That’s… Actually a good look for him.
I absolutely hate saying anything nice about him, but yeah… That look kinda works for him.
its probably because the way he wears his suit, its always look like its choking him, because he wants to hide the folds of his necks.
I think he’s dying. He’s probably at least losing (what little he had of) his mind.
“Oh, hellooooo…”
I’d say it looks good but this fuck doesn’t deserve it.
Imagine having such an eroded sense of self you cling to what you deem is a strong man and have to emulate him. All While being the president of the US
I still get amazed at how absolutely stupid MAGA are.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder in a nutshell.
Neckussy
Simple, Mamdani probably just knows how to handle a narcissist. All you gotta do is stroke their ego, and it’s not too difficult to get them on your side; the hardest part making them think that your ideas were their own, but even that’s not too difficult because in typical narcissistic fashion, they’ll just steal your ideas and then claim them as their own.
I miss being more ignorant about the world, about politics. Life would be so much nicer.
Not to be an asshole but uh, that is what got us into this mess. Maybe not you specifically, but uninformed ignorant people who never took the time to learn and voted cause they saw that orange idiot on tv and he claimed he too was a racist fuck who was going to clean up the swamp.
Well from a socio-political standpoint, propaganda just plain works.
When you take a strong mix of continual white-washing of rhetoric and policy across American radio and television, a good forty years of right-wing political maneuvering towards further local focus in messaging and turn-out, as well as a continual lack of ease for most Americans to even spend the time to get politically informed, nevermind exposed to new points of thought; you end up having a vast swath of the population that can’t even afford the time to vote, those that do have a wide margin that either aren’t able to, or are so socially entrenched they dont want to hear about non-republican major talking points, and you end up with the general basis of where we are now.
That doesn’t nearly cover the whole scene, but I’d recommend looking through some of Pew Research publications on elections to get a little better idea of the way turnout ends up.
Tldr; its complicated as hell lol.
Happiness is just one lobotomy away
Trump always comes out of meetings agreeing with the last person he talked to. He has no mind if his own any more, if he ever had one to begin with.
It depends if it is about his talk or his actions.
Yes, what he says is largely influenced who he saw last, but what he does is quite consistent, especially if it involves Russia.
Why don’t all of the left leaning politicians then make it a point to just continually schedule 1 on 1 meetings with him?
The stench probably.
A lot of people really, really don’t know how to read others and how to manage a character like Trump.
For Mamdani it was a fucking dog-walk, because he knows people, he’s emotionally intelligent, he’s very, very crafty too. Don’t let the sometimes goofy charm fool you, he’s extremely focused and sharp and careful about everything he says. He just has it down so it looks natural.
Not saying he’s not a genuine person, but he also knows the game like he was born to it.
For the rest of the Dems? I mean… there are a few people who have a lot of spirit and fire, but that’s not how to make Trump bend the knee, you have to really understand his buttons and you can’t meet his obstinance and stupidity with force.
I think a few who were good at working trump in his first administration did do this too - but as you say, there’s fewer than you’d think; and I think when his handlers figured out this was happening, they started scheduling Republicans to meet him right after to “correct” his mindset.
I’m fairly convinced that part of why this term is so batshit is because there are fewer “corrector” handlers left keeping him in check, it’s just Stephen Miller’s “mouth” direct to Trump’s ears. There have been a lot of insider leaks confirming that Miller is just wormtonguing the senile old man day and night.
Trump was a Democrat back when he was handing out BJ’s. Probably got his anger from a scorned lover situation.
Anyway, I think Republicans all have a carry card that says “Trump meeting rules: 1: kiss his ass. 2: tell him to never meet alone with cheating Democrats”
Over the years he forgot that cheating was about his male lover and thinks it’s about elections.
Bubba told him he was the only one, but then bubba cheated on him with Lewinsky… that made trumpy so angry that he decided to figure out how to run for office.
