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In no universe would a Democrat President even be allowed to joke about the things that Trump is doing in plain sight.
How long are you guys going to wait until doing something?
Remember when Barack Obama wore a tan suit? Remember when he ordered a hamburger with spicy mustard?
If he had ignored federal judges' orders, the entire staff of Fox News would have had a stroke.
It's pretty wild when you think about government “scandals”.
Democrat and Liberal “scandals” are often trivial shit that would only work in tabloid magazines (blow jobs, tan coloured suites, the fact that they are a woman or black, what's on the laptop of their kid, etc.)
Meanwhile, Conservative and Republican scandals are more like treason, deals resulting in mass destruction of the environment, wars, threats to the free press, the stripping of civil liberties, institutionalized oppression against various minority groups (and women), felonies, rape or child molestation.
breathes
Publically supporting dictators, publically supporting Nazis, firing of staff designed to protect the country from government oversight or corruption, etc...
What the fuck happened in the world for both sides to receive equal outrage?
We won't do a thing beyond ball-less protests because we're either too afraid of the repercussions, too lazy to give up any sort of comfort or too in denial about the severity of what's happening. No one views themselves as complacent, but there are complacent people out there.
Always rules for thee, not for me
I'm sure if they just occupied the right sidewalk that oligarchs never walk on, or write just the right sensational slogan on a picket sign, that'll be enough to fix things. Nothing wrong with attempting to try, but it might actually do something if they occupied, i don't maybe gated communities for millionaires/billionaires. Outside just one of their mansions, just one. Imagine if BLM or Occupy could happen at a billionaires mansion, even if they weren't home.
Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump's pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump's agenda may go unpunished.
Um, isn't that the main point why Trump did it?
It's like the entire liberal world has been conditioned to act like the things that are very obviously happening may happen ... not right now though ... at some future unknown date ... so you don't need to worry about it really. Don't rock the boat and certainly don't miss work tomorrow... just continue consuming and hold tight while someone else presumably sorts it out.
It's like a civilization-wide bystander effect.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
This is what pisses me off about all the people who kept talking about how the Democrats were failing to get voters engaged in 2024.
If the Dems weren't doing the job, what was keeping you from stepping up?
Its like there was a fire going on and people were complaining the firemen weren't doing enough instead of jumping in and helping.
I'm not a politician. I developed an entirely different set of skills. Throwing away my career at the potential of reskilling is absurd.
And Dems weren't doing their job. I'm tired of people pretending like that's acceptable. I canvass. I get people ready to vote. I do my part.
I can't even tell you the last time a Dem policy benefitted me directly. What I have in common with them really just boils down to them being the only opposition right now. I pushed Harris like we had to and I'll never forgive them for running such an unlovable candidate. They knew what they were doing. The second there's another serious option I'm gone. Dems complete lack of opposition makes them complicit in everything that's happening.
AOC and Omar have entered the chat.
If you don't like the Dems that are in power now, you can primary them. If we get another election.
How long until the dems have effective leadership putting people like AOC and Omar in the spotlight and building around them rather than keeping them on the fringes?
The Harris campaign spent a billion and a half dollars on "getting voters engaged" and she still lost anyway. All the phone-banking and door-knocking in the world can't overcome the fundamental problem of refusing to adopt policies the people actually want!
So please, explain to me exactly what the fuck kind of "stepping up" you expect randos from the Internet, who had no ability to affect the campaign's platform, to actually fucking do?!
Probably the part where I didn't receive over a billion dollars in donations to actually get media attention. A lot of people have been campaigning to get people to ditch the Democrats because they're controlled corporate stooges for the last few decades, I think you were shouting at them for supporting third parties at the time.
And they should have been shouted at. The current system does not allow for third party viability as disappointing as that is.
My analogy is that it was like someone threw a molotov cocktail through your window, but you let the house burn down because the window didn't stop the bottle.
Someone's gonna be killed by one of these J6 yoyos. Could be a SC justice after a ruling that goes against Trump, could be one of those key people from the last administration that Trump quite openly dropped security details for.
Will Trump go the extra mile and pardon them? Will his party full of Christian Conservatives ignore their God's commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" when the victim is a political opponent who they don't like? Of course they will.
At least three of them have already been re-arrested for other crimes.
I need more than Half the states to declare that Trump is a national emergency, and then set legislation to limit all Federal Authority in state level Justice Matters AND mark federal government actions, laws, and executive orders as null/void or something like that. We have to take power away from the Federal Government if it can’t be checked and balanced.
That path is dangerous, too. It's currently what's allowing states to deny abortions and I bet it would eventually be used to re-legalize slavery.
Slavery is already legal in the US.
Why do you think we have 1/4 of the global prisoner population? Like, 1.9 million slaves are currently held in prisons in the US.
I knew I'd get this comment. And you're not wrong, that is the case. But I'm referring to it being fully legal and accepted. Like open-air slave market level.
At that point, civil war 3. Probably with non-south allies on the other side.
The terrifying part happened at the election.
This was the expected part.
The next terrifying part is that we might not kick them out.
Like I said elsewhere, everyone is really just waiting for him to come after the federal judges who have been holding back his EOs. The DOJ is currently being torn apart, but he'll get there eventually.
When idiots vote for a felon, they should expect that felon to destroy the system that might hold him accountable some day.
Another warning? I'll get right on that.
Lots of warnings and recommendations to be scared.
Very few saying what to do.
The only way to take on a bully is to bloody his nose.
French would argue that the guillotine is the more civilized way to do it…