He'll ruin the gov like he ruined X
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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I actually do.
We're entirely fucked.
We're going to spend the rest of our lives witnessing the enshitification of this nation. Even if we completely turn this crash and burn around, we'll then spend the rest of our lives watching things being slowly rebuilt as traitorous Republicans continue to obstruct.
I don't think a lot of Americans are grasping exactly how hard we fucked ourselves by refusing to responsibly inform ourselves even to a minimal degree.
As someone currently living in Canada, the US is badly fucking up a lot of it's international relations too. I've heard several people here say that even if if the US unfucks itself right away (which it won't), it's still going to be a long time before things will be right again.
You don't go around threatening neighbours and allies like this and then expect to be able to just walk it back overnight.
USAID was, more than anything, a means of positive international relations. It was a 2 prong approach of foreign aid and foreign good will. The mid 1900s US made a lot of fucking enemies, and USAID was one very solid method of trying to overcome the damage wrought by our government.
And now TB supplies – that were already paid for – are rotting in warehouses (among many other issues). Not only will that harm people, it will harm our reputation, AND increase antibiotic resistant TB, which will in turn affect the rest of the world including the US itself.
And that's only one piece of the very large clusterfuck.
Oh I know. I hate it because a) I love yall, Canadians, Danes, Germans opposed to the afd, etc. You're our friends and neighbors and I'm horrified seeing people not treat you as such, but also b) we had a real good thing going and we're never getting it back.
We entirely are. Our lifetimes in this country will never see another good day of it.
What I don't understand is that no one is stopping this from happening. They're all just letting it happen. Perhaps because they are afraid to lose their jobs but at what cost? I've lost all hope for this country and I wish to God I could move. Oh well.
Did he really get rid of remote work for no reason?
To get people to quit, they've just started firing large swathes of people now though.
for no reason
Reason: Attrition
You don't have to fire them if they quit.
You gut those departments and put the money into things that benefit tax cuts on the rich, or you hire friends and loyalists into those seats and pay them all the money to do nothing.
It's a gift, Everything they're doing is a different length of gift to make the rich richer.
Yup.
Americans literally just voted to gut what was left of the middle class.
Super, almost unbelievably, stupid society we live in.
When there's a critical mass of hopeless people, they'll be drafted, given a rifle, and marched somewhere with the full intention of never letting them return alive or otherwise.
Today children, we'll learn about the great Canadian - American War of 2027.
Or as they know it in the US the American - Canadian War
The U.S.A. is done. Such sabotage by Trump, Musk and MAGA takes decades to recover from. 40 to 50 at least; rebuilding the civil service, amending all the laws back to normal, fixing the Supreme Court, probably needing Constitutional amendments. This easily echos for a hundred years.
I think your assessment is optimistic.
Even if they get rid of pedo-Don, Fox will tell them everything that went wrong is because of Clinton and the woke and they will be like "YeAh dAMn woke-dei-sjw-blm dEsTroyIng ma cUntrY".
It's over. That's the consequence of decades of under-educating their citizen and raw capitalism. The only question that remain is how much of the world down they will bring down with them.
The idea that america was fine until MAGA sabotaged it is absurd and reductionist.
Slowly degrading since what Nixon?
If's been being eroded for a long time, but just recently it's become fragile enough to be unstoppable at any level.
Hasn't it been thoroughly sabotaged by Reagan already? Not to say that Trump can't do a fine job setting the rubble on fire, but i concur that the US has been a mess for quite some time.
Do you not think 2016 America was better than America today?
Not particularly. Especially if you are brown.
I mean, did we all forget Occupy happening in 2008? And the Obama admin sending in jackboots to clear everyone out, so profits can get back to shareholders?
In comparison to what we're probably going to be left with for the rest of our lives, what we had before MAGA will seem like a fucking utopia.
Anyone who thinks the US, post 9/11 as utopia, by most any measure, is looking at things through Rose Colored Lenses.
Yup.
It will take decades of scraping and clawing things through Congress to get back what we're going to lose in a few short years. Assuming our government is even recognizable by the end of this.
If you have the means, it may actually be time to make another country home. If you don't, you need to come to terms that you will probably spend the rest of your life living in a declining nation where your rights are threatened.
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