They have their shit together. This is how they operate. Next election will be more of exactly the same.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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A technical note: they need to sort their communication out earlier, by the midterm congressional election. Apparently, their communication didn't reach the voters, and voters were in a mood for hearing sweet lies from a criminal oligarch. They need to think of how to change that...
US society needs to somehow withstand 2 years of Trump running loose.
One can also hope that some senators or representatives are old enough to retire (or courageous enough to defect), changing the composition of the Congress before that. That might prevent or slow Trump from steamrolling new laws into force, until something has been figured out.
Yeah, Trump is stupid, but he's also self-centered. He's gonna care about making himself a dictator eventually, but he's got a lot of vengeance to start with. I don't think it's unreasonable to hope that we'll still have elections by 2026, and that there'll be a moment to throw a stick in the spoke.
Act as if we will. No seriously like half of politics is the manifest will of the people. If you decide right now that Trump isn't going to do it then it's going to be normalized by 2026 and outrage will not occur. You need to expect the next election with all the force of reality you can muster.
I say we start a revolution. We get a bunch of pie crusts. And fill them with whipped cream. And then we collectively go around the country just pieing people in the face, and sticking a clown nose on them. Then we lift them above our heads, and run away.
Their whole culture is based on fear, and conformity. You do the normal thing. People who don't do the normal thing aren't with them.
Now imagine walking along the street wearing your trump hat, thinking you're all cool. Suddenly, BAM!!! PIE!!! CLOWN NOSE!!! And now you're 8 feet in the air after having taken a surprise cream pie.
It would go against everything that makes their culture what it is.
OHHH!!! OHHH!!!! SOMEBODY CREAM PIE TRUMP!!! You KNOW you want to see trump rubbing out a cream pie from his eye.
It would be considered assault. Yet forcing poverty upon the working class is peace? Fuck this planet.
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I'm in. My recipe for pie crusts and whipped cream calls for a lot of cheap liquor and something called "flammable rags"? It's an odd recipe but comes highly rated.
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Obviously they’ll run the election Russian-style, as Americans still like to think of themselves as free.
What's wrong with a one party system? It's only one less then two! You wouldn't want to confuse the voters would you? /$
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There will be. A Turkey style election. Or maybe russia style depending on if democratic-led states find the spine to stand against a tyrannical federal government. We're about to see if this "federalism" really mean anything.
"Trump can't actually do any of those horrible things," -friend who doesn't understand politics and hasn't been following anything
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Not even onion anymore...
Well, no, it's the Beaverton.
At this point I don't blame Republicans, they are exactly the christo-fascist criminal hypocrites that they always have been.
At this point I don't blame Democrats, utterly underwhelming and politically ineffective as they are.
Nope. At THIS POINT I blame the lazy fat dumb-as-shit American fuckwad populace. "We The People" just gave knuckle-dragging fascist dipshits the keys to every branch of government as well as a mandate to do basically whatever the fuck they want for no reason other than the price of Doritos being higher. It turns out that the real enemy of the people is the American people themselves, who make the worst possible decisions and act against their own interest at every opportunity, only later to point fingers at the same politicians that they helped elect in the first place.
In other words, if you voted for anybody but Harris I can only say "fuck you, you deserve exactly whatever is coming".
I mean, the GOP has done everything in its power for several decades to undermine education and clinch a near-monopoly on TV and radio media. So I think we can blame them quite a bit for how idiotic and cultish the American people have become.
Democrats dont fetishize about violence against minorities for "not voting right" challenge(impossible)
Muslims putting their home caliphate's pointless 80-year jihad above Western democracy challenge (haram)
A lot of people here want their hands held all the way to the ballot box.
Being unenthusiastic and unimpressed with the Democratic party is apparently a completely valid reason to not vote, allow a trump win, and then blame the Democrats.
It turns out that the real enemy of the people is the American people themselves
So Trump was right about the enemy within!
So the Republicans are "knuckle-dragging fascist dipshits" but they aren't to blame? Wtf?
They're evil, but they also would be completely powerless without American voters (and non-voters). Much like how the GOP enables Trump.
The people in power doing the bad things are always to blame for the bad things they do.
Partially to blame, yes. But they made no pretense of who they were and what they wanted to do. This is largely on the voters.
The people who helped put them in power in the first place are also to blame, that's the whole damn point. Those who voted for the fascists, as well as those who failed to vote against them, are the main people to blame for the fascists rising to power.
This isn't hard to understand. It shouldn't be hard to understand.
YES, we absolutely need to have a reckoning about the shitty politicians that are in power, obviously.
What seems to be less obvious to people, for some reason, is that that something is fundamentally broken in American culture because it is, as a matter of fact, the American PEOPLE who have used every opportunity to put the worst people in power. So yeah, point your finger at the politicians if you all want to, but in the end all we're doing is keeping the average American dumbfuck from looking in the mirror and reflecting on their part in this entire charade.
Do you blame the fox for killing the hens, or do you blame the farmer for letting them into the hen house in the first place?
The American people saw an unhinged, deranged and delusion party of fascists running on a campaign of corruption, vengeance and grievance, and some of the American populace decided that they wanted to vote for it, while others decided that they didn't care to vote against it.
All of those people are to fucking blame, and it's about time that they know it. This wasn't a hard decision for anyone with >3 neurons firing, but the world is full of idiots have no concept of doing what is best for their world, their country, their city, their family or themselves. I'm done blaming the politicians, I choose to blame the dumb shit people who hand them power at every opportunity.
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Hell, there's not going to be a 2026 election.
There will be, in the same way that they have elections in Russia and Turkey.
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