Vokteren Skrevet 23 timer siden Skrevet 23 timer siden JK22 skrev (5 timer siden): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-escalates-his-racist-attacks-on-black-americans/ar-AA1KcOxY?ocid=BingNewsVerp&cvid=b1254f3b30c04d3abe5d0c0539eba191&ei=28 Nå er det helt umulig selv for blinde å ikke innse at den nye "administrasjonen" er hvitrasistisk. Trumps rasistisk retorikk som virker hentet fra 1960-tallet, blir bare flere og verre, uten at man kunne våge å kritisere ham som hadde med Roberts hjelp klart å omgjøre maktinstrumentet til hans egen våpen i strid med amerikansk lov og legale tradisjoner. Trump escalates his racist attacks on Black Americans Donald Trump is not a subtle man. Given his core nature and personality, Trump’s attacks on prominent Black Americans have recently become even more explicit and direct. First, he accused former President Barack Obama of “treasonous” behavior for launching an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But that was not the end of it. On Monday, following a criminal referral from Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered federal prosecutors to open a grand jury investigation into the baseless accusations. Multiple investigations, including two led by Republicans, and other reporting have repeatedly shown that Russia did, in fact, seek to meddle in the election in favor of Trump over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by launching a social media disinformation campaign using Russian bot farms, and by hacking the Clinton campaign’s emails. No such conspiracy on Obama’s part exists. But with Trump’s consolidation of power and lack of traditional guardrails, he has the full power of the state at his command to advance his authoritarian campaign against Obama, Clinton and other people and groups that he has already targeted — or will soon be targeting — for “treason” and other “crimes.” In the meantime, Trump has placed other prominent Black people in his sights. Last week, Trump targeted Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, Al Sharpton and others with claims they were part of a conspiracy in which they were paid to endorse his rival, former Vice President Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election. “IT’S NOT LEGAL!” he posted on Truth Social. “For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.” Trump said he would soon “call for a major investigation.” Again, no such conspiracy exists. On Aug. 1, Trump called radio personality Charlamagne tha God, who is a Black man, a “low IQ individual” and a “racist sleazebag” because he dared to question the president’s policies and behavior. On Fox News’ “My View with Lara Trump,” Charlamagne tha God said “the least of us are still being impacted the worst” and was critical of Trump’s response to the Epstein scandal. Then, in a Truth Social Post on Monday, Trump criticized CBS journalist Gayle King, who is also Winfrey’s best friend. “Gayle King’s career is over. She should have stayed with her belief in TRUMP. She never had the courage to do so. No talent, no ratings, no strength!!!” But the president still was not finished with his bigoted tirade. On Tuesday, he escalated his racist appeals, telling CNBC in a phone interview that “inner city” people — a not-so-subtle code for Black Americans — are lazy. “Illegal aliens” — meaning Hispanics and Latinos — are strong and have a natural talent for physical labor, he said. “[P]eople that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’re just not doing that work, and they’ve tried, we’ve tried, everybody tried, they don’t do it…These people do it naturally, naturally.” These are all — Trump’s slur that Winfrey, Beyoncé and other Black celebrities are basically crooks, and that Black people are inherently lazy — are centuries-old white supremacist tropes. His comments are part of a much larger pattern of behavior where he has repeatedly insulted Black people, specifically Black women, as being dumb or stupid or “low IQ.” This is the same white racist “logic” used to justify Black chattel slavery and over 100 years of American apartheid and racial tyranny in the South, and other parts of the country, under the period of Jim Crow and into the post-civil rights era and beyond. The National Museum of African American History and Culture explains the origins of the stereotype that Black people are somehow inherently “lazy” as compared to white people and other “races” as: Many of the stereotypes created during the height of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and were used to help commodify black bodies and justify the business of slavery. For instance, an enslaved person, forced under violence to work from sunrise to sunset, could hardly be described as lazy. Yet laziness, as well as characteristics of submissiveness, backwardness, lewdness, treachery, and dishonesty, historically became stereotypes assigned to African Americans. Trump’s racist tirade merited media attention. But it did not receive the in-depth coverage it deserved. As Bill Kristol, Andrew Egger and Jim Swift of The Bulwark observed of this chilling trend, “You might expect it to be big news. And yet it faded into the background almost at once. How far through the looking glass are we, that this sort of thing reads to so many as a ‘dog bites man’ story?