It’s like giving the house and car keys to a sullen teenager who, last time, set fires in the house, had a party, his friends came over and smeared shit on the walls and beat the cops when they showed up, totaled the car, and promised to do it again if we would just trust him this time.
Start with strategists! Put Mayor Pete in charge of messaging! Get rid of “Defending Democracy” replace with:“Working for working families!”
“Doing what we can to protect your rights!”
“Republican greed will cost you $$$!”
“Corrupt Republicans did a bait and switch on honest American voters!”
America hasn't gone anywhere because it doesn't exist anymore thanks to him his co-conspirators the treasonous Republican party and our foreign enemy Russia oh not to mention the greedy ass rich m************ here that don't deserve a Penny's worth of wealth
14 Amendment says because he INSTIGATED the insurrection, he should not be allowed to become President. WTF is the Supreme Court on CONSTITUTIONAL LAW? They are VERY compromised. Mitch McConnel said that Jan 6 was TRUMP'S FAULT! (PLAY THE TAPE). BLOCK his inauguration. WE MUST uphold the law!
Once you set a precedent by allowing the orange clown to serve as President then other parts of the constitution can and will be ignored at that point the constitution is not worth the paper it’s written on.
These multimillionaires want to trash democracy and economies for entertainment and self aggrandizement.
In the book BLOOD IN THE STREETS William Rees-Mogg. All about trashing economies and make yourself richer.
True traitorous patriot.
You’d know better than I, but I thought I’d seen enough campaign coverage that tried to hammer home the risks of another Trump takeover. Millions of your citizens want a King. It was really a ‘no brainer’. No pun intended.
There were many warnings given. We were even told that our country would not survive another Trump presidency. Yet, he won the election, shocking enough, but we are commenting on the fact that the Democrats appear to be responding to this catastrophe as though it's business as usual. It isn't.
we yelled from the rooftops and were called crazy for overreacting. stupid, stupid Americans. so stupid they don't get the part that citizen participation in governance is more than just voting(& or rioting)every 4 yrs. how do you fight for truth with the willfully ignorant?
Exactly. Our institutions and upstanding government officials will not stop the wannabe dictator this time. I can’t imagine what horrors we will endure under a second term from the orange 47. I hope we don’t lose our democracy.
Thank you. I have been screaming this over and over and every time I get told that 'Democrats don't do that'. THIS is exactly why the USA will lose it's democracy. Continuing to believe he will respect the norms and conventions and LAWS is the stupidest I've ever seen Democrats.
We're still here. We'll survive. If the fires in CA teach us anything, it's that the countries that one stupid idiot disparages have our back just as we would have theirs. Life is more than just one orange asshole.
We kept records, lots and lots of records. Of course it does not matter when the MAGA types will patently blame anything counter to their orange gods position.
Where have you gone, the nation that spent billions bombing people minding their own business in their own countries, overthrowing their elected leaders and supporting fascists?
One side cheats & threatens the very existence of American Democracy & National Security. The other side tries to uphold the institutional tradition of peaceful transition because that's the "high road" & somehow the "right" thing to do?
That's what we're doing?
We're handing America over to them?
I can't believe we're leaving a criminal to dismantle our values and principals just like that, he didn't even win fairly, the election was rigged, Elon musk bought the election!!! Everyone implied in this bribe is forever responsible for America doom!!! #DemocracyMatters #14thNow #Jan18thMarch
America has been going down the wrong path sense voters said they wanted a business man to run America.
Just don't get how they thought Trump was a business man. Bankruptcies, Scams, Cons, Slum Lord. Was & is his qualifications
Add sex offender, criminal & voters still gave him the WH.
Get over it and understand that he won the popular vote,senate, and house, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.You have freedom to berate and measure his successes!
respectability politics is like heroin to shitlibs
"well if we did obstructionism to the open fascists, who's really the fascist then, huh?"
"still the fascists"
"nah nah nah, see it's like a biiiiird, two wings, mumble mumble pfffffrt"
It all began many years ago when Mitch McConnell and others of his ilk ceased to represent the people of America and became total political beings. Their North Star became: What action will: 1. Help me retain my seat, 2. Help the Republican party and (LASTLY) 3. Help America, in that order.
The delusion that politicians work at the will of the people has been corrupted by wealth. It used to be 535 members in congress had to satisfy a pool of donors. With Citizens United allowing corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited to primary members out of jobs they became compliant.
