Play Nice 47th President of the United States: Donald Trump - Part 20: If you want Capitalism, you got it

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USA - 2024 US Presidential Election: Trump vs Harris (pt II)

Continued from Part 1 - https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2024-us-presidential-election-trump-vs-harris.1383317/

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USA - Kamala Harris Concedes. God Help America

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< - Trump 19 is back there.

 

[Financialpanther]

Omelette these egg puns slide.

I like it - I might poach this.

 

[Blue1980]

Seems to work in Victoria, Kennett has been out of office for 25 years and still getting blamed.

It’s almost like selling many of your assets to privatisation has long term effects…

 

[Blue1980]

The anti war guy, trying to promote the joys of ethnic cleansing https://archive.is/2025.01.26-105305/https://www.ft.com/content/8f532d01-a8cc-49e3-b1db-31e3da8d3771

 

[peetoo]

The anti war guy, trying to promote the joys of ethnic cleansing https://archive.is/2025.01.26-105305/https://www.ft.com/content/8f532d01-a8cc-49e3-b1db-31e3da8d3771

Peace without justice.

On a personal level when you fear the police more than criminals

 

[RCAB]

The anti war guy, trying to promote the joys of ethnic cleansing https://archive.is/2025.01.26-105305/https://www.ft.com/content/8f532d01-a8cc-49e3-b1db-31e3da8d3771

Probably see a nuke or two launched at the US sometime in the future. September 11 will seem like a Thai massage in comparison.

 

[TheSunGod]

Peace without justice.

On a personal level when you fear the police more than criminals

“There will be no peace till man gets equal rights and justice”
Peter Tosh

 

[Strange Cat]

No-one's talking about guilt, Elon you arsewipe.

Nazism was an appalling brutal inhumane ideology that among its many crimes, attempted to industrially exterminate an entire people.

So we’re saying it mustn’t ever happen again. Ever.

Hanging around a bunch of troglodytes who look and talk and behave like Nazis is not the way to do that.

Not that hard to understand.

Are you SURE you’re as bright as your wealth suggests?

He is just parroting the same comments made by the Nazi right wing supporters over there …just giving it more publicity along with his salutes

On another note , it’s surprising to see Trump eliminate his inspectors that controls and overseas the spending of Tax payers money so quickly…he might just be planning a big raid of the piggy bank with no oversight

Just amazing that’s it’s only been 6 days and the mask is fully off for all involved

 

[Strange Cat]

Don't be too harsh on the voters. For those of us living in Australia, where the right to vote is sacrosanct and protected by Federal legislation, it is impossible to beleive the roadblocks put in place to limit the voting franchise for partisan reasons in the US.

Unlike in Australia, Presidential elections are held on a weekday making it extraordinarily difficult for lowly paid workers to get out and vote, especially given the long queues and inaccessibility of voting places , even in major cities like NYC.

The number and location of polling places is controlled by individual states and there is no such think as an independent electoral commission to maintain the independence and fairness of the voting system. And it is easier in some red states to
get a gun licence than it is to register to vote.

Consider the case of Arizona. As the result of a long and still ongoing legal dispute, if you registered to vote for the 2024 US election using a form that the federal government produces to be used around the country, you would be allowed to vote in federal elections, but not in Arizona state or local elections, unless you also provided papers proving your citizenship.

Most Australians do not realise that the US Presidential election is NOT a single election or even 51 elections (for each of the 50 states plus Washington, D.C.). They run over 8,000 simultaneous elections, often on the county level - for everything from the US President, to the local dog catcher - on a ballot paper that run metres long and can take 15 minutes or more to fill out.

What’s more, the U.S. Constitution says very little about how elections are to be run. The Constitution does not even affirmatively guarantee anyone the right to vote — it only bars certain forms of discrimination in voting, such as on the basis of gender, age or race. The rules that govern US elections are a mix of federal, state and local laws. And even on the state level, power over elections is dispersed among the legislature, governor, election administrators and local officials.

Blaming the voters for not bothering or being allowed to show up on voting day is misplaced. For all we hear about the US being the home of the western democracy, the process of democracy itself in the US is deeply flawed - something we have no chance of understanding looking at pie charts and tables on voting turnout numbers from the other side of the world.

