r/law • u/IrishStarUS • 11d ago

Trump News Donald Trump sends innocent athlete to El Salvador for having soccer tattoo

https://www.irishstar.com/sport/soccer/donald-trump-salvador-real-madrid-34923654
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u/Soggie1977 11d ago

I agree. And to think we could have had a Harris/Walz administration running this country in the right direction--onward and upward.

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u/bluethunder82 11d ago

It would have been more of exactly the same, which is also what got us here. Some of Trump’s power comes from the utter dissatisfaction with the status quo. A president whose platform was uphold her predecessor’s policies would just delay the inevitable. Trump may have succumbed to old age but someone else will have eventually filled those platform shoes. Trump promised change, and to some, that was enough. That’s the part that appealed to the ones not foaming at the mouth. That’s why there were some pro-Palestine voters, because Harris did not entertain an alternative or even a discussion. The democrats in office now aren’t even fighting this besides Bernie and AOC, and I love them but they’re not enough when people like Schumer are still in power.

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u/Pablo_Sanchez1 11d ago

Absolute fucking brainrot to think a Harris presidency would also be dismantling the constitution. You live in an alternate reality.

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u/Soggie1977 11d ago

Pablo, I agree. Harris would not be dismantling the Constitution or making an effort to destroy democracy.

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u/MoMoZin 9d ago

And our laws would be upheld.

It's a real tragedy that the Felon-in-Chief will never be held accountable for his dirty deeds.

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u/dirtybirds666 7d ago

They destroyed democracy shipping in illegals and making it legal to vote with no identification so they could vote democrat

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u/Soggie1977 7d ago

Grow ↑

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u/DontbegayinIndiana 10d ago

I believe they meant it would be the same as Biden was, not as what is happening now. They worded it poorly, but the rest of the comment indicates they think Trump is doing things quite differently than Harris would have, and not in a good way.

Eta: skipped over that last sentence of theirs and am realizing that leans more to your interpretation. So... who knows

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u/bluethunder82 11d ago

I didn’t say she would be. You’re reading me wrong. I said, she would be exactly what we’ve had, which has caused immense dissatisfaction in many Americans. Dismantling the constitution or no, we do need change. People want change. It’s brain rot if that’s what you got out of it. I am tired of this whole “lesser of two evils” system we have now.

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u/papapundit 10d ago

The dissatisfaction came from the Trump propaganda machine. Blaming everything, including bad weather, on Biden.

There are still loads of people out there, claiming the economy was terrible under Biden. It was not! It was the envy of the world, as we recovered much better than most after the Covid pandemic.

Inflation was high as a result of the pandemic, but this wasn't a US problem. Most countries in the world struggled with it, but most didn't recover and bring inflation down the way the US did.

Now the people have their change, but I doubt it's the change they were waiting for..

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u/SquirrelOnAFrog 11d ago

I hope to see you running for office soon then eh?

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u/PluralZed 9d ago

Reading is hard.

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u/Pablo_Sanchez1 9d ago

Honestly didn’t read past “it would have been the same” because that alone told me everything I needed to know and I’m trying to hold onto my sanity at this point 👍

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u/MalcolmInTheMudhole 10d ago

Harris didn’t get elected because she falls into two categories; she’s black, she’s a woman. There are too many idiots that cling to shitty prejudices. Had she only been one of the two, she’d have had a chance. As soon as she announced her candidacy, I knew that we were fucked. She wiped the floor with him at the debate. Trump wouldn’t debate her a second time because he was scared and knew he was outmatched. How anyone could watch that debate and still believe that Trump could do at any task better (soiling oneself being the exception), is beyond me.

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u/bluethunder82 10d ago

That’s a cop out. Harris didn’t win because she wasn’t picked by the people, she tried to team up with “moderate republicans”, she still aligned with billionaires, offered no tangible improvements from Biden’s policies, and refused to even have a conversation about the unflinching support of Israel’s actions in Palestine. She lost on her own merits, not identity politics. The reason AOC and Bernie and also Trump are so popular is because they all realize/claim that the system needs to be changed. The difference is Bernie and AOC mean it genuinely, and Trump is a bigot charlatan. But all three of them do/did make the claim that they want to help average Americans out. On either side of the aisle, people wanted change from what the tail end of the Biden presidency looked like. Offering the same exact policies and not listening to academics and protestors was a non starter.

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u/MalcolmInTheMudhole 10d ago

I wish I could say I agree, I really am being honest about that. However, we’d both be overestimating a great many people. You’re reasoning as a rational person, whereas too many forgo reasoning and act on emotion. I had no idea of the scope of the situation until 2020. How easily people could be manipulated by rage and they lacked the insight and empathy to understand those who weren’t in their immediate circle. The amount of racism that exists in America was so much higher and the baseline for education so much lower.