Expect more of this. Unfortunately, ears will be plugged and eyes will be covered as people just go "lalalalala"
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How are Republican voters reconciling any of this? Or has Faux News spun this as something Obama's responsible for?
I've been off Reddit for a while but I'd be lying if I didn't just go look at /r/conservative to see.
"I pray Trump knows what he is doing, because if this doesn't work and just results in higher prices and nothing the average person can identify as a positive, then people will sour on Trump."
"Im really worried this is going to bite us hard causing prices to skyrocket."
"I’m in the construction industry and would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous for this rollercoaster."
In general, some longer comments are basically saying tariffs will work to bring home manufacturing. The problem with this is we would need manufacturing of most of these things IN PLACE NOW to be ready to do that. We're not since it's a surprise to both U.S. citizens and Canada.
Many other posts are being deleted -- most I've ever seen, but again it's been a while since I've looked at Reddit.
Thst must be the polite minority. Most times I dare to look into thedonald2.0 it's just stuff talking about annexing canada and Bombing europe
Seriously, everyone needs to go check out FoxNews.com because it is insane that anyone could rely on them for their news. I checked out this morning and had to scroll WAY DOWN to find any mention of tariffs, and even then, it was praising trump for keeping a campaign promise.
They can't even do a coup without fucking half of it up.
That's the frightening part .... either they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans ... or they are following a well orchestrated plan of disruption and chaos to gain control of everything and everyone
Either way, they are undoing a lot of things that will take years or decades to bring back
"From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day."
- Will Durant
they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans
Incompetence is one of the hallmark qualities of a fascist government.
Hey, people think Hitler's Germany was a success story until he started to loose the war but it was actually a clusterfuck right from the beginning and doomed to fail from the start.
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And that's pretty lucky, because it means they will be the architects of their own downfall.
The question isn't if or even when will Trump fall, it's how many of us will die in the process.
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Just wait until all the backdoors are discovered. Or front doors I guess...with how inept these idiots are. Can't wait for someone with some power/money to actually get sick of these clowns and just end them
I’ve always heard it as “democracy is only six missed meals away from anarchy.”
"Flood the zone with shit" strategy.
Either way, they are undoing a lot of things that will take years or decades to bring back
This is what the accelerationists didn’t account for.
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Because they don't have to worry about fuck ups. Americans are gonna do jack shit about it. Otherwise something would have already been done.
Not true. The Democrats will form a committee to discuss language to be placed in a letter to the administration, they may even call a news conference to state that they are disappointed in what is happening and if it continues they may have to do more drastic measures like actually sending the letter that the committee put together.
Not true. The Democrats will form a committee to discuss language to be placed in a letter to the administration, they may even call a news conference to state that they are disappointed in what is happening and if it continues they may have to do more drastic measures like actually sending the letter that the committee put together.
Wait, it gets better! The Democrats are going to form a committee to discuss language for the letter, which is sure to be a 500-page document that will get printed out on recycled paper and ceremoniously burned in a symbolic gesture of disappointment. And after weeks of debate, they'll finally agree on a single sentence that reads, 'We are disappointed in the administration's lack of action.' Wow, that'll definitely send shockwaves through Washington!
But wait, there's more! They'll then call an emergency press conference to declare their outrage, where they'll all stand in front of a teleprompter and read from their carefully crafted statement. And to really drive the point home, they might even release a 3-minute video montage of footage from the committee meeting, set to a dramatic score, just to make sure everyone knows how "serious" they are.
And if that's not enough, they'll then proceed to actually send the letter – but only after making it clear that they're only doing so because they have to, and not because they actually expect anything to change. And when the administration inevitably ignores them or responds with a half-hearted gesture of tokenism, they'll be like, 'See, we told you so! We sent our letter and... oh wait, nothing happened.' It's going to be hilarious!
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Sadly Ayn Rand was right when she said...
"The question isn't how can I do such things, but who is going to stop me?"
Suda 51 was right, there really are No More Heroes.
They're firing Inspector Generals? Damn, thats like, expediting the destruction of the federal government.
Edit: for those who don't know, IGs are independent officials within fed and state agencies that conduct investigations, audits or inspections to employees or agencies.
He illegally fired 17 of them, including one investigating Neuralink, (one of Musk's companies).
including one investigating Neuralink
And that's not a coincidence.
He's up to over 30 now.
How are people just so unaware of what's happening in their own government?
Like you're on a site like this, and you know what Inspector Generals do, but you're not aware that he fired over a dozen of them days into his term? How??
There's a whole lot of, "I don't care about or pay attention to politics because nothing really changes for me" morons about to have a rude awakening.
Our investigative media has been dead or bought out for a long time, and despite project 2025 being published, it's all happening really quickly. I have a difficult time believing this isn't the downfall of America. And we almost reached 250.
But wait! Your good buddy Donnie signed an Executive Order to ensure that we planned a really good birthday party for America's 250th!
Sorry, I have been reading each and every Executive Order to better understand where we are and where we are going.
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How? Felonious 47 is going after the news media making sure nothing critical gets published. Due to the cowardice of our mainstream media, we no longer have a free press.
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The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.
And y’all let him have access to government.
The world will burn from climate and war because of American stupidity.
Trump won by 1.5% of the vote. And that amount was basically the number of people the Republicans managed to disenfranchise during this election.
WE did nothing. The vast majority of Americans want this madness to end but no one with any sort of power to do anything is standing up to the orange bully.
