…or their own country, with it’s own constitutional adjustments… It’s own president, military, and the offer to pay people to move there. When you get more people than the USA, start calling yourself the USA.

…say you’ll only rejoin the union of there’s a snap election with new oversight rules, have th UN or NATO involved to prevent cheating.

He melted down? Must have been too close to the fire.

Why would this be for a “potential coup” and not - telling the generals they’re going to be attacking several “Democrat cities” using real military grade violence, and may receive live fire from disgruntled citizens.

…that seems like a far more likely reason for the meetings. Far far more likely.

Pretending the Trump administration hasn’t already broken the law is massive click bait.

Also, billionaires will still be legal under the Democrats. That’s the real reason Trump got in, and the real problem.

Returning to “the norm” is not a solution. They’ll just be another Trump eventually unless the billionaire problem is addressed.

WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection.

Broken escalator + teleprompter fail = insurrection.

“We don’t like Trump, so we want to go back to the system that produced him, and his voter base.”

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If they really want change they should lobby for fairer systems with better services and greater wealth distribution.

Jefferson said something like that when arguing to rewrite the constitution:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-0248

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/thomas-jefferson-on-whether-the-american-constitution-is-binding-on-those-who-were-not-born-at-the-time-it-was-signed-and-agreed-to-1789

…but that was probably written from France when feeling all bohemian on his trip with his child sex slave.

There’s going to be a lot of land available for Tech Bros to set up their private cities.

As JD Vance’s Peter Thiel funded miracle run through the Senate proved, you don’t have to be a Senator long to run for Pres. or VP.

Vance had just two years in professional politics before becoming VP, thanks to Peter Thiel’s money and influence.

It’s a pay-for-play system, not a Representative Democracy.

That’s how parties that don’t actually serve the majority end up dying. It’s a flaw in democracy that it can be so easily corrupted by the wealthy classes.

It ends up all being a sham, then a shame, then a dictatorship.

Neo-Liberaliam / Economic Liberalism is part of what got Trump elected. The sense that Capitalism was beyond the reach of meaningful governance, and will always just aid the wealthy getting wealthier - created a hunger for radical change.

People end up just wanting radical change out of frustration, regardless of what direction that change takes (left or right). They just want a break in unrelenting Capitalism.

Which explains why for many, Bernie, AOC, and Trump, were all likable/popular choices at the same time.

Newsome as a moderating figure will prevent any strong shift away from the service of Capitalism as above all else, and hence is a huge danger to the politics of equilibrium. It’s ratchet theory, keeps things stuck.

… Neo-Liberals should be embarrassed to admit who they are, because they caused this, by claiming that Capitalism and deregulation is a moderate position (steering the ship of state between the left and the right) - when infact that’s an economic extremist viewpoint which excuses inept government and the corruptions of money… and when perpetuated infinitum as it is, it becomes the cause of voter radicalism.

Neo-Liberal economic policies create the unshifting corruption and two-tier “too big to fail, too rich to jail” system that people want to vote against.

In this sense Newsome is dead weight, representing Bidenism 2.0. Neo-Liberals should be ashamed of themselves for not just accepting their part in creating the quagmire, but wanting to continue it.

Just don’t get microwave popcorn because the bags tend to be coated with PFAs which get into the butter, then your bloodstream. Always make popcorn the old fashioned way, or buy pre-puffed.

He was a propagandist.

Most politics is propagandist as it works to suggest we shouldn’t lead ourselves, but need representatives, and that we need to support and work for the gamified tokens (money) of the nation.

Why did the case come up again after 61 years?

Imagine your government gives your privacy and healthcare data to a couple of pedophile-psychpaths, as part of the ongoing attacks on the NHS… On behalf of making a country doing a genlcide richer.

That’s true, I forget you can block whole communities on Lemmy. I guess my question is moot as long as that feature exists.

Maybe they’ve been fighting, seems like that’s what’s being said. Trump slowly realizing he’s being lied to. Better a stable person than someone who might actually nuke if he gets cranky enough (the big baby). Also, Russia probably just wants the flex - I think autocrats see the revolving door of democracies as a weakness.

Hell, maybe Putin saw the stealth bomber got paranoid and got “the guy” to slap that shit into his hand just incase.

All I know is that you meet that guy, you wash your hands straight away.

Yeah he fucking looks like he’s dying soon.

What dumb fucking goofball, he meets Putin face to face, gives him that bare naked palm to shake, then a week later he’s like “Oh I feel sick I think I might be dying”.

You dumb shit, of course you’re dying, one of the toxic dicks you been licking secreted KGB venom you stupid dumb asshole.

“Awww I just wanted to kiss a KGB man, now my cankles are swelling with fluid and I lost a lot of weight.”

Yeah bitch, you got poisoned!

Meanwhile the dems are all like “Did ya see Gavin Newsome say something, he’s not like the other Democrats!”

…shiiiiiiiiieet.

I wonder how bad things will get when Vance (Peter Thiel) is in charge.

“Hey kid, wanna be complicit in a genocide?”