Trump’s handlers are usually a little better at keeping the lid on him
I think his cabinet knows this fact about him and tries to control who he meets with so they can keep this power for themselves.
Their constituents would slaughter them for appearing to cooperate with Trump.
He’s like water, he takes the shape of what container he’s in.
This is also true of cats. He might be a cat
His brain was transplanted into a cat in the 80s.
#What the fuck am I looking at in that last panel?
Bill.
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That would explain so much. Thank God cats don’t talk.
It’s been 9 years since he started politics and I never understood why anyone ever backed him.
Some people are way more racist than we can even imagine.
He matches their hateful energy.
They believe he will hurt the right people (to them); marginalized people.
They are largely happy that he is, and many are completely willing to accept massive sacrifice to get this.
They believe he will hurt the right people (to them); marginalized people.
This is incorrect.
People backed Donald in 2016 because, at that time, they’d had enough of the disappointment and impoverishment brought to them by Obama’s politics and the promise that those politics would continue under Clinton. It was the same under Biden/Harris, where consumers watched their basic needs double and triple in cost and their response was ‘just be joyful about it’.
Donald, in both cases, was the change candidate, and the majority wanted change more than anything else.
There is a smaller contingent that, yes, did back him because of his hateful energy, but not the majority. The majority just want to be able to pay their bills without having to work 100 hours a week.
Nah to any of this. His rhetoric was clear. Birthirism, build a wall, eat the dogs, sending their rapists, black jobs.
Especially for his second term, not a soul could possibly believe he would bring about positive change economically.
Its also extremely dumb for the next to nobody who voted for him for not bigotry to think choosing the worse option would somehow make things better as opposed to participating in primaries more.
Especially for his second term, not a soul could possibly believe he would bring about positive change economically.
Yes they can, just as so many believed Harris would win because their algorithm provided them a reality where that was a certainty.
Its also extremely dumb
What’s dumb is to expect people to vote Democrat when the cost of living rose so sharply under Biden and his handpicked successor said publicly she wouldn’t do anything to change it.
Yes they can, just as so many believed Harris would win because their algorithm provided them a reality where that was a certainty.
Not many believed she was going to win near election time, so Im not really sure what you’re talking about. Many companies clearly started to pivot. Of course some believed one way or another but “believed” is doing heavy lifting there to imply iron clad irrational belief as oppsoed to simply thinking something is more likely than something else.
Its also a complete distraction from the point as you give no further reasoning for saying that they can, and just appear to try to shoehorn in a “both sides” message where it doesn’t even make sense.
What’s dumb is to expect people to vote Democrat when the cost of living rose so sharply under Biden
This is delusional thinking. Its like thinking the president directly controls the price of oil. Costs were rising in many places. People must be evaluated via what they do vs the baseline.
and his handpicked successor said publicly she wouldn’t do anything to change it.
This also isnt true at all. Its basically conservative/conservative adjacent (aka reddit “”“communists”“” whose communism purely consists of supporting the worst availible options because they don’t have their idealist option) talking points pretending she didn’t have any policies, when she did in fact have a lot of them.
Yes. It was shortsighted and naive of them, but while there are some people who voted for mass deportations because they hate immigrants, far more people voted for mass deportations because he told them that they are the reason for the affordability crisis.
True, and they were lied to.
Not unlike when Democrats promised change in 2020 and then ignored the rising affordability crisis.
The point is the switch to Donald was economically-motivated in both cases.
They were lied to, yes. And I see the correlation you’re making. I don’t think you’re super off-base, but I also don’t think you’re quite right.
The thing is, Trump in particular and the GOP in general are both lying about the problem. They’re saying that the problem with people’s bank accounts being empty is that the “illegals” are “taking stuff” (jobs, aid, low-cost housing) that “real americans deserve.” They then proceed to follow up on the attack against what they (maliciously) claimed the problem was.
