He does something illegal on a practically daily basis and everyone just kisses his ass. Now I guess he can just continue on and conquer the whole world and kidnap world leaders. Why doesn’t anyone stand up to this asshole?

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[+] 114 points 10 months ago* (29 children)
  • [–] [S] 42 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    What about all the world leaders, tech leaders, democrats, liberals, other countries? It feels like no one is doing anything except maybe Schumer sending a strongly worded letter.

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  • [–] 58 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    World Leaders/Other Countries : Mostly cowed by the US military and money. Those that aren’t are mostly happy to watch the US self immolate.

    Tech Leaders: Combination of either agreeing with him or willing to go along so he doesn’t turn on their companies.

    Democrats: Don’t have control of any part of any branch of the federal government, tend to play by the rules and don’t know how to handle someone who doesn’t.

    Liberals ( assuming colloquial US definition) : Have been protesting, voting, and otherwise opposing him, but haven’t reached critical mass to convince Republican politicians to stop supporting trump.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Democrats: Don’t have control of any part of any branch of the federal government, tend to play by the rules and don’t know how to handle someone who doesn’t.

    They have an unwavering devotion to a terminally flawed system.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    The system has been rewarding them handsomely so far, but getting votes AND corporate money is a thin rope to walk on, and Trump has grabbed it mostly for himself and now has both.

    The Democratic party, as it has existed until now, is dead.

    The "popular" Dems (Bernie, AOC, Mandani, etc) need to jump ship and create a true "fuck the rich" party. They'll win.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Where I live most liberals are too busy thought-policing each other and trying to 'out' eat other as closeting trump supporters to do anything effectively. They are scared of their own shadows.

    I used to be part of a few community orgs, I left last year because I was so done with people telling me how if I'm not foaming at the mouth angry at working-class white people and virtue signalling constantly about how pure I am, then I'm a nazi. It was so petty to the point I got screamed at for wearing a trucker hat that I was secretly a Trump supporter, because ONLY TRUMP SUPPORTERS WEAR HATS. Shit was utterly insane.

    It's hard to organize and get together with people when they won't accept your support/efforts if its anything less than their ideal.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Serious reverse question: what about them? Like what do you genuinely think they’re supposed to do against America?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    Boycott, storm the capital, revolt, sanction, impeach, stop taking the high ground and start fighting dirty. There’s probably a lot of things that could be done.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Boycott: Good news! There are a lot of those happening, but it hasn’t shifted things enough yet.

    Storm the capital: To what end? Seriously, assuming a large enough group of people took over the capital building or White House, what next? Trump would be evacuated elsewhere and still have full control of the military which could easily put down the crowd.

    Revolt: What would this entail? Yes, if a critical mass of Americans organized to get Trump and rewrite the constitution then maybe we could get somewhere but that large of a critical mass doesn’t exist yet. Remember, that would be a fight against about 1/3 of the US population plus the military.

    Sanction: The US is the largest economy in the world and is in control of the most important currency. It’s impossible to sanction the US until both of those change.

    Impeach and Remove: Requires a majority of representatives and 2/3 majority of senators. You need to convince a lot of republicans to make that happen.

    Fight dirty: What does that mean, exactly?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Boycott what exactly? Sanction America? Do you think countries will jeopardize their economies or safety over Maduro? Do you understand how dangerous and serious American threats are?

    Storm the capital and revolt? You first buddy, also do you mean the capitol in DC or mar a lago? Half the country support him and almost everyone are hundreds or even thousands of miles away from either capitol.

    Impeachment requires 2/3 of the senate so why even suggest that if you know how it works

    Stop taking the high ground and fight dirty? What does this mean? Republicans control the supreme court, the house of representatives, the senate, the executive branch, and 31 of the 50 states. This is not some fluke this is the America a LOT of people want.

    I hope you're going to vote in the next election

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Impeachment requires 2/3 of the senate so why even suggest that if you know how it works

    Impeachment requires a simple majority in the House, conviction and removal requires 2/3 of the Senate.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If he’s not removed it doesn’t matter

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It's still impeachment if he isn't removed is my point.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Start disregarding their side of the treaties they have with the USA that Trump has effectively torn up. Sell off their US bonds. Strengthen political and trade alliances that don't include the USA. Stop sharing intelligence with the USA. Boycott US goods and services and switch infrastructure away from US companies.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Speaking as "other countries". Not our circus not our monkeys.

    We are avoiding the USA as much as we can. We're trying to route around the problem. But what can we really do?

    At the moment we're feeling betrayed, but we have to manoeuvre to protect ourselves and try to avoid a world war. But we're making plans which increasingly don't include the USA and just hoping for the best and that you guys don't pull us under with you. You can only let a former friend hurt you so many times.

    It's very sad to see what you guys are going through but sad things have happened to good people throughout history unfortunately. And we're philosophical about it that it's your turn now and we're secretly relieved it isn't us.

    We do hope you guys can turn things around but we've kinda made peace with that fact that the world has changed and we're trying to move on with things we actually can control.

    Sorry. And good luck! 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    The Democrats won't save you; they didn't then and they won't now.

    They're not paid to save you.

    Check out the incomes of the leadership (and their families), you can't get any more blatantly dirty.

    They're the same people, taking turns every few years.

    Oh, almost forgot "BoTh PaRtIeS". I know you kids like that.

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  • [+] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    Pal, one empowers the other. It's only possible because they work together.

    You've been duped. There aren't "two sides", they're a team, good cop and bad cop.

    Why do you think Harris pursued Republican votes during her campaign? It was to lose. Obviously. Blatantly. She "fell on her sword".

    Wake up!

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