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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's all president drink bleach can do - constantly forecast doom and gloom to the people who aren't happy without something to spend every waking moment worrying about.

It's a drug to them worse than heroin.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Tbf that's what the 24h news cycle has been doing for over 20 years, so it's nothing new.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

constantly forecast doom and gloom to the people who aren’t happy

He even did this the whole time he was president because he had some minor setback or confrontation with reality. He's all doom and gloom, and yet everyone gives him a free pass for it.

Donny Downer

His 2016 campaign spent all kinds of time saying how everything and everyone in America sucked, and yet these discerning folks and American media let him tout himself as "America first" when he not only non-stop shits on America and Americans, but spends more time talking about and thinking about his foreign properties and investments than anything America related.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And they eat it up because he says he's gonna fix it. When in actuality he and his followers are the reason things are "bad". It's easier to blame Democrats for things the Democrats had nothing to do with than it is to actually do any work.

And then when Democrats set about fixing yet another Republican-led to fuck over the American people, the Republicans do whatever they can to sabotage it.

The R's love America. Screwing it up for everyone anyway.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

Considering he's exploiting a biological mechanism we evolved to keep us alive, you're not far off.