Because he is going to cut Medicare and Medicaid, all of that stuff is gonna get touched.
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"no no no, I cut OBAMAcare"
I will never stop laughing at "I hAve CONcePtS of A PlAN" said in the voice of a fucking child who got caught lying
I, almost for certain, thought that (along with the rest of that debate) was the end of him at the time. Entire political careers have lived and died on sub-10-second sound bites, and there is no way to spin that to make him sound like he knows what he's doing.
Bro if the fuckin' grabbing women by the pussy comment, the 30+ felonies, the insurrection, the mocking of the disabled, the comments about the underage pageant contestants, being best friends with Jeff Epstein, and generally being a fucking LOSER didn't do it, why would him saying he has a plan do anything?
I forgot about him calling dead soldiers losers.
And the nonstop golfing.
And the theft of classified documents.
And the pissy sex party.
And trying to nuke a hurricane.
him being a shitty human being is something his supporters like and admire, but even really terrible people prefer a leader that has some idea of what they're going to do as a leader.
I have to disagree. The supporters around me like the chaos.
I tell them that their idea of changing the government is akin to burning their house down with their children inside because it needs new plumbing. They just don't care.
And I understand why they are the way they are - they're desperate, and they lack the cognitive capacity to fully understand what's happening. I can't blame them, as much as I want to. They're sick - mentally ill. Truly broken by a system that's designed to break them.
this is the local representation hiding behind the orange dictators apron strings. they refuse to meet with their consituents to answer to their actions (or lack thereof), so theyre attempting to appeal to the hyper-maga crowd who are so brainwashed by fox news they believe this shit.
Propaganda sinks in better if it's heard years in advance instead of 3 months before the election. It's easier to make people think other news sources are exaggerating if they've heard the opposite for months and months prior
This has ALWAYS been a key feature of fascist regimes throughout history: operating as if you're always running for election. Mussolini and Hitler both continued to hold big rallies even after they'd officially suspended voting. It's a big part of how they keep their base engaged.
Because we do not live in a Democracy with regular election seasons.
We live in a fascist oligarchy, which must constantly beam propoganda into the minds of its citizens.
...
Trump basically never stopped campaigning during the entirety of the Biden term, nor even for his fist term... despite being the President.
US political ad seasons are notorious for being ... way too long, up to a year... compared to most functional demcracies, where this ad season is often several weeks, not several, or many months.
Trump ratcheted this lengthy American political ad season into just literally all the time.
Before him, a sitting President running ads... during the middle of their own term... I think its literally unprecedented. Sure they'd give addresses and speeches to the public in extraordinary situations... but not run what amount to campaign ads... just all the time.
This is the power of money and media in the digital age.
Tell the lies often enough, and they become real to the enthralled. Literally right out of Goebbels playbook.
It truly now just is cult reaffirming propoganda, in the derogatory 1984/dictator sense of propoganda
Trump has stated many times he'll serve a third term. Told people they'd "never need to vote again." He fully plans on being President untill he dies.
Trump has stated many times he’ll serve a third term. Told people they’d “never need to vote again.” He fully plans on being President untill he dies.
Hell, his official website is selling Trump 2028 merch.
Look at the Atlantic interview.
"I would never, ever consider running again, I'm against it, I don't even want to talk about it, it's a boundary too far, stop asking."
"However I do have people shouting in my face that I must."
He'll not run again.
However, unless he is stopped by the American people, or death, or death by the American people -wink wink- then his second term will be for as long as he wants it to be. Putin style.
It's up to the people of the USA if he is allowed to do that or not.
I doubt they'll do anything though. They'll wait and wait hoping for someone else to do something and when they finally realise no one is going to stop him it will be too late. He'll have taken over everything that could topple or stand against him and filled it with his cronies. The backwards school yard bully will have become the backwards despotic dictator.
Yeeee-up.
It's the saddest part. He always said exactly what he was going to do. And Thiels plans were also known for years, in the open in obscure edgelord blogs. They all never made a secret out of their plans.
I wonder what else from the "crazy stuff he says" he will actually do at some point, like the famous "shooting some random person on the street" without consequences or something. Maybe in 2028.
Welp we've got farm labor, cold turkey 'detox', no cell phones, communal bunks type rehab camps for... everyone on either hard drugs, or any kind of medically prescribed anti depressant or anti psychotic.
Thats still on the bingo card from RFK, to my knowledge, that hasn't happened yet.
We've also got concentration camps guarded by I guess Blackwater (whatever they're calling themselves now) for all homeless people, a few miles outside of major cities, and of course a 0 tolerance policy for existing in a major city while homeless.
That hasn't happened yet, but Trump has outlined that idea a couple of times.
... that one will be super-fun as the economy crashes.
My condolences from Europe. Most likely we will follow into the abyss like lemmings as usual, with a few years delay. US was always setting the trends for Europe, and I already worry about what happens in the old world pretty soonish as well.
