I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is not telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?
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.
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...
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."
If you keep holding your nose and supporting them they have no motivation to change. This tells them they can do whatever they want because you'll keep coming back for more. That's how Democrats have gone from the party of Jimmy Carter to 'what genocide?'
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.
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 (and emphatically not a goddamn fucking 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
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
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
Preachers prey on people like that all the time and it's ok because it's privileged superstition. Replace "trump" with "Jesus" and that's the story of millions and millions of people.
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.
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.
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, plutocracy and theocracy (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.
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.
Yeah, it's a very long game played by ultraconservatives wanting to "beat the devil", notably Roy Cohn (fucking dead) and others like him in Heritage Foundation wanting to see Supply Side Jesus.
Because the red team literally doesnt care. Their team is winning, nanannanabooboo. The blue team wabts the red team to think they're cool or whatever, and pointing out the insanity gets them called crybabies, so they dont do it.
Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I'm not interested in one person's story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.
Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.
Add to that the fact that a stupid president presents a massive economic benefit to anyone that can keep his attention for more than five minutes and he is predictably surrounded by people that benefit from his continued presence.
His mistake in the first term was trying to be a real president and surrounding himself with people who wanted the same thing. This time it's just criminals all the way down.
I'm fairly sure a traitor who engaged in an insurrection is forbidden from being president. I don't care to look it up honestly, because I'd rather not be even more depressed by finding that this tidbit is me thinking wishfully and not a fact I heard at some point.
George Washington was a traitor who engaged in an insurrection.
I'm not comparing Trump to George Washington, but I'm pointing out why the American Constitution doesn't really have a developed concept of treason or any broad exclusions to eligibility for the presidency. The election itself is the qualification.
He's a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.
You've heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.
If you have serious money and can't find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what's actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.
Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it's all reaching a tipping point. I've heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it's in the stars.
Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.
Useful Idiots
Ideology
Money
Blackmail
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber
Exactly. People keep going on and on about how democrats would never get away with this shit, it's because that's the role they play. They tall poppy the actual good people out of the system, and present themselves as the good option when the only other choice is a rampaging fascism.
I get the frustration, but at this point if feels too in the nose to miss anymore. People are getting gunned down randomly in the streets, it's not that complicated.
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
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.
Guess what, the constitution of the People's Republic of China also has freedom of speech... see how that turns out in practice...
A constitution just a piece of paper.
It's like paper money, it only has value if people believe it has value.
For the rule of law, that means those in positions of power, the 3 branches of government, the military, and ultimately, the people collective action/inaction to hold the government accountable.
Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.
The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.
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.
He's enabled by some very wealthy people. And in the US wealth is more than just money, it's often the most important factor in status, popularity, and social and political power.
Even some the people screaming for empathy, understanding, and improved social programs often look down upon the poor and homeless, they just hide it behind a veneer of doing good. They want to rid the nation of poverty not because it's the right thing to do, but so that they aren't confronted with the reality of what causes poverty and the guilt they feel when they pass by someone who's panhandling.
Our nation's version of original sin is productivity. If you're alive, you must feed into the economic system, you must support yourself and not be a burden to others. If you're successful and wealthy enough, it means all lesser sins (getting bailed out with tax money, wage theft and fraud, destroying the environment, prejudice, sexual predation, etc.) will be forgiven by at least half the nation. This effect is more profound for celebrity performers.
So, if you're stable financially and not under a direct threat from the administration, you're probably upset, but your focus is going to be on finding a way to get rid of Trump and get out of this mess without winding up POOR.
You want to know why so many federal workers are still doing their jobs despite being complicit in many of the awful things that are happening? Because they don't have a way to pay the rent if they walk off the job. The job market is awful. The economy is in the shitter. Everything is super expensive, and they don't want to let their families down. Want the military and federal agents to quit? Give them a guaranteed way to pay their mortgages. Find them another job.
It's not just about luxuries and standards of living. It's about social acceptance and beloning. People will go to insane lengths to feel like an accepted member of a group. So these workers may be unhappy, even deeply upset about the direction the country is headed in, but it'll have to get worse before the sacrifice is worth it, because being in jail or being dead is only a little bit worse than being a poor person.
Same holds true for much of the rest of the nation. It's hard to risk belonging, to risk being part of our society, when there's no guarantee you won't wind up homeless and a pariah because of it.
