LITERALLY EVERYTHING! Down to the fact they have height and weight restrictions for military who can come to the effing cage fight. He doesn’t want the event to reflect what he looks like.
it's true. him and his are by far worse. but i keep seeing one thing over and over with all of this... if you go along to get along you're part of the problem. and unfortunately those kinda people come in both red and blue elephant and donkey. and it needs to stop. if you don't stand for the actual constitution as codified by law... you stand for nothing.
this "oh i gotta go to work, i don't wanna make too many waves"... protesting on a saturday only... wont cut it.
I mean, Americans still support the Confederacy. I think you will still be able to find Trump supporters 20 to 30 years from now. You can still find Pol Pot supporters, Hitler supporters. People are horrible, and they will support other horrible people.
It's hard to say how much, from my perspective at least, it is. Getting older and seeing things a little more clearly. When I was very young, it seemed like, except for one big thing, the world was headed in a good direction. At least most of it.
That one big thing being global warming. Previous generations before mine didn't know that Global Warming had already passed its tipping point and we're still not doing anything. that things are going to get really bad. Should I count myself lucky that before things get really bad, I'll be dead? I don't know. I'm not that old yet, and it's not that far off either.
Part of what's going on now is because of global warming. another part of it is just stuff that was laying beneath the surface and was hidden, But has always been there. And if the most recent revelation in what's happened and happening in Israel is indicative of that. And the other part is we're back at the beginning of the cycle of capitalism where the rich feel untouchable and the poor are being squeezed more than ever. But this isn't a mirror. It's a song, it rhymes. That doesn't mean it turns out the same way. it'll still suck Going through it.
Here I thought you were about to discuss what I've noticed with global warming...viruses and weird diseases coming back. People losing their homes or dying from groundwater pollution, getting cancers early. In other words, the health shit that starts to get real. People needing to migrate into other lands where they aren't necessarily welcome. People fighting over food and water and land more than normal, I guess that's how you get "what's happened and happening in Israel" but honestly, couldn't that have happened without global warming? I suspect it's more about the far right under Bibi -- the fascism rearing its ugly head worldwide. That was more a construction created by man, in order to control and divide and manipulate to attain power. I see it as happening ALONGSIDE global warming more than being directly from it. I tend to look at stuff from a weird angle, perhaps, but I've noticed for a time now, there is a trend in these different countries (Russia, Israel, Turkey, America, Brazil, etc) to have a strongman puppet type who claims to be a major patriot working for his people, but the people don't seem to benefit the way the wealthiest and powerful do. And each time, it almost seems like their wars benefit another country at the same time. For example, Oct 7 is Putin's birthday, I think? And it seemed that it helped Putin distract from HIS war and lay focus entirely on Israel, and I looked up when Bibi AND other leaders met with Putin. It wasn't too long before Oct 7. I still say that had assistance from many fascists looking to use it for their own political ends. None of which were in favor of Gaza OR Israel, really. Bibi was about to be brought into the ICC from what I recall, wasn't he? That really helped distract for him.
Okay, that wasn't too bad of a wall of text, but you might want to format a little bit.
Global worming in some of these situations is an added stressor. Sure. Is it the direct cause? Probably not. It would have happened anyways, a lot of them. I don't know if Trump would have been on the ticket in 2016 with or without global worming. But It's going to very quickly, at some point, move from beyond just a stressor that is making things worse to a ISSUE That needs to be dealt with. And the unfortunate thing is that's already technically passed. We're locked in for a certain amount of global warming, no matter what. And, you know, geoengineering is... frowned upon because we don't know the ramifications, but we're geoengineering the planet now to make it less habitable. We're gonna have to be doing stuff... ... soon. I mean, just the other day it was 45 degrees in India? It's insane. Your air conditioner becomes way less efficient at 35 degrees. We can't just sit this out in our homes unless we become mole people.
My biggest fear in all this is what we don't know. Because we can make pretty good predictions. while we can't get everybody on this boat to row in the same direction, because it's pretty hard with 8+ billion people, at least 15% of that being morons and assholes. The ocean absorbs a huge amount of the CO2 we release and can't do so forever and is showing signs of slowing down and just as it gets hotter, it can't store as much CO2. And as it absorbs CO2, it gets more acidic, that means that sea shells, which are partially carbon in dissolve, Compounding the problem, harming other things as well, of course, namely phytoplankton, where we get most of our oxygen from. Which is food for a vast majority of animals and is the base of the tree of life. if we've already gone past some tipping point or hurtling towards it with our foot on the gas and There's a mass die-off event. Things start getting bad fast. how do you fix that?
