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Cornered animals are the most dangerous. It's often a good idea to get the dart gun.
~~dart~~ gun*
Browning M2*
BB. He needs to suffer long term
And keep the nuclear football away from him
America isn't like this because Trump is president, Trump is president because America is like this.
I point to the likes of Mitch McConnell who has been working to undermine our government for decades, just that instead of someone with half a brain they got Trump instead so have to go with him.
It began with the piece of shit Reagan and continued by Newt Gingrich. Fox News came along and made shit processing mainstream
Nah, it’s always been this way. A nation of virtuous people doesn’t Manifest Destiny their way across a continent, killing and enslaving everyone in the way.
To be fair, Manifest Destiny was bullshit pushed by rich people who wanted desperate people from Europe/Asia to come over and expand the country so they could make more money.
And Nixon's leaving office cemented they'd rather go with fascism than democracy.
Exactly. Everyone is scapegoating Trump like he's the cause of everything evil. But if he were just some fringe lunatic nobody agreed with, he would have been laughed out of the primaries immediately. The problem isn't him, it's the system that allowed him to even have a chance of being elected, and that includes the government, the billionaires running it, and a large percentage of voters
Nailed it. Trump to America is like Ringo to the Beatles. He’s a perfect fit.
He’s also like the Joker. He’s a reflection of hypocritical, first-world corruption, capitalism and consumerism. The citizens rely on Batman (establishment wealthy centrists) to save them every four to eight years. And when Batman fails to truly change material conditions, they let out the Joker from Arkham again, who promises to maintain their first-world consumerism.
Of course, the joker is a psychopath who wrecks shit, so he also fails on his promise to improve material conditions. He worsens them. The citizens get pissed and cry out to billionaire Batman again. Joker gets thrown to Arkham again for four to eight years. Rinse and repeat, without ever looking within themselves to see how they perpetuate the evil cycle of exploitation.
Even if voters didn’t directly vote him, they still support the system via there dollars to all the corrupt things. It’s exactly by design to serve the capitalist class. Batman and Joker are from the same DNA of the wealthy lineage.
If Americans woke up and addressed the true problem, which originates from their collective obsession with materialism and stop relying on Batman to save them from the Joker, then the joker has no reason to stick around and Batman becomes irrelevant.
I want to ask Trump voters how, exactly, was Kamala supposed to do worse? Double tariffs? Invading all of South America and losing two wars in the gulf?
You'd get nothing but disingenuous answers, rhetoric, and bad faith arguments.
I stopped trying to understand them because all measures are correct about them. They're racist, fascist, bigoted morons wrapped in Christianity and the flag as their excuses for being so.
Global Thermonuclear War perhaps?
He has committed more than enough crimes. Arrest
Arrest most of SCOTUS - then arrest the Don.
Legit question, if it was ever proven that he illegitimately elected, would any appointments made by him be invalidated, or since the Republican senate rubber stamped them all we’re going to pretend we can’t do anything.
Any actions taken by Congress or SCOTUS would stand even if it was somehow proven that he was illegitimately elected. It would mean little at all in our political system.
God bless America.
This is worthless. Everyone in the article believes his need for power and authority is about glory and ego. Not one mention of knowing he'll go to prison for the rest of his life. Not one mention of raping children.
It's impossible that he'll do even one day in prison
Even in the best case scenario, that the Dems win the congress in a landslide, he gets impeached, gets 25th amended, forgets to pardon himself, then the legal proceedings will get dragged so long that the final sentence will come long after his death.
I don't think he thinks he'll go to prison at this point. He spent his entire life avoiding it.
His health is so bad that I'm not sure he'll see thanksgiving. They'll definitely article him in January if he does, because then Vance gets his bonus 2 years.
I'd like to see justice done, but I think he'll succumb to his many ailments before that.
But just like Trump found out in Iran, power comes from how much you can get others to go along with your plan. He has power when people capitulate in advance to his illegal and unconstitutional orders. Sure, the way he operates will become more illegal and unconstitutional when you ignore him, that won't make him powerful so long as nobody listens to him. The journalist boycot in response to the press pass denial was the first thing resembling a spine from the media.
