It's shocking but at the same time we know why. The "news" stations, all of the free press, politicians all lying. They have created an alternate reality. Proof propaganda works. If democracy survives we MUST address this. The people should have a right to truth from these outlets.
It wasn't because I think his supporters are like those who supported Hitler, somehow the feeling is that they will somehow gain in the medium term and it's not all that serious anyways...until they become the prey.
Since the law no longer exists, I suggest we all go to our local lending institution and demand bigly amounts of cash, courtesy of the Republican Party!
Trump & co committed treason by ‘levying war’ against the US Gov on J6–as written in the Constitution and defined by founding father, Chief Justice, John Marshall—by amassing supporters to attack the Capital, to prevent the certification of an election he lost, combined with his fake elector scheme.
The fact that 2/3 of Americans thought it was not disqualifying (1/3 voted for Trump, 1/3 stayed home) destroyed my hope that Americans was waking up to the fact that democracy needs to be defended, through civil action and interest for democracy, otherwise you lose it.
The fact is over 70 million didn’t care. More than being troubled by the fact trump ran again, is that Americans chose him again despite him leading an insurrection. The sadder commentary is that the thought of ten bucks more in the pocket was more important. Now trump said he can’t lower prices
Racism, elitism, and at least 3 generations of people subjected to an educational model still controlled by 19th-century factory owners who want obedient workers able to live off of abuse and neglect (and no $) but still provide superior products and services to their 'betters'.
Yep, that's about right.
From ALL sides, and perpetuated by at least 4 generations of flawed parenting where science-based education got run over by religious indoctrination.
When constantly stating "God bless America" as ALL politicians do, this situation will remain. The $ will see to that.
You do accept "karma" as a far eastern concept, built on religious pillars such as reincarnation?
Were it the case that "God's words" had any bearing on the baryonic universe, we would have eradicated stupidity eons ago.
We need courageous leadership NOT same ol same ol w/namby-pamby cowards afraid to take any real action against domestic Enemies of the State—
The Constitution cldn’t be clearer—
🇺🇸 had all the evidence needed to shut down GOP & chose not to
🙉🙈🙊
💔🇺🇸🙏
I remember when he mocked Senator John McCain’s sacrifice to our country and thought…no, KNEW, that his campaign was over.
And his grabbing pussy comment, and when he mocked the disabled, and when he lied about his campaign’s secret meeting with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Nepotism (John Trump), oligarch communist political apparatus masquerading as a capitalist democratic republic, & corrupt nefarious "militias" & foreign interest groups operating as "federal" entities that know the plebeian tax-paying class is too subservient & bitch-made to do anything about it.
Just a "tourist" visit full of "love". If a black "tourist" showered that type of love on a white person's home, he would spend years in prison, and it wouldn't take long for a trial to be held. Pitiful.
Because we are late stage Republic and crumbling empire.
Not to mention a smoking gun video surfaced of a federal agent leading people into the capital, getting arrested and escorted to the back, then getting uncuffed and fist pumped👇
Because a third of the country wanted a violent confrontation and still does, a third doesn’t care, and our third was too lazy and self-occupied to show up at the polls.
This X 1,000 when it comes to that guy! And the fact that he’s back in the WH soon is sickening. It’s one thing to believe he didn’t deserve all the trials🙄, it’s another that 1/2 of America & the GOP put him back in. I just can’t make sense of it.
Because, what Trash… err… Trump found was the nerve of “suppressed” voters… you know… morons.
When I was a kid, my friend’s dad told me, “there are waaaay more stupid people than there are smart people, and they’ll eventually win just on numbers”.
When the media gave him a pass on the grab 'em comment, which would have sunk any Dem, that should have been our first indication that this guy was going to be protected no matter what.
We've seen that neutering the Exec. doesn't require that a gun be pointed at them...
A simple garden variety mutiny among those, all the way down the chain, entrusted with enforcement will suffice.
Remember, he won because of Elon Musk buying votes and manipulation of machines! How was he able to say at 10 pm on election night without votes being fully counted that Trump won. Remember he said “we have so many votes , we don’t need any more” just vote this once and you won’t have to again
From the Republican's side, the desire for power will always trump morality. The American public? Stupidity is the only answer that makes sense. Or was it fear of women?
Many people just didn’t like that Biden was marketed as “sharp as a tack”, that the DNC was claiming “threat to democracy” while suing political opponents to prevent ballot access and anointing Kamala instead of holding primaries in order to keep Bidens campaign donations…..
Seriously, do you think for one second that this went though the mind of the Trump voters? Not the Jan 6 insurrection, the sexual assault findings, the 34 felonies, the fraud, campaign donation misuse and the profiteering nepotism?
Well they got what they voted for. A mentally incompetent criminal.
You are missing the power of the Russians, the Israeli and the corporate rape dogs. The magats will never see this because they could never figure out that they were wrong. Even when this country completely falls apart, they will still try to make America great again and be blaming it all on us
And now the Supreme Court as approved his immunity so he has become the new “Teflon Don” where nothing will stick to him. He is even complaining about the timeliness of President Carter’s passing like it was to spite him so the flag would be at half staff to make him look bad. So sad a man is he.
