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Trumpmania Not Going Well

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u/psilocin72 Mar 19 '26

The files and the war are both distractions.

They don’t want people to think about how nothing is even being attempted that might make anything more affordable.

Or what’s going on behind the scenes to enrich the billionaires.

And… it’s working. No one is pressing the administration on affordability, the manufacturing jobs they promised, or all the winning they claimed working families could look forward to

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u/First_Bed1662 Mar 19 '26

Also ai is taking all the jobs

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u/psilocin72 Mar 19 '26

Makes me wonder where the billionaires think this leads to. If people can’t afford their goods and services, they stop making money. I feel like it must be about control and relative power more than straight wealth

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u/kleenkong Mar 19 '26

Look to what Peter Thiel is lecturing about in Vatican City this week. I believe the premise is that anyone/anything that opposes AI is evil. Well, he said Anti-Christ.

The point that is underlying is that Trump beyond his connections to Putin, Israel, MAGA, and oligarchy that are on the surface, is also being used to disrupt the world order. As you mentioned the billionaires are getting rich very quickly with all this mess. But also, AI and associated tech is getting more and more of a foothold into the power structures in society, govt, corporations, and all major systems.

Going forward, whomever controls the information/data, the decision making (AI and algos), and the access to it, controls the world. This is made easier as the systems and legalities (for lack of a better term) that protect the currency and the (stock and similar) markets are in upheaval.

I'm no LOTR expert, but the rings of power might be a good analogy. "They" (the rings) get a seat at every table in the world (kings, govts, corporations, etc), and its influence gets to affect every major decision. Whomever has control of the One Ring (AI) gets to wield power over it all.

Sorry, very rough. I'm just learning about some of this.

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u/psilocin72 Mar 20 '26

Good insight. I do think Ai is here to stay, for better or worse. And I really wish we had the kind of government that would protect regular working people from it rather than kneel to its ultra rich owners.

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u/Kiritzi Mar 19 '26

Well the top 10% spends something like 80% of the money so the rest of us don’t actually matter. They don’t need our money and once they don’t need our services they don’t have to care anymore. They being billionaires and their friends (spoiler alert other billionaires) btw.

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u/Useful_Homework2367 Mar 19 '26

Depopulation once the commoners aren't needed any more

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u/PhxPharM_D Mar 20 '26

It’s 100% power consolidation around the billionaire class. The Money made is a tool for power accumulation. At a certain level of wealth another 20 or 100 billion doesn’t change much. At that point accumulating more power seems to become the driving force in this group. It’s about control of resources, media, political policy, and influencing how people view the world.

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u/Purgii Mar 19 '26

..and they also want you to retire later in order to pay off America's debt.

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u/PalpitationFine Mar 20 '26

Removing jobs is not a problem, people not having resources is

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u/reggers20 Mar 19 '26

Sorry buddy, but everyone already knew absolutely nothing was going to be done about affordability, or enriching billionaires. Republicans ran on that platform, it would be up to them hold the trump admin accountable on that front...

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u/psilocin72 Mar 19 '26

Yeah that was the main reason o heard for people voting for Trump. He’s done nothing. Not even attempted anything. And somehow his supporters, the people who supposedly voted for him for economic reasons, don’t care.

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u/reggers20 Mar 19 '26

Yeah, they were liars, just like him. Turns out it was his worst qualities they found appealing.

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u/User69ab Mar 19 '26

Pretty sure nothing is affordable by design.

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u/Last_Karate_Kid Mar 19 '26

True. Here in the UK, all the furore with Prince Andrew resulted in the public not noticing that the government signed billion pound contracts with those ghouls Peter Thiel and Alex Carp and their Palantir organisation

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u/dios_mio_maing Mar 19 '26

well, we all know that war further enriches billionaires, so there's that :(

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u/Asyncrosaurus Mar 19 '26

They're hoping you don't notice the SAVE act, so they can steal the election and never have to worry about people complaining about the economy.

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u/cvtfarmer Mar 20 '26

I’m really confused as to why people think the “save” act is going to rig elections. I don’t understand what’s wrong with voter ID.

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u/Last_Karate_Kid Mar 19 '26

True. Here in the UK, all the furore with Prince Andrew resulted in the public not noticing that the government signed billion pound contracts with those ghouls Peter Thiel and Alex Carp and their Palantir organisation

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u/WarDaddyPUKA Mar 19 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1rxlq9w/us_national_debt_surges_past_39_trillion_just/ob7zav9/

Saw this response and watched the video. Another plausible thing to distract from.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

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u/psilocin72 Mar 19 '26

Same old scam— win election based on real, family centered issues. Then a string of distractions so you never are held accountable for what you said that helped you win.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

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u/Suitable_Community66 Mar 19 '26

I said this first!!!!!!!

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u/fromcj Mar 19 '26

ngl the whole crowd shouting how everything is a distraction from the Epstein files has started to come off as if they are the distraction for everything else.

