I came back to ask the Americans... are you ok?

[PaxNurgle]

The US political system is has been run by cronyism and graft for so long. A shake up has been needed. We will either survive or not.

Agreed. And now what we have, after the "Much needed shakeup" is even worse cronyism (Elon Musk) and even more blatant graft. Surely even you can see this, yes??

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Watching from afar, this all looks pretty extreme, and I wanted to see how all you average Americans were taking this. So I have a few questions, if you could indulge me for a few minutes.

• How did you vote?

Democrat, of course

• What's your general mood, in regards current political happenings?

Complete disgust

• Has any of it had a direct impact on you or your family?

Extended family, yes. Some in the federal govt, some as teachers

• What, in your opinion, has been the single best and the single worst Trump move since taking office?

Worst = Pardoning the Jan 6 insurrectionists and traitors

• What are your thoughts on Elon's role?

Completely illegal and needs to be deported.

 

[jomar]

Triggered much?

You sound horrified Trump is dismantling your bureaucracy.

I’m very concerned trump is staging a slow rolling coup and weakening the US worldwide. You should be too if you’re a citizen.

All deflections and uninformed vitriol.

Nah, that’s your blinders.

You should pay attention. If you are a citizen, you still fit in here. He is doing this for you and the generations of Americans to follow.

trump is not out for anything but his own glory and benefit. He wraps himself in a veneer of patriotic snake oil and scams gullible MAGATs like you and lines his pockets.

BTW, did you buy his meme coin, bible, gold tennis shoes, NFT? No serious president not out for only himself does that.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Me a Nazi? Sorry pal. Fortunately for you and people like you calling me or anyone a Nazi at this point has no value. You and your media forgot what a Nazi is and as a result diluted any shock value the term had.

You may not be a Nazi, mr. Harpy, but you certainly do share a lot of the same opinions, views, and objectives as the late 1930's German government did.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I voted Against Trump- and so I guess that means I voted for whatshername.

As far as a general mood, both myself, and a lot of people I know, are scared and alarmed, and many believe that America, as a free, prosperous and democratic nation, is basically over. I do know several people who voted for Trump who are regretting having done so; they were motivated primarily by economic concerns. Now they are realizing that they are in for a much rougher ride than they were during the last four years.

My mother, who is on fixed income, is concerned about her taxes going up (as they did under the last Trump administration) and seeing her social security benefits going away. I have a niece who is going through gender-identity issues and, well, I don't need to say more, other than we all fear what's in store for her.

As for Elon's role, I find it ironic that those who voted for Trump thinking he would clear out the Washington Elites, is now beholden to the biggest and most blatant self-serving elite in the country- an unelected oligarch who for all intents and purposes, runs it.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Agreed. And now what we have, after the "Much needed shakeup" is even worse cronyism (Elon Musk) and even more blatant graft. Surely even you can see this, yes??

It's February.

 

[glamorilla]

i'm good.

 

[Noor]

I’m okay, so far. The country is bonkers

 

[dolf]

I slept through all the flattery! It's nice to be memorable. I thank you from the bottom of my ego

An observation; I'm watching a very different presidency than the first term. The last time, things changed but in the same way things always change, which is usually very little and very slow. This time it's hard to keep up with how rapid and extreme the changes are. I went to sleep on the Gaza headline, and woke up to the ICC.

• There's already been talk about the possibility of a third term. Obviously this would be a BIG change. From my perspective, I'm from a country where we elect the part rather than the leader, and we could have the same PM indefinitely, as long as the party and the electorate continue to back them. What are your thoughts on the possibility of a third, or even a fourth term?

 

[ChloeTzang]

• There's already been talk about the possibility of a third term. Obviously this would be a BIG change. From my perspective, I'm from a country where we elect the part rather than the leader, and we could have the same PM indefinitely, as long as the party and the electorate continue to back them. What are your thoughts on the possibility of a third, or even a fourth term?

Third term. Ain't gonna happen. It'd require a change to the Constitution to achieve that, and that will NEVER happen. Too many hoops to jump thru and too many different approvals required, with a high bar to meet every time.

