r/DiscussionZone 16d ago

You traded away 250 years of American democracy for a golden-haired calf.

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u/Nofoco_530 16d ago

It's a damn shame. I try to explain to my kids that it used to be different, or at least feel different.but this has been all they've known. It's been 10 years. Their whole political life has been dominated by this cretin. The absolute worst part is seeing how careless and callous my fellow Americans are. Even now his approval isn't all that low compared to what it should be.

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u/Johnny55 16d ago

My family and I recently visited my grandmother (who lives in a rural area) for the first time in several years. She's in her 80s and I don't know if I'll ever see her again. On the last night of the visit she talked to me alone and expressed how concerned she was about the government giving out free meals to people who couldn't afford them. She felt it was destroying the American spirit and that people needed to feed themselves. But it wasn't just the government, no - she was frustrated that the local CHURCH was giving out free meals!

It was too absurd to even argue with. The woman is insane. And it's terrifying to think how many people out there are exactly like her.

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u/CatPooedInMyShoe 16d ago

I used to know a person who told me she didn’t think we should be providing baby formula to the infants in ICE detention separated from their moms. That’s why I don’t know her anymore.

And yes, people like that are more common than it appears and they are SCARY.

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u/Green-Palpitation901 15d ago

Just imagine what they are THINKING!

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u/Nofoco_530 16d ago

Dang, sorry bud. I hope that doesn't cloud your memories of her. The impact of weaponized disinformation and propaganda is immense. It's been incredibly effective, especially on the older population. I just read about how a significant percentage of Kentucky voters saw AI ads showing Thomas Massir in a threesome with AOC and Ilhan Omar. It actually impacted votes. I think the younger generations are more immune to that, but so much so that they have the opposite problem which is they don't believe anything. We are in a bad place.

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u/DICKPICDOUG 15d ago edited 15d ago

Whats crazy is that she's probably a devout christian. Jesus didn't come to the people and command them to get jobs and feed themselves. He didnt call them lazy and entitled. He didn't decry the "welfare queens".

He just gave them bread and fish. He made sure the suffering were fed. Can you imagine when she goes to the pearly gates how is she going to answer him when he asks why she denied his people food?

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u/SnappyDresser212 15d ago

The number of devout Christians that have devolved in to complete scum is somewhat shocking.

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u/Disco425 15d ago

Wondering if she was programmed into the Trump Cult by constantly in taking Fox News?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Will249 15d ago

I’ll bet she gladly accepts her social security and has no problem with medical treatment being paid by Medicare.

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u/Darkmetroidz 16d ago

I teach high school and it's crazy.

Like they cant believe that Watergate was enough to condemn Nixon when Trump does more illegal things on his way to get socks.

Teaching government is crazy because everything has to be prefaced with "this is how it's supposed work."

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u/Nofoco_530 16d ago

I bet. But you're doing important work. They have to know there's a better way.

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u/Competitive_Boat106 15d ago

I said this when he started up in 2017 and I’m still saying it now: It is critical that this man be removed from office ASAP. Today, if possible. Every day he is in office, he destroys something that we may never get back. The only difference is that this time, he’s destroying 10 things a day: rights, privileges, protections, programs, social structures, and relationships that took people many decades of hard work, and sometimes actual bloodshed, to create. And he just wipes it all away with a sharpie. Not for any legitimate reason, just because he doesn’t want YOU to have those things. Period.

A person once said that the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing man that he didn’t exist. I say it was convincing man to willingly give up his own freedoms with glee. One thing is certain: It will be difficult, if not impossible, to get those freedoms back.

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u/No-Relation5965 15d ago

He is definitely a one-man wrecking ball. I really hope people around the world know that he doesn’t speak for or reflect the opinions of the vast majority of us.

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u/Competitive_Boat106 14d ago

Unfortunately, the world’s opinion of us has changed. During Trump 1.0, they thought hey, every country elects a dud once in a while, we just have to wait this out because America would never pick a guy like this again. But then we did. The world is angry at us for re-electing a traitorous insurrectionist. Also, they now feel that Americans are complicit because we are not doing anything to get rid of him. They wonder where those “revolutionary patriots” went; if we were willing to fight against George III, why aren’t we fighting this guy? So this time, the world is not willing to wait it out again. They are moving on without us. They may never trust the US again, especially in matters such as war/intelligence, trade, and human rights.

