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it looks like from an outside perspective as if you're just letting him do whatever he wants without much resistance.

Getting real tired of European criticism of things they know nothing about. We aren't offering little resistance, we are following our laws. Europeans want to see us engage in a devastating Civil War that will probably draw them in, just for their own sick entertainment, and they are really irritated that we aren't listening to their demands.

We have a nation of laws, with a Constitution, and we still have a few major legal cards to play before we throw it all away and embark on the absolute worst case scenario. We have a Midterm election in November, which will make a huge difference, and a Presidential election in 2028 that could turn everything around. We could get through all of this with those elections alone, and not have to kill thousands of our fellow citizens. We Americans have concluded that we'd rather do that than some pointless, unorganized, flailing "revolution" that will only result in a MAGA victory that makes them stronger and meaner, and leaves the world in a worse place for it.

In the meantime, as we wait for our elections, we are mounting successful court challenges to many policies. We are having special elections that have already flipped 30 seats from Republican to Democrat in statehouses across the nation. We are having regular national protests that get bigger each time. The last one was 9 million, topping the previous record of 7 million for the last one. People have formed fast reaction cells, and they show up and aggravate ICE whenever they show up.

And of course, we have shut down the government, and denied ICE their funding. We had shut down more of the government, and could have shut down the entire thing, but we're playing nice this time, but they know we can still shut it down, like we did last fall (which still be shut down, but for our weak Democratic leaders).

We are just biding our time until the Midterms, when we can serve up the bloodbath that is coming, and in the meantime we are resisting them every day in every way we can. Our recalcitrance, and refusal to bow to their will is making them crazier than normal. They want to revel in their victories, receive accolades from the citizens, and frighten the rest of the world, and none of it is working. Nobody is intimidated, and EVERYBODY keeps fighting back. Their celebrations are constantly quashed, and their victories reframed as atrocities, with calls for justice.

And we're ratcheting up the pressure every day, until we reach the Midterms, when the Democrats will take control of both legislative houses, both of which have investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers. That is, provided they replace their current leadership with strong people who will do the job the American people want them to do.

You know what would be more satisfying that watching our fellow citizens die against our own military? Watching those MAGA psychopaths squirm in their chairs as their struggle with perjury to save their corrupt, treasonous, pedophile, criminal asses, then impeaching them, and throwing them in the dungeon.

If Europeans want to resist right-wing authoritarianism, they should be dealing with their own countries, because every single one of them is under pressure from the same forces. They are where we were 10 years ago. America is the canary in the coalmine. They should quit worrying about America, and worry about themselves.

It bears mentioning that the large scale protests you see in other parts of the world are often in places where there are strong worker protection laws.

In the US almost every single person is literally one major medical incident away from living in their car, one missed mortgage payment away from living in their car, and one missed insurance payment from not getting the medicine they literally need to survive. Most US states allow an employer to fire one of their employees without any warning or cause whatsoever, so long as the reason for the termination doesn't fit into one of several small boxes...which they would need to admit for it to be actionable, anyway.

My point being, a big part of the reason why you don't see protests like you do in say, France, is that unlike France, the people here are largely wage slaves that cannot afford to even miss work when suffering from extreme illness, let alone to take to the streets over that asshole pedophile acting like an asshole pedophile. This has been by design.

Don't mistake a population of people spending all their energy holding onto the little they have for one that supports this regime. Whether you think their action or lack of action is justifiable, you need to at least admit it's understandable.

As long as there isn’t massive civil unrest in the country

The thing to understand about liberal Americans is that they're currently doing everything in their power to prevent this, as they have been brainwashed for decades by conservative rhetoric that "only thugs riot" and couldn't seem to parse this for the racist dogwhistle it actually was.

They're making the exact same mistake the DNC made with not holding their ground during the government shutdown, because they so desperately didn't want to look like "the bad guy". When it comes to dictators, you're gonna have to riot at some point. A lesson that neo-American society will learn eventually the hard way.

There's a lot of ways of expressing unrest, and many of them are aimed at expressing a widespread lack of support for the regime. This hits them in their own support base, and is a big part of why they push back so hard on them.

Trump is a massive narcissist, that's why he's getting his signature on the cash in the first place. To someone like that, the idea that something so rewarding for him could be "perverted" like this, with the whole world seeing just what people really think of him, is a nightmare! And that's the point - to keep reminding him of just how unpopular he is, and keep him reactive instead of proactive.

Fun fact: US $100 bills are used in crime around the world because it's a strong currency and a million dollars fits in a backpack!

Well but see the intent isn't to render it unfit to be reissued, the whole point is that you want it to stay in circulation so as many people as possible see the additional message.

The MAGoos have been stamping 'Donald Trump Lives Here' on US currency for years.

They are supposed to do it on bills that show the White House, but they've also put in on $5 bills that show the Lincoln Memorial

As someone else already pointed out, the "with intent to render such [...] unfit to be reissued" part is key here.

The Stamp Stampede has a good resource on this.

Essentially, the argument just boils down to the fact that you're... not making the bill unusable. As long as the denomination is still visible and not altered to another number, and it's possible to see anti-fraud measures like the green seal well enough, you're not rendering it unfit for circulation.

There is the problem of ATMs sometimes rejecting stamped bills (or accepting them but having the bank send them back to the Fed to be replaced with new, clean ones) but afaik it's rare and not too likely as long as you don't cover the denomination.

Most businesses don't reject stamped bills as they have no reason to expect additional markings would mean a bill is actually NOT real, and most people won't decide to just never spend it again because it has a stamp.

As long as you don't promote/advertise a business, or change the actual denomination of the bill, you're fine.

To be fair, there's a whole lot of difference between defacing a banknote vs. rendering it unfit for issue.

In any case, cause of how often it changes hands, and how little supervision its under, it'd be very difficult to actually identify who defaced a specific note - especially if you've git a whole bunch of people doing it to a whole bunch of notes

You're kinda wrong man. There's a bunch of counties where dollars are essentially the main currency. I go to Lebanon often and yeah, USD is the main currency, esp after the financial crisis a few years ago. There's also Ecuador where USD is the actual official currency.

Doesn't communicate that information as directly as something written on the bill itself

Cashiers or anyone who regularly deals with cash.

It was Cato who was famous for that, he was the Lindsey Graham of the Republic.

if democrats regain power, it will just be the wheel turning in wait of republicans regaining power later. while that side of the wheel is better than current one, what america needs to do is break the fucking wheel.