I guess when you’re uneducated & filled with hate and racism, the more pain you can inflict on others, who are completely unknown to you, is the best way to make your miserable life seem better?
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I was fairly happy over the previous four years NOT seeing Biden’s in the news alert feed every 60 seconds.
When it did, it was nice to know it wasn’t some catastrophe he created.
They say the Romans opened the gates to the Visigoths and offered themselves up for slaughter, because after about five hundred years of being an Empire, they became full of self-loathing and boredom and wanted to be defeated! USA is arguably the same pile of stagnation that has decided on suicide!
More like people here had middling lives, and rather than letting competent women make their lives better, they decided that a clown with nothing between his ears was preferable to any woman and while we're at it let's worship him like he's a freaking god and ignore the man behind the curtain...
You have the highest incarceration rate in the world, you have the highest school shootings in the world, people go bankrupt if they get ill, tent cities, people live in their cars etc etc
This is spot on. Moreover, “the White House” is the reality TV show that Americans got bored with and voted off the last cast and replace them with something more exciting. They just didn’t realize the excitement was going to fuck with their lives.
Lunatic? This was Hatched and Directed by Heritage Foundation and the Republican Party. The Design blueprint goes back to Reagan.... Republicans are ALL lined up supporting this. The goal.....Manipulation of Elections from now on. Watch Wayrich "GOO GOO Syndrome" YouTube.
The United States of America is the largest and richest empire the world has ever known. It is currently governed by a cult of morons who have no concept of where they are or what century they are in, and lack the subtlety and wisdom necessary to fix the problems we do have.
Not a trump fan and don't like what he's doing, but it wasn't working out very well for the 42 million Americans in poverty. 1 in 5 children experiencing food scarcity. Low rankings for education and healthcare. Low happiness index. Most people not affording a peaceful retirement. It wasn't working
It’s that the worst among us finally found someone to “champion” them in their minds. In govt Trump is a lightening rod for the opportunists who see in him the realization of their greed, power lust, religious or other ideology.
you have no literacy, you have no ability to use this platform, you literally agreed with me and then began to aggressively use gifs to mock me somehow, oh, and sorry, they're called skeets on this platform. welcome, I guess.
Evidently, I'm literate, or you wouldn't have been able to read it and be offended by it. If you think everyone HAS TO agree with everything you write, then YOU are on the wrong platform. I don't have time for your childish nonsense.
Not every American thinks alike. There are more poor people in America than wealthy ones. I suspect you read that drivel by someone who was trying to gaslight you into believing it.
It's sad but true. I never understood why my American relatives were so unhappy the past 20 years when money literally became the one thing none of them had to worry about. In the absence of real hardship, people will invent it.
And when it comes back round again, the one thing they won't care about is a culture war. Watching your life savings disappear and worrying about your medical care should "trump" trans fear in a public restroom every time.
I shudder to think of the world being carved out for my kids and grandkids, they will never be able to enjoy the freedoms and protections that I grew up with..
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
We definitely don’t have the best lives on the planet, it just looks like that in teen movies. We COULD have the best lives on the planet though, but everyday we grow farther and farther away from that reality.
Farther is used to describe physical distance that can be measured, like “our new house is farther from town than our old one.” Further is used to describe distance that can’t be physically measured like, “that couldn’t be further from the truth.” I don’t think most ppl notice or care though 🤷🏼♀️
That's what I thought, but since we don't use farther here at all, I guess it doesn't matter! However, it is the only americanism I quite like because it makes a lot of sense.
Well, whatever you do don’t make the same mistake I did when I lived in England…Fanny does NOT mean the same thing in America as it does in England! In the US fanny = butt. I learned this lesson when a drunk weirdo in the club asked me if I had a big fanny I said yes 😂😂😂😭😭😭
100%… Most Americans don’t travel so don’t understand how bad things can get… MAGA longs for a time that is so far from a growth mindset but right in line with an uneducated one… exactly how the Republicans have wanted & planned for in the last 50+ years… ignorance=compliance… sad it’s come to this!
