COMMUNITY United States Politics Thread: Trump's Second Term

The Lonious Monk said:
I can't really consider that going harder. Albania is like the size of MD with a population that's like a third of MD. In other words, with the No Kings protests, you had multiple protests comparable to the Albanian protest going on across the U.S. Sure, a greater percentage of their population stood up, but that's because everyone in their country is aligned against a threat coming from the outside. The protests here were against a threat on the inside that about a third of our population at the least, supports.

I don't think it's a fair comparison or criticism. Americans against Trump have been protesting him since before he even got into office. And depending on what you believe multiple people have tried to kill him.
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The protest was for both. Outside(Ivanka and Kushner) as well as their government pertaining to the corruption.

They’ve been protesting their government for 4+ months now.

The outsider influence on corruption though Ivanka/Kushner was the tipping poiht

I think it was Freeman that said it a while ago. For all the shit that has been happening over the last two years and the effects we’ve felt from it, you’d think we would harder.

I mean a protected island being sold to Ivanka and company brought up the heat from the people there.

To me we’ve seen just as bad if not worse here and it’s pretty muted.
 
OmarWasRight said:
The protest was for both. Outside(Ivanka and Kushner) as well as their government pertaining to the corruption.

They’ve been protesting their government for 4+ months now.

The outsider influence on corruption though Ivanka/Kushner was the tipping poiht

I think it was Freeman that said it a while ago. For all the shit that has been happening over the last two years and the effects we’ve felt from it, you’d think we would harder.

I mean a protected island being sold to Ivanka and company brought up the heat from the people there.

To me we’ve seen just as bad if not worse here and it’s pretty muted.
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I wouldn't say its muted. People just have lives. Something happens literally everyday that should have the masses in the streets, but people just can't do that. It's not feasible.

I don't think the problem here is that citizens aren't fighting back hard enough. The problem is that this presidency has demonstrated that the people don't have as much power as we were told we did. In the past resistance only worked because we had presidents that cared to some extent about following the rules. Now we have a president that doesn't care at all about that, and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do to stop him. If Congress, law enforcement, the military, and the courts won't do anything, what can the average citizen actually do?
 
The Lonious Monk said:
I wouldn't say its muted. People just have lives. Something happens literally everyday that should have the masses in the streets, but people just can't do that. It's not feasible.

I don't think the problem here is that citizens aren't fighting back hard enough. The problem is that this presidency has demonstrated that the people don't have as much power as we were told we did. In the past resistance only worked because we had presidents that cared to some extent about following the rules. Now we have a president that doesn't care at all about that, and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do to stop him. If Congress, law enforcement, the military, and the courts won't do anything, what can the average citizen actually do?
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I wouldn't say its muted. People just have lives. Something happens literally everyday that should have the masses in the streets, but people just can't do that. It's not feasible.

I hear you. Same time Those folks in Albania have lived too right?


I don't think the problem here is that citizens aren't fighting back hard enough. The problem is that this presidency has demonstrated that the people don't have as much power as we were told we did. In the past resistance only worked because we had presidents that cared to some extent about following the rules. Now we have a president that doesn't care at all about that, and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do to stop him. If Congress, law enforcement, the military, and the courts won't do anything, what can the average citizen actually do?

This is approaching chicken and the egg type discussion. As well as speaking to the choir.

A lot of us here including you knew that Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself first, family and those who serve him.(preaching to the choir here)

The evidence was demonstrated over and over (him being a rapist, defrauding etc).

The evidence of him not caring about mass people protesting him like other presidents in the past was shown through the above, in that why would someone care about the masses or systems of checks and balances if he rapes and defrauds folks.(Again preaching to the choir)


Our power was our vote and folks exercised their right/ power either by not voting, voting 3rd party or voting against him.

Our power was not to vote for the people that enabled or covered for him(republicans)

The reasons why it happened (the chicks and egg discussion) has been litigated time and time again here.

On top of that, you and I are just talking political power.

We have economic power in that we could boycott, or curtail our spending toward the financial backers that enabled or pushed him to the front.

Overall we ain’t doing it, we are dropping the ball.
 
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Social Security Retirement Fund Expected To Run Dry In 2032, New Report Says

Tax cuts for seniors, a lower predicted birth rate and fewer immigrants working in the U.S. have all pushed up a predicted depletion date for an important Social Security retirement fund.
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• The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until the fourth quarter of 2032, one quarter earlier than projected last year. At that time, the fund’s reserves will become depleted and continuing program income will be sufficient to pay 78 percent of total scheduled benefits.

• The Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund is projected to be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits through at least 2100, the last year of this report’s projection period. Last year’s report projected that the DI Trust Fund would be able to pay scheduled benefits through at least 2099, the last year of that report’s projection period.

• If the OASI Trust Fund and the DI Trust Fund projections were combined, the resulting projected fund (designated OASDI) would be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until the third quarter of 2034, unchanged from last year’s report. At that time, the projected fund’s reserves would become depleted and continuing combined fund income would be sufficient to pay 83 percent of scheduled benefits. (The two funds could not actually be combined unless there were a change in the law, but the combined projection of the two funds is frequently used to indicate the overall status of the Social Security program.)

• The Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until the second quarter of 2033, one quarter earlier than projected last year. At that point, that fund’s reserves will become depleted and continuing program income will be sufficient to pay 89 percent of total scheduled benefits.
 
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The Lonious Monk said:
How? Americans have done the same thing the Albanians did. Literally all they did was get out there and protest. People have been doing that consistently for Trump's whole second term, and instead of the government turning things around, they've allowed the Gestapo to start killing people.
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Yea but it looks like theirs worked
 
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