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What in the literal fuck is wrong with Americans and not overthrowing this tyranny? All these laws for this shit, and no balls to see it through.
Cowardice, cowardice, and pants-pissing, whiny, defensive cowardice.
I'm sure you've heard this before, but laws become meaningless when no one will enforce them. This is all happening because the US forefathers did not envision a scenario in which all 3 branches of government would be corrupted in the same way at the same time. Terminal cancer, more or less.
You don't understand.
The other option was a woman. A WOMAN.
That's a genuinely tough choice for yanks.
She had a bad laugh, man. Can't you understand how unforgivable that is, and and she was gonna start a war with Ira...
a BROWN woman. God, could you imagine??
No, you don't understand she wasn't PERFECT on Gaza.
So no one should vote for dems until they're PERFECT on Gaza, since otherwise you'd be uh uh uh supporting genocide! Not voting for her will uh stop the genocide, or something.
I’m trying to figure out a way of explaining it, but it’s multiple factors. These aren’t excuses perse but fall into what I would consider “death by a thousand papercuts”
I could go on with more reasons but I guess what I’m trying to get it is that it’s a perfect storm of being just comfortable enough, coupled with fear of your own wellbeing that keeps people in line.
Those points are exactly it. Midwestern American here, living in a red state and also just lost my job a few weeks ago, so i barely get any benefits after COBRA takes it's share to keep my health insurance going.
What exactly am I meant to do? I can use my imagination to extrapolate the tankies messages, but i don't own a weapon. So, that would cost my unemployed ass $500 just for a starter pistol that could barely hit center mass 10 yards away, and would most likely be a survivable wound.
Alright so let's help my odds, and just like that it's $1500+ just to get some distance and some stopping power. But i also need ammo and additional training and probably some accessories to increase my chances of success and cool I'm looking easily at a final cost of $2500.
So that took over half of my total unemployment benefits for a singular purpose, and now I'm desperately needing change and now the time comes to make a "martyr" of myself and someone else for what exactly? Freedom? I currently have that, albeit as a frog in warming water that organizing with the other frogs to better our situation vs losing everything with life in prison.
So, I get maybe one shot and I don't think there's a single target in the whole world that could instantly improve the country's outlook drastically overnight. Seriously. Any one target anyone can think of has a backlog of equally shitty humans behind them ITCHING to step in with a new purpose and a fresh martyr and trillions of dollars in backing just waiting for someone stupid enough to even do much as try.
The whole system is rotted through and through and would take a serious overhaul to fix. This isn't chess where removing a single piece off the board wins. We have to also go after those that are forcing us to play their games and rigging the rules against us.
And right now we still have organizing, voting, and boycotting. We need to build our own economy, separated from this currently rigged one by shopping local, and electing local officials that can incentivise businesses to do better for our communities, and regulating home ownership to lower costs, and then incentivise citizens to cut our own emissions with greener energy, which then liberates us from oil.
Once we have our local economies established, that sets up a baseline to tie in with other communities to take back a state or two or 5.
It's hard, but very possible to do without the initial violence. Then they can be tried for their crimes against humanity.
The laws require the justice system to bring people to trial, and then for appropriate sentences to be handed down and enforced. "Americans" have zero control over the federal judiciary, and little control over state judiciarires, which have slim to zero power to address these national problems.
Ammosexuals are all cowards
There's still a peaceful way to kick him out. In the midterm elections on November 3, the fascists could lose control of both houses of Congress. If that happens, the orange turd is getting impeached as fast as possible. By spring, if there's no hope of stopping him legally, then we consider stopping him illegally.
I hope you're right.
However I'm also pretty sure they've been planning for years how to rig this election. And evern if they lose Trump might just as well ignore it like any all the laws he's breaking. Since he controls the cops and the biggest military on earth... who'd be able to hold him accountable?
War. It'll be "we can't do election in wartime". Possibly civil war.
...but it's not a war? ;)
Well, one is that our current best hope is that the midterms go well and with shaky control of maybe a single branch of government we can start to fix things.
There's no good reason anyone wouldn't wait six weeks to see what happens.
"All these laws for this shit", and not one of them actually carries a stated set of consequences for breaking them.
"WE hAve The 2nd AmeNdmENT iN cAsE WE WANT to oveRThRow A tYrANNiC goVErNMENt."
The US (and the whole world) must write laws to prevent clinically, pathologically, narcissistic people from having power ever again.
Every time a place changes laws to do something like that, the people you don't want elected get elected and then use those special powers against everyone else
yeah but you could elect me and i'd only use those powers against everyone else, not you*
*only good for certain values of You. specifically, Me.
“Because you had a different president,” Mr Trump said. “They could have stopped him. He happens to be a friend of mine. Kim Jong Un, he is a friend of mine. He likes Trump.”
OK he talks about himself in the 3rd person now. If that doesn't smell of emperor/dictator I don't know what doesn't.
He's done that for decades
Yeah he literal phone Screensaver is of himself.
OK he talks about himself in the 3rd person now.
He's always done that.
And nobody was surprised that the leader of the morons said a moronic thing.
Conservatives are so aggressively stupid that allowing them to continue living will cost the rest of us our lives.
Stick this loser in prison, and make Hegseth his cellmate. They deserve each other.
What the US leader says about it is inconsequential. They have nuclear weapons.
This is exactly why business people shouldnt be the only ones with power.
I'll sleep better knowing he's got things under control.
The Ayatollah should have just stroked his ego a bit.
Yes, sweetie she likes you for your personality and not your money or your power...
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2026 Midterm Elections
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DAYS
Can't wait for everyone but the republican voters to stay home again!
Thanks for nothing Americans (ALL OF YOU)