Wait, you mean that when rich people say that taxing the rich is a bad idea, they aren’t being completely sincere and don’t have our best interests at heart? I’m shocked to the core

All branches of goverment have capitulated to him and effectively given him the power of a king.

It’s not 100% capitulation. There’s pushback here and there. And it’s a house of cards. In order to secure his position he needs to remove all potential opposition, including within his own party. There has to be a violent purge. Things need to be stepped up a notch.

Same goes for his oppression of the people. His recent use of the armed forces to intimidate and silence the people is just a dress rehearsal. Testing out the process.

“if you dont want fascism, make sure you roll over when confronted with it”

Democrats roll over all the time, and it’s infuriating, but just occasionally it might actually be the smart move. If the democratic process can still operate, it offers a way to hamstring this administration. And if not, it delegitimises their position to a point where organized large scale resistance is both feasible and necessary. That might work out better than full scale escalation right now.

It seems to me that this might have been a strategic move to get the best result out of the midterms. The Republicans have shown their true colors. Trump throwing lavish parties while conducting a legal battle in the supreme court to ensure that millions of Americans are denied the food aid that was specifically put aside for that purpose, is about as much political capital as you could hope to gain from this. But why is it so important to Trump, to see Americans starve? I believe the reason is that starvation is what you need to instigate a violent insurrection, and that’s Trump’s plan for staying in power indefinitely. He will declare a state of emergency, martial law, suspend the midterms until the present crisis is dealt with, etc. The Dems caving in denies him the chance to do this, while still showing the maga party for the evil bastards they are. And maybe we get to see the Epstein files now? I could be giving establishment Dems more benefit of the doubt than they deserve, but that’s how it looks to me.

“I don’t know who he is,” Trump cut in, but, “I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”

lol, can’t even pick one line of bullshit and stick with it

varnia is suggesting you didn’t vote for the Democrats. Which, considering you’re not American, seems highly likely.

It’s also an education problem. Instead of “yay we’re the good guys, we beat the bad guys”, there should have been more understanding of how the bad guys got so bad, and why the USA always had the potential to go down the same road. But if you’re looking at it on a superficial level, you can think you’re automatically safe from that, just because you have different names, different locations, different flags. And because you’re the good guys.

While you’re not wrong, I believe it works for another reason. Almost nobody forms and acts on a political opinion in complete isolation; most of us follow the herd to a greater or lesser extent. And if we consider “herd followers”, (ie. people whose choice of political action or inaction is primarily motivated by what they see other people around them doing) as a demographic, it would be an overwhelmingly huge demographic, the majority of the population. There’s any number of reasons why people might act this way. Maybe they lack the resources or confidence to form an independent political opinion. Maybe they made a pragmatic choice for the sake of their own personal safety, or that of their children. Maybe something in between.

But the important point is that this demographic is huge, so much so that no political movement could hope to succeed without courting them effectively. How do you get these people to join you? Well, that’s simple, they are herd followers, so you have to be (or appear to be) “the herd”. When you see 7 million people in the streets, the message is clear. That’s the herd. That’s the way the wind is blowing. That’s how you get that demographic on your side, and when you do that, you win.

Sure, they never noticed because back then it was normal to consider Nazis as the epitome of evil. If you’re going to do a fun family movie where the hero kills a bunch of people, Nazis were fair game. It’s a chilling sign of the times, that the right wing has come to the point where they can no longer frame Nazis as the bad guys.

Imagine what kind of uproar there would be if Raiders of the Lost Ark were made today. It really is very insensitive to the feelings of Nazis

To be war ravaged, it must be at war. Trump is literally declaring war on the American people. And also encouraging the armed forces to kill civilians, unless you think “full force” could possibly mean anything else in a military context.

It’s amazing how people can look at stuff like this and say “gee this guy sure does use some crazy hyperbolic language, I wonder what he can mean by that”. It’s pretty fucking clear.

You spelt decapitated wrong.

Only the good die young.

Prove me wrong.

You can tell he’s never read 1984, he’d definitely want more ironically named government departments if he had

Well yeah I didn’t mean to suggest anyone should back him as a presidential candidate. The ironic thing is the democrats would probably win more votes from Trump’s base by having a more progressive candidate, because the left / right spectrum isn’t everything. I’m sure many Trump voters were people who knew they were getting screwed over by the billionaire class and corrupt politicians, wanted change, and were dumb enough to think Trump would fix things. They could be won over by a progressive candidate, but I agree a right-leaning democrat is precisely the thing they will never vote for.

It could be that his counter-gerrymander is all talk and there will be some last minute failure to act on it, in which case he is indeed milquetoast and also full of shit. But, should he follow through on it, that’s the opposite of milquetoast and an important step forward. It’s great to see some recognition that the republicans fight dirty, always and openly, and that acting in good faith when your opponent doesn’t, just means you lose.

We are at war, a creeping and undeclared war but war nonetheless. Newsom may be an asshole and his policies may be bad. In war, your allies might not be your heroes, nor even your friends. As long as they are shooting in the right direction and having an effect, that’s a good ally.

Seriously. Half the comments in here are basically “How dare this guy be on our side! I will not abide anyone less pure than the Virgin Mary”. Maybe it’s just a bunch of right wing bots trying to sow division, but if so they are doing it remarkably well.

So he was Putin’s bitch all along! Who could have guessed it?

Anyway…

Release the Trump/Epstein files

I see so many comments saying “voting won’t work”, “protesting won’t work” etc. Anything that has any visible result, works. Because the majority of people follow the herd to a greater or lesser extent. You need to mobilise that majority in order to make a difference. The more you have a movement, the bigger, louder and more visible that is, the more people will join you. People need to feel which way the wind is blowing.

What happens is they eat the cheese and expect to pay for it, but they can’t find any means of paying so they die while waiting for a member of staff to turn up. That’s because capitalism is nature’s way and anything else is against God.

They know perfectly well who they work for