America hasn't had the best of anything in decades. We've been lied to on that and those whose lives failed to measure up to the lies were often ill-served by the Dems, so they were easy pickings for the con men. Preachers helped sell them the lies about who to blame.
I mean we had a dedicated adversary conduct an extensive social disinformation campaign after we had already wound down our military posture against said adversary at the behest of high minded EU member states...
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Disengaged voters yes apathy/ignorance sucks and also spare some white hot rage for the laser-targeted voter suppression in crucial swing districts
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Agree. Two long-term friendships essentially over due to support of this piece of shit. It’s a terrible thing but necessary for my sanity and self-respect.
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But hatred of immigrants and LGBTQ folks prevails. I’m sorry for all of us who are pained by him. However, I’m amused when those who adore him deny their own financial pain.
Meanwhile, I’ll be hoarding toilet paper again.
With a catastrophic healthcare "system", the two party "electoral college" that is a only parody of democracy, killing each other more often than those killed in your many many wars, a failing education system, religulous BS over and over and the imperial "system"...
I ran into a couple of those on holiday. The wife was loudly ridiculing the last president, her husband pulled her back and everyone shunned them both. That anyone could still support the mango is amazing
Yeah, except you never had the best lives on the planet. The rich and the media sold you a lie to keep corporate profits high. Unaffordable health care, unaffordable education, next to zero safety work regulations, next to no food safety. Low wages. It has been a dystopian nightmare since reagan
Yeah, except you never had the best lives on the planet. The rich and the media sold you a lie to keep corporate profits high. Unaffordable health care, unaffordable education, next to zero safety work regulations, next to no food safety. Low wages. It has been a dystopian nightmare since reagan
Yep, I concur. There are graphs all over bluesky regarding the US placing near the bottom for quality of life. Personally, I live paycheck to paycheck, just like 1/3 of this country.
I did the same for 20 years after being kicked out at 18 with nothing. Only recently was I able to make it out of paycheck to paycheck and its still BARELY out of that
Instead of one major emergency ruining me, it would take two. My "life savings" amounts to about 1.5k cuz there was nothing to save
I agree. The American healthcare system is beyond broken. The true sign of a great society is when society comes together to provide basic services (including education and healthcare). It falls apart when people turn these things into profit centers and let the quality slowly erode.
It feels related because it is. Thats what a lot of people don't get I think. They view every issue as a standalone thing. Politicians take advantage of that and say there's nothing we can do to fix it
For instance, free healthcare would solve a TON of "unrelated" issues, but we "can't do it" cuz 🤷♂️
Yeah, and we are going to get that healthcare from Trump? Democrats just don't support the president of their own party like Republicans do. So, how would've the Biden Administration improved our healthcare access?
What the hell does my comment have to do with Shitler? Not a single elected official with any power in my lifetime has pushed for single payer healthcare
This isn't a left right thing, it's a class issue. The exploiting class wants for profit healthcare so thats what we get. Red or blue, same shit
My point is that we would have been better off with Kamala, if we had enough Democrats in both houses of Congress to overcome the usual suspects similar to Manchin and Sinema who will always vote against the President of their party. Republicans stand in line to support people like "Shitler".
But there was never a push for single payer healthcare even when dems controlled literally everything. She didn't campaign on free healthcare, if anything she said "affordable" which is still evil and bowing to the insurance company donors
At best, she wouldn't have made it more predatory, not free
They didn't control everything. At the most, all they had was 50 Senate majority which means Mabchin and Sinema could shoot down anything and everything. Kamala was only able to cobble together a campaign for 90 days. Also, she would not be elected on free healthcare. This is 'Merica.