…” In a searing essay, former MSNBC host and author Joy Reid captured the moment: I guess we Blacks can just hang it up, at this point. Companies have effectively been told they’re not allowed to hire us anywhere…Presumably, the regime envisions whatever Black people, brown people, women and LGBTQ people who aren’t deported, working as maids in white Christian homes, like in the ‘good old days’ when America was great… Filmmaker Kevin Willmott put it another way in The Nation: “The Confederacy has gobbled up the Union…The entire nation is capitulating to the new Confederate States of America.” The mainstream media’s failure to consistently connect Trump’s racism and authoritarianism to the nation’s worsening democratic crisis is not a mere “failure of imagination.” It is an act of complicity that further normalizes racism and authoritarianism in the Age of Trump. Further, as media critics like Dan Froomkin and Mark Jacob have argued, it is actually a willful refusal to understand how racism and authoritarianism intersect and amplify the other’s power to erode human freedom, dignity, agency and flourishing across racial lines. The normalization of Trump and the MAGA Republicans’ authoritarianism (if not naked fascism), racism and general hostility towards Black and brown people is not abstract. Such values and policies have significant negative health, emotional, material and other detrimental outcomes. This is not a coincidence or accident. It is the predictable and de facto desired outcome and goal. Philosopher and public intellectual Cornel West has described Black Americans as historically existing in a state of being “unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, and hated for who they are.” Psychologists and other experts described the sum effect of these forces as causing “racial battle fatigue” — a form of collective post-traumatic stress disorder — among Black people and other non-whites in America and across the West. For example, public health and other experts have demonstrated how racial fatigue shortens the lives of people of color because of how chronic stress from navigating a society where racial discrimination profoundly shapes life outcomes. To that point, racial battle fatigue has been shown to lead to premature aging through epigenetic processes. How much longer will Black Americans and the heirs to other great freedom struggles keep sacrificing for a country that is choosing self-destruction — for a nation accelerating toward fascism? What will happen then if those who are the conscience of the nation decide to turn their backs on it? What is the cost of loving a country that does not love you back? I don’t pretend to have an answer. But I do know this: If those Americans who are the conscience of the nation turn away from it, the consequences for the country’s future will be nothing short of existential. En MAJORITET av den hvite befolkningen hadde valgt å stemme republikansk og Trump med rasistiske fordommer i bakhodet, denne er en erkjenning som fram til Trumps valgseieren i november 2024 hadde unngått folk flest fordi man hadde aldri forestilt seg at det er så mange ekte rasister i det amerikanske folket, eller at rasehegemoniet man trodd hadde trukket sitt sist pust da Obama kom til det hvite huset i januar 2009, har gjenopplivet. Men helt siden den dagen Obama gikk gjennom døren til det hvite huset hadde det vært en meget voldsom kampanje fremmet av republikanerne som bare kunne kalles et "raseraseri" ved at man med viten og vilje satt USAs eksistens i fare, Mange hvite reagert mot synet av en nigger i det som er det helligste av deres hjem, selv om det ikke sies høyt. Dette ordet "nigger" har vært forbudt i flere tiår, ennå er det tydelige at ordet har aldri blitt borte fra mange hvites sinnelag, spesielt disse med dårlig utdanning og dårlig økonomi. Nå er det en mulighet at Obamas skjebne som den siste presidenten av USA kan bli en realitet i den nære fremtiden, fordi Trump og flere titalls millioner hvite amerikanerne HATET HAM så dypt og intenst over hva han hadde oppnådd og symbolisert, spesielt fordi alle meningsmålingene viser at om han skulle returnere, vil et flertall av amerikanerne ha ønsket ham velkomne til det hvite huset på nytt. De hater ham fordi de hater ideen om likestilling i det amerikanske samfunnet. Det meldes annetsteds at de fargede, latinos og kvinnelige krefter er i ferd med å forlate republikanerpartiet. I selve Texas har mange reagert meget voldsomt mot ønsket om å fjerne stemmerett for flere millioner gjennom gerrymandering - slik at mange latinos som hadde sluttet seg til republikanerne pga. kristenfascisme og rasisme mot andre, nå marsjere rett ut. Overalt ser man at republikanerne mer og mer bli hvitere enn før, selv disse som definere seg som hvite som nordinderne og latinamerikanerne med spansk bakgrunn har funnet seg gradvis, men sikkert dyttet ut mot ytterkanten. Du bør nok begrense innleggene dine litt hvis du ønsker at leserne skal få med seg og svare på essensen…..