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn't matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He's also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they're getting everything they dreamed of and more.
His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.
His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.
Half of the US agrees with him. The other half thinks AOC's snappy comebacks being shared on Reddit are more than enough to stop him. The US is a shithole with only two viable parties, so the end result is what you see.
Sure, disprove me. What exactly are your elected representatives doing besides the TikTok videos to stop Trump right now? And how effective has it been?
That is called moving the goalpost. You clearly stated that social media posts were seen as "more than solving the problem" and I clearly addressed that as the absolute stupid bullshit it is. Suddenly now I'm supposed to have a different argument with a troll. I'm good.
I would have written something that would have 100% gotten me banned, if I didn't have a community to build. And I would have been 100% right about it, and anyone who would say otherwise, could straight up fuck themselves.
Because wherever there are people with power, there are those who will do ANYTHING to gain access to that power. When there's no mechanism to FORCE those with power to over the law, then they won't, and their cronies will be insulated to some degree from consequences. Enough people (Congress) who could force consequences are the ones benefiting from Trump's corruption and could suffer negative consequences for turning against Trump. A lot of those guys are very old and extremely unlikely to suffer consequences if the following administration is also Republican. It's a big ugly tangle and unless somebody is willing to just arrest the Orange Jackass and all his ghouls, nothing will change.
Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.
A disgustingly low percentage of the US population votes in non-presidential elections. The right-wing has spent the better part of the last century stacking the deck at every level of government. The invention of the internet makes it harder for them to maintain this though (much easier to find out who/what you're voting for) but that's going to take a while for a long-term impact to be noticeable
I was talking to a dev who worked at Facebook He told me the information on internet is not public. Its curated by google and Facebook, sure the information is there but they ensure what people see.
He gave an example of how people have accepted the premise of cloud storage and apple and google removed SD card slots from phones and there was no backlash. Its because they shadownban the users who protest and put post and comments which are neutral or supportive in front of masses. He gave another example which I forgot.
People have stopped using common sense and are heaving addicted to screens and big tech and politicians know it hence at President Trumps inauguration he has all big tech leaders right in front as he know the public is addicted to screen which can be used to exploit and extract.
So to answer your question, there is backlash but its all online and those users are being profiled and there post don't get much visibility hence we see no protest coz others think there no backlash, nobody cares so why should I.
"If you don't, someone else will." But that only works when the population is so divided that they don't trust the average replacement to hold your standards. And then of course be proven that the next person actually doesn't hold the same standards.
Pride. Simple answer. Public image, foot hold, etc... ass holes trying to hold onto wealth they don't deserve. Public kindness is protecting them. If they admit he's wrong, they're wrong, and that's an admission of guilt. They'll die before we experience them changing. All we can do is fight back loudly and quietly.
Edit: I was drunk when I said this I and don't know what I was saying.
There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too..
We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.
Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short..
Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc..
Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of "inherent" confidence, on average, that most don't, simply because the way others relate to their body's "status" programmed that into them..
Some lives are born with "teflon" preventing accountability.
Some lives are born with "glue" making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.
Trump's life is characterized by non-accountability.
HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn't.
Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.
This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.
SANE worlds wouldn't allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but .. politics won't tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that's what gets to own/rule the world.
Anyways, it's karma.
His continuum/soul's previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and .. his soul's future is not anything I'd want to be caught-in.
Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.
All the Western religions which hold that change isn't possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans..
narcissism.
Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.
Getting caught in a life that has "teflon" protection against accountability doesn't prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.
Universe's action->reaction law applies, anyways.
That is the folly of getting a "fortunate" life which consumes all one's good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then .. railroading one's own soul's future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them..
shrug
Action-reaction's real.
HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn't.
It'll learn, same as all souls learn..
From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of .. 9:1 or something?
Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.
IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?
But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won't make accountable.
& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.
I have zero reason to believe anybody'll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.
It's educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!
It helps break one's unconscious-presumption of "belonging" based "validity".
But .. speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it's worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it's false/lies, because it's of "me".
& that's proper!
Exactly as it's proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump's kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn't normal, right?
( only partly sarcastic: it isn't YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is .. NOT quick to learn )
( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?
THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-"validity", the class-based-"validity", the muscle/body/height-based-"validity", the money-based-"validity", etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!
THEN one can have detachment-from-human-"validity".
Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.
