Everything is on fire - the US politics thread

Apart from anything else it’s the usual Trump bluster and wanting to look the main man. From Reddit overnight:

What happened this morning?

When was this commitment actually made?

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html

Canada is investing $1.3 billion to bolster security at the border and strengthen the immigration system, all while keeping Canadians safe. This includes $667.5M for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, $355.4M for the Canada Border Services Agency, $180M over 6 years for the Communications Security Establishment, $77.7M for Health Canada, and $20M over five years for Public Safety Canada.

I happen to come across this subreddit recently because I … anyways, I’m not advocating the economic system in this reddit, but I think this is an interesting theory on what the tech nerds are doing in the US atm.

The idea that they’re trying to play computer games with a real life nation and play with economic systems kinda fits.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1ihokr7/this_is_collapse_speedrun/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Is a good podcast

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Trump is basically annexing Gaza and saying Palestinians have no choice but to leave. I look forward to Albo and Wong defending the actions of glorious ally.

I’ll check it out.

The reddit seems to be populated by people who make perfection the enemy of good, better and slightly less fucked.

Surely this can’t happen. He can’t move on a couple of million people. Can he?

Is it just more bollocks like the tariffs?

Can’t say i’ve spent too much time on the subreddit, mostly because reddit fucking sucks. But i’d assume it’s mostly US users. The hosts all have their own youtube channels which range from socialism 101 from the american to some more ML theory heavy content from the Yugoslav and Iraqi.

Subreddit mostly seems like young US people waking up to the fact that the dems will never serve the interests of the working class and both the republicans and dems only exist to represent the interests of capital, dems with a few rainbow flags and tokenistic gestures to give a veneer of progressivism.

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I dunno. Most of the rule book seems to be getting torched.

The pattern I’m noticing is that Trump is the distraction. He says the unhinged shit that everyone trips on. Now we’re all paying attention to Trump and how utterly ridiculous he is.

Watch the stuff that isn’t a Trump sound bite.

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Like eliminating the department of education?

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This, plus his extreme unhinged stuff sounds ridiculous and then when he winds it back to mass departing “only” $1m people it’s questioned less because it’s not as extreme as his first assertion.

Things like getting fentanyl rescheduled so that it is not available as a medicine anymore?

The most dangerous thing that Trump is doing is providing the authority to Musk to introduce his ultra right agenda.

I find it as scary as Hindenburg appointing Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in the 1930’s. The similarities can be frightening.

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Yeah.

Forcing the Palastians onto a Trail of Tears probably won’t happen. But it’s what’s being talked about. Not the Fed Education department shut down.

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Olympic Games in US in 2028 as well. That’s if California doesn’t break away.

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Like offering buyouts to the entire CIA workforce. Trying to stack the departments with loyalists.

As if the CIA wasn’t full of right wing fanatics already.

Dismantling the Federal departments ties in with the city state model that seems to be suggested in that link I shared this morning.

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Same as the FBI. One of the most conservative institutions in the country wasn’t conservative enough for them.

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We could debate whether Trump’s Republican Party is conservative or not, but I suspect it’s far from the point.

I just saw the post about dismantling the Department of Education and didnt read through the post under it, which shared a link to a youtube video from 2 months ago. Interesting watch, given the video was posted 2 months ago.

Link:

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Ha Proudboys just lost their trademark to a Church they vandalised in 2020.