congress has been abnormally silent. just a fucking ghost town.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Democrats have announced that they're going to make a statement at 3:45pm EST today or something. Our government is actively in the middle of a coup, and they're "going to make a statement."
I'm sure it'll be some finger wagging, and that's about it.
Oh, that's not all they'll do. There will also be some strongly worded letters.
What do you want the Democrats to do?
Stage a coup of their own?
The Republicans won democratically and they're doing what they said they would and the American population gave Trump his first popular vote win because of it.
The Republicans won democratically
Did they? Trump was bragging about Musk messing with the computers, which given Trump's penchant for lying and Musk's penchant for being terrible with technology, seems unlikely, but it should have still merited an investigation.
Also, the Dems rolled over in 2000 when the Supreme Court gave the election to Bush, so even if they found evidence of wrongdoing, I doubt they would do anything.
Do you have a concrete source or evidence other than the mouth of this ever changing talking head. Like real evidence? If not just stop, its embarrassing. I get that you don't want to accept that people would be this stupid and vote for Trump again. But if you just deny reality based on some conspiracy you are not really different from republicans talking about a stolen election in 2020.
Its over, the MAGAs won this time. Lets face reality and accept it and deal with it. Denial gets us nowhere.
My point is is that the MAGAs would have won regardless of whether or not Trump cheated. The Dems are spineless when challenging the legality of an election. When the SC ended the recount early and gave it to Bush, Gore should have fought. When ballots were found in dumpsters, Kerry should have fought. Hell, I remember touch screen voting machines in 2008 having their grids miss calibrated in a way that gave votes to McCain, but never Obama. Obama had at least had a voter intimidation and fraud hotline setup in advance so it wouldn't come down to a post election issue.
What I'm saying is is that if you want progress within legal means, you have to gut the DNC and get people with spines.
Stage a coup of their own?
Yes?! Why shouldnt they?
Because they’d be staging a coup against the democratically elected government.
Most americans want this.
Most americans want this.
I doubt this, since less than 25% of the total population actually voted for Trump.
And yes staging an actual coup might be a bad idea, but doing nothing or things that have no effect is an even worse idea imo
He got over 50% of the vote.
Which is less than 25% of the population. A little more than 2 out of 10 voted for him
Here in the EU I'm having trouble keeping up, what are talking about here?
Elon Musk is actively taking over various government agencies and installing his own sycophants into them. 18 year old kids are now in charge of the 6 trillion dollars that the government spends annually and were appointed to that position directly from their internships at SpaceX or Tesla. But at least they were camp counselor the year before!
Medical and scientific research is being scrubbed for any mentions of gender (and probably sexuality as well) and COVID while the CDC has been gagged and told they can't report data on ANY active diseases - including the current bird flu that may or may not be turning into another pandemic.
The tariffs are going to cripple the economy on basically all fronts. I heard somebody claim that US auto makers have said that they'll have to stop production after a week because nobody can afford to make cars with those prices.
Trump released thousands of gallons, if not hundreds of thousands, of water from a lake reservoir in California, flooding farmers' fields and almost flooding over levies "because it will help with the fires in LA" despite them being hundreds of miles away, which will hurt the farmers this summer as they won't be able to use that water to keep their crops alive, which will further add to food supply issues and hurt California's economy - which will hurt the rest of the nation by extension because their economy is one of the largest contributors to tax revenue in the country.
The list goes on and on.
Actually, it's only like this because people didn't vote. Soap, ballot, jury, ammo: they say to use the boxes in this order...