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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Nobody here actually wants him to fuck up the country, the world, the global economy, the environment, etc.
But so far in his 70 years or so on this Earth, he has not given us any reason to believe that he is up to the task. He has not given us any reason to believe that he even really cares about the task. On the contrary, he has given us many reasons to fear for our very existence.
And that's not getting into his...dubious staffing choices.
He's not even taking his first days on the job responsibly. He is going on vacation immediately after inauguration.
He's not reading through his briefings. His appointees are not reading through their briefings.
If the ship does make it to harbor, it'll be held together by spit and willpower.
edited 20th Jan '17 9:12:30 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
A Rick Roll should have played at that moment.
edit: ugh, page-topper.
edited 20th Jan '17 9:13:23 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedIn France, some journalists are wondering how to translate Trump
, because his lack of vocabulary and awful syntax mean that, if you stay true to the text, his interviews will actually sound like they are done by a 9 year old.
So two choices basically:
- Go for 9yo, which means translators purposefully keeping the lack of word variety and the inability to order the thoughts. Basically unreadable, unless you are a psychologist used to working with kids.
- Clean it, which means making him sound like an actual adult, but not being faithful to the original text.
edited 20th Jan '17 9:17:50 AM by Julep
He thinks Sweden made up the charges because they're a puppet regime for the sinister Americans, and that they only want him so that they can immediately ship him here so Obama can execute him for daring to defy our authoritarian rule over the world.
Bit exaggerated, but when he first started hiding in that embassy, that's how his defenders explained his shirking of the rape charges. Fake charges Sweden made up to advance the American agenda, and five seconds after arriving, he would be deported here.
So, naturally, he's not concerned about the Swedish charges.
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Because, at least according to several of Trump's biographers, the only people he trusts and will listen to are members of his own family; he's a very special sort of paranoid not often seen outside of monarchies. So any and all of Trump's advisers will have to go through one or both of them to actually get Trump to do something. Okay, since he's seemingly a massive Nixon fanboy you can probably add Henry Kissinger to the list of people Trump will actually listen to, but he's 93 years old and an unrepentant war criminal, so not a particularly nice person either.
edited 20th Jan '17 9:22:11 AM by CaptainCapsase
The first one is what I would do, personally. If non anglophones are wondering how he manages to sound like that, people can just tell them US citizens think he sounds ridiculous as well.
I'm giving him a week before he does something dumb/oppressive/ridiculous/etc. Even that might be generous.
edited 20th Jan '17 9:21:02 AM by Draghinazzo
There is no place for such absolute statements to be made by any human being, king, priest, president or baker.
You ARE going to disappoint someone at some point as a representative or public official. It is out of one's own control.
"It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few."Not necessarily, populism also entails in keeping the population that can elect or support the current power holders happy, even at the expense of everyone else. The marginalization doesn't even need to be real, only the perception of a problem that needs to exist to give room for populist politicians to take power.
Whether it is through galvanizing the poor to support a Fidel Castro wannabe in Venezuela because he gives them benefits, a macho though guy keeping the middle class population with their sights aimed at the poor and drug users in Philippines, a Tough man capitalizing the glory of the old days and the superiority of their own values in Russia or an Orange fraudster appealing to people who refuse to believe the US isn't in the 60's anymore either because low skill jobs no longer pay well and they refuse to acknowledge any sort of help they received from the government or because they can't discriminate against Latinos and Blacks with impunity anymore.
The same way the perceived insecurities with immigrants are giving power political power to right wing populists in Europe, the perceived insecurities the US public had gave Trump enough support for him to win.
That the US wasn't a super power anymore, that the US was weak and not respected, that everyone was robing the US blind, that immigrants are stealing everyone's jobs, that criminality was growing specially in those urban regions with mostly black populations, that the government programs like Obamacare were harmful to Americans, that white red blooded American lifestyle was being threatened by immigrants, positive actions and those uppity liberals disconnected from reality and etc.
Those were exaggerated and/or perceived slights with very little base in reality but they were believable and that perception is easily exploited by populist politicians, even if those people aren't really marginalized, they believe they are and will vote for anyone who says whatever they want to listen.
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You also have the new deal and progressive eras in America, and similar movements over in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, which ended disastrously in some cases (particularly when the political center refused to budge in the slightest and ended up being swept away by genuinely radical movements such as the Nazis and the Bolsheviks), constructively in others, the key difference being that populism was moderated by pragmatism and a long term vision in the successful cases. The American political spectrum is far enough to the right that Sanders is more or less the limit of how far left any "left wing" populist can be, and that's not really cause for alarm unless you happen to believe American hegemony (rather than the extremely high cost of modern war in both materials and manpower) is the only thing preventing the world from collapsing into chaos, and even then, that requires the extremely optimistic assumption that a multipolar world is not an inevitable future.
edited 20th Jan '17 9:34:28 AM by CaptainCapsase

Because apparently he still hasn't realized that this is a job.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.