No Stupid Questions

The comment by Wilco@lemmy.zip is right, but isn't complete..

There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too..

We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.

Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short..

Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc..

Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of "inherent" confidence, on average, that most don't, simply because the way others relate to their body's "status" programmed that into them..

Some lives are born with "teflon" preventing accountability.

Some lives are born with "glue" making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.

Trump's life is characterized by non-accountability.

HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn't.

Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.

This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.

SANE worlds wouldn't allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but .. politics won't tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that's what gets to own/rule the world.

Anyways, it's karma.

His continuum/soul's previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and .. his soul's future is not anything I'd want to be caught-in.

Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.

All the Western religions which hold that change isn't possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans..

narcissism.

Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.

Getting caught in a life that has "teflon" protection against accountability doesn't prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.

Universe's action->reaction law applies, anyways.

That is the folly of getting a "fortunate" life which consumes all one's good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then .. railroading one's own soul's future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them..

shrug

Action-reaction's real.

HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn't.

It'll learn, same as all souls learn..

From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of .. 9:1 or something?

Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.

IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?

But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won't make accountable.

& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.

I have zero reason to believe anybody'll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.

It's educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!

It helps break one's unconscious-presumption of "belonging" based "validity".

But .. speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it's worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it's false/lies, because it's of "me".

& that's proper!

Exactly as it's proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump's kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn't normal, right?

( only partly sarcastic: it isn't YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is .. NOT quick to learn )

( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?

THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-"validity", the class-based-"validity", the muscle/body/height-based-"validity", the money-based-"validity", etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!

THEN one can have detachment-from-human-"validity".

Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.

I wish it had been easier to learn, but I'm woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )

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A) the Supreme Court decided the president is above the law

B) that destroyed any chance to "use the Constitution" as it dramatically undermined what few checks and balances there were

C) MAGA congresspeople willingly gave up their own power to him

D) now riots are coming

That was what the election was for.

When someone votes for a person like Trump, they are voting to not hold him accountable and to continue doing worse and worse things and to do away with guardrails, rules, rights, and all those other niceties of the socio-politico contract.

This is what every MAGA sounds like the moment their token gets spent or the chickens come home to roost for them (and emphatically not a goddamn fucking minute sooner or st any point prior) and they receive the same consequences they wanted and voted for others ("but not meeeee") to be treated with by Trump's regime

Because the usa never had any accountability policies agsinst american presidents

Because the constitutional methods for fixing a rogue presidency lie with the legislature. The legislature is complicit.

Unfortunately the Constitution is toothless when bad actors control anything more than like 40% of the government.

Corruption

the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent

Nazis voted for nazis

Because he's a meat puppet for the world's oligarchy who want him for different reasons (1) remove restrictions to global illegal transactions (2) magnify climate change denialism (3) destroy science and education (4) advance ultraconservatism, plutocracy and theocracy (5) destroy progressivism and social justice (6) give a lot of freedom to the oligarchy (7) destroy the Western world's influence to realize Dugin's idea of Russian New World Order.

Because the red team literally doesnt care. Their team is winning, nanannanabooboo. The blue team wabts the red team to think they're cool or whatever, and pointing out the insanity gets them called crybabies, so they dont do it.

Everyone is 12

1. He is in to pockets of the wealthy
2. This is a coup by the wealthy to takeover the government
3. No one in government will stop him because this is exactly what they want.
4. Money
5. Money

Because congress is filled with old rotten pussies

There's no simple answer, but if you look up how cults are made and operate you'll get an idea.

Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.

Add to that the fact that a stupid president presents a massive economic benefit to anyone that can keep his attention for more than five minutes and he is predictably surrounded by people that benefit from his continued presence.

His mistake in the first term was trying to be a real president and surrounding himself with people who wanted the same thing. This time it's just criminals all the way down.

Because, in my opinion, Trump has 70 years of organized crime surrounding him.

Because, in my opinion, Trump has organized violent militias to protect him.

Because, in my opinion, Trump uses the NSA as a personnel filing system for blackmailing and extorting people.

Because, in my opinion, we are all hoping that he just dies without having a civil war over his tiny teeny tiny hands.

does thing

"hey the constitution says you cant!"

continues to do thing

hey the constitution says you cant!"

continues to do thing

hey the constitution says you cant!"

continues to do thing

hey the constitution says you cant!"

continues to do thing

He's a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.

You've heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.

If you have serious money and can't find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what's actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.

Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it's all reaching a tipping point. I've heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it's in the stars.

Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.

Useful Idiots
Ideology
Money
Blackmail

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber

Checks and balances have broken down at the federal level.

"I never thought the leopards would eat my face" sobs Leopards Eating People's Faces Party voter.

Because he literally has all the levers of power and the Supreme Court and they’re all owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs and Trump blows them just like bubba. The constitution hasn’t really been real since the patriot act and citizens united became law

AIPAC and a few dozen rich people tell the RNC, the DNC, the supreme court, and the president what to do.

The reason it seems like the democrats are complicit is because, at the leadership level, they are.

Schumer and Jeffries are pro genocide in Gaza and pro-ICE because their future plans for America also involve genocide.

He has blackmail on them. We call it the Epstein files. That's why most of it isn't released.

Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.

When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That's why they'd quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.

Guess what, the constitution of the People's Republic of China also has freedom of speech... see how that turns out in practice...

A constitution just a piece of paper.

It's like paper money, it only has value if people believe it has value.

For the rule of law, that means those in positions of power, the 3 branches of government, the military, and ultimately, the people collective action/inaction to hold the government accountable.

Because the republicans are full of low intelligence sycophants whose only goal in life is power over others. All they want to do is grift and hurt.

Because when he is coherent he hates the right people.

Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.

The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.

Because hes a fascist and pro fascists will love him no matter what because fascists are fucking morons.

Because trump is largely irrelevant.

His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.

His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.