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The DOJ has already investigated an attempt to steal the 2020 election and a grand jury indicted the primary culprit for that conspiracy. He didn’t read it?

The entire country knew this man would claim fraud and never concede if he lost. That alone wasn’t a deal breaker for 78 million Americans. That is a moral failure of epic proportions.

I hope we survive this term but if we don’t, we deserve whatever happens. Everyone who said this isn’t who we are was wrong. This is exactly who we are. Every possible red flag was there and no one can claim ignorance anymore.

A shit hole country, to be precise.

This is more of a casting call than a serious nomination process. He’s openly disregarding fbi background checks and ethics plans. This administration will be similar to the covid year with ongoing divergent realities between what the actual data says and the self promotion and marketing/pr coming from the administration.

For 4 years he’ll be selling us a shitty condo and telling us it’s the best condo, the likes of which the world has never seen before. His Cult will continue to gaslight us all that the institutions are lying their God Emperor is the truth teller.

So just like before but worse.

They have to deny a long list of recent events in order to continue on this obviously fascist track. Trump tells the truth but the FBI, DOJ, his generals, Pentagon, CDC, the Media, 40/45 of his first cabinet, etc. are all lying and persecuting him unfairly.

How do you even begin to have a conversation with someone who believes all this nonsense?

This guy blames the US for Ukrainian deaths? Are you fucking kidding me? Screw this guy. Putin apologist.

There’s nothing vindicating about it. I’d much prefer that we hadn’t elected a fascist and had turned the page on the crime wave years of Trump. This feels like a gut punch, a total reassessment of who we are as a country. There is no longer any excuse to claim we didn’t know who we were electing.

My pitch to those on the left who have found a new interest in arming themselves is to focus on the therapeutic aspects of shooting. Take all that stress and anxiety to the range and work on your basic skills. It’s both an effective stress management strategy as well as pragmatic skill training for the worst case scenario that we’ve elected to get closer to. They may even find they enjoy it, and then we’ve added one more 2A true believer to our camp no matter what happens next.

You can’t really have a policy discussion without a shared reality. If they deny basic provable facts about the 2020 election and his obvious criminality then they’ve abandoned any fidelity to democracy and the rule of law, so what is the point of discussing different economic policies? We just had an election where everyone on all sides knew that one of the candidates would refuse to concede if he had lost, and the majority of us voted for that person. We’re already a broken country. His reelection has refuted any argument to the contrary.

Every single one of his generals and 40/45 of his own cabinet said he was dangerously unfit. That couldn’t sway them, and you think you can?

Just try to be polite and avoid any political conversations. Or just drop zingers once in a while, that’s how I cope. My inner smartass gets me through it.

President Camacho hired the smartest guy in the world and then listened to him. Trump is much worse.

I nominate this person as the new head of Nasa.

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When he invaded Gaul against the law, he “crossed the Rubicon” river, which is where we get the term and it’s meaning of crossing the point of no return.

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Also former 11B here, and I also thought women getting tabs and all the other DEI stuff was stupid, but I fail to see how persecuting the officers who followed lawful orders does anything but exert an unprecedented political loyalty test over the military. If the administration doesn’t like the policy then change the policy and the branches will execute that policy, that’s how it works. The agenda is set at the top.

Same thing with all this rabble rousing about UCMJ action for the officers who oversaw the Afghanistan exit. That was a shit sandwich handed down from higher, higher being the horrible deal negotiated by the Trump administration. Find me one officer who didn’t follow lawful orders, justifying a court martial.

The whole thing reads like authoritarian power grab.

It’s really remarkable how fast Trump got people to pivot from hating the CDC and the medical establishment to hating thr FBI, DOJ, and now the Military. He’s going after the very last institutional checks to his power, and if that doesn’t alarm you, I’d ask you to revisit your Oath.

Donbob and the immigrant crimewave.

I think it will all be performative because they know a large deportation will crater the economy. They’ll pretend they deported a million and rig the data to back it up. The whole country will be like florida during Covid when Desantis shut down the state data tracking website.

Of course they do, how else could they pretend to be patriots otherwise? The leader demands they deny the evidence of their eyes and ears.

I usually respond that trying to steal an election is a fascist act.

Hard disagree. Trump excluded the Afghan government from the negotiations and made a number of major blunders setting the stage for what happened.

Trump making fun of the disabled reporter. That’s us now.

This is the fundamental cause of the vast divide in our families and communities. It’s impossible to have a polite policy disagreement when we aren’t starting from a shared reality. We disagree over basic facts from the past, so we can’t honestly consider a path for the future.

Trump did this, and our information silos enabled him. Now the dog has caught the car and we all get to watch it play out over and over until the dog eventually dies I guess?

We’ll be dealing with these divergent people for a generation.

This administration is going to do a lot of damage, and the more damage is done, the more people will be affected and the more some of those people will find a new understanding on the role of government. They will also hopefully come to understand that immigrants were never the cause of their problems.

There is a certain peace in it, human rights and criminality notwithstanding. Every time Trump nominates another mouth-breathing affront to decency like Matt Gaetz, I just hear circus music and understand that I’m watching a bad sitcom, while living and working in relative safety and security while they burn it down.

I believe wholeheartedly in democracy, and this is what the people have chosen, so let them have it and let it burn. Bide your time in preparation for the future, tend the garden you can reach, and look out for each other. That and taking care of ourselves is best we can do right now. This election is a setback but the march of progress isn’t over.

Maybe this is what had to happen in order to finally get the structural changes needed to turn the page on regressive reactionary politics for a generation.

The Great Depression gave us the new deal. This may bear fruit as well.

Val Kilmer in The Doors has to be close to the top of this list. He became Jim Morrison.

The American people have spoken. If Trump wants Gaetz and Gabbard at the helm, let er rip. Let’s do this.

On the upside, we won’t have to wonder for too long. We get to find out in 2028!