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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
The partner of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, completed a second day of questioning on Friday, where she shared information on about 100 different people with the Justice Department.
Maxwell, who was convicted of child sex trafficking in connection with the disgraced financier in 2021, met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for about three hours on Friday at a courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.
She also sat down with Blanche to answer questions for about six hours on Thursday as the Justice Department tries to quell fallout over its handling of the Epstein files.
What the…as a non-US, to me, this clown was just a joke, but if all this stuff is real: how the ducking duck could such a piece of disgusting shit become your prez? AGAIN? I can’t even…
“Elon knows those voting machines so well!” - Trump on inauguration day.
That’d explain the second time, but not the first
Well, given our low voter turnouts…
Roughly 1/3 of our population is so stupid and hateful that they would rather have a President that hurts people they don’t like, than uh… anything else.
I feel like a lot of non US people really do not fully comprehend the level of just literal hatred that fuels many Americans, as well as how common it is to be extremely charismatically performative in a massively hypocritical way, in just every aspect of life.
We are a country of adults that read at an average of a 6th grade level, with astonishing levels of religious extremism and cults (compared to other countries with similar levels of economic development), who are aware our society is collapsing, but are largely too stupid to even understand why.
We were sold the lie of American Exceptionalism, were indoctrinated into it as a sort of secular cult, it is now apparent this is/was all a lie, and people are (have been) essentially having a kind of mass psychosis in terms of how they handle this revalation.
Our systems are massively corrupt, they’ve been incrementally corrupting for decades, but the effect has been snowballing.
A few people and groups would pop up from time to time and point this out, and push for a specific, meaningful reform to actually stymie this at a systemic level, and they would be crushed by both corporate and political PR campaigns, but also just a general sense of ‘you are overreacting and hysterical’ in the broad population, that came from that smug security of the American Exceptionalism ethos.
Basically, we are largely a nation of incurious, brutish, overconfident, malignant narcissists, who revel in biased reasoning ortiented toward justifying an already held belief, who are often already taught from a young age to evaluate the world with the irrational magical thinking of religious cults, which normalizes cognitive dissonance and conspiracism, which then leads to the present outcome you correctly find to be so absurd.
You have wonderfully and eloquently summarized it all. On a depressing, dytopian level of hopelessness. Yes, that’s the same impression I get. The average murican (excluding some poor awakies like you who have to sit in midst of a moribund system, they’ll have to observe decaying, knowing exactly why and how) gives the impression of a prime Dunning-Kruger-example. Overconfident and loudly voicing an opinion that shouldn’t be voiced at all. By the power of a great imaginary sky-friend.
Like your awesome Carlin said (hope to quote it correctly): “of course the american dream is still relevant. You just have to be asleep to believe it”
I grew up with high respect for that great country. And only some decades later I pity the average Joe who has to live there.
I appreciate the praise and sympathy both, hah!
Yeah its… well, in one way, its very, very tragic and sad, essentially just in my lifetime, the US has gone from ‘sole world superpower’ to ‘absolute laughingstock / basket case’, to see the massive amount of unnecessary harm this does to ourselves, and to others.
Once upon a time, a patriot was defined by love of one’s country, one’s countrymen, a broad sense of collective empathy and desire to see the maximum good for the maximum number of them.
But this is no longer the case, now ‘patriotism’ is, to many, either a dirty word, or a jingoist and fanatical cult that worships at the altar of the God Emperor, who sits senile and deranged atop the throne of a long dead sense of American superiority, doing and believing whatever the mad king says in a vain hope that this will somehow re-manifest a mythical, falsely remembered past ‘greatness’.
But, in another way, it is fucking infuriating to people like myself, and many others of apparently uncommon intelligence / insight (for an American), who have been describing the bad trends, outlining how to fix them, then screaming that they need to be fixed soon or essentially all will be lost…
Only to be broadly gaslit and patted on the head and told ‘dont worry, its not that bad, you are catastrophizing!’ by most of society… as all our worst fears just objectively are occuring in realtime.
People did not realize Carlin was not joking when he said that line, they did not take him seriously enough.
… Its… its like being in a car with an overconfident, drunk or high driver and other passengers.
You ask them to slow down, to be more careful, to stop, let me out, and their responses are braggadocious, then angry, then the car crashes, and they blame you for ‘distracting’ them.
To give you a non American cultural reference: I agree with David Bowie, I too am afraid of Americans.
Because their whole system is a circus filled with clowns like him. If this happened in any other country, the president would be fighting for his life.
I just couldn’t even imagine such an assclown to be even near being voted for here.
Well, then again, we (Germany) voted 25% far-right this time. For a total hipocrite nazi party-leader that herself is gay and married to an immigrant 😁 Nothing against being gay and immigrant. It just doesn’t fly overly congruent with some nazi-ideals
Sadly it’s a Highly Functional Kleptocracy.
He didn’t get elected, they rigged the election. He won ALL the battleground states? That stretches credulity wildly.
Supposedly there were MILLIONS of people who voted a straight Democratic ticket, but with Trump at the top, and they put him over the top. However, I’ve never met or read any statements from a single one of those alleged voters, not one. Both Dems and MAGAs claim the election was fair & square, so who are these split voters? Where are they? Produce five of them. For that matter, produce just one.
They don’t exist. The election was rigged.
But rigged? Two fucking times? Why even vote at all
mass hysteria/delusion similar to Germany in the 1930s
But still. Hitler was, despite his goals and morals, a respectable clever politician. Not a pedophile stupid billionaire fat ass-clown actor. And also the times were highly simpler without the net to actually get any information you might seek.
He SEEMED like a good choice. How could trump ever just slightly invoke some reaction like “HM. Yes, this one might be acting in MY interest. Like most billionaires do”
He’s the bestest and brightest america has to offer, he is the the perfect embodiment of what it means to be american. Lazy, tat, stupid, ugly, mean, ignorant, and spiteful. The racism and misogyny aren’t bugs they are features