Does the author realize that the cuts to USAID, foodstamps, welfare, and other entitlements and waste are a good thing?
We just surpassed $40 trillion in debt, the bond market is blaring warning signs, and yet the government just keeps wasting money on both democrat and republican causes.
We shouldn't be wasting money on a $47k on a "transgender opera" in Colombia, $100B in food stamps, or $40B on the Iran War.
Both republicans and democrats are jeopardizing the one thing that truly matters in our government: the ability to pay its obligations. Whether it's wasting money on a Tomahawk or a welfare queen, it's reprehensible.
Do you blame Trump or the democrats who force candidates like Harris or Clinton as choices? The blame lies just as much with those who have an entirely unpopular view of how the country should function, forcing those in the middle to Trump/etc.
Of course, much of this is due to continued polarization, notably in cities where socialism has grown popular and in the rural areas, where MAGA is rampant.
Clinton, who won the majority of votes or Harris who in a few months forced Trump to a plurality win?
Both were admittedly weak and forced, but Clinton would have won had any one of number of factors been different, and Harris walked into a tire fire and wasn’t the right candidate no matter what.
Democrats certainly need to field a better slate, but the fact people voted for self immolation can’t be attributed to a lesser of two evils argument - because Trump was never a compelling leader, and he has never been popular - hence his inability to ever secure a majority and operating the two most unpopular presidencies in modern history. He was voted into power by people who were sold on “at least he’s different,” which is more of an idiocratic solution to the current politic than anything else.
The answer is as the article says, it’s both national suicide and murder by the administration. There is no point in second guessing it, a technical victory and a plurality chose a national policy of global stupidity, taking a wrecking ball to the complex international system.
The hope I hold is this weakens the presidency irrevocably as Congress takes control again and places the executive in its proper functionary role. It’s abdication over history as Washingtonian presidents set a higher and higher bar of relative trustworthiness was fraught and stupid, and is IMO the actual manifestation of exceptionalism. And we f’ed around and found out, as MAGA is so fond of.
Given a choice between Trump and Clinton, or Trump and Harris, the best choice is extremely obvious. A sack of pet rocks would do better than either Clinton or Harris. That doesn't mean Trump would do better than them.
The DOGE train wreck is well known, lesser known is the impacts on the intelligence community, putting the nation at some of the greatest risk since the cold war ended
America is committing suicide because funding for extracurriculars is being pulled? Seems dramatic…
Also, if you want to talk about dismantling democracy, how about the dismantling of the constitution that occurred on Pres. Biden’s watch during COVID? Freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, no unreasonable searches and seizures, etc.
Is the author under the impression that foodborne diseases didn't spread under previous administrations? There's dozens of examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foodborne_illness_outb...
Does the author realize that the cuts to USAID, foodstamps, welfare, and other entitlements and waste are a good thing?
We just surpassed $40 trillion in debt, the bond market is blaring warning signs, and yet the government just keeps wasting money on both democrat and republican causes.
We shouldn't be wasting money on a $47k on a "transgender opera" in Colombia, $100B in food stamps, or $40B on the Iran War.
Both republicans and democrats are jeopardizing the one thing that truly matters in our government: the ability to pay its obligations. Whether it's wasting money on a Tomahawk or a welfare queen, it's reprehensible.
I'm kind of surprised by the Trump-apologia commentary thus far but, ironically maybe, it makes the article all the more pertinent.
Second-order effects seem particularly difficult to grasp.
Do you blame Trump or the democrats who force candidates like Harris or Clinton as choices? The blame lies just as much with those who have an entirely unpopular view of how the country should function, forcing those in the middle to Trump/etc.
Of course, much of this is due to continued polarization, notably in cities where socialism has grown popular and in the rural areas, where MAGA is rampant.
Do I blame the people with all the power or the people with none? Hmm.
Figuring out how we got here is how we figure out how to get out of here.
Clinton, who won the majority of votes or Harris who in a few months forced Trump to a plurality win?
Both were admittedly weak and forced, but Clinton would have won had any one of number of factors been different, and Harris walked into a tire fire and wasn’t the right candidate no matter what.
Democrats certainly need to field a better slate, but the fact people voted for self immolation can’t be attributed to a lesser of two evils argument - because Trump was never a compelling leader, and he has never been popular - hence his inability to ever secure a majority and operating the two most unpopular presidencies in modern history. He was voted into power by people who were sold on “at least he’s different,” which is more of an idiocratic solution to the current politic than anything else.
The answer is as the article says, it’s both national suicide and murder by the administration. There is no point in second guessing it, a technical victory and a plurality chose a national policy of global stupidity, taking a wrecking ball to the complex international system.
The hope I hold is this weakens the presidency irrevocably as Congress takes control again and places the executive in its proper functionary role. It’s abdication over history as Washingtonian presidents set a higher and higher bar of relative trustworthiness was fraught and stupid, and is IMO the actual manifestation of exceptionalism. And we f’ed around and found out, as MAGA is so fond of.
Given a choice between Trump and Clinton, or Trump and Harris, the best choice is extremely obvious. A sack of pet rocks would do better than either Clinton or Harris. That doesn't mean Trump would do better than them.
Ah yes, everything Trump does is actually other people's fault.
Take the criticism and pressure off the abuser, and point it at their opponents.
This talking point keeps getting pushed around on social media and I can't help but think it's manufactured and promulgated by right wing entities.
>The radical shrinking of the federal government under Trump has happened at a speed and on a scale that is unprecedented.
Citation needed
He shrunk the federal workforce by 15% in his first year in office. This has never happened before.
Both the white house and their opponents agree on these numbers, so not sure why you wouldn't.
https://data.opm.gov/explore-data/analytics/workforce-size-a...
The DOGE train wreck is well known, lesser known is the impacts on the intelligence community, putting the nation at some of the greatest risk since the cold war ended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZVhclACAIw
This is one of many stories about the damage done to intel comm, you'll also learn about their trans hypocrisy in this video
America is committing suicide because funding for extracurriculars is being pulled? Seems dramatic…
Also, if you want to talk about dismantling democracy, how about the dismantling of the constitution that occurred on Pres. Biden’s watch during COVID? Freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, no unreasonable searches and seizures, etc.
Maybe review who was president in 2020 during the most severe phases of the restrictions.