Infeed, back here in the UK we forget how big America is and how much aithority is devolved to the states and how much economic power they have, California is the 5th largest economy in the world.
As of today, we just surpassed Japan so we are now 4th largest gdp in the world. It begs the question, why should CA pay federal taxes when we get nothing from it?
So you are just going to ignore the fact they ended CISA effectively, and have a multi-prong approach, from inside the government, to lie cheat and steal every national election. If you think trump actually won every swing state, you are insanely naive.
Trump's approval rating still stands at 44%, which is coincidentally the same figure as that of the free opposition in Hungary. Meanwhile, Viktor Orbán's ruling party Fidesz has fallen to 36% of voting intentions.
Frankly, Budapest offers more hope than Washington.
No one in USG will stop Trump: not the Dem congress, not the Bondi DOJ and not the fascist SCOTUS! USA is a dead democracy in full on fascist takeover. End of.
The law has always relied on it's enforcement by threat of punishment. That simply does not exist for this President while Republicans are in power. For them to allow what's happening now speaks volumes about how they believe the future is going to play out.
If and when (being positive) that this regime is removed. One of the first changes must be to put in place a system that never allows this to happen again. I’d start with the electoral system.
Agree that checks need to be put into place. And agree in general that the electoral college is not a great idea. But in this case, America (popular vote) chose this. This is who we are right now. That should not be swept under the rug.
I think the popular vote would have been different if everyone believed their vote counted equally. How many “stay at homes” or protest votes were there in safe non-swing states?
I'm sure that is true, but also suspect that is equally true in Vermont and Idaho. Again, I do think the EC is a problem, but its still a fact that in 2024 Trump won the popular vote (and 7 million people who voted for Biden, more or less, stayed home). This is a problem.
I'd start by doing what Australia and a few other nations have already done. Limit the amount of money a billionaire or a millionaire can contribute to a political campaign to $20,000.
I'd start with making commercials of the various groups that voted for dRUMP and then went on TV to state their racist & misogynist man is "missing"; while they hold a milk carton with his face
I don't think rules will help
I think voting for the correct keeper of the constitution is the only way
It’s not even possible to make a complete and coherent axiomatic system of math, what makes you think you can make a government that is immune from collective stupidity?
The Senate doesn't need to be abolished. But a few low population states should only get 1 senator. And a few high population states should get a third. Keep it at 100 total.
I agree with everything but abolishing the Senate. The Senate is far more deliberative than the House (even with Reps in charge), and has tended to put the brakes on the more reckless legislation to come out of the House in recent years. We need that check to stay in place.
I truly believe that there is definitely corruption going on. Along with Russian and Musk interference. They have 4 years from Trump’s 1st term to think and strategize of ways to dismantle this country.
I’d start with bullshit media entities like The Economist that had no problem playing footsie with facists and tacitly endorsed Trump the whole time until it became clear he would destroy the economy
100%, but their inclination will be to do nothing and use it as a wedge issue to drive voting. Women have died because they did not codify Roe while it was under constant attack for years. They could also reset the bar high by mandating all party reps put wealth into a blind trust without a law.
First, and foremost, the oligarchy must be brought down. We are an oligarchy!! How that will be accomplished will take wisdom and bravery on the part of the American people. Sadly, now, we are entrenched.
I'd start elsewhere - level the political playing field, money out of politics, address power and executive issues. Political frustration led us here. We need cooperation to be incentives in the system.
The however many days to go simply doesn't apply this time round because America has shown it's willing to re-elect Trump (and GOP majorities in the senate and congress). He/his politics are neither finite nor an aberration.
Agreed. Trump is a symptom of a broader disease that has stricken America. People believe that if we can only excise the tumor that is Trump, the country will be restored to health. It’s not that simple-the grievance riddled white working class is still out there, festering.
The question should be "Why the GOP doesn't stop Trump" as they are conveniently mute at what "he" is doing. He doesn't know anything about government, he is handed out every single paper he signs, and parrots his handlers. Why no one covers what is really happening?!
We now see MAGA means: Muddling America’s Greatness Away.
Trump's biggest strategic mistake - and biggest crime against humanity – is to steal the world’s Climate Budget by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, isolating the US in a minority of one.
It’s more like 20%, that blindly loyal cultish segment of US voters.
US voters care about how their wallets feel, and even cult members are peeling themselves away at the moment. They won’t vote Dem, but they won’t vote Maga again either.
We need (at least) a New Deal-style wealth redistribution to stomp out fascism's appeal. Neither major party is interested. As in the 1930s, it'll take a coalition to push for it.
People building power outside of Ds and Rs have the right idea.