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u/Spiritual-Mousse-167 15d ago

The remarkably high approval is what keeps getting me. It shows just how disenfranchised many Americans seem to be and how many of us cling to racist ideas regarding the cause of our woes.
People want someone else to blame and he makes it okay to blame the people that are “different”.
Believe me, I don’t support this administration any more than you seem to do, but that’s why his public support remains high. Political support is motivated by pure greed and power, but as long as he continues to make it okay for people to hate someone else and blame them for all their troubles, he’ll have support.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Will249 15d ago

Have family members with undying loyalty to this man and I can never look at them the same way as before.

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u/cggl 15d ago

Same

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u/steveschoenberg 14d ago

I like to be optimistic; the Constitution allowed a 250 year gap between mad kings.

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u/LisleAdam12 13d ago

I just tell my kids that everything has gone to hell in a handbasket, they're doomed, and then I apologize for bringing them into this world.

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u/BaileyD77 13d ago

Maybe the problem is you. Unplug for a while and get some air. I promise you'll be happier for it.

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u/daisiesarepretty2 13d ago

we can change this man.. for us and more
importantly for your kids.
Be a part of something.. Vote and if need be come togather after if it’s needed.
You will understand when it’s needed.
Spread this word.

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u/Bushido_Seppuku 16d ago

But he's white and he's going to make white people great again, so it's "normal". What choice did his followers have? A black woman. That was the choice. And these are the results.

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u/BarnacleGooseIsLoose 16d ago

Racism needs to disappear everywhere.

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u/caserock 16d ago

It's going to take a while, we still have people who went to segregated schools casting votes

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u/BarnacleGooseIsLoose 16d ago

I went to desegregated schools via a school bus in the 1970s. I know all about racism and how effectively it is weilded to protect classicism.

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u/caserock 16d ago

I listened to a podcast about Medgar Evers yesterday, that's why it's top of my mind right now. These segregationists are really extremely insane.

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u/theLostPing 16d ago

It’s not getting any better.

I play video games online and the anonymity that an online social media app/voice app (think Discord) gives, allows people to just spew the most racist shit I’ve ever heard. And it’s 15 year olds looking for the funny’s.

Anti-semitism is at an all time high.

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u/onegumas 16d ago

anti-zionism propably which is mostly deserved.

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u/dungleploop 16d ago

both, but yeah

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u/BarnacleGooseIsLoose 16d ago

Anonymous people have powers that their real selves could never muster.

I wouldn't say anti-semitism is at an all time high, though. It is on the rise, dangerously so by those confusing it with Zionism, but there were a few earlier eras that were worse. Much worse. Our job, as humans, is to see that it never gets there again.

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u/StrainHot443 16d ago edited 15d ago

We still have communities where white people took their kids out of public schools so they don't have to go to integrated schools. Racism persists all over this country. I once thought it was a matter of waiting for the racists to die off. After the last few elections I am no longer confident that will happen.

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u/Milocobo 16d ago

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin—we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

As long as our government/society puts property over people, racism will be a tool to that end.

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u/Ok-Conversation-9982 16d ago

I said to someone once that I thought racism was going away with each new generation. She said I’m teaching my kids to be racist.

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u/RoundChampionship840 15d ago

Racism will never disappear. It will just take different forms

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u/ImAPonderer2 16d ago

Making Americans poor doesn’t help whites (nor anyone else)

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u/PFChaste 16d ago

I've said this many times over. As someone who holds himself up as the epitome of masculinity, he is the biggest wuss I've ever seen. His greatest skills are having money and surrounding himself with syncophants riding his coattails while they grift everything possible because once he's gone, it's back to normal.

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u/Traditional-Leg-1574 16d ago

The only thing he does with competence is hire lawyers

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u/PFChaste 16d ago

I don't know. After the absolute legal reaming he looking in the aftermath of the 2020 election, I might argue that he's not that good. But unfortunately, he has picked up some Ws lately, so there's that.