And where have the decent politicians gone, if they ever existed. They know what is coming, and rather than stopping it.... They throw the citizens, and the country into the bonfire. Nevermind the constitution, and even the entire World. 'But they followed the rules". Trump will be merciful!
I’m challenging any MAGAts who support that orange-faced clown to show their integrity. Send me an email to [email protected] with your predictions about what you think will happen. I’ll respond with my own guesses, and we can compare. Time will expose the truth. Plz share!
America is still here. we're sitting in front of the tv watching everything we love: America's Got Talent, Traitors, WWE etc, or we're playing video games. Haven't you heard the playoffs are coming up???
I am still hopeful. Not for the short term, but for the future. Things will get bad, and then we must be a safe haven for former Trump supporters. Keep reporting on what is going on in the Trump/Musk circle, so those coming our way can learn.
I realized yesterday that, since it only takes 2/3 of people unifying in a direction to build a movement, we're not that far away. If 1/3 of Trump voters become disillusioned, we'll have that momentum. Don't give up and don't stop reporting.
Summer, I am thinking along the same lines. Those base maga voters are against the rich and Trump is playing right into the hand of them coming over to "our" side.
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.” America sleeps — and sleepwalks into disaster — while what they purport to value is destroyed by the “man” they elected twice. America is a ghastly paradox. America has left the building, replaced by mere shadows of its former glory.
Your comment is so gut-wrenching in its truth I stopped breathing for a moment. Once you have the courage to see it you can't UNSEE IT.
Thank you. I mean that.
I was going to apologize for the shock, but I see that you get it in the spirit it was meant. I just don’t know how else to explain what I see, while also keeping hope alive. It is only sleep — from which we can all awake and take up the fight once more.
I wasn't shocked. I so appreciate how accurately and bare-bones REAL you described where we are as a nation and a people. Thank you for your courage to say it. If only more of us had ears-to-hear, eyes-to-see and hearts to understand. Many thanks.
Unless the Democratic parties changes itself to fight fire with fire and to fight vicious with vicious they will not win another election. The MAGA/Musk/Trump well continue to pound out lies after lies after lies and these 77 million people who voted for them will keep voting for them every time.
His word means nothing. He’s a liar and an insult to the human race. His very existence is offensive. Looking forward to his departure one day. THAT is something I will celebrate.
So, what would you do? What's the answer? Bullshit lawsuits, bullshit Congressional hearings before "select" committees ? Bullshit and ill - advised criminal prosecutions?
I thought this was a country that fought hard for what's right! Stop caving in. Stand up and don't let this bullshit happen in this country. Show other countries we stand on the side of history what's right. MAGA will see they got gained nothing but disrespect 😤
Don’t know where it’s gone but I know where it’s going.
So many of us were ringing the alarm bells in 2015 and throughout his term and reelection campaign. Then sounding the sirens. Then hitting the panic button. Now we’re ringing the death knell.
I don't hate Biden but at some point we have to face the fact that he bears considerable responsibility for what is transpiring.
He was determined to play by the rules against an opponent who scorns them.
Hanging on to Garland may prove to be the biggest mistake of his presidency.
I don’t think you can blame a politician for playing by the democratic rules, where would that lead the society?
The voters have a responsibility not to vote for an apparent anti democrat. “You get the politicians you deserve”
He isn’t the only one. Lots of Dem and Indie voters still demand decorum (look at their reactions to AOC and Bernie)
Let’s not look back with blame, but forward with a plan!
Flood ALL media with simple bold truth.
“Corrupt Greed of Republicans will cost working Americans thousand $$$ this year!”
Lol, no. Its the Wizard of Oz, at the moment in the movie when he's caught red-handed at the controls of power and fear, a nobody of a little man playing god - "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Great movie with great allegories for today. The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow etc.
And he’ll do it with the help of the Corrupt SCOTUS, A sick AF billionaire and his billionaire sycophants , The War criminal Putin and the most uneducated gang of misfit voters the world has ever seen . JFC have mercy 🤬🤬🤬
If there is a God, when the Liar-Rapist-Traitor-Felon-in-Chief puts his hand on the Bible, it should burst into flames.
Not counting on it.
But I don't believe in God, so there's that
People's United. Defunded education system. Right-wing media. Result - corporations own your politicians and people are too stupid to not believe right-wing media that convinces them to vote against their own self-interest. The rich wins- read history books - lust for money and power is old as time.
