Class conflict never ending.
It’s funny, because while he has absolutely contributed to it since January and all throughout his first term, the systemic conditions that yielded our current state have been decades in the making. This is, per usual, the American populace coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.
Note that this is absolutely not orangeboi apologia - I’m simply pointing out that this entire sequence got kicked into high gear by Reagan, and pretty much our entire political establishment did nothing to stop it and everything to accelerate it since that point.
Reagan did such an incredible amount of damage, his presidency was definitely the catalyst for the modern era of suffering and techno feudalism. And with the abolition of the fairness doctrine, he paved the way for many Americans to be brainwashed into accelerating it.
What’s hilarious to me is how my dad and I used to talk about how reagan was a supervillain that kicked off all the shit we are dealing with today. This was maybe 10 years ago.
Now he no longer speaks to me since I refuse to “take the red pill”.
So, apparently enough propaganda works.
Yes.
The 1950s created the middle class and boomed with prosperity for working class because of government subsidies to the working class. Never before had this occurred in America. Always, prior, it was the industry/corporate class who were supported, and, drum roll, tariffs.
Then, Reagan flipped the script in the 80s, saying greater efficiency in that prosperity could only happen if we subsidized the corporate/industry class again. And this trickle down economics was born. And never rolled back by DEMs.
This legacy of corporate subsidy began to squeeze hard -2015, theb exponentially in 2020 and beyond.
This was not felt much in the 90s. It’s important to realize the lack of immediacy to any of this on the timeline. Including the Trump fallout. He’ll likely be dead of his medical issues and old age before his damage really hits.
To be fair, the Biden admin did start to roll back a bit of Reagan but 4yrs is never enough time.
All the good with the FCC, for example, including making internet a necessary utility, like electricity, was wiped, with Trump. Consumer protections roll up, rolled back, with Trump. Attempts to undo trumps education secretary damage in the first term, fouled by Congress, and rolled back entirely by trump. Oh. And tariffs are back. So taxes on everyone at the grocery store and beyond. We can’t even get free shipping on cheap items any more, he removed that too.
What’s great is full fruition of his damage will still move slowly such that it will only really be felt in full after 4-6yrs.
The fact that billionaires even exist now shows how absolutely wrong Reagan was with trickle down.
A middle class cannot exist organically in capitalism. Capitalism needs to be tempered by regulation and subsidies to working class or we end up here.
It’ll all be fixed in his third term.
Nah the 3rd term will be pretty mid
His 4th term will fix all of it though
Too bad his 6th term will undo all progress
No way the dude lives that long. Trump Jr on the other hand…
They will stay silent about his eventual passing. He won’t make any public appearances, but they will insist that he’s alive and well. Anything else is just democrat propaganda.
Occasionally he will show up in AI generated speeches.
You'll be able to tell it's AI generated because the AI will screw up and make the hands normal-sized.
How dare you say that about great leader? Great leader won't die! He's an immort...
Oh, wait, sorry, not on r/Pyongyang
You really think he'll live that long? I get that Kissinger was ancient but, have you seen the ankles on this man?
Guess about 40% of the country is just completely off the rails hopelessly stupid from these polls.
That percent gets their information from propaganda networks and those networks are subsidized by russia. Without that malignant influence they'd collapse very rapidly. Yet liberal democracies cant seem to find the political will to shut those networks down. It's weird how US oligarchs and Russia oligarchs have a lot of overlapping goals. I still dont understand why they hate lgbtq+2sp
It's so baffling to see that number.
You'd think it was majority percentage where I live.
Anytime there is a poll, results show about 25-35% are always either completely fucking brain dead or evil, depending on the poll.
Conservativism is a cancer that needs to be excised before it kills the host. First the US, then humanity.
Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.
I fear how the the prices are going to go. It's why I've been trying to garden this year and will continue next year to try to cut down on food costs. Also doing everything I can.
But what I find hi-larious about the 70% of republicans is right now at my job I'm mostly surrounded by republicans and I'm doing way better than most of them. But part of that is I drive a shitbox car, eat cheap as possible, live in a house where my payments are cheap as fuck (that one I got lucky on timing on, but when asked if I'm going to move somewhere bigger I laugh my ass off.) I've lived within my means especially with it took me nearly 20 years to break $15 an hour, and that was a pandemic doing it, and when I broke out I've been working at keeping myself okay, not just going out and putting down money on a truck that payments cost more than my mortgage.
There's going to be a lot of people hurting on all sides, but I'll at least help the people that tried to stop it. Those temporarily embarrassed millionaires that voted for this shit won't get a handout from me for how much they whined about handouts.
When he said "drain the swamp" he didn't specify that to him, the swamp is the American people.
He got in to reduce grocery prices, and they are UP 2.7% from a year ago, when Biden was president. Good job, psychopath.
All of this mess is on HitlerPig, I don't want to hear anything about Biden, Obama, Hillary, etc.
The best part is Trump has been manipulating the market since this tariff debacle started.
If only we were so wise back in 2024.
If only we were so wise back in ~~2024~~2016.
If only we were so wise to stop Reconstruction.
Well no shit a kindergarten racist gets in and shit goes wrong what did you expect.
Anyone said “Maybe he ain’t the brightest” yet? Just asking for a friend. B/c they don’t want to get deported to a real crap hole. I’m curious about these new ICE recruits. I heard that if you waterboard them, they begin telling they mama’s life story.
Trump is DEFINITELY smarter than the ICE recruits.
Welp, you lot either voted for it or didn't bother to vote at all, so you'll excuse me whilst I play the world's tiniest violin.
The most incredible is that there is still american people who, when they see the cost increase of something because of tariff, ask why the originated country like Canada/China/name it didn't pay the tariff? And someone explain to them that tariff are paid by the final customer, not the manufacturer in the country of origin, and they answer something like "isn't this illegal?"
There will be two years of hardship and the rest of the world will come up with a new trade infrastructure which will finally bring back some prosperity and Trump will say..."See? I told you I could do it.".
Dickhead dictator with a tiny dick that's bigger than his intellect.
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