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It’s been like that for the last 2 months.
Silver lining is that we’re looking at a clown-show fascist circus instead of an effective fascist takeover.
This might very well not (yet) be the “burning of the reichstag and declaration of the state of emergency” part of the fashist takeover. Trump is incompetent but if he does to much damage the government might just complety collapse and musk and zuck can enact a monarchy.
I am much more afraid of the people in the second row ready to take over than of trump himself.
As much as I enjoy saying “I told you so,” which is a LOT, I’m really goddamn tired of being proven right so fucking much.
The main issue, which I find with conservative voters a lot, is that unless they are obviously and directly impacted by something they will never notice or link actions and consequences.
And even if they are they will redirect it. Was inflation caused by trump printing $7 trillion dollars in one year while forgiving PPP loans made by wealthy businesses? No, it’s because Biden passed an infrastructure bill.
Instead of I told you so I might just start saying
I’m really goddamn tired of being proven right so fucking much.
Dude I hadn’t smoked a cigarette for like 2yrs and then after election day… I’m smoking again.
This is why lefties shouldn’t run the country. Your whole game is fair weather optimized.
What the fuck are you even talking about lmfao get out of here
sidepoint, i love your name
Thanks it’s actually my legal name, I know there are some imitators out there but make no mistake I’m the original. Bizzle isn’t some half-rate streamer or Christian rapper; I’m a sci-fi enthusiast and weed farmer
what???
Did you tell me that the dems would rather support a genocide than nominate a winning candidate? Cause I agree.
Or do you mean like how trump was supposed to be worse for palestinians than kamalacaust, but then dude got a ceasefire before even taking office? Because I never would’ve predicted that.
dude got a ceasefire before even taking office
Lol Trump was not responsible for the ceasefire. Read the news
Trump was 100% responsible for the ceasefire according to the news.
If they read the news, they wouldn’t post the stupid stuff they post.
🤔
Simultaneously ‘Trump did not get the ceasefire’ and also ‘Netanyahu intentionally waited until after Trump won to agree to a ceasefire’
How are those contradictions? Netanyahu openly favored a trump win and agreeing to a ceasefire before the election would have favored Biden. Trump isn’t even in office, Biden has been pushing for a ceasefire for months.
You’re telling me your guy could have done a ceasefire a year ago and he didn’t?
Jesus I hope he’s thrown in jail. What an evil person
You do know that Trump did the exact opposite, right? He deliberately (and illegally, mind you) pressured Netanyahu not to accept any ceasefire deal until after the election, sacrificing thousands of innocent civilians to make sure he could campaign on the issue.
You do know Biden kept sending bombs to Israel which is the only reason the genocide was going on right?
Then it was incitement to commit genocide, which is a capital offense. You guys should have arrested him, you had a responsibility to the world.
The orange dude DIDN’T get a cease fire. Hamas and the Palestinians realized that what Biden had to offer is better than the extinction that Trump will support.
That’s so wrong. The palestinians were ready to accept a ceasefire MONTHs ago.
“I told you so when I stayed home on voting day, didn’t oppose it, and blamed it on democrats while calling every leftist who isn’t just like me a fascist!”
-American leftists
no no. they called everyone a Nazi because they were supporting the genocide in Palestine.
everyday I’m on this platform I’m convinced that at least 70% of the content is generated by Russian and Chinese propagandists. because at the end of the day nobody can be this obtusely uneducated of the facts.
Yeah. Idk how I feel about this gotcha perspective when trans people and undocumented immigrants are facing state violence on a nearly existential level. Like, is this your response to that? To adopt this smug affect and do nothing? Business as usual for you, I suppose.
You’ll have to forgive me for taking this post very literally. I am very scared for what is going to happen to my friends and loved ones in the coming weeks.
options are limited but they are there.
- stay in the dangerzone, conveniently marked in red on the map
- move to a blue state that has a solid track record. if you’re willing, flood red counties and turn them blue/purple to help maintain stability of the state
- leave the country, how long before cheeto king claims a blue state administration broke “federal laws” and arrests them and replaces them with loyalists?