It’s a myth that the dems like to perpetuate that they have no money. Kamala raised shitloads and it wasn’t kids emptying their piggy banks. Somebody’s making money off of all the dem government programs and Biden’s infrastructure. Ask Bernie if the dems wanna get rid of dark money. No fucking way.
I'll say it again: The magat grand plan is to destroy our entire culture, let alone our democracy, because destruction is all they value. Inflicting pain, sowing chaos, and watching us kill each other while they rob us blind is the end.
He will raise his hand and attest: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
I think you mean, where has accountable leadership gone. Don’t tell me that Garland and Joe Biden couldn’t be doing something to stop this. The 14th amendment clearly says that Trump is not eligible to hold office, but everyone is rolling over and normalizing this dangerous, rapist, felon, traitor.
The SCOTUS would support tfg. His judgeship appointments would also support him. They would take every charge, investigation, conviction to tfg's apptd judges. They too are responsible. Biden should have seated more judges.
Right now only 10% of our judiciary is Trump judges. A number of good judges who were going to retire retracted their resignations after Trump was elected so there is that.
Correct. And therefore it is crucial to recognize that we can’t rely on the Democratic Party as an institution to get us out of this, e.g. by hoping for a blue wave at the midterms. (Note this is not a call to sit out elections or vote third party.)
last moment of clairvoyance: Four scenarios: 1) Invasion and/or 2) irreparable tanking of the global economy. 3) Mass uprising against Repubs for their attitudes toward the LA fires, leading possibly to 4) folk heroes assassinating Repubs. Something of this nature may happen any day.
It's unconscionable to anyone with a functioning brain that this man is America's choice to lead the most powerful country on the planet. His flaws are manifold and we are all less safe because of this extremely stupid mistake. Stay alert!
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Officially a felon and preparing to occupy the White House again. Legally, he CAN NOT own a gun but CAN control the nukes, CAN NOT vote, but CAN become president. CAN NOT join the military but can control all branches. CAN NOT do jail time after a r*pe conviction!
It is confusing to me. Trump tells people exactly what he is going to try to do and people still support him!
Trump - I will be a dictator on the first day!
People - Yay we love you!
Trump- I’m going to get rid of people who process your food to lower the prices!
People- Yay we love you.
MADDENING! How long have we heard from our leaders what a danger he is? Only to invite him to the WH after the election.It's obscene & something should have been done to prevent him from running. IF we ever have another election laws must be passed to prevent someone like him from even running again
Then I will leave you with my most heartfelt blessings as I pass the baton to your generation and your courageous efforts to RESTORE, preserve, protect and defend our fragile democracy. I mean that with my whole heart.
I'm a Boomer~keeping my kids informed. Sharing history of the Women's Movement~Show them pics of NYC &LA when they were covered in smog, but WE pushed for care of the environment~my generation had friends who were Gay, Mexican, Black~We were going to change the world.And we trusted no one over 30!💙
The whole of America,well at least the uppity Democrats who can do something but will not do anything- have gone to the mental asylum,or should! All just as stupid,insane as MAGAts,and they try to bullshit the people with stupid rationale you wanna just slap back in their fucked up faces!!
Too many people have delusions that we are still somehow in normal times. They have to learn to fight the urge for normalcy and status quo, conformity.
I've been wondering this myself. Its like we are all walking in a daze into a blast furnace with no care if we burn up or not. Our high court says it will warp and twist the laws for their benefit and we do nothing.Have a man saying I'm going to destroy your country and NOTHING WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE
I made a comment on another site that I pray our checks & balances hold up. Response was who needs checks & balances. If Trump needs to dismantle the Constitution to get things done, so be it. Echoes of Nazi Germany for sure.
It took Hitler less than 2 months to use *legal means* as provided for by the laws and constitution of Germany to make himself a dictator. I think tr@mp meant exactly what he said with his “you’ll never have to vote again” statement. Welcome to the 4th Reich. Greenland + Canada = lebensraum.
I believe all the felon’s threats about Canada, Greenland and The Panama Canal are distractions from what he’s really getting ready to do. Maybe I’m wrong. We’ll see
Don't include Canada or Greenland. We are both nato countries and we will implement article 5 and see what happens. The US is not has powerful as it likes to think.
