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Was at a bar near the US embassy in London last night. Saw lots of non-Americans wearing MAGA hats. Felt like I was in a weird fever dream.

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Saw an asshole in Berlin yesterday that had a MAGA hat in the window of his Mercedes G Wagon wankpanzer. Typical.

With all the chat on the economy, the Trump republican party going all out on bullying minorities is not cool.

They can make the arguments on the economy without that. But they didn't.

And that is not on the democrats. Of course this is great, more division, trump reps won't fix housing etc. either and then in a few years we might get Elon musk or Peter Thiel for president. 🤢

We won’t. Neither are eligible, having not been born in America.

And thats why I don't bet on anything

This is who America wants.

Yeah this, basically.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them - or whatever the quote is.

I did say to my other half yesterday that the wheeling out of all the celebrity luvvies by the Democrats isn't the ace card they think it is. They don't appeal to blue collar rust belt Americans who want lower taxes, more in their pay cheques and an end to illegal immigration

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn007p39zdzo.amp

According to the BBC, Zelensky is so popular he didn’t need to be reelected.
Perhaps Trump will pull that one next time!

Neither are eligible, having not been born in America.

How touchingly naive to think that the rules matter

It's a good point. Luvvies gonna luvvie after all.

They needed Joe the plumber or whatever his name was

They need Bernie Sanders for president. But there's so much hysteria about socialism that a left winger could never be a populist in the US.

There's a lot in this, but I think it's more than that. The focus on socially progressive/left issues while simultaneously ignoring the economic ones over a period of time has had a real impact. I wonder if part of it is that they're cheaper and lower effort than meaningful economic change.

I'm it sure Trump would have made the economy any better over the last 4 years. Inflation was largely caused by global issues and for most of the period it was lower in the US than most of the world.

Ukrainian territory isn't Trump's to give away.

And it isn't Putin's to take. But take it he will, without American support. It's not unreasonable to fear that, by the end of Trump's next term, Putin's empire will include Lit-Lat-Est, Moldova and Georgia.

"why did nobody listen to me, some fucking random on the internet?"

^^^ This will be the key test I guess. Imo the work Biden has put into the economy will pay dividends for Trump.

It's his to throw away.

You think a nativist, isolationist party is going to change that rule?

That’s incredibly naive.

Almost equal to no mortgage I suppose lolz

the work Biden has put into the economy will pay dividends for Trump.

This is almost the tragedy of the tale. He'll claim the credit and his ignorant public will buy it and ignore the other shit that he'll do because of it. It's something quite pervasive here too, mind - the public doesn't get just how long it takes for certain economic policy to wash through.

Hey it's a great day for rehabilitation of offenders.

Best hope really is that he's too lazy to do much, and will mainly just pardon himself and play golf while the continuity Republicans run the country. Still awful but don't have much to cling onto.

Not even surprised to be honest.
Any other result would not be in line with this Idiocracy prequel we're currently living.
Sigh.

Surely the less he himself does, the more of the actual P2025 they will get through with Vance and co behind the scenes? Isn't the hope that he now actually scuppers great swathes of it by his unpredictability?

change that rule

Nope, I think he will get rid of the rules completely and just anoint a successor who may be Musk or Don Jnr.

Best hope really is that he's too lazy to do much

Have you seen how much work they've done to prepare Project 2025? The lazier he is, the more those wolves get to do.

All he needs to do is put his crazy followers into office and sign the laws, they'll do the rest.