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This...will not be a bright future for many.

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There will be a bunch who know the future won’t be bright, and another bunch who will be surprised by it.

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Nov 7·edited Nov 7

Bernie Sanders nailed it by saying the Democrats lost because they have abandoned the working class . The leopards ate my face party is the only one who recognized the non college educated bulk of the USA population, a country with literacy rates similar to Tasmania , so yeah it's bad. Trump appealed to them, because he gave them recognition. The Democrats were still in bed with wall street bankers and the ruling class. Trump is a wrecker and an outsider , everything they love. Will he pay off the USA debt? Nope. Will he make cheap tech more expensive? Probably. Will he bring back manufacturing back to the USA ? Maybe. Will the lumpen proletariat feel listened to? Maybe, but after a while they will fracture and start fighting each other or un-live the prez. Will an American politician stand up for the working class? Will an Australian do the same?

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i was trying not to listen to the news as well but it still seeped in. And the chat group was going like crazy. I had a couple of rare mid week vodkas cause they always chill me right out. And put some thoughts together and came up with this trying to be a bit bipartisan:

The problem today is that there are no more intersecting Venn diagrams.

Everything is black and white, blue and red

Just two bubbles screaming at each other across the void

With no common ground there is no common sense

Common sense has left the protection of rational waters and brutally harpooned by a wailing ship

Meanwhile the shrieking bubbles are dividing into equally separate smaller circles until all it looks like is the old diagram from science class of particles bouncing around a box resembling nothing more than hot air

Vodka has entered the chat

(also spelling of wailing was on purpose)

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"At least I’m not Ukrainian, though."

Or Palestinian :(

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Could it be as bad as last time?

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I think it'll be worse. Because this time he knows what he's doing, and he'll have learned from the mistakes of last time.

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Trump... Learn?

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Learning is not his forte, to be sure. Last time some of his cabinet/staff appointments were at least slightly competent and thought that minor inconveniences like following the law and not crashing the economy or killing citizens in large numbers were things to be considered. He didn't like being told he can't do things. This time, judging from his campaign staff and the people he has said are in line for jobs, it's all sycophants all the time. The flimsy "guardrails" that occasionally constrained him last time will be absent. So it is learning, but in a horribly-specific sense of the word.

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Unfortunately the above comment has aged well... given the shower of faecal matter he has announced as cabinet picks.

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Can we say that the US has now jumped the shark?

Probably can’t go cold turkey on the news, like FB or X, but definitely need to turn it right down. I think it’s like JB said, we just need the general sense of things. Don’t need the torrent of angst-inducing details - especially if it’s anything like the last time.

As my dad used to say, “stop the world, I want to get off”.

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