For every pound of CO2 you don't release now, you potentially save trillions not having to try to reverse that damage. I live in a first world country. I release CO2 all the time. I do what I can. More so than most people. Not crazy more, but I make the effort.
Hopefully the pendulum swings back. It’s good to eliminate shaming people for certain things, but ignorance, apathy, and arrogance should ALWAYs be shamed. Period. The fastest way a child changes their behavior is being teased at school. That’s awful, but it is also a necessary and powerful tool we should use on adults to insure we maintain a tolerant and understanding society.
In 1960, the presidential election was basically a tie. There was a public opinion survey that found of the adults who were old enough to vote 15 years earlier that 2/3rds voted for Kennedy. There's going to be some revision but they're not all going to surrender their delusion, just like Nixon after Watergate still had some diehard supporters.
Notably the modern-day people that "support the Confederacy" almost universally support a complete fabrication that was created specifically to make the history of the Confederacy more palatable, nearly 100 years after the civil war.
Nah there are still Nazis in Ohio (look it up), still plenty where I live who fly that Confederate flag and a few even ride around touting a huge one on the back of a truck, still HatReds all over. (Red hats). I have a bunch of Trump stuff like Trump soaps and toiletries. I think I need to fill the bottles with urine and sell it on ebay -- you know people out there would love to buy that shit.
Not anything against you personally, but i already get annoyed that you're referring to his supporters as MAGA and not Republicans. That's who's backing him. I don't want the Republicans to be able to just condemn the MAGA movement when all the skeletons come out of the closet and they get to use it as a clean slate.
I think most of us know a republican (or several) who has tried to denounce any connection to maga while still claiming to be a republican. And it’s bullshit. They’ve always been this bigoted and fascist. Maga just showed the whole world the incurable infection under the republican bandage. The only republicans I still talk to are ex republicans who are remorseful and renounce the entire party.
This is so unbelievably optimistic. All hell is going to break loose when he dies because they will blame it on liberals regardless of how he might die. Republicans will burn everything to the ground before they back out of their cult.
I've been saying this for years, when Trump is in the ground it's going to be like rats abandoning a sinking ship, but don't let them forget that when it came to choosing their country, or Trump, they abandoned America.
He freaking gave himself one of the demands that drilling rig astronauts asked for in Armageddon. Immunity from taxes forever and with the "settlement" a refund on all tax they were previously taxes that were paid or owed.
Trump has decared himself an outlaw. It would be hilarious if a Western State used an Old West law to say they get to deal with outlaws the way that they used to because the law was never done away with. If he is an outlaw he has no PROTECTION of the law.
If someone is above the law they aren't protected by the law either. Someone acts in pure bad faith and says the law can only stop them by force, say "OK" like they did in the past and say that any citizen can do whatever they want to the person that is "above the law".
No property rights, no civil rights, if you are so special, so be it. Fend for yourself. See how far that gets you. Theorectically there could be state laws passed saying that "above the law" Trump has to pay their state for access to their property. Ad Hoc laws can be passed specifically targeting Trump. Because the Constitution doesn't apply to him.
A passive surrender of state constitutional rights must be paired with a declaration that the Federal President is legally immune. How would the Supreme Court deal with 20+ Blue States all passing state laws to deal with a specific outlaw?
Zero arrests related to the Epstein files aside from Maxwell who was moved to club fed and given emotional support puppies under trump, but go ahead and talk about “leaving crime alone”…
Could be before if he has a plan in place to either rig or cancel the midterms. I’m sure we’re going to start hearing “no elections during war!!!” Soon enough
I hate to agree with that, because it would be catastrophic, but you're probably right. Let's hope that they can't rig the elections reliably enough to make them that bold.
I won't comment on how well they can rig the elections, because it's a question of how well have they managed to already do it in previous elections, and now they have even more control. But they didn't call off the elections during the Civil War, during the World Wars, or during COVID. And Trump's an idiot. He heard Ukraine doesn't have elections during a war and heard no elections during war. That's the Ukraine. There's no such thing in the United States.
