Makes sense. The public no longer blindly supports this kind of shit like they used to...so authoritarian tactics are now required to keep getting away with doing it.
I wonder why the public doesn’t support this policy. Wasn’t it successful last time we tried it? /s
It kinda was. It managed to move a lot of money from the poor people to the rich people. Thats why theyre doing it again.
They don't blindly support it anymore- now they knowingly support it.
Capitalist playbook 101. thats exactly what happened in germany back in 1910s and 20s.
Yet somehow half of the voting population supposedly voted for it.
That doesn't explain why the majority of MAGA voters are actually upset about this. What most people fail to account for, is that a ton of people who voted for Trump, were lied to about what he was planning on doing, and they were simply too gullible to look any deeper than the narrative they were fed.
Yes, they are stupid. But they aren't necessarily as evil as the ones that voted for Trump because they wanted stuff like this to happen. That's a much smaller demographic than people think.
I have a really tough time telling the difference because malicious people often pretend to just be stupid cultists.
Also as many have pointed out myself included, propaganda is a hell of a power multiplayer for support. Plenty of decent folks have been propagandized for sometimes decades or generations, this means that as a baseline their perception of reality is warped at best absolutely rat fucked at worst. As someone who broke out of that particular spiral due to my own historical literacy and my abject fucking hatred for most so called authorities, well it's a rather hard thing to free oneself from especially in say rural Idaho or Arizona for example.
The upside is that propaganda only really works when people don't think they are being propagandized to, this means that if the propagandists push back too much their control will snap. It's a lot like religious conversation the easiest way to convert someone is subtly, I should know I somehow made a fucked up synchronous thing from my kins folk traditions and Norse neo-patanism and converted myself to it.
With some help of Elon and his goons
That's because they control who gets to be part of the voting population
He drained the swamp and found a bigger swamp underneath it.
He drained the swamp and then flooded it with his own newer swampier swamp
It’s gonna be the biggest most beautiful swamp you’ve ever seen. People tell me all the time I’m the best at swamps, they say “wOw you are so good at making swamps.” And they’re right I’m gonna make the deepest swamp in the history of this country.
Now with 50% more pork!™
He is the swamp.
I was thinking more Lahey from TPB, but that works too.
I'm sober enough to know what I'm doing, and drunk enough to really enjoy it.
Or, I suppose, the swamp’s calling the shots now, Randy would be more appropriate in the context.
He's more like a burst urine soaked sewage pipe, spewing shit and flooding the whole American political sphere with giant turds and other effluent.
Sewage
When you drain a swamp, you remove clean water and leave filth and slime behind.
He didn't drain the swamp, he just added overt facism and called it gazpacho.
An average Dark Souls enjoyer??
Twenty years ago the Republicans didn't work hard to destroy their country. Neither did they take orders from Moscow. Things have definitely changed.
Neither did they take orders from Moscow.
Yeah, they took orders from Saudi Arabia. They still do, they've just added additional petro-state puppet masters.
They've been trying to destroy the country since after the partys switched.
20 years ago it was bush and Cheney working hard at it.
I would argue it’s been even longer. Since Newt Gingrich in 1995. 30 years ago.
Please. If you really think the US Russia connection is new then you really haven't been paying attention.
Republicans realized they couldn't make people vote for them anymore after being homophobic and pro-corporate became bad optics, so they latched on to demonizing trans people to achieve the same thing they were achieving for decades, and people still fell for it.
The difference is that Trump also abolished the rule of law. It's law and order without the law, and without the order.
The only order is the executive order.
Trump blatantly abolished the rule of law. It's not like rich people payed for their crimes before he was elected, they just don't have to do all the PR work to cover it up anymore.
The SCOTUS and Republican Congress abolished the rule of law.
There is nothing to be gained by highlighting Republican hypocrisy.
Nor lost
Except time, energy, and breath that could go into things that actually affect change.
Fascism is only the logical conclusion to capitalism.
He made America great (if you’re wealthy) again.
MAG(IYW)A!
Make America Great Depression Again
Under Trump they started shipping the repression back home
And deporting those murderous illegal aliens stealing our jobs and eating our pets!
/s
USA! - Now with more scams!
Just think, Until recently people with sketchy tattoos just walked freely with the rest of us. Now, we can rest assured that at least brown people with questionable tattoos can simply be deported without any due process to be treated worse than animals. And we can keep telling ourselves that it's really quiet ok because something like that could never happen to us or the people we care about.
Hey, that's not true, they will also ~~defend~~ defund schools and social programs to make sure they have a devoted voter base!
Did you mean to write "defund"?
yes, thank you.
Trump has done more to accelerate the decline of western imperialism in 6 months than in the last 2 decades at LEAST
My mother-in-law was the president of the Kentucky Reba McIntire fan club, and my father-in-law ran security for her when she toured here.
They have all kinds of pictures with her, and she held my wife on her lap and played with her when she was a kid.
When my father-in-law died, she sent a giant peace plant to his funeral.
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