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yup. we told you so. and i hate saying this.
the worst part is that we, in the third world, are going to suffer worse than you.
Lemmy.ml
You fuckers were rooting for it bozo you think everyone else has amensia?
kindly fuck off with that bullshit.
Lmfao go piss yourself to death my guy lemmy.ml is bullshit and so are you now kindly shit off and go blow your mother
so the USA is at Project 850.5 currently, if I'm not mistaken.
It's amazing how well he's hitting a target he never heard of before.
Trump is playing golf.
Correct. He is the distraction. DOGE and the cabinet billionaires are doing the heavy lifting of p2025
The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. -HHGTTG
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams
The last time the Democrats had a coherent plan for when they got into office was 1930
It was preceeded by a market crash.
The market is crashing right now.
Hopefully we'll get another Progressive Era.
Eh. We've just bought ourselves a decade or two of industrialized warfare and martial law by the looks of things. That will have to be survived first.
Wait. Isn’t this the thing Führer Trump said he didn’t know anything about?
He was saying that sarcastically
After having given a speech to it's creators about it, calling it a "plan for our movement", yes. There is video available.
Democrats when they win an election: Wahhhh we dont have a congressional majority :c
Republicans when they win an election: FUCK LEGAL PRECEDENT I AM MORE POWERFUL THEN THE COURTS AND GOD, I WILL MURDER ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY
Equivalent, right?
So fucking equivalent.
Destroying is always easier than building.
Oh, they are building something
Democrats when elected: okay but we only had all three branches of government for two years and Joe Lieberman was kinda mean :(
"Why do you dislike us? Our last major victory was a watered down bill by conservative think tanks 15 years ago! We can do more! ...We just never wanna."
Democrats when they win an election: Wahhhh we dont have a congressional majority :c
Republicans when they win an election: FUCK LEGAL PRECEDENT I AM MORE POWERFUL THEN THE COURTS AND GOD, I WILL MURDER ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY
May I steal this for the body of an image to post on !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com?
the part that pisses me off the most about this is that the democrats all read the thrice-damned playbook.
Like. WHY THE FUCK DO THEY NOT HAVE A PLAN?!
oh. that and the fucking nazis are winning.
That’s genuinely the most sanity-destroying part of this for me.
They made a playbook years ago. They said they made it. The posted it openly on the internet years ago. They said they’d follow the playbook. They’re now following the playbook. They’re continuing to follow the playbook. They are completing entire sections of the playbook, according to what was written in the playbook. They will continue to follow the playbook.
This is not a surprise. You are not allowed to be surprised by this. Fucking stop it.
And yet: all the Democratic leadership and rank-and-file - save for a very small handful of progressives - are all in a constant state of shock and surprise. What the absolute fuck. How. HOW.
and more infuriating- they ran on "WE NEED TO FIGHT THIS".
Right? And then they fucking softballed it. Like, what the fuck. What the actual fuck.
“We can’t remove the filibuster… what if we need it?!”…
(Some time later, when it’s needed…)
“Best we can do is…. NOTHING”
I’m also quite certain the fascists will ditch the filibuster the second orangeboi asks them to
Yup.
At this point, the republicans can’t fold fast enough, and democrats are just stepping aside because “reasons”.
There’s only a handful of people actually standing up.
And some will still say he had nothing to do with it
He's an enabler, not necessarily a doer.