“Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named after a President who ended eight wars in less than a year, will stand as a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability,”
If this had been said by a puppet in "Team America: World Police" this would still sound stupid…
Idk. A lot of people are just that dumb and scripted in life that they trust people like Trump unconditionally since their dogmatic brain cannot comprehend why would anyone be different than they/the rules are. For example, since autism didn’t exist before as a diagnosis in this form, they are baffled because it goes off their script. Transgenderism in their head means something is off with the person cause they function off a dogma of rigid gender roles. They don’t think about stuff, they just see deviation from some historical status quo and what once was and react to changes negatively. They just see threats, no logical processing.
They think we are going too far but we are just proposing the basics of the basics of tolerant society.
It's even more basic than that. MAGA people believe in castes and in zero sum. If someone is getting something, that means, in their heads someone is getting something taken away from them. And more precisely, they believe that every civil right someone else gains comes at THEIR expense, and at the expense of their god given right to be the dominant " caste".
Sure but a lot of it is still based in darn dogmatic thinking, aka inability to think outside of pre-learned script. The right wing media just creates outrage towards their simpleton brains while wealthy fools just hoard more and more money.
Yes, many people are that stupid and can be easily led my the nose to whatever Koolaid is on tap. I mean it didn't even faze them when they found most of their "influencers" were on the Russian payroll. Not to mention he himself coming right out and saying "You're stupid. That's why you'll vote for me".
OTOH, Phony Stark alone spent $200 million. More than plenty enough to buy the election as a hedge. They were bound and determined that 2021 wouldn't be a repeat.
It’s seeing how America is fucking itself over that makes me feel really lucky to live in Australia, in a city and state that tolerant (for the most part) and allows me to be myself with little to no issue.
They’d have a fucking aneurysm over my birth certificate saying I was born male but on the record of changes say it’s been “registered under another name” or something and have no other official trace of me being born a woman.
Whenever I start thinking this, I remember that "power balance" sold millions of little rubber bracelets for $30 each because they had "holograms" that supposedly improved your athletic performance.
Millions of Americans are just fucking gullible, idiotic morons.
I work in a red area. There is a MASSIVE amount of selective hearing. Also a lot of “he won’t do that,” or “they won’t let him do that.” It was a facepalming leopards ate my face moment when the entire staff was freaking out over the cost of health insurance with the subsidy gone. Some of them even asked me what the administration was going to do about it and they could not comprehend what I was saying when I told them that this was the plan all along and the republicans don’t care about them.
Never attribute to malice which can be explained my incompetence or stupidity. I even saw someone with a Trump 45 hat earlier this week. They still don’t get it. The constant diet of right wing media with no check on spin/lying is what has done this
I would almost be relieved to know for sure that Trump and Leon rigged the 2024 election. It's far more disturbing to believe that we consciously voted for it.
If he didn't cheat in the election, it would be a first time. There was Russian interference in 2016 and he was arrested for election fraud for the 2020 election.
Yeah between Trump talking about Muskrat being good with voting machines, Muskrat saying he would go to prison if Trump lost, a lot of the voting data making no sense, and then the GOP obstructing every investigation…its pretty clear what happened. Republicans have been fucking with elections for decades to gain an unfair advantage, it’s not crazy to think they’d eventually be willing to move into the illegal territory when reaching the limits of what can be done legally.
Every polling place in the US was reporting the highest voter turnout ever but somehow there were 3 million less votes in 2024 vs 2020. Bullet ballots in Nevada, Utah, and AZ are too much of an anomaly to ignore as well as the fact that so many counties had ballots where people voted dem in every election except for president.
I saw an article for like 10 minutes on Google a few months ago that Harris won the swing states. Maricopa county had a machine error and Harris won by a landslide. Similar story in PA. Then….it was gone. Try to search it? Gone. Google has no record of it. I hate to lend credence to the MAGA morons that say “gOoGlE cEnSoRs StUfF!!!!” but I 10000% remember seeing it and reading the article.
It’s even more amazing when everything he is doing is stuff he publicly told everyone he would do.
I forget which of the first Nazis it was, but one of them remarked that he was shocked that they let them run as they were running on the idea of effectively destroying the government entirely. I'm paraphrasing, as I'm barely remembering this. But this is just history repeating itself again sadly.
The Nazis were a tiny bit government, the economy and government collapsed and the Nazis exploited the situation. They only had a “democratic” vote after being put in power and framing the opposition for the Reichstag fire
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.” - Donald Trump, talking about Elon and voting machines.
