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But dipshits across the nation told me Trump would make us respected.
I heard our respect is way up with both the KKK AND the Illinois Nazis.
I hate Illinois Nazis.....
Sad to see. They must feel absolutely used and betrayed.
Why does Traitorapist Trump hate democracy and freedom? Why did Trump let himself get played like a fiddle by Putin?
I reject the mainstream argument from the liberals that trump is somehow getting played by putin or that putin has a video of him doing Epstein things.
I think he knows exactly what he’s doing. I don’t think putin has anything on him. I think he has identified that Putin is who he wants to be like and if anything, I think he has dirt on Putin to force him to help trump.
He already allowed putin to play him like a fiddle and needs to lean into it now. I liken it to the saying, " You can't unlick a butthole"
Because democracy and freedom are hindrances to his grifting. In authoritarian kleptocracies like Putin's Russia, they let you grift as much as you want.
As somebody from the US, I can't wait to see our country fall. The world isn't going stand by and let us fuck with them anymore
I am also in the US and horribly disappointed in how our population let the world's stupidest and vilest people manipulate them into giving over control. I really had high hopes for America, democracies are really our best hope for the future.
But now I just want it to accelerate, we need the shit to really hit the fan so our population wakes up and realizes who the real enemies are, the putins and musks and trumps and millers and bannons... they are the beasts that stalk us in the modern age and need to be put down or taken away and the only way this will happen is enough people become uncomfortable enough that they forget the narratives and storylines that manipulate us so easily.
As much as it pains me, same. Lots of Americans are going to die, but at this point we deserve it. We've been sleepwalking into fascism for over 40 years, and have ignored every single warning we were given. I used to care about us being united, because I know what the fate of red states will be if Balkanization happens, but now? Fuck 'em. Let's just split apart so we no longer have to support all these MAGA welfare queens in Alabama and Mississippi. Let corporate interests swoop in and go full classical colonialism on their weak economies. If they really want to work in sweatshops for nickels, fuckin let them. My blue state is strong enough to stand alone, I know most other blue states are, so what's the point in defending the people a collapse will hurt the most when they voted for it?
This kind of goes as a warning over what happens when a democracy isn't set up in such a way to prevent this thing from happening. Just getting rid of first past the post elections could've helped in preventing this and had given us a more balanced government that wouldn't have been so easily captured by moneyed interests.
The electoral college was actually intended to prevent this exact scenario. Of course, it failed spectacularly.
As much as I hate to say it, I fully agree. We need something drastic to happen so that the population will open its eyes.
On a completely separate topic, I think states need to become a lot more independent from the federal government. I'm in NY for example and I've never felt prouder of my state than right now
I think states need to become a lot more independent from the federal government.
Most red states would collapse. Not that I care anymore. They're leeches.
Good. Kill the disease on this country right at the source
MAGA was never your friend. They are in it for themselves only and think Putin is THEIR friend.
Poor Ronald Reagan, his battle against the evil empire was lost by his precious Republicans. I bet Satan works in updates showing him how dedicated Trump is at glazing Putin's knob.
Please, Reagan would be fucking thrilled. After the Republicans installed their dream government style in Russia after the Soviet Union collapse, it's been their goal to bring it to America. The only thing that would make Reagan disappointed is that he didn't get to be king.
Reagan’s having a pineapple shoved up his ass in hell
Ironic how people shat on Russians for not standing up to their government only for the US to do the same.
From my country, it's just surreal to watch the lack of reactions from Americans. It looks like they mostly support the actions of the co-nazi dictators, a really bad picture to say the least.
Those that support Trump kinda do. These people are selfish enough to hate anyone else because their lives are kinda shit and they're too stupid to understand why. America has been headed towards this point for a long time.
The left is highly disillusioned due to DNC shenanigans to block any real progress on the real problem of inequality. So there is no opposition. It is a really bad picture to say the least.
DNC really dropped the ball. Biden should have never even considered a second term, and there should have been open primaries.
One of my states local congresspeople is a Ukrainian Immigrant.
She's a Republican.
Spartz?
Sorry Ukraine. Turns out most of the US is either just fucking evil, or not bothered enough by evil to lift a fucking finger to stop it.
I really thought we were better than this. We've failed the entire planet.
