amerika

[zorkan]

Penguins are up in flippers at Trump tariffs.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25063367.glasgow-penguins-protest-donald-trumps-tariffs-remote-island-home/

[billy rubin]

fox news nirmally hss a moving stock market ticker along tbe bottom of the screen in its television news broadcasts.

the american and world stock markets are showing steep declines, and fox has turned the ticker off.

[Tank]

they certainly cant shoot themselves in the brain.

[Tank]

fox news nirmally hss a moving stock market ticker along tbe bottom of the screen in its television news broadcasts.

the american and world stock markets are showing steep declines, and fox has turned the ticker off.

Wonderful!!!!

[Recusant]

Not particularly original, but . . . This is all Obama's fault. He had to go and prove that a black man could get elected to the highest office in the country. That got some of the prominent troglodytes concerned, and they determined to put a stop to such abominations (take or leave the pun as you wish). They knew that they had a ready audience for their white angst. Add in things like same sex marriage and acknowledgement of the legitimate existence of trans people, and the regressive closed-minded sorts felt validated in seeking a way to reverse the stomach-turning progressive direction the country was going.

There is a regressive element in any nation, but the American version has been cultivated and coddled in a right wing media ecosystem that has only egged them on. They found their champion in an obvious grifter, born with a silver spoon in his sneering yap. They got their way and now we'll all pay the piper. Thanks, Obama.

[Dark Lightning]

Not particularly original, but . . . This is all Obama's fault. He had to go and prove that a black man could get elected to the highest office in the country. That got some of the prominent troglodytes concerned, and they determined to put a stop to such abominations (take or leave the pun as you wish). They knew that they had a ready audience for their white angst. Add in things like same sex marriage and acknowledgement of the legitimate existence of trans people, and the regressive closed-minded sorts felt validated in seeking a way to reverse the stomach-turning progressive direction the country was going.

There is a regressive element in any nation, but the American version has been cultivated and coddled in a right wing media ecosystem that has only egged them on. They found their champion in an obvious grifter, born with a silver spoon in his sneering yap. They got their way and now we'll all pay the piper. Thanks, Obama.

  WOT?! Surely you jest.

[The Magic Pudding..]

Not particularly original, but . . . This is all Obama's fault. He had to go and prove that a black man could get elected to the highest office in the country. That got some of the prominent troglodytes concerned, and they determined to put a stop to such abominations (take or leave the pun as you wish). They knew that they had a ready audience for their white angst. Add in things like same sex marriage and acknowledgement of the legitimate existence of trans people, and the regressive closed-minded sorts felt validated in seeking a way to reverse the stomach-turning progressive direction the country was going.

There is a regressive element in any nation, but the American version has been cultivated and coddled in a right wing media ecosystem that has only egged them on. They found their champion in an obvious grifter, born with a silver spoon in his sneering yap. They got their way and now we'll all pay the piper. Thanks, Obama.

  WOT?! Surely you jest.

No, Recusant sees it at it is.
But then it got worse, their candidate was a woman!
Not a proper demure woman, an assertive educated  woe to man woeman!!
I thought they'd seen the error of their ways with wise mature man Joe.
Then then they did again, and she's was brown!!! from who knows fucking where.
I thank God you have a proper Reality Show Host in Chief now.

[Tank]

Not particularly original, but . . . This is all Obama's fault. He had to go and prove that a black man could get elected to the highest office in the country. That got some of the prominent troglodytes concerned, and they determined to put a stop to such abominations (take or leave the pun as you wish). They knew that they had a ready audience for their white angst. Add in things like same sex marriage and acknowledgement of the legitimate existence of trans people, and the regressive closed-minded sorts felt validated in seeking a way to reverse the stomach-turning progressive direction the country was going.

There is a regressive element in any nation, but the American version has been cultivated and coddled in a right wing media ecosystem that has only egged them on. They found their champion in an obvious grifter, born with a silver spoon in his sneering yap. They got their way and now we'll all pay the piper. Thanks, Obama.

An interesting take on the issue. Harris didn't have a hope in hell.

[Tank]

Not particularly original, but . . . This is all Obama's fault. He had to go and prove that a black man could get elected to the highest office in the country. That got some of the prominent troglodytes concerned, and they determined to put a stop to such abominations (take or leave the pun as you wish). They knew that they had a ready audience for their white angst. Add in things like same sex marriage and acknowledgement of the legitimate existence of trans people, and the regressive closed-minded sorts felt validated in seeking a way to reverse the stomach-turning progressive direction the country was going.

There is a regressive element in any nation, but the American version has been cultivated and coddled in a right wing media ecosystem that has only egged them on. They found their champion in an obvious grifter, born with a silver spoon in his sneering yap. They got their way and now we'll all pay the piper. Thanks, Obama.

  WOT?! Surely you jest.

It's not Obama's 'fault' as such but he caused white privilege panic which the Republican party exploited extremely effectively.

[Recusant]

It's one dimension of the thing of course. A brief post to sarcastically note a simplistic analysis though I stand behind it. There's so much more to the story of course. People have written a pile of books about how the US managed to get such a malignant, narcissist megalomaniac in the White House. I would also say repellant, repugnant, and repulsive, but that would be a matter of taste I suppose.

It's more to acknowledge that xenophobia and militant parochialism play a significant part in the motivation behind voting MAGA. Having spent some time at a Tea Party discussion board during the Obama presidency (posted maybe 3 times over a more than a decade as a member) I know for a fact that Obama was a big target for racist hate. The place closed down only recently: I watched as the Tea Party melded into MAGA.

That xenophobia I mentioned is not directed only at people outside the US, but includes fellow citizens. Minorities often but more vitriol is directed at the degenerates of the left. The true believers know that they are literally in thrall to demons, and ultimately are of Lucifer himself.

Again, only one facet of the phenomenon. Regret to say, not much comfort in it. Just a glimpse of the view from the proverbial handbasket.

[Tank]

Interesting and horrifying in equal measure.

[Recusant]

Anyway, I think one of the members of this site had a similar "it's racism, certainly at least in part" post. Pretty sure I'm echoing something I came across previously. Call it a coping mechanism. 

[zorkan]

On his way to a 7th bankruptcy, the biggest and best, but not his fault?
That's Obama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/

[Asmodean]

I think that Trump and JD Vance are delusional. Denmark will not give up Greenland and Canada will not become the 51st state. Starting trade wars is also a very bad idea.

I agree, even though I've managed to get a whole bunch of completely free stock that way.

(I sold my shares early the week before tariffs were set to increase. Then they did, market "collapsed" and I re-bought the same stock with the same funds, just getting somewhere around 10% more stock out of it than I originally held. Small victories and such-like)

[Tank]

Well done.