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This is pathetic.
The American government is a joke to let this keep happening.
He should be impeached and charged for violating his oath.
He won’t be, but he should be. I don’t think he’ll ever face any consequences, and if he must his master Satan will pluck him from his mortal coil to collect on his debt.
He should be impeached and charged for violating his oath.
By who? Everybody who is in a position to impeach him are his corruption buddies.
This is where the second amendment comes into play.
It has only ever served to protect tyrants. There is a reason it was right wingers who imagined the particular modern interpretation of the amendment to mean what people believe it means today.
The only thing pathetic at this point is that all Americans aren't going full hostile takeover.
I am an American. I know the frustration of people that care. So this isn't directed at your comment specifically. I feel and understand your frustration and doomerism in "nothing will happen". But, nothing will happen because YOU and I aren't doing anything.
We're seeing a massive opportunity right now for people that don't usually pay attention to actually pay attention. I've been at this for awhile. I had the same feeling before.
But right now the "wine mom's" are talking about a need for reconstructing our entire system.
We are far far behind in the organization that we need to enact real change. The flame of frustration is AHEAD of the actual organized efforts. Many are just sitting in wait.
You (anyone reading this) and I. We can't sit in wait. We are the ones that should have been prepared for this opportunity.
If you're not going to a meeting (in person) in your community to organize against ICE or work for resistance, well, you need to. DSA, PSL, your local immigrant rights organizations, etc. You need to get connected NOW.
If all you do is donate some whistles or give a ride to someone that needed it. YOU did something! Do one thing and start there.
Individual attitude is keeping leftist in wait. Our collective minimal effort is much more powerful than anything else. And that minimal effort is addicting. It's will bring you to even more. It's everything you've been looking for that has been missing. There is no better mental health therapy than the feeling of solidarity.
But, nothing will happen because YOU and I aren’t doing anything.
True dat. Only we can help us.
Based on the most recent special-election results, we should* see the Dems leave the 2026 mid-terms with 250+ house seats and a slight majority (50-55 range) in the senate.
Enough to impeach the orange turd - but not enough to convict, without some of the more moderate reps growing a spine.
* rough estimates based on a ~25 point swing in urban and suburban districts, and a ~15 point swing in rural seats towards the Dems from the 2024 result.
Again, this is also based on the idea that Trump won’t somehow rat-fuck the US to the point of declaring martial law due to a perceived insurrectionist uprising, and trying to cancel the mid-terms altogether.
Even a slight majority in the Senate will mean they can do a real trial there, something that didn't happen in the previous two impeachments.
It also means that if he's removed and Vance becomes President, his VP will have to be approved by a Democratic Senate.
The shit he's pulling lately, getting voter rolls, admitting to the fact doge was just a way to steal data specifically for the started purpose of election interference, the midterms are either not going to happen, or be totally bogus
I'm paying a significant sum in taxes yet I'm not seeing the intelligence agencies do the right thing. What, no grassy enough knolls near Mar A Lardo? Buncha slackers.
He's still selling off the USA's secrets then.
They just let you do it.
This is the guy that stole classified documents, put them in his white trash palace's bathroom and then refused to return them, and even now has the absolute balls to be salty about being raided to retrieve them. ( https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/may/23/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-claim-about-fbi-deadly/ )
And so the "they" is pretty much the entire government, and the "it" is just about anything Pedonald can dream up. He paid no penalty at all about his willful refusal to return classified documents he had no business having as a non-President.
He just did it - it usually takes ICE a few days to get around to their latest targets.
Why not? His friend Elon hacksawed out anything that might be considered oversight.
How else is a guy gonna make a buck?
There's no absolutely NO limit to the ways in which this asshole will "make" a buck.
The most powerful person on the planet, also happens to be the most shamelessly corrupt.
LOL.
The way I see it, Trump will be dead long before the law holds him accountable for anything.
That said, is there any way any of the kids could get roped in to this?
I hope they all get roped.
First fair and speedy trials, of course. Then as many ropes as are needed.
I hope all of them go to prison. Jared, too, that little snake.
