Changes under Trump 2.0

[TastyBurrito]

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I was a life-long democrat until this puppet show the past four years with Biden, and the complete shit-show that was Kamala.  Be honest, what did the Democrats run off of?  Pure fear.  "We're not Trump".  Obsessed with Trump.  I'm sorry, I was with y'all, but y'all lost the plot.  Anything against the Democrats is met with pure HATE, and I just can't stand behind that.  The more I looked at things from a neutral perspective and common sense, the crazier the democrats are, honestly.

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You didn't think that Trump ran off fear and you don't see any of what he's doing as crazy? Um ok...

To be fair, Trump didn't run his campaign on fear. He ran it on hate. A promise to punish those who were against him and those he didn't like.

[Big Skatefase]

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1894463126763937802

I would like for Hakeem Jefferies to explain what is the "extreme left" to him, because from where I'm sitting the United States doesn't actually have a real "extreme left" movement. Who are these extreme left politicians? What are their policies and why does he opposes those policies, shit why does the DNC oppose even center-left policies?

[Mongo Lloyd]

Hakeem is such a corporate toadie stooge.

All he cares about is keeping those Blackrock and Lockheed dollars rolling in.

[alien porkchop]

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It’s crazy that once you watched one or two left leaning YouTube vids criticizing trump/Elon, you get flooded with these types of vids/creators who make like 20 kinda dumb vids a day with crazy titles, view counts and followers. I’m starting to think they just milk this madness for their own benefits.

The logarithm is a crazy echo chamber and I start to wonder what neutral and non-insane right leaning opinions on this situation are like.

Asking as a non-American who can’t identify with either the far left or right. Are there even non radicalized rational opinion makers left? Or are we doomed to life in a black and white thinking world?

Just can’t imagine grounded conservative people feel good about two flashy entrepreneurs with shady track records going full ham insane and shredding the existing system and structures. These goes way further than being anti-woke and stuff and I hope trump and Elon have soon crossed the line and the actual conservatives speak up too.

Weren’t trump and Elon democrats before?

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Yeah my algorithm is so left pilled that it starts to creep into conspiracy stuff which will lead back to the right if I keep clicking. Shit is def fucked and may be the reason I think labor organizing is the only way out of this shitstorm for the US. The grift is in full effect from every angle though on revshare platforms.

The big problem, as far as polarized opinions go, is that the Overton window has been dragged pretty far to the right across the globe. That's probably exactly because of our corroded social media platforms that resist moderation and promote extremism by design. Brazil figured it out but the first amendment would make what they did impossible here in the US.

That said, these two have had some good takes. Apologies if either turn out to have a background in atheism that led them to men's rights advocacy. Made that mistake with Thunderfoot but nothing came up when I did a quick web search for goofy shit in their background. I even think of Gary as a mirror universe version of Tim Pool. Bald headed, dressin like antifa and the legend is he's made millions off a corrupt financial system and that pushed him left. If he he turns out to have a v nice switch hard then my theory will be correct and we do live in a multiverse.

the overton window got bipped

[Rerun]

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I was a life-long democrat until this puppet show the past four years with Biden, and the complete shit-show that was Kamala.  Be honest, what did the Democrats run off of?  Pure fear.  "We're not Trump".  Obsessed with Trump.  I'm sorry, I was with y'all, but y'all lost the plot.  Anything against the Democrats is met with pure HATE, and I just can't stand behind that.  The more I looked at things from a neutral perspective and common sense, the crazier the democrats are, honestly.

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You didn't think that Trump ran off fear and you don't see any of what he's doing as crazy? Um ok...

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To be fair, Trump didn't run his campaign on fear. He ran it on hate. A promise to punish those who were against him and those he didn't like.

That is fair. But I also think that hate is usually driven by fear.