I hope you’re right Deborah. We have many Maple MAGA’s here in Cda and in the US. Rumble invited Trump when Twitter shut him down. Economic warfare and disinformation is about to hit our country. Article 5 is based on a military attack is it not? However Greenland has been threatened militarily.
The ambition is there, though. If he just decides to land a few thousand troops in Greenland, what is anyone going to do about it? Nobody’s going to want to start a shooting war with them, certainly not over a desolate island in the arctic. He’s unhinged, I could see it happening.
Yes, NATO will get involved. Have you read why he has his eyes on Greenland? How would you like it if a country invaded Alaska, would you just say , ok, take it?
Why GL?: yes, the minerals.
Take AK?: I have no skin in the game. I’ve lived in Ireland 25 years and consider it my home now. Don’t care what happens to AK.
I’m anti-tr@mp and anti-right-wing in general. I don’t WANT these things to happen, just saying I think he’s batshit-crazy enough to do it.
For some reason even Hitler was afraid of public sentiment. They started purifying the master race by killing the disabled and mentally ill but when people found out they made noise and they (basically) stopped. So make noise!!!
It also took Hitler no time at all the eliminate any and all media reports that he didn't agree with or that spoke out against him. Trump is well on his way to accomplishing that even before taking office.
I dunno, I think it’s both distraction AND something he’s actually considering, at least as far as Greenland is concerned. With Canada I think he’s just trolling them because he’s a pathetic little bully.
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It's time to stand up and fight 💪 If you want you or your future family to survive into the next decade, then you must accept you're at war. It's us against the billionaires. It's time to stand up and kick in. You've lost your country, and you will lose your future if you don't.
I do believe democracy was destroyed when corporations became people. He is the nail in the coffin on democracy. March he plans on firing the military people. Guess who else did that and what happened after? Read more books.
I wonder if he will actually swear to uphold our Constitution. And if God will strike him dead w/his hand on the Bible. His Bible for $59.95 w/a copy of the Constitution inside.
Dont' forget he is a lame duck FELON47 who will be dogged by lawsuits he cannot avoid, a slim majority in the house (which will change again in March)and so much infighting in his own party that little will get done. there is hope yet
Twiddling fingers while Rome burns. It's human nature to ignore the unpleasant facts until it is too late to do anything about it. I have been screaming about this ever since Newt Gingrich tried to impeach Clinton and they gave the podium to a child molester.
The same OLD people keep getting elected. They grew up in era's of extreme racism & bigotry against certain groups. Their prejudices are ingrained regardless of party.
No meaningful outreach by Democrats to find & nurture POC in the south for national elections.
It baffles the mind how Americans can be allowing that criminal rapist to be sworn in as President. How is this being allowed. America, and the World, are in for some dark days once the felon/rapist is installed as Dictator. Things are going to get real bad for a lot of people.
Same as 1930's Germany that had a perfectly functioning, & in many ways quite liberal democracy in the early 30's. Those same people voted away their democracy & gave it to an uneducated, hate filled little rabble rouser, surrounded by enablers, who thought they would profit from it
This is what happens when money and power are worshipped above all else. America is young and still learning its lessons. Unfortunately, we are too intoxicated by our own success to accept we're not exceptional and to recognize our terrific fortunes will not last unless we sober up.
The side with the most guns don’t believe in the constitution and its principles. The entire reason for the second amendment is this. Exact. Reason. When the government becomes bloated and corrupt we’re supposed to take up arms to defend our constitution. Congratulations you played yourself.
Listen. We all wonder in amazement how this person is "allowed" to once again sit behind the Hayes desk but remember this. The American electorate made this CHOICE. The question is will the suffering those egg and gas prices Trump voters are about to experience be enough to change enough minds?
I agree it’s as if we are living in an alternate universe. We refuse to believe the words that are coming out of his mouth. He is going to do the things he said he would do. And the World is watching in disbelief because we the people are not acting.
If you were going to place a bet, would you wager $1,000 (and you’re not rich) that this geographic grouping (America is gone) will survive Trump and maga? This is corruption and moral decay to parallel Hungary or Russia. They exist as hellholes but we have a far larger resistance.
I'm more angry at those in Congress & the WH who could do/could have done something about it but won't/didn't.
To me that is the most unforgivable part of this.
Yep. I feel the same way.
