United States of Gilead.
I’d recommend all our American friends GTFO. You don’t want to be raising kids or living in the place that is materialising. If you have any options to leave use them! If you don’t, start planning so you can get out before it’s too late.
Isn’t it Emporor Trump/Darth Turdious
I dunno but @Bekloppt keeps coming and going. Perhaps he just hasn’t experienced Adelaide?
Please don’t diss the Sith.
We aren’t retards.
Excellent idea. It would be a relief to see the turnips these big US studios produce on a regular basis stop clogging up our cinemas to be honest, and make a bit room for better movies.
Yeah. It’s not exactly like people are lining up to see those idiotic MCU/DC movies which is what Hollywood has mostly been reduced to.
And Trump would be better served looking at how many of the animation /VFX in those Hollywood movies has been outsourced to companies in India for instance.
But the dumb fuck would rather tariff the movie industry knowing fully well that they will simply outsource more animation/post production work outside to cut costs more.
FBI? This is an immigrant non-believer right here! Deport him to El Salvador pronto!
He does realise that the description he’s written portrays his administration, his party, and followers exactly right?
The problem with ‘Daddy Trump’
Opinion by Robert Reich
If you’re anything like me, it’s not just Trump’s policies that anger and depress you. It’s also the man himself.
Ronald Reagan’s policies were terrible, but he tried to present himself as a decent man.
Trump is a despicable human being. His odiousness affects many of us because presidents are parent figures to the nation as a whole.
According to psychological research, we respond to presidents much as we did to parents when we were kids.
George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics at Berkeley, has found that two competing models of parenting shape political preferences: either the “strict parent” or “nurturant parent.”
The strict parent views the world as a dangerous place that needs to be controlled. The nurturant parent emphasizes empathy and mutual responsibility.
Lakoff has found that presidents are elected either because a large portion of the public wants a tough, judgmental parent — or a caring, nurturing one.
Reagan fit into the strict parent model; Barack Obama, the nurturant parent one.
But I think Trump represents a third model — the cruel and abusive parent. A parent so malignantly narcissistic that he wields punishment for his own satisfaction, often in unpredictable ways that make him even more terrifying.
In other words, Trump is not just abusing presidential power by violating laws and the Constitution. His behavior is also abusive.
His malignant narcissism is viciously vindictive. His cruelty borders on sadism; he seems to take pleasure in causing others pain. And he often changes his mind or alters the punishment, creating even more confusion and fear.
I don’t want to oversimplify the very complex relationships between the parenting we had (or subconsciously want) and how we respond to Trump. But I believe these emotional connections are real and important. Critiques of Trump’s policies alone don’t get at them.
Many of us who had nurturing parents are depressed and disoriented by Trump. We find it hard to comprehend how such a detestable person can wield so much power over us.
Even many voters who hold to the strict parent view — who may have had a strict parent and perhaps voted for Trump because they felt the nation and the world were getting out of control — reject his abusiveness. About 6 in 10 U.S. adults now say that Trump has “gone too far” in using presidential power to achieve his goals.
A third group is profoundly shaken by Trump. Of the people I know who are most emotionally devastated by him, many had at least one abusive parent.
I suspect some are overwhelmingly drawn to him for the same reason, but instead of being shattered by him they are fanatically loyal. This would include the sycophants now surrounding him in the White House and Cabinet who appear to share his cruelty and sadism.
Research shows that abusive parents often become more abusive over time — more enraged, more paranoid, and less predictable.
Hence, the children of cruel and abusive parents tend to abandon them as soon as they are able. Or cling to them ever more desperately.
Let’s hope all of America does the former with Trump, and the sooner the better.
Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at Robert Reich | Substack
I think what leads to quite a lot of gullibles voting for people like a trump/modi is not necessarily media spread on social media like fb/Twitter.
It’s what’s spread on messaging apps like WhatsApp etc.
I find a lot of parallels between the modus operandi between right wing voters. Most of the cases, the propaganda is spread in closed family / friend groups and just multiples from there. There are quite a number of people who can rise above politics and have a mind of their own but there are lots of people who just take what’s been posted (especially a post by someone they regard) as ground truth.
Is this a serious source, or some fake news?
I looked further into it, as it sounds completely bonkers, and found this:
Crucially, the Miller test will apparently be applied:
Could short circuit it dramatically,just one trial,his,after all,he is creating damn near all just now.
He’s been investigated more than Al Capone, whatever that means, because of the all the crimes he’s been committing. He seems to forget that part strangely enough.
That will be the …“The Late Great Al Capone” then :0)
’ A national security threat.’ 
Sometimes I really wish that it’s just fake news. 
Not really a meltdown, but he’s accusing The Wall Street Journal, a News Corp paper, of being pro China. That would be news to Murdoch.
The absolute garbage that spews from that man’s mouth is beyond incredible. It would be amazing for a demented drunk in a dive bar in Mississippi, but for the President of the most powerful nation on earth, it’s astonishing.
It beggars belief that the nation has come to this. Where are the intelligent people? Where are the checks and balances? When does the child shout ‘the emperor is not only naked, but a gibbering idiot with no redeeming qualities whatsoever!’?