Gosh, if only we'd known what he was like before all this happened.
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Jeez. Forget going mask-off. This asshole just did the equivalent of walking in the room naked.
It's like that airplane interview when Lindsay Graham is like "we gotta help the people of venuezala", then Trump goes straight back to rambling about oil when Lindsay is trying to smooth trumps deranged babbling over.
He's a terrible liar, has no idea how to cover things properly.
No one’s ever held him accountable, why should he get better if it’s been working the whole time?
Democrats are concerned. Ahh yes, just concerned. The silence from Dems has been disgusting
Don't worry, Democrat leadership is furiously working on how they could support the fascists.
But but but they'll ban insider trading for members if Congress any day now....they promised!
He already said before that if the Republicans lose the mid terms, and they would, they will, he would be jailed
He's right
And he will be.
They'd need a two thirds majority in the senate to convict him after impeachment.
No chance. Repub seats are gerrymandered to shit, and while he's unpopular he's still more popular than dems in quite a lot of those seats
Much as I'd love for that to happen, assuming there are free and fair elections at all: I have a feeling the first words out of the Democratic leadership after winning will be "it's time for healing and to move forward" (or words to that effect)
Chuck Schummer had already basically bent over for them multiple times.
All of this is one big convoluted effort to stay out of jail while inflicting as much fear and pain as possible.
Some people escaped dictatorships... only to end up here... 🫠
So many colored people voted for this orange turd, it's fucking maddening.
Same, for every woman that voted for this child rapist deserves their heads examined.
People vote for a well known rapist and then are surprised when their country gets fucked.
Yesterday he joked about it. Today he says it. Tomorrow he does it.
He wasn't joking.
I'm sure trump is going to call for the mid-terms elections to be cancelled. We'll still have them, but it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.
If the elections go south for Republicans, I fully expect Mike Johnson to play games with allowing Democrats to be sworn in and seated in Congress. We really need to be preparing for both of these scenarios.
He will declare that Dems cheated everywhere they win, and if the House tries anything, he will declare they are traitors and declare state of emergency claiming absolute power (or whatever other made up shit).
Time to count who sides with whom in the military…
The military has already taken Trump's side, and are gladly following his illegal orders to murder Venezuelan fishermen and kidnap their president.
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I vote we throw Shitler, the turd Reich and every politician who takes money from Israel into a woodchipper and start over
So the reason he's come up with is literally just he thinks he'll lose?
That's a very good reason for there to be an election, Donny
"Democracy" is too close to "Democrat" in his pee brain and kinda short-circuits.
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The US shouldn't have a convicted felon in the oval, but here we are.
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US shouldn't have a president
Let AIPAC control America directly instead of via a puppet president and Congress.
I dunno, Biden performed better than expected and he's a sleepy old guy. Is trump saying he's no better than a sleepy old guy?
I mean he sleeps all the time and also on camera.
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I really don't give a fuck what this asshole wants.
His very existence in that office is illegal and immoral.
Hey “we just gotta vote harder” Americans, what you gonna do when they take voting away?
I am probably part of the 0.001% of people who actually had interest in and read exit polling from 2024, because it contains data that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, particularly on the left who have blamed repeated losses on voter turnout.
The problem is not turnout, the problem in American democracy is the subversion of the broadest swath of people, the tuned-out, overworked, misinformed liberal majority in America.
The last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout in American history.
What they didn't have though was people who had any involvement in the issues or understanding how the political system works, and apparently no attention spans at all. Many millions of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama or supported Bernie Sanders, and that should spark a massive conversation about leftist/democrat messaging, but is largely glossed over. And a massive swath of the voting was literally hinged on the price of eggs at the time, and the well-known effect of voters making their decisions based on current economics and the party currently in power.
A lot of this came from forces foreign and domestic doing everything they can to salt the discourse, poison all the wells and boost all the weirdest, worst nonsense on both sides so that average people who only get their news and information from two hours of facebook or twitter scrolling every week had no idea what was going on.
So yes, "just vote harder" didn't and won't work going forward. Our chance at turning this around though is that people right now are a LOT more unhappy with our politics than they were in 2024, everyone in 2024 were far more comfortable and didn't actually believe the stories about Trump being a fascist dictator, and tuned out his previous administration because attention spans broadly are melted. Right now if elections were held, or canceled, Trump will get wiped out one way or another.
The GOP's only hope of retaining power is literally a fascist takeover, they know it, they're just too dumb broadly to pull it off so I have a good feeling midterms are going to be a violent spank in the ass, and Trump will likely not finish his term. This country has actually survived many similar periods. If enough people can get their brains disengaged from the slop then we have a chance.
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Krasnov can go fuck himself. Where are the damn Epstein Files?
Wow it's almost as though midterms represent some kind of check and balance. Trump and the republicans stand a good chance of being wiped out.
Dickless tater.
When you think about it, your mother shoulda swallowed.
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Edit: Trump's mother. Not OP's. I had a similar misunderstanding recently.
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Do it Trump ... that would make Trump an active threat to the Consitution.
He already is an active threat to the constitution
He has been for 5 years I don't think he's going to stop and nobody seems to be wanting to actually stop them One guy came close by 2 cm if you want to believe it wasn't staged
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Shouldn’t have a felonious, rapist, racist, seditious, stochastic terrorist pedophile as president either, but here we are.
Well, he said you'd only need to vote the one time.
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