The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

$TRUMP arrived: Trump's own crypto currency, which he does call meme coin. So now anybody can get rich with $TRUMP!!1!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This next great depression is going to be amazing.

 

[Soen Eber]

This next great depression is going to be amazing.

If it involves crypto going bust, I'd possibly be for it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

If it involves crypto going bust, I'd possibly be for it.

Trump orders public money to but $Trump. Public now has $Trump and Trump has the money.

 

[Free]

Well, the day has almost arrived. Time to start reading up on how to live through it (hopefully it ends!).

The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

verfassungsblog.de

 

[Innula Zenovka]

$TRUMP arrived: Trump's own crypto currency, which he does call meme coin. So now anybody can get rich with $TRUMP!!1!

From the website:

Trump Memes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol "$TRUMP" and the associated artwork, and are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type. GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or governmental agency. See Terms & Conditions Here, See Card Allocation Here

 

[Free]

He's just ruining the concept of meme for me...

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

From the website:

Trump Memes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol "$TRUMP" and the associated artwork, and are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type. GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or governmental agency. See Terms & Conditions Here, See Card Allocation Here

Oh, I'm looooooooong past believing everything I read on the internet.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Katheryne Helendale (@khelendale.bsky.social)

All you red hat wearers who paid good money to be part of the inauguration festivities, I hope your airline tickets and hotel bookings are refundable. Expect the next four years to be like that, because he truly doesn't give a shit about any of you.

bsky.app

 

[Essence Lumin]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Katheryne Helendale (@khelendale.bsky.social)

All you red hat wearers who paid good money to be part of the inauguration festivities, I hope your airline tickets and hotel bookings are refundable. Expect the next four years to be like that, because he truly doesn't give a shit about any of you.

bsky.app

He's going to hold it inside because it is going to be too cold. Pfft. It's going to be 35F in DC at noon. That's not cold.

 

[Free]

Yup.

Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows

Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power", according to a confidential document seen by Reuters.

The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, describes Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption" that will bring about "a redefinition of the constitutional order - maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states."

"Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power," it says.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/trump-democracy-orban-modi-franco?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

 

[Noodles]

This next great depression is going to be amazing.

I have already been in the middle of it for like a decade now.

 

[Beebo Brink]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/trump-democracy-orban-modi-franco?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

This comment really stood out to me:

I fear that 10, 20 years from now, people could turn back and say the Biden years did not achieve anything to stop Trump from returning.

There is some very uncomfortable truth to this. Biden focused on repairing the damage that Trump started in his first term, but I think he (and many of us) were complacent in thinking that Trump would be defeated if he ever tried again. Although, to be fair to Biden, there's a limit to what even the president can do in four years to turn the entire culture of the U.S. around.

 

[Govi]

This comment really stood out to me:

There is some very uncomfortable truth to this. Biden focused on repairing the damage that Trump started in his first term, but I think he (and many of us) were complacent in thinking that Trump would be defeated if he ever tried again. Although, to be fair to Biden, there's a limit to what even the president can do in four years to turn the entire culture of the U.S. around.

For me, Biden failed to stop Trump in multiple ways, and for that, more than anything else, he will live in a degree of infamy in my memory. He promised to be a one term president and then said he was running again, ruining others' opportunities and the chance of the Democrats to pick a winning candidate. He failed to get Jack Smith moving fast enough to put Trump in jail. He failed to resign in Harris' favor, making her a sitting president running for re-election. Too much desire to make a good mark in history to understand that he had a duty to the country and to us who supported him, an already too-old man to be president.

I often feel like crying these days.

 

[Noodles]

I don't blame Biden.

I blame all the Democrats for drag assing on actualling jailing all these criminals.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

He failed to get Jack Smith moving fast enough to put Trump in jail.

This is the biggest one for me. We can speculate all we want about which candidates under which circumstances would have beaten Trump, but that's all speculation. Trump never should have been allowed to run. The Justice system as a whole failed and really showed it's weakness to stop a runaway tyrant. Trump is not only president again, but can justifiably have increased confidence that nothing will stop him doing anything he wants. I'm not sure how much of this could have been helped by Biden personally, but the Justice system really failed the American people.