The collective is a little slow in it's reaction, especially the most important one: the opposition in the capitol and it's leader, Chuck Schumer. I don't receive any mentions about him. What is he doing?
I feel giddy inside when I see Trump referred to as “Mr,” rather than “president.” He doesn’t deserve the reverence of that title. Call him Mr. like every other boring old white guy.
They're more optimistic than me. The mere fact Trump was even able to gain the WH once given his known history for decades of pathological lying, cons, frauds, etc, shows how badly flawed the US system is.
And then he gets a second term, AFTER being convicted of fraud and sexual harassment?! We’re not just flawed, we’re broken; broken by our worship of privilege, power and patriarchy.
Actually, many of us would like congress to become a problem for him. How can we arrange that? Gum up those wheels with superglue, marshmallows, anything that will stick. The destruction he has already inflicted on us is going to take more years than I have to repair.
You’re saying we have to rely on powers that have failed to put up even token resistance, up to this point, to save us?
That’s not “moderately hopeful", that’s fantasy bordering on journalistic malfeasance.
A Revolutionary? Is that the updated word for rapist, felon, traitor insurrectionist who sends innocent people to concentration camps? Oh, ok. Headlines and those who write them need to do better.
Note the language The Economist uses. "Trump is a revolutionary...will he succeed"... and Shashank putting the most positive spin he can on the autocrat destroying lives and economies.
You have no meaningful response to the Trump administration because you have no meaningful commitment to basic values of any decent society. "Will Trump succeed?" as if this is all a political game, not really real. They're literally disappearing people off the street!
You've got to be kidding. "Our country is exceptional so it's immune to bad things, even the bad things we're literally seeing happen right now" Grow a spine before you get rolled by this administration too
It's so fun watching the Rubber band style economic policy of a team who can only be described as idiots... "tariffs for all! ... just kidding, guys. Oops, nope. Take backs! Tariffs again!"
We all know the remaining days of this term are irrelevant.
If he remains in power until November 2028, then he isn’t going anywhere and democracy is dead
No we should be counting g down to mid terms and do everything possible to take back both houses of congress and impeach everyone in the trump administration
I saw this earliet today. As it was said, this cover art reflects exactly what our country is going through right now. And BTW, many of us don't know if we can survive the other 1361 days. Oy!
I’ve had a subscription with them for a long time & love them. But I was upset after they went after Biden piling on. I voted for Harris but I also knew a black woman, was going to be a tall climb for this country when a white woman failed. It is still my fav publication.
"former Vice President Joe Biden called himself a 'bridge' to future Democratic leaders Monday night as he campaigned with Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer."
You’re so high on lib sauce if you think the reason she lost was because she’s a woman of color, it didn’t help, but it’s not the reason. Dems needed to run an economic populist. AOC wins that race easily, you can see it in polling numbers she actually splits off 20% of the GOP. That’s Obama numbers
Yep...Red states have put in place so many voter suppression laws, that no Dems or DOJ have challenged legally, that voting is a joke in Red states...it's totally rigged already.
Had a meeting with the Chief of Staff to our MOC, and he kept talking about the mid-terms. My dude. How do we ensure that we get to the mid-terms? He would not hear us.
Anyone who says we're overreacting is privileged and insulated. They're the people who won't believe anyone has it bad until they -- personally -- have it bad.
Oh, definitely! The ones who are literally proud that their kid died of measles, and vow not to immunize the surviving children.
They need professional deprograming.
This dystopian nightmare gleefully brought to you by The Economist. Great job. Finally have two businessmen running things. Into the ground. At least he’s not 5 years older or a woman of color.
You could have had the eagle dead on its back with feet up because there will be no recovery for the US after trump 2.0. Biden managed to recover the US after trump 1.0, but Biden's management was masterful not likely to be repeated & the trump damage this time will be far, far greater
How in the hell will we make it that long when just four months seems like five years? I mean really with Hegseth letting everyone in on his calls we probably won't be a country by then.
It's cute people think there will be another election.
Trump and his moron brigade are not even making a pretense at placating constituents. They're planning a red flag event so they can use the insurrection act to suspend the constitution and declare martial law.
Short-sighted. Project 2025 and this regime have no intention of permitting significant voting that puts their dictatorship at risk. Smell the coffee. That’s the whole point of this wrecking ball process. The techno-feudalist overlord “wizards” behind the curtain don’t plan to give up power.
A right-wing amputation might stop the gangrene from spreading but either way, the prognosis is flightlessness
@economist.com #EverythingTrumpTouchesDies
I hate to agree, but I felt this in my bones when it announced it was running again, and knew if it got back into the WH, it would never leave. Reading P2025, my brain concurred with my bones.