 

[Politruk]

Third term. Ain't gonna happen. It'd require a change to the Constitution to achieve that, and that will NEVER happen. Too many hoops to jump thru and too many different approvals required, with a high bar to meet every time.

MAGAts on this board think it will be easy to change the Constitution to abolish birthright citizenship.

 

[Noitall]

I’m okay, so far. The country is bonkers

Idiot

He stands up for your people and you say this????

FUCKOFF

 

[Wat_Tyler]

So, in short, the Americans are fine and are enjoying the show.


The glommers and losers and Kool-Aid drinkers are building tumors as monuments to their resentments.


They might be proper-fucked is Medicare gets cut.

 

[eric_erosfan]

Good question! Let's see if I can recall the board drama:

• Ishmael, of course, declared he had a free speech right to doxx anyone and everyone here, regardless of site Terms of Service Result: BANHAMMERED.
• BotanyBoy disagreed with a woman who posted her fondness for cuckolding her husband, he said he would beat her until she ended up in Intensive Care Unit. Result: BANHAMMERED.
• AJ: AJ got tired of the trend, first begun by Butters, of calling out AJ for having a political position that was exactly the opposite of one he held just one month ago. Result: CREATION OF A NEW USERID EACH MONTH. This makes it exceptionally difficult to reconcile his hypocrisy of people cannot recall his name.
• Vetteman Vetteman got a job working at a Burger King popup restaurant at an American air base in Afghanistan. In order to pass a background check, he begged management to delete his entire posting history here. They agreed, partially out of patriotic respect and partly because they were amused that Vetteman would actually be doing physical labor after sitting around for 15 years. Trump ended the war in Afghanistan, and Vetty was back here, posting as "Rightguide". Side note: Because Laurel completely deleted all traces of "Vetteman", somebody realized that the name "Vetteman" was available and re-registered the name on this site and posts from time to time as a Vetteman parody.
• Wat_Tyler: This one is odd. Wat_Tyler has been brooding for literally fucking years here about his failure to qualify for military service (height issues). He fetishizes guns and as often the case here with MAGA devotees, one day he went too far and created a list of people here that he'd like to shoot. Now NORMALLY that is a BANHAMMER offense, but management here gave him a one-time pass due to his dwarfism (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, he exceeds the scientific definition of "dwarfism" by almost two inches) and gave him a stern slap on his petite wrist. He sulked for days over on the GB Lounge (they have a "100 Kilo Koffee Klatch Klub" for the ladies over there, Wat is their "club mascot"). Wat reloaded his verbal vitriol cannon and has been shitposting like a madman ("maddwarf"?) back here ever since.
• Que/Conager (unrelated) passed away circa 2020 of septic shock
• Master racist James B Johnson passed away in that time frame as well. He died as he lived, an unrepentant White Supremacist. Both of his daughters gave birth to children fathered by African American men. God has a sense of humor

Good question, there are a variety of factors that came out in the past election.

• Trump was elected with razor-thin majorities in virtually every state that had sizeable minority populations, something like 50-to-49% (1% to the "spoiler candidates"). MAGA spins this as a "landslide".
• The number of white Democrats voting, particularly in Midwestern and Southern states, actually dropped from 2020 to 2024. This would suggest that a certain demographic of white Democrat voters could not bring themselves to vote for a woman, which is troublesome. (The avalanche of newly empowered black women made up a lot of that shortage, it simply wasn't enough).
• Israeli despot Benjamin Netanyahu did everything he could to get Trump elected. Early on, he realized he had virtually no chance of convincing significant numbers of American Jews to vote for Trump, so he pivoted and campaigned tirelessly for Arab-americans to "vote for anyone except Biden". That latter strategy has paid off. Trump got elected and now Arabs are being evicted from Gaza.
• And finally, this last election proved beyond a doubt that there is a hardcore minority of white trash voters who will never under any circumstances vote for a "colored" and/or a "woman" EVER....and they will work very hard to keep people who DO vote for these people they deem "undesirable" from having their votes counted.