[alien porkchop]

I was a life-long democrat until this puppet show the past four years with Biden, and the complete shit-show that was Kamala.  Be honest, what did the Democrats run off of?  Pure fear.  "We're not Trump".  Obsessed with Trump.  I'm sorry, I was with y'all, but y'all lost the plot.  Anything against the Democrats is met with pure HATE, and I just can't stand behind that.  The more I looked at things from a neutral perspective and common sense, the crazier the democrats are, honestly.

i hear this kind of take a lot from people who get their information about liberal policies and campaign rhetoric from right wing media. this doesn’t really have a basis in reality though.

[Painted Baby]

the overton window got bipped

No Radio in Car

[RichardBarkley]

The world's most powerful military has shifted from being a key European ally to having a U.S. president who is actively working to destabilize Europe in Putin’s favor—all within a matter of weeks.

Europe now faces a situation where, if military assistance were needed in the event of an attack, Trump would likely try to extort European nations, demanding control over significant portions of their wealth and resources—just as he attempted with Zelenskyy.

He even threatened to cut off Starlink in Ukraine to pressure Zelenskyy into surrendering mineral rights, and some reports suggest it was indeed shut down temporarily. There’s no reason to think he wouldn’t do the same to the rest of Europe, potentially withholding critical technology to force compliance.

What’s alarming is that Trump and the extreme figures he’s surrounded himself with now control the world’s most powerful military and intelligence agencies.

Beyond security concerns, the economic uncertainty is also unsettling. With such erratic leadership, are we on the no one of waking up to sudden spikes or crashes in prices?

Also this says it all. Siding with Russia and North Korea. What has the US become.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go

[TastyBurrito]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/republicans-trump-threats

Republicans support and vote for an unhinged sociopath that talked about being a dictator, then are now afraid once he starts acting like one? What the fuck is their logic?

[Mongo Lloyd]

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Hakeem is such a corporate toadie stooge.

All he cares about is keeping those Blackrock and Lockheed dollars rolling in.

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oh but, wait, wait, we were told that Hakeem has no power, because "that's how politics works"

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Any of y’all reading what house democratic/AIPAC bigman Jeffries been saying about folks calling their congress people this week?

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you mean how people are calling to tell Dems "fight harder"? Is that what you mean?

If so, what do you expect Dems to do? They don't have any power! They're the minority, because PEOPLE DIDNT VOTE.

If not, then what was it about?

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How I'm interpreting what you've written is that because the D's are the minority party right now, they're either helpless, completely lacking power, and/or can be expected to roll over because they're in the minority. Feel free to clarify and explain if this isn't what you're saying.

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That's exactly what I'm saying because they really don't have power. That's how politics work. We live in fascist America. It's what Americans wanted right? The thought of cheaper eggs, gas, groceries and how Kamala is a war monger. America elected a fascist and his fascist cronies and this is what happens when they get power.

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I wish that were the case. More than half the Democratic Party exists seemingly to maintain the status quo, and obstruct actual progress.

[h00man]

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Hakeem is such a corporate toadie stooge.

All he cares about is keeping those Blackrock and Lockheed dollars rolling in.

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oh but, wait, wait, we were told that Hakeem has no power, because "that's how politics works"

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Any of y’all reading what house democratic/AIPAC bigman Jeffries been saying about folks calling their congress people this week?

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you mean how people are calling to tell Dems "fight harder"? Is that what you mean?

If so, what do you expect Dems to do? They don't have any power! They're the minority, because PEOPLE DIDNT VOTE.

If not, then what was it about?

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How I'm interpreting what you've written is that because the D's are the minority party right now, they're either helpless, completely lacking power, and/or can be expected to roll over because they're in the minority. Feel free to clarify and explain if this isn't what you're saying.

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That's exactly what I'm saying because they really don't have power. That's how politics work. We live in fascist America. It's what Americans wanted right? The thought of cheaper eggs, gas, groceries and how Kamala is a war monger. America elected a fascist and his fascist cronies and this is what happens when they get power.

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you seem to care a lot about the Dems and what they are doing, when you, yourself, decided that VOTING DOESNT MATTER.

