You way underestimate the power of striking in the US. Nationwide strike. I couldn’t imagine a week long strike. The impact to the economy would be staggering. Any longer then that you’re talking ending the US dollar.

I really hope not. I fear that any violence will only doom us to prolong the mass hatred and suffering going on right now.

Realistically, historically, and regrettably, you may be right.

You don’t need more than strikes.

I’m not a political science major, local politician… hell, I’m not even a political activist as much as I’d love to convince myself that I am. I’m a multiracial guy from two immigrants who was raised in a melting pot of a city, being told my whole childhoold that I live in the greatest country in the world and I can never question it.

From a quick search, populism is a political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite. From my interpretation of the definition, Trumpism is not populism, but capitalism under the guise of populism. That being said, at the end of the day, I prefer to use as little labels as possible (politician names, political parties, ideologies, etc). Everyone has their own interpretation, experiences, biases, and understanding of such labels. It feels almost self-defeating to discuss politics using labels instead of discussing the actual issues, at least to me.

If you don’t mind, I’d rather discuss the core problem: Trump was able to exploit the working-class people who have, for whatever reason, felt disillusioned by both parties. It was a ruse that many people saw through, but many also did not. In the past few decades, wealth has been further distributed to those few that control most media, corporations, and legislation. The minimum wage has remained the same despite the massive increase in the cost of living. More and more people are feeling less and less fulfilled. More and more people are less and less likely to be able to retire. I can go on and on. That has been a slow, persisting threat that has spread throughout several administrations representing both parties.

Whatever you choose to call my beliefs is on you, I’m simply offering my perspective to anyone who’s interested in listening. I’m just a random guy who doesn’t mean shit compared to the people in charge and sees the silent suffering of the people around me that I love and care about. And the people who I don’t know that are going through the same exact shit. Maybe all this is just my way of coping with the chaos of the world, but to me, it feels like more people agree than we’re led to believe.

Personally, I believe this is a fairly big reason as to why the majority of people are disillusioned with politics and would rather not discuss it. I mean no offense to you or your comment. Truly, I only mean that in the grand scheme of things, your reply has many words that don’t address any substantial problems.

Surely wanting an equally free, comfortable, and good quality of life for as many as possible while using empirical data is not the same as spreading hate and disinformation?

Uggghhhhhh… I was so angry at everyone that whole time this was going on. The “just asking questions” guys at my job couldn’t understand why I was so enraged that America(!) Was taking children from parents who were peacefully trying to make a better life for themselves.

“But it’s illegal to cross the border!”… Bro shut the fuck up before I feed you a monkey wrench.

Within the definition, but Jackson was actively murdering indigenous Americans and wiping their nations from the face of the Earth. I would still call that worse, as horrific as Trump’s administration was.

Implicitly asking for it to be explained probably wasn’t a good response if you cared.

This is a huge problem. Everyone just jokes about it because he failed miserably, but it literally would’ve been a coup on the White House of the United States if those idiots succeeded.

The last 3 missions, but public opinion had turned at that point.

I’m not defending Nixon at all, but I don’t know if any other POTUS wouldn’t have done the same.

I think the worst things about Nixon was his role implementing American foreign policy when it came to anti-communism and his “drug war” policies. The best could be the things he didn’t personally care about as much, he started the first affirmative action program, was too slow with desegregation but did support civil rights and the overall moral goal of it, and he implemented some tax cuts that benefitted working class.

Apollo would be a more minor bad for me, it didn’t really do much to benefit average people other than serve as a symbol of America’s power and the next frontier. I think there’s a lot of nostalgia for some of these programs today but they were always sort of funded to be demonstrations of America’s power, if the Soviets weren’t interested in space they probably wouldn’t have happened. A byproduct of Apollo was public funding of technology which is great, but a lot of that also benefits the military industrial complex and America’s imperialism, so it’s not this happy story that it’s often portrayed as like “we have small computers because of Apollo!”

We’re talking about people who are narcissists and psychopaths running an empire though, they’re all evil.

The dead ferret on his head is adding a couple inches too.

He’s like 4 or 5 inches taller than Rudy in that picture. He’d have to be wearing some pimp heals.

Of course he does. I am on the shorter side and I own it. The honey badger is my spirit animal. Of course he would do something vain and pointless like that

I can’t wait for season one of “Thirsty Bondsmen of Fulson County” myself.