Seriously - how is it that the American people are being railroaded into autocracy by such a cringey, pathetic bunch of simps and losers?
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honest answer: a 45 year project to delegitimize the media by routinely calling them "liberal", so much so that the major media reflexively frames every issue with a pro republican bias, goes soft on republicans in interviews, harder on democrats that was sped up with the introduction of fox news in 1998 and their "fair and balanced" tagline even though they were blatantly pro republican.
now you throw in all of these conservative propaganda online media distribution networks and actual true believers who bought into the "democrats are traitors and the enemy who deserve to be shot" rhetoric started by newton leroy gingrich and sprayed across the country by rush limbaugh having prominent positions in elected office and this is how you devolve into a despotic idiocracy run by a weak autocrat calling himself strong and protected by the truly evil people who are actually running things.
tldr the conservatives scared the media into being pro gop just so they wouldn't be labeled as liberal even though conservatives call them liberal anyway.
All correct, but I think Faux started in 1996.
Also, Ronnie Raygun's admin paving the way for the likes of Rush and his many imitators on hate radio played a large role...
The internet has become the dominant media. And it didn’t create a free and open information landscape where the best ideas rise to the surface. Instead it started an information war, and the right wing is winning. Mostly because they can blatantly flood it with bullshit.
And they are whiney bitches. It's like arguing with the kid that got the shit kicked out of them and there is nowhere to see them to kick the shit out of them.
As with every scam, the target are those that get most easily fooled.
Isn’t that what it takes?
First Past The Post voting has limited the competition in our elections, making both mainstream political parties incredibly soft and filled with weak individuals. This is why the republicans were so easily bought by Russia, and why the democrats couldn't find a way to beat a circus full of clowns.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
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How does this lower egg prices?
At the risk of stating the obvious: It was never about egg prices.
Are you saying from the perspective of Trump voters or republican leaders? I think the goals between them are quite different.
Leaders always have different incentives and therefore goals from their followers and the American people really need to wake up to this fact.
Nah, they don't differ. The caring about anything with the economy was all a feint. They just want to hurt brown and trans people as much as possible up to and including genocide.
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Other countries will eventually see how awesome the US is and donate their eggs for free.
I'd donate some eggs to Trump's face on Mt Rushmore (and most other places)
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i hope she gets incumbency fucked, she deserves it for that one.
Lakota Sioux: You know what, just bulldoze it
Might think is an irony, but it’s intentional: that area is supposed to be sacred to the locals. This ongoing violation is just colonialism and genocide 2025.
The fact that they want to treat indigenous peoples as illegal immigrants means we're at the start of the trail of tears 2.0
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Ate the onion.
coughs, chokes, spits up onion chunks
Wait, fucking what?
This is real?
...
Ok then. Sure, fucking why not, of course.
The bill is unlikely to receive the bipartisan support needed to pass Congress.
Understatement of the century, lol
I 100% guarantee there would be a dynamite accident within 6 months. Fuck that smug prick.
🤞 Please let him personally oversee all of it, please. 🤞
Blowing it up will certainly be an epic symbol of the end of his despotic reign one day, like the footage of statues of dictators being pulled down.
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I mean, fucking whatever. Mt Rushmore sucks, I've been there. It insults the natural scenery by being a shitty half finished project on what was originally a beautiful mountain. Adding Trump to it would make it an even better metaphor for the US government, especially when he stops paying developers halfway through and we end up with a partially finished version of his face
Not just a beautiful mountain, but a sacred mountain that was intentionally defaced because it was sacred.
You're definitely correct, but I think it was technically faced rather than defaced.
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They wanted Ronnie Raygun up there, too. The qons literally adore the worst fucking people in history.
These fucking losers.
First time I genuinely thought it was The Onion, and I'm shocked it's not.
"Let's get slurping"
I guess now might be a good time to repost this lil meme I made:
Hey! I made something similar during his first term:
So basically they introduced a bill to create a public bathroom on the top of Mt Rushmore.
Can we get someone like Ted Lieu to point out that a geological survey done shows the mountain would be in danger of collapse if any more carving is done to it, but instead we could put him on, say Stone Mountain in Georgia? You know, with the rest of the traitors?
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Get people outraged about stupid shit while they burn important shit to the ground.
Dude will fit in perfectly with the other racist creeps on that gross turd.
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Interesting that they called the politician a "MAGA politician".
If it wasn't for all the negatives, it would certainly be amusing to have a giant face for people to vandalize constantly (by even GOP folks who will have the spell broken) when Trump is gone from the this world. Nobody likes him, and nobody actually respects him, they all just see him as a means to an end (power/$).
I don't know why, but a graffiti competition on Trumps giant head would be pretty entertaining. Make it a poll and winner gets to have their art displayed for a year. Hell, make it a fundraiser and help some people hurt by this monster also.
2117:
"why is that great big face on the mountain all broken, mommy?"
"Let's talk about the bad people in the world, pumpkin."
My god. I joked about this only the other day. I hate when the absurd becomes this week's embarrassment.
Great use of my tax dollars.... Which part of the department of government efficient do we report stupid publicity stunts to? Lol
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And announces it on Xitter.
Enjoy the portraits of Trump in every room Americans. Let us know how it goes, we’re too busy preparing for your malice and abandonment to watch.
Prediction: He'll introduce a new $1000 bill (which makes large cash payments a lot easier), with his face on it.
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Even Saddam had monuments. They were torn down.
That’s great and all, but everyone knows that orange travertine is only found in Iran. And given the fact that mr. trump is currently romancing Israel, it’s not looking very likely Iran will be willing to give up its precious stone.
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