Distract you with what? He isn't doing any of this in the shadows, he's saying it loud and clear: he will ruin the climate, ruin ukraine and the US democratic process; all for personal gain.
And ~50% of americans are shouting: fuck yeah
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I want to push back on the 50% figure. Most Americans don't even vote. Maybe 50% of "voters" say fuck yeah, but even that isn't accurate since he didn't even win the popular vote.
I think it's easy to get depressed about humanity when you start believing that half of the world is ok with Trump. The reality is that most of the world is NOT happy with him as an option, and even most of America is sick of him. Die hard trumpers are definitely a minority in the US, but they're very loud and enough rich people boost those voices.
Youre totally correct. I meant the other "voting half" but of course it's only half because it's been split that way, and doesn't mean half the number of people voting.
I get depressed about the US because it's "the half that matters" in the current political meta. They are a minority, they are loud but they are gaining ground because it's easy for politicians to use them to enrich themselves and control people.
'I want to push back on the 50% figure. Most Americans don't even vote. Maybe 50% of "voters" say fuck yeah, but even that isn't accurate since he didn't even win the popular vote.'
Semantics. If he gets in the rest of the world will associate Americans with him. Because he won the election. The fact that he manipulated, rigged, coerced or whatever is neither here nor there.
It's the same way that we tend to associate all Russians with Putin, Chinese with Xi and the British with whoever is in the seat this week.
Just over 50% (of the people that voted) were in favour of Brexit but now that label and it's repercussions are associated with all of us. If everyone that didn't want it had voted, we'd still be in the EU.
This is why it's so important to vote.
And to have honest and accountable politicians, although I may have stepped into fantasy here.
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There is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign cycle.
There have been for every presidential election from the 1980 one onward.
Is it even worse now? Yes. Is it only or even mainly the fault of the Mango Mussolini? Far from it!
The mainstream media, including WaPo, could ignore him every time he says anything not directly related to policy priorities and the world would be much better for it.
Particularly because he would almost certainly lose if they did that and we'd only have to suffer 4 more years of Biden rather than the end of democracy as we know it.
That's not as profitable for the billionaire-owned media, through 😮💨
Trump is an immediate existential threat, as he was for the Million Americans who perished from COVID over two years due to a purposefully sandbagged and almost entirely useless pandemic response. Climate it really important, but there are more important things, and climate is not a winner trying to get the Christofascists to NOT vote for the Orange Hitler
I think it's pretty clear what is at stake. The Biden campaign needs to make a top-10 (or maybe 100) of the serious consequences of a 2nd Trump term.
I believe that the vacuum is partly caused by the potential threat of political violence. It's easier to say nothing than to have some Maga asshat shoot at you.