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The Trump Presidency : Part 2
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Don't knock it till you try it as they say
Ahhh, yes. What could possibly go wrong?
I'll tell you what won't go well: holding people in his realm accountable for anything. Can't wait for the rich and famous to ensure their names and associated data are conveniently left out. For someone so tech illiterate and anti big government he sure is very pro tech and pro big government
Jesus. This may be the biggest "If Obama tried this" thing if them all. Fox would be on 24/7 big brother coverage if a Dem was to announce this.
This is straight up Minority Report shit.
Flock cameras (look it up if you don't know what I mean) and giving AI companies like that of Musk unchecked access to people s personal data ensured this was only the next "logical" step. For as freedom thinking as some people may think they are, you just tell them "but criminals..!" and they ll give their freedoms away without much thought. Except for guns of course, bc those will totally stop control over every other aspects of their lives. /s
"hey look a unicorn!" *Steals baby's toy*
Incredible incompetence.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
https://www.reuters.com/world/afric...s-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/
Probably used AI
The labels don't even match the colors and the lines don't all connect. What a cartographic disaster.
Used AI and had so little knowledge of Africa they didn't spot the obvious errors.
Brilliant.
Such a waste of time. Stupid as well
Nice little earner for Hearn with the inevitable lawsuit though.
Double Down Doug tweeting to an audience of one.
He's going to keep lying through this. He can never be wrong
wait, what? Have i missed something with the grass thing now?
86 47 emblazoned in giant 'letters'
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Somebody is going to lose their job over this.
Surprised nobody has picked up on the launch of the Trump Media API subscription: $100K/month so algorithms can access, process and act on Donald Truth Social rants instantly as he types away.
Outrageous and hilarious at the same time. Wonder how tempted he will be to feck around for shits and giggles. Not that he isn't doing it already much of the time. Best you can do is always remember: no crying at the casino.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/trump-truth-social-early-access
Outrageous and hilarious at the same time. Wonder how tempted he will be to feck around for shits and giggles. Not that he isn't doing it already much of the time. Best you can do is always remember: no crying at the casino.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/trump-truth-social-early-access
Honestly, I’m surprised by how easy a ride Trump 2.0 has had compared to Trump 1.0. The Democratic response, particularly in Congress, has been remarkably muted, fragmented and often completely ineffectual.
During Trump’s first term, there was an immediate sense of emergency. For example., the Women’s March drew enormous crowds the day after his inauguration. Airports filled with protesters after the travel ban. Democratic politicians were constantly on television, liberal institutions presented themselves as part of “the resistance,” and practically every Trump action generated weeks of outrage and wall-to-wall media coverage.
This time around, Trump has moved faster and, in many respects, gone considerably much further in doing damage to the democratic fabirc of the country, i.e. by firing independent inspectors general, hollowing out federal agencies, purging career officials, targeting law firms, threatening universities, expanding executive power, imposing illegal tariffs, openly talking about taking Greenland and repeatedly testing the limits of the courts.
Then there is the corruption, which seems to be operating on a scale that would have even made Trump 1.0 blush (I know not much can make the orange buffoon blush) like the crypto ventures, the market moving announcements, the pay-to-play access, the deals with GCC monarchies and an increasingly open merger of public power with private enrichment.
Yet the institutional response has often amounted to remarkably feckall. Sure, there have been the odd lawsuits, protests and individual acts of resistance, but I've seen no sustained or coherent opposition capable of imposing meaningful political costs. Whether it's accommodation, normalization, powerlessness, ineffectiveness or a general lack of cojones the truth of the matter is Trump is getting with whatever he wants to.
I’m genuinely curious how others explain it. Why has Trump 2.0 faced so much less visible resistance than Trump 1.0 despite governing in a more aggressive, corrupt and openly transactional way?
During Trump’s first term, there was an immediate sense of emergency. For example., the Women’s March drew enormous crowds the day after his inauguration. Airports filled with protesters after the travel ban. Democratic politicians were constantly on television, liberal institutions presented themselves as part of “the resistance,” and practically every Trump action generated weeks of outrage and wall-to-wall media coverage.
This time around, Trump has moved faster and, in many respects, gone considerably much further in doing damage to the democratic fabirc of the country, i.e. by firing independent inspectors general, hollowing out federal agencies, purging career officials, targeting law firms, threatening universities, expanding executive power, imposing illegal tariffs, openly talking about taking Greenland and repeatedly testing the limits of the courts.
Then there is the corruption, which seems to be operating on a scale that would have even made Trump 1.0 blush (I know not much can make the orange buffoon blush) like the crypto ventures, the market moving announcements, the pay-to-play access, the deals with GCC monarchies and an increasingly open merger of public power with private enrichment.
Yet the institutional response has often amounted to remarkably feckall. Sure, there have been the odd lawsuits, protests and individual acts of resistance, but I've seen no sustained or coherent opposition capable of imposing meaningful political costs. Whether it's accommodation, normalization, powerlessness, ineffectiveness or a general lack of cojones the truth of the matter is Trump is getting with whatever he wants to.