Are you suggesting the working class here ISN'T getting robbed? Yeah, the US is a terrorist nation to the rest of the world, but to think that isn't also pointed inward is pretty naive
Since the 80s, the top 1% have stolen something like 10 trillion dollars from us. The wealth WE create is stolen
I don’t want to make it about our own suffering, it’s minuscule compared to the millions of children our county has starved in the name of… what? Crappy fast food and invasive ads everywhere?
I remember in the early 1990s working for factories like that For 6 dollars per hour. Just think Federal minimum wage is 7.25 per hour.... 35 years later.
Like most countries I'd imagine if America properly taxed obscene wealth and invested it in public services this wouldn't have happened. Wealth inequality gets blamed on immigrants and then you get Trump. You fight it by going for the real source of the problem, obscene wealth hoarding.
More complicated than that. But in a nutshell, they were unhappy and Fox and Trump sold them a bill of goods that it was the D's & immigrants fault. And a vote for him 'owned the libs'.
That’s the benefit of adopting the republican policies. They can pretend bipartisanship isn’t hate. I didn’t see them adopt policies making employers responsible for undocumented employment. They just accepted the dehumanizing narratives.
They love to point out that he didn’t bankrupt ALL of his businesses and “he has millions of dollars, what do you have?” Ignoring the fact that Trump inherited more money than they will ever see
Did we elect him? Or, was the election bought for him? I guess we'll never know if we never investigate the results fully. I don't believe that the American people did this to themselves. #impeachTrump #removeTrump
Best life? Sure, other than our murder-for-profit healthcare system, and shitty infrastructure, and awful education, and antiquated public transportation, and broken justice system and can be a victim of a mass shooting at any given moment. But other than that yea, totally the best life here.
Rs are already loosening laws to bring back child labor, so the children will be working somewhere--picking in the fields, working in slaughterhouses, whatever nasty job needs doing.
If that's true then there will never be enough jobs for the amount of people. THAT should signal a need for MORE socialism, not less, in order to sustain life. OUR PROBLEM is that we have an evil running things and they WANT us to die. They want children for their perverted proclivities.
I wonder what Alice Miller would have said about all this, aside from the United States Empire being a prime example case study in collective narcissism.
can't have Black and brown bodies doing well and being happy...
so the majority of all the white americans ... and a large portion of the Black and brown population who hate that they were not born white ... decided to burn it all down.
Let's not pretend a $7.25 minimum wage and broken healthcare system are the best. We're in literal hell right now but lets not pretend the previous situation was perfect.
The entire rest of the world still thinks America is a paradise where most people own a big suburban house and have a nuclear family all being paid for on a single income that covers everything they need.
They don't know 60% of us are living paycheck to paycheck.
This is everything. Our economy was soaring, record markets, inflation was declining. But no these entitled assholes thought they deserved something. Idk what. Maybe travel to Venezuela or Haiti to witness real poverty. You were so lucky to be here and you fucked it for us all.
It’s hyperbole to drive the point home. Americans will not get it, like most bullheaded idiots, until it’s made painfully clear. Hence “best life on the planet”
I’m talking national average, ranked by independent organizations in comparison to other countries. Certainly such a big country has huge differences geographically, but anything from press freedom, literacy, maternal morality, gun violence, healthcare debt, education level, overall freedom etc.
They have us so much at each other’s throat that we can’t seem to have nice things like universal healthcare, even though we’re the richest country on the planet and can afford it.
too busy giving tax cuts to wealthy, greedy billionaires.
While the bottom 99% fight over scraps ! We live in hell
that is too bad. i don't know the circumstance of my friend's child moving her grandchild there. I assumed it was because of the kind of professions they had (scientist/doctor)
The USSR had no interest in taking over the world.
Ironic, really.
JFK was the first President who actually believed they wanted to destroy America. And then he nearly destroyed the world TWICE - three if you include Vietnam.
The USSR reacted to America arming after WW2 for literally no reason.
