MAGA in general.

Extends beyond Trump. Republicans in Congress are complicit.

They have convinced the moronic masses that the communists are equivalent to fascists, and they have convinced the masses that anyone not MAGA is a communist. They even started rounding up brown people, some of whom have died and/or will never see their families again. They’re builting concentration camps. AI datacenters are meant to take control over computing and the communication it enables.

This is our last chance.

Hard to angle your leg in such a way as to kick yourself with enough force..

I want it to happen during primetime television so the program will be interrupted to tell me

It's not the entire country. Conservatives are dragging the normal people into this. Our nation is absolutely infested with conservatives. This is what happens when we don't finish a civil war properly. We either finish Sherman's work or we suffer the consequences of humanizing pure evil.

just 'a bit'?

Watching from the outside, I've never doubted they would. USA has always been so disgustingly patriotic, to the point of ignoring everything bad about the country in order to fuel their imagined self image as "The Greatest Country In The World". It was always going to be like this, when most of the country is that brainwashed and ignorant.

What does this comment even mean? What’s the alternative?

I keep telling people but most people on Lemmy are like “you’re a doomer” which says a lot about how this happened.

Yes, and this November I really hope people don’t allow it to turn from that into something far far worse.

Everything Margaret Atwood put in that book is based on something that had literally already happened to women at some point in history, so that no man could say that she was being absurd or over the top with anything she included.

Clever, but also just so completely horrifying to think about.

It's just more abuse of words to rob them of their meaning, plus muddying the political waters for the stupid, who tend to support them while thinking "communist" and "fascist" are just words for "baddie".

The white supremacists believe in the coming race war, this is what the "boogaloo" community is about.

It's actually pretty scary because they have been chomping at the bit to get started and they are the only side ready to go at a moments notice and they are EXCITED TO DO SO

It’s basically on repeat for any nfl ad break right now.

Oh they know, they just also know that they won’t face consequences if their rhetoric is completely untethered from reality, no matter how dangerous - it’s their whole thing.

Okay, fine, maybe Trump doesn’t know the definitions, but his puppet masters certainly do.

It’s not. The people with the authority to do anything about it either won’t or can’t. You’re First Amendment rights are worth 2¢ in a trillion dollar economy. While the 2A was supposedly written to be the follow-up, it has basically the same effect.

The Supreme Court established that the President cannot be held accountable for any conduct (as part of his Official Duties) by anyone except through impeachment. So the President can break any law, as long as 1/2 the House (or 1/3 of the Senate) agrees to let it slide.

Pedophiles and Nazis captured the spots in government that allow them to do this shit to us

Most of us (by math) hate it

The final battle between that last Big Mac and his carotid arteries

Unrealistic. He is one 'bad' election away from being somewhat inconvenienced by having to just always explicitly ignore congress and do whatever he wants without repercussions. If GOP wins as few as three of the senate races that happen, he's 100% safe from the only consequence considered valid: removal from office.

No criminal prosecution, that's already established as 'not applicable' by the supreme court, on top of the long standing policy of not holding a president currently in office accountable for anything.

In 2028, ok, maybe he could face consequences in theory if all the mechanisms actually work. Very skeptical, and even if he could, it moves at a snail's pace and they'll probably run him again in 2032 because they don't have any better ideas.

And therein lies the problem. The decent Americans are too misinformed by the polls, they'll complacently stay at home. That, or they're too lazy and arrogant to vote for anyone but their ideal candidate, they'll sit it out as a show of virtue posturing.

"steal government money"?

They already let a pedophilic, human trafficking, treasonous, rapist off the hook for everything and you think they care about OUR money?

It's supposedly a "PSA" celebrating America and not partisan in any way. Which would be a hilarious defense if they weren't paying so much to air this in the most expensive ad slots during sports.

I doubt it'll make a difference come midterms, but if we had a remotely functional supreme court this would be immediatley challenged. It shouldn't have reached the point of spending $315k of taxpayer money per single game ad slot.

By just 0.25"

We should probably be in a general strike, but no one wants to fuck over their existing life on the hopes that it'll just get fixed int he next election. Check back after the midterms, but don't hope for much to change.

25% of Americans endorse this.

decades of brainwashing and learned helplessness

also the racism