Satan666 Skrevet 23 timer siden Skrevet 23 timer siden Vokteren skrev (5 minutter siden): Du bør nok begrense innleggene dine litt hvis du ønsker at leserne skal få med seg og svare på essensen….. Essensen hans er at Trump er roten til alt ondt.
N-4K0 Skrevet 22 timer siden Skrevet 22 timer siden JK22 skrev (5 timer siden): Last week, Trump targeted Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, Al Sharpton and others with claims they were part of a conspiracy in which they were paid to endorse his rival, former Vice President Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election. “IT’S NOT LEGAL!” he posted on Truth Social. “For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.” Trump said he would soon “call for a major investigation.” Typisk utblåsning fra en person med et så arrogant og oppblåst selvbilde at han simpelthen ikke klarer å forstå at det fins mennesker som foretrekker en annen kandidat over ham, og spesielt ikke at hans egen arrogante, storkjeftete oppførsel er selve kjernen i problemet. Han har jo bevist det selv flere ganger før med alle utblåsningene på X om at den eneste måten han kunne tape valget i 2020 var at demokratene jukset Ingen normalt oppegående mennesker - etter min mening - liker folk som er så sinnssykt arrogante og høye på sin egen innbildte viktighet som Trump. 6 2 1
obygda Skrevet 17 timer siden Skrevet 17 timer siden N-4K0 skrev (5 timer siden): Typisk utblåsning fra en person med et så arrogant og oppblåst selvbilde at han simpelthen ikke klarer å forstå at det fins mennesker som foretrekker en annen kandidat over ham, og spesielt ikke at hans egen arrogante, storkjeftete oppførsel er selve kjernen i problemet. Han har jo bevist det selv flere ganger før med alle utblåsningene på X om at den eneste måten han kunne tape valget i 2020 var at demokratene jukset Ingen normalt oppegående mennesker - etter min mening - liker folk som er så sinnssykt arrogante og høye på sin egen innbildte viktighet som Trump. Trump er jo gal. Så enkelt er det. 3
Red Frostraven Skrevet 15 timer siden Skrevet 15 timer siden ...Trump-supportere er hva de er. Men tiden er inne for å kjølhale sentristene og dem som hele veien forsøker å innbille seg selv og andre at begge sider er sammenlignbare. Sentrister får ikke nok tyn. 1 1
N-4K0 Skrevet 15 timer siden Skrevet 15 timer siden Stakkars konservative som blir utsatt for selve eksistensen av homofile, lesbiske, transpersoner og andre mennesker som ikke er 110% normale, heterofile mennesker som dem selv! Tenk å ha det så forferdelig som å måtte leve med at det finnes så ekle ting som mennesker som LIKER *grøss og gru* sitt eget kjønn, eller begge kjønn, eller som føler at de er født som feil kjønn!!! Tenk det a! Skrekk og gru! Spoiler Ikke tåler de å se EN utildekket pupp, men gønnere, skyting, drap og vold deluxe, DET er toppers! (sarkasme, for de som evt. ikke skjønte det 😜 ) 6
Van Der Linde Skrevet 14 timer siden Skrevet 14 timer siden (endret) 2 hours ago, obygda said: Trump er jo gal. Så enkelt er det. 2029 Kan ikke komme fort nok. Endret 14 timer siden av Van Der Linde 2
Dragavon Skrevet 11 timer siden Skrevet 11 timer siden Sitat The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently shared a video in which several pastors say women should no longer be allowed to vote, prompting one progressive evangelical organization to express concern. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/pete-hegseth-video-pastors-women-voting 2
obygda Skrevet 9 timer siden Skrevet 9 timer siden Dragavon skrev (1 time siden): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/pete-hegseth-video-pastors-women-voting Trump omgir seg med fundamentalister...hvor lang tid går det før USA er som Taliban? Trump har bare sittet siden Januar...mon tro hvor mye galskap verden vil oppleve før han er borte...?? 4 2
Red Frostraven Skrevet 5 timer siden Skrevet 5 timer siden Van Der Linde skrev (7 timer siden): 2029 Kan ikke komme fort nok. Hva skjer da..? Trump må avsettes lenge før det, for at demokratiet skal ha en god sjanse til å overleve. Forsøkene på valgjuks og kuppforsøket i 2020-2021 burde medført at han og alle medsammensvorne ble utelukket fra å stille til valg, og at senatorer og medlemmer av representantenes hus som støttet ham og løgnene de funderte forræderiene sine på ble avsatt. At det ikke skjedde betyr at demokratiet allerede er svekket forbi punktet det kan forventes å overleve uten intervensjon; Det er ingen konsekvenser for kuppforsøk eller å jukse for å vinne valg, eller for å samarbeide om å gjøre det -- som jo er en invitasjon til å forsøke igjen og igjen og igjen. Ingen ansvarlige for "false electors"-plottet er i fengsel. Alle som deltok i den voldelige delen av kuppforsøket ble benådet av Trump. Akkurat nå driver republikanerene med gerrymandering, og vi kan forvente at høyesterett hjelper dem -- og vi kan forvente at høyesterett blokkerer demokratene sine forsøke på reversere endringene gjennom juridisk intervensjon, begrunnet i svada fra høyesterett sin side. https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/ Project 25 er halvveis oppnådd, og selv mediene forstår ikke alvoret: USA har ikke sluttet å gå mot diktatur etter 2020. https://www.project2025.observer/en Det er noe sykelig over hvor lite alvorlig folk ser på situasjonen. Folk bare benekter det internt, på en eller annen måte -- som noen som våkner opp hver dag og benekter for seg selv at barnet deres er forsvunnet, lager matpakke til det og kjører matpakken til skolen, møter opp for å hente barnet på skolen etter jobb -- hver dag, selv om barnet aldri er der. De klarer ikke å ta inn over seg at kidnapperen aldri kommer til å levere barnet tilbake, eller hva kidnapperen gjør med barnet -- hva republikanerene gjør med demokratiet, akkurat nå. 3 1 1
