his latest move could kill us all
This phrase could literally have been said at any point during Trump's current term, and it will continue to be true for the rest of his term. Trump is regularly doing things that could kill us all.
I honestly think that just the damage that's been done to climate change initiatives might be enough. We had a ton of steam going in to 2025, and this year has set us back by decades. I'm afraid that having such a prominent producer of GHG and pollution pull away so sharply will have knock on effects to other countries. After all, if the US doesn't play ball, why should a smaller industrial country try to be cleaner?
Hopefully there's still willpower and (more importantly) time to fix our shit before people start dying en masse. I kind of have my doubts at this point though. I'm pretty sure we will only start to truly prioritize it once it has a large impact on daily life, and that point will be far too late.
Rest of the world here: WE FUCKING WARNED YOU, YOU MORONS!!!!
Hardly, half of the world is currently considering electing just as moronic representatives.
Seriously. Everybody seems to be very eager to make our same mistake. It's almost like there's some kind of global disinformation campaign or something aimed at undermining democracy and installing ultra right wing leaders....
Well, goodnight.
American here: I warned them too, but they’re too stupid to listen to reason…and facts…and science.
You elected an imbecile, twice.
That says so much more about the American voters than it will ever about Trump or anyone in his admin.
“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." -George Carlin
Valid points, with love to George. But there's a bit missing from that pithy take. The reasons you don't see enough "good politicians" are the same systemic reasons we say "all cops are bastards".
The carrots and sticks in the system are all lined up to weed out a certain kind of person, and to give another kind as much help as they need. The carrots I'm thinking of are campaign finance and the sticks are corporate media.
The American political system loves people who are cynical mercenaries, vituperative demogoues, or any alloy of those traits flexible enough to find a lasting niche. The exceptions prove the rule, to my mind.
We elected the imbecile, impeached him, witnessed his commission of countless crimes, then gave him immunity, then elected him even harder.
Impeached him also twice.
"I believe that the president has learned ... a pretty big lesson."
She’s a liar and a coward.
If the rest of the world doesn't learn from our example I'm gonna be very disappointed. Your government needs real checks and balances, actual power in the hands of citizens rather than billionaires.
Your government needs real checks and balances
For real. We (USA) thought we did. We don't.
What’s this “we” assertion bullshit?
the election was hacked and stolen…
Unfortunately I don't believe it was. Go on Next door some time and you'll see why.
not sure what state you’re in but:
a) russian trolls can post on next door too.
b) election truth alliance
Florida and the people I've seen are real. Really stupid.
How many times did you let Florida Man vote?
Too god damned many.
it was. Election Truth Alliance has some compelling public data.
To the extent of discounting Muslims, latinos, white people, and non voting or third party voting tankies???
I want to believe as much as the next person that this was a fully successful voter fraud, but Americans are truly that sexist against women and tankies are adamant, even now, that Gaza is the hill they want to die on.
please look at the publicly available data. all i’m asking. check out what they are presenting.
That's to say nothing for the idea that if the election WERE stolen, it would be an uncharacteristic display of technical competence the likes of which we've never seen from this administration before or since.
Online aside, I meet plenty of MAGA out in the wild.
Funny how when it's Russia, every Russian must suffer for not overthrowing Putin, but when it's the US, suddenly “oh no, it wasn't me”.
See, the thing is, I watch piss porn. Hear me out. I told my friend that the thing is, to do piss porn, you kind of have to be into it. You could try and fake it, but it wouldn't be very convincing. So, my contention is, piss porn is more genuine than other types of porn, because the people partaking are statistically more likely to enjoy doing that type of porn. Which is great, I think, because then they really get into it, which is hot. It's that enjoyment that gets me off. Their enjoyment.
She said, "Krooklochurm, you're an idiot. Anyone can fake liking getting pissed in the face."
So I said, "Well, if you're so adamant, get in the tub and I'll piss in your mouth, and let's see if it's as easy as you claim."
So she said, "All right. If I can fist you in the ass afterwards."
Which I felt was a fair deal, so I took it.
My (formal) position was strengthened significantly by the former event. And I can also attest that I could not convincingly fake enjoying being ass-fisted.
What does that have to do with anything, you ask? Genuinity. The real deal. That's what.
I feel like I've been tricked to read that
Eat the pasta. Mmmmm delicious copypasta.
Is this the first organic lemmypasta?
I was there and witnessed the orginal.
I read it yesterday, so I was fortunate to be able to skip most of it after the first few words.
I don't think this makes any sense, but I can see how much it means to you.
Someone put this on my crypt placard.
Can I get a trld please?
Tl;dr - Trump ruining environment and economy for the whole world, not just the US.
Didn't see any new stuff besides some stuff from Newsom and the Pope about how it's probably wrong to let people die and poison the planet.
Thanks
Thank you.
All in a day's work, friend!
Too read, long didn't
Don't dead open inside
Ugh, stupid webpage kept prompting me to pay despite telling me it was a free article shared by subscribers.
Can we ban rawstory links? Every single one is sensationalized crap.
Holy mother of ads! I tryed to read anything twice. To all website owners, if you plan on selling something to me my suggestion is to let my phone load the page. Test with an old phone. If it doesn't work, go back to the drawing board. Maybe you don't need that malware 8K ad movie for each button. Maybe.
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