While I'm definitely worried about the negative impacts of the next administration, I'm more worried about the cover-up of the impact data. Recall that Trump did everything he could to hide COVID data.
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I have the same fears, and they are entirely justified. He will have to hide the abject failures of the policies he implements to avoid blowback from that portion of those who voted for him who will understand why their lives now suck.
I feel like at this point, I'm just really looking forward to the books about the stuff we couldn't know about. The things I'm sure many members of the current government are doing everything they can. What an embarrassing time to be an American. What a horrible stain.
I'm mostly worried about all of the veterans with PTSD and the people with debilitating mental illness losing their medical benefits and access to mental health services and all going off their psych meds at once, but yeah that incorrect impact data is scary stuff.
Once they gut damn near all the regulations that keep us safe & the departments that collect the data I expect the cover-up will commence rather quickly. Remember if there is no data the numbers are always great.
I'm more concerned about having the Democratic Republic left to defend, not the data. The data was an issue last term, going full Dicator Tyrant appears to be the issue this term.
Yes this will be a terrible problem as it is with all authoritarian regimes.. Even more so if he gains more control over the Fed and cooks the books to a cinder.
Well you can count on MORE people DYING this time around then they did from Covid! People won't have healthcare, vaccines, safe food, water or air because the Trump REGIME plans to get RID of those things that help KEEP us SAVE & HEALTHY! It would be perfect Karma if THEY were the 1st to go!😠
Shhhhh do not tell the USA they are 4% of the World! They have 20% of Covid Dead and sick! Still going 4 years later! 13.8% got the 2024 Covid shot!
Vaccine manufacturers stocks going down! H5N1 will be worse! Buy N95 respirators and safety glasses if u do not wear them normally.
15% less Covid!
Maybe but when prices start skyrocketing for consumers, they'll know it.
It's just a matter of how convincing they are of blaming Dems for it a year or two down the road.
Could just say ___ prices are the lowest they've ever been, and if any news organization reports differently they'll go after them. His supports love being gaslit so it'll be this bizarro reality.
If the telecom, banking, credit card, online retail, isp, genetics, medical, and data processing industries have taught us anything, it's that data is always accessible.
This is a major concern for me also. We will need independent journalists and experts in fields like economics to be very assertive in challenging data and vocal in elevating it. Some honest inside sources wouldn’t hurt either.
IIF a saner administration followers there will be work for many investigators to 1) explain the dastardly things that happened and 2) how so much of the US Treasury ended up in Donnie's accounts both onshore and offshore.
Exactly, we can’t count on the media to call it out and these idiots who think Trump will make a better economy will believe anything. No amount of “I told you so” is going to get through to them.
I’m thinking about future elections. The only way to get people to have confidence in our voting system again is to get rid of the Electoral College. One person, one vote! Also, the main corrupter in American politics is Citizens United. That HAS GOT TO GO! That and gerrymandering.
That’s true. I’m confident that the MAGA movement is going to fail. Epically. They’re already in-fighting, & 45 isn’t even in the WH. I believe that, once the MAGA minions realize they were being duped by 45 for YEARS, & that, to him, they were only a means to an end, there will be a mass exodus.
Not to forget the impact of the data cover ups. Look at China. For years they didn’t publish, or probably even gather, accurate banking and economic data. Eventually reality will bite back, and with a vengeance.
Look at Russia. Some are now deriving inflation rates from historical vlogs. This is more accurate than the information provided by the Russian government.
And that scares the hell out of me as well. A lot of people lost their lives so he could look the heir and lay blame elsewhere. Not going to be pretty at all
That just means we have to be more involved in what our politicians are doing and to call out anything and everything. If they won’t tell the people and try to hide, we need to find out for ourselves.
Yeah. It’s going to be very, very bad. Just like state’s hiding data “from” infant mortality review boards about the impact of anti-abortion laws. I think documenting the facts of the next 4 yrs is probably the most important act of resistance we can muster.
Good point. I’m hoping people go out into their communities more, because we are all going to need to support and lookout for each other for the next four plus years.
