they should come out admit hes only doing this to distract from epstein files, but they wont, because they have people in thier own countries being named epstein files.
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Rumour is he's in hospital. Wonder if we'll get the news by morning
I lost patience 8 years ago when it was obvious he was a disaster for the commoner, and that the elites saw that disaster as a ladder. It's all been very clear for a while now.
As usual, people are only upset with him because he's now costing them money.
The world is run by shitbags.
Well democratic (Western ones) countries don't often show how upset they are with other western countries unless it impacts them. They may not condone actions but I'm pretty sure none of them ever liked dealing with Trump.
There's that one picture of Trump in his first term sitting down while (I think) Merkle(sp?) was trying to explain something, there were other people in the shot and all (or mostly standing facing Trump) while he looked like a kid getting a lesson. They were okay for internal issues, well maybe not fine but mostly they wouldn't say anything, but this round he's fucked the world economy so yeah make sense. So I think they voiced their opinions previously as well just not in headlines as much.
Also the US has taken the lead so often, and (used to have) soft power that they managed properly.
Basically Trump (well his handlers) have effed up the social order so much it's time to set the line. Sucks it took this long, cause all should have been done first term when the US elected a petulant child as leader.
Though I imagine it comes down to money as usual as you said, cause heaven forbid we figure out a way to run a country without billionaires making their voice known.
It'd be great if the people's voices were heard for sure. Fortunately when time comes there are more of the regular folk than them. While I don't condone violence it sucks that they can use violence and legal issues to make their goals happen without pushback.
one of the most annoying things is even if we get a "blue wave" and get maga out of the presidency and congress you know that two years in they will be loudly blaming whoever is president and the democrats as we are not doing great with all the infaltion and being an isolated country whos currency is becoming regional.
Does a strict two party system even constitute a democracy? There's so little incentive to do what the people want when the worst punishment is that you only have to wait until the other party fucks up worse than you did and then you're back in the game. In the meantime, just sit tight and snipe from the sidelines.
The Republican Party needs to cease to exist for what it's done. I don't know how that could happen but I don't see a bright future for the world if they're still around when the next Dem President starts to become unpopular.
I have said they need to cease to exist and only the voters can do that. Them not winning even 25% of the legislature should do it. Many folk want to bring something forward over the democrats and I often say we pretty much have to eliminate the republicans first. dems would easily split in that scendario along with likely the greens taking office. actually that would be a good metric. If the republicans were down to just the nuttiest areas then if the greens could hold as much or more than them it would effectively eliminate them as their nuts would vote democrat over republican if the greens were a real threat which would drive the republican party even further down.
If the democrats win as well as we're expecting they COULD take down billionaires and mass media propaganda machines that's behind all these right-wing movements...but I'm betting they won't. They probably won't abolish ICE, they won't stuff the supreme court, they won't cut off Israel, they won't roll back the insane power of the POTUS and executive branch, etc, etc.
This country is fucked for a generation at least, or as long as this two party government remains intact.
Y'all keep saying democrats as if democrats are one unified party.
its not.
Its 37 parties in a trench coat.
Thats the problem with the democrats. Its basically a Chimera built out of everything thats not-republican, and thats down largely to our two party system of bullshit.
they COULD take down billionaires and mass media propaganda machines that’s behind all these right-wing movements…but I’m betting they won’t.
Yeah controlled opposition tends not to bite the hand that feeds.
You dont understand how the American two party system works. Let me explain it in simple terms.
You have one party that is corporate light; that's the democrats. And you have another party that's corporate get fucked in the arse; that's the Republicans.
Both parties serve their corporate masters first and foremost before any consideration of the common man. Neither party will challenge this status quo in any meaningful way. The difference is that one is willing to be a little more giving than the other fiscally.
But the reality is that the entire political process is captured by vested financial interests that own politicians and work together so that over the long term it all gets shitter and shitter for the common people and they get richer and richer.
The only way out of this is to primary every politician in the democratic party that have any financial ties to the elites. To money.
That's most of them.
stuffing the supreme court is a pretty controversial thing although now more popular given republicans messed with court picks to get us were we are. Many democrats are not fine using trumps "methods" in a good way and want to still abide by the constitution and law. I know foks completely against trump but are not sure about actually abolishing ice. I point out they had not even existed before but they point out border control is kinda worse and that would result in border patrol fulfilling their role. keeping in mind their role was not so controversial before trump.
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Yeah, when the Dems take back the power, and have to clean up the unholy mess that MAGA will leave, there will be very loud opposition, and the Dems are going to have to get over their obsession for politeness to traitors, and learn to employ the phrase "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
It never was, its about the epstein files
It’s about a confluence of things, none of them good. I wasn’t going to comment, but then I saw this post:
https://mander.xyz/post/49900218
This is basically “what it’s all about”. Western neoliberal and overt colonial capitalism. Its extraction. All these rich elites are betting on the U.S. military maintaining “full spectrum dominance”, and if Iran fends us off, that’s the end of our projection of power, globally at least.
When you see Bezos and Musk and Altman and all these other parasitic freaks retreating to New Zealand, those are the biggest, fattest rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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Glazing Netanyahu was also a not insignificant part.