obygda Skrevet 3 timer siden Skrevet 3 timer siden Red Frostraven skrev (2 timer siden): Hva skjer da..? Trump må avsettes lenge før det, for at demokratiet skal ha en god sjanse til å overleve. Forsøkene på valgjuks og kuppforsøket i 2020-2021 burde medført at han og alle medsammensvorne ble utelukket fra å stille til valg, og at senatorer og medlemmer av representantenes hus som støttet ham og løgnene de funderte forræderiene sine på ble avsatt. At det ikke skjedde betyr at demokratiet allerede er svekket forbi punktet det kan forventes å overleve uten intervensjon; Det er ingen konsekvenser for kuppforsøk eller å jukse for å vinne valg, eller for å samarbeide om å gjøre det -- som jo er en invitasjon til å forsøke igjen og igjen og igjen. Ingen ansvarlige for "false electors"-plottet er i fengsel. Alle som deltok i den voldelige delen av kuppforsøket ble benådet av Trump. Akkurat nå driver republikanerene med gerrymandering, og vi kan forvente at høyesterett hjelper dem -- og vi kan forvente at høyesterett blokkerer demokratene sine forsøke på reversere endringene gjennom juridisk intervensjon, begrunnet i svada fra høyesterett sin side. https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/ Project 25 er halvveis oppnådd, og selv mediene forstår ikke alvoret: USA har ikke sluttet å gå mot diktatur etter 2020. https://www.project2025.observer/en Det er noe sykelig over hvor lite alvorlig folk ser på situasjonen. Folk bare benekter det internt, på en eller annen måte -- som noen som våkner opp hver dag og benekter for seg selv at barnet deres er forsvunnet, lager matpakke til det og kjører matpakken til skolen, møter opp for å hente barnet på skolen etter jobb -- hver dag, selv om barnet aldri er der. De klarer ikke å ta inn over seg at kidnapperen aldri kommer til å levere barnet tilbake, eller hva kidnapperen gjør med barnet -- hva republikanerene gjør med demokratiet, akkurat nå. Folk er nok bare opptatt av seg selv. De bryr seg ikke om hvordan landet blir styrt. Mange amerikanere vet knapt noe om toll,hvem presidenten er osv.. Det trist å se hvordan demokratiet i USA bygges ned uten at folk løfter en finger. Det er når folket er umodent og rett og slett dårlig orientert at diktatorer kan tre frem. Jeg leser om flere som synes det er "kult" at to presidenter kan avgjøre konflikter som f.eks Ukraina over en kopp te oppe i Alaska...akkurat som i gamle dager med konger og keisere. Vi har brukt hundrevis av år på å løfte frem styresett der innbyggerene får medvirkning på sine liv og egen frihet..og så sitter det noen der i Maga kulten og beundrer at demokratiet bygges ned. Folk er rett og slett blinde og sager av grenen de sitter på. 1
JK22 Skrevet 2 timer siden Forfatter Skrevet 2 timer siden obygda skrev (29 minutter siden): Folk er nok bare opptatt av seg selv. De bryr seg ikke om hvordan landet blir styrt. Mange amerikanere vet knapt noe om toll,hvem presidenten er osv.. Det trist å se hvordan demokratiet i USA bygges ned uten at folk løfter en finger. Det er når folket er umodent og rett og slett dårlig orientert at diktatorer kan tre frem. Jeg leser om flere som synes det er "kult" at to presidenter kan avgjøre konflikter som f.eks Ukraina over en kopp te oppe i Alaska...akkurat som i gamle dager med konger og keisere. Vi har brukt hundrevis av år på å løfte frem styresett der innbyggerene får medvirkning på sine liv og egen frihet..og så sitter det noen der i Maga kulten og beundrer at demokratiet bygges ned. Folk er rett og slett blinde og sager av grenen de sitter på. Enig, det er hvorfor det kommer til å smelle når det endelig gikk opp for et folk som hadde kommet ut på ville veger. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-one-trump-flaw-most-americans-can-t-tolerate/ar-AA1Kfhx2?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=212144ae0b3c45da919778ae24a27754&ei=30 Tens of millions of Americans voted for President Donald Trump in the belief that he would be competent. They might not have been thrilled that Trump is a convicted felon, or pleased with his role in the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Many worried that he posed a threat to democracy. But enough were willing to overlook all that, because they convinced themselves that Trump would be an effective chief executive, that under his stewardship their lives would get better and the country would prosper. A survey from the Democratic pollsters Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman, conducted shortly after the election, helps illustrate the point. By an 11-point margin, independents