Hard to forget Trump saying that if we stopped testing, there wouldn't be a pandemic. He was frustrated with the rising numbers and actually blamed the testing for Covid. Guess there will be no more testing and reported data so the danger of another pandemic is pretty much nonexistent now. 🤪
We still don't know, what we don't know about 45's term.
So much news/evidence was either successfully suppressed or destroyed upon exiting (E.g. Chief of Staff's fireplace). The clogging of toilets, the eaten hand written notes, the unknown amount of Presidential Records Act violations + more...
I don't understand why no one reports on his golfing buddies. I believe that is where he has been doing a lot of "business" over the years, where he can have private conversations under the radar.
Yeah, and on the golf course after 1/6 is when Trump told Lindsey Graham the Kompromat he and Putin have on him and Lindsey did a 180 on his condemnation of the insurrection.
Of course you haven't. The "media" are only shows & magnifies the stumbles.
Here he is at the Waffle House right after the debate watch party and before the flight to NC.
He also took the log away for WH visitors .
No press conferences unless he spoke daily ad nauseum . Then they made a lie about NY gov Como who had to leave his post. !!! No trail ever happened cz they didn ‘t have enough evidence . Politics is sooooooo dirty .
I'm not sure he'll be influencing anything of real consequence, just signing where he's told. I wonder if we're extremely overfocused on the useful (and very old and dementing) idiot.
This is when we will need whistleblowers. Leaks will be necessary too but I am not sure our journalists are up to reporting this info. It will be far more important than the chaos of a Trump administration.
I get that these politicians are hungry for power ….but for the life of me I will never understand how they didn’t band together after January 6 and decide to condemn his actions and move the party forward in a different direction.
Because that Frankenstein monster of a base that they helped create were still loyal to Trump. Remember when Graham tried to publicly split with Trump over 1/6 then was confronted at the airport by angry Trumpkins? It wasn’t long after that they all fell back in line.
Their relationship is written about in detail in Woodward’s books Peril and War…Graham and others realized that they needed his endorsement… I think they just wanted to win the midterms and then cut him loose. I’m not sure they realized it would snowball into him running again. And here we are 🤯
The point is Trump should have been nuclear grade level toxic after January 6th. NOBODY should have been looking for his endorsement no matter what the base wanted. If they had completely shunned him and called for his prosecution we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.
100% agree I just don’t know how they went from fearing for their lives and our democracy on 1/6 to letting him be the candidate….to endorsing him!
just trying to find some reasoning behind it… and now…allowing him and his clowns to dismantle our democracy. The evil in that party is frightening
It's called finding the perfect unprincipled stooge--to let them change this country into a white Christian nation. This is why Bill Barr wanted so badly to be his AG but orange monster went too far even for him. Also the goal for conservative justices. Far right has been planning this for decades.
I think the writers of Project 2025 handing the entirety of the wealth of our country to the rich required they ignore ANY & EVERYTHING bc those billionaires need their money repaid back for their original investment no matter how imperfect the candidate to do it.
Deathsantis did too. He instructed his health agency to only count Florida residents that were US citizens in the death toll and in the infected tally. Anyone not a citizen or visiting here was not counted. And they probably weren’t counted in their resident state bc they were here at the time.
We have to find truthful spokespeople with expertise.
During that time I would listen to the Covid reports made by Gov. Cuomo in NY.
The Trump reports were a clown act. Dr. Burke practically strangled herself with her scarf, Fauci hid his face, and Trump told Americans how to kill themselves.
I think the depth of their depravity will eventually come out and i think we’ll somehow still be shocked by how much shit they pull that we never knew about.
Stand with your neighbors and (ignorant friends) we need solidarity more than ever. Pity the media brainwash our fellow Americans have fallen victim of. Shame those that are willfully pushing this hateful agenda
Right, we now have a at best laughable joke of a human as the President derelict.
Morally and physically bankrupt, ready to trade Ukraine in first then the US for a spot in the kremlin’s favor.
Pond scum and detritus would do a better job than this one.
This is why we need real investigative journalists who are interested in doing their job. We need a major media outlet to take up the mantle of truth. Independent journalists don't have the reach needed to make the difference we need.
