I really thought that 51st state of the US push at the end there would save conservatives. Everyone knows how badly Canadians want to lose their independence, culture, healthcare, etc.
Seriously though, the next government should probably start planning for the refugee camps it’ll need on the southern border in the coming years. Or maybe build a wall.
The stock market getting wiped out and it being harder to find a job is one thing. Groceries being unaffordable for half the country and getting more expensive by the day is entirely another thing.
Boomers watching their retirement go away as stocks crater is kinda sad, I guess. Not being able to find a job always sucks. But people on a mass scale not being able to afford food and basic housing is a crisis the US hasn’t seen since the Great Depression.
It’s getting worse every day, and there is no answer, no long- or even mid-term plan, and no one in actual power is even attempting to help. Democrats do nothing, and Republicans make it worse, while the Trump/Musk administration is Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
The billionaire, parasite class is turning against Trump. They wanted lower taxes and less regulation to commit more crimes, not massive global instability. And they definitely didn’t realize how diminished Trump is and the role the adults in the room played in the first administration.
This level of chaos will never be profitable. It only accelerates their plans to retreat to bunkers when everything collapses. That was supposed to be caused by climate change, not unforced errors from a senile president and the clown car administration sound him.
The Art of the Deal:
It’s hilarious to think that almost everyone thought this clown was real-life Tony Stark a decade ago. The people who worked with him knew better, but they were paid and under NDAs.
I still think Trump is setting him up to be the fall guy. He’s the patsy for all the crimes they all committed the second the heat gets turned up.
That or even earlier, Trump and his people get tired of dealing with him and decide it’s time to pull the plug. Make him the MAGA scapegoat for why his voters can’t afford the minimum payments on their credit cards anymore. Musk ran everything into the ground, and now some new plan with no details will save us all from his incompetence, etc., etc. The MAGA half of the country will believe it as soon as he says it.
Behold! A featherless, bipedal shitposter!
As the world burns to the ground, we’ll always look back fondly at all the hollow, symbolic gestures along the way. Pelosi kneeled once and ended racism. Some wealthy women went to space and ended sexism.
I’m waiting for this to happen to a white parson who has an Hispanic name, like Rafael “Ted” Cruz.
If a journalist can do a human interest piece on a white parson sent to El Salvador or at least sent into the ICE black hole where the rule of law doesn’t exist, maybe that would drive the point home to “libertarians” and “small government conservatives.” Maybe it’s time to see past petty racism and see what’s at stake in the long term.
I sometimes think about what would have happened if Biden stood up to the DNC bosses in 2016 and ran in the primary. He probably couldn’t do much against the Clinton machine, but maybe just enough to make it more competitive. Divide the corporate Dem vote just enough…
Imagine working for Pete Hesgeth. I’m sure he has some kind of handler that keeps him from getting too drunk at the office, but he’s still a woefully unqualified moron.
You spend your life trying to keep your country safe. You turn down the cushy jobs with giant paychecks that your old colleagues took. And now, you have to watch this dumbass fratboy and his idiot, traitor bosses destroy the national security of your country in a matter of months with plans to do much, much worse.
Progressive policies poll through the roof individually. Slapping a label on them, especially anything remotely socialist, kills their popularity.
Appeal to regular people on common sense terms. “We should get paid fairly and be able to afford housing” is obviously correct. You have to sign on to a socialist agenda, read theory, or do literally anything but agree that basic economic justice is a good thing, triggers a backlash.
It’s decades of propaganda rotting people’s brains, but it’s also supreme arrogance on the left thinking they can make anything happen without even trying to get popular support.
The threats of various US invasions being 100% senile blustering, coupled with an economic crisis and/or loss of freedom in the US to the point that people would need to flee the country rapidly, isn’t that far-fetched.