this has been my entire argument since 2016
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It's even worse when they downplay it and act like nothing's wrong.
a lot of people myself believe that democrats at this point are as much part of the problem, they do what the lobbyist and ultrarich want and totally ignore the voters.
so why fight half the country to only replace trump with a scum like schumer ?
if dnc was worth voting for then trump would never got elected. instead we have gotten lesser evil junk from them for 3 election in a row, the lesser evil that shamelessly funded a genocide when people have been struggling to buy groceries.
From over 100 years ago. Humans never really seem to change all that much.
There are lots of threads that make up this tapestry of shit.
- Aipac
- Citizens United v. FEC
- Corporatism
- Regulatory Capture
- High campaign cost
- 2 party system
- Military Industrial Complex
But it seems we could cut (or at least weaken) them all at once by banning lobbying.
And mass boycotts but Average Joe is marginally educated, poor and disinterested in politics.
Even if we accept that voting third party is futile we then need to accept that the democratic party leadership needs to be completely purged. But any criticism of the leadership then gets met with "why do you support Trump?".
Isn't he democratically elected winning both the electoral college and the popular vote? Democracy is not a guarantee that you will get the best or most qualified leader, just the most popular.
Saying Trump won the popular vote sounds a lot different than saying he won 49% to 48%.
These are the silky arguments that no one needs. Hr did ein the popular vote, of all the votes. No one is talking about turn out.
He came out in public and said he rigged the election with help from some powerful friends. He literally admitted to it, a week after being sworn in but just like always, no one ever does anything about it.
They made everything a conspiracy theory, so now when you try to make a major accusation like this, it just sounds like another bit of noise.
yep. this has all been masterfully orchestrated.
but whatever. i don't care if it was rigged. they all just need to be gone regardless if i'm the only one that thinks so.
Getting kind of tired of people pretending the results are legitimate. We know they are not. The election was massively tampered with.
I do think an independent audit by the UN is warranted. Perhaps the next elections should have the UN monitoring it though the US would sooner leave the UN than allow that.
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They have to uphold the constitution and the rule of law!
Do you think they just get elected and then do whatever they want? That's not the US, not until this idiocy.
That’s not the US,
That is exactly what US is. They even told you before the election that this is what will be happening if diaper donny gets elected.
Historically, no. Now, yes.
The Republican Party dies as soon as that happens. Every Republican knows it. That's why they will fight to keep it from happening and grift the situation as long as they can.
Fascism does not outlive the guy at its center. It can't. Anybody who could step up to take control would have been a threat to the old leader's position. The leader, therefore, has to make sure his people are loyal to him personally, and that tends to select for people who aren't very competent and are incapable of fermenting the same sort of faux populist up swell.
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
That moment when even they admit if the dems did this; reps would go wild.
Presidency isn’t a business that closes once the term is up. It’s a turn in the game. They kept forgetting that until the plane happened.
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
The nail in the coffin should have been the failed coup.
That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
Thing is, I heard that multiple times during his first term.
I'm not saying you are wrong, maybe you are right. But I'm not so easily convinced after all the shit he consistently gets away with. There were people on their covid death beds who were still anti-mask/vax and pro-Trump.
If people are still stubbornly holding onto their beliefs as they directly face their own mortality more or less because of them, its hard to imagine a bribe being the red line.
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
I'll believe that when they do something about him
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
Keep dreaming.
Where's the 2A crowd now?
America: "The government is constantly ignoring the constitution!!!" Also america: ignores the 2nd amendment of the constitution which gives very clear directives on how to deal with the government that igores the constitution.
Cheering on the ever encroaching fascism as it happens in real time.
"...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win." - Richard Rahl
The problem I have with this thinking is that people think Trump caused this and that the fascist problem will go away if he does.
He is a symptom. We need to fix the cause. I'm not saying I have all the answers, but going back to 'the old way of solving problems' and not changing anything will just lead to more fascists.
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A lot of very smart people want to get rid of Trump. The main problem is the hundreds of opportunists riding on his coattails, who are currently in charge of Congress and won't let anything happen to him because it will affect their own fortunes. Hell, some of them are just sitting silently in committee meetings because they can't speak in Trump's favor without committing perjury, so they refuse to respond to questions (even though that's their job). Unless Bonespurs has his final Big Mac Attack while in office, I think we're stuck with him until 2026, when some of his Congressional minions might lose their seats and his lock on the US government will loosen a little.
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