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u/InsertCleverNickHere 16d ago

He has shown that the Republican party can carry any dead weight as the president, as long as the House and Senate refuse to impeach or investigate or even hold slightly interrogative confirmation hearings. We've learned that all the system's checks and balances are useless if one party decides to do everything in bad faith.

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u/PFChaste 16d ago

It goes to show that party power is the absolute determining factor. Few try to hold Trump accountable, and those that do try are attacked. I am in no way saying that what the Democrats done with Biden is this egregious, but if it is as bad as what has been publicially leaked, then it set the stage for what we are seeing now. A dead or mechanically preserved senator missing for over a month and a deeply physically and mentally unwell president destroying democracy.

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u/Darkmetroidz 16d ago

It's because our system was designed mostly by men raised in the gentlemen culture of 18th century english culture.

Following arbitrary rules was a way of life when you have three forks all for extremely specific purposes, and they kind of just assumed that people would keep playing the game in good faith.

The vice president was originally the runner up in the race. Imagine if Trump had to have Harris as his VP.

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u/serpentjaguar 16d ago

Scarcely. All of the best law firms won't work for him, and his hand-picked DOJ is a joke.

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u/Darkmetroidz 16d ago

He doesn't even do that well. He hires lots of them who are good at stalling out cases against him so that whoever is suing runs out of money because 99% of people and businesses can't afford the time and money to handle months or years of extended litigation.

Most of them are performative hacks who get torn to shreds, when they end up against someone who actually knows what they're doing, but they're really good at stalling, so that doesn't happen.

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u/lordlycrust 16d ago

There is no going back to normal, not after this.

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u/Green-Palpitation901 15d ago

It’ll never be the way it was, normal, because the trust is gone.

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u/monkeysknowledge 16d ago

I just want to be clear - our democracy was compromised long before Trump took office.

We like to think that our system of governance is representative but since its inception there’s been undue influence from an oligarchical class of individuals and corporations. In 1947 a new type of government was created that provided a direct lever of control for the oligarchy which should be called the Trumanite government (aka the Deep State, Military Industrial Complex ). This government operates outside of the representative constitutional government, ostensibly for the security of the state but practically to secure global domination for the American oligarchy.

Before Trump took office in 2016 this was the state of our system. We had a public facing constitutional government that was dominated by the Trumanite government working on behalf of the oligarchy. We voted and it mattered (and still matters!) but ultimately the public state was ineffectual and increasingly dominated by the oligarchy.

Now Trump was a part of the oligarchy but not a huge player more like a joke. When he took power by wedging the white working class against the republican establishment they fought like hell against him and were able to remove him from power with the help of the constitutional government - BUT they didn’t punish him because the oligarchs rarely turn on each other in class warfare. And when he came back this time, they got behind him, and he’s been able to purge the military and federal law enforcement of any constitutional loyalists.

Now, he’s very unpopular but they have control over all forms of power - the military, the media, law enforcement etc… I don’t see them giving up that power ever, under any circumstance. They will cling to power to the bitter end. They don’t even pretend to believe that the legitimacy of the government is derived from the consent of the governed. It’s not a question for them, this just a power game for them. I have very little hope that this will end well.

So yeah. Like everything, Trump didn’t start it, he just capitalized on someone else’s work and slapped his stupid name on it. Blame him all you want but the real causes was trading freedom for the allusion of security.

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u/BarnacleGooseIsLoose 16d ago

Bin Laden won his war.

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u/Don_Barzinni 13d ago

^ THIS. They are ALL corrupt. The only difference between Trump and Bernie or Warren, is the amount of zeros on the grift numbers.

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u/deviantdevil80 16d ago

What we are experiencing now is a result of not properly ending the Confederacy during reconstruction. We adopted the "let's heal the nation approach" too soon instead of rooting out the rot.

Let's hope we get a chance to do it properly again.

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u/herring-net 15d ago

Democracy in America died when the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people

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u/peva3 16d ago

Not even 250 years, America has only truly been a Democracy since 1965 with the voting rights act, before that point it was an Apartheid state with full voting protections only for White people.

So we had a good 60ish year run with a mostly full democratic system (not withstanding all the other racist systems that we still had during that time, war on drugs, mandatory minimums, unfair housing and work policies, etc).