I have begun to find it more believable that the Nazis rose to power than this administration.
The Nazis rose from a WW1 destroyed Germany, with a government that was destroying its economy during a depression, and people who had no previous evidence to look to to question it, they were mad and wanted someone to blame for how bad the country was, and Hitler spoke of all the answers they wanted
This administration rose during, not in a country riddled with economic disaster, not destroyed by a war, not forked the bill of a horrible war, and was just in a meh state. With the age of technology where we can look at what the administration did round 1 and when they weren't in power to see how they would do everything wrong and hurt everyone, and people still supported it. The US was in a much, MUCH, better state than post WW1 Germany, and yet people are supporting this administration as if the US was worse off than that to where its as if we had no other options, when we had a very clear better choice and had an administration (Biden) who was improving things as best as they could
One thing to remember is that the entirety of the right-wing media landscape is CONSTANTLY telling these people that everything is on fire and their country is over.
The average Trump voter was doing better under Biden than under Trump's first admin, but that doesn't matter. It's completely and totally irrelevant how good/bad they're doing. They only pay attention to what they're told to.
I just watched a documentary about how Haiti descended into chaos and the parallels were terrifying.
More or less, as their country descended into anarchy their oligarchs fueled it for personal gain while their politicians looted what they could and got out as quickly as possible with their lives intact. Everyone who could have done something threw in the towel and suddenly youre living in a failed state akin to the Fallout universe.
Same thing happened in Afghanistan. They had an entire "government" and "army" set up ready to run their country and effectively everyone in unison just simply gave up.
Its fascinating to me, its like we're seeing large swaths of the human race simultaneously deciding that doing this whole civilization thing is too hard and we'd probably be better off going back to tribalism.
I think most people don't realize or forget that, and this doesn't make sense to us, that very large portions of humanity actually want to be told what to do & when/how to do it.
it's sad.
No it's like a car crash that's already happened. The traffic cops are at the scene waving cars to stop. But the drivers are "screw you I'm going full speed into that just to own the libs"
Honestly it really does feel like everyones just numb to it now. You keep thinking someone will slam the brakes but it just keeps sliding and people shrug. Its kinda scary how normal it all feels lately.
My coworker said they are just not into politics. That privileged detached sentiment is a majority of Americans. That’s how we got these new era American Nazis operating without a huge revolt from the people. Our government is broken and courts are illegitimate. The USA is in free fall. Keep fighting until the bombs fall I guess. We truly messed up letting the Confederate Army make construct our modern day Republican Party after they lost the Civil War. Now they are back and stronger while having billion dollar propaganda machines like Fox to manipulate the smooth brains with racism instead of class consciousness.
It's funny to see conservatives (who spent decades arguing for the right to bear arms) acting as though this is all ok, while more moderate or liberal people are finally arming up.
Noone might not being a damned thing but let's be honest, Noone always sucked. Fuck that guy.
As far as saying that "no one is doing anything in America" is fucking insulting. TONS of people and organizations are CONSTANTLY onto this shit. I mean, fuck man, the article even talks a good bit about it.
Have you not seen coverage of the protests everywhere?
Its not an independent agency then is it? There are some really fkd up ideas and processes in the USA but i guess thats the go when you want an arrogant child dictator running the shop.
The administration fired most of USIP’s board in March. Employees were terminated in July, after initially receiving termination notices in late March.
It is deeply inappropriate for CNN to frame things this way.
If someone violently forces their way into your business and holds a gun to the heads of the people in charge and says that your board of directors all have to leave, they weren't fired.
The media continuing to claim this(and it's not even reporting, just claiming) is DEEPLY DEEPLY inappropriate.
I just wish the next Democratic president would have the spine to erase all this foolishness, but I easily see Democratic leadership feeling that doing so would be "too confrontational".
A lot of people voted for this garbage. More than would admit. It’s an example of how dumb we have become as a society. Democrats didn’t do us any favors with their mishandling of many issues either. It’s all just very shameful.
There are lies, damned lies and whatever vomit inducing word salad of mushroom licking bullshit Trump's cultists upchuck. When he's gone (behind bars or otherwise) his cultists might want consider denaturalisation as a career move.
Since he wants his name on everything, we should start naming awful things after him. Trump Pacific Garbage Patch, Trump Tire Dump, Trump School Bus Graveyard, etc.
Donald's Dumpster: THE place for proper disposal of used kitty litter, full poop bags etc, THE BEST DUMPSTER EVER! A BEAUTIFUL DUMPSTER MADE IN AMERICA!!