said they would be less confident that the Trump administration would share accurate information compared with the Biden administration. Yet, by a 10-point margin, those same voters said that they thought the Trump administration would be more effective at getting things done. “Ultimately, our postelection poll makes clear that voters prioritized perceived effectiveness rather than upholding democracy this election,” Schoen and Cooperman wrote, “and while they are deeply skeptical towards our institutions generally, they are cautiously optimistic that the incoming administration will be effective at providing real-world solutions.” A little more than half a year into Trump’s second term, however, the public’s confidence in his skill as a chief executive is shattering. In a recent AP/NORC poll, only about one-quarter of U.S. adults said that Trump’s policies have helped them. Roughly half report that Trump’s policies have “done more to hurt” them, and about two in 10 say his policies have “not made a difference” in their lives. Remarkably, Trump failed to earn majority approval on any of the issues in the poll, including the economy, immigration, and cutting government spending. As a result, a politically toxic impression is hardening. Trump’s approval rating in the most recent Gallup poll is 37 percent, the lowest of this term and only slightly higher than his all-time low of 34 percent, at the end of his first term. (Among independents, Trump’s approval rating is down to 29 percent.) Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt, and proved themselves willing to tolerate that. But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin. On the economic front, Trump’s tariff increases—announced and then altered, often without rhyme or reason—are only now beginning to percolate through the economy, and the steepest hikes haven’t yet kicked in. The economy appears to be slowing down. Consumer prices are up 2.6 percent from a year earlier, which is keeping the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates despite intense pressure from Trump. The jobs report for July showed a gain of only 73,000, a sign that the labor market is weakening. Perhaps more significant, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the jobs totals from May and June downward by more than a quarter of a million. Unemployment ticked up to 4.2 percent. Consumer spending is well below what it was last year. More than half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a “major” source of stress in their life right now. Many industries are postponing hiring, and the national hiring rate is near its lowest level in a decade. Customers appear to be holding off on large, long-term purchases. The Budget Lab at Yale University calculates that the American consumer is dealing with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934, and it estimates that price increases will cost each household $2,400 on average this year. General Motors reported last month that Trump’s tariffs have cost the company more than $1 billion. And the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a statement that Trump’s latest tariffs “would disrupt essential transatlantic supply chains, to the detriment of businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic.” The Trump administration is betting that the president’s tariffs will not be inflationary, will generate massive revenue flows that significantly reduce the deficit, and will lead to a renaissance in American manufacturing and investment. If it’s right, Trump will reap the political benefits. But we believe the administration to be dead wrong, and that this will become painfully obvious to ordinary Americans in the months and years ahead. The economy isn’t the only place where Trump’s policies will hurt rather than help. Estimates predict that the number of Americans without health insurance will increase by more than 10 million in less than a decade, with particularly devastating impacts for vulnerable rural populations. Eliminating a quarter of the IRS workforce may well undermine tax collection and increase the wait time for Americans to receive refunds. Slashing the Social Security Administration, which is serving more people than ever before, with the fewest workers in half a century, will increase wait times for those needing help. It will lead to field-office closures that will hit seniors in rural communities the hardest and may well delay the processing of retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. A 70-year-old retiree in Indiana told The Guardian, “For the first time in my life, my wife and I are stressed out and worried if I will get my payment and if it will be on time.” The Trump administration has devastated the National Institutes of Health, one of the world’s foremost medical-research centers and the biggest sponsor of biomedical research in the world. Nearly 2,500 grants have been ended or delayed, disrupting vital medical research, reducing the pool of available researchers, and compromising public health and disease prevention. “The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades,” Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist