Summary
Trump’s speech to Congress was a campaign-style tirade filled with falsehoods, personal grievances, and attacks on Democrats.
He exaggerated economic issues, blamed Biden for inflation, and misrepresented Social Security data. He renewed imperialist rhetoric about annexing Greenland and the Panama Canal while distorting U.S. aid figures to Ukraine.
Trump spent more time on culture war issues than policy, vowing to end “wokeness.” He also falsely claimed his legal troubles were political persecution.
Meanwhile, markets reeled from his new tariffs, which he dismissed. The speech showed deep partisan divides and his continued reliance on misinformation.
As are the Democrats, which pretty much means the US political process is completely lost.
EDIT - Who do you turn to? It would appear that the CIA themselves have been subject to a far right coup, which is somewhat ironic, so I can’t see the intelligence services doing anything, but who do you turn to? The military? Is that where America is at?
This both-sides nonsense is so tiresome in the face of a fascist cult of personality.
I do think there’s at least some validity to it. Both have issues for sure. But it’s starting to seem like putting a school bully and a mass murderer on the same level of shititude at this point. Both sides suck to an extent. Both sides absolutely don’t suck equally tho from my perspective.
The lack of substantive opposition to Republicans for decades has been a big reason why they’ve been able to slide us into fascism. The sooner people like you wake up to this, the sooner we have a chance to actually do something about it.
I would love for the Democrats to be further left but trying to equate their business-as-usual ineffectiveness to Trump’s attempts to start wars with Denmark and Canada while cozying up to Russia and letting his Nazi buddy dismantle the government is fucking idiotic.
And yelling about how they suck everytime someone criticizes Trump starts to feel disingenuous after a while.
I would love to understand why anyone should expect the Democratic Party to improve if they aren’t called out or held accountable for either their long history of fucking this up, or their continued active fucking up as was displayed in full force last night.
I agree that Democrats aren’t as bad as Republicans. But clinging to their slim moral superiority (and it is slim when you consider their actual record), and downplaying decades of fascist enablement as merely ‘ineffectiveness’ really demonstrates how not up-to-the-task some of the constituents are. It signals that nothing is going to change and we can expect fascism to march onward with Democrats slowly starting to pick up the mantle and join in. Don’t accuse me of hyperbole, I just listened to the Democratic response in which she waxed on nostalgic for Ronald Fucking Reagan.
I suppose that I shouldn’t blame the Democratic electorate too much, as the party has never (in my lifetime) shown leadership on policy or cultivated expectations from its supporters beyond “Republicans bad so you have no choice”. That doesn’t work, as demonstrated by decades of eroding support, lack of legislation, lost elections, and an Overton window that only ever moves in one direction. Calling this out is not idiotic, it’s rational. From a purely self-interested point of view, it’s idiotic for the party to ignore and deride this sentiment.
This “democrats are the alternative” is just more bullshit. Sure, they’re not about the narcissistic cleptocracy, just about your run of the mill plutocracy. As if that’s any better.
At least the incompetency and recklessness of the current clown-in-chief might make it all blow up sooner rather than later, which to be honest, is probably the best outcome at this point.
We need ranked choice voting yesterday so we don’t have to keep settling for the “this side is slightly less shitty” compromise.
Was it a both sides thing? I read it more as since the Democrats are throwing very little opposition (holding up tiny little signs like Wile E Coyote before gravity kicks in? That’s it??) it’s game over.
Edited this post after one person upvoted it:
You are note dealing with reality.
The Democrats have helped construct the explicit oligarchy that is unfolding before your eyes.
It absolutely is about both sides, given both of them are responsible for the current situation. Or it is about the fact that there is only one side: pretty far right neo-liberal corporatists, or fascist far right oligarchy.
And obviously it matters if your only hope is to turn to the other side who are going to prove themselves to be utterly ineffectual. The choice being Trump, or a continuation of the economic-political ideology that made Trump (or similar) inevitable.
But looking at the amount of up/downvotes these two posts have got I guess it doesn’t matter - maybe most of you just aren’t ready to deal with reality, so reality will just happen to you. Trying to downvote it away is what has led you to this point.