No. Back then we were worried about our civil rights, privacy, education system, and our standing and legitimacy on the world stage.
Today, we know those things are fucked, and we’re worried about our democracy and government institutions. The guardrails have been proven to fail. Checks and balances are a fantasy. I’d rather have a dumb-dumb as leader than a malignant narcissist who’d sooner burn the whole thing to the ground than face consequences for his mob boss behavior. Not to mention the goons in the cabal are somehow more dangerous nowadays, with all their insidious nihilism.
While I am Canadian, in 2004 I wasn’t worried about W’s unnecessary war having major impact for the Canadian economy (lives of Canadian soldiers was a different thing due to my feeling of the war).
Now I have major concerns, as the slightest whim of Trump has consequences for international economies, especially with the USA being major trade partner of Canada. The U-SCAM, I mean USMCA trade agreement was difficult due to Trump, and with the possibility of renegotiations in 2026 raises concern. Especially with an upcoming federal election in Canada in 2025, as none of the parties fill me with confidence.
Nobody enjoyed Dubya except maybe shareholders and even now some shareholders don’t like Trump if their reaction the Gaetz nomination was anything to go by.
If Dormammu and the rest of the dancing Republican monkeys are so outraged over crass, smarmy, sociopathic sexual predators, then why is this insurrection-inciting motherfucker going back to Oval Office?
Gaetz and Trump are birds of a feather, why do Dingledangle and his cronies laud one but go against party line to denounce the other? What do they see inside Gaetz that they didn’t notice inside Trump?
I think Dormammu would be incensed by that comparison.
Because the sane Republics are dwarfed by the crazies? Or maybe they legit thought Trump would pick literally any other dickrider over the one with sex trafficking charges laid against him?
The slow realisation that the “save the kids”, “trans are groomers”, “merit based appointments, no DEI jobs” and “tough on crime” candidate just picked a sex offender for AG based on nothing more than rewarding his personal loyalty and the Fox morons were just sort of hoping Trump wasn’t THAT stupid. They now found out he is precisely all THAT and perhaps a mite more.
The Dutch government that formed only in July is already dealing with crisis. The NSC seems like the weak link in the coalition. Especially with the pressure the party faces as it’s fallen from 12.8% in the last election to only 3% in current polls.
Labour has stolen the electorate of Black in a by-election with an 18 percent increase in first preferences to the Labour party.
Black was forced to go into a by-election when its former member was caught snorting blow. He claims him snorting the coke was a part of a deep state conspiracy to oust him.
Sorry but there’s an objective answer to this one and it’s RFK. The damage that malignant sociopath could cause to public health and social trust could last for decades. He caused a fucking measles outbreak in Samoa. Just a completely irredeemable human being.
She changed because the Kremlin offered her a lot of money to start shilling for them and repeating the lie that Ukraine and NATO provoked Russia into an invasion.
I must respectfully disagree, as Musk and his disinformation campaign that significantly contributed to the current mess, and the harm he can cause on a global scale with all the business deals that he’s trying to set up with foreign governments, which was his entire goal in this, will cause more widespread harm, in my opinion.
JB Pritzger but he’s gotta lose some weight first. @Axwage I am afraid Newsome will carry “California” baggage. The right will paint every progressive thing to ever happen in California as all him even if it happened with zero help from him. Sadly the independent voters just are not super progressive.
Fun fact: in 1947 California was the first state to pass “turn right on red” into law. It was a controversial thing and it wasn’t till the 1980s that the last states finally adopted this “crazy California thing.”