who served as the director of the NIH from 1993 to 1999, told The New York Times. (There are signs that some Republicans in Congress are finally stirring from their slumber and might be ready to push back against what the Trump administration is trying to do, though the administration may attempt to thwart their will by ignoring appropriations or setting up a fight over impoundment or trying more rescission.) Massive cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, resulting in the loss of some of the weather service’s most experienced leaders and impeding the collection of data that are essential for accurate and timely weather forecasting, will place Americans at greater risk of experiencing extreme-weather events. As The Atlantic’s David A. Graham has written, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in disarray, headed by a person who is clearly out of his depth. Trump wants FEMA eliminated by the end of the year. It has already lost about a third of its permanent workforce, and its program dedicated to helping communities prepare for natural disasters such as floods and fires has been canceled. FEMA is hardly a model federal program; a slew of changes could make it better. The problem is that the Trump administration has no plan to pick up the slack in a post-FEMA world, and states and municipalities will be hard-pressed to do so. In the immediate aftermath of the recent Texas floods, FEMA’s earlier decision to lay off hundreds of call-center contractors resulted in thousands of unanswered calls for recovery assistance. (The administration dismissed reports about this as “fake news.”) FEMA didn’t deploy to St. Louis for several weeks after a tornado destroyed parts of the city, leaving people unable to apply for even basic payments for fresh food and medicine, let alone get help addressing uninsured losses from the natural disaster. The Trump administration is also decimating anti-corruption efforts within the federal government. It announced earlier this year that the landmark 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act would no longer be enforced. It also announced the termination of two Justice Department programs designed to seize and return foreign assets from kleptocrats and oligarchs close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. And it has fired or demoted 20 inspectors general and acting inspectors general, who are ferreting out waste, fraud, and abuse within the government. As lifelong conservatives, we are completely on board when it comes to insisting on accountability in government programs; increasing their efficiency; and, in some instances, reorganizing them, downsizing them, and even eliminating them. The problem is the thoughtless and reckless way in which the Trump administration is going about this—all while passing a “big, beautiful bill” that will add a staggering $3 trillion to the national debt. Trump has surrounded himself with nihilists, people waving around a chain saw onstage like a madman and boasting that career civil servants should be viewed “as the villains.” Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, said in 2023: “We want to put them in trauma.” So Democrats have a lot to work with. On an almost-daily basis, Trump is discrediting his own leadership; that gives Democrats the opportunity to highlight, with laser-like focus, his failure to deliver on his own promises. In doing so, Democrats need to present themselves not as the party of government but rather as the party of reform, as disrupters of the status quo on behalf of the common good. We believe they must tell voters that in all sorts of ways—the economy, health and health care, disaster relief—Trump is making their lives worse, not better. He and his administration are amateurs, inept and in over their head. They are entertainers and grifters, shock jocks and freaks. Whatever talents they may possess, mastery of governing is not one of them. Perhaps most important, the incompetence argument needs to be humanized. Democrats need compelling, empathy-evoking narratives pointing to the harm being done to ordinary people by the enormous ineptitude of Trump and his enablers. For example, Democrats could tell the story, as former NIH Director Francis Collins has done, of the woman in her early 40s, afflicted with Stage 4 colorectal cancer, who was on the path to an immunotherapy clinical trial that might have saved her life, until cuts to the NIH caused a devastating delay; or of the children afflicted with rare diseases whose lives may be affected because advances in gene editing have been stopped in their tracks; or of the families who are seeing their hopes for breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease potentially dashed. They could talk about the role that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, is playing in the worst outbreak of measles in decades. Or about his decision to cancel nearly $500 million in grants and contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, which have been responsible for saving millions of lives from COVID and were considered the most exciting new opportunity in cancer immunotherapy. They