We need general strike
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Or a general stroke. In Trump's brain. Whichever we get first.
Would that help though?
No, Vance is worse, imo.
At least, he doesn't have the majority of the cult behind him.
It’s not the cult that matters it’s the wealthy people running the show. All you’d do is replace chaos with evil.
The cult absolutely matters. The reason half of Congressional Republicans go along with this shit is they're afraid of their violent supporters turning on them. And they know dementia Donny has a tendency to direct their ire at whoever disagrees with him.
Once that cult splinters, that threat diminishes. The die hard racists hate Vance because of his wife and children, everyone else hates him because he's a spineless charisma vacuum. There's only so much corporate media can do to manufacture clips that make someone look not ridiculous to even the intended audience.
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I don't think we can know that really. I think Vance is fake as hell. He used to say a bunch of things publicly that he no longer claims to believe.
Vance has sold into the grift, but it was only 6 years ago when he was denouncing Trump.
So what does this mean?
I personally hope it means he would prefer the style of conservative we saw last decade. Evil, but with a preference for stability. A stability designed to benefit the wealthy, but still stable.
I'd rather take 1 step back from the cliff than to plunge all the way off it. Still too close for comfort though.
These are more my hopes, he could in fact be much much worse. The neat part is it's statically likely we'll get to know in the next 4 years
Maybe not directly, but the schadenfreude will be the most delicious thing to happen since the end of 2016.
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Yes, this.
But it's easy to steer a population that lives paycheck to paycheck, without unions.
You need to end some people.
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He's been threatening one since the beginning.
Yeah didn't he straight up say that if he wins the election, you don't have to vote ever again? What did people think that means other than these wannabe-nazis usurping your country?
He always says the quiet stuff out loud and people just hand wave away as more shit from a shit goblin. He straight up admitted to rigging the elections in 2020 and 2024. He thought the other side cheated in 2020 cause he rigged it, the same as 2024, but not enough of a vote-flip threshold to overcome his overwhelming disapproval. That's why he was so obsessed with trying to prove it.
In 2024 they went all in and set the vote-flip threshold to a much lower trigger. He gets up on stage in PA and basically thanks Elon for rigging the election. Goes on to use DOGE to gut regulatory and investigatory agencies, and delete data with proof of tampering while stealing a bunch of data on the American electorate. There are too many irregularities in the 2024 numbers to be random. There's some stat guy who basically quit his normal job to sound the alarm on how close the 2024 voting graphs resembled an election in Russia. However, I doubt we'll ever actually learn the truth.
If he wants to be president forever than he will have to be immune to death.
I saw this video on the Internet where they had peoples heads on jars over a thousand years after they lived, and they were fully functional and able to talk and everything.
Even President Nixon's head. And he got elected to another term because he had no body and that was a loophole to the 22nd amendment.
So I guess the first thing we need to do is cut off Trump's head and put it in a jar. It worked in that video.
By “video on the internet”, you meant a classic episode of Futurama
Watch out for headless Agnu. He's a feisty one
Aroooooo!
*Agnew
The wiki has no entry for Donald Trump's head. Looks like it wasn't preserved.
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I'll never forgive Biden for not dealing with this when he had the chance.
Yes, republicans had nothing to do with it. /s
That's not what they said.
Democrats did nothing at all to stop him after he attempted to overthrow government the first time. They just celebrated and said "that was a close one", but did nothing effective at all to hold him accountable or to undo most of his damage. Project 2025 was public knowledge, and all they did was use that as a threat to the American people, "vote for us or you get that".
Even Hitler was thrown in jail before coming back to power.
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Autocrats & dick taters usually tell us what they want. We should listen.
I already knew it in 2017, when both Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz said "He won't go willingly", but whoever didn't get the memo after Jan 6, 2021 should get their brains examined.
They are setting up to manipulate the elections. Buying up media, taking over the campaign distribution systems, and possibly the voting systems, but I'm not really worried as much that he is going to try to stay after his 4 years. His brain is gone. If 1 conversation with say Zelensky or Putin makes him flip flop on what he is doing, he isn't making any decisions for himself anymore. Whoever the heritage foundation or whomever has made sure they have his ear will get whomever they want in office next.
Trump is just the useful idiot puppet of a decades-old intelligent, honed, and nefarious organization; he’s nothing more than a diversion. People need to fixate less on him and more on the people pulling his strings.
If the elections are rigged (they will be), some other fascist will come in and pick up where Trump left off. It’s already over.
The root needs to be extracted for the weed to stop growing.
He needs to be hung upside down in DuPont Circle.
It doesn't matter that you just made a first down if there's only 6 seconds left on the clock.
Unless you use that 6 seconds to work with the ref to rewrite the rules of the game such that passing the ball to a second quarterback resets the time, along with a bunch of other rule changes.
Even oligarchs and dictators can't rewrite the rule of death.
For real, he's speeding on the highway that leads to death by Mcsnu-snu
That video’s about how long it’ll take him to release the Epstein files.
At this rate 4 years is gonna seem like an eternity so he's right in a way.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills but he has posted a video similar if not the exact same before or mutiple times before. Like he has been saying since before the 2020 election he was "entitled" to a third term.
He literally has “Trump 2028” hats in his White House.
He commended Elon for “knowing those voting machines better than anyone” right after the vote was counted.
There is nothing left for them to do in order to secure a 2028 “win”, is there? It’s not like the bootlickers in the military will do anything to stop him; they’ve bombed Venezuelans and genocided Palestinians and suppressed peaceful domestic protest at the whims of this administration… and we’re not even a year in yet.
"Im going to live forever!!!!"
Your clogged arteries have entered the chat...
Shittler tore down the east wing of the White House today and Americans……. Crickets
Hey there, Northern neighbor. Sure would be a shame if our problems escalated into your problems, too.
Edit: but also, what do you expect us to do? We're holding the biggest protests in history right now. What more should we be doing? Having a civil war?
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I appreciate that the headline leads off with reassurances by reminding you that he's 79
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Could you imagine if sleepy joe posted it.
He really likes to make enemies huh?
There's a saying we have in Texas... Something and taxes. Something and and and taxes. I forget what the something was but you can't run away from either something or taxes.
Are the voting machines going to receive another "Minor Update?"
Headline made me chuckle
Big King George III energy
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