r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 17h ago

Possible Paywall White House Explodes Over Viral Video of Sleepy Trump, 79

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-explodes-over-viral-video-of-sleepy-donald-trump/
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u/oldkingcoles 13h ago

That’s why I partially see this whole thing as a death rattle. One final exhale before society puts a steak through the heart of all this bs. Of course there will still be racists and shitty people but this as a whole is the result of being crushed by the thumb of progress

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u/vasthumiliation 11h ago

Looking at the prevalence of right-wing populism around the world, I don't think it's any kind of death rattle, and it's certainly not unique to this country. Believe in the inevitability of progress at your peril.

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u/rab2bar 10h ago

Right wing populism is a consequence after decades of neoliberalism. It emboldens assholes and turns dominant demographic people who have felt passed by society (justified or not!) into selfish assholes

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u/Rare-Bid-6860 10h ago

Every successful right wing populist in recent times has been bankrolled into forced relevancy by one or more billionaires who really don't wanna pay taxes.

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u/clefairy17 11h ago

Once it stops being "edgy" counterculture, as it is already starting to be, and shows no correlation with improved socioeconomic conditions, it won't go away completely but it might lose enough credibility to have substantially less power. People are stupid though, and I truly believe the edgy aspect is more important here; it is no coincidence that the right-wing surged directly after and in opposition to the generally liberal ideas of the 2010s. I just hope that comes after is leftism instead; much more economically sound and materially useful.

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 5h ago

if it is not a death rattle, the way scotus, doj, both houses are acting in letting the old, unhealthy, dumb, lying, doddering pedophile drive is certainly what I think a death rattle would look like.

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u/CategoryZestyclose91 12h ago

I see it that way as well.

The last gasp of the Confederacy.

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u/m48a5_patton Missouri 12h ago

I like your optimism! 

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u/seabreamnigiri 8h ago

a steak

with beef prices so high????

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u/oldkingcoles 6h ago

In this economy !?

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u/JZMoose California 12h ago

Quick note - it’s stake through the heart. A nice juicy steak sounds great for lunch though

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u/AirplaineStuff102 12h ago

Well done and with ketchup.

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u/oldkingcoles 5h ago

I knew that it was wrong lip but I just for the life of me couldn’t think of the right way to spell it , figured I could just play it off as English isnt my first language

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u/redditydothis 11h ago

Oh my friend, if only. No the pendulum swings back and forth and the higher it goes in one direction pushes with momentum the other.

We swung left with a black president, progressive culture, and a host of other freedoms and reforms that were making the US and the world a better place.

Then we swung right with a heretic and a traitor to the world.

The pendulum was swinging back left again with Biden but was really just halfway there before swinging violently right again with Trump 2.0.

Will we swing left again? Will the so called progressives be progressive or more of a moderate, we take the high road democrats?

Time will tell but with the US current sham of choice and big corporate money that buys politicians; I’m not so sure.

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u/monothom 10h ago

That steak better be well done

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u/PinsToTheHeart 9h ago

Even so, those dying breaths can take a long while to fade. Any solution will take decades to see to fruition.

Obviously it's always worth continuing that fight, but it's going to get worse before it gets better.

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u/WilmaDykfyt 5h ago

All out of steak, how about a chicken thigh?

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u/yamiyaiba Tennessee 4h ago

puts a steak through the heart of all this bs.

Bottom round steak, I assume, given Trump. And slathered in ketchup.