"Joe Biden's fault"

No hut the DNC definitely is for sabotaging sanders and his supporters to ensure the neo liberal class dictatorship could continue and prevent any platform movement to the left that might vaguely resemble a new FDR presidency

I'm not a US citizen, so no, I'm not to blame. And if you ask me I'm happy for the downfall of the USA. But I'm sad for the victims that will happen because of fascism. And I'm sad that liberals would still rather blame leftists than admit their own failures.

See how long you last as police chief if you choose to not suppress crime.

So yeah, police are explicitly responsible for minimising crime, that’s literally their job.

I admit there’s some nuance there since police aren’t expected to actually prevent all crime. In this metaphor I guess the question is whether Trump is a bog standard criminal that maybe gets around the police but is kept mostly in check, or if he’s a special level of super-criminal that police chief Biden should have his career judged against.

How would you consider a policeman watching a crime happen and do absolutely nothing about it?

The message is 100% clear to Americans already.

Willing to bet it's a registered trademark

Yeah that's the point

I blame Republican voter suppression and supporting a candidate that tried and failed at insurrection.

The voters, genuinely. Because they misunderstood what the vote meant. It wasn't about electing a democrating candidate, it was about keeping Trump out of office*. Note that this is not limited to non-voters, but includes every american.

*: This is not what a vote for the president is meant to be about. But hey, desperate times, desperate measures, that kinda stuff.

As someone from a place with compulsory voting and would vote regardless. You, I would vote any prick that stayed home and didn't vote. Especially when rates are less than half the voting population.

The non-voters obviously. How is that so difficult for you to understand?

The protest non-voters voted for Trump.

You're expecting more disastrous consequences than they are. Time will tell, but I think they'll find the tariff costs worth it for added manufacturing investment.

But they will still vote Republican because nothing the Republicans have done over the last 45 years to ruin their lives has swayed them yet.

I mean that's true with any large group, yeah? Doesn't change the fact that he's doing what they voted for him to do.

But there are some people who might not have turned out to vote, due to apathy, or getting hung up on specific issues they were unhappy with Biden about, who are now realizing their mistake.

And if democrats had pursued them with a tenth of the fervor with which they pursued republicans who were never going to vote for them, we wouldn't have trump now.

He must be a pretty big wuss.

He's at his bottomest bottom when daddy vladdy is around.

Honestly, I'd kind of like to read some serious analysis on Trump on agricultural policy. I've pointed out that farmers are politically-important in red states, but many of Trump's policies look pretty bad for farmers to me.

• Tariffs don't benefit them -- the US is globally competitive agriculturally. The people who want tariffs are in labor-intensive manufacturing. Tariffs just bring up the prices farmers pay, and counter-tariffs hurt them by keeping them from competing in foreign markets. Trump did have some relief funds sent farmers impacted by Chinese tariffs in his first term to mitigate the hit they took, but I'm pretty sure that they'd rather not have their business mucked up.
• Trump may not actually do as much on illegal immigration as he tries to promote in his image, but he sure doesn't help, and US agriculture depends heavily on labor from illegal immigrants.
• Trump going after SNAP, subsidized food for the poor, doesn't help. My understanding was that for a long time, farmers benefited primarily from federal crop insurance subsidies, but that due to a decline in influence, they basically teamed up with advocates for the poor to get food stamp subsidies in place, and that's now the primary form of federal farm subsidy.

When I look at the NFU --- the big farming industry association --- website, it doesn't sound very happy with Trump:

https://nfu.org/2025/03/04/american-farmers-and-ranchers-bear-the-brunt-of-tariffs/

WASHINGTON – National Farmers Union President Rob Larew commented today on the President’s decision to implement tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.

“The tariffs announced today, along with retaliatory measures from China and Canada, will have serious consequences for American agriculture. Our farmers are the backbone of this country, and they need strong, fair trade policies that ensure they can compete on a level playing field—not be caught in the middle of international disputes.

“We are already facing significant economic uncertainty, and these actions only add to the strain. Trade policies must come with real, tangible protections for the farmers directly affected. We’ve heard there’s a strategy in place—now we need to see it. Promises alone won’t pay the bills or keep farms afloat.

“Without a clear plan, family farmers will once again be left to bear the burden of decisions beyond their control, and eventually, so will consumers. We urge the administration to work with our trading partners to prevent further harm to rural communities.”

In the US political system, strongly-red or strongly-blue areas aren't as politically important, so you don't really need to worry about pissing them off -- they're gonna tend to vote for or against you regardless. That's especially true for the President, and true for a lesser degree for legislators.

But if I'm a legislator for an area, I do care about the industries in my area, and seeing the party that mostly represents rural areas producing a lot of what looks like disadvantageous-to-farmers policy going through kind of surprises me.

This is one of the big things that I don't really feel like I have a handle on regarding Trump administration policy.

EDIT: And I also see websites commenting on Trump policy not being good for farmers, so it's not just me making some kind of huge error in assessing this.

EDIT2: One issue for some farmers has been the EPA taking issue with farm runoff -- fertilizer causing algae blooms, like in the Great Lakes. If Trump weakens regulation on that, that might be popular with farmers. Farm runoff is a very big political issue in the Netherlands, and I know that that caused enormous political waves in the past few years.

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Ah. Okay, apparently yes:

https://apnews.com/article/2386f9f4af34d81ae32629dead464af3

Trump rollback could leave waterways vulnerable to pollution

Since his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump has targeted environmental and public health regulations that he says imposed unnecessary burdens on business. Speaking to farmers in Texas on Sunday, Trump repeated his frequent charge that an Obama-era attempt in 2015 to more clearly define what water bodies qualify for federal pollution protection was “one of the most ridiculous regulations of all.""

Thursday’s changes to the clean water rule have long been sought by builders, oil and gas developers, farmers and others.

So I guess that might be one selling point he has for farmers.

No, not all, but I think they're responsible for allowing a criminal and domestic terrorist to be able to retake the office they abused already. They're wholly responsible for that failure. Trump is guilty of his part, which is why he should be the one in prison. So I guess what I meant is I blame them almost as equally as I do Trump, not wholly.

Batman can't kill The Joker because, if he does, the writers can't bring The Joker back in the next issue for Batman to defeat again.

Presumably, Biden couldn't prosecute Trump for the same reasons. Dems ran the same Pied Piper Strategy that worked so well in 2016, secure in their ability to defeat someone as easy and vulnerable as The Donald.

Gotta give the people what they want. And what they want is another election with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.

I agree. he gave him plenty of opportunities but IMHO what we consider justice doesn't seem to apply to the ultra violent, rich or eccentric.

the end game successes of capitalism are not compatible with democracy.

Because he's motherfucking fictional. Donald Trump is a real life comic book villain, and he's also not even 1/100th as smart as the Joker.

Probably owns a portion of Arkham and gets tax payer dividends for each person he sends there.

fuckkk it just like in my comics!!!!!!

Oh I must have been confused. I forgot that history doesn't exist. Everything started with whatever was last on TV. Donald Trump is just randomly the president for no reason. There must not be any reason he has the power to do the things he's doing. Nope. It's a mystery. Carry on.