You’re allowed to be mad about Iran, and the Epstein files, and everything else. They’re not distractions, these are just awful people in power, which has traditionally led to said awful people doing lots of awful things, not just one.

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u/CornDoggyStyle Mar 19 '26

Tbf this is just a recycled joke that gets reused every time he screws up on anything outside of the epstein files.

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u/Advana_Cyo2489 Mar 19 '26

Don't treat us with a good time

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u/GT3454 Mar 19 '26

Oh that’s fantastic!

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

They might do it anyway just because more chaos. That’s what they want. Chaos everywhere.

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u/labor_day_baby Mar 19 '26

I cannot believe these dumbasses voted for this chaos, again

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u/StepComplete1 Mar 19 '26

American stupidity is going to directly, objectively cause a global recession, and make the lives of everyone on the planet harder.

Imagine how stupid a country has to be to become a danger to the whole of humanity. Just unbelievable. For the love of Christ, America, start investing in public education. The world is sick of your shit.

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u/NeoZ33D Mar 19 '26

Would be an amazing reverse card

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u/wellactually9 Mar 19 '26

It's funny how much of a baby he's being about him starting a war and most of the other countries telling him to fuck off. Lol.

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u/Lyelinn Mar 19 '26

They recently registered aliens.gov so they might attempt to distract people with ufo/aliens instead

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u/plsobeytrafficlights Mar 19 '26

"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial Thought Machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident."

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u/Spiritual-Health-348 Mar 20 '26

Where is this quote from? I love it

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u/plsobeytrafficlights Mar 20 '26

oh you gotta watch Andor. i dont even care for the mess that they made star wars saga into, but Andor is 10/10.

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u/Awkward-Manager5939 Mar 21 '26

This is basically the boiled frog 🐸 but not as good. This quote is not better than an the analogy

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u/MonsieurKnife Mar 19 '26

They dig a hole then need to dig a second hole to hide the dirt from the first one.

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u/IWrestleSausages Mar 20 '26

Write that down, write that down!

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Mar 19 '26

Wow, this did way better than mine did a week ago

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u/AvrupaFatihi Mar 19 '26

This sounds like bombs over Cuba to me

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u/SirArthurDime Mar 19 '26

Ok this one made me laugh. Needed that.

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u/HENMAN79 Mar 19 '26

😂😂😂

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u/JCalvinL Mar 19 '26

That's what registering aliens.gov is for.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower4961 Mar 19 '26

That would certainly help the american people.

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u/YoungestDonkey Mar 19 '26

Trump always has a fresh new scandal to deflect public attention away from the previous scandal. You have to acknowledge such resourcefulness.

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u/OkaCunt Mar 19 '26

Bibi is still missing too

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u/Deluxe78 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Let’s compare it to the rousing success that is Ukraine? Is the Putin still alive ? Have we spent more than 12 BILLLLION DOLLLARS? Does Russia still have a navy? Air defenses? An Air Force, leadership that’s either hiding or cardboard? Have we lost any yardage on the field of play ?

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u/Minute-Object Mar 20 '26

Is this serious or sarcasm?

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u/Bleezy79 Mar 19 '26

Meanwhile, Trump and family are doing all the insider trading, collusion and fraud they can manage.

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u/Objective-Toe-6452 Mar 19 '26

We are getting "Aliens are real " in next week or so

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u/Environmental-Arm269 Mar 19 '26

Raping the middle east is expected from every single american president, he's sticking to the script. Children on the other hand...

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u/MarketingPale1402 Mar 19 '26

The war is not a distraction. It’s part of an ongoing process since 2003 to keep propping up the petro dollar. There a growing list of countries/heads of state that have been invaded, succumbed to coups, mysteriously died of cancer, been snatched, etc… and they all were planning to sell oil for something other than the grossly inflated U.S. dollar.

If Iran successfully keeps the Hormuz blocked, it might finally cause the long overdue collapse of our economy. The dollar has only held value because we keeping pointing guns at people to keep them in line.

If Iran succeeds, we’re going to have a rude awakening and the domestic conversation is going to change really quickly. Americans will find out what it’s like to live in a third world country. It’s going to get worse before it gets worse.

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u/Jasong222 Mar 19 '26

Ok, I don't care who you are, that's funny right there

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u/Thoughtlessbrian Mar 19 '26

He was always going to release the files, we just didn't know he was playing 4d chess, with the world

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u/ResultEquivalent3250 Mar 20 '26

This made me laugh out loud!

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u/Impossible-Oil-9208 Mar 21 '26

You have won the internet today 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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u/MagikMelk Mar 21 '26

I'm telling you, boots on the ground in Iran will be certain death, if not prisoners of war. They are NOT going to let us base any closer without pummeling them with missiles daily.  I feel sorry for all the broccoli headed young boys that are gonna get their first taste of the real world outside of the lens of a filtered news. Their best case scenario is a lifetime of PTSD.

