Trump is not stupid. Trump is malicious

Trump is both… If Trump were as smart as a hamster, we would all be fucked by now.

Trump is hailed up by smarter people who know anonymity is power and realize they can achieve their goals while putting Trump in the spotlight. Trump is so dumb and so narcissistic, he is happy to tag along for the ride

Imo, later (sooner already passed) Trump will wind up assassinated or in some form of house arrest while his family will be ultra fucked. Unfortunately, we will all pay the price of not stoping his backers earlier on

No, your average politician probably a little stupid but massively put of touch.

The SC will seem that an unofficial act… Got to jail

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

As per the wikipedia definition, it does seem the USA has been fascist towards the rest of the world, just not towards its own citizens (overtly) until now…

So if we agree fascism can apply internationally but not domestically (which is not usually how the term is described) then the meme is accurate

To be fair “have a beer with” is about trust.

As evaluated by a college freshman. I can think of a ton of people I have encountered whom I have trusted with money, repairs, my health and I would not enjoy a beer with them

I understand the question is to reduce a complex issue to a binary answer; but I’m afraid too many people take it literally and cannot evaluate a candidate any further

It doesn’t matter. The average voter is functionally illiterate.

They’d vote for the candidate “they’d have a beer with”. They can’t understand anything about policy

A gesture that has no meaning and even less significance

“To the violent, non-violence means nothing”

Didn’t they and Manchin and Sinema promised to block it?

We wish… the good/bad neighbour analogy is very apt here; whatever happens in the USA spills over here all the time.

We are about to enter our own Trump shit show when PP is elected next year.

So what you are saying is:

“Hmmm I get to choose between a turd sandwich and a burger. We tried the turd sandwich before and almost died of food poisoning so we went with the burger and noticeably, everybody avoided the hospital after that meal. The burger seems to be in decline though, they are serving it cold now… but the turd sandwich is just as smeared and stinky as before… I guess we got to try the turd sandwich again?”

Biden’s cognitive problems were laid bare to the whole world to see. imagine a president of the strongest country in the world.

So you didn’t hear the diarreah of the mouth that Trump spewed? It seemed to me Trump was not even aware of what they were asking of him in half the questions

who cares about those?, when the Secretaries and all the high level officials running everything can be bought

regular federal officials were up for sale way before this… the combined “corporations are people” and “money is free speech” nonsense meant anyone can openly throw money at anyone up for election and that’s A-OK because free speech

Precedent? I don’t even know why they bother when they can simply legally and openly bribe whomever wins anyway

And with this final blow… the entire government of the USA is up for sale!

PP is short for Pierre Poilievre who is the head of the Conservative Party (our version of USA’s Republicans) and likely to win the next election in 2025

The closest we get here is the NDP (New Democratic Party) who are left leaning… but they are in shambles here

I’m going to assume (against common sense, this is an honest question)…

Most recent example

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-underspent-health-budget-by-17-billion-in-2022-23-watchdog/

Less money = less staff, less maintenance, less services => more people with no choice but to go to Emerg, hospitals that work putting out fires all the time with less staff to go by… long term, it also causes people NOT too go into health care as a profession

They are literally planning to shrink hospital capacity

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/03/08/ontario-health-care-spending-doug-ford-hospitals-long-term-care/

well the USA was circling the drain after Trump’s first win… they are now at the toilet gargling stage

I don’t believe there is a single politician out there who mean more than 2% of what they say.

I definitely lean left in almost any category… the problem is that even if a politician or party directly promise, word for word, exactly what I want. There is zero chance they will even try to implement it when they get to power; worse, there is not even a way to keep them accountable except “not voting for them again”.

I live in Canada and I voted for Trudeau in great part for electoral reform which was directly promised and then completely 180d. Trudeau did a couple of OK things but for the most part has been mediocre (not the cause of all our problems as the opposition claims). However, I find myself now in the spot where I either vote for Trudeau again to keep on the mediocrity train, or vote for PP who stands for nothing, has accomplished nothing in over 20 years of being a public employee leech and has all but promised he will run the country off a cliff to own the libs

For me personally, it was all about balance.

15 years ago, Gmail/Inbox was a great email client, the domain was great and popular (so no need to spell it out for people) and I would “pay” by getting ads based on my emails read by a bot.

Now Gmail is a terrible email client, the best updates are ridiculous things like moving buttons around and it takes Google years to roll out. The thing loses emails, mislabels and misclassifies stuff and the rules work for a week then blow up. On top of that, google is now basically a proctologist considering how far up my ass they want to go

The balance is broken… Google now officially sucks (IMO)