Politics
In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
46 percent of voters say his policies are making the economy worse rather than better, while 28 percent say the opposite (the rest had no opinion).
I think that 20 point gap is very significant. That's too many for honest answers. It looks to me like either people in the left afraid to say things are going well (unlikely) and people still on the right, afraid to say it's looking bad.
Trump's whole strategy here was to tank things so quickly that there could be no resistance from the left and that the Republican base would remain loyal.
This is a real crack in that. 28% support days that his base it liking where we're headed, but he's losing the Republicans who don't support him particularly.
28% of Americans thing he's been good for the economy. 31% of Americans voted for him... There's some shift and 'buyers remorse', sure. But not as much as numbers alone imply.
I think most of the people who've been deceived by the rhetoric are too committed. They'd rather convince themselves that their economic pain will serve some greater good, even if they can't see what that is yet.
RR is an out-of-touch boogie cheerleader on his best days, but the amount of cope he's shilling here is just tragic. He doesn't understand the meaning of "optimism" because all his side has offered for decades is "get 'em next time" nonsense.
optimism and hope are necessary in all scenarios, i dont know who rr is beyond this article but these are mostly fair things to be optimistic about. by optimism i do mean things that imply it's not necessarily the worst case scenario, that this is perhaps a 2 and change regime and not a 70+ year regime, and that some responses to the horrors are working. Even more someof these things imply a civil war is not as likely as it might be, which is a massive win unless you are a bloodthirsty fool. Could you be more specific with your problems here?
Trump is really ramping up the rhetoric on a Canadian/American war. I think such a thing makes an immediate civil war very likely.
I still think he doesn't intend a Canadian/American war. I think the dual purposes are manipulating markets as part of pumping and dumping stocks for the oligarchs, and promoting instability in the West for Putin. But a Canadian/American war would be a ton of instability in the West, so maybe
I think such a thing makes an immediate civil war very likely.
I don't see anything like that ever happening in the near future.
To be clear I didn't mean the rhetoric makes it likely, I mean an attack on Canada makes it likely. I think and hope that the rhetoric is market manipulation, and largely empty.
Whether that changes your opinion, idk.
What is a 'boogie cheerleader'?
I mean he is a member of the upper castes who mostly functions as a "progressive" Democrat propagandist
Bougie
thanks lol
OK. Thanks for the explanation.