Summary
Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.
The “Signalgate” scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.
Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.
Ok, good! My point is imagine being someone scared, directly at bodily threat right now, and hearing someone else casually remark on the internet right now “well, why would we stop the Republicans when they are fucking up so bad?”.
This is the kind of thing that makes people hate you, people are DYING RIGHT NOW. Yes, I know that is because of the other side making things horrifically bad, but that doesn’t give you the right to be flippant about it, to not resist in any way you can, and most importantly not to consider the lives of people who can’t just wait it out as Republicans continue to destroy their lives and kill them.
People voted this in.
This is what the majority of the voters want so what good is resisting going to do now?
This is insane.
Even if this was actually what people wanted, how do you just roll over for fascism? What fucking bizarre outlook.
This isn’t tit for tat, left of center versus right of center boring politics. We’re not getting fair elections anymore, and it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
Do you only believe in a democracy if you agree with it?
If the majority vote is a suicide pact that they’re going to drag you into as well, do you just let it happen or do you fight?
Mind you, I’m not saying that Trump got in by any democratic process. It’s more the result of crime, propaganda and expoliting defects in an old, creaky system.
That is the words of a coward if I have ever heard one
I’d prefer to be called a realist cowards are the eighty million that decided not to vote.
Oh? You aren’t one of those cowards that prefers to be called a coward?
Ok, but he’s @satansmaggotycumfart is not totally wrong. People DID sit this out. However, the broader question I have is how fragile the US democratic experiment is. If all it takes for one election cycle for people to sit out, then the flame of democracy was never very strong to begin with. Checks and balances are all but gone at this point…