WE HAVE BEEN. But we need the people in power to push this, not just us plebs on the internet!
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partisan politics means that dem words mean fuck all. there needs to be full throated commentary by the fourth estate. alas it's just a branch of the republicans now.
Please the tariff war was stage. He bragging just how much billionaire made off of it. It's only us not on in who suffered. That not dementia that trumps handlers using him to make themselves richer.
It's because he's a spiteful sociopath who enjoys the suffering of those he considers lesser beings. Basically everyone not a current dictator. He also thrives on sycophants lavishing him with attention and praise, and has successfully chased off anyone who might have questioned his megalomania. We can only hope he has a medical emergency and dies like Stalin because no one is willing to make him go to a hospital.
“Like, the fact that they sat around, called Joe Biden ‘Sleepy Joe Biden' ...
This account is my last vestige of social media, so I don't have much to compare against, but weren't the bulk (all?) of the "[Adjective] Joe" accounts just straight up shills? I know I blocked most of them because they were single-issue, one-trick pony accounts, but I haven't seen the first one since the election. And not a peep of "[Adjective] Trump" from any of that particular peanut gallery, either.
I forgot where I was going with this, but I guess my point is that if we're lucky enough to have another election, and you see a bunch of single-issue accounts come out of the woodworks, maybe just block the fuck out of them, yeah?
You blocked them and now you're using the fact that you don't see similar posts from the people you say you've blocked to justify that your blocks were correct?
Delusional don? Terminal trump? Tornado trump?
trumpster fire
I'm stealing that lol.
To be fair, no one accused Trump of being smart. Or even competent.
Because they're too busy wetting their pants and/or browning their noses in fear of the Almighty Mafia Don Mangolini.
R's and D's (with the exception of very few) have completely abdicated their authority to the "Saved by God to Save the Country" King.
Losers, cowards, and sycophants all.
A third party in US is so sorely needed. But can't see any third party being given a chance/shot.
We are fucked.
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I wonder why no one questions the volume of executive orders this guy issues.
I know I'm pointing out the obvious here but it's authoritarian. As in you don't need a cabinet of people representing their constituents and developing policies and laws and deciding on the best way forward, you just have this one self-obsessed idiot making it up.
I wonder why no one questions the volume of executive orders this guy issues.
I'm right there with you. Particularly in light of this tweet...
No one, Democrats or Republicans, challenge him because they support his actions. Despite all the bullshit rhetoric Democrats have tried nothing and are all out of ideas.
Two impeachments would disagree. They teed the republicans up to cut the trump hemorrhoid off, but they (republicans) were too chickenshit.
That said, they need to grow some balls and start swinging. It takes more than Bernie, AOC and a few other loud progressives to start cracking the fortress of shameless greed republicans have been building over the past 40 years.
Even the corporate Democrats don't support this. It's not good for the slow and steady accumulation of wealth without risk of discord. Their problem is that they're the champions of the status quo. And when your political goal is for nothing to change, your entire political philosophy and toolbox is based around finding reasons not to do anything.
So now, even when the status quo is being obliterated and it should be the one time these people have value, their instincts are to just go through the same motions they always do, making ineffectual gestures, making excuses for inaction, and avoiding confrontation with their colleagues so they can all find a way that their people (not their political sides, their respective wealthy peers) can profit together.
This lady is a great representative and is fun to listen to.