I suppose if the Republican Lawmakers in Congress held their ground and condemned his actions, we would not be in this situation today. Nixon was ousted because Republicans back then believe in the rule of law. Those Republicans are gone. They could have stopped all this. They didn't for power.
Well, a couple things to me. The Media avoided ANY talk about his presidency being a white movement. Even to this day, he's not diverse in the company he keeps. AND bigger than that, NO ONE, called this supposed terrible, evil, 34x convicted felon, threat to our Democracy, a liar to his face. They
continued to engage in talks with unserious people seriously, and they were allowed to lie to the American people on American airwaves without penalty. It legitimized them. Dems are more worried about saying things correctly than saying the correct thing. "Home of the Brave" my ass. The Dems let
the Right, lay the blame for rhetoric at THEIR feet! Even behind "They're eating the dogs". They seem to need to take a class on defending themselves. And the media needs to learn that when the stakes are this high, with these tactics, an Insurrection, objectivity and civility take a backseat.
I agree, though the number of times during his campaign, presidency and post presidency I have said, “This should bar him from ever running” numbers in the thousands.
MAGA doesn’t like democracy, they want autocracy. They also want a leader who will be cruel and violent towards the people they have been convinced to hate. The cruelty is the point.
76M voters got big-mad about their grocery bills and in a fit of blind-rage decided to send someone to DC to burn it all down. You see the same thing in 10 year-olds who don't get the latest version of play station for Christmas.
I 100% agree with you and I don’t understand it at all. In fact I’m more than disappointed. They put a person above their own party even it wasn’t even party over country. It was DJT over party.
Dear jersey. I'm still praying for that heart attack that Jesus was going to give him real soon. Maybe you're not praying hard enough . Please join with me in a prayer. Dear Jesus, please give Donald Trump and all his people heart attacks and chest pain today. Thank you, Jesus.
Democracy is like a game. If one side doesn't play along the rules and they get away with it, a game morphes into war.
There are no rules in wars.
But the other side continued to play along the rules and thus lost the battle, and possibly democracy.
The winner will send his adversaries to hell and claim total control.
With all political power and the big money on their side, and a corrupted legal system, hoping for next elections is a waste of time and energy. There won't be fair elections anymore.
Many reasons but the main one was refusal by Dems to lower themselves to fight on the same playing field.
The “they go low, we go high” message didn’t resonate with the 90m who didn’t vote, they wanted a connection, to believe they were being listened to. Pelosi, Schumer are too removed from them.
Make no mistake. The republicans had two chances to rid ourselves of this vermin. They could have impeached him and driven him into obscurity! They will get what they deserve and I have no sympathy for them!
Allow me to explain. The average American is a violence-loving, gullible, ignorant celebrity worshipper. Incidentally, that was no accident. That was the plan all along.
It didnt end up being the end because of the spineless gop. They knew...KNEW...donnie was awful but hedged their bets. Well...whwn ya lay with dogs...ya get fleas.
I don't either. Miscalculation by the Democrats and Garland. They should have gone after Trump on day 1 of Biden's term but they waited to let the temperature in the country go down after Jan 6th, and hoped that he may just go away.
Truth...Ironically there are more Red states who will feel the brunt of it and I am not going to feel bad. They voted against their own best interests, they just don't realize it yet.
It wasn't the end of trump's political career because republicans have wanted to destroy our democracy for decades. trump helped them towards their goal.
Well, there is this bowl of overcooked oatmeal, in the shape of a man, that goes by the name ‘merrick garland’, who was too much of a rightist coward to do anything about it.
Biggest mistake President Obama ever made was foisting that spineless jellyfish on The American People!!!
Garland is the worst kind of enabler. The only and tiniest bit of satisfaction is seeing that many of his defenders and apologists in the legal community have finally started to criticize his inaction.
130 million Americans cannot read or understand words above a 6th grade level. It only took 77 million to elect
🍊🦃.
They could not understand the reasons not to vote for him because the words too big. Democracy. Insurrection. Tyranny. Criminal Justice. Too much and too fast.
More people eligible to vote actually skipped voting than elected 🍊. (I don’t post his name any more to confuse the search engines). It was 89 million voting eligible adults didn’t bother. 77 million elected Trump. Source- USNews and World Reports
Not to mention the fact that they have never learned civics and have no idea how government works. Too many of them think a POTUS has the same authority as a monarch.
Good point. I’ve had some back and forth with nice MAGA (when there used to be some) and they didn’t know what Congress does in relation to President nor how laws get passed. It was more like a football game to them with Red and Blue Teams. This is why the policy arguments are worthless. (Deep sigh)
I'll explain. People don't care as much about our democracy as they do prices at the grocery store. Our collective wisdom has been our nation's super power, but our collective willful ignorance is our kryptonite.
If the US Constitution falls to his authoritarian pipe dream, historians will look back on this failure to prosecute him for J6 as the reason for our demise.
