Anyone wanna bet on how many days Trump is at Mar-a-Lago during his presidency?

Excluding mortage, the montly cost of owning my house is 275€ which includes water and electricity.

That’s also excluding regular maintenance or emergency repairs that a landlord would be (often reluctantly) responsible for. It is also possible to do big, expensive, necessary renovations on a house and have it hardly affect the value at all.

There was a time when the federal govt deploying the military to the states to enforce laws would be the worst case scenario in the eyes of the Republican party.

You know it’s fascism when you’re ok with the govt doing the worst case scenario, as long as you’re sure they won’t target you. I feel like even Reagan would have voted for Harris at this point.

I’m not sure what you meant about rounding up jews

It honestly feels like you’re not even reading your own comments. Scroll up and re-read what YOU just said to me.

Trump isn’t demonizing immigrants in the same way as Hitler.

He is. He labels them rapists, drug dealers, “the enemy”, he is about to use them as an excuse to deploy the military domestically to round them up. You can guarantee that if you try to hide anyone in your house or otherwise try to impede the federal govt from deploying the military in your town, you will also be labeled as a criminal.

Are you saying you think Trump will make concentrations camps and start a genocide?

This is already in motion. Currently they are labeled as detention centers, but they will inevitably become slave camps (which is literally a protected case of actual slavery in the US), because they are privatized and slavery is lucrative. But their home countries will refuse to take them, the camps will become overpopulated, and each facility will be tasked with “taking care of the problem” without being given instructions as to how.

People are publicly decrying them.

But on the note of genocide, Rubio (Trump’s pick for secretary of state) has already stated plainly that he is against a ceasefire in Gaza. Isreal is going to eliminate every Palestinian they can, and the Trump administration will support it. And don’t play dumb and say “he said Hamas”, Isreal has so far not discriminated between soldiers and literal children, and they’re not about to start.

I find it ironic how you act like you know what Lemmy users believe, but then appear to be completely oblivious of basic current events. It honestly feels like I’m talking to someone who gets really opinionated when they’re high, not even able to keep up with what YOU just said let alone what others are telling you.

Basically, pre-2008.

Wars in the middle east were the norm, but they were always elsewhere, and the govt sold us that they were fighting the bad guys, that everything was under control, and that home would continue to be safe and prosperous. There basically weren’t any other militaries that could reasonably rival the US World Police. Yeah, it was seen as problematic, but in a way that seemed TOO safe, never unsafe. Random acts of terrorism was sold to us as the only real threat (even though it realistically wasn’t).

As kids, millennials were told that the American dream was real, that if you go to college you will get a good job and be able to provide for your family. It wasn’t until around the time of the 2008 recession that people really started noticing how worthless a lot of their college degrees were, and how much debt they had been saddled with.

Similarly, climate change was being successfully sold as “maybe a complete hoax” in the media. Even if you did believe it was real, it wasn’t crazy to feel optimistic that there was still time for the science to settle, and voters/politicians to make the right decisions before things got too bad.

Putin, Trump, and Covid were all solidly during Millennial adulthood, not representative of their youth.

“Can I delay my trial until Jan?”

If you’re arguing that Trump won’t invade Poland, we’re in agreement.

But no one is arguing that he’s going to round up jews. And he’s already demonizing immigrants and political rivals in the same way Hitler did.

Lol you tried

“You’re hate isn’t welcome in our city!..that’s what our voting booths are for.”

Some people on Lemmy seem to think he’s literally Hitler. He’s not, even if he turns out to be just as bad.

So let me get this straight, when you hear people say Trump is “literally Hitler” you think they’re saying he’s actually the original real-life Adolf Hitler, somehow still alive, clean shaven, wearing a Trump disguise? Is that what you’re saying right now?

You don’t think that people actually just mean history is repeating itself, and Trump could turn out to be just as bad? That’s not what you think people mean?

This is literally the same argument being made by “thin blue line” apologists.

Must be a typo. That should say “to Trump”.

500 bibles for $25,000? That’s $50 per Bible that were 100% made in China for about $3 each. Someone report this to DOGE!

Honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic lol. Yeah, autocracies have long maintained that democracy and freedom of speech isn’t sustainable because you can always use free speech to manipulate the voters to democratically elect an autocrat who ends the democracy. Russia has been openly trying to demonstrate this since the cold war.

Source: ex-KGB agent flat-out says it.

Lol thank you OP for rewording the title. The original title is ambiguous and at first I thought the cabinet picked an upset muslim. Which incredibly, would be better news than what it actually says 😂.

This guy better watch out, Trump might pick him for the USDA-APHIS head.

Sucks for the US, but also for all the other countries dependent on the US for passive protection. Russia and China are going to do whatever they want now. North Korea might even get a chance to see some action. Historically, the US has made an effort to keep an eye on our enemies from the borders of our allies. Trump legitimately believes the only enemies that exist are within our borders.

It’s still small, so the whole platform still feels like one of the larger reddit subs. The same people show up everywhere, and if you want to create a niche community, you’ll go months without seeing any posts.

FWIW, this breaks from the Two Santas Strategy. This Santa is suppose to be funding things conservatives want, while at the same time reducing taxes (on the rich), thereby driving the deficit up without making their voters mad. If you actually cut funding for a bunch of stuff people rely on, you will earn the ire of the voters, that’s why no one ever does it.

Yeah, there will be a core of people who will defend Trump and Musk to their self-inflicted death, but those people are in the minority. Most Americans (and most people in the world) voted against the incumbent this year because they were unfortunately there during a time of inevitable inflation. And they’ll do it again if their lives continue to get materially worse over the next few years.

I can’t help but wonder how we would be sitting right now if Trump had won in 2020. But we’re due for a generational crisis, and I don’t think that wouldn’t have been nearly as exciting.

NASA is and has always been a way for the US to maintain a literal military high ground. If it gets defunded, I don’t think you’ll have to resort to violence, our rivals will do it for us.