This motherfucker really is all four horsemen of the apocalypse all at once huh?
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I have driven by countless large signs from California farmers supporting trump. I hope they enjoy the flooding.
It's a face eating extravaganza - for the leopards that is.
He is a complete moron. He is wrong about literally everything and it is pathetic.
He's so cartoonishly moronic, he makes Portal 2's Wheatley look like a Harvard graduate.
I! AM! NOT! A! MORON!
He’s weak, confused and incompetent.
What an idiot.
Why did that shooter have to miss?
"Inches from a better world" has been a common phrase on my mind, with the added benefit of really needing a lot of context before the magastappo get pissy.
When it comes to presidential assassinations, there's really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.
"I went forward in time...to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the assassination attempt."
"How many did you see?"
"Fourteen million six hundred and five."
"How many were successful?"
"All but one."
Because it was a stunt to make the fat orange idiot look like a hero.
He didn't miss, he hit people in the crowd.
It's about what I expect from conservative shooters. Shooting everyone except the people who should be shot.
Ironic that the gun nuts absolutely suck at handling their guns. Much like there is a huge car scene where I live, but nobody can fucking drive.
When you’re the right flavor of stupid and arrogant, things like getting training, following the rules, and keeping things calm & predictable are just signs of weakness and lack of confidence.
Everyday I curse him for missing
damn bruh, it's like he's trying to fuck the country in order to please a foreign adversary and spare himself an unpleasant fate.
Naw man, murica first. He's clearly playing 8d chess. Canada ain't never dun nothin
How can a president in a democratic country order a dam opening, and this is left unchallenged by knowledgeable experts affected by the dam and stake holders? There seems a deep flaw in the system when it comes to the singular power of the US-president?
We have three branches in the federal government - executive, legislative, judicial. Legislative creates laws. Judicial basically decides when they apply/arbitrates their implementation. Executive branch is the actual meat of the entire thing, containing basically every other federal government institution, which is (in broad strokes) a giant hierarchy with the President at the top, with the ability to override every decision. It's because the people who designed this system had monarchism as their primary frame of reference and basically designed "monarchism with a couple restraints". People like to think it's democracy with checks and balances, but the democratic elements are worthless and the checks and balances have completely failed.
We elected Trump. The Democrats had the opportunity to run an opposition candidate, and opted not to.
The dams are entirely the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers, and the US President is the commander-in-chief.
The only ways for this to not happen is for the President to have their mind changed, or the President is removed from office, or, the order is refused enough (at cost of being fired/court-martialed) that nobody will carry them out.
The great powers of the US Presidency is meant to expedite government action. We are currently far from the scenario where Congress, by the will of the US voters, will remove the current President.
In his previous term there were people in all positions that would say no. He didn’t like that and fired people constantly, rotating through an inordinate amount of staff.
This time round they pre-planned everyone in every inch of federal government. All loyalists. No one will say no. They all fall in line and do as they’re told.
Trump and his handlers will strip mine and destroy the country from top to bottom completely unchallenged. And any challenge will simply be sidestepped or simply ignored.
Easy: it didn't happen in a democratic country.
I think he has no idea what he is doing, and he has dismantled all the guardrails. According to project 2025 the entire country needs to be razed and dismantled. So they can rebuild it as Musk/Trump's techno fascist state.That's why Musk wants access to social security numbers, health data and addresses. Musk now knows where you live, what colour your skin is, your gender, your income and debt, and all your weak points. The Nazis did this, it helps with identifying perceived enemies of the state, deportation of immigrants and jailing or execution of political rivals. I am so sorry for those of you in the states who didn't vote for this monster.
Side-note but this is exactly the reason why my country never asked for my ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation (and AFAIK is not legally allowed to do so). We learned from WWII that this is too great of a liability to entrust to future, potentially hostile governments. The Nazis poured over every written registry of Jewish population census to make a handy murder list, maybe we shouldn't facilitate their job next time?
(Side-side note: because of what I just said it is very surprising that Germany keeps a registry of everyone's religion for tax purposes, like maybe just find any other way to allocate subsidies?)
(Side³ note: I'm going to guess unfortunately my government does have "legally trans" people in a database due to the logistics of changing legal gender)
Well, now maybe you understand why republicans are so against DEI initiatives.
Because of potential data abuse? That’s a good one
I think he has no idea what he is doing, and he has dismantled all the guardrails.
He knows exactly what he’s doing, or at least, someone else proposed this and explained it to him. What he is doing is: ruin Californias agriculture. This water would’ve been needed in summer, when the place runs dry.
So come August, chances are, California agriculture is withering on the vine with no way to water it. At which point Orange Führer will blame the state government, just like he did with the wildfires. CA will suffer politically and economically, which is the real goal here.
It's so fucked that someone willingly followed the order to release the water. I'm sure it won't be the last time
This is literally terrorism.
Terrorism is when you do it. Politics is when the establishment does it.
I have a feeling that the republicans are now weaponizing "incompetence", so they won't be called out as much.