Discussions on difficult subjects

[Csar]

He want's to hand out 5 grand to each citizen from our treasury... (this part he wont say out loud) only for us to repay it back in future taxes...

Well, Nutlick said it won't come from taxpayers, so joke's on you!

Who wouldn't trust a guy who said he was disgusted about Epstein the moment he met him the first time and never wanted to be near him ever again only to check in with his whole family on his private island years later..


Btw, gotta correct myself: This was the weirdest thing yet:

[Wolkenkrabber]

He always was a piece of shit.

Anyone watched The Apprentice (2024) since I last recommended it? Good performances from Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Guaranteed no Apprentice TV show in this movie. On the downside, it is a movie about (early) Trump...
PS: Pet Shop Boys and New Order are on the soundtrack. Does that help?

[Csar]

Anyone watched The Apprentice (2024) since I last recommended it? Good performances from Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Guaranteed no Apprentice TV show in this movie. On the downside, it is a movie about (early) Trump...

I watched it on the eve of the election in the hopes that, when I come out of it, everything would going to be fine. Tssss..., silly me.
Movie was good, though, and well acted.

[ThePumisher]

He always was a piece of shit.

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This is a post about the very far right nazi party AfD, but you can mirror it 1x1 on Trump and all the other shithead leaders around the globe (and the people surrounding them) =>

"You cannot challenge a party on matters of substance if it is indifferent to facts. Nor can you expose the true nature of a party that immediately dismisses any truth it dislikes as a lie. The only way to avert harm to the country is to combat such a party using all the means available under the rule of law."

[Bosco]

Anyone watched The Apprentice (2024) since I last recommended it? Good performances from Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Guaranteed no Apprentice TV show in this movie. On the downside, it is a movie about (early) Trump...

I did take your recommendation @Wolkenkrabber , and it was excellent film with equally excellent performances. Probably one that deserves more attention then it did. If we were in the 90's - 00's this film would get regular play on US cable television. It felt like a Miloš Forman movie (See, 'The People vs Larry Flynt').

And I totally agree, I had no desire to watch a movie about Donald, but I had just watched through 'Succesion' and was on a Jeremy Strong kick and decided to go with the flow... To my surprise, 'The Apprentice' is absolutely a movie that I also would recommend.

[Bosco]

The will of the people came through on Tuesday. It was no secret that majority of Americans have been pissed off and disgusted for the entirety of Trumps two administrations... yet, we allowed the mistake to happen TWICE.

After these midterm results, the well-being of a damaged and stressed public is in dire need of repair, but some fantastic retribution better be on the menu too.

Young voters, you rock!

David Simon ('The Wire' writer/creator):
https://bsky.app/profile/audacityofdespair.bsky.social/post/3mzihpndztc2n
(not embedding correctly...)

[Csar]

Well, the degree to which this has materialized is somewhat surprising, given the time and again stupid decisions the American electorate has made in the last 10 years. Sure, the polls were showing in that direction, but the magnitude of some of the margins is quite remarkable, when you consider how close results have tended to become in recent election cycles.

Although I wish your assesment for the reason you gave above were true, I'm a little doubtful it's at the heart of this mood swing. It would require self-reflection and the development of a consciousness. The majority of the MAGA supportes haven't suddenly changed their minds on those fundamental ideas because the needle of their moral compass recalibrated. No, it's most probably the cost at the pump and the ensuing rise of cost of living that got these people pissed. Not the corruption and self-dealing, the cruelty and law-breaking. Just the plain old song of egotism: They felt in their own pockets. If gas prices were still the same, I have my doubts that these results were remotely similar.
Just like John Oliver in his latest epsiode said: The last time around it was the price of eggs.

Also, Democrats have to understand that this win should not be misinterpreted as a win for a certain party. It was a rejection of the current economic situation. Politicians, and Democrats especially if they want to win again, should start making a real and authentic effort to help all Americans and reach out to those on the "other side". It's the only way you can overcome these destructive culture war nonsense that has been so seductive to certain groups of voters.

So, I'm reluctantly hopeful that the age of lunacy is on its way out. But it needs work.

[ThePumisher]

It was no secret that majority of Americans have been pissed off and disgusted for the entirety of Trumps two administrations...

And yet, Trump sees no fault in himself => on Truth Social, he said something like "If my name had been on the ballots, the result would have been different."

[Bosco]

Although I wish your assesment for the reason you gave above were true, I'm a little doubtful it's at the heart of this mood swing. It would require self-reflection and the development of a consciousness. The majority of the MAGA supportes haven't suddenly changed their minds on those fundamental ideas because the needle of their moral compass recalibrated. No, it's most probably the cost at the pump and the ensuing rise of cost of living that got these people pissed. Not the corruption and self-dealing, the cruelty and law-breaking. Just the plain old song of egotism: They felt in their own pockets. If gas prices were still the same, I have my doubts that these results were remotely similar.

I can't disagree with this. But with these recent midterm results, Donald Trumps MAGA is probably in it's death throes politically. The Republicans lost a massive amount of ground in its safe electorate. Absent of any unforeseen world or political catastrophe, all the Senate and House of Reps. that were lost in this Midterm, will probably take 6-8+ years to be re-obtained for Republicans. And even then, that doesn't mean they'll bounce back to a majority in either branch of government.

Ron DeSantis former Florida Governor and future (and past) Republican Presidential Candidate says it here:

Conservatism will have to alter itself again to appeal to the center of America. That, or pounce when economic disaster hits again, and play the classics like: NO TAXES, LESS GOVERNMENT, and LESS REGULATION!



Any ways... Major War is still going on the world, and that still sucks.

[Wolkenkrabber]

The will of the people came through on Tuesday. It was no secret that majority of Americans have been pissed off and disgusted for the entirety of Trumps two administrations... yet, we allowed the mistake to happen TWICE.

After these midterm results, the well-being of a damaged and stressed public is in dire need of repair, but some fantastic retribution better be on the menu too.

Although I wish your assesment for the reason you gave above were true, I'm a little doubtful it's at the heart of this mood swing. ... No, it's most probably the cost at the pump and the ensuing rise of cost of living that got these people pissed. Not the corruption and self-dealing, the cruelty and law-breaking. Just the plain old song of egotism: They felt in their own pockets. If gas prices were still the same, I have my doubts that these results were remotely similar.
Just like John Oliver in his latest epsiode said: The last time around it was the price of eggs.

I fear that @Csar may be correct.
Here's psychologist and former NBA player(!) John Amaechi. You may have to turn up the volume (sorry!). Listen from 31 secs to 1:45.

https://x.com/gylesnamopaleen/status/2118767503794905597

But I think it all boils down to this...
"It's the Economy, Stupid!" (James Carville)