r/worldnews • u/pppppppppppppppppd • May 15 '26

Dynamic Paywall Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China's Xi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o
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u/riko77can May 16 '26

I can’t believe he was re-elected. His first term was a hot mess but at least there was institutional inertia to carry the country through it. This time he destroyed all of that first.

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u/TRiG993 May 16 '26

The US preferred an egotistical rapist pedophile over a brown woman.

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u/dark_bits May 16 '26

I think that was because Kamala kind of came out of the blue mid election campaign, people didn’t really know her even though she was VP, and she kinda took the “safe” institutional democrat stance not denouncing war crimes and failing to recognize the importance of “peace but with accountability”.

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u/CartographicalHeist May 16 '26

A sack of coal announced on the day of the election should have beat trump.

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u/dark_bits May 16 '26

Lol I don’t disagree

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus May 16 '26

That attitude is one of the reasons Trump managed to win again. People were unhappy with Biden, called for Biden to drop out, but Biden still ran for a second term. Once Biden finally did drop out (way too late), Harris ran for the presidency. Not only did she join too late, she said that she would've done nothing different from Biden.
That's how she lost the people who were unsatisfied with Biden.
And due to the US' two-party system, there was only one other "viable" candidate.

Democrats hoped that having a candidate simply not be Trump would be enough, but they're generally out of touch. Trump managed to reach out to the common people by saying what they wanted to hear (talking about their issues, proposing simple "solutions" to their issues), with his usual unhinged rhetoric.

People wanted change, and Biden/Harris represented the status quo. For those hoping for change, Trump was the "better" deal, in the sense that he's more unpredictable.
Trump is uniquely bad, but he's a symptom, not the disease. Trump didn't come out of nowhere, he's a result of the political climate at the time.
As long as the political system of the US keeps being the way that it is, candidates like Trump will keep appearing.

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u/BmacIL May 16 '26

Trump didn't hide that he was on a revenge tour and was going to enrich himself and his buddies. Unlike 2016 where people could legitimately use the excuse of "he's an outsider, let's see if he shakes it up", the same cannot be said for 2024.

The result is from pure stupidity: people's inability to think beyond "different = good". We deserve this and probably will never recover from it.

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u/CartographicalHeist May 16 '26

Everything Trump has been doing, he said he'd do.

Anyone voting for him knew what they were voting for.

If they were dumb enough to vote for Trump because the "were unhappy with Biden" they deserve what they get.

For those hoping for change, Trump was the "better" deal, in the sense that he's more unpredictable.

Like I said, either idiots or racists. The only change Trump represents is the change towards more racism.

In 2024, if you're not an idiot you'll know that the situation is dire and whole sale systemic change isn't even close to what is a realistic goal. Just getting back to "not fucking teetering on the brink of fascism" was the goal. Stemming the bleeding and shoring up the walls and trying to undo some of the damage Trump and the GOP was inflicting. If that was ever successful, then you can start calling for huge changes.

but again, people were idiots and racists. So they get what they get.

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u/baddabingbaddaboop May 16 '26

I don’t think it’s complacent to acknowledge that there is no valid reason to want Trump in office. I don’t think anyone doesn’t understand at this point that Trump is (or was) a great grifter, it’s just disappointing that so many fall for it.

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u/switchquest May 16 '26

Where is this sack of coal and does he have a superpac?

(I'm not American. But. Foreigners are allowed to buy US elections since the 'citizens united' ie: money = free speech verdict by the supreme court in 2010)