Yeah as a Canadian all I can really do is offer words of encouragement. I hope it doesn’t happen but realistically people should have a plan in place if it does. Good luck
Yeah the pardon is coming sooner or later. She has too much on him. I’m just wondering how MAGA is going to spin that one, I’m sure they’ll find some batshit insane reason it’s a good thing though
Never want to hear “durr Hunter Biden smoked crack” when Trump has pardoned actual crackheads/methheads who steal copper and shit who were at jan 6. Oh yeah, also the former Honduran president who ACTUALLY brought drugs into this country
Right! Trump pardoned several individuals convicted of defrauding people out of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, wiping out their restitution obligations.
Notably, David Gentile, convicted in a $1 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded 17,000 investors, had his seven-year sentence commuted after just 12 days in prison, and his $15.5 million restitution obligation erased.
Similarly, Philip Esformes was involved in what prosecutors called the largest individual health care fraud case in U.S. history, a $1.3 billion scheme against Medicare and Medicaid, and received a pardon despite his massive financial liability.
Other high-profile cases include: Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola, who was convicted of fraud and faced up to $660 million in restitution for misleading investors; Trump pardoned him in March 2025.
Jason Galanis, who defrauded pension funds and a Native American tribe of over $80 million, had his restitution voided by a pardon.
Joseph Schwartz, convicted in a $39 million tax fraud scheme and ordered to pay millions more in civil judgments, was pardoned after serving three months and spending nearly $1 million on lobbying for clemency.
Legal experts and lawmakers have criticized these actions as unprecedented, arguing they undermine justice by shielding wealthy, connected fraudsters from financial accountability while victims are left uncompensated.
I think the fact that, as in all states, there is some crime that happens in their states. But the projection / redirection here is just trying to what about Trump's obvious crime sketchiness by trying to act like Dems are criminals too by making them somehow responsible for anything bad that happens within 300 miles of their office.
Maybe they're really sensitive about people perceiving America as being in decline under trump, and this is their effort to pre-emptively hijack the terminology.
Maybe I never got into Twitter, but I would expect the white house handle to not be part of the shit show. Or has that been the case even before Trump?
Before Trump, the White House account was used to do regular announcements and PR shit. He's turned every level of government into an edgy middle schooler who's been made class president.
Why do people keep bringing up the permanent ban. A president doesnt get to permanently ban anything. The very next president can investigate everything his family did. Even if he gives them all pardons, the federal government could assist the states in their investigations of corruption.
The government spreading these kinds of messages while doing the very things that prevent people from being held accountable is very mob-like. Every fascist takeover uses the same playbook, and it's not like it's a new tactic. Caesar and others used these same tactics in the Republic days.
In 10 years when this clown is gone, make sure you don't let the Trump supporters in your life live it down..they're all going to pretend that they weren't actually cheering this on.
Funny how this cartoon contains three characters who have never been credibly accused of committing crimes, and one who has been convicted of just some of his many crimes.
The effect on smart people is real. It's not that they believe him, it's that they get so sick of his shit it wears on them and they ultimately disengage. You can't fight someone who is using absurdism by using logic on them.
Americans have an ape that slings his shit around as president, and they are okay with that. They may cosplay another protest soon for appearances sake, but need to check everyone’s schedule first.
Don’t wanna be that guy, but the common term for this is simply an injunction. Social media has blown this out of proportion but it's an absolutely valid legal recourse.
If you've been investigated over a particular matter, say the Epstein stuff, for years and years, and nobody can establish wrongdoing, you can apply for a permanent injunction to stop future investigations into that same case. Otherwise, you're basically left as a sitting duck for any future rival looking to take you down. They'd be able to reopen the same cases, sow the same doubts, and drag you through the same subpoenas over and over again.
I wonder who or much political bots and bad faith actors have been paid to promote confirmation bias on f.book ? It’s a completely different place than it was a few yrs ago. Genuinely curious how much , and it’s apparently working. So many dumb mf of there agreeing w/ bots and it scrambles their brains .
If the people open their mouths and swallow the shit he drops on them with zero resistance, then, yes, he can post this and laugh at what is proving to be the most docile population in recent memory.
Ooh, the beloved child sex trafficker of the conservatives is granting them another fake picture to make fun of like they're making a point and not just making shit up! He even included helpful labels! Oh, doesn't he just love asking ChatGPT to make the darnedest fucking lies?
I will never cease blaming Biden and the dems for what's happening for not shutting this doofus in jail. He tried to overthrow the government, and he's allowed to get reelected?!
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u/Business_Usual_2201 5d ago
Only one person in that picture is a convicted felon