I think that's more of an idealistic mindset that has faded off with the boomers, rather than a genuine belief. The only ones still preaching American exceptionalism are either religious nutcases, or people that are wholly financially insulated from reality.
Oh come on! Other than the guns, prisons, the education system, the two party system, corrupt SCOTUS, tipping culture, the racism, the health system, massive inequality, poverty and now the complete gutting of the government and due process they DID put a man on the moon 56 years ago. Check mate!
Aye, but let's not pretend we're the pinnacle of work culture up in Canada. We still need to improve, it's just our neighbours are deplorable. Frankly in comparison to Euro nations we should shake our damn heads.
Unfortunately pretty low down on many other measures too, especially when compared to every other developed nation. Even on FREEDOM, which I find wildly ironic for the “land of the free” - the US doesn’t even crack the top 50! 🫣
I don’t think many of us do believe that. But I also smart enough to know we have far from the worst. It would take a LOT of changes to make this country the best place to live. Starting with things like health care and sensible gun laws….
Sure, a lot of ignorance (ignorants) voted for MAGA, yet, let's not forget how the DNC neglected to address the pro-genocide they support. Too close to the right IMO.
The US is the largest weapons supplier in the world. It’s not the fault of the seller of the buyers actions. Do you blame food companies for you being fat?
Let's be clear here. DEMs had NOTHING to do with this fcking moron trying to crash the US. This is all from weak minded, illiterate idiots who don't have even a high school education. The GOP are the other half, consumed with greed and hungry for power
The Dems did what they could, and they would have been vastly better than the current dumpster fire. But seeing as how over half the electorate didn’t bother to even show up, I think there’s a more fundamental disconnect between their messaging/policy goals and what a lot of people really want.
The problem with that is asking us to believe there were 7 million less votes than in 2020. I don't believe it. He said "Elon and his beautiful vote counting machines". We know Elon has launched thousands of satellites. If there were a way to cheat, he did. Bc that is who he is.
What’s more likely: a nefarious conspiracy by the world’s richest man and an unstable politician to steal the US presidential election, or a “progressive” party getting too centrist & complacent, and failing to motivate voters who wanted real change? A James Bond movie or institutional inertia?
Complacent? Don't be ridiculous. And yes, Dems have ALWAYS been the progressive party of inclusion. It may play like a bad movie, but their is nothing entertaining about it. And the voters who wanted "real change"? They were too stupid to see his corruption the first time around.
And WHY are there so many 'weak-minded, illiterate idiots who don't even have a high school education"?
I don't disagree with your analysis. However it stops at first base. Dig deeper.
The system never allows enough of the right sort of people into power. Who might actually change the lives of the poor or struggling classes. Who would share the wealth out much more equitably. Don't blame the poor. Blame the uber rich who control the system, the media, the narrative.
I absolutely agree. But after 4 previous years of nothing but chaos, there is much blame for the magots on the right. They were not just told, but lived it. And then elected him again. That ends any empathy I may have felt. They are morons too.
There was an image going round where an advisor tells the ruler (faced with an angry population, half of whom have pitchforks & half of whom have... I don't know, torches maybe), to tell each half the others want what they have. Divide & rule. Its as old as history.
A lot of people were convinced by Fox News and what they "discovered doing their own research" on the internet that their lives were worse than some trans kid or a dirt poor family from some poor country that was trying to get a job in the US that they wouldn't do.
When one believes that their country is the greatest and they're the bee's knees, they tend to feel superior and those who have never gone beyond their comfort zone find no sense in learning about other nations who they deem inferior. They assume democracy is a given so they stop defending it.
They don't even want that. They just like the IDEA of Made in America, not the reality. They'd much rather have cheap shit at Walmart. Wait til they find out!
You have fallen victim to one of the main drivers for Trump’s successful election; the belief that the USA was the best place in the world to live. It was never the best. US exceptionalism was always a belief based on propaganda and not reality.