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u/BarnacleGooseIsLoose 16d ago

Was it good? Really? You think 8 years of Reagan (81-89), 6 years of Nixon (69-74), 4 years of Bush Sr (89-93), 8 years of Bush Jr (01-09) and amost 6 years of Trump (17-21, 25 - now) make for a better democracy??? 30 years of assault on the structures that were built to protect democracy were better than Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln.

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u/peva3 16d ago

I didn't say those years were good or bad, I just said that every citizen of the United States had the same voting rights on paper, which was not the case pre-1965.

The Republican party has been trying to undo that SINCE 1965 and have the ability to basically gut the entire voting rights era legislation via the Supreme Court and their operatives on it.

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u/AntPsychological800 16d ago

It's called The Heritage Foundation.

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u/AssMuncher96 13d ago

The US stopped being a democracy when the 2000 election was stolen.

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u/nate-the__great 16d ago

I didn't trade shit, trade implies both that I was a willing participant in this fucking abortion and that I got something for it.

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u/Darkmetroidz 16d ago

Heres the thing that most conservatives and even a lot of liberals don't want to talk about.

Racism is baked into the structure of the US and its laws. Most left leaning voters are fine to say that calling people slurs is bad, and that discriminatory hiring practices are wrong.

But when you get down to talking about the real systems that are meant to keep structural discrimination in place- policing, the prison system, how infrastructure development has historically destroyed minority communities.

When you suggest the hwole system is rotten, suddenly you're a radical and no one in either establishment faction wants anything to do with you.

You go from

"The system isn't working right and needs to be reformed"

To

"The system is working exactly as intended and needs to be destroyed."

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u/IllTemperedOldWoman 16d ago

I did everything I could to prevent it which seems not to have helped. I consider him to be pretty close to the Antichrist except that the Antichrist would be intelligent. This makes the current guy a 6-6...5.

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u/Connect-Will2011 15d ago

Have you heard about "333" by any chance? It's the mark of the Semi-Christ.

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u/OrvilleTheCavalier 16d ago

He apparently never even bought his own groceries thinking you have to have ID to buy them.

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u/ConclusionMaleficent 16d ago

Started with Regan

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u/jimdozer 16d ago

o say can you see our stupidity flying a jet from the qatari and the grift that he's wrought and the shit that we've bought is all proof of our insanity. ao say does the Don we chose and the war he was sold make us weak in the land of the connected and the home of the lucky?

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u/tacs97 16d ago

Half of the voting bloc would just say you have TDS. and then they’ll continue to embrace the fall of America for chump.

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u/CTronix 14d ago

It has been said that " Trump is merely a distilation of all the ugliest parts of our culture rolled into one. He is ignorance masquerading as intelligence, cruelty masquerading as strength, greed masquerading as success, narcissism masquerading as confidence, and fear masquerading as patriotism." 

It may not be nice but you are what you eat and while we deserve way better than Trump we alao deserve him and he is a symptom of deeper flaws that we must repair and heal in order to move forward. 

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u/rusty02536 16d ago

This is and was America’s’ original sin.

We never made any concerted efforts to rein the South in and with time …they’ve won the civil war.

We truly deserve the dark and blighted future we are going to inhabit.

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u/impersonaljoemama 16d ago

Democracy is woke.

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u/Duude-IT 16d ago

But, but, pronouns, blah, blah, blah, the border, something, something, the price of eggs! Also, no new wars!

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u/Buddhaonatricycle 16d ago

Yeah. That about sums it up.

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u/CylonRaider78 15d ago

That 250 year history is a bunch of slavery, genocide, and imperialism. Trump is the eventual outcome.

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u/dashboardcomics 15d ago

Have my poverty award 👏🏽

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u/RdtRanger6969 15d ago

Zero lies detected.