Higher crime rates, poverty, and unemployment will be impossible to coverup on the local level. Communities will experience it, feel it, and personally be impacted by it. People have already tuned out national news. If more local stations kiss the ring they will tune them out as well.
I’ve thought of that too. Maternal mortality cause by abortion bans, food recalls, food poisoning deaths, spread of preventable childhood diseases, Tesla crash rates. The list goes on and on
Yeah I just saw something yesterday where someone was saying how much he did with the vaccines-seriously? Are we also going to start rewriting history books? Maybe it was Trump who rode in warning that the British were coming. 🙄🙄 you see where I’m going with this…he is a POS who made things worse
With each passing day there is more to worry about, making it exponentially more difficult to choose a more or most worried about, at least it is for me. 🫣
Yup, the Alberta Government and Stephen Harper did that here too. Every reporting agency who counted numbers and reported facts they didn't like got disbanded. It's going to get much harder to get verifiable facts in the USA very soon.
He failed to document a lot of things, like White House visitor logs, or outright destroyed evidence and records. It’ll be far worse this time. Nazis kept records. Trump avoids accountability.
The cover up will start with legacy media coverage. I'm planning on getting citations of facts that I can put out to my MAGA neighbors. They know I'm a scholar, so me citing sources won't be unusual. However, how do you get them to listen?
We can only hope some Republican lawmakers will wake up. A number of Trump's desire in his wish list requires an act of Congress to either enact or repeal a long standing law. As for the Constitution, Trump will need a super majority to amend the articles like birth right.
Exactly!! Endless fucking hearings full of lies and for what?? Who will draw the line? SCOTUS is stacked in MAGA’s favor and MAGA controls everything!! It’s absolutely terrifying!!
So what do you suggest? That folks that witness corruption just keep quiet? Do nothing, say nothing, because the deck is stacked against you? We can't choose to engage in resistance only when it looks like a walk in the park.
I agree with you and I think we have to fight like hell, but it is so discouraging right now and I fear it is going to get so much worse. It is hard not to feel like the evil forces have played a really good long game. We need strong leaders to emerge to unite the resistance.
I agree with you. It is discouraging, and frustrating. And it's impossible not to feel more than a little helpless. But I refuse to feel hopeless. There are good leaders out there. Our job is to identify them, amplify them. Connect with people doing good things. This isn't over, not by a long shot.
They have definitely played the long game. A tea-partier told me long ago that the goal was the judges, and he has been single-minded on the abortion issue for as long as I have known him.
That's the beauty (and the difficulty) of living in a democracy. We are all called upon to be leaders. We won't all run for office. But we can amplify the voices of activists in our communities, encourage others to stay involved, support our schools and libraries. We find ways to lead together.
As far as SCOTUS goes you're right. Clarence and Alito need to be held accountable before the next regime takes over in January. We can't let Trump's nonsense take away the spotlight from this! They need to be removed and replaced.
In no small part American laws and rules are based on European's first attempts at Democracy. And on of the things quickly learned was that it can be very easy for the crown or the state to make up charges and get a conviction just to bar a popular figure from politics.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/ speaking of data. I highly suggest that everyone go to this site and read. Great organization trying to protect the democratic process.
I am terrified about a potential H5N1 pandemic, If it comes to be it is going to be beyond devastating. There is already an underwhelming response to the brewing situation
They are already covering up data involving deaths from their abortion bans. Not to mention, the children they lost during his last deportation because there were no records. Webjust need to see these people as evil.
If Trump gets his boot licking Cabinet into office and replaces civil servants with cultists, they might falsify official government data. It won't be Trump's word vs. nonpartisan gov. data like in 1st term.
He also hid WHEN he knew. My daughter was critically ill in Sept 2019, nearly didn't survive the "mystery illness." Her adult pulmonologist says there's no doubt now it was covid bc it was here by then. It was rampant in China by July. Trump did nothing.
Absolutely—damage is one thing, but erasing the evidence leaves us powerless to fix it. Hiding COVID data set a terrifying precedent, and now we have to brace for more gaslighting and less accountability. Transparency shouldn’t be optional.