Seems aptly named now that it is gutted. A shell of an institution that won't do anything but be a grifting mechanism. Maybe they too can add trafficking to their function to complete the fit.
I don't understand why any organizations continue to capitulate to him. You would think they would be emboldened by his recent losing streak (nov elections, court decisions, retailer lawsuits, utter incompetence of his cabinet on full display to the entire world), and finally start pushing back.
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If this had been said by a puppet in "Team America: World Police" this would still sound stupid…
Ended 8 wars? Lololol dude is about to start one in Venezuela.
Its all fiction but his idiot supporters only care about sound bites and not facts.
meanwhile
I thought you were making that quote up.
Nope, it’s real.
#WTFifa
As a swiss I'm deeply ashamed of this organization headquartered in our nation.
Corrupt bunch of ***hats
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Current Presidents?
Yeah usually you need to wait until retirement or even death.
And generally you have to have done something that makes sense for the thing being named after.
Rapists as well?
Those arent named by the actual Presidents themselves. They are named in honor of a former President. Usually years after their terms.
There isn't (for example) a Clinton Institute of Chastity or a Nixon Institute of Honesty though, is there.
I only wish this was a memorial naming after that fateful artery clog we've all been praying for.
They didn’t build it, they broke it, and now they named it after themselves. That’s what leadership looks like these days.
I will never ever question how a country votes itself into dictatorship.
This is like watching a car crash, frame by frame, and noone in America cares enough to do anything.
It’s even more amazing when everything he is doing is stuff he publicly told everyone he would do.
I’m starting to think that the election was rigged honestly. A staggering amount of votes weren’t counted
Idk. A lot of people are just that dumb and scripted in life that they trust people like Trump unconditionally since their dogmatic brain cannot comprehend why would anyone be different than they/the rules are. For example, since autism didn’t exist before as a diagnosis in this form, they are baffled because it goes off their script. Transgenderism in their head means something is off with the person cause they function off a dogma of rigid gender roles. They don’t think about stuff, they just see deviation from some historical status quo and what once was and react to changes negatively. They just see threats, no logical processing.
They think we are going too far but we are just proposing the basics of the basics of tolerant society.
It's even more basic than that. MAGA people believe in castes and in zero sum. If someone is getting something, that means, in their heads someone is getting something taken away from them. And more precisely, they believe that every civil right someone else gains comes at THEIR expense, and at the expense of their god given right to be the dominant " caste".
Sure but a lot of it is still based in darn dogmatic thinking, aka inability to think outside of pre-learned script. The right wing media just creates outrage towards their simpleton brains while wealthy fools just hoard more and more money.
Yup. They think equality is a zero sum game. If other people get right that means theirs are somehow getting diminished
My honest thinking is that it's both.
Yes, many people are that stupid and can be easily led my the nose to whatever Koolaid is on tap. I mean it didn't even faze them when they found most of their "influencers" were on the Russian payroll. Not to mention he himself coming right out and saying "You're stupid. That's why you'll vote for me".
OTOH, Phony Stark alone spent $200 million. More than plenty enough to buy the election as a hedge. They were bound and determined that 2021 wouldn't be a repeat.
It’s seeing how America is fucking itself over that makes me feel really lucky to live in Australia, in a city and state that tolerant (for the most part) and allows me to be myself with little to no issue.
To be fair America will do that too, If you are a straight Christian man. Or for some bizarre reason an Israeli.
They’d have a fucking aneurysm over my birth certificate saying I was born male but on the record of changes say it’s been “registered under another name” or something and have no other official trace of me being born a woman.
Ehhh, I feel like both Australia and Canada benefitted from watching what we got for voting a right-wing moron into office.
Don't ever assume you're safe.
That was the U.S. circa 2014. Unfortunately, things can change.
Whenever I start thinking this, I remember that "power balance" sold millions of little rubber bracelets for $30 each because they had "holograms" that supposedly improved your athletic performance.
Millions of Americans are just fucking gullible, idiotic morons.
I work in a red area. There is a MASSIVE amount of selective hearing. Also a lot of “he won’t do that,” or “they won’t let him do that.” It was a facepalming leopards ate my face moment when the entire staff was freaking out over the cost of health insurance with the subsidy gone. Some of them even asked me what the administration was going to do about it and they could not comprehend what I was saying when I told them that this was the plan all along and the republicans don’t care about them.
