He was probably just trying to force fem him with a tranq gun
I think it actually was. A lot of the QAnon stuff was viewed as ironic once upon a time as well
It could definitely imply female incel, but in places like !femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone it's fairly ironic. In that case, it's more about being a loser than a sexist asshole.
That would imply he's making things better?
Why did anybody think anything would be ok? We haven't even seen the worst of it!
Venezuela was a far easier target than a landlocked country in a part of the world where the US isn't a major imperial player. Maduro was the perfect bad guy for him; an unlikable dictator who bullied neighboring countries over their own oil supply.
The Epstein situation is more depressing than outrageous to me and always has been. As fucked up as it is, I have no faith in it ever jeopardizing his power in any way. Conservatives that often push for child marriages won't care. Edgy 4chaners who think loli porn is based are a major force in his youth support. Trump's fascism fundamentally mocks any moral outrage about right and wrong, viewing power as the only metric to determine right to rule. He does not care about God or country, something that most of the Christian nationalists who follow him accept because at least he wins.
My view has long been that Epstein is more of the distraction, despite what him and Trump did being pure evil. The forest is the systemic horrors inflicted on kids by ICE, by increased poverty, by a rise in right wingers who are controlling of kids, while the kids one group of pedos abused is just the biggest tree. All this flaffing around trying to find proof of what everyone already knows is outsized to its usefulness. Trump raped kids and there will never be accountability, while we can see actual good if we work to save new kids from cruel parents, a cruel legal system, and poverty. Even helping one kid in your own neighborhood will do more good than all the attention people have given to Trump/Epstein in the past year.
How the fuck is invading another country for oil about a dead pedo who Trump was a well known friend of? This is literally conquest and you're still obsessing about an issue that could never seriously threaten Trump
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It wouldn't matter. There will be no trials and no one will be held to account. American fascism won't end with some external power or rebel group bringing justice, but by the movement losing momentum and all the war criminals going home. The people who commit unspeakable acts will just be another dad at their kid's little league game. They'll just be average workers who have a bit more wealth than those who didn't kidnap innocent people. The only justice will be them needing to live in a dystopia they did their part in maintaining.
They're a 3 day old account doing nothing but defend Israel. There's no use arguing with them.
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He got slightly less than half of the vote with a voter turnout of 64%, meaning only a third of eligible voters actual voted for him. The turnout in 2024 was slightly lower than 2020, but it was still higher than most years before. He has never even reached 50% approval rating, which is low compared to the highs of most presidents before him.
Fascists rarely have majority support, only needing a reliable plurality. They did gain power because not enough was done to stop them, but the lack of action was not just from non voters. The Democrats made multiple political blunders that even their own internal investigations revealed. Not only did they fuck up on Gaza, they completely dropped the ball on economic issues; failing to even acknowledge problems let alone offer anything new.