Those 2 options both depend on having money to fund your escape. People unfortunately can’t just leave. Children can’t just leave.
Okay you said whatever you wanted. Now what?
I can’t imagine the cognitive dissonance these fascists are going to deal with.
Unfortunately for the majority of them it won’t be a problem. He’ll perform exactly as desired “owning the libtards” and getting rid of “the immigrants”. I wish I had a more optimistic outlook on the next 4yr but frankly we already know how it will go from his last term. At least to an extent.
The “Don’t blame us we didn’t vote for him” crowd immediately turned around and a day later switched to “It doesn’t matter if you voted for him, he’s still your president” and didn’t miss a step. They are fuckin mental contortionists.
What?
Like I’m actually confused, what?
In spite of themselves. Despair is a useless emotion.
You already can. Just look at how liberals are literally going insane, having delusions and hallucinations because they fundamentally cannot comprehend the inherent contradictions of their own existence.
Just look at how far-leftists are boosting Russia and ignoring their massive psyops operations, one of which Trump is.
Russia is an american operation, not the opposite. Remember the 90ies when they got coup’ed and starved for ten years?
Everything bad is Russia’s fault
-Average American
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Four years? In ten years from now, the elections of 2024 will be called the ‘Last Elections’ and President Musk will arrest people who will call for their return.
I’m expecting a total collapse before that happens.
One can only hope. Death to the genocidal empire
lovely, now Lemmy has accelerationists.
Brexit is still delivering all the "I told you so"s. It’s less fun than it sounds.
I was in the US for the first trump election and in Britain for Brexit. And now I’m back in the US for this shitshow. It’s like I can’t escape the crazy – it’s following me.
Or maybe it’s all my fault and I’m a bad talisman. I dunno, just please make it stop.
Yeah, people keep saying “This time they’ll see!” But, aside from the occasional “leopards ate my face” moment, the same people keep lining up for more of the same.
And much of the consequences are sloughed off on the people who are fighting hardest against it.
They’re fucking around, and we end up finding out.
Oh, don’t worry, on a long enough timeline, everyone ends up finding out. It’s just that if they were capable of figuring it out, this all would have been avoided in the first place.
Yeah there seems to be this palpable expectation on Lemmy that any day now half of the voting public is going to have some realisation and say “oh my god what have we done”.
It doesn’t work like that though.
Most of the actual retarded things Trump said he would do like the tariffs et cetera will be done in performative way. Done in a way that isn’t too disruptive or harmful but still lets him say he stuck it to China.
The more insidious project 2025 stuff isn’t applied in real time. How does the media report on the slow corrosion of quality of life and rights to privacy et cetera.
It’s been nearly 10 years and we’re still getting fucked by it.
God damn has it been that long?
Well it depends on if you count from when we voted for it or when we actually did it.
Another one of Russia’s massive intellegence successes of late.
“Could it be the English are morons? No! It’s the Russian to blame!”
Ehh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum
I dunno, there is a fair bit of coincidence there, far more so than anything save the extreme end of a probability curve would suggest.
I mean it’s obviously both.
Still pretty fun not being in the UK. Though I do feel bad for everyone not having voted for this shit.
México too, we go with «Disfruten lo votado», bitches get mad about it
What does it mean and whats the context? Actually curious as an ignorant non spanish speaking EU person.
In English, it’s more or less telling people to “enjoy what you (all) voted for”.
ah yes, the illusion of my vote mattering in my state, topped with an icing of illusion of the candidates undemocratically selected by my party representing my views in any way whatsoever. But I’m told it was on me to get off my couch and go vote for one genocider or one that was very likely a genocider, but also a complete fascist nutter. Both choices have broken laws that should have put them behind bars for the rest of their lives.
Really, this is all my fault. Why am I so terrible?
I hope you understand I was only translating the phrase. I agree with the sentiment toward the MAGOOs, but everyone else is a victim of their idiocy.