There is so much permanent harm he could do and I can imagine how inept and uncaring he would be in a natural disaster. I really worry about these things.
Cover it up? I think Trump is so emboldened with this bs "mandate" nonsense and because he got away with everything he has already done, that he will do things in everyone's face to prove he's untouchable. I hear what you are saying and hope I'm wrong.
Buckle up! I thought the first four years were bed. I think we’re in for a worse ride this time around. I hate to wish bad on anyone, but I hope this man reaches his expiration date soon.
Know what Trump health/leadership looks like. Tear up playbook, deny, quackery, conspiracy until too many dying can't deny it any longer & forced to vaccine development. "The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus." -Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize, Microbiology.
I would not be surprised as well. I can see them doing it with Veterans Healthcare, as well. So many veterans voted for Trump and refuse to believe 2025 was the plan. When I mentioned that to more than one fellow veteran and I was told, "They said they weren't going to use it." 🤦♀️
The cover-ups will be a tangle of conspiratorial knots so gross it's going to take a special dedicated person(s) and a caseload of de tangling conditioner to lay bare the hideousness of it all.
thoughts on a ground initiative to report on what will sure to be mortal impacts? i can’t believe what is happening to the GA maternal mortality committee…. there has to be some way to organize ground oversight.
Trump, 2025: "See, I told you, didn't I? I won the 2020 election. And I didn't pay hush money. And the secret files weren't in my bathroom. And the rape was consensual. And I didn't have sex outside my marriage. And I never bankrupted a business. And my daughter thinks I'm sexy too. And . . ."
1000% agree! It’s going to be absolutely crucial for healthcare to publish results from large data sets. Hell, even smaller studies are going to matter!! Nurses and physicians really need to make sure this is a priority moving forward.
We can only hope that there is some honest people with a conscience that work in area where they can secure facts and data. This is probably a far fetched wish / dream.
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Vaccine manufacturers stocks going down! H5N1 will be worse! Buy N95 respirators and safety glasses if u do not wear them normally.
15% less Covid!
It's just a matter of how convincing they are of blaming Dems for it a year or two down the road.
We can also just assume that FOIA requests will just be ignored.
So much news/evidence was either successfully suppressed or destroyed upon exiting (E.g. Chief of Staff's fireplace). The clogging of toilets, the eaten hand written notes, the unknown amount of Presidential Records Act violations + more...
After November, I'm not so sure anymore.
Here he is AFTER the debate, watch party & Waffle House, arriving in NC at 2am. He does a little jog & shook every hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQ7lE_a28E
Here he is at the Waffle House right after the debate watch party and before the flight to NC.
No press conferences unless he spoke daily ad nauseum . Then they made a lie about NY gov Como who had to leave his post. !!! No trail ever happened cz they didn ‘t have enough evidence . Politics is sooooooo dirty .
just trying to find some reasoning behind it… and now…allowing him and his clowns to dismantle our democracy. The evil in that party is frightening
During that time I would listen to the Covid reports made by Gov. Cuomo in NY.
The Trump reports were a clown act. Dr. Burke practically strangled herself with her scarf, Fauci hid his face, and Trump told Americans how to kill themselves.
Cyber security experts are warning the election was hacked and are urging VP Harris to call for a recount by hand. Musk might also be involved.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Morally and physically bankrupt, ready to trade Ukraine in first then the US for a spot in the kremlin’s favor.
Pond scum and detritus would do a better job than this one.
Billionaires like Musk will enslave all those stupid people who voted for Trump
Musk will kill off people
Oh, wait.
Thank you, your response is very interesting
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All Trump had to do was tell them he didn’t know anything about it. They believe everything he says.
I’m waiting to see if MAGA is forced into sobriety when his reign knocks them over the head with a hard dose of reality.
I worry about getting real economic numbers! If they’re bad, they’re just going to lie about them !!
Know credible sources, and promote them.
PRESERVE THE DATA.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext
You don’t TELL the people you are robbing and killing that you are robbing and killing them!