I’m genuinely curious how others explain it. Why has Trump 2.0 faced so much less visible resistance than Trump 1.0 despite governing in a more aggressive, corrupt and openly transactional way?
The democrats are busy fighting the bolshevik threat in their own party.
IMO a couple of factors.
- Gaza is causing fractures inside the Democratic Party. The party elites are still pro-Israel and might even like Trump on Israel. Therefore it's harder to unify against Trump.
- People got used to Trump as a president due to his 1st term.
- Big shift in billionaires shifting to Trump and the Republicans, also due to Gaza but also due to what they'd consider peak woke in 2020-2023.
- We're essentially waiting will the midterms to maybe shift some momentum to the Democrats.
Just general fatigue and people getting used to the whole show? Even though it's still commendable and arguably necessary, there is very little to be gained by calling out Trump's insanity, incompetence and corruption. At least it seems that way. People are so entrenched in their individual camps now that you are either preaching to the choir or to an audience that hates you.
With both chambers of congress and the supreme court under his control, there really isn't all that much that can be done either. They of course need to message effectively leading up to the midterms and try to win back the House and the Senate. Still worth remembering just how unpopular he is. The Democrats could still have a big win in November, simply from opposition to Trump.
- Big consolidation of mass news/media under right wing ownership.
- the tech bros and their social media empires are working full time on pushing trump's and right wing ideology.
This has certainly make life easier for Trump and his allies.
- the tech bros and their social media empires are working full time on pushing trump's and right wing ideology.
This has certainly make life easier for Trump and his allies.
The response to Trump 0.0 should have been Bernie Sanders rather than Hillary Clinton. People wanted something different, and only two candidates offered it. One of them was pushed out in favour of Hilary so the other one won.
The response to Trump 1.0 was that he's been so shit, that the Dems can just put anyone up against him and win by default. They chose an elderly man who can't bluff his way through public appearances like Trump by talking nonsense. But he wins by default due to Trumps unpopularity. But was never particularly popular himself. He was so bad as a candidate that he had to be replaced last minute.
The response to Trump 2.0 has been muted. Probably because people have given up. But also, there is no one else left to rally around thanks to the DNC. The Dems only strategy left is to hope to gain votes off the back of Trump's unpopularity. It won't end well.
I think we’re at a stage where the Democratic Party will be subsumed into irrelevance in the next few years. The continued push and pull between the centrist pragmatists and leftward-moving base will ensure this. I’m surprised at just how much free rein the Republicans have. Even a grossly misguided and disastrous war can’t spoil the party for them.
Do you not think this may be related to the relative apathy in how the American public seem to be taking the daily deluge of nonsensical news? What's the impetuous for them (obviously they shouldn't need one but.....)
Yeah, I think that's part of it, but it also reverses causality imo.
The public is apathetic partly because the opposition has failed to turn the daily deluge into a coherent story. Most people are too busy to connect the attacks on the courts, the corruption, the tariffs, the institutional purges, ICE and the war with Iran on their own. That’s what an opposition party is supposed to do. Political leadership is supposed to challenge apathy, not hide behind it.
Instead, Dems keep treating each episode as a separate outrage, issuing a statement and moving on. Of course people tune out. Their job is to explain that Trump is using public power recklessly, enriching himself and his allies, and making ordinary Americans absorb the costs. Over and over and over again.
Or maybe - just a shot in the dark here- the Dem establishment (like Schumer, Jeffries etc) are broadly onboard with significant parts of Trump 2.0, like the Iran war, support for Israel, the national security state, tariffs and increased exec power. In which case, they may simply have very little interest in mounting a serious opposition.
Agreed, somethings gotta give
Definitely for Iran, Israel and national security state, but not for the rest. The tariffs just make no sense at all - it’s nonsensical policy on every level (unless it’s just market manipulation).
Hardly surprising but still somewhat shocking to see it in writing.
I think for most politicians every event comes down to, does this make me money, does this help my immediate power, does it help my election prospects.
Politicians across parties tend to be pally for the first two reasons, it used to be a political class who just enjoyed their station in life. The arguments in the media were a bit of good sport. Those on the left and right ruin the deal with their ideological stances.
I think the Dems are quiet simply because it's rarely worth their effort. They only risk their political career, future private prospects and 'legacy' when the other side isn't playing their game. These aren't people who care deeply enough to do that. They'll only care when there's jobs on the line closer to the election.
It's like Republicans can't understand movies or books, it's insane. Just the other day in Last Week tonight they showed a clip of some local republican politician proudly saying Flock is like big brother on steroids, and he looked happy as a pig in shit while uttering these words.
Mate, I don't know what book you read but in the one I read big brother wasn't a good thing.
Looks like Jeanine Pirro is next on the chopping block. Always amuses me to see people who suck up to Trump get fired. Was it worth it? Was it worth being so shameless? I guess it was.
Her first mistake was being born a woman. The men are untouchable no matter how much they feck up.
Yep. All the women get fired eventually, it's so blatant