Half of American voters want authoritarianism and a "Daddy"......half don't want that m-fer......and a third of the American people sat on their asses watching the world go by because it "didn't affect them personally".
Too many corrupt members in our government have been allowed to stay and flourish. The government has been taken over and no one has even tried to do anything about it.
Because he wasn't thrown in jail on January 7th, or anytime thereafter, or punished at all really. Fortunately or unfortunately, we have no history of coups d'etat so we aren't really aware that in other nations proponents of failed coups often meet a more harsh and permanent end.
I read Professor Carol Anderson (the easiest read of all the deep, long explorations of how the racist in chief's career was not ended by a violent insurrectionist): #WhiteRage https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/white-rage
Keep asking yourself a simple question - did the majority of voters vote for Trump or against having a woman of color become president? Unfortunately, either answer diminishes us as a Nation. We must do better for a brighter future.
Because the Bush tape wasn't the end of Trump nor was the impeachment nor was the 'inject bleach' nor was the use of the WH for his campaign nor was ...
Thank Mitch McConnell. He encouraged "no" votes 9n impeachment. Had trump been impeached, he would be ineligible to run, be, get near the presidency. Now McConnell is no longer in charge and won't run for office again. Power is so important to people it warps them, and these are Christians!
He was impeached by the House. The Senate chose not to convict. Therein lies the problem. If they had convicted (Senate) he would be ineligible to run.
There were so many reasons to not allow this. It seems that it was the responsibility of republicans to step up. Of course they just kissed his butt. Never more.
As someone watching from outside of America. Americans look weak. It’s infuriating he’s getting back into the White House. If he pardons the insurrectionists it’ll be a New low for your country. Pathetic. We are astounded out here looking in
Yes, as were a number of other acts before and after. But that one stands out. It is an irrevocable stain on our collective character as a nation that this person will hold our highest office once again.
Why do democrats and all people just pretend maga and republicans are not election deniers and liars.
Who would ever negotiate or speak to them like they aren't liars and deniers.
Why pretend they are normal and nothing happened? It should be pointed out in every conversation had with maga.
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#NeverForgetJanuary6
From ALL sides, and perpetuated by at least 4 generations of flawed parenting where science-based education got run over by religious indoctrination.
When constantly stating "God bless America" as ALL politicians do, this situation will remain. The $ will see to that.
Were it the case that "God's words" had any bearing on the baryonic universe, we would have eradicated stupidity eons ago.
We need courageous leadership NOT same ol same ol w/namby-pamby cowards afraid to take any real action against domestic Enemies of the State—
The Constitution cldn’t be clearer—
🇺🇸 had all the evidence needed to shut down GOP & chose not to
🙉🙈🙊
💔🇺🇸🙏
And his grabbing pussy comment, and when he mocked the disabled, and when he lied about his campaign’s secret meeting with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Not to mention a smoking gun video surfaced of a federal agent leading people into the capital, getting arrested and escorted to the back, then getting uncuffed and fist pumped👇
When I was a kid, my friend’s dad told me, “there are waaaay more stupid people than there are smart people, and they’ll eventually win just on numbers”.
(Jan 6th wouldn't happen)
Donald Trump, Billy Bush caught on tape having crude conversation about women / Denver7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKukVC_S5g
Abject fear of the sheeple cult ended it.
https://bsky.app/profile/jer7138.bsky.social/post/3lezenfnt4s27
A simple garden variety mutiny among those, all the way down the chain, entrusted with enforcement will suffice.
You know JoJo, if you look at it honestly, the only people in Congress who has ever stood up to Donald Trump are the women.
Again, … “cowering”.
☮☮~"Just Sayin"~☮☮
You chose
GOP
RNC
The list goes on.
Well they got what they voted for. A mentally incompetent criminal.
As one example, note the American Values Survey: https://www.prri.org/research/challenges-to-democracy-the-2024-election-in-focus-findings-from-the-2024-american-values-survey/
There are no rules in wars.
But the other side continued to play along the rules and thus lost the battle, and possibly democracy.
With all political power and the big money on their side, and a corrupted legal system, hoping for next elections is a waste of time and energy. There won't be fair elections anymore.
The “they go low, we go high” message didn’t resonate with the 90m who didn’t vote, they wanted a connection, to believe they were being listened to. Pelosi, Schumer are too removed from them.
Not enough money in public education.
republicans ARE the problem!
You’ll get there.
Biggest mistake President Obama ever made was foisting that spineless jellyfish on The American People!!!
Why not when he called Mexicans rapists and druggies?
Why not when he wanted the death penalty for innocent teenagers?
Why not when he stole money from a cancer charity?
Why not when he raped his wife?
Why not when he refused to rent to African Americans?
🍊🦃.
They could not understand the reasons not to vote for him because the words too big. Democracy. Insurrection. Tyranny. Criminal Justice. Too much and too fast.
So that leaves us where we are now.
When law is not enforced, there is no law.
would this be a good place???
Who would ever negotiate or speak to them like they aren't liars and deniers.
Why pretend they are normal and nothing happened? It should be pointed out in every conversation had with maga.