I'm not so sure about the 'best lives on the planet' claim, considering America's lack of worker's rights and health care, but yeah, otherwise a fair point.
We did not have the best lives on the planet. Gosh the mindset to believe that statement is giving 1950. The happiest ppl on earth have not been US citizens. Period.
Looking from Australia, there has been a massive divide in USA re education/ health care/ employment for 30 + years. The contempt of the well- healed & educated toward the other half gave rise to MAGA Trumpism imho.
Precisely-it’s this kind of myopic privileged take that’s part of the problem. I’ve steadily watched the quality of life go down my entire lifetime (in my mid-50s now) and the threats to human wellbeing get worse here in the US.
An American who live in California, so better off than many, but you are absolutely right. Saying we have the best lives is simply not true. Maybe we own more crap than folks in other countries? But other than that, nope.
I find owning crap is like a bloody weight round my neck now,
It all needs security, insurance, maintenance,
I'm over it all, keep life as simple as I can these days, boats and baubles all gone just about, have a motorbike and a small cheap Civic hatchback, I travel a lot now, real freedom.
I guess it depends. Love my books (lots of them) and my garden. And everything in my kitchen. But it does seem that a lot of the things Americans buy are neither utilitarian nor beautiful. And traveling is wonderful-though now I'm more worried than ever about air travel. 😒
There are many decent people here. Almost all of my best friends are American. 😉 But the number of twats? I guess, just go look at any thread on the twitter place - yikes!
And, all of this happens because in the land of milk and honey, white supremacists want to control the government and they're getting away with it so far.
lol anyone that actually does their own research will know. Look at the ppl at trumps innaguarition fkn drooling cus they gna get 100 billion dollar richer, lol gross ppl..
Agree, who would have thought that leaving the legacy of a factory assembly job, picking vegetables in the fields, or laboring in a coal mine, to our grandchildren in 2045 would be considered Making America great again?
The people who voted for Trump blew it up so they could be their racist, misogynistic worse selves. They blew it up for a man who allowed them to fly their hate openly and proudly. They blew it up to own the smart, kind, decent people. So they could be their worst selves.
Reminds me of The Matrix…when Agent Smith is explaining to Neo how the machines originally made the Matrix a paradise… and everyone inside got bored and didn’t know what to hate, and were miserable little underperforming batteries…so they remade it into to 90’s … juuuust miserable enough.
Agree, but painting life in America as heaven on earth is probably overstated. America is rich, but in same time unjust and socially broken. Still wishful thinking of voters is unprecedented
They didn’t though, well only some of them. Globalisation, end stage capitalism has caused huge divisions and wealth disparity. It’s become difficult for the young to buy homes & have families. Ill health could bankrupt you, there’s not even maternity leave .. so very vulnerable to populism
Every time a Republican gets elected, that's a swath of people paying to attend a Lying King show. Performed by THE Lying King and his cast of bad actors.
I've been having these "quietly loud" conversations lately as well. If even one person hears the message, maybe they pass it on to someone else who will also listen. Plant seeds indeed.
In 2020, a Pew Research Center poll found that:
29% of white evangelicals believed Trump was "anointed by God" to lead.
Another 49% didn’t necessarily think he was divinely chosen but still supported him strongly for policy reasons.
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Agree w you that most don’t appreciate meaning of being in a cult. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to free most of them. Since everything I, as not a cult member, say is a lie, very difficult to introduce any daylight between them and their cult leader.
What he fails to realize is Chump did not win either time. It shows how powerful propaganda is and mis & disinformation is! He took it from Clinton and Harris.
Our election system is FAR from being secure!
We arts professionals have said arts are vital. But instead this all has to be real. We all could have enjoyed movies, ballets, plays, books, poetry, music, art, etc exploring this subject but no. Now we have to live it just so there will be a story to tell. WE COULD HAVE JUST MADE UP A STORY.
