• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.

    When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That’s why they’d quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.

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    Because enough of the people who would be responsible for stopping this senile psychopath see him as THEIR senile psychopath and they’re more interested in seeing the people they don’t like get hurt than they are in preserving the rule of law or the constitution. The rest could try to send a message by pushing for articles of impeachment, but the message it sends is entirely wrong if and when he’s just fully acquitted by his ruling party.

    This incidentally is a big part of why the mid-term election is going to be so important. If his shitstick cronies get thrown the fuck out then maybe something useful will actually get done about him.

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    Because he’s a meat puppet for the world’s oligarchy who want him for different reasons (1) remove restrictions to global illegal transactions (2) magnify climate change denialism (3) destroy science and education (4) advance ultraconservatism (5) destroy progressivism and social justice (6) give a lot of freedom to the oligarchy (7) destroy the Western world’s influence to realize Dugin’s idea of Russian New World Order.

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      It is important to realize that what is happening in the US is not because of any single person.

      The orange baboon is but a sympthom, not the disease. I like how some YT video put it: the disassembly of the rule of law is being done by a rare and fragile coalition of multiple small but powerful private groupings on the one hand and the clueless masses on the other.

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    11 hours ago

    the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent

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    What you are seeing is the unmasked version of US politics. This is what US politics has always been, but it’s always been a lot more covert. The political parties do not have any issue with what he is doing, they only have an issue that he is so blatant with it.

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      Ideas can spread but also get corrected when people interact.

      It used to be that people talked to each other and set the dumbasses straight whenever they spit out this kind of “politics”.

      These days everyone is just angry online and they’d rather change their online network than to change their minds.

      Someone should have told off Trump long ago. They didn’t, and since he chose to communicate official statements on Twitter, instead of passing it through advisers and secretaries who could advise him better, it’s only gotten worse.

      Fascism is an idea that needs to die, but it’s really difficult to confront the idea when the fascists hide in their online safe spaces, like X and Truth Social, where they only interact with bootlickers and block everyone else.

      I think the best way to kill fascism is to talk openly about it with other people offline.

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        lmao yes, if someone just “told off trump” this never would have happened 🤣

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      This is what US politics has always been

      sounds like donald quack is the missing piece that unites them all. The plot is similar to HP book when Voldemort goes back to power

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      They’re benefiting from the grift. Everyday people either think they’re going to be graced by him, or fucking hate his guts.

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        I had an old coworker who had given MAGA organizations her life’s savings. She was working well past her planned retirement and wound up getting a head injury when a patient bopped her on the head three times. She shouldn’t have been put in the position to work high acuity psychiatry in her 70s. She was going to retire destitute but after that nobody could deny she just wasn’t safe to work anymore. And to the day she retired she kept saying trump was going to reward her any day now. I know somebody here is gonna talk shit but aside from being too damn naïve she was such a kind soul. And I’ve only ever worked psych as a nurse but she’d done all kinds of things like oncology and wound care so if I had a patient with a medical problem or who needed an IV placed she had my back. She’d rant to the high heavens about the lizard people but damn if she didn’t know her lab values and meds back to front. I hope those grifters rot in hell.

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    A) the Supreme Court decided the president is above the law

    B) that destroyed any chance to “use the Constitution” as it dramatically undermined what few checks and balances there were

    C) MAGA congresspeople willingly gave up their own power to him

    D) now riots are coming

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      Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.

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        Whack people in the face with big wads of cash for long enough, and they numb out.

        …and I’m generously assuming nothing more sinister was in play.

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          I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years and its not just money. The mindset has completely changed.

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      What came before that:

      • Several members of the US SC have been compromised (Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and possibly others) by having been photographed/filmed at sexually explicit events with minors.
      • In the case of Kavanaugh this was even dangled in front of his eyes at his confirmation hearing to make sure he understood he was to walk the line or else.
      • Cases were brought in front of the SC to make sure they could rule on “Presidential immunity”
      • Even though this empowered Joe Biden to unprecedented levels of presidential impunity, he choose to do nothing with it and let the the his AG continue his slow work on trying get anything to stick on Trump, or attempt to push.
      • Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
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        Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.

