Mel Brooks once pointed out that dictators hate to be laughed at. And he would know, given he fought the Nazis in WWII.
So laugh. Mock them. Humiliate them. Their overinflated egos can’t handle even the slightest scratch, so short of shooting them this is going to be the best way to hurt them.
It’s funny to me because when an incel bothers me I sure would like to sic a shark on them.
Age matters too. Older eggs are easier to peel.
Not only did they contribute, they had Trump do an ad for them while he was on the campaign trail.
So Octarine, basically.
Which just means they want the tariffs to happen. Perhaps a billionaire promised to buy him New Orleans or something?
That and, in my opinion, the constant villainizing of firearms, to the point that many on the left are outright afraid of guns, or so disgusted with them that they’d rather eat rotten food than own one.
Well, that and constantly telling people that polite protests off in a corner are the only way to affect change. Those were often the same voice.
Of course constantly threatening to take away people’s stuff is going to get a person to vote for the guy saying he won’t take away people’s stuff. But the way those right-wing gun-nuts turned it into identity politics and single-issue voting is totally on them.
That’s what they want, though. They (the rich leaders) can always go elsewhere for medical care.
Their constituents, on the other hand, suffer the full brunt of it, and so end up poor, uneducated, with even minor illnesses causing major issues. So they are constantly too busy trying to survive to fight back, and too poorly educated to realize they should.
Republicans gutting education and launching a massive propaganda campaign to convince people that being stupid is awesome, mostly.
? Pretty sure that’s not what they said.
They said that there are people on Lemmy who think a person who stabs someone vs a person who doesn’t are morally equivalent—as long as they’re both poor.
Very different.
They did also say that there are poor people who stab others and blame their actions on being poor, but that was tangential to their main point about judging the morals of a person solely based on their wealth or lack thereof.
Man, Phil Knight is such an ass
THE SAME AS FOR EVERYONE IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM YOU ASS
If they’re in court, they deserve, and are required by law, to have proper representation!
The line is usually ‘where the majority party in Congress thinks it is’. That’s why even though they got impeached, none of those presidents left; look at which party was in charge at the time.
Make no mistake; the Republicans could have him out on his ass and facing criminal charges before you could blink if they wanted to. They don’t want to, because he’s doing exactly what they want him to do. 40-odd percent of Americans also think this is great.
And so, yes, he could shoot someone in Times Square and totally get away with it.
That’s the real problem. Trump and fascism are symptoms, not the cause. If the disease wasn’t there, like it wasn’t with Nixon (or at least, it was just starting to develop then), none of this would be an issue.
Because that’s not how the military works.
And in the end, it isn’t up to them. Trump won the popular vote. Not by much, but he’s in the White House legally and legitimately. Doesn’t matter what his ‘popularity ratings’ are now. We The People put him there, and We The People are the ones responsible for removing him.
Do you really want the military to decide ‘I know the majority of y’all voted for this, but we’ve decided we don’t like that, so we’re overthrowing the government’ for anything?
The shine hasn’t worn off a bit. He’s polling pretty much exactly where he’s been throughout this presidential run; in the 44-46% support.
Almost half the country still supports him, and loves him, tariffs, destroying the constitution, and all.
It’s performative nonsense in the hopes we all back down and stay nice and peaceful, thinking that the rest of the US will just stop supporting him. This is just propaganda aimed at the left.
Because then they’d have to deport most Republican lawmakers.
Um, no?
He’s still staying firmly in the 44-46% range, where he’s been since he was elected. The needle movements have been so small there’s a good chance they’re just rounding errors.
Biden was at 33% at one point. Harry Truman managed to hit 22%. Nixon was at 23% when he left office.
All this ‘Trump’s ratings went down half a point! The honeymoon is over! He’s the worst president ever!’ is absolute bullshit, and I’m tired of it. It’s designed to make us on the left feel like people agree with us. Probably so we’ll complacently wait for everyone to agree to help us get him out of office.
Almost half the country is still thrilled with what Trump is doing. We are charging headlong into fascism with a good chunk of the country cheering it on. And those cheering masses are not going to ‘wake up’ and change our minds about it.
Actually they are remarkably consistent in their principles. It’s just that they know their principles are disgusting, so they claim other principles as a cover.
It’s really quite simple:
Their goals are twofold: to make this a reality, and make sure they are in the first group.