Why arent you complaining about Trump at all? Seems like you're trying to soften your stance on why you didn't vote, and trying to make us feel that this is all the Dems fault to begin with (which I agree, the Dems fucked up for years).

But it just seems to me that you're saying "see this is all the Dems fault let's just keep blaming Dems over and over" without singling out the source of the problem: people didnt vote.

What I'm getting at is:

You have a lot of talk in this thread about Trump changes, yet you didn't vote. You didn't have a single thing to say about Trump, and shit he's doing to our country, yet you didn't vote. You keep complaining about Democrats, in this thread about Trump. You didn't vote.

[Scarecrow Radio]

People who didn't vote in this election can kiss my pasty white ass

[h00man]

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Hakeem is such a corporate toadie stooge.

All he cares about is keeping those Blackrock and Lockheed dollars rolling in.

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oh but, wait, wait, we were told that Hakeem has no power, because "that's how politics works"

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Any of y’all reading what house democratic/AIPAC bigman Jeffries been saying about folks calling their congress people this week?

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you mean how people are calling to tell Dems "fight harder"? Is that what you mean?

If so, what do you expect Dems to do? They don't have any power! They're the minority, because PEOPLE DIDNT VOTE.

If not, then what was it about?

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How I'm interpreting what you've written is that because the D's are the minority party right now, they're either helpless, completely lacking power, and/or can be expected to roll over because they're in the minority. Feel free to clarify and explain if this isn't what you're saying.

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That's exactly what I'm saying because they really don't have power. That's how politics work. We live in fascist America. It's what Americans wanted right? The thought of cheaper eggs, gas, groceries and how Kamala is a war monger. America elected a fascist and his fascist cronies and this is what happens when they get power.

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you seem to care a lot about the Dems and what they are doing, when you, yourself, decided that VOTING DOESNT MATTER.

Why arent you complaining about Trump at all? Seems like you're trying to soften your stance on why you didn't vote, and trying to make us feel that this is all the Dems fault to begin with (which I agree, the Dems fucked up for years).

But it just seems to me that you're saying "see this is all the Dems fault let's just keep blaming Dems over and over" without singling out the source of the problem: people didnt vote.

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the regime doesn't surprise me, it's one endless doom scroll. I was talking with a youth last night, a person who is extremely and directly affected by shit that's happening right now, and they said "it's always terrible news, but at least it's not a surprise anymore. it would hurt more if it was a surprise." There's no point in my regurgitating what everyone else is saying.

I may however hold out hope that people will see that the so-called opposition party is also a sham. While not evil, but for a seeming very few, they're quite complacent. Jeffries recent comments, complaints about voters and constituents, people who are typically D voters, demanding that the D's get to work, shows they don't particularly care about making real changes.

edit to say: I've voted in every election I have been eligible to vote in. I'd wager that I've been far more involved in social, political, community, and direct action that 99% of people as well. Voting isn't enough

You didn't vote in this election, which was probably the single most important election so far in our lives. Now with Trump in office, there's no telling of what he will do. He is already trying to dismantle mail in voting. He has billionaire Elon running the show. We live in an oligarchy now. We belong to Russia.

Please tell me again, for the 5th time, why voting isnt enough? What do you suggest we do? Luigi? Please go ahead and round them up since "voting isnt enough".

Yes, the Dems are fucking idiots. They have been for years. They deserve their punishment. But you have got to be a fucking moron to think that this election was a "punishment for the dems". This is a punishment for ALL of America. Especially the youth that you so called "talked to". People are suffering. People are scared. People are losing their jobs and lives because millions of people across the US said "nah fuck the Dems".

It seems to me you are unaffected by any of these changes. We have people in this thread on the verge of losing their jobs. Other fellow skateboarders. Tariffs will affect the industry, not only in skating, but housing, food production, technology, health. You seem to forget that when you are here talking shit on the Dems in an anti-Trump thread.

[Scarecrow Radio]

Trump and Vance just got into a shouting match with Zelensky trying to bully him into being more 'thankful' for US support

[h00man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yLZmRScnwy0

JFC Trump/Vance shut the FUCK up

[RichardBarkley]

Jesus H Christ this press conference.