I wish it had been easier to learn, but I'm woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )
It sounds like you're getting your information from purely 1-sided sources. Look for news sources that cover the perspective of both sides. I'm not saying this as a Trump supporter.
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
What came before that:
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...
And then your party appointed an attorney general who did absolutely nothing.
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."
If you keep holding your nose and supporting them they have no motivation to change. This tells them they can do whatever they want because you'll keep coming back for more. That's how Democrats have gone from the party of Jimmy Carter to 'what genocide?'
Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.
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.
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.
Was it good tho
I dont know... The movies made it seem great, but yeah, its movies.
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 (and emphatically not a goddamn fucking 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
Because the usa never had any accountability policies agsinst american presidents
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
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
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.
Yes I mean legally
It's not full accountability, but
ReaganNixon 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."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 semenMurdockHe was right! Fox News now keeps the Republican party completely unaccountable by keeping the population in an alternate reality news space...
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
It absolutely is a small amount of accountability. If it wasn't, he would have finished his term.
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.
You're right, it was a long day in the office and my brain is fried. Don't gotta be a dick about it.
Jail? No, never.
We do kill them occasionally. Would be nice if it was for good reasons.
Some for of punishment is required when you do the level of bullshit he has done.
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.
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.
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.
Corruption
They're benefiting from the grift. Everyday people either think they're going to be graced by him, or fucking hate his guts.
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.
It's just a variation on Christianity.
Preachers prey on people like that all the time and it's ok because it's privileged superstition. Replace "trump" with "Jesus" and that's the story of millions and millions of people.
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.
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
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.
the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent
Nazis voted for nazis
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, plutocracy and theocracy (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.
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.
Yeah, it's a very long game played by ultraconservatives wanting to "beat the devil", notably Roy Cohn (fucking dead) and others like him in Heritage Foundation wanting to see Supply Side Jesus.
You forgot 6: Money
And 7. They're fucking immature assholes (in both senses)
Because the red team literally doesnt care. Their team is winning, nanannanabooboo. The blue team wabts the red team to think they're cool or whatever, and pointing out the insanity gets them called crybabies, so they dont do it.
Everyone is 12
The Dem establishment have not beaten the paid opposition argument at all.
They're not even trying. Schumer is doing it right in public and thinks it's cute.
Because congress is filled with old rotten pussies
There's no simple answer, but if you look up how cults are made and operate you'll get an idea.
Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I'm not interested in one person's story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.
I've been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically "how minds change") podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.
Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.
Add to that the fact that a stupid president presents a massive economic benefit to anyone that can keep his attention for more than five minutes and he is predictably surrounded by people that benefit from his continued presence.
His mistake in the first term was trying to be a real president and surrounding himself with people who wanted the same thing. This time it's just criminals all the way down.
I mean he wasn't even eligible to run according to the constitution so it's hard to keep a straight face while calling the US a democracy
I'm fairly sure a traitor who engaged in an insurrection is forbidden from being president. I don't care to look it up honestly, because I'd rather not be even more depressed by finding that this tidbit is me thinking wishfully and not a fact I heard at some point.
Thanks for calling me a moron though.
George Washington was a traitor who engaged in an insurrection.
I'm not comparing Trump to George Washington, but I'm pointing out why the American Constitution doesn't really have a developed concept of treason or any broad exclusions to eligibility for the presidency. The election itself is the qualification.
I didn't call you shit.
You clearly just want to fight. No thanks.
Mod team disagreed apparently.
Sorry that facts make you sad.
"hey the constitution says you cant!"
hey the constitution says you cant!"
hey the constitution says you cant!"
hey the constitution says you cant!"
Because, in my opinion, Trump has 70 years of organized crime surrounding him.
Because, in my opinion, Trump has organized violent militias to protect him.
Because, in my opinion, Trump uses the NSA as a personnel filing system for blackmailing and extorting people.
Because, in my opinion, we are all hoping that he just dies without having a civil war over his tiny teeny tiny hands.
He's a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.
You've heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.
If you have serious money and can't find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what's actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.
Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it's all reaching a tipping point. I've heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it's in the stars.
Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.
Useful Idiots
Ideology
Money
Blackmail
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber
AIPAC and a few dozen rich people tell the RNC, the DNC, the supreme court, and the president what to do.
The reason it seems like the democrats are complicit is because, at the leadership level, they are.
Schumer and Jeffries are pro genocide in Gaza and pro-ICE because their future plans for America also involve genocide.
