Remorse would require introspection on the part of every sitting SCOTUS judge who signed onto or still agrees with Citizens United. Not going to happen.
I never voted for brexit! However, you are so right! Many people here in the UK regret voting for brexit and now are realising they were conned and lied to! The damage it has caused the UK is beyond repair.
Oh, please cry us a river. It was blatantly obvious to any external oberver Brits yearned for a Farage led return to Empire. No one was conned. They just refused to think just follow.
I don't know when they will see it for what it is. They are all still cheering his destruction of our government as if he is hanging them a percentage of the prize
Oh the consequences are very intentional. Magas want government torn down. They voted for this and they think it’s great. Ask them. They’ll tell you loudly, cruelly and proudly.
It’s not Elmo, it’s the Republican Party. Yes, the US voted for Republicans - as president, for the House and for the Senate. We ALL knew Elmo would be involved.
The country voted for this shit exactly as the Brits voted for the Brexit shit-sandwich. And the Brits STILL can’t admit they were wrong
It is going to be far worse. Elon is digging in. The whole "Effeciency, fraud, and waste" nonsense is cover.
He is building access to all the data via GenAI.
to Consolidate power and control.
And he is never going to leave
Ever.
This ends badly, either for him for or for America. Or both
The right created “Project 2025” which will turn the U.S. into an oligarchical police state. DOGE is now unofficially a part of 2025. The GOP doesn’t understand that cuts in the federal budget will hurt Red States more than Blue. Red States receive more federal aid than it pays in taxes.
I agree. In the end, if we survive it,I'm betting most of America will hate both Trump & the Republican party & it will hurt them for a very long time.
They know the consequences and don't care. None of this is "unintended" consequences. Unless backlash actually gets bad enough to harm them. That's the only thing they specifically didn't intend
They're not a particularly bright or competent group.
They can destroy and steal well enough. The damage they're doing will be horrendous, but ... I think they'll have trouble governing. Things will break, and they won't be able to fix them. People will get angry.
That only goes so far. They've been to that well too many times already.
Besides, Trump was supposed to "fix it." He's had a month. His fantasy narrative is that he blinks his eyes or something and miracles happen. They don't.
There's a trap in selling air. People figure out they've been had.
I don't think for a min they want to govern. Privatize and pillage all they can? Sure. Control people, eradicate nuisance, burden, and inconvenient ppl? Yes. Grab power? Definitely. Force 1 religion? Probably. Legislate morality? Likely. Govern? Not a chance 🤷🏻♀️
Which is the corollary to "They're incapable of governing."
Either way, people will get angry, especially if the economy stalls while inflation continues. It may sink in that the regime is self-serving, illegitimate, and corrupt.
Right now his base is celebrating how Musk is saving the country. They're cheering that people are losing their "cushy" government jobs. They are beyond reason and yet they're also still miserable enough that they're at odds with their own psyche. It's almost as if they know they're not winning.
they’ll find out the consequences when magats start crying about no
SS, medicare, medicaid, no vet benefits, no special needs programs in school or no school breakfast or after school programs for their kids & when
their “government efficiency” isn’t efficient or run by experts
I remember when that business of Brexit came to light. I was of the belief that Great Britain would know better. But I was wrong. It was at that moment I could see what might happen that November. I didn't want to believe it then and I still don't believe it now. So much for what I believe. Ouch!
Trumps ending of federal agencies and assistance will be America's Brexit. States will have to secure themselves against terrorism and prep for national disasters. Kentucky, Tennessee.... they got lucky this time that fema still exists.
"Breaking things" is being done by design: if the federal government is so hollowed out that it no longer functions, well shucks, I guess it HAS to be replaced with something else. Queue Elon's network state pals like Andreesen and Thiel to step in with their authoritarian CEO-as-King mini states.
Very well said. I don't want to speak for the British, but I got the impression that after almost 10 years they feel like second-class citizens, unable to do business, travel, or study abroad comfortably.
Well most of us... The majority will allow you that. It's a mess.
Living standards down. The lot. The architects of it are doing fine...
It's a shambles. But some STILL think it's great.
They're "owning the libs".
Whilst their nation declines.
The "owning the libs" situation is similar in my country (CZ) too. In the past, our own copy of DJT ruled and will probably rule again in the next period - Andrej Babiš: a collaborator of the secret police from the times of the Soviet occupation, currently a billionaire with same method and manners.
You're forgetting empty supermarkets, food rotting in fields, businesses collapsing. Less freedom. No staff to do anything anywhere. It's what happens when hate & bigotry triumph over empathy & objective reality.
What bizarre is you hardly hear a peep about Brexit- the conservatives sure tried to memory hole that experiment, just like the GOP will try to memory hole trump ever existing after 2028.