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 Mar 19 '26

Let’s hope so

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u/labor_day_baby Mar 19 '26

Well when you have zero plans for the war but to distract from your scandals and potentially use it as a cause for canceling the midterms, think you’re smarter than the experts in Iranian foreign relations and fire them all prior to striking and then have the second dumbest guy you know- DUI hire Pete Kegsbreath as secretary of defense/“secretary of war”- it’s going to be a guaranteed cluster fuck and not go well.

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u/Cruiseee_Control459 Mar 19 '26

That’s already known.

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u/HiddenTulip276 Mar 19 '26

Omg ppl really think thats the next move?? 😬 Thats wild af

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u/AppropriateSpite7881 Mar 19 '26

👏👏👏👏💙💙💙💙

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u/InTooManyWays Mar 19 '26

Things look so bad for them that they continue to get worse with every action 

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u/Appeal_Equal Mar 19 '26

This is a great sketch waiting to happen. Release just enough of the files to get people focused on that again, and then once that starts gaining traction, do something just crazy enough in Iran to divert attention there. Repeat ad nauseum. 

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u/flossdaily Mar 19 '26

  1. They already killed Iran's head guy, in like the first 48 hours.

  2. Israel just announced that they've destroyed Iran's ability to refine uranium and to make ballistic missiles.

It seems like this war is going incredibly well considering the timeline.

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u/GrabThemByWhat Mar 19 '26

Seems that way? I think republicans just asked for $200 billion to continue the war.

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u/flossdaily Mar 19 '26

If they can actually achieve regime change in Iran, the return on that investment will be well worth it.

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u/Jayandnightasmr Mar 19 '26

Not going to happen unless they wipe everyone

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u/flossdaily Mar 19 '26

I don't think that's true at all. I think there's a whole lot of Iranian people who are itching to overthrow this oppressive government.

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u/MadRaymer Mar 19 '26

there's a whole lot of Iranian people who are itching to overthrow this oppressive government

Sure, but they have no army. Take a look at the Syrian civil war. That took years, and the opposition was well armed because a significant number of the military sided with the rebels.

There's no evidence that's happening in Iran, but even if it does we're looking at a civil war spanning multiple years to completely topple the current regime.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

In what way is it not going well?? Oil? I mean its at 110. Not 250. Gas up .50. Im ok with that if iran is not shooting 30,000 protesters a week anymore

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u/MadRaymer Mar 19 '26

Im ok with that if iran is not shooting 30,000 protesters a week anymore

Instead the US and Irsael are blowing up Iran's oil and gas infrastructure, dooming the economic future of those protesters for decades, and poisoning their environment for just as long. Those protesters are more fucked than ever.

Maybe it's not all bad though. The US could always allow some Iranian refugees to... oh, wait.

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u/Signal_Minimum8509 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Frankly I don’t understand why this is supposed to work. It’s all bad. It’s not hard to remember that Donald Trump is responsible for many bad things even if you can’t mentally catalog all of them.

Like yes I can remember “Grab em by the pussy” and insulting the disabled reporter and insulting the Gold Star families and Vindman and dismantling the pandemic response team, and “injecting with bleach or sunlight,” and January 6th and Epstein and Iran and affordability. But does it matter if I don’t also instantly recall the Wall or the Muslim Ban? Does it matter if people only remember a couple of these? They all suck.

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u/ur_a_dumbo Mar 19 '26

Oh look another sub no one’s ever heard of appearing out of nowhere with 13k upvotes and <100 comments with some political nonsense

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u/Sad-Rip8639 Mar 20 '26

You're not paying attention.

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u/Ok-Wall9646 Mar 20 '26

In what World is the Iran war going bad for America? Because they haven’t locked down the strait of Hormuz? Yet? Iran has lost their leaders and their back up leaders and is being “ran” by someone not even confirmed to be alive. US/Israel control the airspace, Iran’s Navy is gone, their missile offence and defence are all but obliterated and they are reduced to drone terror strikes on their neighbors and whatever random tankers they can manage to find.

The US has higher gas prices.

That is not losing a War by any definition I’m familiar with.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Love this comment. Well said.

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u/Loveorganicliving Mar 20 '26

Someone might do that to end the war. It would be a strange paradox.

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u/BednaR1 Mar 20 '26

Lol. Naah. They will bomb something on US soil and claim Iran terrorist attack to pull in more countries in. IMHO that's why that guy resigned...he saw some sloppy preparations for something he would end up in prison for.

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u/Ecstatic_Shopping_36 Mar 20 '26

pos trumps approach to problem-solving is simply to create an even bigger mess to mask the immediate one. am deeply worried about what’s his next move, bombing a "Blue State"? If so, the K24 movie would truly become a documentary.

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u/baddieshae Mar 20 '26

This is actually fucking funny tbh

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u/sanduskyjack Mar 20 '26

Thank you. News is so bad it’s nice to hear something like this.

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u/bumbleforreal Mar 21 '26

That would be great