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I'm not even mad at the trump supporters. I'm mad at the elements of the other 2/3s of the country that have probably spent every day leading up to and after the election bitching about how horrible Trump is but couldn't be fucking bothered to get out to vote to prevent his ass from getting elected.
Yeah. Trump supporters are stupid and loud. But they are also engaged. They're engaged with an alternate reality entirely devoid of facts, but engaged.
I'm much more concerned about the masses that are too stupid to understand what a democracy is, why it's important, and therefore, are totally disengaged.
That level of carelessness is outright terrifying.
Democracy is a vaccine we must continue to develop and administer on a regular basis or we will succumb to the cancer that is...well... anything else.
They are Trump supporters. Not voting is also decision. You vote "I'm fine with whoever wins".
The problem is neoliberalism. It imples fascism or feudalism. The Democrats will only accelerate the development as long as they stay neoliberal.
I can’t see this ending without extreme violence. If someone sees a way out without that let me know I could use the positivity but it feels like civil war territory
There won't be another elections. Put that energy elsewhere.
Civil war of right vs left will achieve nothing but bloodshed, but the 99% vs the 1% has legs.
Violence is not necessary. Occupy wall street was surprisingly effective. The Hong Kong umbrella movement was derailed more by covid than anything else.
...what change did Occupy effect?
In my opinion, it exposed an achilles heel in the current power structure. The 1% do not like being the scapegoat for public anger.
Occupy made Tim pool a lot of money anyways.
Agree. I don't know how it gets resolved without blood, especially if elections aren't free and fair.
Americans won't revolt. They are well conditioned by the tech oligarchy. The US will become Russia 2.0.
Currently reading "Labor's Giant Step Forward", its a documentation of the biggest labor movement in US history, and how FDR actually betrayed in with an extremly watered down New Deal to curb the actual demands of the workers at the time.
But what I've been super impressed reading, is the tactics and resolve of these workers in fighting back against state violence, while minimizing casualties to an extremely effective extent. For example, there was a time where after an extended tense period of police standing opposite a picket line and trying to break them up the cops drew their weapons but the strikers were ready for it, and had a particular person they knew had balls of steel drive a truck filled with strikers right into the formation of cops and the strikers jumped out the engage the cops hand to hand, and in doing so, got themselves intermixed with the police so that they could not fire their guns without shooting each other, and deaths were prevented. There was still violence, but care was taken to directly minimize it.
Sadly I think it ends with a whimper not with a bang. And even if by some miracle Trump leaves office the next Government whether it be Democrat or Republican will not reverse course on these changes, they will maintain and use the power.
"Sadly" a whimper would be a blessing. To say otherwise is to imply extreme violence is desirable.
The removal of the problem people pushing the policies.
“A dope” — Former National Security Advisor HR McMaster
“A fucking moron” — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
“An idiot” — Former Chief of staff Reince Preibus
“An idiot” — Former Chief of Staff John Kelly
“An idiot” — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
“An idiot surrounded by clowns” — Gary Cohn
“An idiot with the intelligence of a kindergartner” — Former National Security Advisor HR McMaster
“Breaking—Trump is still an idiot” — (former) Trump supporter and right wing columnist Ann Coulter
“Donald’s an idiot” — Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen
“Dumb as a rock” — Rex Tillerson
“Dumb as shit” — Former economic advisor Gary Cohn
“He is truly an idiot.” — Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis
“He’s an idiot.” — Former advisor Sam Nunberg
“I honestly and truly believe my Schnauzer (dog) could do a better job.” — Federal chair under Trump Janet Yellen
“Less a person than a collection of terrible traits” — Former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn
“Like an 11-year old child” — Former advisor Steve Bannon
“Like trying to figure out what a child wants” — Former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh
“Moron King” — Podcaster Joe Rogan
“Not only crazy…stupid” — (former?) Trump friend Tom Barrack
“Sick of being a wet nurse to a 71-year-old man” — Steve Bannon
“Someone who sucks up and shits down” — Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes
“The White House has become an adult day care center” — Republican Senator Bob Corker
“This guy is a complete and total moron” — Federal chair under Trump Janet Yellen
“Too dumb to testify” — John Dowd, during the Mueller investigation
“Unhinged” — John Kelly
“What an idiot” — Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative
Who downvoted FACTS? I can see if it was dis-information or even just my opinion but FACTS???
