Also, and this is really fun, I literally predicted this in September 2024.

Also, this is funny. I predicted the race and your behavior in September 2024.

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A very useful comment. Thank you, and have a lovely Sunday.

Simple.

The billionaires decide.

You can blame the whole of the US population if you like, but voters here only have any power on the local level. National elections are wholly driven and decided by the billionaire class (which is why you saw both Democrats and Republicans fight so hard against Mamdani), so to me, it’s a tad absurd to pretend that the people as a whole support this. That’s even more true when you look at the 2025 and 2026 elections (so far), where nearly all of the candidates backed by Donald have lost, regardless of the state, and most in districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. (Demonstrating that people do not support the war in Iran or the pedophile coverup.)

Hell, Donald can’t even gerrymander anymore, because the Republican Party can’t accurately project where they have voter strength. That is the incredible extent to which people are opposed to this.

And you make yourself sound ignorant by pretending otherwise in the face of all of these facts.

The downside is that, since the Epstein Class controls politics at the national level, the opposition party doesn’t really oppose anything, but there are a few candidates with some strength that could do some limited good, like Graham Platner.

We did this.

Speak for yourself. I voted Green.

Trump is the inevitable result of liberals spending all their energy opposing progressives and cooperating with fascists.

That’s a salient point, but the ‘we’ you’re pointing to isn’t a part of this. Billionaires and the Epstein Class are who the finger should be pointing at. Voters only have any real power at the local level, unless you’re planning to follow in the footsteps of Player 2.

We decided at some point to stop enforcing laws on rich people

Again, I’d argue there’s no we here. The only power you or I have is in our local neighborhood, and in mine, we’re doing good things. Hell, my city was one of the few to put a killer cop behind bars. (And in the US, you can count on your fingers the number of killer cops who’ve spent any time in prison.)

Go for it.

Your ignorance of American culture doesn’t offend me.

I’m not surprised.

The people who rule our country are shameless motherfuckers, propped up by an electorate that, to the tune of 99% will vote them back in no matter what they do.

You’re not wrong. That’s almost certainly, in part, a driving factor behind the urgency of starting these wars now.

That’s interesting as heck.

I honestly think this is part of the plan.

If there’s a 9/11 style event before 2028, it will open the door for Donald to became a true dictator, and even better, the American people will line up behind him and support it. (As evidenced by Dubya getting reelected after all the dictator shit he did post-9/11.)

Yours is a very helpful comment. Thank you for replying and have a great day.

Yep, and literally begging our allies to save him.

He’s talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.

everyone over there in the uNazied States of america needs to not let them forget that they were ok with all the child raping he did over the years,

It’s a nice thought, but Donald and his ilk are never going to be held accountable in any meaningful way. Here, the people in power make sure there’s cover for the criminals, always. Hell, we didn’t even hold the Confederate generals meaningfully accountable and they killed 600,000 American soldiers.

We’re already seeing it. Donald has lost nearly every election in 2025 and 2026, and most are in districts he won by double digits in 2024.

This means that even if he wants to try to fight dirty, he really can’t, because clearly the Republican Party can’t accurately project which districts will be safe in 2026. The downside of all this is that it’s not going to change a whole lot, because Dems are not going to elect 30 Mamdanis or Kat Abughazalehs, and that’s what we need if we want actual opposition.

There’s also value in making him even less popular at home

Abso-fucking-lutely. It gives people cover to oppose him politically, which is desperately needed.

Even though I’m an American, it pleases me that our allies aren’t just going along with it this time. That’s partly why the War on Terror lasted way longer than it should have, and how we were able to destroy millions of people’s lives.

In a war like this, the world gets a vote too, even if Congress won’t hold one.

To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.

The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.

It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.