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One of the worst parts of the Trump presidencies has been the absolute non-stop onslaught of bad news. Every single day. Day after day. Absolute terrible news.

One of the worst parts of the Trump presidencies has been the absolute non-stop onslaught of bad news. Every single day. Day after day. Absolute terrible news. The bar is so low, but god I cannot wait until we have another president that I don't think about more than a few times a year. If we just didn't have a president at all for a term it would be an improvement.

estearum 9mo ago
I once had someone argue that a point against Biden was that he wasn't omnipresent in daily life. It wasn't the 24/7 Joe Biden show. They somehow thought that the correct form of American politics is just truly nonstop antics from the White House. It's like these people think they're watching WWE.
- alexilliamson 9mo ago
  The current guy is nothing if not a documented professional wrestling fan
- Nursie 9mo ago
  As someone not in the US, but who listens to a lot of UK and Australian news here in Australia, it is noticeable how often the words "Donald Trump" are the first things spoken in any given bulletin. Can't imagine what it must be like on the inside, I am looking forward to that no longer being the case, one day.
- SanjayMehta 9mo ago
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  - cosmicgadget 9mo ago
    208 weeks of that? Really? And that's on par with this insanity?
    - SanjayMehta 9mo ago
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      - cosmicgadget 9mo ago
        He really isn't. Unless you are speaking specifically of neurological decline.
        SanjayMehta 9mo ago
        Biden was clearly just a dementia patient. He was only coherent while the meds were working. Trump is a highly functional dementia patient. From the comedic value, I prefer Trump. He blurts out whatever nonsense is in his head, it's hilarious. I also appreciate his straightforward criminality, he's not playing the usual "rules based order" games, just a real estate thug in power. It's so refreshing to watch.
        estearum 9mo ago
        > The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. > The term [stupidity], he said, wasn’t a description of intellectual acuity, but of social responsibility. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person, or to a group of persons, while deriving no gain for himself, and possibly incurring losses. https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%...
  - pupppet 9mo ago
    Yeah man, remember when Biden called people retards and piggy, used his position to make millions off memecoins, draped his mug and name over government institutions, bulldozed half the White House, wanted to take over multiple countries, sicced masked idiots on the poor, pulled out of the WHO, the list goes on.
    - SanjayMehta 9mo ago
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      - estearum 9mo ago
        "I have clear evidence of wrongdoing in one case, and admittedly not very good evidence of wrongdoing in the other... I prefer the former." Epistemologically insane, and that's not to mention the plainly obvious fact that even if the corruption were equal (which you openly admit actually doesn't comport with visible evidence), doing it visibly is clearly much more harmful to our society. Taken to the extreme, someone can be the most rotten, corrupt soul on the planet, and so long as they truly keep it to themselves, none of us would even know about it, much less be affected by it.
        SanjayMehta 9mo ago
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        estearum 9mo ago
        A tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it is in fact of far less nuisance and risk than a tree that falls on top of a house. A more important question: How would someone look if they walked around insisting that a tree had recently fallen, but they can't tell you when/where/how because no one was around to hear it? "But trust me, it was just as big as the one that fell on Bob's house, so I don't even see what anyone is upset about."
- jonway 9mo ago
  Actually, Donald Trump was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 So Yes, in effect, these people are literally watching WWE.
dfxm12 9mo ago
I don't think it's bad that our elected officials tell us what they're doing. Yeah, it sucks when they're doing heinous shit like Trump, but it's awesome that Zohran Mamdani is doing what he can to tell New Yorkers about all the great stuff he's doing, whether it's fixing bike routes, funding universal child care, or undoing the corruption of the previous admin. It's bad that Biden was silent. This enabled the mainstream media, which is captured by conservative oligarchs, to define Biden's presidency. There's going to be an onslaught of news either way, and it's already an uphill battle for anyone who isn't right wing to get a fair shake. So, you shouldn't let others make the news for you. Biden expanded overtime pay and oversaw a number of worker and consumer protections. It's bad that he wasn't tooting his own horn about this stuff! Additionally, for America to ever return to being the shining example of democracy it claims to be, the next administration needs to very publicly make an example of the current administration. Americans, and the world, need to know that authoritarians have no place in America.
- bediger4000 9mo ago
  Mainstream media, including and especially the White House press corps, hated Biden. I don't think Biden was at fault, I think mainstream media, captured by oligarchs, didn't report on good news, which looks like silence from Biden.
  - dfxm12 9mo ago
    You're giving Biden no agency in this situation when he was the freaking president of the USA. He could have done more if he wanted.
    - jonway 9mo ago
      Sure, he could have done a Trump and ruled by executive fiat? Biden Admin had some pretty good wins, like CHIPs act is a standout. But man lucky we didn't backrupt the Country by forgiving some student loans amirite? Biden removed troops from Foreign Wars, Donald Trump does the opposite and instead pretends he stopped 8 wars or something. This is just poor memory. Us Americans are notorious for this, unfortunately.