Emphatically agree except for the last sentence unfortunately, I think the reason that journalist boycott happened is because members of the White House press pool have agreement with each other to share resources
Like, the whole reason for a press pool is that it's a logistical impossibility for every interested news organization to get a journalist into most events because there just isn't enough space, so CNN Fox etc. say "Ok, your employees cover Monday, we do Tuesday, WaPo does Wednesday, etc., and we all share whatever video or audio we get."
So, I think Fox heard about CNN and the others getting banned, and they were like "Oh so now we're responsible Monday and Tuesday? Hell no, I'm not paying the staff hours for that, concentration camps and extrajudicial executions I can forgive but I will burn this government to the ground if they make me go over budget this quarter."
It's out of self-interest I agree. And now that it affects them, they are skipping the sanewashing on this one issue. If it didn't affect them, they would be reporting on it like:
White House uses unconventional legal theory to revoke press access
The journalist boycott has happened before. Last time Trump banned reporters, all the major outlets stood up for them. Whatever you think about any of those outlets, they all understand that an attack on one of them could just as easily be an attack on any of them - especially with The Idiot in charge. That’s why they respond in the way they do.
Weirdly, it’s a similar argument that supports the unions many of these networks spend so much time railing against.
We still need to hold back our enthusiasm for midterms until they happen and to see if all os well.
Remember when Mike Johnson refused to seat an Arizona House member ? Even if the election is free and fair, despite their gerrymandering efforts, we need to be prepared for the lengths the enemy is willing to go, because I can guarantee you, they are willing to go further than any of us realize.
Yes, you're right. Depending on the bubble, you'll get a lot of push back, though.
There are multiple checkpoints that need to be cleared. First, gotta have the overwhelming blue tsunami. It won't happen quite like some people suggest. There will be wins, maybe overwhelmingly so, but there will be losses. At the national level, it will take only a strategic win or two by Republicans to undermine almost any chance of progress. Not to mention the THOUSANDS of state and local level elections happening, and I can tell you that the Democrat party is way weaker at those levels, especially in rural areas and red states.
We're literally in a situation where everything has to go according to an exact plan or there's no real hope of success. It's a tough position to be in.
All that aside, even if there's a clear blue tsunami and literally every race goes to Democrat / progressive candidates, the American people are still going to have to hold those elected officials accountable and force them to actually fight back, make progress, and work for the people. Guarantee it. Money from corporations and the ultra wealthy in this country is far more powerful than our votes, our opinions, and our lives.
That's pretty much the entire MO of the Angry White Man.
The whole demo freaked the hell out after Obama and seeing where demographics are going. That's why they absolutely love the loser that is donnie.
As Chomsky said: they (well, not donnie) have a right to be mad, but they direct their anger at all the wrong shit.
The punishment phase after the midterms is going to be brutal
It is not just him. It is all of his MAGAt followers.
I might be overthinkging or worrying too much but if Dems do win in the midterms i really fear what he will do.
They have shown disregard for the courts, and congress so its not like anything they say or do will stop him and his cronies.
After the loss I think he may actually try to invade if not outright nuke Iran. He wants to be remembered and revered so much he will do anything and completelt unshackled in a lame duck period he can and likely will do anything.
He'll scream and cry cheating, and 100% will try to discredit any Dem that wins.
The article says that afterwards America will be "paralyzed" and its enemies will use this time to act. Which sounds like part of the plan too. With a Congress that has been intentionally hobbled, trump can just do what he wants even more.
We've already seen that every head of every government agency will just do whatever he says. Keeping Congress paralyzed in an pretend "legal quagmire" is just the shit-smear of legitimacy he needs to fully and complete take the reigns as king of the toilet.
They talk about Taiwan and Ukraine. They don't mention it, but Israel will finish off Iran and Palestine and start on its other neighbors. It's going to be bad all over, starting January next year.
There is no peaceful solution for conservatism. The millions willing to fight need a communication platform that won't censor our discussions and planning. We don't have any such platform right now.
SimpleX, Briar, Nostr
Thank you. Those first two are just direct messaging apps, but Nostr looks interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!
Fear not, vote, press on!
At what page are we in the Hitler playbook?
Not close enough to the "shoots himself in his bunker" bit.
The diplomats should have gotten together and all looked at their watches if he threatened Iran, yawned if he talked about his vanity projects and planned on other scenarios.
I see no evidence of weakening power, this reads like a plea to get people to stay home and not vote.
There is no peaceful solution to conservatism/fascism. It's time to finish our civil war properly.