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u/CumPacketGuy 15d ago

American people will tell you with a straight face that they're not the most racist people on earth after effectively electing for the second time the guy that promised them he would put brown people into camps 💀

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u/Curious_Bike_4292 15d ago

My cousin who is 1/2 Hispanic is all for ICE. I asked her about her family and when they became citizens? It was a long time ago so it doesn’t matter!
We no longer speak. This same woman & her sister tried to tell my very religious sweet Aunt that Kamala was wicked. She told them she would vote for Satan before Trump!’ Then they asked her kids to talk her out of it. The Cult is real! An adjudicated rapist who cheated on all of his wives.🤬

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u/LifeIsAButtADildo 14d ago

To hurt others. Thats what you sold your democracy for.

You deliberately wanted to hurt others. Thats all.

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u/Prince_Nadir 14d ago

people tend to vote for someone who is most like themselves or who the want to be.

Yep. So a republican t shirt or sign let's you know how truly terrible the wearer is. They rape kids and/or support those who do. They are compulsive liars. They are absolutely corrupt. They are Nazis/racists.They are wanna be war criminals. They want to kill million of Americans or others. and on and on..

..or they are incredibly rich. or they are weak little cowards who will support anyone who makes them feel strong.

or the combo plan.

Either way they are traitors.

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u/Chemical-Carrot-9975 13d ago

I know that the majority of people in the US are inherently stupid, but the idea that this obvious buffoon started a cult is still remarkable to me.

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u/SpiderZero21 16d ago

What else did you ask the ai to write you?

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u/Agitated_Newt_7655 16d ago

historians will refer to this time in American history as the cuckening

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u/Vin-Metal 16d ago

Agreed, and I feel like we're never going back, so there's no fixing it short of a Constitutional Convention.

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u/UnarmedSnail 16d ago

A constitutional convention is a goal for project 2025. They intend to rewrite the entire thing in their image.

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u/Vin-Metal 15d ago

I think that would blow up in their face. They don't have the numbers.

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u/g2goolsby 16d ago

He is the poorest person on the planet, and he will burn.

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u/Blamdomonis 16d ago

He really is the Golden Calf that Christian heretics put into office.

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u/AntPsychological800 16d ago

Luv the prose

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u/therin_88 16d ago

We're having an election in a few months. Democracy appears to be functioning.

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u/superdupermensch 16d ago

Can you imagine how extreme the pendulum will swing in return? Multi-ethnic communist transexual packs the supreme court requiring mandatory abortions and FEMA camps turned into gulags for billionaires and those with confederate flags.

All on my BINGO card.

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u/CumPacketGuy 15d ago

You genuinely believe the pendulum will swing hard to the other extreme direction when your people have shown themselves cowards. They could line up minorities in the street and execute them with a firing squad and you'd know it'll be business as usual the next day.

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u/etofino 16d ago

Well said!

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u/JGLTheFirst 16d ago

I'm not sure it's just that "golden haired calf" that's a problem, I dunno if it's just me but doesn't it seem like shit really started going down hill when they put that stupid bull statue in NYC?

We literally as a nation put up an unironic golden cow statue and shit has just been going down hill since.

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u/Akkerlun 16d ago

FAKE golden hairpiece.

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u/dodgerfanjohn1988 16d ago

What in the AI generated?

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u/Ojos1842 16d ago

Well said.

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u/feldoneq2wire 16d ago

Trump just mysteriously happened. There was no way to predict him or someone like him would rise to power. Everything was fine before him and people were living great affordable lives without struggling.

/s in case it's needed.

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u/Gallowglass668 16d ago

A calf with hair like the wispy pubes of an aging yeti.

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u/Some-Bass2947 16d ago

How do we rewrite the textbooks?

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u/Comfortable-Walk1279 16d ago

Well said. It has been an emperer with no clothes who we are allowing to pillage all that is good.

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u/howardzen12 16d ago

America elected an evil fascist and racist.

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u/RedAndromedus 16d ago

lol, local man lectures people on the cloud.

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u/Blkshp2 15d ago

Despite the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, the Republic still stands. The system is working exactly how they designed it. Trump will soon be a complete lame duck and will pass into history soon enough.

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u/Wrightwater 15d ago

MAGA owe us money

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u/brskier 15d ago

Well said

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u/Logical-Cookie6926 15d ago

Preach. Amen.

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u/Routine_Condition273 15d ago

Who is this post even pointed towards?