could also explain why the Trump administration isn’t prepared for a bird-flu pandemic, should one happen. Democrats could tell the story of how farmers in places such as western Iowa are struggling as tariffs increase their costs at home—for machinery, fertilizer, herbicides, and feed—while limiting their access to international markets. Democrats could show how workforce raids by ICE agents with battering rams are in the process of destroying Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, which had been one of the fastest-growing meatpacking companies in the Midwest. According to The New York Times, “In a matter of weeks, production had plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew was in the process of being deported, the director of human resources had stopped coming to work, and more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska.” Thanks to the reporting of Nick Kristof at The New York Times, Democrats could talk about the babies such as Gbessey, who lived in a village in Liberia and died of malaria because the Trump administration shut down USAID, which meant health workers had no malaria medicine to offer the child; and how Gbessey’s younger sibling, Osman, also became seriously ill with malaria. They could tell of children orphaned by AIDS dying in South Sudan because the community-health workers who had brought them medicine have been laid off. (A recent study in The Lancet projected that the defunding of USAID could lead to 14 million deaths by the end of the decade.) These examples are but the beginning; Trump, after all, has more than 1,200 days left in office. There is no evidence that he’s going to get more competent or more compassionate, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. The challenge for Democrats will be to keep up with the cascading horror stories and to tell them in compelling and sensitive ways, conveying the devasting effects of the Trump administration’s across-the-board mistakes. Trump is smashing up things on a scale that is almost unimaginable, and he seems completely untroubled by the daily hardships and widespread suffering he is leaving behind. And the president is hardly done. The pain and the body count will rise, and rise, and rise. It will be left to others to clean up the mess he has made. Some of the damage may be repaired with time; some will be irreparable. Democrats should say so. It’s their best path to defeating his movement, which is the only way for the healing to begin. Altfor mange amerikanerne hadde bedrevet selvbedrageri ved å la seg styres av sine fordommer og dermed lot en løgnaktig svindler komme til makten samtidig som man ikke maktet å innse at dere meget lave tilliten mot det politiske systemet først og fremst skyldes den republikanske kontrarevolusjonsstrategien om å sabotere folkestyret med alle midler og forhindre populære ønsker som fremme minoritetsstyring på alles bekostning. De bli lurt, og disses ekstreme glemsomhet er noe som ikke kan få bli stående. De hadde valgt å ignorere alle faresignalene og deretter ikke respektere egne moralske som etiske verdier, slik at de nå sitter i en situasjon hvor demokratiet er i seriøs fare. For det er ikke bare Trump som truer USA; det er også det republikanske partiet og de "konservative" dommerne med en bakgrunn som minner om en konspirasjonsberetning bokstavelig talt. Det amerikanske folket hadde nektet å innse at presidentvalget i 2024 var et skjebnevalg, og dermed fattet ikke at de hadde opptrådd så uansvarlig, at de beviste alle stemmerettsmotstandernes argumenter fra 1800-tallet om at allmenn stemmerett kunne tillate ekstrem uansvarlighet og fare om sammenbrudd, da man mante statsforvaltning er for alvorlig til man kunne tillate svindlere, sjarlataner og skurker som landsbyidioter får makt. Som jeg hadde gjentatte ganger sagt; 70 % av det amerikanske folket vil vende seg mot Trump og republikanerne, men de er så demobilisert, først og fremst gjennom en gjennomgripende misnøye mot det politiske systemet som hadde i virkeligheten mistet folkets støtte i flere tiår, helt siden 1990-årene, at de vanskelig kunne samle seg sammen, og demokratene ønsker status quo uten å fatte inntil det var for sent, at folk flest vil ha reformer. Mange stemte på Trump fordi han lyver for dem og vil "brekke opp" systemet - men de spurte aldri hva som vil komme etterpå. Enten var de idioter, eller var de så oppgitt at de bare vil ikke mer. Det var en meget stor feil av amerikanerne å velge Nixon i 1968, og det var en mye større feil å la Reagan komme til makten i 1981 fordi det var i etterkanten av "den andre rekonstruksjonen" USA måtte reformeres. Den altfor gamle konstitusjonen har gått ut på dato allerede den gang, og man har ikke lykte med å reformere det politiske systemet med mer enn overfladiske tiltak helt siden den progressive ærens slutt i 1910-tallet. Alt hadde stivet opp. Det var dette som amerikanerne reagere på, men de tok en grusom feil ved å tro "konservatisme" var vegen, uten å fatte at en høyreradikalisme hadde kapret plassen og at de ikke har tatt et oppgjør med sine fordommer, som valget av Obama og wokeismen hadde vist fremdeles er altfor levende. USA kan ikke overleve dette. 1
