This guy will say anything to get voted. Has never been following up on anything. Will do the exact opposite without any scrupules. It’s of no use to say he promised this or that. That’s not his game.
But he did give plastic straws back to the mob.
Even after J6 only the mob was punished. In a country like Spain or most European countries Trump and co would’ve been in prison immediately, awaiting their trial.
So?! Gonna fight this guy with statements made in the past?! It’s like arguing with IDF that what they’re doing is unfair and immoral.
They and their voters don’t care. It’s the kind of people that simply wants to have the winning hand, whatever way. Integrity, honesty, fair play, … are not in their dictionary. Power & money are their values. These guys are only busy with their own interests. And the goal justifies the means.
At first they’ll try to get their way legally (eg. soft approach à la Cambridge Analytica and advantageous algorithms, FOX news, …). If that doesn’t work they’ll adapt the law (ID & birth certificate, Roe vs Wade, Climate agreements, …). If that doesn’t work they’ll go “slightly” outside the law but it’s for the best (ICE razzia’s, deporting illegal mexicans to maximum security prisons in Venezuela, shooting supposedly drug boats in the Caribbean, …), If that doesn’t work they’ll go full Nazi (ICE are militia in the streets, kill political opponents like they tried on J6, track every not like-minded citizen with Palantir, DOGE data & whatever data they scraped, for instance, in this thread and put them in the concentration camps that are being built across America, …)
My point is, either way, power will not be given back.
EDIT : typo, layout. Went a bit off topic perhaps.
Long time ago I used to work with property developers. There was a big fire in a building. It was on the radio. Right after we had a meeting with these guys. One guy entered laughing about it. He was bragging how they had totally ignored fire regulations and nothing was done correctly. His boss shussed him, nodding to us, not to talk like that in public.
Another developer, on a different project, was talking how in France they invented the holiday home when the government introduced the 13th month salary. He bragged about how shitty the construction was (“you could simply punch your fist through the wall”).
That’s the kind of people that run the states now. Getting rich and bragging about who is best at ripping off people. Like this video of a wealthy guy showing off a mountain of presents under a christmas tree and addressing the camera with “See this, you poor fucks, you’ll never get this” <laughter in the background>