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Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
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I'm relatively new to this country, has it been always a joke like this? Politics are fucking hilarious here. Wtf is going on?
Where are you from? From what I gather (not American) after Obama won the right went ape shit.
Also not American, and from what I gathered I think Nixon and the Bushes also contributed a lot to the enshitification of the USA.
And that fuck strain Ronald Reagan
Things were pretty fucked up before. But racist bigots like Nixon and Reagan calling to their kin post 1964. Absolutely contributed massively to the polarization, and the party of hate. That is the Republican party today. They definitely weren't the first though. I think it needs to be pointed out repeatedly. Since our history lessons in the United States tend to be whitewashed heavily. But the Republican party was planning an attempted fascist overthrow here in the 1930s. Just like Hitler. They were caught but never actually punished for it. And have only spent the intervening 100 years laying better plans and putting more groundwork in place for their fascist overthrow. They've gotten quite far on it as well. You yourself mentioning the son and grandson of the person they most likely intended to install as dictator being presidents.
Don't forget Congressional shitstains like Dennis "Child Molester" Hastert, Newt "It is a mortal sin for a President to get a blowjob but just fine for me to cheat on my wife while she's dying of cancer" Gingrich, and Mitch "I got super rich after marrying a Chinese transportation company owner's daughter nothing suspicious there" McConnell. They all made working across the aisle anathema for Republicans.
Don't forget good ol' Ronnie Reagan, the archdemon behind every shitty American policy.
It started farther back with Reagan.
It started then, but Obama was when they went ape shit.
Yeah they got very noisy in 09
I wouldn't say "noisy", I would say christofacist. They completely lost their marbles when a half black man won.
I think their beliefs have always been like that, they just finally felt emboldened enough
Basically, yeah.
It wasnt Obama. It was Social Media Filterbubbles.
no definitely not
we're just getting ready to fight the Civil War all over again
I hope we learned from the first one and be harsher on the losers. I think it was Sumner or Stevens that wanted land redistribution to freed slaves and military rule and treating the south as conquered territory.
Civil War II
cheese dusted boogaloo
MCU is really running out of ideas, isn't it?
Well we don’t want the criminals to be charged, and have problems! Jeez!
Just wait. It'll stop being funny soon enough.
"hilarious" in a very very sad and scary sense is what I meant. It's totally fucked up. Both parties are busy fighting each other over power and their citizens are barely making it. Healthcare system is an absolute disaster. Education system is shit. Infrastructure is becoming 3rd world level. Literally the country is falling apart.
I've been here for 17 years, politics has pretty much always been a shit show.
I've been here 13, and just tried to get into politics a couple of years ago, and man do I hate it and find it very messy. Im now questioning my decision to get involved. I was a much happier person before.
Ignorance is bliss.
Edit: if it's not clear, I'm not saying it's good
Like a happy calf to the slaughter, ignorance is deadly.
It really is. Many people confuse this saying with actual ignorance. You got it right, not knowing is much better. Too late now, though.
It's also a luxury
Politics in the US has been a joke ever since the Eisenhower administration.