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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 96 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Once all these pieces of shit are lodged in our government theres no going back without bloodshed. This is going to fuck us for years to come.

[–] rauls5@lemmy.zip 46 points 4 days ago (4 children)

He is 44. We get likely 40 years of this element spreading cancer from the inside. Long after trump has decayed into dust.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Jesus christ he's 44? His picture makes him look late 50s going 60s.

[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That was my thought exactly.

That guy is younger than me but looks old enough to be my dad.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Being a piece of shit ages you.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Somehow makes you damn near immortal too

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is so fucking depressing yet true.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Been here way too long - I want out.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Being a piece of shit gets you rich and getting rich keeps you alive longer in this stupid fucking country.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I wonder what complex comes from a lifetime of looking 20 years older than you are. We're all gonna get to find out together because I bet it's what stood out to el naranjefe

[–] shishka_b0b@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

I think it's actually gonna be much worse since that is clearly a 4000 year old ghoul who will be roaming graveyards long after we've all decayed into dust

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

He's the same age I am, and he looks about 20 years older than I do.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Or, we don't.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 days ago

And they all know how shitty this is, that's why it always is by a single vote, so the ones in a moderate districts can act like they never supported it.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On election day, I said this only ends in civil war. No dictator has ever voluntarily left power. In my opinion, California then Oregon and Wahington, will attempt to secede from the US since they have to now pay for all the services that the fed no longer pays for. If not, we'll start to see an organized resistance conducting strategic guerrilla raids on ICE and the camps.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 4 days ago

There was Cincinnatus, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus , but I'm just being pedantic for the sake of bringing him up.

We aren't in a world where people who can be genuinely trusted with that kind of power would ever get near to the position to receive it.

[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 66 points 4 days ago

It's amazing that "lifetime" positions are not considered controversial in and of themselves by most people.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

FINALLY! NO more DEI hires like Harvard Educated Ketanji Brown Jackson! We FINALLY have the BEST People for the Job like Emil Bove who's ~~WHITE!~~ ~~told his Clients it's OK to Break The Law!~~ ~~Trump's Personal Attorney!~~ ~~NOT BLACK!~~ A person!

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So weird someone would be put in when half the room says no.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Seriously. If you can’t get at least 70% to agree, 80% for fewer than 10 people voting, then find another guy.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Calling all plumbers, calling all plumbers!

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 4 days ago

They took over judicial branch some time ago. I wander what's going on in Pentagon. Is the top brass full of loyal fascist already?

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well this is a particularly bad mistake at a quite inopportune time, I feel like. Silver lining, perhaps: a lot of crazy shit is unfolding in front of a public that is becoming more aware of how bad of an actor the current president is showing himself to be, and he might be in real danger of losing control of his base in numbers that matter.

Voting season will be a proving ground. I am hoping midterms have a strong and resolved response to this shit and the results are outside margins of error. I can't accept the alternative, it's too sad a prospect to really process right now. I really do think a fair vote will reveal the resilience of our democracy. I really fucking hope we have free and fair elections for midterms. I think we will, I hope beyond hope we do, I am asserting we will and now reality must bend to my will, we will. I hope.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I thought that a lot. I think we simply don't understand how utterly pervasive this propaganda network is. Children, raised on Rush Limbaugh, now have children who follow skeezy podcasters.

With corporate news being the sewer it is, I don't think we're going to get out of here. Some major media change is going to have to happen and that's never happened in anyone-here's lifetime.

There are zero non-violent solutions

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit, this guy is only in his forties? I thought this guy was like mid-60s.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Splitting your soul into horcruxes takes a significant toll.

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Hopefully he lives a very short life.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If AK and ME are willing to dissent, you know it's a bad idea

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago

Nah,Collins and Murkowski only vote against GOP nominees and bills when they know that they'll still be confirmed/pass and for Dem ones when they know they won't.

The rest of the time they follow the party line as slavishly as the rest of the fascists and fascist enablers.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

In all fairness, this was not hard to call.

[–] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago