George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Apr 16
The times are a’ changin
Show threadZuri (he/him) 🕐 CET

@georgetakei Like with the last election people treat this as two equal options
"Both sides have their experts"
"Both sides have corrupt politicians"

Seeing what we have seen with the #PresidentialElection2024, the #SecondTrumpAdministration, the #TradeWar2025/ #TrumpTariffs, and #DOGE, people just don't realize that, unlike in the past, there's only one real option and then there's doom. That's beyond comparison, yet they try

#Bothsiderism #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk #uspol #politics

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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Apr 16
The times are a’ changin
Show threadJanKusanagiApr 16
@georgetakei oh, wow, people have EYES!
Show threadDanni Storm 🇺🇦 🇺🇦Apr 16
@georgetakei Much too slowly. Honestly this is depressing that this much of the country still thinks the GOP is for a healthy economy
Show threadcqd_sosApr 16

@georgetakei

You know, when Trump, during his first term, massively amped up the deficit to provide tax cuts to the few, I was waiting for somebody to wake up. Unfortunately, it didn't happen.

Show threadJoeApr 16
@georgetakei It is ludicrous that the numbers are still so close.
Show threadAndi Waffeln!Apr 16
@georgetakei Hi Sulu! My hero! The poll says everything about the US - trump doomed the economy, but the demokrats are only 3 points better than The Donald... 🙈 Greets from the Land if the free - Germany! 🇩🇪🇪🇺
Show threadHenrik SundströmApr 16
@georgetakei
Mr. Takei, I have nothing but respect for you, but US political system is rigged. Who gives a fly if Democrats or Republicans wins elections?
Show threadGurre VildskäggApr 16
@henriksundstrom @georgetakei
No difference between Biden and Trump? There's a huge difference. Plenty of corrupt Dems, yes, but that still leaves a very large difference.
Show threadHenrik SundströmApr 16

@Gurre

Nu är jag led vid tidens schism
emellan jord och stjärnor.
Vår idealism och realism
de klyva våra hjärnor.

Det ljugs, när porträtterat grus
får namn av konst och fägring.
En syn, som svävar skön och ljus
i skyn, är sann som hägring.

Men strunt är strunt och snus är snus,
om ock i gyllne dosor,
och rosor i ett sprucket krus
är ändå alltid roso

— Fröding

Skit är skit

— Henrik

Show threadZzyzx/PApr 16
@georgetakei
https://www.epi.org/press/new-report-finds-that-the-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidential-administrations/
New report finds that the economy performs better under Democratic presidential administrations

For well over a decade economists and other social scientists have documented a strong advantage in economic performance during Democratic administrations. A new Economic Policy Institute report updates this work to the latest data available and confirms that this Democratic advantage persists. Positive indicators like growth in gross domestic product (GDP), income, and wages are…

Economic Policy Institute
Show threaddeBaerApr 16
@georgetakei Really sad that Trump promised that there won't be any elections any more.
Show threadRicardo MachadoApr 16

@georgetakei good! Now do the same poll but this time put:
* AOC + Bernie Sanders
* The other democrats

😉

Show threadIlkaApr 17
@georgetakei unbelievable how close this is, as if half the country has never heard "trickle down economy" and/or picked up book in the past 45 years. Looking at americans is like watching completely stoned monkeys running away from bananas screaming "i am hungry" and keep running away from bananas.
Show threadBandersnatchApr 17

@georgetakei

Which is completely goddamn insane on it's face.

Show threadAleprechaunistApr 17
@georgetakei It's insane that anyone trusts Trump on the economy when he has repeatedly shown himself to be corrupt and incompetent.
Show threadJimJoeApr 17

@georgetakei Trump administration, doing nothing to start manufacturing. No conferences to start investments or direction. Many simple small things can be made with today's affordable, automated machines and systems. Even the resources to make them. A family, a sales person and you're in business getting your product on shelves.

If there was really going to be 'made in america', we'd see the PR for the product by now. Seems Trump from got to promote this one little detail in his 'grand' plans.

Show threadZuri (he/him) 🕐 CETApr 17

@georgetakei Like with the last election people treat this as two equal options
"Both sides have their experts"
"Both sides have corrupt politicians"

Seeing what we have seen with the #PresidentialElection2024, the #SecondTrumpAdministration, the #TradeWar2025/ #TrumpTariffs, and #DOGE, people just don't realize that, unlike in the past, there's only one real option and then there's doom. That's beyond comparison, yet they try

#Bothsiderism #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk #uspol #politics

Show threadBundesnavigationsminister a.D.Apr 17
@georgetakei Still 43% after this mess shows that these people are simply dumb.
Show threadWooShellApr 17
@georgetakei How bad does it have to become before Trump and his junta are down in the single digits where they belong?! Unbelievable..
Show threadTim ZeeApr 17

@georgetakei Since the end of WWII, there have been 12 recessions in the US. 10 happened under Republicans and just 2 under Dems. And every US recession since 1982 has been a GOP creation.
Republicans also caused the 2 worst downturns of the past 100 years: the Great Depression which started in 1929 & the Great Recession which began in 2007.
Republicans truly suck at economics. I do blame Dems for not incessantly hammering away with this fact.

#RepublicansCauseRecessions #MAGA #DonaldTrump

Show threadOrgonitehealingApr 17
@georgetakei Yesssssss