Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.
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Brazil did the same. It's just in this pillar of supposed democracy that we are frozen and can't intervene because we wouldn't want to anger a bunch of ammosexual yokels
South Korea has its problems (ie if you're accused of smoking pot it's like on par with child abuse), but how they deal with their political leaders isn't one of them.
Like the majority of SK Presidents have been indicted of crimes during or following their tenure so… no, that’s not true at all. It was a dictatorship for some time.
I'm not sure I could name a single US president during my lifetime that wouldn't deserve to be indicted of crimes committed during their time in office.
The Republican Supreme Court judges have a lot to answer for, they're a disgrace to their country, the Rule of Law, the Constitution and America's long history of upholding the law. They sold their careers and their reputations for money.
Why the fuck we American's waiting around to be told what the fuck to do our founders didn't wait around for George III"s courts to tell them it was ok to revolt did they NO the fuck they didn't so again what the fuck we waitin fer an invitation to the slaughter house or what!
Conservative Yoon didn't like the liberal opposition and declared martial law. I can only imagine that if he were in power he'd be kowtowing to the Maga King, and maybe try to sell SK to NK to satisfy the MK's evil notions of who's a top player in his view of world domination. Wai&See about SK.
A coup? In South Korea? Necessary means to an end. Our Framers weren't opposed to that in order to establish a Constitutional Republic. Just saying, when our Constitution is being shredded by the Trump Project 2025 machine.
for anyone who doesn't know yet, you have brought in a dictatorial power hungry corrupt businessman who with a totally right wing and fear filled conservative religious following thinks a country should be run like a corrupt business!! Wake up!
I had to mute a thread I was on because the majority of Americans on it were saying that they were either to busy paying bills or that DC was too far to go to protest. I don’t know what to tell you.
They are functioning as a democracy. We are NOT. We are liars. We pretend we are something we are not. Come to think about it, that’s always been our history — to some extent in anyway.💔
Yup!
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… the implementation of Sec 3, the Disqualification Clause, of the 14th Amendment, required more than 4-yrs, Democrats who were in-charge of Congress + US Gov’t couldn’t execute the Constitutionally mandated removal of the Violent Insurrectionists Republicans, who’re now in-charge of US Gov’t!
Oh, they actually did drag their feet - we were actually hoping for a verdict sooner, but rumor is that a) they wanted a unanimous verdict and b) there's timing considerations around other politicians with trials coming up
I hate feeling like this, but I blame Joe Biden for helping this happen. And that grotesque meeting he had w/ trump in the oval after the election still makes my blood boil. Fuck everyone responsible for this nightmare- all of whom are rich enough to escape it.
People like u made this happen spewing lies so weak minded belived the orange propaganda. Biden could of done more but he put us on the right track republican held the power when they hold the house and senate.
The US has been exposed for a weak and corrupt system only advantageous to those with the most money. They gifted Germany the best political system of government after the Second World War, the Germans made the most of it to become the moral authority in Europe.
Fucking 💀🇷🇺🇷🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺🇷🇺💀 #RussoAmeriKKKa doesn't even come close to ⭐️🇰🇷⭐️ #SouthKorea. "When South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled to uphold the #impeachment of president #YoonSukYeol, 1000s of protesters gathered outside to watch a live broadcast erupted into wild cheers..." https://l.smartnews.com/p-k4aXdEY/pRsLEl
I was wondering when someone was gonna spew the monoethnic/monocultural bullshit in the comments. One side of your political faction literally wants to reject the culture war and establish class solidarity, while the other side wants to murder anyone that doesn't look, speak, or behave like them.
Multiculturalism is not the problem ~ SK is also multicultural, but has a lot more practice with protest and a lot more recent memory of life without democracy
And I live there. It's also my academic area of study. You're right that they shouldn't be compared, since they have completely different histories, geographies, etc. But also, you're still wrong about multiculturalism here, both in SK's status and in its effects.
It's like a kid with an incredibly abusive father seeing the cops show up to arrest one of the neighbors.
"Yeah, he got in an argument and punched his wife. Now he's going to jail. Which reminds me: how come your mom always wears those giant sunglasses even at night?"