We didn't actually have the best lives on the planet on average. Europe eclipsed us already in that regard like four decades ago. This is just the final dive into banana republicdom for us.
The goal is to punish white collar workers by stripping them of their jobs and forcing them into factory work. There’s nothing MAGA without postsecondary education would love better.
To build factories, you need imported steel & aluminum that is heavily tariffed. You need raw materials, many not produced here and tariffed. It’ll take decades to accomplish and, at what human and environment costs. Saw he was trying to increase coal production. Like global warming isn’t a thing 🤦🏻♀️
I would gloat but I'm from the UK and you know... Brexit... where my nation collectively voted to make each and every one of our lives considerably shitter.
It may be worth it to a few Brits... those that are loaded already. I can't read the article without subscribing so I can't comment but I haven't read/heard anything positive about Brexit from any organisation 'in the know'.
I assume you're not a Brit.
Mmmm. (To paraphrase) 'Poorer outlook in the eurozone rather than strong UK growth'.
I would still lump my lot back in with Europe. And I may well be dead in 15 years so won't reap this tiny perceived benefit.
I liked being part of Europe. I feel vulnerable to the whims of the US, China etc al.
Plus, it may be pretty idyllic in those places to visit but the people have to bust their balls to make a living. Working in a Spar shop in Carcassonne isn't really any different than in Leeds, at the end of the day and their social safety net is decent but nothing close to Finland.
Well I think calling people in the south of France the happiest (because of the weather?) is pretty absurd (and yes, I have visited the south of France, I have relatives living there), but anyway the point stands that it isn't people in the USA.
Difference is Finn's and French would have burned their country down by now if a Russian agent was president in their country.
They've wouldn't have elected him in the first place...
America's education system was eroded by Russian interference for +40 years now. This is what you get.
That rating is heavily based on public service quality which is very high in Finland and the rest of Scandinavia. Not sure how well it stands in for happiness.
Mate the Fins are renowned for having the best standard of living, and happiness levels, on the planet. Year after year. All the Fins I know are extremely chilled out (but you wouldn't want to take them on in a bar fight).
We noticed that some Nordic visitors to India had earned enough money working in their own country for six months to spend the other six consuming cannabis in India.
Probably they go to Thailand now.
No idea what that has to do with anything. There's times when people can't buy alcohol. So? What country doesn't have some control on booze sales? You can get as much alcohol as you wish, if that's your thing, in any European country, even Finland. Strange thing to focus on . . .
We, too, at the moment have an utterly irresponsible government working it's level best to destroy what we have in order to stash their own pockets, but nevertheless. I think you can find plenty of countries to challenge the issue with. In Europe and beyond, too.
That's a shame because whenever I moan at our politicians I always say that we've got enough wealth in the country (the UK), if there were progressive taxation, to live like the Nordics do. I hope it's just a blip where you are. Good luck.
In what fucking world did Americans have the best lives? Was it when I was 8 & my family became homeless because we lost our house in bankruptcy from medical debt? Was it when I decided not to have kids, because I could NOT afford daycare and student loans? When I skip meds from insufficient funds?
42 here. I’m wondering when it was good too. Parents saved and scraped my entire childhood to buy a home, they finally got one when I was 16 only to lose it when the economy crashed in 07. Lost our family cabinet shop too a year later. I don’t think I’ll ever own a place, especially after all this.
Raising two daughters during trump has been a nightmare. I hate the world I’ve brought them into. I’ve been laid off 3 times all during republican presidencies. The stress from everything has broken me. Majority of my pain in life has been because of Republicans and their greed. Fuck them all.
I feel guilty to complain when there are people suffering much worse in the world, but the constant mental stress, anger, fear, and depression from trying to navigate life on a tight rope here in the US is awful. Especially knowing it doesn’t have to be this way but toxic capitalism traps us.
