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Zelenskyy says 'Moscow will burn' if Russian strikes continue (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

Do you really think that Trump and his billionaire cronies don’t have the media under their thumb?

I think media owners regularly have to discipline Trump with negative news stories and right wing hecklers.

Neocon Hecklers got him into the Iran War. Wall Street hecklers got him to sign a deal. And Zionist hecklers will likely convince him to blow it up again.

The fact that he’s still in office at all borders on a miracle

Once you prove you can get elected, you develop a level of inertia that keeps getting you elected.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Once you prove you can get elected, you develop a level of inertia that keeps getting you elected.

    Well, I think the key factor that determines who gets elected and who gets to stay in office in the U.S. is money and pandering to the oligarchs, who have been ruling this country for a long time now.

    The whole “democracy” thing is little more than a show, if you ask me.

    There are plenty of reasons for this mess: starting with the Constitution itself, through the absurd Electoral College and two-party system and the corrupt Supreme Court, all the way to unlimited campaign donations and the fact that there is no free press.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    The whole “democracy” thing is little more than a show, if you ask me.

    American Democracy has a lot of angles to it. If money was the only object, Jeb Bush would be in his third term.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Let's see. Maybe there will soon be the first president in modern US History to serve three terms—if he lives that long. With ICE—which, given its strict adherence to party line and its exorbitant budget, equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country, seems to me to be nothing more than a secret police force—this regime certainly has the means to do so, I'd say.

    I’m keeping my fingers crossed that things will eventually start looking up again for U.S. citizens! However, I fear that if things continue as they have been, the downward spiral will unfortunately continue—at least for the people.

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