I would counter than by the general public knowing what was at stake and project 2025 beforehand and they still couldn’t make the “sacrifice” to muster up the effort to vote

No I don’t give them a pass

 

[Strange Cat]

I want him to keep hounding Denmark about Greenland. I think that will be a massive offsider move if he makes any sort of move towards that. Europe won't stand for that and will be the beginning of the end for Trump. So I am here for it

It’s what Putin wants ..a USA that is in conflict with NATO and has Greenland

It’s so transparent what he is doing

 

[Strange Cat]

Just wondering how far he'll push until the populace turns on him. At this pace the epiphany for them will happen very quickly.......... and they'll be angry. I'm sure around 70% are not happy at all Jan.

Remember only 31% population voted for him, and in that percentile it's not likely all and sundry see him in a popular light.

It's not like they're all just gonna roll over and cop it, surely.

As far as the American people catching on that they've ****ed up goes, I'm pretty cynical. I think it'll take a lot longer than we'd expect. At least, for it to get to a point they actually do something about it.

America’s minimum wage has been more or less the same for the last 30 years ….i have strong doubts they are able to muster up any effort towards changes for their benifit…BLM was the closest I’ve seen towards that

 

[Pure_Ownage]

The anti war guy, trying to promote the joys of ethnic cleansing https://archive.is/2025.01.26-105305/https://www.ft.com/content/8f532d01-a8cc-49e3-b1db-31e3da8d3771

What a moron. Can anyone find a way to get him committed into a psych ward?

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I would counter than by the general public knowing what was at stake and project 2025 beforehand and they still couldn’t make the “sacrifice” to muster up the effort to vote

No I don’t give them a pass

I agree. They are at fault and should own it. And the people around them should call them out until they own it.

 

[Strange Cat]

25% tariff on Columbia for hurt feelings about them asking America to not be sending military planes into their airspace with no warning

How’s the egg prices going MAGA?

 

[Kangas_11]

If you want a bit of insight into how absolutely f***ed the media landscape is in the US at the moment, I'd recommend having a look at the coverage of this Colombia fiasco from Fox News and CNN.

Fox is going hard with the narrative that Colombia immediately backed down after Trump announced his 25% tariffs, CNN is went in strong on Colombia rejecting the flights to stand up to Trump and is now going all in on the retaliatory tariffs from Colombia.

All this to say, it's absolutely impossible to get a bias-free version of anything happening right now in the US.

 

[dumb]

I suspect this one is beyond Trump, certainly with the timeframe that would allow him to stand again. Unless the SCOTUS shows itself to be utterly corrupt (not just mostly corrupt) and literally tears up the Constitution. Trump will probably have to get rid of John Roberts to achieve that.

my understanding of the machinations of how it may come about are clearly a bit limited, thanks for clarifying.

 

[E Shed]

I would counter than by the general public knowing what was at stake and project 2025 beforehand and they still couldn’t make the “sacrifice” to muster up the effort to vote

No I don’t give them a pass

A lot of people that voted for him just don’t inform themselves to that level.
They just see the headlines and Trumps lies & think MAGA good.

It’s the same morons here who will vote for Dutton thinking he actually care about anything beyond serving Gina’s interests.

Pure ignorance. Leopards ate my face.

 

[Beerfish]

It’s the same morons here who will vote for Dutton thinking he actually care about anything beyond serving Gina’s interests.

Or even just to 'own the lefties' without even caring what they're actually voting for.

 

[Not Important]

 

[Not Important]

Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social)

congratulations to everyone who thought they were voting for cheap eggs but were actually voting for two-thousand-pound bombs to be shipped to Israel

bsky.app

 

[troybe]

We all knew they were indifferent previously but this has taken it to a whole new level. This is from a person with no official position within the government but could be interpreted as a line from his father with his angry rantings

 

[Tadpole]

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We all knew they were indifferent previously but this has taken it to a whole new level. This is from a person with no official position within the government but could be interpreted as a line from his father with his angry rantings

The (rotten) apple doesn’t fall far from the tree there.

 

[Beerfish]

What's he want people to tow the line with? Car? Bike? Teeth?

 

[Gough]

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We all knew they were indifferent previously but this has taken it to a whole new level. This is from a person with no official position within the government but could be interpreted as a line from his father with his angry rantings

Imagine the response if Hunter Biden had said that.

 

[Chief]

well, the upside is that no one knows more about fraud than the orange orangutan.

“The White House has removed the independent inspectors general of nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an unprecedented purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/24/trump-fire-inspectors-general-federal-agencies/

Likely unconstitutional\illegal and easily struck down by a court.

 

[Royces Hart]

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We all knew they were indifferent previously but this has taken it to a whole new level. This is from a person with no official position within the government but could be interpreted as a line from his father with his angry rantings

Eric Trump is less terrifying than Cale Morton.