And while Musk eats up the headlines the MAGA Congress is preparing trillions in spending cuts that will gut the safety net for tens of millions of Americans just to hand out more tax cuts. Purely evil regime.
Except nobody bought it. And anyone with a brain (and a little experience with how our government works) could see the fully intended consequences from a mile away.
DOGE discovered that there are 394 million Social Security recipients in the U.S., despite the country having only 334 million citizens, a discrepancy of more than 60 million. You Libtards gonna ignore this too?!
“But…but…trump only warned us about Hannibel Lechter, windmill cancer and gas stoves. He’s getting rid of all the illegals, rapists and convicted felons! We don’t know nuthin bout no DOGE. Must be a great fix it plan for big government!”
Over the next few years, the actions of Elmo and his merry band of incels will either result in a dramatic increase in the costs of running the government or a disaster for public services in the US.
Oh please. Every consequence is absolutely intentional. He intends to burn this place to the ground and walk away like Denzel Washington from an explosion.
Funny you post this. Neighbor had 6 foot sign "PRAY FOR TRUMP". He got pissed when I rolled down car window and yelled "I pray every day he drops dead". Sign no longer there.
I think many of the unfortunate consequences are intentional, sadly... Chaos and distrust of public institutions provides cover for selfish, criminal, "businesses" to operate w/o fear.
I disagree, Brexit was part of the continuum that had as its end goal this horror that we are living. This is much worst than Brexit as endings are always worse than the beginnings. This is the moment after Order 66 issued in the ‘Star Wars’ universe. Ok
I don't believe the American citizen ever had the chance to vote that bastard into any office that I know of and that 'organization' is nothing more than a bunch of teen hackers playing war games on our data.
If you have the opportunity to attack and harm anyone who works for doge, you should do it. They're not a real government agency. They don't have rights.
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Time to weed out inefficient leadership in government.
I'd make the comparison that Elmo and his Douché boys are Americas Spanish Inquisition.
https://youtu.be/D5Df191WJ3o?si=zydn5YeqK7Q8H5fF
Instead, they’ll just believe whatever they were told to.
MAGA destroying this:
Heartbreaking.
I know it’s on TikTok but worth it.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YQL92c/
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What’s left behind, a rotting husk
The country voted for this shit exactly as the Brits voted for the Brexit shit-sandwich. And the Brits STILL can’t admit they were wrong
He is building access to all the data via GenAI.
to Consolidate power and control.
And he is never going to leave
Ever.
This ends badly, either for him for or for America. Or both
Don’t let them off the hook by blaming doge..
They are working for Putin
They can destroy and steal well enough. The damage they're doing will be horrendous, but ... I think they'll have trouble governing. Things will break, and they won't be able to fix them. People will get angry.
I don't know what happens then.
Besides, Trump was supposed to "fix it." He's had a month. His fantasy narrative is that he blinks his eyes or something and miracles happen. They don't.
There's a trap in selling air. People figure out they've been had.
Either way, people will get angry, especially if the economy stalls while inflation continues. It may sink in that the regime is self-serving, illegitimate, and corrupt.
That will be a potentially volatile situation.
SS, medicare, medicaid, no vet benefits, no special needs programs in school or no school breakfast or after school programs for their kids & when
their “government efficiency” isn’t efficient or run by experts
it’ll all implode
but i’ll feel satisfied when magats FAFO
I say we don't.
Musk is trying really hard to make that happen. For him to move up (Trump is close to being incoherent mush), the Constitution needs to go.
It’s purely ideological.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-administration-f2455731efaf92678940bf11c63f7fe8
"eggs-agerating"...
Nadie votó por Elon, NADIE!
Que se jodan el y el hijoeputa Trump
#EverythingMuskGo
#art ✌😁🎨
Living standards down. The lot. The architects of it are doing fine...
It's a shambles. But some STILL think it's great.
They're "owning the libs".
Whilst their nation declines.
A household guide for cyber defense against Doge attacks.
By Lexi at Substack
My screenplay written me and AI
https://bsky.app/profile/cnamejj.bsky.social/post/3lh5yt2g3cs2p
“Is this really what you all thought was going to happen and are you still supporting this guy?”
Someone has to try to get some sanity back.
Enough sides…
The most googled term after the recent Coup was "What is a tariff?"
I KNOW Brexit has been a horrific process & I'm fairly certain Trump & MAGA will be much worse.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/putin-plot-against-great-britain-and-how-he-got-away-with-it/
Protests nationwide tomorrow in every capitol, many major metro areas. See https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/8PNNBTKI8w for local info.
https://Www.5calls.org to call your reps EVERY DAY, even GOP.
Job or not, you can do THESE things. SPREAD THE WORD!
Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand as well. And many others.
America became a rogue, imperialistic, dictatorship, fascist shithole. If you travel abroad, you are ashamed to say that you're american.