And unfortunately too many of us regard ourselves as IMPOTENT to hold our own government to account. We've become little more than CONSUMER UNITS distracted and consumed by shiny objects and endless trinkets. The next trend. The next 'NEED TO HAVE'. To our own demise.
Elon Musk bought the election for himself first. Old-school Republicans let MAGA in, knowing exactly what he was and is. Now that they're MAGA and have killed the Republican party, we're stuck with this fucking moronic, evil, nauseating, malignant narcissist. Lord give us the strength to combat this
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“Doing what we can to protect your rights!”
“Republican greed will cost you $$$!”
“Corrupt Republicans did a bait and switch on honest American voters!”
In the book BLOOD IN THE STREETS William Rees-Mogg. All about trashing economies and make yourself richer.
True traitorous patriot.
Nobody could have ever expected this to happen.
That's what we're doing?
We're handing America over to them?
Both told the Press and the People they had no intentions of doing so and will mold the government into one based on loyalty to them.
Literally.
This is history repeating.
Just don't get how they thought Trump was a business man. Bankruptcies, Scams, Cons, Slum Lord. Was & is his qualifications
Add sex offender, criminal & voters still gave him the WH.
WTF, again!
"well if we did obstructionism to the open fascists, who's really the fascist then, huh?"
"still the fascists"
"nah nah nah, see it's like a biiiiird, two wings, mumble mumble pfffffrt"
I knew the US could be bought, but I didn't know the price was so low.
America: I am still here under all this bullshit! Please get a shovel!!
Some do but yeah, most are believing the Governmental checks and balances still mean somethibg.
#MAGA
Thank you. I mean that.
But she may not.
And if there's another pandemic, millions of us will die... again.
I hate those who voted for Shitler.
So many of us were ringing the alarm bells in 2015 and throughout his term and reelection campaign. Then sounding the sirens. Then hitting the panic button. Now we’re ringing the death knell.
We were laughed at. Still are by many.
He was determined to play by the rules against an opponent who scorns them.
Hanging on to Garland may prove to be the biggest mistake of his presidency.
The voters have a responsibility not to vote for an apparent anti democrat. “You get the politicians you deserve”
It's one thing to bring a knife to a gunfight ... Biden brought a wooden spoon.
Let’s not look back with blame, but forward with a plan!
Flood ALL media with simple bold truth.
“Corrupt Greed of Republicans will cost working Americans thousand $$$ this year!”
https://youtu.be/BvHbtVQqqXA?si=4DotB0UDcNAlwr1t
Not counting on it.
But I don't believe in God, so there's that
Better to see a “bible burst into flames” than a false Oath witnessed the world over.
And yes, he will break this oath the firdt dsy.
Where have you gone America
Officially a felon and preparing to occupy the White House again. Legally, he CAN NOT own a gun but CAN control the nukes, CAN NOT vote, but CAN become president. CAN NOT join the military but can control all branches. CAN NOT do jail time after a r*pe conviction!
I’m embarrassed for us
It is confusing to me. Trump tells people exactly what he is going to try to do and people still support him!
Trump - I will be a dictator on the first day!
People - Yay we love you!
Trump- I’m going to get rid of people who process your food to lower the prices!
People- Yay we love you.
Trump.
Take AK?: I have no skin in the game. I’ve lived in Ireland 25 years and consider it my home now. Don’t care what happens to AK.
I’m anti-tr@mp and anti-right-wing in general. I don’t WANT these things to happen, just saying I think he’s batshit-crazy enough to do it.
World War 3 is still highly unlikely.
Revolution is necessary.
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So, we should all bear the blame squarely for allowing these foetid monsters the keys to our kingdom
Brace.
Thank you!!
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#Trump was the ringleader of the #Insurrection
and is thus ineligible form becoming #President
again !
Look at the mess this country is in.
It isn't because of POC or women. It's because we allowed crusty, pasty white men to ruin it.
We are not going back.
There is this sense that this is being ALLOWED.
My question is WHY?
The same OLD people keep getting elected. They grew up in era's of extreme racism & bigotry against certain groups. Their prejudices are ingrained regardless of party.
No meaningful outreach by Democrats to find & nurture POC in the south for national elections.
It's shameful.
To me that is the most unforgivable part of this.
And unfortunately too many of us regard ourselves as IMPOTENT to hold our own government to account. We've become little more than CONSUMER UNITS distracted and consumed by shiny objects and endless trinkets. The next trend. The next 'NEED TO HAVE'. To our own demise.