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“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.

“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.

“Hey, smartass!” shouted a woman in her sixties, jumping to her feet. “You want to see my tattoo?”

“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

“Yes I do, I’ve got one!” the woman shouted, tapping her chest.

The Trump supporter dismissed her with a wave of one hand. “I’ve had enough of you Democrats,” she said.

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 77 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

This country is so fucked.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yup.

Even if Trump ceases to exist tomorrow, we're still fucked. He's opened the door for copycat politicians for the rest of our lives. Our electoral system is comically corrupt and non-representative. Our entire political system is comically corrupt with way fewer safeguards than we all assumed. Our justice system is incapable of enforcing the law on the wealthy. And there are simply too many stupids in this country.

No party will ever have the massive majority required to make the fundamental changes required to fix all this. Only one party is even somewhat interested in doing so. Short of a revolution and complete wipe and reset of our government and how it functions, the only way this country is going is down.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 1 hour ago

He’s opened the door for copycat politicians for the rest of our lives.

I don't think so, I think Trump will be often replicated but never duplicated.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh the people are not educated properly, too enslaved to debt service and bills, and so brain conditioned to individual greed that forming a cohesive army to restore democracy is a laugh.

Not to mention tbe 50%+ casuality rate from heart attacks if a civil war broke out.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Tbh the people are not educated properly, too enslaved to debt service and bills, and so brain conditioned to individual greed that forming a cohesive army to restore democracy is a laugh.

That's very true. Our problems don't only exist at the top. We have fundamental, critical problems at every strata: top, bottom, and middle.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 53 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

They never should have shot that gorilla.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

That's when we entered the worst timeline.

[–] HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Right? I.swear this is all some butterfly effect, parallel universe, quantum leap bs from that exact moment.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah and has been since Trump laughed off stage in 2015

Edit: I guess people knew what I meant. I meant since he wasnt laughed off stage in 2015