pockets.

As for Trump.  No more bitching about stolen elections, you've got four years to turn your nations economy around.  That's ALL that matters, If you can stay alive that long (I mean he's fuckinģ ancient, rather than him being shot).

As for the rest of us.  The capitalist billionaires are now in almost total control across the world and moving political discourse ever rightwards to extend their wealth and power. And they will tell us we are lucky to have them. 

It's also lucky for us that their media is truth based, its lucky for us that Global Warming is just a woke scam, it's lucky that there arn't aggressive nation states attacking democratic countries, its lucky arms sales arn't a massively lucrative commodity for said billionaires, it's lucky that all our problems ARE actually caused by the poorest in society who can now be further demonized rather than those in actual power who pull the levers. 

So, let's sit back and relax and watch the party unfold.  At least we're guaranteed a center right government for four more years.  Feels like a blessing, rather than a curse, in comparison.

I might just be drunk on disgust.  I'll tell you when the hangover kicks in.

Good post.

It's a nice position to take but I'm not sure it tallies with reality anymore.

We like to believe in goodness and that if you act the right way then good will prevail, but it's increasingly not the case. Trump is a convicted felon, a sex offender, he even incited an insurrection against the democratic process and yet people still voted for him. 

Even in this country you have morons who think Farage is the answer, the hard of thinking who take part in race riots and support "Our Tommeh" and think that getting rid of non-white people will solve all the world's problems. Just look at the Tories, even after years of incompetence, entitlement, contempt for normal normal and flagrant corruption people still yearn for them back. I'm no longer convinced this couldn't happen over here.

The only rational conclusion is that we share this planet with a lot of utter cunts.

Trump offered people who've seen their groceries increase by 22% something. Harris campaigned on the fact that Trump = bad. We've seen it here as well. Offer people something, rather than just saying the other side are criminals because when people are struggling to make ends meet they've proven once again that they couldn't give a shit about the moral positions of those in charge.

Not totally true, her policies were far better detailed than anything put out by Trump, Trump always campaigns on sound bites, insulting people, just ranting with no real messages at all. Problem.is, people, and the media seem to want to just have a mud slinging match so that's what's always reported. And Trump gets away with a lot, he's been mostly incoherent last few weeks, but mentions of dementia, compared to Biden for example. 

Trump would have had the exact same inflation had he won in 2020, it takes almost no reading to work that out, this is what I mean by frustration, people just don't seem to actually use the brains that have. 

Trump hasn't offered anything, he did nothing on the border, in fact, he opposed the bill agreed by all parts of the senate to fix it because he wanted to use the border in his election campaign. He tells people, in clear language, he just talks nonsense knowing people lap it up, and people do. I don't understand it. 

The supposed patriots in the US, now love Russia, and Putin, literally their mortal enemy only a few years ago, and don't see it's just been because of ridiculous propaganda. It just frustrates me so much.

MAGA has destroyed so much of America, where they had civilised discourse between opposing sides, where there was a grown up, responsible democracy, is now hatred and grown adults shouting moronic phrases at each other. Intelligence is now disliked, the stupidest get the loudest voice.

It's not so much I hate Trump, I can't stand him, hates a very strong term, but I do hate what he represents and what he has caused and built.