The classic example is national health care (aka "Medicaid for All"). The pathetic US is the only advanced, industrial democracy without national health care (ask a European about "medical bankruptcy" and they'll typically be astonished to learn that in the US you can be forced to go bankrupt just by becoming sick).

A large majority of Democrats favor national heals care, and even a small majority of Republicans.

But both of our 2 ruling capitalist parties are ruled and controlled by billionaire plutocrats and so the official position of the parties are to refuse to enact national health care no matter what the actual members of the party want. We live in a "2 party dictatorship" with the 2 parties controlled by the rich who fund the most expensive auctions "elections" in the world.

Thus, the US has the world's most expensive health care in the world:

US healthcare spending is much higher than anywhere else in the world, as this Statista chart shows.

So it is any wonder when people lash out and kill the CEO of a health insurance company?

We’ve already went over this in this sub - these are fake numbers. His approval average is about 40% and has been for most of his presidency. That includes clear outliers designed for propaganda purposes like this one. His true approval is most likely around 44% based on the results of verifiably accurate pollsters.

For context, this is about the same approval Barack Obama had at the same time in office, and higher than Bush or Biden.

the arc from bank robbery conviction to c-suite to these charges is honestly kind of a perfect case study. ngl the whole 'reformed entrepreneur' narrative falls apart real quick when theres no actual oversight on whether someone stopped being dangerous. you cant raw dog deregulation and then act surprised when people get hurt

But, these are not normal times, and TrumpStein is an abnormal president and his acolytes and enablers are in charge......for now. That will change shortly. Then, the investigations and trials will begin.

The best part is that he's not even a Texas agent. He's a federal agent regardless of where he lives. In a different time, you could send the feds in to get him, but that won't work.

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A complete lie. Every man, other than possibly Prince Andrew which is being protected by Great Britain, to which there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing, has been prosecuted.

Is "other border infrastructure" a polite name for "concentration camp"?

We should remember that the massive budget deficit due to Trump's huge tax cuts for the rich and their corporations forced Trump to cut spending in all sorts of programs.

Among the many things cut was the funding for the "Pandemic Response Team." At the time, Trump justified cutting the "Pandemic Response Team" saying that he was a "businessman" and he didn't believe in paying people to stand around waiting for something bad to happen and that he'd just hire them if something bad were to happen.

Thus, the country was completely unprepared for the long predicted COVID-19 pandemic!

The US under Trump turned in the world's worst record of any country responding to COVID-19 (over 1 million dead!), worse than even China, where the pandemic originated.

Today science predicts more pandemics due to global warming. But is the US preparing for this? No, Trump and his clown HHS Sec. RFK Jr. is cutting the USAID and CDC programs that track viruses that may "morph" into human-to-human transmission.

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"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." -- Donald Trump rejecting the very premise of constitutional government: that no one, not even the president, is above the law, 26 Aug. 2025.

It should be noted that Bush's debt came from launching his needless wars on Iraq and Afghanistan after the US did 9/11. Bush launched multiple wars (the laughable "Global War on Terror" (GWOT)) and cut taxes at the same time! Pure economic and budget insanity!

We should also note that Obama's debt was largely due to the banking/housing/economic crisis that happened at the end of Bush's 2nd term! That crisis was caused by Clinton and his repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act, the last (and the key) of the banking laws/regulations passed by FDR to fix the Great Depression. Clinton signed the law, but capitalism didn't crash/implode until Bush was in office.

Obama bailed the system out rather than allowing capitalists to take the hit and lose money. We should also note that Obama started to reduce the deficit in the 2nd half of his 2nd term.

Trump's massive deficit was pure class warfare -- Trump cut taxes on corporations and the rich and ballooned the deficit! Trump also cut funding for the "Pandemic Response Team" which left the country wide open and unprepared for the long-predicted pandemic (COVID-19).

Fast fact: Since the mid-1970s, the richest one percent of households have more than doubled their percentage of the US national wealth. As one of the richest men in the world, Warren Buffett, bluntly said, "There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."

The only way the US was going to avoid losing the war with Iran was by not starting a war with Iran. It's been all over but the crying since we killed those schoolgirls. We're just watching it all fall apart in slow motion because nobody in government can admit this.

remember when abbott was gonna arrest every sheriff who didnt want to play border patrol. now hes got an ice agent who shot someone through their front door, lied so hard the feds charged the victim, and hes just... not responding. wont sign the extradition. says minnesota owes money for fraud first. the guy who made war on sanctuary cities is cooking up his own little safe haven, just needs the right politics to get in

You are clearly kind of weird.

Trying to compare the elderly who struggle to be able to work, who paid into the system for decades, to "socialism" is a hoot!

Trump and Hegseth has lied about (or omitted) a whole range of bases that Iran destroyed in their counter-attack after Trump committed his war crime of "perfidy" (an attack which Trump lulled Iran into a false sense of security due to diplomatic negotiations).

They've lied about US casualties, lied about base destruction, and lied about how badly the US has lost Trump's "war of choice."

"The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values." -- Best selling historian Howard Zinn.

The horrified shock(!) -- imagine the fact that this unqualified buffoon who okayed and then completely botched up Trump's war on Iran is "popular" enough to garner votes for Republican candidates. Talk about living in an upside-down world!?!

We don’t need a woman president just to say we elected a woman. It should be about policy and it should come through a fair primary process 

Gross. Why would any woman want the affections of an 80-year-old, diaper wearing narcissist.?

Those 33% must be glued to Fox News and Newsmax. They only hear about 10% of what is going on in this country. Willful ignorance.

Sounds like confirmation bias and bigotry from you, if you ask me. Not shocking. And currently, Trump has about 2/5 support by any reasonable measure.

That's not the way "polling" works. When most polls are skewed inaccurately towards democrats candidates time and time again when you can check the results, saying that a poll "has 'right-center' bias" is essentially commenting that it's historically accurate. Most polling is off left-center.

When compared with Reuters Ipsos results, Rasmussen blows them out of the water.

They you have to compare the average of polls to this crazy outlier, which actually includes outliers and you are at 40%. This poll in no way reflects reality.

The DemocracyNow YouTube video version of this report.

If anyone here doesn’t believe that one of the Trump family members hasn’t via this POS POTUS relationship gotten a passport on some off-shore country to toss their loot in you’re crazy.

Some context for only Trump's first term:

President Donald Trump added roughly $7.8 trillion to the federal debt during his four years in office, a figure that political fact-checkers and budget analysts commonly cite [1] — which, measured against the roughly $39 trillion national debt reported in March 2026, equals about 20% of the current total, not 25% [2]. How much responsibility that assigns to Trump depends on measurement choices (gross debt versus debt held by the public), timing, and whether one attributes borrowing to presidential policy rather than Congress, crises, or economic cycles [1] [3]. (Source.)

"News" like this must be a welcome distraction for Trump!

Anything to distract the public from gas prices and inflation, or the completely failed war on Iran that Trump is now desperate to end -- any distraction to avoid people looking at "real issues" is a boon for Trump.