On the other hand, Democrats are by-and-large truthful (or simply silent) about the causes of the affordability crisis. They then are stymied by a terrorist majority-GOP congress (or minority GOP wielding the filibuster) into inaction, or make token bipartisan progress without addressing the root of the issue. Then, as re-election rolls around, they spin the tiny gains they’ve made as bigger than they actually are.
We saw this in the Harris campaign. Her plans were almost entirely about encouraging and supporting small businesses–which is, indeed, a valid way to push down prices, and likely to pass muster with Republicans! But it’s not nearly enough, and voters recognized that (and, in fairness, they were also lied to about the fact that she had a plan at all by the conservative media).
In short, I think that while the GOP lies, the Democrats are just lazy. They think it’s still 1998, and they can just figure it all out over drinks if given the chance.
I’m not sure if that really makes it better. But I do think it’s different.
…Democrats are by-and-large truthful (or simply silent) about the causes of the affordability crisis.
Wut? the same Democrats that came out and said “The economy is good akshually, you just don’t understand”.
Yes, it was dumb to think that the Republicans were going to fix the economy, but lets stop pretending that the Democrats ever had any intention of fixing it.
In short, I think that while the GOP lies, the Democrats are just lazy.
The Democrats act lazy, but in reality, they want the same thing that the GOP wants: Their donors to be happy. They only pretend to fight, until they can get the votes to keep their seats.
When did they say “the economy is good?” I remember Harris talking during her campaign about how they did a lot of work and made a lot of progress, but there was still a long way to go. True, they didn’t make a huge deal out of it like Mamdani did, but I can’t find any evidence of them saying “nah man, everything is ok.”
The Democrats act lazy, but in reality, they want the same thing that the GOP wants: Their donors to be happy. They only pretend to fight, until they can get the votes to keep their seats.
Let’s be clear: every employee is responsible for doing what their employer wants. Elected representatives made it into office through a convoluted hiring process, and so the people who got them into office are their employers. I’m not oblivious to that at all. When I say “the Democrats are lazy,” it’s reductive in the same way that “the people elect the president” is reductive. Actually, the people vote for electors and the electoral college elects the president. And so no, the Democrats aren’t actually lazy; a less-reductive way to say it would be “the people that the Democrats see as their employers aren’t telling them to fix the affordability crisis.”
That may seem cynical, but the reason that this is notable is that, up until fairly recently in historical terms, the Democrats and Republicans alike treated their constituents as their employers, in at least some capacity. In some cases they weren’t their only employers, maybe some particularly corrupt ones in safe districts didn’t need to worry about the voters’ opinions at all, but for most of them the “other employers” (that is, the donors) also wanted them to keep the voters happy because they wanted us to keep buying their stuff, and a happy population is a consumptive population.
Now, though, almost none of the elected officials in Congress consider their constituents to be their employers.
The Republicans consider Trump to be the one signing their paycheck; even though their money is still coming from their donors, Trump has (or at least had) such an outsized impact on their electoral chances, and therefore their lobbyist money, that he commanded essentially all of their obedience.
And the Democrats have decided that just not being MAGA is good enough for their constituents to keep electing them (and in fairness, if they were up against the opposition they had in 1998, it would’ve been), so they don’t actually need to work that hard at following through as long as they just stay not-MAGA; so they’ve decided to put more effort into making their donors happy, and since their donors also supported Trump, their marching orders are just to not kick up too much of a fuss.
In the meantime, all of the donors have decided they’re okay with all of us being too poor to buy their stuff now for some reason (my personal theory is that it’s a really stupid game of chicken or some twisted prisoner’s dilemma thing), so that part of the historical backpressure is gone too.
The way that ends up working itself out is the Republicans saying whatever Trump says, even if it’s a lie, because he’s their employer; and the Democrats being lazy, because their employers say to be.
So no, I don’t think that Democrats are actually lying. They’ve just decided that they don’t work for us anymore. Which means we need to fire them (primary each and every one of them who isn’t doing what we want) to show them that, actually, they do; because if we hire the other guys, we already know who they’re going to be working for.
it was very much UNLIKE that actually, he lies like a shark swims.