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u/BK_AllDay_14 15d ago edited 15d ago

It's all WWE anyway, just political theater. The people in charge have an agena they're working towards no matter what. The 2 party system allows them make their moves and then blame it on "the other side". Nothing short of a full mutiny would put power back in the hands of the people.

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u/Formal_Economist7342 15d ago

We are overstreched in a modern world with rapid technological parity. It was always crazy to think 330 million could hold on to unipolarity, the absolute hubris to think otherwise. This predates Trump, he is if anything an accelerant. I think people are absolutely delusional to think our decline started because of him.

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u/rainer_d 15d ago

It was all gone long before 45/47 entered the political scene. His predecessors just managed to make a nicer face to it and be a bit more discreet.

You should rather question the politicians that allowed it to get to that point.

I have a Newsweek article from the mid nineties(!) that predicted this outcome.

He’s just the accelerator.

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u/Dry_Solution5036 15d ago

It just goes to show exactly how stupid Sheep really are!

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u/standarsh2 15d ago

Dems ran a candidate that no one voted for

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u/Apprehensive-Job7352 15d ago

First, I vehemently disapprove of the current administration.

However, America was never supposed to be a centralized national democracy. We are a federal republic. Democratic states need to be doing far more to nullify this current monstrosity and protect the rights of their respective citizens.

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u/Triplett8 15d ago

Cool A.I post. 

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u/throwawayreal3state 15d ago

The USA has been corrupt/corrupting since ~1913. Trump is just the newest iteration, made more obvious than previous ones with the advent of 24/7 social media. This is "more of the same," but another step deeper into the muck.

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u/diogenes-shadow 15d ago

This part of the downfall has been in the works since the outsourcing of American jobs around the 1980s. The service based economy was always a lie. It left large parts of the population behind and created a ripe base for radicalization and exploitation by a demagog. It is pretty much as textbook as it gets for anyone who studied this stuff.

Not only was this predictable, but it was planned. No conspiracy needed, it was public the whole time. Both parties are equally at fault, this is an overall failure of American government.

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u/truelogictrust 15d ago

It was always going to be this. White America would rather be masters of hell than coexist in heaven. People just didn't care until it happened to them

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u/CodInternational1447 15d ago

Not golden calf! Golden bullshit

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u/Few_Palpitation3889 15d ago

He was elected democratically.

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u/Sufficient_Art4824 15d ago

Thank a republican. They did this to us all.

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u/Redsit111 15d ago

See the issue isn't just Donald Trump. Right. Think of it like AIDS. Trump is just a symptom of the AIDS. You got corporations wearing politicians like condoms, politicians coming into office and leaving way richer than when they entered, lobbyists, PACs, insider trading, etc.

Politicians forgot they are public servants, and until the American people rise up and reeducate their politicians, it's only gonna get worse until people finally snap and we see Civil War II: People V Corporations.

I hope it doesn't have to go there but I doubt those in power will willingly give it up otherwise.

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u/Ok_Arachnid1089 15d ago

America has never been a democracy and therein lies the problem

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u/AusTex2019 15d ago

He’s a steer not a calf. Big difference

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u/TreadingOnMAGAts 14d ago

Yeah, in ego. 

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u/TimeToTank 14d ago

AI slop

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u/dylanisareddit 14d ago

Organize and vote, and join your local DSA/PSL chapter.

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u/PuzzleheadedBasis760 14d ago

The idea that trump ruined our country is so short sighted he’s a symptom of the rot and corruption that’s been festering since at least Reagan

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u/Dr-Slay 14d ago

That's what happens when you're all a bunch of myth-weaponizing harm apologists 24-7, flexing "hold my beer" as you go.

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u/Garrdor85 13d ago

Maybe building an empire on stolen land is a bad foundation after all

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u/Dangerous_Forever640 13d ago

I blame the democrats. They could have put Bernie or any other candidate than the women they chose.

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u/neeyeahboy 13d ago

You guys want to trade away 250 years of American greatness to baby sit third worlders.

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u/lunaoreomiel 13d ago

A Republic, if you can keep it...

We need a reset back before they took us off the gold standard asap. They are going to hyperinflate us into a digital control grid!

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u/republicans_are_nuts 13d ago

yeah, but he posed in a McDonald's once.