These are the same bones that felt sure Harris would lose.
It’s really 557 until he can be wrapped in continuous hearings and noise. Here’s the countdown by seconds 😊. US Citizens - election laws are changing - check your registration!!).
Can we survive another 14 of these "100 days"? Already burning down the economy, kidnapping citizens and trafficking them to foreign gulags, and having the most corrupt administration in history.
Biden was old, but he didn’t let unelected, anti-American fascists run the country. He didn’t piss off our allies or trading partners. He didn’t kiss Putin’s ass.
There’s a big difference.
Even today, all major media falls all over themselves sane washing trump. "Yes!, Yes!, 145% tariffs will make Americans rich!". "Such a genius he is!".
Trump signs $5,000 payment to give birth. This is the same exact policy Putin enacted in Russia's "White" Oblast. Russia is offering cash incentives to school-age girls to have children in an effort to address the country's falling birth rate.
Starting from 2025, women in at least 11 regions in Russia who are full-time students and between the ages of 18 and 23 when they give birth are eligible for the 100,000 ruble incentive. Additionally, Russia is offering a hero's medal and $16,000 to women who have 10 children.
Trump signs $5,000 payment to give birth. This is the same exact policy Putin enacted in Russia's "White" Oblast. Russia is offering cash incentives to school-age girls to have children in an effort to address the country's falling birth rate.
Starting from 2025, women in at least 11 regions in Russia who are full-time students and between the ages of 18 and 23 when they give birth are eligible for the 100,000 ruble incentive. Additionally, Russia is offering a hero's medal and $16,000 to women who have 10 children.
Bad strategy. MAGA cheated this election 🗳️. You think they are going to 🛑 ? Steve Bannon talks about the 100 year MAGA reign. They are fascist filth. They must be rooted out like the vile villains they are! The World depends on the destruction of MAGA. It is all that matters. It is not optional.
You don't have to wait 1362 days to do something. Nor do you have to wait for a politician to do something. You can take action yourselves. That is allowed.
Except the Eagle rehab facility has been closed and private equity has purchased the logging companies & directed them to start with large old growth forest habitat in parks so they can develop land into private real estate …
Stop pretending there is "x" amount of days left to this regime.
Regimes aren't voted out.
Regimes don't hold fair elections.
Americans need to face this if they want to correctly assess their situation.
We should all start a count down clock like this to make sure everyone one of his motherfucking supporters understands that a 3rd term is an impossibility we will not allow to happen.
Powerful & compelling.
How about putting fake patriot fake Christians fake news and the fake president… in the Russian spy Krasnov
Oh, I don’t know what I’m saying. I’m just outraged today and for the last 100 days.
There is no way that they will not have to have 24/7 armed security where they plant his carcass. The million people he killed by ignoring covid is just the tip of the iceberg or the damage that thing has done to our country.
The only way I could say something like that is is if I were obscenely wealthy and was relieved that trump in there means I continue to skate on paying any taxes.
Coulter is very wealthy and owns a Palm Beach mansion not too far from Mar-a-Lago. Florida allows blind ownership of real estate property for privacy reasons, so I cannot track down the exact address or value of the property very easily.
One of these jokes that could earn you a visit from the plainclothes secret police in the old, dark times of the communist regime (I grew under one like this).
Elections are run state-by-state. We don’t have federally administered elections. Instead, they continue to work on disenfranchising voters, gerrymandering and hobbling fundraising organizations that oppose them.
The more important countdown: 558 days. That's the time remaining to the midterms.
If the congressional majority doesn't change hands at that point, any of the worst-case scenarios is possible. But the change will be very hard, and the work has to start now.
I hope they did too. Artists are important. I will say tho, I tend to sign the back of my canvass. Usually in ink cause I suck at my signature in paint. That looks like a charcoal drawing tho.
There's probably a betting market for that if you want to put your money on your prediction. I'll bet you have something like 4:1 return if you win, or better.
If you're highly confident in a prediction when most people are highly confident in the other direction, you can bet money that the outcome will go your way, and be paid multiple amounts if you win. Like betting on a longshot horse and getting paid 20x what you bet if they win.
....high confidence in an unlikely position then it looks to me that they could win huge amounts of money from their perspective. If they're unwilling to bet, then I start to get suspicious. I offered to bet climate deniers many times and only one took me up on it.
But it's not that long until the midterms. If Dems can take the House AND the Senate, that feckless orange twatwaffle can be impeached and actually convicted this time. I know, I know, Vance is no better, but he's a less capricious evil, and even that would be a welcomed change.
Good morning friend! Doing good! While I don’t celebrate Easter, I did have a beautiful day seeing everyone pictures & videos of love and enjoying it💙. Thank you.