Edit: I meant to write MAGAs but MAGOOs at least makes me laugh.
I kinda like magoo vs maga. It feels a little like something someone’s old-world Italian uncle would have called a person in anger and disdain.
very likely a genocider
There are a lot of things to be said about Trump, but we’ve actually had positive headlines regarding genocide heading into his presidency, and it’s no coincidence that the ceasefire in Gaza will go into effect when he takes office. Genocide Joe is just going to stack corpses until they wheel him out of the White House.
I don’t say this pretending that there isn’t likely some profit in it for Trump, because we saw in his first term that every decision he makes profits him financially in some way, but grift is better than more dead civilians.
it’s no coincidence that the ceasefire in Gaza will go into effect when he takes office.
It’s no coincidence like it’s no coincidence that paying extortion money avoids broken kneecaps.
Its well documented that Netanyahu and Trump are buddy buddy. I guarantee you the timing was to some degree chosen explicitly to benefit Trump. Netanyahu is doing the kinds of things over there that Trump is just itching to do here. (or in Canada or in Mexico)
If Trump gets any credit here it’s for being every bit as moustache-twirling-evil as Netanyahu such that their worldview and interests will tend to align.
I’d like to argue with that, but you are factually correct.
No, it’s not going to be “I told you so.”
Conservatives will still blame Biden and dems for all the problems.
Who cares about conservatives? we talkin about who didnt vote or those “swing voters”
We talkin bout practice.
Not if historic patterns repeat.
Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump all went into office with control of Congress and lost it at the mid-terms, so it’s not unlikely that a portion of voters will flip in 2026.
They’ll be back in 2028 though, when the Dems nominate Gavin Newsom and try replay this ‘joy and unity’ bullshit again.
Also, there’s a lot of people that will say, “don’t be mean to them, that never changes their mind!” “talk to them, be empathetic”
Man, anyone suffering after voting for Trump deserves a big “fuck you”.
Yeah, I will never forgive a 2024 Trump voter. They know who they voted for, they know who he is. No excuses this time. Trump voters claiming ignorance this time will not be accepted.
We told you the government doesn’t work! Just look how the government we elected doesn’t work.
That’s Conservative Playbook 101. Take something working well, intentionally break it, complain that it’s broken and needs to be privatized, rinse and repeat.
What is the US Postal Service?
It’s the government office that handles mail delivery, but that’s not important right now.
Yup, they still deflect to Hillary’s emails and shit when you call out new cabinet positions. If we could harness their mental gymnastics into physical energy we’d solve the climate crisis.
Over Christmas my mom showed me her new “Lock Her Up!” shirt. It’s been almost 10 years since Clinton has been relevant, move on.
When there is no big cultural identity for everyone to pretend to be or superheroes, pirates or whatever, this is the culture that idiots have to latch onto.
Makes them still feel like they are part of a club that secludes others.
Right, there’s no satisfaction in pointing out the results of a conservative power grab. Their narcissism makes them immune to introspection or self-awareness.
It’s the deeeeeep state!
Don’t forget the “I wish dems did better!”. You and me. Both but… Buckle up.
Bold of you to think it will end in 4 years.
2016: “it’s no like roe is going away! People are over reacting!” 2024: “…”
I’m saying. Like are we even going to have an election in 4 years? The dude violates every Norm, every tradition.
The small part of my brain that is conspiratorial be like, he’s not moving the inauguration inside because of the weather or any threat, it’s for the optics, It’s for watering down the ceremony of the transfer of power, because he doesn’t intend to have another one.
The authoritarian right will keep pushing until people push back harder.
Poor Norm.
“You fuckers asked for this so either shut up or move”
Going to be the only thing keeping me going
I’m buying a bunch of “I did that!” Trump stickers to slap on empty grocery shelves. That’s gonna be fun.
Yep those things need to be EVERYWHERE after they had those dumbass Biden ones, and the best part is that this time they’ll actually be correct
