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Congress doesn't care. There's absolutely zero rule of law when it comes to Trump.
All these dipshit brushing off his threats to the midterms need to wake up real fucking fast. Trump never lies about his depravity when he's admitting to it.
Millions will die because stupid fucking Americans are too arrogant to take anything Trump threatens seriously, and are too fucking stupid to be able to understand how life is always worse under fascism than neo-liberalism.
the us government, by not caring, aren't doing anything to stop him, thus they are doing nothing to stop the rise of fascism. what does this really say about congress?
who the fuck cares what it says about congress.
what does this all say about taking to the streets?
which branch of government is "the streets" again?
It's not a branch, it's the trunk
the one built in the rubble of this broken system?
why do Americans still have faith that the system will save them yet?
the one built in the mistakes of this form of government.
because cograts, you got a dictator. start over and try again.
why do Americans still think they can vote their way out?
A lot of us don't.
We just don't own any news organizations, we aren't billionaires, so you rarely hear about it.
Sure, we could argue with the R and D dreamers every minute of every hour of every day, but there's not much point to it.
I vote, I just realize it's for entertainment purposes only and it won't actually accomplish anything of note.
Yeah I've been saying we're not likely to have real midterms since Trump won. My family members brushed me off at the time, but the last few weeks they seem to have come around. It's possible they're just humoring me after all this time but i really believe more and more people are becoming fully ready to support a movement that actually fights for people. The only issue now is organizing that movement and convincing everyone to stick with it. How hard could THAT be? :)
The one that has the final say when it's in full operation.
Yeah, we know. The USA has done this for years.
(gone to war without congressional approval or declaration for a "preemptive" strike, which means first strike really)
It is not entirely clear what transformed Trump from a peace president to a war president, but there are clues.
He was never a peace president.
Also this kid loves regime changes, maybe he should get one he'll never forget.
Right? He’s never said the truth (except accidental slips of his true plans), fuck the complicit media. Were cooked cause we don’t have any honest sources of news any longer, and that was fully and 100% intentional by the ruling class.
There are still a few with journalistic integrity out there but nothing from a multinational news corp that’s for sure.
The maga Nuremberg trials are going to be fun. Invest in popcorn
Calling it now. Nothing will happen.
A slap on the wrist here. A scapegoat there. Nothing serious.
The people that run America want this to happen. The mega-wealthy. They don't care. They are in charge.
The people could be if they rose up or protested enough. They won't though. As long as they have their TV shows and food on the table the majority sadly don't give a shit.
i wish i disagreed with you, but if they didn't with W, they won't with Krasnov. Only way he sees justice is if he starts naming names in his demented fog
That won't happen.
The only justice MAGAts will see if from folks with names like Luigi.
The sad/ironic thing?
Much like with Iraq and Afghanistan, there actually ARE very good reasons to intervene. Iran has been murdering protestors by the thousands for the past year and a LONG history of human rights abuses before that.
But the plight of Brown People(TM) doesn't sell to the Left or the Right. So instead we focus on "uranium enrichment".
And then we see the same shit as with Venezuela where the complete lack of empathy for non-caucasians results in all the tankies deciding that anyone who actually IS happy that an evil fascist is gone/dead is too stupid to understand how things work.
And, of course, we have the republican chuds who similarly need to focus on this being about protecting white people rather than just... caring about human rights.
Of course, it is also hard to do that when you have two pro-genocide governments involved. But... we got how many decades out of thinking that The Allies actually cared about The Jews and The Romanis and so forth when we went to war with Germany?
American imperialism never does Trump just tries less to hide it.
Le-gal? What does that mean?
That's been the case for all the other attacks, including the ones he has done WITHIN the United States. No mandate and no legal basis.
"Ignoring your duty and responsibility to govern has downstream consequences." This and more lessons Congress will never learn, tonight at 11.
He’s going to lose his base over this. If you want to see how the most rabid Trump supporters are talking about the strike, head over to patriots.win.
Trigger warning: all of them. That’s where r/TheDonald went after they were banned from Reddit. Left to their own devices for 5 years, they’ve basically turned into another Stormfront.
Its too late for that to matter even if they do turn on him, which is highly unlikely anyways.
True, Trump himself won’t be up for reelection again, but Republicans depend on Trump’s cult of personality for turnout now. It will matter in November.
Do you think we are going to have anything close to a real election? That was an hour ago in the movie, did you fall asleep?
I do.
Trump would love to take over the elections, but he won’t be able to.
oh dear, my sweet summer child...
You cannot say such things with certainty.
I’m not certain. I’m just saying what I think is likely. Are you certain we won’t have fair elections in November?
Does Lemmy have a /remindme feature? I kind of want to come back in 7 months and rub your smug “sweet summer child” nose in it.
Trump himself won’t be up for reelection again
I want to be optimistic too, but that specific hope is getting a little pollyannaish
He can say whatever he wants, but it’s not easy to pull off in this country, and he and his incompetent team haven’t made any credible moves in that direction.
i mean, if the 14th amendment meant anything he wouldn't have been allowed to run in 2024 and here we are.
True. They’ve gotten away with a lot of illegal stuff. There are also things they’ve wanted to do but haven’t been able to. I believe a complete takeover of national elections (which are currently run by the states, not the federal government) will be one of the latter.
And Congress will do nothing about it. There hasn't been a war the oligarchy wasnt foaming at the mouth to get into
“The ~~Board~~ Bored of Peace Era”