AJ has been in a steep decline since his injuring his back at his gig job unloading Christmas boxes at Walmart in 2017. Without his government supplied "mobility scooter" he'd likely be dead already.

This is the most enlightening post I have ever read on the PB.

 

[Lance_Castro]

This is the most enlightening post I have ever read on the PB.

Sounds like crazed libtard post election anxiety to me.

His poasts have become very long.

Might be time to up his dose.

Lol

 

[Rebel5soul]

So, in short, the Americans are fine and are enjoying the show.


The glommers and losers and Kool-Aid drinkers are building tumors as monuments to their resentments.


They might be proper-fucked is Medicare gets cut.

What is going on in Medicare and Medicaid is the medical community has found various ways of milking (defrauding) the system.

 

[coati]

Third term. Ain't gonna happen. It'd require a change to the Constitution to achieve that, and that will NEVER happen. Too many hoops to jump thru and too many different approvals required, with a high bar to meet every time.

How precious! A MAGAt who thinks her cult leader actually follows the Constitution! The very essence of brainwashing!

If Trump does not die of a heart attack or stroke, he will make sure that his creation of chaos "allows" him to declare martial law. Aren't you paying attention? He said you would not have to vote for him again, and he meant it in that way.

 

[UltraChad]

I voted Against Trump- and so I guess that means I voted for whatshername.

As far as a general mood, both myself, and a lot of people I know, are scared and alarmed, and many believe that America, as a free, prosperous and democratic nation, is basically over.

Prosperity is lost and democracy is over because Democrats lost and had their corruption exposed....
https://media.tenor.com/0gQP03ixxYEAAAAM/laughing-laugh.gif

 

[UltraChad]

How precious! A MAGAt who thinks her cult leader actually follows the Constitution! The very essence of brainwashing!

If Trump does not die of a heart attack or stroke, he will make sure that his creation of chaos "allows" him to declare martial law. Aren't you paying attention? He said you would not have to vote for him again, and he meant it in that way.

^^ Openly despises the Constitution as an outdated racist piece of toilet paper written by slave owning WHITE MALES.

And what has Trump done to violate the Constitution?? Specifically. Regurgitating one of Rachel Madcows fantasies doesn't count.

 

[Rebel5soul]

^^ Openly despises the Constitution as an outdated racist piece of toilet paper written by slave owning WHITE MALES.

And what has Trump done to violate the Constitution?? Specifically. Regurgitating one of Rachel Madcows fantasies doesn't count.

I'll wait for one of them to answer...............but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[eric_erosfan]

I'll wait for one of them to answer...............but I'm not holding my breath.

Talking to the voices in your head again?

 

[eric_erosfan]

Sounds like crazed libtard post election anxiety to me.

His poasts have become very long.

Might be time to up his dose.

Lol

I find the history of right-wing nutbags that decide to make a home on a porn site to be very fascinating.

 

[glamorilla]

I find the history of right-wing nutbags that decide to make a home on a porn site to be very fascinating.

Why?

 

[eric_erosfan]

Why?

Right-wing nut bags hate immoral things like porn and sex for pleasure and not procreation.

 

[Rightguide]

I slept through all the flattery! It's nice to be memorable. I thank you from the bottom of my ego

An observation; I'm watching a very different presidency than the first term. The last time, things changed but in the same way things always change, which is usually very little and very slow. This time it's hard to keep up with how rapid and extreme the changes are. I went to sleep on the Gaza headline, and woke up to the ICC.

• There's already been talk about the possibility of a third term. Obviously this would be a BIG change. From my perspective, I'm from a country where we elect the part rather than the leader, and we could have the same PM indefinitely, as long as the party and the electorate continue to back them. What are your thoughts on the possibility of a third, or even a fourth term?

I don't think there will be a third term, but I do think this movement will live on, and the Democrats will roam the political wilderness for years to come. That party has aligned itself with the most radical, leftwing, anti-American aspects of society. They brought great harm to their own people, and Americans aren't about to forget it anytime soon.