This is probably the best example of the underlying problem I’ve been reading so far. All those shiny numbers in growth, GDP, Dow performance are worth nothing if the hard working people don’t feel it. Sadly Trump somehow managed to redirect that deep unhappiness. Thanks for sharing and stay strong.
99% of us shoulder the impacts of predatory capitalism & tax burden of maintaining US infrastructure while the 1% hoard wealth like dragons sitting on piles of rubies. Yet the majority of the 99% REFUSE to correct an inequitable tax structure, for-profit healthcare system or put limits on C-Suite 💰
Not bored. Angry. He & his cohorts convinced the poor & downtrodden yte americans that ALL their problems were cuz of the rest of us & that THEY could give them all the riches, power, money, beauty, land & smarts (see how DUMB they are?) if they help get rid of all of us. How's that working for ya?
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Might be the last thing they own.
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When it did, it was nice to know it wasn’t some catastrophe he created.
You have the highest incarceration rate in the world, you have the highest school shootings in the world, people go bankrupt if they get ill, tent cities, people live in their cars etc etc
Hon it’s wasn’t ever good
The US elite were always the problem
Its not DEI or other countries trade agreements
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Ranked 5th in the world for incarcerations, and 55th in the world for longevity.
One can only hope that if we get past this, there is enough momentum for some real change to occur.
SOME USAians have had & still have good lives. Many have not.
I've lived in 4 other countries where a higher percentage have & have had better lives consistently.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/frywall-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U4.BrV5.F6ABTEP0I7JJ&smid=url-share
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Right there.
As an atheist I say this….
They don't know that 60% of us are living paycheck to paycheck, with most of rural America living in borderline or outright poverty.
White America hates Immigrants and Black people and refused to elect a Black woman president.
They preferred an incompetent lying rapist nazi felon traitor to Hillary or Kamala.
Hmmm MAGA kinda quiet now.
But sure , just call it "boredom"
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Fuck them for fucking us.
Vigilantes Inc splains it check out Greg Palast's work
https://open.substack.com/pub/tellthetruth4free/p/trump-and-elon-stole-the-election?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3dzlm
Please try my open letter on the election.
WARNING: the following link leads to extremely high levels of SNARK
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/theres-no-sense-in-the-nonsensical?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
By comparison, most American's are 'poor'. They lack a private jet, or even the cash to fly first class.
This market meltdown has comparatively made them wealthier.
Meanwhile, I’ll be hoarding toilet paper again.
With a catastrophic healthcare "system", the two party "electoral college" that is a only parody of democracy, killing each other more often than those killed in your many many wars, a failing education system, religulous BS over and over and the imperial "system"...
But I just had to look,
Having read the book”
Instead of one major emergency ruining me, it would take two. My "life savings" amounts to about 1.5k cuz there was nothing to save
For instance, free healthcare would solve a TON of "unrelated" issues, but we "can't do it" cuz 🤷♂️
This isn't a left right thing, it's a class issue. The exploiting class wants for profit healthcare so thats what we get. Red or blue, same shit
At best, she wouldn't have made it more predatory, not free
Since the 80s, the top 1% have stolen something like 10 trillion dollars from us. The wealth WE create is stolen
Don't include non voters as a consideration. They can burn with the Trump fluffers
People are right to be angry, and Trump knew how to tap into that anger even though he offered nothing for the working class.
so the majority of all the white americans ... and a large portion of the Black and brown population who hate that they were not born white ... decided to burn it all down.
They don't know 60% of us are living paycheck to paycheck.
This was in a middle of the road country.
Watching the U.S. destroy the global economy over petty grievances is fucking disgusting.
We deserve scorn, and we are clearly incapable of global leadership.
Mossadeq is my first thought.
Dresden is more realistic.
too busy giving tax cuts to wealthy, greedy billionaires.
While the bottom 99% fight over scraps ! We live in hell
they actually care about children
But in all honesty, it isn’t.
No decent healthcare, mass shootings, gun violence, poor public school system, etc
Which apparently was just a distraction while the folks behind the Wall Street Putsch set up a counterrevolution against FDR and the New Deal.