Exactly. People keep going on and on about how democrats would never get away with this shit, it's because that's the role they play. They tall poppy the actual good people out of the system, and present themselves as the good option when the only other choice is a rampaging fascism.
I get the frustration, but at this point if feels too in the nose to miss anymore. People are getting gunned down randomly in the streets, it's not that complicated.
Checks and balances have broken down at the federal level.
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
He has blackmail on them. We call it the Epstein files. That's why most of it isn't released.
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.
Guess what, the constitution of the People's Republic of China also has freedom of speech... see how that turns out in practice...
A constitution just a piece of paper.
It's like paper money, it only has value if people believe it has value.
For the rule of law, that means those in positions of power, the 3 branches of government, the military, and ultimately, the people collective action/inaction to hold the government accountable.
Because the republicans are full of low intelligence sycophants whose only goal in life is power over others. All they want to do is grift and hurt.
Because when he is coherent he hates the right people.
Because hes a fascist and pro fascists will love him no matter what because fascists are fucking morons.
Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.
The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.
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.
He's enabled by some very wealthy people. And in the US wealth is more than just money, it's often the most important factor in status, popularity, and social and political power.
Even some the people screaming for empathy, understanding, and improved social programs often look down upon the poor and homeless, they just hide it behind a veneer of doing good. They want to rid the nation of poverty not because it's the right thing to do, but so that they aren't confronted with the reality of what causes poverty and the guilt they feel when they pass by someone who's panhandling.
Our nation's version of original sin is productivity. If you're alive, you must feed into the economic system, you must support yourself and not be a burden to others. If you're successful and wealthy enough, it means all lesser sins (getting bailed out with tax money, wage theft and fraud, destroying the environment, prejudice, sexual predation, etc.) will be forgiven by at least half the nation. This effect is more profound for celebrity performers.
So, if you're stable financially and not under a direct threat from the administration, you're probably upset, but your focus is going to be on finding a way to get rid of Trump and get out of this mess without winding up POOR.
You want to know why so many federal workers are still doing their jobs despite being complicit in many of the awful things that are happening? Because they don't have a way to pay the rent if they walk off the job. The job market is awful. The economy is in the shitter. Everything is super expensive, and they don't want to let their families down. Want the military and federal agents to quit? Give them a guaranteed way to pay their mortgages. Find them another job.
It's not just about luxuries and standards of living. It's about social acceptance and beloning. People will go to insane lengths to feel like an accepted member of a group. So these workers may be unhappy, even deeply upset about the direction the country is headed in, but it'll have to get worse before the sacrifice is worth it, because being in jail or being dead is only a little bit worse than being a poor person.
Same holds true for much of the rest of the nation. It's hard to risk belonging, to risk being part of our society, when there's no guarantee you won't wind up homeless and a pariah because of it.
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn't matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He's also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they're getting everything they dreamed of and more.
Because trump is largely irrelevant.
His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.
His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.
Half of the US agrees with him. The other half thinks AOC's snappy comebacks being shared on Reddit are more than enough to stop him. The US is a shithole with only two viable parties, so the end result is what you see.
...uh, no they don't. Somewhere around 0% believe that.
How curious, given that's the most you fucking do. Democrats are absolutely useless opposition.
Curious that you made a fake viewpoint and still use it as evidence of anything.
Sure, disprove me. What exactly are your elected representatives doing besides the TikTok videos to stop Trump right now? And how effective has it been?
I'll make the popcorn, take your time.
You want me to prove that social media posts aren't seen as solving the problem. Lol, be gone, troll.
No, I was pretty clear in my writing. Prove that the Dem party is doing anything other than the social media posts.
But considering you struggled reading this simple sentence, I shouldn't hold my breath.
That is called moving the goalpost. You clearly stated that social media posts were seen as "more than solving the problem" and I clearly addressed that as the absolute stupid bullshit it is. Suddenly now I'm supposed to have a different argument with a troll. I'm good.
Because he must serve 2 years so when they hit him with the 25th, Ol' Couchfucker McGuyliner can reign 2 years and then run two more times.
Because of the illusion of democracy..
Release the Epstein files in their entirety!
I would have written something that would have 100% gotten me banned, if I didn't have a community to build. And I would have been 100% right about it, and anyone who would say otherwise, could straight up fuck themselves.
If I had written it.