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Tax breaks and tariffs they want to bankrupt the working and middle class the extort our work and assets. Economic terrorism. Their greed will not end. Hands off protest April 5th.
Feel the need to share this, in 1941, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor would reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Because impeachment requires Congress, and half of both the House and Senate are MAGAT/(R).
Republicans decided on 1/7/2021 to stop honoring our Constitution, so they are loyal to TRUMP, not AMERICA. Until we can vote these traitors out, we are stuck with them unless they leave office; so while
impeachment IS deserved, Republicans are the same party that impeached him for his insurrection 1/6/2021, but then the corrupt (R)s in the Senate refused to REMOVE him despite his OBVIOUS crime.
Per our Constitution's 14th Amendment, no insurrectionist may hold public office; so even though we ALL
WATCHED his attempted coup, the (R)s could not do what was lawfully required.
Then, despite his (SECOND) impeachment (the first one was his attempted blackmail of Zelenskyy) for Insurrection, the corrupt MAGAT-bought Supreme Court's "shifty 6" of corrupt justices decided he should REMAIN on the
ballots, despite at least two states REMOVING him (correctly) for being an insurrectionist, then later ruled that he was above our laws.
So, despite his ineligibility due to his insurrection and ban under the 14th, he was elected President(-in-name-only), and his co-PINO, Musk, is also ineligible.
Thanks for explaining in detail! It seems you have a rogue President on your hands, that must be dealt with outside your now very corrupt system of government?🤨
And ours said “well naturally a President may speak to his Vice President without fearing charges” when the topic was stealing the election and usurping another term.
The only way to fix the U.S. as it is now is for the populace to storm the white house and evict trump. Things have gone way past procedural fixing.
Same in the U.K
In the US, we are able to buy our president, officials, Supreme Court Justices, state/federal judges & voters. We're the most corrupt democratic country in the world with no desire to remove the corrupt segregationist currently occupying the White House.
Meanwhile our president had his J6 goon squad try to completely destroy the capital and the supreme court said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.
Yep: and despite Congress impeaching him for that insurrection (his record-breaking SECOND impeachment: most corrupt President ever! His 1st was for blackmail of Zelenskyy), the corRuptublicans could not bring themselves to remove and ban him.
So sad that the (R) stopped honoring our Constitution.
And France barred Le Pen from running in their next election in 2027 for her crimes. My mood is that "Happy for you." meme with the kid getting his photo taken who looks REALLY upset to be there.
Even more so that it was unanimous. Meanwhile here in the USA if we impeached and removed Trump you’d have to assume that Trump would start out with 2 votes in the bag if he tried to get SCOTUS to intervene.
They serve fixed terms, staggered so that each president will always have some appointments they can make, while others were made by political predecessors.
It helps a lot that the ROK is a small country with excellent transit, most of the population less than a couple hours away from Seoul. Big protests, every day, for months. Impossible to ignore.
That's true for every other country in rebellion except ours.
THIS! Plus France JAILING Le Pen, and banning her from politics. The US was just fucking stupid, complacent, and ruled by old farts stuck in the 1980s with dreams of a bipartisanship that no longer exists.
When you have a government that is run by people who often skirt the law you enable a leader who is not shy about using "kompromat" to take over the country.
What’s hard for Americans who have fought against this fascist regime that has taken over … is when tone-deaf dolts rub salt in the wound by smugly relishing in our struggle.
Because, it’s not “difficult “ for MAGA Americans. This is what they voted for.
I just returned from a business dinner entertaining 2execs from Sweden and although politics was astutely avoided by our guests i have never felt more embarrassed or ashamed to be an American. How could i even suggest walking Boston’s Freedom Trail? What does it mean today? NOTHING!!!!
So? All you military and Ex military need to stand against the golf happy crazy orange Hitler! He could not even honor fallen soldiers. Revolt against the oligarchy! You will not be a free country otherwise. start learning Russian cause Putin will be in charge not Mr. Stupid dumb fuck orange thing.
