• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    When is the majority of this country going to grasp that we are dealing with an actual, real life traitor?

    Is it going to be one of those things where it isn’t generally recognized until way after the fact when historians/teachers/students are studying the time period?

    It’s pretty fucking obvious.

    He INCITECD AN INSURRECTION. He is ADVOCATING FOR HANGING POLITICIANS FOR ADHERING TO THE CONSTITUTION.

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    The fuck is wrong with Americans?

    If any other president had said the things he said over the past couple of months, the country would have exploded and a president either legally or through mass protest removed from office.

    What’s so special about this orange nutjob?

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      What’s so special about this orange nutjob?

      Nothing, really. He’s not doing anything other piece of trash authoritarians haven’t done before. And he’s not doing it as effectively as many of them did.

      What’s special is that we live in a country whose populace is so ignorant and hateful that a high enough percentage of the population supports this basic ass bitch because he says basic ass hateful shit that he has remained protected by them.

      The issue isn’t Trump. Our society could have easily kept him just a whiny little rich bitch like all the other whiny little rich bitches. The issue is our society because we didn’t.

      Believe me. There is nothing special about this loser.

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      There have been tons of massive protests, the average American doesn’t support this crap and they’re doing what they can

      The question should be the fuck is wrong with America’s police officers, service members, judges, and lawmakers and other elected officials

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        He doesn’t care about your protests. He literally created a video of himself shitting on them and declaring himself king. It works in functioning democracies, but walking down the street with a sign will not stop a fascist intent on absolute power.

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      He has done it so much and gotten away with it, it’s been normalized.

      January 6th (aka, the insurrection) should have been a wake up call for everyone. A lot of people don’t care about their country or God or whatever else they claim. Many just care about community.

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        Oh, they are. But you underestimate the power of opioids, police state, etc. in preventing that hunger from turning into action.

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      My personal theory is that there is just so many people and so much land that one person can care about and that area is about the size and population of the average US state or European country. Once you get to the size of the US or China or Russia or even India it’s too big for people to care. Very few people in NYC give a shit about what is happening in LA on a day to day basis.

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        I don’t know if it’s a lack of caring, but the distance certainly makes MEANINGFUL action for most Americans out of reach. Just marching in say Boulder, CO does jack shit in Washington, D.C.

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      I think part of the problem is people assume he’s going to die soon and so aren’t motivated to try and remove him from office. But even if he dies soon, I fear things will get worse. JD Vance is potentially just as bad or worse. And other people involved, like Stephen Miller, could eventually become president if nothing is done to prosecute all the people involved in this clownshow

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      the jiu-jitsu propaganda machine is coming for everyone. Watch for the signs: nutjobbery, incompetence, fascism.

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      Americans in flyover country are really really fucking stupid, yet are very well funded gov subsidies. Evil exploits this major US weakness.

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      Nah.

      Their rationale starts with the belief that all of Trump’s orders are lawful, because he’s the president and a president can do anything.

      So their issue would be that saying that isn’t true, is unlawful.

      Which is obviously hypocritical because they acted like Biden and Obama were Stalin and Mao level authoritarians and multiple sherrifs and other red state officials flat out refused to follow orders from the Fed.

      By their logic now, all those people shouldve been hung.

      But when Trump’s out of office they’ll change their tune again

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          Our standards are the best, folks. They’re so good, they call them, you know what they call them? I know you know, the lying media knows, but folks they call them “double standards”. Can you believe it? Standards so good they’re double. And listen, when we put America First, our standards will triple, even quadruple.

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          But the reason shit is so fucked, is the neoliberal wing took over the Dem party and their only problem with a strong fed is they didn’t control it.

          Instead of fighting against the centralization of power, they went along with it because 50% of the time they got the keys.

          And the oligarchs that funded both sides were cool with it for the same reason the US was cool with installing puppet dictators in the ME.

          You want centralized power in a puppet state because the more you concentrate the bribe the more the person will do for it.

          It’s not impossible to buy off ~550 politicians to own the federal government, but it’s easier to just buy off the president.

          Just like it’s easier to buy off a single federal government, than 52 state/territories.

          Which is kind of the whole reason we as citizens should want the power distributed as much as possible, which includes unfreezing the number of House seats and putting more power in state governments.

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        Their rationale starts with the belief that all of Trump’s orders are lawful, because he’s the president and a president can do anything.

        To be fair, the supreme court recently said exactly that. We literally have a king now.

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    You are inside a watershed moment. Here we go. The responses to the video didn’t do these animals any favor with any undecided troops.