Ironic, really.
JFK was the first President who actually believed they wanted to destroy America. And then he nearly destroyed the world TWICE - three if you include Vietnam.
The USSR reacted to America arming after WW2 for literally no reason.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country
Sure, a lot of ignorance (ignorants) voted for MAGA, yet, let's not forget how the DNC neglected to address the pro-genocide they support. Too close to the right IMO.
Also, elections may have been rigged in both 2020 and 2024.
https://electiontruthalliance.org/
We morons blame the DNC who support AIPAC and fund the war crimes.
I don't disagree with your analysis. However it stops at first base. Dig deeper.
remember that
Did they skim the cover of an Amazon book written by a guy who made up his sources?
Idk
The economy is being crushed using ideas laughed at in Econ101.
the ones who could stop it?
They won’t.
Is it cuz they hate minorities — or they’re terrified of their own voters? 🤷🏻♂️
a-holes that didn’t bother to vote & are boohooing now
https://youtu.be/Qn5RamAEt3E?si=sOlAMZAfYFBcYT8l
I would hate to live there,
No free healthcare at the point of use,
Shite food standards,
Higher wages but everything is much more expensive so less savings,
Naff all vacation time compared to UK and Europe,
Kids get shot at school often,
Murder rate much higher,
Subpar education.
It all needs security, insurance, maintenance,
I'm over it all, keep life as simple as I can these days, boats and baubles all gone just about, have a motorbike and a small cheap Civic hatchback, I travel a lot now, real freedom.
Met some proper twats too, lol.
You've been warned for decades. You knew better, Americans.
You did this to yourselves. Honest enough to admit that, feckless know it all arrogant yuppie brats?
TRUMP AND ELON CHEATED TO STEAL THE 2024 ELECTION.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tellthetruth4free/p/trump-and-elon-stole-the-election?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3dzlm
Robot techs and managers only need apply!
When you say his name, it's like most of his voters think you're talking about them directly. It's one of his greatest tricks he's pulled on them.
29% of white evangelicals believed Trump was "anointed by God" to lead.
Another 49% didn’t necessarily think he was divinely chosen but still supported him strongly for policy reasons.
This is 5-10% of the US.
The New Apostolic Reformation is a Christian supremacist theological belief and controversial movement associated with the far-right to advocate for spiritual warfare to bring about Christian dominion and the separation of church and state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation
Too many say the line “it’s a cult” with hate and not with compassion and understanding.
If you know how they think, you know how to free them.
Our election system is FAR from being secure!
It made it easy to succeed with "they are different from you so it's their fault", and big promises.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-26/uk-economy-to-outperform-europe-in-next-15-years-says-cebr
I assume you're not a Brit.
EU citizen but I've lived in England 35 yrs
Don't believe the doom sayers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-outpace-other-european-countries-151919402.html
I would still lump my lot back in with Europe. And I may well be dead in 15 years so won't reap this tiny perceived benefit.
I liked being part of Europe. I feel vulnerable to the whims of the US, China etc al.
The country voted to leave in 2016 2017 and 2019
And voted to not rejoin last year
Time to accept it and move on mate
Things don't always go the way you wanted ...that's life
But pretty good compared to many.
I think many Americans simply don't realise how much worse it can be.
They think the USA is somehow immune to real dictatorship and poverty.
Best lives are probably enjoyed in southern France or some other Mediterranean coast places.
Sure, it's cold in winter, blah blah.
But day to day, it's pretty damn good. And every poll says the same.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
Yes, they have great education and healthcare.
Calling them the happiest nation based on that is a joke.
They've wouldn't have elected him in the first place...
America's education system was eroded by Russian interference for +40 years now. This is what you get.
Some country's restrict cannabis more than others, that doesn't reflect the people's happiness levels.
Probably they go to Thailand now.