For all the guns we own, this country has very few Luigis who understand this is a class war. So what else are the people who didn’t vote for the asshole in the oval supposed to do about it?
They rigged the vote and Trump threw him in there. How did WE do this exactly?
As much as I wish otherwise, Trump got a plurality of the vote, and pre-election day polling was clear that such a result was very possible.
The plurality of the people who bothered to vote put Trump in, who was quite clear about his alliance with Musk.
This is on us.
I mean it is worth noting the added legal schenanegins that are known.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
Even if some form of manipulation or shenanigans pushed Trump over the edge, it couldn't have done that if it hadn't been close to begin with. It shouldn't have been close.
That I cannot disagree with... Will 100% agree that flaws were made with... (in no particular order)
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Voters not actually researching until it was too late. The amount of trump voters posting "what do you mean tarrifs will raise prices on stuff". and amount that were searching "what is a tarrif", stories of actual trump supporters that literally are getting deported etc... There's absolutely a lot of trump voters, that wouldn't have voted it if they took the time to understand what trump was literally openly saying he'd do... and did.
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Non voters... IE via apathy or disagreements on the democratic party. Be it over just lazyness, or to try and get the democratic party to represent them better... the end result is now it's going to take years of work whenever power is taken just to bring the country back to where it was a month ago... let alone improve it in the ways they wanted.
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The democratic party. Honestly there's 2 pretty blaring mistakes IMO in this campaign... starting with bypassing the primary, covering up Biden's senility and letting him re-run. Rushing the flip to harris with now no primary or system in place of letting anyone chose our candidate... Then some major misteps on the harris campaign, which I felt was doing amazing early on... making solid steps solid grabs, minor misstep in refusing to criticize or draw a strong contrast between herself and biden., climbing in the polls... Before suddenly making a hard right turn on messaging. Courting the unobtainable red voters instead of focusing on motivating her own base to get out and vote.
I agree, trump is awful enough, that this should have been a slam dunk. the fact that this was ever anywhere close is an embarasment to the country as a whole constantly.
That being said... it still sucks that there's a very good chance that even through those flaws, there's still reason to question if we had won by a few percent... because honestly the potential of a small scale sabatoge (IE one to drop a few percent of votes rather than just outright change the machines and do it in bulk), would just be a 4th factor to add to that list.
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And true to form, our boy Klip exposed the malignant incompetence while taking the opportunity to advertise his substack 😄
There's gotta be a way to make it stop
Guillotines
Costco should start carrying them
I've heard of a treatment. The guy who killed Hitler did it. It's a high speed lead treatment. Very effective
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It's been 4 days.
How did people get these email addresses?
I mean, the domain is known.
But was the system that president musk broke really holding back this torrent of abuse and garbage?
Feels like actual email addresses were leaked.
Unless it was a mailing list that was suddenly exposed.
Still seems strange that an email that simply says "yo" suddenly came through as part of the spam.
Feels like email addresses were posted somewhere, and someone jumped on for the lulz. Along with the wall of trolls and abusers jumping on.
I mean, as soon as I link a domain to an IP, I see all sorts of "security" scans turn up. Till then, firewall is pretty quiet.
And if I wildcard direct a domain to an ip, the root gets scanned but any sub domains don't.
I feel email addresses would follow a similar pattern.
It's worse than you think. Last week we got an email that looked like strait up fishing spam demanding that we were to email back "yes" confirming that we got the email. So many people even reported it as spam that we had supervisors have to directly tell us that it was legit. Then they sent out a second email with a warning that is was in fact legit and to respond to that email with "yes" if we got that one.
On the back end at OPM: Musk forced his way in and demanded to redo the email servers. The IT told him it wasn't possible for what he was asking. So he brought in his own goons to install a non government server with unknown software and unknown security configurations and they plugged it into the OPM network to spoof it as an official OPM server, then sent out those emails.
And sure enough, the idiot didn't didn't configure the security correctly or let official government IT people touch it, it ended up backdooring into the entire government HR system, and it had every active government email that responded "yes" to his stupid email that we were required to. And now we know it was compromised. There is no telling what foreign governments now have all of that info as well as what other backdoors they have installed.
Holy shit.
That's some shit that contravenes every security briefing, every security best practice.
Then they go and spoof a legit government installation with their own bullshit?!
Fucking Hilary and her email servers. But like times 10. Legitimately compromising the US government communications.
Why is this lawsuits, why isn't this treason?!
This is way worse than Hillary's email servers.
Hillary occasionally conducted government business on an email servers owned by her, but also on her (not .gov) domain.
I never knew the details. But I wouldn't doubt that for simplicity sake they probably had multiple accounts configured on the same phone. At that point, it's incredibly easy to accidentally respond or start a chain from the wrong address. Who among us hasn't done that, we actually grew up with this stuff.
What Musk did was set up his own separate infrastructure to send and receive emails, on a .gov domain, and use that server, as a private contractor to the president, to circumvent tons of critical processes and security practices, in order to push his clients agenda.
The point of that agenda is to nip checks-and-balances in the balls so the president can unilaterally enact "his" (or the highest bidders...Heritage, Musk, Thiel, Federalists, Illuminati, Skull and Bones, whatever, at this point it's all the same) agenda.
It. Is. Actual. Treason.
By an illegal immigrant, no less.
why isn't this treason?!
Because Musk bought the election for Trump, and now Musk do whatever he wants.
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