President Donald Trump has said he does not “give a damn” about potential criticism of his remarks boasting that the United States is making a “fortune” from high oil prices, as American motorists continue to face elevated gasoline costs.
Does anyone remember when politicians actually pretended to work for the people?
I’m older now, and the memory feels dim, but if I sit and think, I can just barely remember a time when politicians realized that they worked for the people.
Citizens United was the point of no return. The people became powerless wage slaves with a mouse whisper voice to influence anything. Corporotacracy achieved adulthood and the people’s slide toward slavery crossed the event horizon.
100%. I remember feeling like it was starting to fall apart that day.
No. I do however remember questioning people’s sanity when they talked about stupid and incompetent politicians when it was very obvious that they were corrupt but knew very well what they were doing.
Decades later not much has changed. The malicious working against voters has become even more obvious and people still pretend that those corrupt shitbags are mostly just dumb and don’t know any better.
It has long been my opinion that all politicians are either corrupt or stupid, often times both.
After collapse they will again, not they’ll never mean it
Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars because of what’s happened in the Middle East
When he says ‘our country’ what he means is ‘the ruling elite’… he says the same thing when talking about data centers. He says the reason we need data centers is because it’s making people so much money. He just never says which people.
And when he says: “Because of what’s happened”, he means “When I bombed a school full of small girls. Twice.”
He just never says which people.
All that while you could probaby call each of them by name in under a minute…
“We’re making a fortune!” …Yes, directly from the American people. “I don’t care about Americans running out of money, we’re getting rich off you losers!”
I hope no one reads that top-down and comes away with “Don’t vote. Delay today”. That’d be a silly way to read it.
At this point I wonder if there’s literally anything he could say or do to make his voters realize he doesn’t give a shit about them.
There are two main things that change people’s minds: Peer pressure, and trauma.
We’re social creatures and we take cues from people we trust. The right wing has done an excellent (and horrifying) job of creating unified in-groups for their followers. They have fox news. They have talk radio. They have churches. They have also demonized their opposition - “ivory tower elites”, “coastal elites”, queers, commies, etc. Many people will struggle to change their mind when everyone around them hasn’t.
There was a thing I was reading about a while ago, about flat-earthers. A bunch of them got shown a lot of evidence to contradict their beliefs. They all stuck to their flat-earth nonsense, except one of them. The guy who’d started dating someone sane, and hanging out with her friends. He changed his mind. In large part because he no longer saw the flat-earth community as such a vital part of his in-group. Or so the author argued.
The other way is trauma. If something really horrific happens to someone, they might reevaluate. But if they’re still in the same social groups, they’re likely to fall back into their old ways.
In the book “Dying of Whiteness”, the author interviewed a variety of people. Among them were gun violence survivors. There was one passage where a woman said something like, yeah, easy access to guns is why her son died. Maybe he shouldn’t have been able to just go get a gun and shoot himself. But, she said, she would never say that to her peers.
So, in short: No, not really. The social groups carrying maga identity are self-reinforcing. They’re all looking at their peers, who are all still maga.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe is a good comic about some of the same ideas, too.
He actually has a very low approval rating now.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
According to the New York Times, Trump has the second lowest approval rating heading into the midterms since 1946, behind only Harry Truman.
I’d say maybe steal their money straight from their pockets, shoot their kid dead, and hacksaw their pet to pieces.
Well he’s already done an awful lot of the first one, and ICE goons have the other two covered on his behalf.
So no, not even that does it.
LOL! Just remember…In 1998, Donald Trump said he would run as a Republican in a presidential campaign because they are the “dumbest group of voters.” At least the orange asswipe got that right and the Russians understood this too. The same applies to the vast majority of right-wing political parties and their voters.
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Hmmm… Massive tax cuts… Increased spending on gas/oil by the people… 401k not guaranteed to be invested in oil companies…
Who is getting rich here? I would doubt even the us government is seeing a meaningful income since we subsidize and cut taxes on the oil companies…
…oh right, Trump is highly invested in oil companies. The only person that matters. Right.
Translation: US = stock market = me.
Trump doesn’t care because he’s making a fortune.
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So that means the US national debt is finally going down and we averted a dollar crash crisis which will sling the whole economic world in disarray, right? RIGHT?!
Bold strategy. 🤡
We know.
well of course. its always been about growing he slice at the highest end.
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US but not us.