        I still rage thinking about this…

        Obama: Scalia dies in the beginning of the election year and Mitch McFuck says “it’s too close to the election, we need to let the people decide.”

        Trump: Ginsberg dies WHILE MAIL IN VOTING IS HAPPENING and Mitch McFuck rams through a nomination…

        God I hate that piece of shit. They got two justices by having no fucking morals whatsoever and playing double standards. Not to mention Obama calling their bluff. They tried this “Obama just wants a far left judge he’d never pick someone respected like Garland.” So he picks Garland and they pull this it’s too late bullshit…

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            It’s “my party” as in: I hold my nose, disgusted at the fact they’re the only viable option until we change the voting system, but am fully aware they’re 90% shit and do dumbass fucking things like “make the same person Republicans wanted as a justice be an attorney general responsible for holding Trump accountable.”

            Doesn’t change the fact that Mitch McFuck is a piece of shit that has no standards other than “whatever gets me more power.”

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    That was what the election was for.

    When someone votes for a person like Trump, they are voting to not hold him accountable and to continue doing worse and worse things and to do away with guardrails, rules, rights, and all those other niceties of the socio-politico contract.

    This is what every MAGA sounds like the moment their token gets spent or the chickens come home to roost for them (bot a damn fucking goddamn minute sooner or st any point prior) and they receive the same consequences they wanted and voted for others (“but not meeeee”) to be treated with by Trump’s regime

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    Because the usa never had any accountability policies agsinst american presidents

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      Well, we did, it just requires functional legislative and judicial branches, which we no longer have

      Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death. The US Legislature and Supreme Court have reined in presidential power for literally the entire existence of the US. Even during the first Trump Admin this happened. What’s happening now is a total abdication of the separation of powers

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        Oh yeah? Give me an real concrete example of a president getting hold accountable in the usa. By accountability I don’t just mean impeachement but real consequences like jail

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          Jfk was assassinated. Trump had an assassination attempt. Lincoln had an assassination.

          Did you mean accountable legally? Not an agitator from the far right, or unknown agitator in JFK’s case.

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              It’s not full accountability, but Reagan Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached and removed. The failure was not convicting him of a crime. Still some level of accountability, but not enough.

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                Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached and removed.

                “Fun” (read: nauseating) fact! We now have Fox News because Roger Ales said “If we had a friendly media Nixon would never have had to resign.” He then went on to start Fox News with the devils rotten semen Murdock

                He was right! Fox News now keeps the Republican party completely unaccountable by keeping the population in an alternate reality news space…

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                It’s not accoutability at all , it doesn’t prevent mistakes to happen just look at how more much worse Trump is in the second term after being impeached. This is the dirrect results of what I critisize

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                  It absolutely is a small amount of accountability. If it wasn’t, he would have finished his term.

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                My brother in Christ, you are confusing Richard Nixon with Ronald Reagan. Nixon resigned. Reagan was wildly popular while implementing policies that have fucked over America for nearly half a decade now.

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                  You’re right, it was a long day in the office and my brain is fried. Don’t gotta be a dick about it.

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          Jail? No, never.
          We do kill them occasionally. Would be nice if it was for good reasons.

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        Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death.

        Some for of punishment is required when you do the level of bullshit he has done.

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          No argument here. My response was to the idea that the US has never had any form of accountability for presidents, which is just not true.

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      Respectfully, I think this is a naive myth.

      Ask yourself this: if Bernie won and began executing his agenda with the brash disregard for criticism of Trump, do you think he could do it and people would say the same things we say about Trump? Or do you think we would see the collective power of congress the supreme Court the state governments and the corporate world come down on him in 100 different ways?

      I think the more honest truth is that there are people with power who like what Trump is doing, and the people who don’t like what he’s doing don’t have power.

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    Because the constitutional methods for fixing a rogue presidency lie with the legislature. The legislature is complicit.

    Unfortunately the Constitution is toothless when bad actors control anything more than like 40% of the government.

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    Because he literally has all the levers of power and the Supreme Court and they’re all owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs and Trump blows them just like bubba. The constitution hasn’t really been real since the patriot act and citizens united became law