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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

IMO there are two big, fundamental and inherent problems we're not dealing with.

1 - Democrats don't want to do anything, because they want to run against Republicans on this in the fall, midterms and in 2028.

2 - The folks who voted for Trump in the first place get their news and world view from Fox News and the GOP-aligned media. They aren't telling the same story.

Let's look at the fucking headlines from Fox News right now:

  • Dose of Reality: Trump targets drug prices, pharmaceutical industry with new executive order.
  • Dems defend 'storming' of ICE facility - DHS hits back with all the receipts
  • Trump cuts deal with America's top rival - here's the fairer playing field the US now has
  • Storm Clouds: Middle Eastern royal offers to donate jump jet to Trump - Dems immediately make move
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We probably shouldn't have let Fox News fester and metastasize all these years.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

1 - Democrats don't want to do anything, because they want to run against Republicans on this in the fall, midterms and in 2028.

This reminds me of the olde biology joke.

A scientist observes a frog jumping. He [ sequentially removes legs and observes until the last leg is gone; then he] observes that a legless frog will not jump when provoked, concluding that a legless frog becomes non-compliant.

It's fun to absolutely render a party useless, ignore the rallies its better members are holding (and how that's all they can do) and just decide they must not want to do anything for a reason then supplied.

Can we beggar a question when there's no question?

I'm gonna need receipts; especially for the Bernie and AoC cases.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

you're forgetting about point #3. all you need to do is watch the commercials on major us 'news' stations to figure out who tells the news.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Honestly US has too many retarded people for democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"unprecedented," "deeply concerned," "alarmed,"


words have lost all meaning due to be in every other fucking headline

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

SLAMS

BLASTS

CLASH

OUTCRY

UPROAR

PUSHBACK

FUCK

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Personally, I think we should skip the home.

This loser didn't start forgetting his wife's name or forget to wipe his ass after shitting on a regular basis.

He's a fucking traitor who is tanking our country in a myriad of ways and violating the fuck out of our Constitution. A much more....severe punishment is in order.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since Letterman is a millionaire I vote he starts the revolution, instead of trying to convince us to do all the work.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hank hill “do i look like I know what a JPEG is”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We have to be victimized because the alternative is armed revolt and putting his fat orange neck under the guillotine. I’m sorry, but Americans aren’t suffering enough en-masse to be motivated enough to do that yet. I wish it weren’t so, but we’re stuck with it for now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Give it a year.

I'm assuming some of the Trumptards with a few brain cells still bouncing around will start looking at their grocery receipts and not be able to reconcile it with what their Daddy has been saying.

"Hey, dat man lied to me."

Maybe getting evicted will open some eyes.

We're only 3-4 months in.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

You'd be surprised at what people will put up with. I say we aren't close even if we gave it 3 or 4 years.

They will bury their head in the sand so hard they'll come out the other side of the planet before they'll annoy they were duped.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The idea of armed revolt always concerns me because of countries like N. Korea, Iraq, and more recently Afghanistan.

All of these countries had periods of (relative) progressive tendencies before their current iterations. Yes, I'm aware Afghanistan was still rough 2001-2021 but there was still a generation of women going to school and getting educated and that concept just simply ceased to exist.

And all of these people just kinda...watched it happen. And did nothing about it.

I'm not sure, as an American, why we'd be any different. We have alcohol, iphones, air conditioning, fast food, and video games. No one is risking their creature comforts at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Would you agree that those creature comforts are at risk in the coming months? Fast food and video games have already become prohibitively expensive IMHO.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

In Germany we say "Der Klügere gibt nach, bis die Dummen die Welt reagieren". You could translate it with "A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will until fools rule the world."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He’s pretty much describing all three sides of the problem and pretending only one of them matters.

  1. The anti-democracy movement, which wants a dictator and has gained enough followers to actually pull it off through democratic means.
  2. The pro-democracy movement, which is seeking to counteract the fascists through persuasion (the whining he’s talking about) and careful legal action that doesn’t undermine the very democracy they’re trying to defend.
  3. The revolutionary movement, which believes this democracy has already failed so severely that it needs a hard reset, so any action to remove the fascists is justified even if there is collateral damage.
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is this statement any different than anyone else's "whining" about the goon? It puts me in mind of a scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

We've go to get up off our asses and stop just talking about it

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When lettermen calls someone a goon you know he hates them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There's nothing you can do, the system was made so you can't just remove a guy you don't like. It's up to Congress to impeach and remove or the 25th amendment, but that just gets you Vance.

Have the day you voted for, especially the protest-non-voters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, there's always one thing we can do.

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