For now the majority is razor thin so while he can make changes it's still difficult to do. If i recall if even 2 Republicans don't support him and all Democrats oppose then he can't get things passed
Still possible but not easy.
But absolutely he is selling to the highest bidder
There are a bunch of votes that were down ballot dem, but for president votes went to Trump. The thought is that they were changed with an algorithm
The Doge guy made ballot reading software in 2020 that had a write function. Like trump said, "Elon is really good with those vote counting computers," and Elon's kid said "they'll never know"
Elon and Trump were facing jail if they didn't pull this off. Now we have a government full of lackeys with their heads in the sand who won't even bother looking at it. Trump had talked to Putin 7 times before the election. He and Elon likely set up a quid pro quo deal where Putin helped them steal the election to get the US out of Ukraine
US community on Midwest.social is also Russian modded. I got to admit, it's not entirely stupid of Russia to try and go to as many non-official official servers they can. Like Ireland on Discord, US News/Politics on Lemmy and through modding those communities, control the way the rhetoric leans.
It's just annoying how many people won't recognise that and instead but into all of it. That's genuinely why Trump won, more than likely. The amount of "don't vote" froM Russian trolls was huge
I had a similar moron on Ireland discord claim he's native born Irish, I taunted him to voice channel and when he spoke it was a very heavy Russian accent, and bro didn't even know what a limerick is.
It's beyond easy to catch poorly educated Ruskis playing westerners if you keep any wits about you.
The people who are too scared of saying "Putin is breaking international law with the illegal invasion of Ukraine and is a war criminal and should be tried for his crimes", or even "Putin is a criminal" or "Putin is wrong" or "Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine", the people who never utter a single detail about themselves (except when claiming to be "born&bred American") but constantly comment on American politics, and each of their comments aligns with Russian propaganda?
Yeah, it's not "everyone", sweetums. <3
If you guys drank less and read more as a people you wouldn't be ridiculed so bad. Now it's like genuinely ridiculous how unaware you are of how fucking see-through you are.
It's ludicrous. I would laugh if it the Americans also weren't so stupid that you actually managed to put an agent at their head of state. Because that is actually worrying.
Russia itself is weak and backwards as fuck but if they manage to mangle the US, Russia+China will give Europe a running for our money.