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The 2024 election was the Retrumplicans "kill-shot". It was their silver bullet, wooden stake through the heart, Photon Torpedoes into the ray protected particle vent and underwater rifle shot into a SCUBA tank in a killer sharks mouth, all rolled into one.
The "Unified Reich" has been methodically and relentlessly working to this point since Roosevelt defeated Hoover. They are NOT going to give up their nefarious plans for some quaint ideal like the "rule of law".
They and their corporate billionaire funders and media porn fluffers, are raping billions, if not TRILLIONS from the United States Treasury. Do you really think child rape, pedophilia and underage girls being sex-trafficed and abused is going to stop them?
There could be video of Donnie Dipshit raping a 12 year old girl while Epstein and Maxwell held her down, and it would be described as "fake news".
The Reich-wing media would question whether or not it was the 12 year old that had seduced him. Meagan Kelly would claim on her show that; "it's not really pedophilia, because maybe the 12 year old 'looked 16 or 17'".
The people that support Donnie Dipshit have no soul. They have no ethics. They have no morals. They have no empathy...and worst of all...THEY HAVE NO SHAME.
Wirh billions and trillions, you don't need any of those human qualities. As long as they continue to rig the system, they don't give one fuck about who, or what this misadministration does.
They only have the limited power they have now due to meticulous gerrymandering, voter suppression, and some arcane, asinine system that says the 600K people in Wyoming get the same Senate representation that 40 million Californians receive.
Oh, and they have power due to the "Press".
It's fucking madness!
That craven, orange Nazi fuckstick gives some rambling shambling "press" events that could only be described as FUCKING insane!
And, what does the "press" do? They treat it like it should be fucking taken seriously. Are you fucking kidding me?!!!
The "press" foists this asshat on us, and normalize fascism from the Retrumplicans, because they know that you and I, and the folks coming home from a day of work, turn on the tube as we're making dinner, see that ignorant buffoon at a podium and wonder; "what stupid Nazi/KKK fever dream is he going to spew now?"
Next thing you know, some annoying women screaming a stupid song at the top of her lungs is trying to sell me Allegra.
It's not news. It's infotainment.
I don't know how we fix it. But, I do know that I am tired. It is exhausting! Democrats aren't perfect, but the people in blue states need some help.
It's time for the people in Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Wyoming, Ohio and other red states to reject this fascist shit.
Retrumplicans won't change a damned thing, until they start losing elections in those states.
I am not being defeatist, but if you think that there is just one scandal, or depravity, or criminality that is going to pop the abcess, or break the camels back, you haven't been paying attention.
This fascist shitshow was broadcast on thousands of hate-radio stations 24/7/365 for 50 fucking years.
If you had been paying attention, you knew that we were just one Retrumplican majority away from goose-stepping, armed, masked, unidentified roid-heads snatching people off the streets and disappearing them to an El Salvador Death Camp.
Well, we are here now. They aren't going to give up their 20 trillion dollar cash cow, and they surely aren't going to give it up because Donnie Dipshit is a pedophile, rapist pig.
The evidence is clear that they are fine and dandy with who they've got in bed with.
rampartd
(3,577 posts)Epstein is a diversion.
Hugin
(37,316 posts)They were partying like there was nothing or nobody in their way.
wiggs
(8,654 posts)about to give up on their investments toward concentration of wealth and power.
cachukis
(3,617 posts)If AI becomes the guide to the questions posed by the next generation of leaders, I hope there is enough wisdom and experience to get them to a good space.
I find it odd that people seek entertainment to escape the greatest drama ever to appear in our lives. The greatest authors could never have included the madness of our leadership in their fictions. Half the population is in either delusion or fear. What a time.
PatSeg
(51,966 posts)I've thought now THIS will bring him down and then nothing happened. I really don't know anymore what would. We all would like to see accountability, but sadly all we may get is a stroke or a heart attack. So many tyrants die before they are brought to justice.
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,054 posts)And I dont deny it, there is only one rational response to save the republic. Are people ready for that?
erronis
(22,482 posts)McLuhan and Murdoch understand this well.
KT2000
(21,905 posts)Yes, this has been in the works for decades - the attempted overthrow of the government since they were stopped by Roosevelt. They took their pure fascist ideology and planted it all over the country. They worked very hard to indoctrinate as many as they could for this day.
What they did not count on is that they would be outsmarted by technology and the millionaire/billionaire tech boys. The ideologues had a game plan, networks, and plain old psychological manipulation. Then came the tech bros who had huge amounts of cash for the stooge president they installed.
Now the game is too far over the ideologues' heads. If it is true that an AI data center is going in under the "ballroom," that puts the tech bros in charge of the Executive Branch and it is over. Due to their wealth and technical savvy they have come to believe they are godlike. Have you ever seen the Palantir guys try to converse with anyone? They are assured of their intellectual superiority and have no concept of society other than how they can manipulate it.
Those who thought they were to become the American oligarchs thought they would be in control, will instead have to answer to this group of lunatics.
Linda ladeewolf
(1,088 posts)Far more qualified. Theyve grown up with this. They dont all see through it, but many of them do. Why do you think theyre attacking our educational institutions. Education is the danger. A woke group of young people with the education will be able to take it down. Thats what theyre afraid of.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,826 posts)Why do you think theyve spent a hundred years demonizing socialism? Theyve been so effective with it that people will literally kill you for these oligarch fucks. They call anything that is remotely helpful to people by this cursed name and the dolts in this country eat it up.
The only thing that will save us is a true workers revolution. But this century long propaganda campaign has made it so difficult to organize that its going to take multitudes of people literally starving in the streets before we reach the point where they finally want to take action.
We should be doing this right now. We should have been doing this decades ago.
This wealth hoarding has to end. This whole system needs to go.
Linda ladeewolf
(1,088 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(9,990 posts)Say it again but louder!!
Buddyzbuddy
(2,049 posts)Now, more than ever, we need the right Democrats. Democrats that have the stomach and the fortitude to get all of the jobs done.
Rest assured, the Democrats will have their work cut out for them.
RVN VET71
(3,117 posts)Lennon asked for us to give peace a chance. But we can't seem to find a peaceful resolution to the authoritarian, fascist, gangster efforts made by Trump and his mob. Roberts' SCOTUS, Mikey's House, Thune's Senate all seem to be marching and laughing in step with Trump/Miller.
What's next? Surrender to the inevitable or . . .what?