Donald Trump told a Florida crowd that it is “treasonous” to say the US is not winning the war in Iran. The US president was speaking at The Villages in Florida, the world’s largest retirement community, when he made the remarks. Trump came to tout supposedly fulfilling his 2024 campaign promise to remove taxes on Social Security. It came after the president told Congress that the war in Iran had already ended, despite his earlier issuing a fresh threat to Tehran.
  • Zink@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    I think there is a real, deep seated conditioned response in a lot of Americans to just assume things will work out and it will be OK in the long run. Basically a form of privilege to not worry about the problems of the world because somebody else will definitely fix it.

    I’m a white male american born into conservative culture who grew up in the 80s and 90s , and I definitely had that feeling instilled in my head along the way. For gen x and boomers who spent more of their early years in more of the post-ww2 US dominance, it’s probably worse.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Also probably help that actually removing him is extremely hard at best. The political method is basically dead on arrival since the courts are captured, the Republicans are in favor of him, and the Democrats don’t have enough will to actually do anything outside of maybe a hundred people across Congress. Seriously there should be Congress criters killing each other with canes at this point but no that’s uncivil, hell at minimum Dems should be spitting in the face of pissbags like Johnson and McConnell.

      As for the violent methods, basically all of them are scatter shot at best. You could summon up a militia and march right up to the Whitehouse to lynch him and the end result would probably be somewhere between the Bonus Army and the Tiananmen Square massacre.