[EdLawndale]

"it's always terrible news, but at least it's not a surprise anymore. it would hurt more if it was a surprise."

That's a pretty low bar.

Could you imagine listening to a battered wife who is all:

"it's always terrible with my husband, but at least it's not a surprise anymore. it would hurt more if it was a surprise."

And then doing a bunch of mental gymnastics to try to find a way to do anything but place the blame on the husband and get the wife away from the husband or get the husband out of the picture?

"That ex-bf she almost married, he would have been just as bad."

"The ex-bf -- who wasn't perfect but wasn't this physically abusive -- well, I blame the ppl who were pushing the lady to marry him. They should have been pushing her to marry this other third guy we know. Then she wouldn't have married this abusive husband."

"You can choose who you marry...but it's not that important who you actually stand at the alter with. Sure, you take on their debt, that person and their relatives will be making decisions that heavily affect your life and it's a lot harder to actually part ways with them after you've married them....but the courting process, that's where the real groundwork is!"


I would hope you'd have responded to that youth with, "Hey, keep your head up. We can get out from under this administration. Here's how you keep fighting..."

[TastyBurrito]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yLZmRScnwy0

JFC Trump/Vance shut the FUCK up

When the dumbest of bullies are put in the highest seat of power.

[easymoneysniper]

ww3 here we come

[brycickle]

I wish Zelensky would have gotten up and walked out the second trump laid hands on him.

[TastyBurrito]

I wish Zelensky would have gotten up and walked out the second trump laid hands on him.

Kinda wish he back handed him.

And the worst part is Republicans are cheering this on as Trump doing the "art of the deal" and playing hardball.

34 years after the Cold War ended, it's safe to say that we lost.

[tuesday]

Someone already said it on here: Bin Laden won.

[EdLawndale]

It's pretty clear Trump and Vance were just looking for the opportunity to force Zelenskyy to thank them on camera.

[RichardBarkley]

It's pretty clear Trump and Vance were just looking for the opportunity to force Zelensky to thank them on camera.

It was an ambush.

Typical bully behavior which they knew he would retaliate to. Now they can say disrespected the US and reinforce the Ukraine bad Russia good narrative they are pushing.

And of course so Trump can get his rare earth deal out of country being decimated by a dictatorship.

JD Vance is a fuckin scumbag

[Big Skatefase]

[Atiba Applebum]

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It's pretty clear Trump and Vance were just looking for the opportunity to force Zelensky to thank them on camera.

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It was an ambush.

Typical bully behavior which they knew he would retaliate to. Now they can say disrespected the US and reinforce the Ukraine bad Russia good narrative they are pushing.

And of course so Trump can get his rare earth deal out of country being decimated by a dictatorship.

JD Vance is a fuckin scumbag

Vance said what this was exactly about: Zelenskyy went to PA and campaigned for “the opposition”

[TastyBurrito]

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It's pretty clear Trump and Vance were just looking for the opportunity to force Zelensky to thank them on camera.

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It was an ambush.

Typical bully behavior which they knew he would retaliate to. Now they can say disrespected the US and reinforce the Ukraine bad Russia good narrative they are pushing.

And of course so Trump can get his rare earth deal out of country being decimated by a dictatorship.

JD Vance is a fuckin scumbag

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Vance said what this was exactly about: Zelenskyy went to PA and campaigned for “the opposition”

This was all a rouse, knowing he would surrender (sorry, I mean "want peace"), Trump can then claim that Zelensky didn't want to negotiate and can withdraw aid to Ukraine until they give Trump what he wants. And in that time, expect Russia to attack, the US stay out of it, then Trump lie about how Ukraine started all of this.

[Scarecrow Radio]

After the meeting this morning the air raid sirens fired up in Kiev just a few minutes later

[augustmoon]

America looks weak and subservient to Russia.  Our idiot leaders are gonna get us nuked. 

[augustmoon]

Is Russia the only country with nukes?