• HubertManne@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    Even if we got a normal president again it would have to remain icy till all the agencies are run by experts again and it will take some time to drain the trump swamp fill. then of course congess and the supreme court would have to be friendly.

    • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      57
      ·
      1 day ago

      It’s worse than that. The damage is far more permanent. That you could even go this far tells the world you can’t be trusted. No one wants to partner with a country where all your plans are one election away from disaster.

      Like microsoft won’t respect sovereignty, means the world will push them out. Same for all US tech.

      You’ve gone from partner to customer for generations. US soft power is gone in a puff of smoke. There is nothing left but the rubble of realpolitik.

      • PostProcess@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        15 hours ago

        tells the world you can’t be trusted> It’s not that they don’t want to, but clearly there aren’t the guardrails in the system to stop the corruption and abuse. The next administration may be more favourable but the sheets been pulled back, and without systemic reform, it won’t be possible to go on trust alone.

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        oh corps are a totally different thing. yeah every country should be massively taxing and regulating. if they want to get rid of the us bs they need to start with no more lazzie affair capitalism.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          19 hours ago

          The bigger danger is that it is American companies that operate a lot of the technological and financial backbone of the world. That market is going to disappear as other countries implement their own sovereignty measures.

            • jabjoe@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              14 hours ago

              Private companies shouldn’t have monopolies. Let alone of national infrastructure. We have let them have monopolies of international infrastructure! Operating systems, office software, search, you name it. It’s so bad, most people can’t even see the monopolies. They can’t tell the difference between standard and monopoly.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, the whole re-elect Trump after electing someone bland but sane is the nail on the coffin for any type of sane stability at this point.

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 day ago

        Yeah trump one was like. Ok people make mistakes. But re-electing him? its like get committed insane. Its one reason I don’t feel anyone should treat republicans like just a polical party or a side of politics at this point. The consitution is violated regularly, consistently, and as policy by their party at all levels. all branches could stop it and they lend words of approval about it. Its beyond the pale. I don’t care how great a person is otherwise at this point if they tell me the will vote republican in the future its. get the fuck away from me. heck if they even accept them as a legitimate party its going to be I rather not interact with you.

        • It’s why all the “it’s just a different opinion than you” aatroturf is extra disgusting. My community’s existence is not up for debate.

          The Republican party is a hostile regime at this point, no different than the Nazi party of old. They should be treated similarly.

          • HubertManne@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 day ago

            yeah that gets exactly as I feel. Im fine if someone wants to be conservative but they have to make a party that is actually going to commit to the ideals. republicans are over at this point. they are the nazis and there is no ressurecting that brand. conservatives need to go back to pre nixon to find and stand by principles and it can’t be we just have priniciples when the other party is in power. they have to apply them to themselves to. again though not as republicans. all bridges burned with that party.

    • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      I’m of the mind that those who are true believers in what he does are a very small minority, generally either the hood wearing or utterly sociopathic rich sorts.

      Far too many that thought it couldn’t be this horrible are too worried about their pride to openly admit they where wrong which makes it hard for Congress critters to feel confident to take a stand against him.

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        So these are made up statistics from my gut but my feeling when protesting, which I do about once a week, is that about 20% of the traffic gives us positive feedback. Way at the start it was more like 10 but its been going up over his term. Negative feedback has been like 1%. Now granted these are vague and gut but my gues is 1% is really an over estimation and 20% an under at least for a good day. So yeah I feel like anyone who is not profiting from his stuff that is still for him might be like 10% or less of the populace. Im not a good judge as I did not think anyone would be crazy enough to vote for him again after his first loser term.