Hire clowns, get a circus.
- we now see that "bidenomics" was a disaster after the media decided to stop lying about it and blaming the people for not believing "the stats". job numbers revised down massively after it was no longer viable to lie during the election.
- crime rates revised silently UP: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/...
- apparently there was no need for a "bipartisan border bill" or for "congress to act" in order to shut down the border as encounters are down 90% now.
people have their panties in a bunch about tariffs, but I don't understand why reciprocal tariffs are so bad.
it appears that people here are happy for things to go south just so that they could shit on trump. how about having a bit more optimism for the future, even if the near term will be a bit shakey?
Current "guy" used to be previous as well.
It’s hard to have optimism when there seems to be no plan to make the economy better, only destruction
Make no mistake, the current administration is anything but. They are systemically destroying the nation, so that they can forever rule over the ashes that remain. In the mean time, some groups of people will enjoy the warmth of the nation burning down. I desperately wish I was speaking hyperbole, being emotional or exaggerating.
Oh, and what is bidenomics exactly? he hardly passed any controversial economic policies. Just lots of investment on america and creating jobs, infrastructure,etc.. nothing remotely partisan, except the climate focused stuff maybe.
I prefer a more exclusive definition.
We get 0 on-the-ground info here in Europe on such topics (at least not in mainstream media), its all bombastic shit like he still runs his reality show and not directly affecting lives of hundreds of millions with each tweet/outburst. I'd expect massive difference in above between cities like SF, LA, NYK compared to midwest or bible south for example.
I can't find it now but I did see something the other day where a question like "Are you happy with the job Trump is doing" had an overall positive response. BUT, asking "Are you happy with topic X" for a variety of X like economy, DOGE, etc and most of them were quite negative. I suspect this is closer to reality: people aren't happy but they're not blaming him.
So to answer your question: It's all fine and going on as expected for them, and if you tell them otherwise you're labeled an alarmist crybaby democrat.
If Hitler could convince 65 million Germans that all their problems were caused by a million Jews, Trump should be able to manage something similar.
I think the information environment of most Americans that do not actively seek out true information is just cooked.
People on the right were literally calling 2016 a "Flight 93 election," i.e. "storm the cockpit before they can fly this plane into the Capitol," and it was because they feared Hillary would nominate a Supreme Court supermajority that was the opposite of what Trump did, and that it would bury their way of life. You can agree with this or think it's horseshit, but either way you still have to start by understanding that it's what many voters believe. The dismissive condescending comments that Obama and Clinton got caught making, combined with the backlash to George Floyd being murdered in the form of riots and extreme left-wing viewpoints getting aired fed straight into fears in red states that they were going to get bulldozed unless they struck first.
Now she’s very worried because her, her husband, and all of their children except my wife work for the federal government. And one of her son’s entire life is funded by Medicare (which republicans have made clear they want to gut to make room for tax cuts).
Of course, they blame musk and not trump, but even for diehards like them I’m starting to see some cracks. They still have “faith” in the Donald but I think it’s a shaky faith now. If things get bad enough people really may stop liking him. We’re not there yet tho.