That's where it was about Iran, Benjy's decades-long lust for war and territorial expansion
No longer? It never was
We must send the turd, his cabinet, and pentagon leadership to the Hague.
It's a nice thought, but there's no way. We here in the US didn't even kill the leaders of the Confederacy after the civil war, and those fuckers got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed in their treason.
The reason why cancel culture is so big here is that, often, getting someone canceled is the only meaningful recourse for being a piece of shit.
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The only reason the alliances aren't formally broken is because moving investments and reorganizing supplies takes time. At least from the European perspective, it's only a matter of time; the moves to abandon Visa and Mastercard can only be interpreted that way.
This exactly. I find it completely baffling that people are talking about this stuff like its as simple as changing your mobile internet provider or cancelling your Amazon account.
moving investments and reorganizing supplies takes time.
This is a salient point. Back in February 2025 when Donald decided to start imposing unilateral tariffs, other countries started crafting new trade agreements. Those take 1.5 to 2 years to take effect, so everything Donald is doing is, essentially, a time bomb that's going to go off after 2026 whether it's the BBB or our former allies rerouting trade around the US and through China. The vast majority of Americans don't have any real knowledge of what these things mean or Donald would be even more unpopular than he is now.
In 2028 the new order in the world will probably unrecognizable compared to 2024, and it could be a very bad thing. We Americans have been lucky in that most of us have never experienced real war and can't contextualize it, and that could change in the very near future.
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They talk like he didn't threaten to declare war on Europe just a few months ago to invade Greenland. The world has been fed up with his shit for a long time now.
The big question is what, if anything, can or will they do about it.
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In essence, the world (and the media as well) should treat the U.S. exactly as it behaves: as a failed state that, like Russia, is ruled by organized crime, tramples on international law, and blackmails its former allies. One should not do business with such a country, especially since it is committing the most egregious war crimes alongside its genocidal allies in Israel.
It is a reflection of the lack of integrity in the political systems of other countries that no sanctions have been imposed on the US in response to its brutal actions in Iran - this war is just as much a war of aggression in violation of international law as the one Russia is waging against Ukraine.
Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen. But the barbaric behavior of the U.S. should at least ensure that Western countries turn away from the U.S. in the future, so that it cannot continue to exploit its power to blackmail the world.
Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen.
It would be more productive for the rest of the world to reduce its dependence on the US. This dependence takes a variety of forms and degrees but it’s this very dependence which makes sanctions impractical. It’s this very dependence which emboldens jackasses like Trump.
So just divest. Disentangle. If we could get there then there might actually be something we could do about a problem like Trump.
As things stand, it takes forever and a day to gather the will to merely speak out.
I think this is probably exactly what Trump's cronies want.
The news is splattered with pics of Trump and Hegseth and the war room. But those aren't the masterminds. Trump did not get his position twice by doing it all himself.
He's a figurehead. In his shadow are billionaire donors, some of whom travel to Russia on a regular basis. So, what happens when NATO turns against the US? Why, just like 1984 - a new alliance with an old enemy. Our NATO allies are now the bad guys. The US keeps oil dominance with the Saudis, sells weapons to Russia and continues trading with China. Trump's cronies money. Everybody is happy, except the puny citizens.
It doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen without rigging midterm elections. But it's the direction the US is pointed in right now.
The direction in which the U.S. is heading is toward a true autocracy, like in Russia, with all the coercive mechanisms that go along with it.
This is the logical consequence of the American people allowing the most serious crimes to go unpunished.
It is quite obvious that the oligarchs who have ruled the country for decades have now decided that the illusion of democracy - which they had maintained until now with this absurd two-party system - is no longer necessary, since they will never be held accountable for their crimes anyway.
Even in their last, rather pathetic coup attempt, everyone involved got off scot-free, even the foot soldiers. This time, however, the regime has established ICE, a secret police force with a budget equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country - by U.S. standards: ICE’s budget exceeds that of all U.S. federal agencies, including the CIA and FBI, etc. combined. Isn’t it quite obvious why an “agency” like this would ever need such an astronomical budget?
First everybody needs to get their gold out of the USA, switch over all critical infrastructure and payment to home brew solutions and sell USA treasuries. Then the sanctions can start. But switching away from USA infrastructure in already a form of sanction.
Stuff like Wero matters and is making actual progress. Once they open up to merchants I hope to see it being a realistic homebrew payment network.
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Zelenskyy clearly hopes to tap into the riches of the Gulf states as investors in Ukraine's burgeoning military weapons industry, and potentially as aid donors, or even allies.
For the headline about Trump the article talks mostly about Zelenskyy.
Finally at the end it talks about Trump's speech.
The week ended with a feeling of foreboding around the globe that things were going to get a lot worse, and not just because of Trump's language about bombing Iran "back to the Stone Ages".
And throws in Israel and Russia to conclude:
The Caspian Sea. The Baltic. The Red Sea. This war is no longer just about the Strait of Hormuz. Or Iran.
The headline isn't about Trump, it's about the war not being about Iran...
Yeah, where's that '30 days before congressional review' thing? The us is full of shit. And not only in the white house.
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