These fucking Democrats are watching a dude successfully lie and bully his way into the presidency (not to mention that same playbook get adopted by the GOP in general) then think the answer is to be nice?
Newsflash, the voters on the other side aren't going to be swayed by a "broadly appealing message," I'd say an insignificant number of people could even be swayed to switch voting from the GOP / MAGA bastards over to the Dem sonofabitches anyways. So galvanized the troops, motivate people to vote and stop pussyfooting around.
Adopt the playbook that keeps working for your enemy, tweak it some sure, but stop thinking a milquetoast "we're the nice guys" campaign will ever work. It's failed so many times now, maybe learn a lesson?
Maybe in our lifetime we will see an expansion of Medicare to be a single payer system for all Americans as a publicly available option (ie: the minimum standards other insurance would need to meet to be competitive).
That would be nice. Idk I'm just hopeful in like 25 years we may see some real change ushered in when it comes to that. Probably very naively hopeful but I have to at least occasionally believe in a better future.
"oh the people who won't do anything will keep doing nothing"
Oh shit whatever will I do with their feelings being hurt. Poor little fee fees. Fuck the people that sat out or protest voted or were dumb enough to pretend Trump actually would help bring peace anywhere much less to Palestine.
What are they going to do, be upset that they have to hear the truth?
I think he's mostly banking on what comes after Trump assuming our democracy survives. That and if there were Americans on the ground in the country it may be an effective deterrent against Russian aggression just to have American bodies there that could get exploded and bring the USA into a shooting war on Ukraine's side.
That's my take on it anyways. Plus it could potentially be beneficial to both countries if the USA were to actually play ball and not be dickheads. Ukraine probably, idk I'm not an economist/read up that much, does not have all the equipment and men and experience to exploit all their mineral wealth. Bringing in American contractors to help isn't the worst idea, it just needs to be done right for it to make sense.
It's almost like there's this loud vocal minority that companies keep ignoring because they keep making money doing what they're doing. Like if it wasn't profitable and predictable I'm pretty sure publishers would stop what they're doing.
When it comes to video games, idgaf if someone wants to give a game dev thousands of their own dollars because they want to pay an idiot tax.
It's a free market, and we're all free to just not play the fucking game. Actually that's the default so just doing nothing is plenty.
I get what you're saying but we're not talking about groceries here, we're talking about something that could literally cease to exist and aside from some folks maybe being out of work nobody would even notice or care. I do agree though that strong regulation is much better than expecting consumers to stop consuming something as long as it's a necessary thing or something with quite inelastic demand (ie: medicine).
Here you go, I'm sure there are more examples but you'll have to be willing to go looking for them. Keep in mind I just pulled these from a Google search and I'm sure he has people working to suppress things as best he can.
Nothing is bad about that, IF that was what was actually happening. Unfortunately, it very much is not.
I don't have the time to go on explaining why upping taxes for everyone making under $500k isn't catering to 99.999% of the population. Or how blowing up USAID and surprise Pikachu facing when farmers can't sell their crops since they sold a lot to USAID (not to mention all the soft power USAID gets us and how useful it is to so many people here and abroad). Restricting access to news agencies is not "more freedom of speech" but rather suppression of it.
Idk you know there is a bunch more I could say but the reality is not at all what you're painting with your comments.
As an American, I'd be upset if it happened. It's bonkers to just be like, "oh other sovereign nation NBD you no longer exist," absolute madness.
Besides we could just (re)negotiate the trade agreements we have in place which apparently are so bad. I wonder who did a bad job with them last time we changed the framework and name of NAFTA ... Oh right the Trump admin.
There's no good reason, in my point of view, we couldn't have an equivalent to the EU for North and South America - freedom of movement, establishing standards, less friction when it comes to trade - but that would require some true visionaries with a lot of influence and power to work. I doubt it would come to be but I wouldn't be upset if it happened.
Won't someone please rid us of the meddling orange man and his sad lonely billionaire buddy.
"We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America's young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit. As a result, the country’s financial stability was in jeopardy. To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting."
They were investigating forgery before protecting presidents. Just so happens in 1901 there weren't a lot of federal agencies with as much power and experience as them so they got tapped for the new job of protecting the president.
Bro it annoys me to no end that people genuinely believe that the government never does audits. Like all this DOGE bullshit was already an ongoing part of the federal bureaucracy in place to ensure funds aren't misappropriated.
Do people think there was zero accountability for the money??!?!!
DOGE isn't saving shit it's a smokescreen to shift money around and enrich the unscrupulous assholes.
Is this supposed to be a mango because it's ... Not? I'm over here trying to figure this shit out and it's just another shitpost. More time I'll never get back, how dare you.
Humans won't ever go extinct save some absolute batshit scenario that wipes the world completely clean of all life, give or take.
We're too resourceful and we like fucking too much for humans to go extinct but it could be a pretty bleak existence for the human race at some point.