Never attribute to malice which can be explained my incompetence or stupidity. I even saw someone with a Trump 45 hat earlier this week. They still don’t get it. The constant diet of right wing media with no check on spin/lying is what has done this
"What will Trump do?"
As if their king doesn't have majority in all houses, the presidency, SCOTUS, and their health benefits just disappeared by and of themselves.
Oh Muskrat 100% rigged the election for him, tRump stated that they rigged the election for him and nobody cared
I care..d
I would almost be relieved to know for sure that Trump and Leon rigged the 2024 election. It's far more disturbing to believe that we consciously voted for it.
If he didn't cheat in the election, it would be a first time. There was Russian interference in 2016 and he was arrested for election fraud for the 2020 election.
Totally rigged. Uncle Elmo made it happen. "If he doesn't win, I'm going to jail." Pretty much sums it up.
Yeah between Trump talking about Muskrat being good with voting machines, Muskrat saying he would go to prison if Trump lost, a lot of the voting data making no sense, and then the GOP obstructing every investigation…its pretty clear what happened. Republicans have been fucking with elections for decades to gain an unfair advantage, it’s not crazy to think they’d eventually be willing to move into the illegal territory when reaching the limits of what can be done legally.
Every polling place in the US was reporting the highest voter turnout ever but somehow there were 3 million less votes in 2024 vs 2020. Bullet ballots in Nevada, Utah, and AZ are too much of an anomaly to ignore as well as the fact that so many counties had ballots where people voted dem in every election except for president.
I saw an article for like 10 minutes on Google a few months ago that Harris won the swing states. Maricopa county had a machine error and Harris won by a landslide. Similar story in PA. Then….it was gone. Try to search it? Gone. Google has no record of it. I hate to lend credence to the MAGA morons that say “gOoGlE cEnSoRs StUfF!!!!” but I 10000% remember seeing it and reading the article.
He straight up thanked Elon for getting him the votes. The only question left is what the precise mechanism was.
I forget which of the first Nazis it was, but one of them remarked that he was shocked that they let them run as they were running on the idea of effectively destroying the government entirely. I'm paraphrasing, as I'm barely remembering this. But this is just history repeating itself again sadly.
The Nazis were a tiny bit government, the economy and government collapsed and the Nazis exploited the situation. They only had a “democratic” vote after being put in power and framing the opposition for the Reichstag fire
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.” - Donald Trump, talking about Elon and voting machines.
Its amazing isn't it. I'm a bit of a history buff and have read a few books on the rise of fascism and Nazism.
Watching this shit unfold in real life provides a whole lot of context that is missing from those accounts.
I have begun to find it more believable that the Nazis rose to power than this administration.
The Nazis rose from a WW1 destroyed Germany, with a government that was destroying its economy during a depression, and people who had no previous evidence to look to to question it, they were mad and wanted someone to blame for how bad the country was, and Hitler spoke of all the answers they wanted
This administration rose during, not in a country riddled with economic disaster, not destroyed by a war, not forked the bill of a horrible war, and was just in a meh state. With the age of technology where we can look at what the administration did round 1 and when they weren't in power to see how they would do everything wrong and hurt everyone, and people still supported it. The US was in a much, MUCH, better state than post WW1 Germany, and yet people are supporting this administration as if the US was worse off than that to where its as if we had no other options, when we had a very clear better choice and had an administration (Biden) who was improving things as best as they could
One thing to remember is that the entirety of the right-wing media landscape is CONSTANTLY telling these people that everything is on fire and their country is over.
The average Trump voter was doing better under Biden than under Trump's first admin, but that doesn't matter. It's completely and totally irrelevant how good/bad they're doing. They only pay attention to what they're told to.
Peasant brained idiots.
From an European perspective we don’t know if Biden was competent, but at least he was not grossly incompetent
I recently listened to The Last Podcast On The Left’s 6 part series on Heinrich Himler and holyyyyy shit. So many parallels. Highly recommend
I'm convinced they are using William Shirer's book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as a playbook, They just haven't read the last bit yet.
I just watched a documentary about how Haiti descended into chaos and the parallels were terrifying.
More or less, as their country descended into anarchy their oligarchs fueled it for personal gain while their politicians looted what they could and got out as quickly as possible with their lives intact. Everyone who could have done something threw in the towel and suddenly youre living in a failed state akin to the Fallout universe.
Same thing happened in Afghanistan. They had an entire "government" and "army" set up ready to run their country and effectively everyone in unison just simply gave up.
Its fascinating to me, its like we're seeing large swaths of the human race simultaneously deciding that doing this whole civilization thing is too hard and we'd probably be better off going back to tribalism.