But long-term goals, and people come first.
Because wherever there are people with power, there are those who will do ANYTHING to gain access to that power. When there's no mechanism to FORCE those with power to over the law, then they won't, and their cronies will be insulated to some degree from consequences. Enough people (Congress) who could force consequences are the ones benefiting from Trump's corruption and could suffer negative consequences for turning against Trump. A lot of those guys are very old and extremely unlikely to suffer consequences if the following administration is also Republican. It's a big ugly tangle and unless somebody is willing to just arrest the Orange Jackass and all his ghouls, nothing will change.
That’s how democracy works
The will of the people is greater than the laws as written
The people voted for Trump, a Republican congress, and by extension a Republican Supreme Court
It’s working as intended
30% of US adults voted for trump.
Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.
A disgustingly low percentage of the US population votes in non-presidential elections. The right-wing has spent the better part of the last century stacking the deck at every level of government. The invention of the internet makes it harder for them to maintain this though (much easier to find out who/what you're voting for) but that's going to take a while for a long-term impact to be noticeable
Nazis. And the pedophiles that run the US will protect the pedophile in the White House.
I was talking to a dev who worked at Facebook He told me the information on internet is not public. Its curated by google and Facebook, sure the information is there but they ensure what people see.
He gave an example of how people have accepted the premise of cloud storage and apple and google removed SD card slots from phones and there was no backlash. Its because they shadownban the users who protest and put post and comments which are neutral or supportive in front of masses. He gave another example which I forgot.
People have stopped using common sense and are heaving addicted to screens and big tech and politicians know it hence at President Trumps inauguration he has all big tech leaders right in front as he know the public is addicted to screen which can be used to exploit and extract.
So to answer your question, there is backlash but its all online and those users are being profiled and there post don't get much visibility hence we see no protest coz others think there no backlash, nobody cares so why should I.
"If you don't, someone else will." But that only works when the population is so divided that they don't trust the average replacement to hold your standards. And then of course be proven that the next person actually doesn't hold the same standards.
I wish we could keep Trump out of every single community.
Pride. Simple answer. Public image, foot hold, etc... ass holes trying to hold onto wealth they don't deserve. Public kindness is protecting them. If they admit he's wrong, they're wrong, and that's an admission of guilt. They'll die before we experience them changing. All we can do is fight back loudly and quietly.
Edit: I was drunk when I said this I and don't know what I was saying.
Because he’s a useful tool of God!!!
The comment by [email protected] is right, but isn't complete..
There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too..
We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.
Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short..
Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc..
Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of "inherent" confidence, on average, that most don't, simply because the way others relate to their body's "status" programmed that into them..
Some lives are born with "teflon" preventing accountability.
Some lives are born with "glue" making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.
Trump's life is characterized by non-accountability.
HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn't.
Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.
This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.
SANE worlds wouldn't allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but .. politics won't tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that's what gets to own/rule the world.
Anyways, it's karma.
His continuum/soul's previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and .. his soul's future is not anything I'd want to be caught-in.
Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.
All the Western religions which hold that change isn't possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans..
narcissism.
Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.
Getting caught in a life that has "teflon" protection against accountability doesn't prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.
Universe's action->reaction law applies, anyways.
That is the folly of getting a "fortunate" life which consumes all one's good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then .. railroading one's own soul's future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them..
shrug
Action-reaction's real.
HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn't.
It'll learn, same as all souls learn..
From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of .. 9:1 or something?
Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.
IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?
But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won't make accountable.
& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.
I have zero reason to believe anybody'll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.
It's educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!
It helps break one's unconscious-presumption of "belonging" based "validity".
But .. speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it's worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it's false/lies, because it's of "me".
& that's proper!
Exactly as it's proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump's kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn't normal, right?
( only partly sarcastic: it isn't YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is .. NOT quick to learn )
( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?
THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-"validity", the class-based-"validity", the muscle/body/height-based-"validity", the money-based-"validity", etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!
THEN one can have detachment-from-human-"validity".
Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.
I wish it had been easier to learn, but I'm woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )
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Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
It sounds like you're getting your information from purely 1-sided sources. Look for news sources that cover the perspective of both sides. I'm not saying this as a Trump supporter.
The USA was run by the Jesuit Order, since one of the founders (Carrol) and his family were Jesuits. They served the Black Pope.
Your tinfoil hat is too tight.