Pedonald has some weird sway over his cult; I don't know if any of his fanboiz and fangurlz have any special love for the rest of the crime family.
The Trump companies have been sued and lost dozens of times - and as figurehead and CEO of most of them I presume civil damages cases could wipe out a lot of the Trump family fortune. But, Trump has been working with the mob since the 80s and had Roy Cohn (mob laywer) as his personal laywer back then and for many years, so being career criminals (essentially a mob family), I'd not be surprised if most of the money and assets are carefully squirreled away in offshore accounts and trusts and whatnot.
Also given that the US is doing everything it can to pull apart legislative protections against the billionaires class, it would probably all be a major uphill battle without a sweeping change of government and an expansion of the supreme court.
"Hey! They can't do that! That's illegal!", we scream for the 2568th time since was elected for his 2nd term.
Maybe we should set age limits for presidency so that if something is ever done about all the crimes committed, they actually live long enough to be punished for them.
Or: crimes are crimes and elected public office doesn't inherently require or extend any immunity to that.
Or something.
I mean who isn't bribing the orange narcissistic clown. Jfc I think I can throw a dart blind folded and get a correct answer.
I'm not.
I'll help crowdfund a guillotine for the child rapist, its family, and cronies though.
Going to be a big crowd dude. Then they'll see how truly unpopular they all are
“Bribe what’s that!” “I’m already married!”
🫲🍊🫱
Oh wait. Now we got him. Maga will finally see the truth. Yup. This is it. We finally have proof of high crimes and misdemeanors. Good sleuthing boys. Job well done. No way he escapes this scandal. Huh.. remember that word?... Scandal? Hm. Not really a thing these days. Anyway... I digress.... So happy. Today is truly a day that will be known forevermore as our new independence day. Yup. This was the straw. I can't believe I was alive for this moment. Our collective trauma can finally begin to heal. Our Republic can once again hold its head high on the world stage. Yes sir. Today you see American exceptionalism on full display. We had a problem and we got to work and fixed it. Super proud to wave the red white and blue again. No more fascism. No more SS. Once again the sun shines on the Constitution. All rights that were once trampled have now been restored. The concentration camps have seen the err of their ways. We got him. Surely no politician could ever survive such a damning revelation. We wake at the dawn is a new day. What once was lost has now been found. Yessir. The American Justice system has proven its superiority. The rule of law has been restored. So happy. All American rejoice in the changing of the guard Inhales deeply huuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh...... We are lucky to live in extraordinary times. On the 7th day we all rested. Love won. The victims will all see their retribution.
Sigh.
You either die a predatory scumbag, or live long enough to see yourself become an internationally recognized predatory scumbag.
And nothing is going to be done about it by the inept government and their uneducated racist goons. Let me know when it’s guillotine time
BUT WHAT ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN?!?!
REEEEEEEEEEE
Promise: EVERYTHING
Deliver: NOTHING
Blame: ~~DAD~~ ~~OBAMA~~ BIDEN
can someone in power please sue? or do something
marc elias can only carry us so hard
Drain the swamp
He said and laughed all the way to the bank
When will he be arrested?
Lol, good one.
Does it feel "great again"?
I don't think you can qualify any trump scandal as an "earthquake". Earthquakes move things around. USAians would still vote for trump.
Just a ridiculously easy to propagandized people they are.
piece by piece the cards are falling
Fourth box.
Shocker...
I’m beginning to think this administration is corrupt.
/s
Yeah we know
Also, every other country, and billionaires
He will also still accept small donations of even a dollar from the proles! I have hundreds of texts of him begging me for donations, daily, often multiple times a day.
Some of the messages are like "My dad mentioned you yesterday" from Eric Trump. This is not a joke and I'm not exaggerating.
So, even proles can contribute! He won't actually do anything for you, though, sorry. I mean, what, ten dollars? What can you buy with ten dollars? A grocery? Come on.
The UAE is not ruled by the Saudi Royal Family. That would be Saudi Arabia.
Good catch. Fixed.
The most powerful person on the planet, also happens to be the most shamelessly corrupt.
He needs no shame either, as he has a subservient Supreme Court that is working overtime covering for him.