German chancellor announced his crew. Blackrock and the gang. They will already start to strip social systems down, and the openly fascist party will use the growing discontent to seize power next time. Then fascists and oligarchs will finally kiss and unite, like in the US.
The whole "Western world" has this Virus right now, there is literally no escape. Because rest of the world has it even worse.
What a disappointing timeline to live in.
... Sadly, the first thing that comes to mind, upon reading your comment...
First, we take Manhattan... then we take Berlin.
... I am hopeful that I can make it either to, or at least nearer to Canada, into a blue state, within the next year...
I am fully expecting shit to get very bad, very fast now.
... At least I am white... as sickening as that is for me to say... it does make me less of a target.
...
Spent the better part of two decades telling my friends and family that what is happening now ... is the trajectory we are on, and we must enact change now, while we still can, to avert this path.
... I don't talk to any of them any more, as they all thought I was insane...
They didn't believe 'it could happen here.'
And now, it has.
And most of them would either entirely deny that it 'has happened', as they are neck deep in QAnon/MAGA insanity...
...or they would tell me that simultaneously they don't remember me explaining how and why this could happen, how it became more and more likely as the years went by... and also, at the same time, just remember me being hysterical, about something, vaguely, for no reason they can remember.
I'm in multiple ways part of minorities, but luckily invisibly so, so I perfectly understand what you are saying with being "white" helping.
This year I started to learn some self defense, together with my wife. My gut feeling says we need to toughen up for whatever times are coming up, because in any case they won't be good, that is for sure. I must say, no idea how much it would help in practice, and I hope to never find out, but it at least does help psychologically.
Having to watch all this insanity unfold on one hand slow motion (compared to movies) and also on ultra high speed (objectively / historically) and seeing where this is going without any ability to stop it leaves one feeling pretty helpless. Enact change... But how? Ultimately even hundreds of thousands protesters do not change a thing. We saw the same thing with climate change. Everybody knows what's going on, nobody is really doing anything. Sadly, not only for such abstract threats but also very concrete and personified evils.
I think all we can do is try staying calm (but prepared) and remain decent human beings. I hope when the time comes I will have the courage and trust to help people who need and deserve it. Decent people helping each other could at some point be the only thing that remains, when all institutions have crumbed or gone rogue, and it's crucial. Little actions by regular people can mean life or death. We cannot stop the storm, but we gotta try what we can in whatever sphere of personal influence we have. That's all we can do and the best we can hope for. Everybody with a mind and heart keeping going and trying to do the right thing.
I wish you the best of luck to get through all this. Stay safe, stay sane.
He fully plans on being President untill he dies.
Tbh, I really hope he got this for him.
This is why. Republicans in Congress are planning to take "at least" $880 Billion over ten years out of Medicare and Medicaid to pay for extending tax cuts for the wealthy. There are also ads in the opposite direction raising alarm about this. They say they'll make the cuts without reducing benefits, and by that they generally mean they're going to pay doctors even less for caring for those patients.
The Coalition to Strengthen Healthcare has some resources to facilitate grass roots advocacy if you're interested!
Not really an answer to your question, but Firefox + Ublock Origin will fix that problem for you.
And YouTube ReVanced for mobile.
And NextDNS for everything else.
I like https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Is ReVanced having any features I'm missing out on with NewPipe? (Serious question, never bothered trying ReVanced)
ReVanced mods the official YouTube apk, meaning you maintain syncing watch history, subscriptions, likes, comments etc. Which iirc NewPipe doesn't. Whether you care about that is entirely up to you though, NewPipe is certainly better if you care more about privacy
That or they are going to cut Medicare and then blame it on the democrats, and people will believe it because they saw the commercial.
Because you're not blocking ads.
Exactly. Switch to Firefox + uBlock Origin. Problem solved.
Because he's a narcissistic, egotistical, megalomaniac and loves seeing his face and hearing his own voice. The ads are not for you. They're for him.
Bingo.
Yep, he likes running for office where he can get cheers and applause, but not actually governing. Except he's too chicken shit to actually hold rallies anymore for fear someone puts a bullet through his skull. Probably a reasonable fear too, given the rate he's breaking things in the States.
at this point I suspect they're also buying air time to deny it to other outfits like Lincoln Project.
All of the above
Because he is going to run for a third term and they're expecting to lose with the current momentum.
I haven’t seen a commercial in years, but what I can speak about is the random us flags. Is this for July 4th or is it to support Trump? My grocery store sells so many sizes now and they’re so cheap. It’s the cheapest thing they have.
They run TV ads in California where Kristi Noem talks about how great Trump is for deporting all of these people and how secure America is. Then pictures of CECOT prisoners arranged in little squares surrounded by guards proudly posed. It’s so odd.
He is a Narcissist. He needs to be loved, that's why he thrives in his role of Almighty President-King.
Polls are showing that he isn't, so he pushes ads here and tries to buy love there.