I think most people don't realize or forget that, and this doesn't make sense to us, that very large portions of humanity actually want to be told what to do & when/how to do it.
it's sad.
smh this whole thing is so messed up like how do people not see the warning signs
The democratic leadership is more scared of progressives like zohan sweeping into control and messing up their donations.
And this is exact reason the 2 party system is turning American into an oligarchy in all but name.
How can you vote for change if all those candidates are repeatedly overlooked for useful idiots that will tow the corporate line?
*has turned
No it's like a car crash that's already happened. The traffic cops are at the scene waving cars to stop. But the drivers are "screw you I'm going full speed into that just to own the libs"
Dude, we're only on frame 12 of 48, slow motion is kicked in and people are only now just beginning to react to the car crash.
Basically the same as h whole world is doing with climate change: car crash frame by frame. And we were all told since 50 years
Honestly it really does feel like everyones just numb to it now. You keep thinking someone will slam the brakes but it just keeps sliding and people shrug. Its kinda scary how normal it all feels lately.
This has happened before and it will happen again.
The painter from Austria with a funny mustache was also democratically elected, I hope this doesn't end the same.
Tennessee republicans just won that special election too, they just want more.
We would love to do something about it, but we are in the car..
My coworker said they are just not into politics. That privileged detached sentiment is a majority of Americans. That’s how we got these new era American Nazis operating without a huge revolt from the people. Our government is broken and courts are illegitimate. The USA is in free fall. Keep fighting until the bombs fall I guess. We truly messed up letting the Confederate Army make construct our modern day Republican Party after they lost the Civil War. Now they are back and stronger while having billion dollar propaganda machines like Fox to manipulate the smooth brains with racism instead of class consciousness.
It's funny to see conservatives (who spent decades arguing for the right to bear arms) acting as though this is all ok, while more moderate or liberal people are finally arming up.
Noone might not being a damned thing but let's be honest, Noone always sucked. Fuck that guy.
As far as saying that "no one is doing anything in America" is fucking insulting. TONS of people and organizations are CONSTANTLY onto this shit. I mean, fuck man, the article even talks a good bit about it.
Have you not seen coverage of the protests everywhere?
Its not an independent agency then is it? There are some really fkd up ideas and processes in the USA but i guess thats the go when you want an arrogant child dictator running the shop.
It is and he’s already lost lawsuits over their building funding. He’ll be sued over this name change and will lose that too.
We have to hang on for dear life for at least 3 more years, but we can probably start to slow this shit down if we turn out in one year.
The world is barracking for the good people mate. We are all sure there are a few left. Good luck.
It is deeply inappropriate for CNN to frame things this way.
If someone violently forces their way into your business and holds a gun to the heads of the people in charge and says that your board of directors all have to leave, they weren't fired.
The media continuing to claim this(and it's not even reporting, just claiming) is DEEPLY DEEPLY inappropriate.
That is so crass, you do not get federal building's named after you whilst you are sitting, shiat usually not whilst you are living.
I just wish the next Democratic president would have the spine to erase all this foolishness, but I easily see Democratic leadership feeling that doing so would be "too confrontational".
A lot of people voted for this garbage. More than would admit. It’s an example of how dumb we have become as a society. Democrats didn’t do us any favors with their mishandling of many issues either. It’s all just very shameful.
There are lies, damned lies and whatever vomit inducing word salad of mushroom licking bullshit Trump's cultists upchuck. When he's gone (behind bars or otherwise) his cultists might want consider denaturalisation as a career move.
Since he wants his name on everything, we should start naming awful things after him. Trump Pacific Garbage Patch, Trump Tire Dump, Trump School Bus Graveyard, etc.
Donald's Dumpster: THE place for proper disposal of used kitty litter, full poop bags etc, THE BEST DUMPSTER EVER! A BEAUTIFUL DUMPSTER MADE IN AMERICA!!
If I became president after him, not only would I remove his name from all government buildings but rename all federal prisons after him.
Seems aptly named now that it is gutted. A shell of an institution that won't do anything but be a grifting mechanism. Maybe they too can add trafficking to their function to complete the fit.
I don't understand why any organizations continue to capitulate to him. You would think they would be emboldened by his recent losing streak (nov elections, court decisions, retailer lawsuits, utter incompetence of his cabinet on full display to the entire world), and finally start pushing back.
In consistence with changing DoJ name to DoW, they will also change the name from US Institute of Peace to Trump’s Institute of War Crimes.