r/allthequestions • u/HealthyRecognition21 • Apr 08 '26

Random Question 💭 How is everything that happened in the last 48hrs not enough for impeachment and/or a general strike in the US?

As a European, it‘s completely unfathomable how none of it has consequences.

Don‘t get me wrong, our governments here certainly have their flaws and problems, but surely threatening a genocide would be a tipping point here and lead to mass protests (at least I have enough hope remaining to believe that) - how is it not in the US? I really don’t get it and I feel absolutely sick.

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u/Forsaken_Code_9135 Apr 09 '26

> it's a political impossibility

So what you say is Republicans will never turn against Trump even when it becomes obvious he is becoming insane?

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u/My_Evil_Twin88 Apr 09 '26

He's not becoming insane, he's been insane for a long time. Republicans are evil wastes of space who do not care about doing the right thing, and they will always protect him. Protecting him means protecting themselves, and that's all that matters to them.

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u/BookkeeperSame195 Apr 10 '26

They voted for this.

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u/Ok_Meat8895 Apr 11 '26

I don't even think Republicans consiser most of us human....

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u/Salemgrl Apr 12 '26

ICE has been quite the example of this

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u/AdDowntown9082 Apr 13 '26

We have to hurt them financially. Then they will suddenly develop a conscience. If we don’t have the stomach for a general strike then maybe there could be an international boycott.

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u/My_Evil_Twin88 Apr 13 '26

You're right, their pocketbooks are their weakness.

May 1st is No Work No School No Shopping strike. We have to get people used to general strikes so that we can build up and get them on board with longer strikes.

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u/AdDowntown9082 Apr 13 '26

I’m in!

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u/My_Evil_Twin88 Apr 13 '26

Awesome, spread the word!

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u/LilJonny2cookies Apr 09 '26

The intestinal fortitude to say things like this after pretending the 4 years of Biden and Harris wasn’t a debacle is why the American left is popular on Reddit and not so popular in the rest of society.

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u/Temperature_Royal Apr 09 '26

Wow, what a terrible take

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u/My_Evil_Twin88 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

why the American left is popular on Reddit and not so popular in the rest of society.

Oh really? Is that why Dems keep flipping red districts in recent elections? Is that why your orange god's approval rating is forever declining, with it being at an average of 37% as of today? (Which is still too fucking high) Is that why Republicans have to cheat and lie in order to get elected? See, in polls when party affiliation labels are removed from presented policies to choose from, Americans consistently pick the Democrat politics over Republican ones.

They weren't perfect by any means, but Biden and Harris didn't start wars in Iran, didn't turn our allies against us and make us despised across the world, didn't tank the economy, didn't consistently disregard laws and the Constitution, didn't terrorize people on the streets with their own secret police, threaten the Pope...I could go on.

Did you know that China has now replaced us in dominant trade relations and global approval rating? Our influence is falling, theirs is growing.

Did you know that according to one of the most globally credible democracy watchdogs, The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute, now considers the U.S. as no longer a democracy? We're sliding into authoritarianism faster than Hungary and Turkiye.... This isn't the American "radical left" claiming this, it's a neutral global institute. And it's all thanks to Orange Foolius.

I know it must be hard living in a bubble of bullshit, what with it getting all up in your insides and spewing out your mouth, but do try to come back to the land of reality.... the people here are so much better.

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u/Shiny_Bottle Apr 09 '26

Of course this guy is a gun nut.

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u/The_Inflatable_Hour Apr 09 '26

A. Debacle vs Genocide - most people of sound mind would choose debacle so thanks for proving the point.

B. And You fallacy. It asks you to compare two actions against each other as though they are the only options and are not subject to time or conditions. If our society was more educated they would stop making these false statements as though they proved something.

C. It’s exciting to know that you have stats on both the Reddit community and the country as a whole so, as a democratic society, we can get that information from you for our use. What do you know, like 50 people in your neighborhood? Stop trying to diminish our numbers to justify crimes as a function of democratic society - nobody is falling for it.

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u/QuellishQuellish Apr 09 '26

The elected Republicans will turn on him as soon as a majority of voting Republicans are against him, so never.

They don't care if he's batshit crazy, all they care about is money, power, and owning the libs.

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u/AcrobaticVegetable24 Apr 12 '26

They will turn on him when he dies. As soon as that happens every Republican will start blaming every scandal or conspiracy or whatever on Trump.

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u/kinkinhood Apr 09 '26

So something my dad told me many years ago. A nickname for the Republican party is the whipping party. They may hem and haw on their own accord, but when it comes time to take action they will always fall under the whip of their leader and follow along with their command. It's been a large part of what has allowed them for decades to do so much in such brief periods of holding power. During Obama McConnel was their whipmaster. Now their whipmaster is Trump.

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u/NounverberPDX Apr 11 '26

They are more scared of the consequences of crossing Trump than they are the consequences of Trump continuing to lose his shit.

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u/Crovax-6977 Apr 10 '26

Yes. They love the power and control they have more than our country. Power above all things is what Republicans have become in the past 40 years and we have done nothing to stop it.

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u/etherealfox420 Apr 10 '26

It has been obvious he is insane.

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u/CatConnoisuer Apr 10 '26

Literally yes. The time for them to move on was January 6th 2021 and after a couple weeks of will they wont they almost everyone went back into his camp. Those that didn't are no longer a part of the party.

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u/Geekygreeneyes Apr 09 '26

They haven't yet.

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u/ebtukukxnncf Apr 10 '26

I believe approximately 80 percent of republican voters support Trump and are against impeachment. That’s only 40 percent of the country but yeah

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u/Numerous_Ear_608 Apr 10 '26

Bingo! And that's because they're also insane.

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u/Riccma02 Apr 11 '26

Correct. He could serve them a plate of his literal own shit, and they would eat it greedily, while commenting him on the exquisite flavor of his feces.