There’s something deeply funny, in a sad way, that Roberts and Co love the idea of an enlightened God King so much that they couldn’t fathom the alternative that Trump would abuse the blank check they gave him instead of using his unlimited powers for noble reasons
Definitely hard to see South Korea doing what We The People should have done years ago and what we absolutely should be doing right now!!! Get this cancer out of America!!!💙🇺🇸🦋
I was in Korea in 1980 and literally saw the troops move into Seoul at 4:00 a.m. and then heard about the Kwangju massacre, so yes, Koreans are not down with coups. What’s astounding was many of that president’s supporters wore MAGA hats and waved American flags in protests. Not making it up.
South Korea: 170,000 citizens per legislator. The USA: 760,000 citizens per legislator. If we had a legislature that was as representative as theirs is - it would need about four times as many people - we'd likely have less bad government, because we'd have a Congress that could do things.
I will say it a million times- if leftie Bernie fans had just acted like adults and voted for Clinton, we would not be in this situation with SCOTUS. They had a collective temper tantrum because the DNC was “so unfair to Bernie!”…and they still justify this. And it will f*ck us up for decades.
But our Supreme Court is already corrupt and caused all these problems. The last "golden age" was stopped by the laws the Roberts court overturned cause "we dont,need them any more" Republicans and billionaires are honest now.
Try living in Puerto Rico knowing that Republicans scuttling the USS Murica is gonna suck you right down with it because no one is even trying to help you cut the rope.
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If I even 'thought' about committing the crimes he has done I would have got 10 years.....
Most countries would have a more permanent reaction but, yes, with some time in prison.
Crazy times.
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You could lend your voice to that
You guys really need to join them , bring your courage
You, collectively together will save each other.
Brazil is standing up.
France just stood up too.
It's time for orange faschists to go.
Steps to a real DEMOCRACY
Exposure + Motivation + Coalition building + Revolution
Revolution: https://www.keithalanhamilton.com?p=10712
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The feeling of being the subject of the schadenfreude of others = __________ ?
"Yeah, he got in an argument and punched his wife. Now he's going to jail. Which reminds me: how come your mom always wears those giant sunglasses even at night?"
Tax breaks and tariffs they want to bankrupt the working and middle class the extort our work and assets. Economic terrorism. Their greed will not end. Hands off protest April 5th.
We could learn some stuff from other countries.
AHAHAHAH 😭
Republicans decided on 1/7/2021 to stop honoring our Constitution, so they are loyal to TRUMP, not AMERICA. Until we can vote these traitors out, we are stuck with them unless they leave office; so while
Per our Constitution's 14th Amendment, no insurrectionist may hold public office; so even though we ALL
Then, despite his (SECOND) impeachment (the first one was his attempted blackmail of Zelenskyy) for Insurrection, the corrupt MAGAT-bought Supreme Court's "shifty 6" of corrupt justices decided he should REMAIN on the
So, despite his ineligibility due to his insurrection and ban under the 14th, he was elected President(-in-name-only), and his co-PINO, Musk, is also ineligible.
Seems like everyone's got their shit together but us
Same in the U.K
Would not be good but he would have loved seeing a functioning democracy hold a corrupt leader responsible.
So sad that the (R) stopped honoring our Constitution.
Oldest democracy in the world shot itself in the face for no reason.
USA alone has an unbroken passage of democracy its entire existence (Slavery & Indigenous Cleansing notwithstanding)
Unlike Korea & every other nation, USA has no experience w/ authoritarianism. So Americans can't conceive of itself in danger of tyranny
Damn our friendly continental neighbors. /s
The justices are not likely to take a hard line to protect Trump were he deposed. To do that is to risk personal legal exposure for each justice.
That's true for every other country in rebellion except ours.
All of which Murica lacks viscerally
Because, it’s not “difficult “ for MAGA Americans. This is what they voted for.
Trump is burning goodwill at a tremendous rate.
He can be brought down. It will take hard work, and lots of it.
This is the really fucking scary bit!!
They dont want peace! Let the genocide continue, we want to believe in fairytales and flying people.
https://bsky.app/profile/ouij.bsky.social/post/3ktztwk7xtr2j
Their people are not afraid
But they fight when the problem was small
In USA, it will take a second Capitol Insurrection but by the real patriots this time… at the WH
We are too corrupt and morally weak to see the value of what we have.