That is a bit hopeful.
Do folks really think the world is going to forgive and forget our attacks, lies, endless broken promises?
The citizens of the U.S. seem to be the only ones with short term memory loss.
It’s adorable that you think this ends in a transfer of power or Congress will protect the constitution. Delulu Land is no longer a mythical place. It exists in the media. Believe the man when he says what he says. He wants to be king. The majority of voters created this. Now we all suffer.
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No lies or misrepresenting of the facts detected.
2. See "Russia".
3. Remember, "no more need to vote".
Pseudocolor + accessories added - because we need both a coffee and a whiskey :)
In the United States, there are more firearms than people.
Frankly, Budapest offers more hope than Washington.
https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/hungary/
I don't think rules will help
I think voting for the correct keeper of the constitution is the only way
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/?srnd=phx-bigtake&embedded-checkout=true
We didn't do that. Might be too late. If not, we should codify them - after about 6 months of payback
even the filler substance in Tylenol ...
Fixed it for ye.
Trump's biggest strategic mistake - and biggest crime against humanity – is to steal the world’s Climate Budget by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, isolating the US in a minority of one.
It will bite him in the ass.
or the tariffs.
or becoming king.
until… the next announcement, maybe. he has time. until he dies, he has all the time.
US voters care about how their wallets feel, and even cult members are peeling themselves away at the moment. They won’t vote Dem, but they won’t vote Maga again either.
People building power outside of Ds and Rs have the right idea.
Maximum 30%.
That’s not “moderately hopeful", that’s fantasy bordering on journalistic malfeasance.
He should be a Tesla salesman.
Not soon enough but at least there are some grumbles coming from the GOP side.
If he remains in power until November 2028, then he isn’t going anywhere and democracy is dead
130 days MAX.
If the poor eagle likes like that NOW...
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🖕MAGA!🖕
Good image but nonsense caption.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/politics/joe-biden-bridge-new-generation-of-leaders/index.html
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country.
I admire your optimism.
😡
They need professional deprograming.
The kind that Ukrainians and Latinos are forced to deal with daily
in 1,361 days
i will be
but a shadow of
my former self
Trump and his moron brigade are not even making a pretense at placating constituents. They're planning a red flag event so they can use the insurrection act to suspend the constitution and declare martial law.
Identikit is costing you $10? You need a new dealer.
@economist.com #EverythingTrumpTouchesDies
These are the same bones that felt sure Harris would lose.
We are no longer a democracy.
(BTW, ❤️ the economist)
https://days.to/election-day-in-us/2026/11/3
Too late now for optics of "Kamala was the only/better choice".
She was the only viable option and it's not even remotely in the same category
No such people now
All fools with fealty to Trump
There’s a big difference.
Missed a few, though.
He was a useless roadbump.
We may make it to midterms..
May.
This Blustering and Threatening-Only To Retreat, Then Try To Re-Write Events-Is Blatantly Unprofessional, un-American, and Dangerous!
America-And The World-Know!
🇺🇸 🌍
You don't have to wait 1362 days to do something. Nor do you have to wait for a politician to do something. You can take action yourselves. That is allowed.
I regularly check and post the Log to #EndOfTerm
https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4
removal is the solution.
The injured & sick eagles will die
More will die & fewer will reproduce due to habitat loss in the next 2years.
..can’t even imagine where we will be in 4
Regimes aren't voted out.
Regimes don't hold fair elections.
Americans need to face this if they want to correctly assess their situation.
How about putting fake patriot fake Christians fake news and the fake president… in the Russian spy Krasnov
Oh, I don’t know what I’m saying. I’m just outraged today and for the last 100 days.
https://youtu.be/yXA9iIYlegM?si=v0IUO_M_GdKx1UXX
https://youtu.be/yXA9iIYlegM?si=v0IUO_M_GdKx1UXX
Congress created this mess, so they can stop it. Demand Trump is impeached and removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fpONi5hvVc&t=4s
Congress created this mess, so they can stop it. Demand Trump is impeached and removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fpONi5hvVc&t=4s
If the congressional majority doesn't change hands at that point, any of the worst-case scenarios is possible. But the change will be very hard, and the work has to start now.
I'd advise against it though.
When people have....
Yes, some people don't gamble....
I think this suggests at least a reduced confidence in their prediction.
Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Email them through their websites.
Tell them this:
1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily.
2. Visit the concentration camps in El Salvador and demand to see your constituents.
Or don’t ask for money…
(Please repost)
Do folks really think the world is going to forgive and forget our attacks, lies, endless broken promises?
The citizens of the U.S. seem to be the only ones with short term memory loss.
Sadly no one listened her…