estearum 9mo ago

I once had someone argue that a point against Biden was that he wasn't omnipresent in daily life. It wasn't the 24/7 Joe Biden show. They somehow thought that the correct form of American politics is just truly nonstop antics from the White House. It's like these people think they're watching WWE.

alexilliamson 9mo ago
The current guy is nothing if not a documented professional wrestling fan
Nursie 9mo ago
As someone not in the US, but who listens to a lot of UK and Australian news here in Australia, it is noticeable how often the words "Donald Trump" are the first things spoken in any given bulletin. Can't imagine what it must be like on the inside, I am looking forward to that no longer being the case, one day.
SanjayMehta 9mo ago
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- cosmicgadget 9mo ago
  208 weeks of that? Really? And that's on par with this insanity?
  - SanjayMehta 9mo ago
    [flagged]
    - cosmicgadget 9mo ago
      He really isn't. Unless you are speaking specifically of neurological decline.
      - SanjayMehta 9mo ago
        Biden was clearly just a dementia patient. He was only coherent while the meds were working. Trump is a highly functional dementia patient. From the comedic value, I prefer Trump. He blurts out whatever nonsense is in his head, it's hilarious. I also appreciate his straightforward criminality, he's not playing the usual "rules based order" games, just a real estate thug in power. It's so refreshing to watch.
        estearum 9mo ago
        > The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. > The term [stupidity], he said, wasn’t a description of intellectual acuity, but of social responsibility. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person, or to a group of persons, while deriving no gain for himself, and possibly incurring losses. https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%...
- pupppet 9mo ago
  Yeah man, remember when Biden called people retards and piggy, used his position to make millions off memecoins, draped his mug and name over government institutions, bulldozed half the White House, wanted to take over multiple countries, sicced masked idiots on the poor, pulled out of the WHO, the list goes on.
  - SanjayMehta 9mo ago
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    - estearum 9mo ago
      "I have clear evidence of wrongdoing in one case, and admittedly not very good evidence of wrongdoing in the other... I prefer the former." Epistemologically insane, and that's not to mention the plainly obvious fact that even if the corruption were equal (which you openly admit actually doesn't comport with visible evidence), doing it visibly is clearly much more harmful to our society. Taken to the extreme, someone can be the most rotten, corrupt soul on the planet, and so long as they truly keep it to themselves, none of us would even know about it, much less be affected by it.
      - SanjayMehta 9mo ago
        [flagged]
        estearum 9mo ago
        A tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it is in fact of far less nuisance and risk than a tree that falls on top of a house. A more important question: How would someone look if they walked around insisting that a tree had recently fallen, but they can't tell you when/where/how because no one was around to hear it? "But trust me, it was just as big as the one that fell on Bob's house, so I don't even see what anyone is upset about."
jonway 9mo ago
Actually, Donald Trump was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 So Yes, in effect, these people are literally watching WWE.

dfxm12 9mo ago

I don't think it's bad that our elected officials tell us what they're doing. Yeah, it sucks when they're doing heinous shit like Trump, but it's awesome that Zohran Mamdani is doing what he can to tell New Yorkers about all the great stuff he's doing, whether it's fixing bike routes, funding universal child care, or undoing the corruption of the previous admin. It's bad that Biden was silent. This enabled the mainstream media, which is captured by conservative oligarchs, to define Biden's presidency. There's going to be an onslaught of news either way, and it's already an uphill battle for anyone who isn't right wing to get a fair shake. So, you shouldn't let others make the news for you. Biden expanded overtime pay and oversaw a number of worker and consumer protections. It's bad that he wasn't tooting his own horn about this stuff! Additionally, for America to ever return to being the shining example of democracy it claims to be, the next administration needs to very publicly make an example of the current administration. Americans, and the world, need to know that authoritarians have no place in America.

bediger4000 9mo ago
Mainstream media, including and especially the White House press corps, hated Biden. I don't think Biden was at fault, I think mainstream media, captured by oligarchs, didn't report on good news, which looks like silence from Biden.
- dfxm12 9mo ago
  You're giving Biden no agency in this situation when he was the freaking president of the USA. He could have done more if he wanted.
  - jonway 9mo ago
    Sure, he could have done a Trump and ruled by executive fiat? Biden Admin had some pretty good wins, like CHIPs act is a standout. But man lucky we didn't backrupt the Country by forgiving some student loans amirite? Biden removed troops from Foreign Wars, Donald Trump does the opposite and instead pretends he stopped 8 wars or something. This is just poor memory. Us Americans are notorious for this, unfortunately.