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A decade later, we have mass support for a president who is a billionaire.
by Animats 2y ago
A decade later, we have mass support for a president who is a billionaire.
- penguin_booze 2y ago> president who is a billionaire And other things. The B part is the least worrying.
- Animats 2y agoThe point here is that the article title is "The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats", yet, a decade later, the plutocrats are more in charge than ever. And are popular with the masses.
- franceschina 2y agonot "mass support"... only half of registered voters "chose" Trump... because they just want change, and our system doesnt give us any actual choice
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoThat will only accentuate the problem. When 20% tariffs land and people can point directly to the rich persons in charge, I wonder what their response will be?
- shiroiushi 2y agoThey'll cheer for it and ask for more? That's what we've been seeing with Trump's rallies, and the strong support he got at the polls. Sure, a few malcontents might get angry and try shooting at someone. It only takes one angry person to pull off a successful assassination, as we just saw in NYC. A couple of other angry people shot at Trump on the campaign trail. But that wasn't related to his popularity, since he won overwhelmingly in the election afterwards. I suppose the rich people are probably going to need to hire more bodyguards, so this might be a good time to buy stock in a security company.
- brendoelfrendo 2y agoPoint of order: Trump won the electoral college "overwhelmingly," but his popular-vote victory is incredibly narrow. His victory does not indicate overwhelming popularity among the American people.
- MrMcCall 2y ago"Bodyguard, I wouldn't like your job, snakes in the grass that know not Jah." --Steel Pulse
- FranzFerdiNaN 2y agoThey are going to blame Biden or China or the left or the lgbtq community or Obama. Anyone but their own team.
- rsanek 2y agothey didn't seem to mind when Biden kept em
- tail_exchange 2y agoThey seemed to mind a lot by never shutting up about Biden's handling of inflation, which tariffs contributed to.
- MrMcCall 2y ago[flagged]
- euroderf 2y agoRelated: "Donald Trump is a stupid person's idea of a smart person."
- jfengel 2y agoThat accusation has been leveled at a lot of politicians, often Republicans. But I'm not sure it's true in this case. I think Donald Trump is a stupid person's idea of a mean person, who's mean to the people they want to be mean to. We had something similar in George W. Bush. Nobody thought he was smart. People often said that he was preferable to have a beer with. That hardly seems like a good reason to be President, but it was remarkably popular. Like Trump, he did eventually win an election by popular vote, not just the Electoral College. I have a dark suspicion that for a great many of his voters, they think he's in fact quite stupid. And that's what they want.