SilverShaded Skrevet 1 time siden Skrevet 1 time siden @JK22 Alt det der er riktig nok. Problemet er at Trump overhode ikke bryr seg om disse menneskene som opplever sene (eller ikke-eksistrende) utbetalinger, som mister sine muligheter til helsehjelp eller blir stående på bar bakke etter naturkatastrofer osv. Alt dette er folk som har null betydning for ham med sin mangel på empati, om de lider eller dør spiller liten rolle. De han bryr seg om å tilfredsstille er sine rike venner, de har penger i banken, ingen problemer med å kjøpe dagligvarer og tjenester, og forsikringer på alle bauger og kanter. Disse får nyte godt av Trump's økonomiske disposisjoner, med store skattekutt. De rike blir rikere, og de fattige blir fattigere. 1
Tussi Skrevet 1 time siden Skrevet 1 time siden SilverShaded skrev (13 minutter siden): @JK22 Alt det der er riktig nok. Problemet er at Trump overhode ikke bryr seg om disse menneskene som opplever sene (eller ikke-eksistrende) utbetalinger, som mister sine muligheter til helsehjelp eller blir stående på bar bakke etter naturkatastrofer osv. Alt dette er folk som har null betydning for ham med sin mangel på empati, om de lider eller dør spiller liten rolle. De han bryr seg om å tilfredsstille er sine rike venner, de har penger i banken, ingen problemer med å kjøpe dagligvarer og tjenester, og forsikringer på alle bauger og kanter. Disse får nyte godt av Trump's økonomiske disposisjoner, med store skattekutt. De rike blir rikere, og de fattige blir fattigere. This bill is a nightmare for disabled people. The work requirements especially. Because despite so-called exceptions, they will hurt disabled people the most. This is because, number one, it doesn't exempt their CAREGIVERS. My 50-year-old friend is caring for her schizophrenic adult son and her husband, who suffered a traumatic brain injury and can't prepare meals, have a conversation, or remember to take his medication. Both need constant supervision. She says that going back to work would be a dream come true. But she can't because her family needs her. She is also the caregiver for her granddaughter, because her daughter can't afford childcare. So since she can't abandon her family, she will lose her Medicaid. Her husband Paul has had serious problems with his back for 30 years. He has been in constant physical agony for all that time. He was denied disability, and no doctor would prescribe him pain medication. So, in agony, he worked full time for decades, then was hurt on the job. Now, he gets workers compensation and Medicaid. Under the bill, he too may lose his insurance because he isn't officially on disability. And there's the other problem. The bill doesn't exempt "disabled people" just disabled people who the government has determined are disabled. Those on Social Security disability. Nearly everyone who applies for it is rejected. Most people have to hire a lawyer to get it. If they can't afford a lawyer, they often can't. And, AT BEST getting it is a 2-4 year process. it takes over a year to even get an initial response then the appeal process (which something like 78% of people have to go through) is extremely slow. It can take over 5 years to be approved. During that time, the person is physically unable to work, but would still be required to do so to get Medicaid. And without (sometimes years) worth of medical records (which they can't get if they are kicked off Medicaid) they can't qualify for disability. These people, those who are in the process of applying for disability, will be COMPLETELY SCREWED under this bill. Please don't blindly believe what politicians are telling you. This bill is a nightmare for disabled people. I beg you not to make disabled people collateral damage in the fight against Planned Parenthod. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the harm the budget will do. They can cut out the part that hurts us, keep the PP defunding, and then pass it. We can have both. Protection for disabled people AND defunding PP. This bill isn't the way. I beg you not to support it. Please call your representatives and tell them to keep the PP defunding, but not the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and housing, which will cause children and adults to go hungry. It's the biggest cut to Medicaid and SNAP in history. Also not exempt from work requirements...mothers with small children and the homeless. If a single mother lives in an area where there is no available childcare (like 51% of families do) or she can't afford the high cost of childcare even if working, she loses her Medicaid AND her food stamps, leaving both her and her children to go hungry. And she loses food stamps for THREE YEARS. Same applies to homeless people. People living in their cars, or sleeping on the street, have to work now or lose their food assistance and healthcare. They will starve. How can you work if you have no way to shower or wash your clothes? Please contact your rep and tell them to vote no. Please. LInk in comments. Skrevet av en amerikansk pro-life funksjonshemmet kvinne som er sjokkert kver konsekvensene av denne loven
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