Not going to lie, for the first chunk of the list I thought I was reading quote of what Trump called those people — not the other way around!
They probably downvoted your formatting. It wasn't obvious at first that you were listing quotes people said describing Trump.
Warning? .... this is what the 'warning' looked like in 2022
Assuming we have elections again that aren't rigged to keep R in power - I pray fervently that everyone Fucking Remembers this time what R does when given power. They showed us during 2017-->2020 how they wanted to behave, but we managed to stop most of it.
Anyone paying attention should have seen it then.
And then, came Jan 6. Everyone saw it. No one could have missed it.
And somehow, some fucking how we forgot. And I know we forgot because Project 2025 was in the news, and he (obviously) lied and said he knew nothing about it, and people somehow fucking believed him!
And I don't just mean, "we forgot and now there is a Republican in office and I treat politics like a team sport." I mean "we forgot and now Republicans control everything and they are working together as a nationwide team to dismantle the very fabric of our nation and government, with absolutely no concern for who they hurt, and arguably with a goal of hurting a great many people."
AND WORSE they take all this action making it plain that ZERO of the values of our nation that we were taught to revere matter to them whatsoever while claiming the entire time that they are dismantling our nation and harming people because they hold those values so sacrosanct.
It's the national despot version of 5 cops standing around beating the shit out of a black man on the ground, curled in the fetal position, while all screaming at him to stop resisting.
And not only that, there's actually a live tracker where you can watch it all go to hell in a steady march to 100% completion!
https://www.project2025.observer/
If we somehow get one more chance to fix this, I want so badly to believe that we will remember what they have shown us time and time again about what they truly value, about what a country shaped by Republicans looks like, and recognize that no matter how greatly flawed the Democrats are (and believe me, I am NOT a cheerleader for Democrats as a group), we cannot allow this to continue. We need to get R out of power as step number one, and fix D (or fracture D to get an actual opposition party) as step number two.
At every election from the tiniest of local elections up to the general, we need to remember that.
I am so disgusted, so disgusted, first by what a lie everything I was taught growing up about our nation was, and secondly that so many millions want to actively make it worse for everyone, so long as it means they can own the libs, and create a nation hostile to queer folks, women, immigrants, and minorities.
I'm sorry but I have no faith in half the American people. They have a short attention span and are so uneducated that they won't think critically of the ramifications of electing another Republican in power. They have a strong desire to fulfill their own self interests and will vote for anyone who promises to lower their taxes, even if they come with some other insane goals that remove the rights of so many.
Even now you have news stories of Trump voters having their spouses deported but they won't denounce him regardless. Frankly the only reason some conservatives are angry now is because they're losing money on the stupid trade wars, the scaring off of cheap immigrant labor, and dismantling of civil institutions that indirectly help them. America's willing destruction of all its soft power abroad and violations of civil liberties at home mean nothing to them. If things somehow get back to normal, you better believe they'll come right back to the very same people responsible for all their misery they're in right now because they want to see the value of their bank account get a little higher.
i can't tell if he's rolling out a nazi flag, or rolling up the american flag to reveal the nazi flag that was underneath the whole time
Little bit of both, probably.
Madison Square Garden; 1939
I was literally told by my remaining idiot MAGAt friend that I was "falling for the media's garbage" about Project 2025, i.e. Trump didn't know anything about, it was obviously just a ploy to lose him votes.
I have zero doubt his opinion was manufactured and flushed through various podcasts, streamers, and old school talk radio shit.
Yeah well I didn't need a warning I needed Dems to not be useless and purposely lose a culture war so Netanyahu can murder children and sexually assault literally everyone possible