Both parties do.
That’s how we got to this point.
Buddy, we got to this point thanks to fence sitters making excuses for the people pulling their fence to the right. Don’t be that guy. Democrats might be useless, but Republicans are fuckiing evil, and there’s no both sides to the shit they’ve done since the fence sitters handed them power.
Democrats also ignored the immigration problem for far too long. Not even a policy on max numbers per year.
To say they ignored it is untrue.
They put kids in cages and deported millions too. They just didn’t unleash the Gestapo and kidnap and torture legal immigrants as Donald is doing.
Impoverishment under Obama…how did that work out?
Not well.
Remember when he sat by and did nothing while Occupy was brutalized by the NYPD, and rewarded the banks when they crashed the economy? How many people did his DOJ send to prison for deliberately crashing the economy?
Yep. Anyone not believing you needs to watch Mamdami interview NYC Trump voters.
Populism. He convinced everyone he was a billionaire outsider not beholden to anyone. The whole thing started from a fake rally to help him gain ratings for The Apprentice.
But like, his credibility is (and always was) total shit. How can there be 75 million people that gullible? To me, it couldn’t have been more obvious he was lying if his pants had literally been on fire.
Bloom County cartoon strip roasted Trump as an asshole in the 80s. They even transplanted his brain into a cat.
Trump didn’t create the grift. The system that enabled it was built long before he arrived.
Starting with Nixon’s “Southern strategy,” the Republican Party began reshaping political identity around grievance. After the Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987, partisan media like talk radio and Fox News grew without the obligation to present balanced perspectives. The Citizens United ruling in 2010 then opened the door to unlimited political spending, allowing well-funded groups to amplify fear-based messaging at scale. The Tea Party movement reinforced the idea that the threat came from within, not just from ideological opponents.
Over time, this narrative produced an ever-shifting villain: sometimes “liberals,” sometimes “socialists,” often just “them.” Orwell captured the mechanism in Animal Farm: “Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.”
Trump didn’t invent that scapegoat. He inherited it, and then he turned the volume up.
To us, the grift is obvious. But for many, decades of messaging eroded trust in institutions and made the fear feel real. The lie works not because it persuades, but because it offers comfort.
Understanding that history doesn’t excuse it. It reminds us the machinery was built before Trump and will remain if we only confront the man instead of the system that produced him.
Well said. I would go further back in time but all you say is spot on.
Have you looked at the literacy rate?
That’s the scary part to me. Even though lots of conservatives are currently shitting on Trump, they still like the underlying policies and vote for politicians like Pierre Poilievre, Doug Ford, or François Legault. It’s not just a Trump thing. People can hate him for multiple reasons, but where I live, they still vote for politicians that are shitting on immigrants, say they want to help the poor but favour the rich, are being protectionist, nationalist, and promise pretty much the same shit than Trump. And it’s spreading worldwide.
He looks like JJ Abrams tried to create a new villain for Star Wars (that serves on the Jedi council) but when he looks in the mirror, he secretly cackles.
star trek villian, a lazy trek villian with barely any makeup or costumes, much like kurtzman trek, who is his successor.
He really need to be in prison asap.
Indeed, an orange suit with a glass of orange Kool-Aid or Tang.
He doesn’t deserve Tang. Give him Flavor-Aid lol
He should just go there voluntarily, he clearly already got the dick sucking part down
Mamdani cast Charm Person, and even though Trump was rolling with advantage, his WIS score was poor even in his best years. Hasn’t worn off yet.
Mamdani cast Voice of the emperor, he can only use it once a day
It helps that Mamdani is hella charismatic too. I remember being astounded by this when I first saw him talking about his policies in a campaign video (I had read a lot about him, and already was rooting for him, but not seen him speak up before then).
I hope that Mamdani is the Ronald Reagan of socialism.
