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submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.

Americans were desperate for relief from high grocery prices and bought into Trump’s promise to make America affordable again in November 2024, partly out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy of his first term.

But the president deliberately and singlehandedly adopted policies that are almost certain to spike prices even more; that could lead to shortages; and that have CEOs and small businesses dealing with chaos and the possibility of a recession.

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[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 227 points 7 months ago

Sure, but have you considered that Kamala had a weird laugh

[-] gaja@lemm.ee 63 points 7 months ago

Musk will light your taxes on fire. Obama was huge on deportation. Kamala is a gun owner. OK, why won't you vote for Kamala then? "I just don't like her. She laughs weird." I couldn't believe it, but it shouldn't shock me. How do you even keep going after that?

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 54 points 7 months ago

It wasn't really about the laugh.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Yea, some of them also noticed she is a minority and a woman. Sadly our country has not accepted those groups are just as capable as white men to lead a country.

[-] michel@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Maybe the broligarchy currently in charge will finally disabuse people of the notion of white male superiority. Maybe…

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Any mistake by any woman "justifies" the canard that women are incompetent. Same is used for Black men, but judging by the election record, the misogyny is even deeper than the racism.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

As a white dude, I really wish. I don't see much evidence of it though.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

She laughs like a black woman!

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Ok that's actually a hysterical take. That's probably exactly what those people mean.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I remember reading that immigration groups called Obama the deporter in chief. Trump wishes he could get a nickname that would go that hard with his base.

[-] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Republicans often try to liken women to witches in their constituents minds. It's their go to smear. They hate women. They want them back in the kitchen under control of men, just like the propaganda that transformed post war America pushed

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

This is such a stupid argument and I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for my dad. He keeps talking about her laugh and I explain to him that it’s appropriate to express all emotions…. And he doesn’t believe it. He’s also unable to connect me being in therapy and his behavior.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

The statistics of who stayed home VS who voted for a white man with the same policies (older white men/women and older hispanic men) shows most of the votes lost are from Kamala being a colored woman and our most bigoted groups responding accordingly.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

100%. A woman of color? No way.

This is why AOC can't run for president. We would just be stuck with Trump 3.0 or some Republican poser.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I think AOC could win since she's young and when younger generations do vote it's for younger progressive people.

But it also requires them actually communicating policies that will get young people to go vote.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Except young people (or all people) need to go vote in primaries for those they want.

You can't just wait for your perfect person to show up magically. Ie. Policies reflect people who vote, not the other way around.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah and unfortunately we are at a point where even if she does run and win in 2028 the conservative majority SCOTUS wouldn’t let any of her laws stick around.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 7 months ago

People claimed that the tiktok people and the swifties are gonna pull the ship around because they would vote for the younger dynamic more progressive candidates. Turns out, they would rather make tiktoks about it.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

People claimed that the tiktok people and the swifties are gonna pull the ship around because they would vote for the younger dynamic more progressive candidates.

Which canidates?

You can't just expect people who were just children to magically figure out how to create a political party to rival global billionaires.

They need someone young and progressive to vote for. Kamala is neither of those btw

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[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 7 months ago

I remember a stand up comedian making fun of someone laughing on his show, because it was a very shrill and loud laugh. And later he said: imagine making fun of someone for the way they express joy (or something) and that somehow sat really deep with me.

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Also, those dumbass's who think a woman can't be president.

[-] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 24 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately that includes a lot of women, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

My mom will still tell you that things would be much worse if Harris had won. Can't say how, but she doesn't hear the sarcasm when I suggest we'd all be learning Mandarin online while recovering from forced gender reassignment surgery and seems to consider that a legitimate possibility.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 11 points 7 months ago

Americans will delude themselves into thinking Harris lost because of identity politics all the way to the concentration camps.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

They have to, or else they will be forced to change the democratic party and everyone knows deep down that democrats will never ever ever change.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I mean Biden was personally killing Palestinians so let's all make sure Trump does worse too so checkmate lIbRuL. Ps I'm morally superior because I think my self righteous social media posts matter way more than the outcome I cause with my actions. And if you disagree? Well, you love genocide! /s

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[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Schodinger's cat applies here. We will never know how good or bad Kamala would have been since she didn't win. However, since 47 has done so much shit to damage the country in ways worse than imagined, I'd say she'd done better.

BTW, have you ever heard Trump laughing at anything? That's even weirder IMO.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

She would have been better. Biden was an OK president that was ruined by his brazen pro-genocide stance. It doesn't take a lot to be better than Trump.

[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

I told my friends back in mid-October of 2023 that I thought the Hamas attack was probably 1.) heavily influenced by Russia, and 2.) going to throw the election to Trump or whoever the Republican candidate was going to be unless he could get that thing zipped up and a peace deal in place within a month or two.

So stupid. Biden could have done better so easily. But here we are, I guess, witnessing the oligarchy take over the world, using Trump and Musk as patsy’s, letting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Ukrainians die by the hand of genocidal fuckwits.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 7 months ago

In america a pro genocide president is still an okay president. Most school children drone stiked AND getting the nobel peace prize. Best president we ever had i tell you what.

[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

It's a competition to destroy the US and your opponent is Donald Trump.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That's about the only competitive scenario you could put me in vs. Trump and I'd despair that there would be no path to victory for me.

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

She also was hugely supportive of genocide, is a cop, huge opponent of sex workers, promised to outflank trump to the right on immigration and crime, had a terrible climate change plan including backtracking on things like fracking, terrible health care policy, denied any economic problems and her solution to massive poverty and increasing inequality boiled down to increased ease of first home buyers. She had terrible policies no reason to whitewash her.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"Please be distracted by our appointed candidate's skin color and genitals so you don't notice these other things!" - democrats probably

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 7 months ago

She also has no penis and is awefully dark for a good old white American

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