That’s not unusual for Americans, though. Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon
All of those guys were way more respected than Trump. And of the rest, all of the others not Bush jr were way more respected than Bush jr.
The current period IS very unusual for how badly our reputation has fallen. Although you could also say America’s reputation around the world was unusually high from 1945-2000.
Even people have somehow rehabilitated George W. Bush in spite of deliberate lying by his administration, and dragging the United States into a needless conflict for 23 years that cost $1 trillion.
Each new GOP president is so much worse than the last guy was that we start thinking maybe the last guy wasn’t as bad as we had remembered.
We’re never going to get the old days back.
Nothing is stopping you from using a computer as a standalone machine not connected to the internet. Then you have a machine just like the ones in the 1970’s and 1980’s except for having much more memory/processor/diskspace etc. I would say you have a better OS also, except that Linux is basically the same OS as my SCO Xenix 386 I had in the 1980’s.
Couldn’t they “convince” instance admins to include ads?
Yes. One at a time. But the cannot “buy Lemmy” which is what a CEO would want to do.
In time, the Fediverse will also be easily accessible. And where there are normies, you’ll find corporate enshittification.
No, because corporations cannot buy the Fediverse.
He could flee to Russia.
I actually wouldn’t mind that because of the profound shame it would bring Treason Trump and the Republican Party. Plus, we can seize his assets.
100 guys in trucks rolling up with body armor and illegal automatic weapons would be a huge problem if NG isn’t already in place and settled in.
Then there will be 100 deaths. Because the military guarding the capital will be more like 7000 troops. And the entire Maryland national guard will be about 10 minutes away.
And I don’t think Biden will want that optics. And I don’t think Kamala will push him to do it for the same reasons
Biden is rightly not going to give a shit about “optics”. He cares about democracy. Full stop. There will be a fuck ton of military guarding the capital on Jan. 6.
I sure hope that is the case, but I pessimisticly fear a weak response to the next Jan 6 attempt because taking steps to put down a violent insurrection is “too political.”
It would not surprise me if there is a full military division guarding the capital. They aren’t going to get anywhere near the place.
If Trump loses he’s 100% planning it again, this time all gas no brakes. They’ll come in with guns from the start and kill anyone that isn’t a trumpet in the capitol.
There is going to be a gigantic military force guarding the capital next time.
Trump is throwing up shit everywhere just to see what sticks. He also promised billionaires that he is going to hand out an unlimited number of green cards to foreigners to work American jobs and lower American wages. Trump is actually an immigration extremist at both ends.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-immigration-expansionist/
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-rebel-over-immigration-proposal-green-card-college/
Treason Trump shouting “They are eating the cats and dogs” is going to be the defining moment of the Republican Party for a generation.
That’s still way, way, way too high. But still.
You mean $8,000,000,000 was too much to spend to build a website comparable in functionality to Lemmy?
Is that why Trump suggests the NY Economic Club should hold their next meeting in Venezuela?
“Next year, I’m going to suggest that the Economic Club hold its meeting in Caracas because we’ll be safer than we are in our country if they win. We’ll be far safer.”
https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-trump-speaks-at-the-economic-club-of-new-york
He doesn’t believe anything he says.
Trump has often bragged about how good he is at deceiving people. Anyone who thinks Traitorapist Trump believes his own shit has been Trumped.
They believe truth is dictated by consensus, volume, devotion, etc because that’s what their religion and their narcissistic delusions teach them. Everyone else knows that truth is something to be analyzed and determined, not proclaimed.
It’s the same old shit the Nazis did.
When talking about Climate Change, I was wishing Harris would say something like “Trump is 79 years old and won’t be around long enough to see the worst effects of climate change so maybe that’s why he doesn’t care anything about it…”
When talking about international affairs, I was wishing Harris would say something like “Trump’s chaos is going to cause an explosion of nuclear proliferation, but Trump is 79 years old and won’t be around long enough to see the terrible problems he is going to leave us…”
If you ever read what Putin says about Trump, it is clear that, although he sees Treason Trump as a useful stooge, Putin doesn’t have any actual respect for Trump.
Homo Sapiens have been around for 300,000 years.