Donald J. Trump (For everyone else)

Or people can just be dumb leftists and call fascist anyone they disagree with

Yup, they could.

You don’t even know that US children can bring food to school and eat it. You do not know **** about the US. So, shut the **** up you collosal ignoramus.

I had to finally put him on ignore. He's tiresome.

life gets better at that point

I'm seeing these polls and I have to wonder wtf happened to us as a country. Were we this bad all along and we just didn't have someone as bad (or worse) as us run for president? I just don't get it.

Ok what percent chance there are no mid terms in 2026? It's surely not 100% they happen, right?

there are special 5 federal elections for the house this year (2 in 2 weeks in florida, the rest TBD yet), and Virginia is voting for governor and the state house.

Any reason to think those elections won't happen?

And keep in mind that this is Luciom intentionally holding back so he doesn't get banned.

I asked with the 2026 date for a reason

"Elections" still happen in North Korea.

But, yeah, not 100%.

The US had the racism of Jim Crow, the xenophobia of McCarthyism and the paranoid war in Vietnam including the illegal carpet bombing of its neghbours. When the boom years happened proto-MAGAs were appeased by the economy but frightened again by the rise of China.

When the US feel threatened it's a disgusting country.

That's all mean. Like suddenly the number isn't 100%. That's interesting to me.

I missed commenting on this, but Luciom, attacking anyone for internment is rich. The dude hates birthright citizenship and 100% would have been pro-internment of the Japanese. No, not internment. That costs too much. He would have had them shot.

I think USA always has been that bad, you just never heard people like Luciom or mongidig celebrating every horrendous thing because no social media.

I don't think other countries are any better though. People tend to suck...especially scared cowards like the aforementioned.

Be careful saying this. I said this and people wanted to bet. And got aggy when I wasn't interested.

I think there's a small chance they won't, but pretty much 100% Trump will claim rigging when don't go his way. Given he now can directly control the elections board and load it with mouthbreathers if congress let him fire existing people and install his own supplicants.... how do you think that will turn out?

I don't think there's much difference between what the Dutch, Spanish then British did and what the US has been doing more recently - they all maxxed out in leveraging the power they had over weaker nations, so with the advance of technology and transportation the most recent have been the "worst" and the earlier appear relatively mild as they were constrained by their epoch.

and this is why we should have age limits on the presidency

BTW the next step in the 'free yourself from Luciom' program is to also not respond to any posts that are responding to him.

It's hard, but one day at a time, sweet Jeebus.

I'm not sure what the point here is for me if it's not to fight with people like that, but I can see how it's tiresome for others and I'm going to give posting to or about luciom or mongo a little break. Starting now.

Then he'll just post his frighteningly evil thoughts with no pushback, to the point which some observer might think "wow, they don't even know how to begin responding to this guy, he must really be on to something!"

I don't know if that would actually happen with Lucy, but back in the day I would lurk boards and I would wonder about similar things, particularly in my teens/early 20s. I remember this one time, I was like 17, there was a libertarian (who was vastly more intelligent and knowledgeable than Lucy, and was a better writer), and before long nobody would respond to him with any substance (mainly because he was very annoying, much like Lucy, not because of his brilliant observations) and as such, I thought this guy was "winning" and I started getting into his (utterly monstrous) ideology as a young politics nerd.

Yes, probably. The US is far from alone in having a shameful history, but Americans like to imagine they're this great exception, the shining city on the hill. And they aren't.

It wasn't his abhorrent take on, well, everything that led me to this. It's the fact that he never shuts the **** up about ANYTHING, ever. 100 posts a day and it isn't enough.

He's probably a trust fund rich kid who's never had to work or mix with normal people and has developed some cranky fascistic ideas.

For the curious:-

https://arnonesicomo.com/news/242/italian-trust-fund-and-family-trust

Arnone & Sicomo

Italian trust fund and family trust: differences and revocation

Huge if true. People voted they don't like the rule of law. Democracy wins again.