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?
Republicans became so partisan the whole system fell apart.
They built a propaganda machine to protect themselves from a Nixon scandal ever happening again, and let it run for three generations.
The results are what we see today.
Because the members of our governing bodies are feckless cowards who are terrified of losing their seats by doing anything that slightly stinks of basic ethics.
Because all the leaders of this country are in corporate pockets or too gutless to do anything and regular people don’t have enough time to do anything because they’re too busy scrambling to make ends meet.
Because everyone in power across the globe realizes with 100% certainty that WW3 will start in less than 5 years. When that happens there will be a global redrawing of maps and an unprecedented volume of wealth will flow upwards to the .01%.
The closer you are to power, the closer you are to the spoils of the biggest internationally coordinated heist in human history. So while everyone realizes exactly who and what he is, they are all willing to play ball and let him be Caesar because they know that their careers will last longer than his and when the bombs start falling THEY will be among the chosen to form the next generation of leaders. All of maga are in increasingly distant orbits from the nucleus but as long as your group can push yourselfs above the next group at minimum you’re not at the bottom.
It’s not a race to the top if everyone locks arms and declares themselves part of the top. Fiefdoms will be carved out for oligarchs. City States will be awarded to top donars. Above the law will become an official status for those wealthy enough to purchase a literal get out of jail free card.
Ultimately this will end as all empires, more war. More revolutions. The America I die in will not contain 50 states. In a hundred years the former USA will have been balkenized and exist as a fractured mess of poverty and resource wars with one or two walled in Dubais scattered amongst the rubble.
History will be unable to distinguish the trajectory of the USSR from the USA and we will exist in the social memory as examples of hubris and failure for a hundred generations.
Sweet dreams all.
Because anyone in a position to stop him is complicit or a coward
It’s on us to gather our communities and force him into an execution
Everyone that can do anything about it makes far too much money by doing nothing at all. Plus social media can manipulate the masses to agree with them doing nothing as the best course of action. So in that environment, Trump is free to do whatever the fuck he wants, and is.
Come on, he doesn’t do everything he wants, like bang his daughter.
You sure? Well i suppose he’s probs too old now
You sure? Well i suppose
he’sshe’s probs too old nowEww good point.
I’m pretty sure he did
Because a majority of the federal government are helping him, protecting him, or declining to hold him accountable. The rest are powerless to stop him.
He doesn’t do everything he wants, but what he does do, he does because people in key positions obey him. Why they do that is the more critical question, and for many, it probably comes down to some combination of agreeing with his aims, hoping to profit from it and fear of consequences for disobedience.
For some, it’s probably an attempt to do damage control: If they can stay in his good graces, they might be able to dissuade him from the worst excesses. If they refuse his orders, they’ll get replaced with a yes-man that’ll eagerly lick the rim for a chance to profit from the whole disaster.
For some, it’s a belief that they have to obey orders, out of naivety, complacency or a misplaced sense of duty: If Congress has conferred on him the right to give orders. Whether the orders are legal or not is for the court to figure out, so until the court intervenes or Congress strips his right to give orders, the orders are legitimate and I’m obligated to cary them out.
To stand up against illegal orders takes a lot of guts, and for most people it will be a fairly simple matter of “Do I put my life and livelihood on the line? Would I even achieve anything?” The people who would have to defy him are those high up in positions of power, so as long as those people continue to convert his demented demands into orders, the rest will fall in line.
Because we are a failed society.
Actually he has failed on so many issues. They call him TACO for a reason. But like any narcissist sociopath, he just keeps trying other approaches… If he actually did everything he wanted to, we’d have had nuclear war already.
Because the usa has the biggest bad influence in the world and military
Because there’s no laws for the wealthy in our colonialist power structure
Finally, you’re awake…
Republicans took over the court by refusing to appoint Obama’s pick and then putting in cronies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They are. World leaders are just as horrified/pissed off as Democrats. China is pushing back, and you see what the cost is to our economy. Republicans don’t care. They have the mindset that their only responsibility is to benefit themselves, ie. greed is good.
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! 🤷♂️
Lol. Australians still haven’t decided whether Aboriginies or Torres Islanders count as human beings. You live in a nanny state that has some of the most restrictive Internet censorship laws in the world. Your Parliment has enacted 76 pieces of “counter-terrorism” legislation since 2001 that have tacitly ended any protections for the free press. You’re income inequality is at a 20 year high.
You don’t need our help to go under, ratbag.
Stopped being not your circus not your monkeys when he invaded Venezuela. Greenland, Panama, or Colombia is next. Appeasement only ends one way.
Brexit showed that it is the same circus
consider how the other world wars started.
rich guys wanting war to increase trade and decrease national class-struggle within the nation’s borders (including foreign support)
Serious reverse question: what about them? Like what do you genuinely think they’re supposed to do against America?
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.
Crap, I’m probably on a watchlist now. Nice knowing you all.
everyone’s on a watchlist when it’s this level of paranoia in state mate
the only bad thing for you to do is shutting up and sitting down.
that’s the only end goal, along with misdirection into paranoia of your own
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
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.
If he’s not removed it doesn’t matter
It’s still impeachment if he isn’t removed is my point.
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?
I don’t know, but something has to be done or we could just watch western civilization crumble along with the end of democracy .
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.
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.
Bud, it’s not better for you when a judge refuses to acknowledge a basic fact about reality because a politician told them to. Only one side did that. There’s not turn taking here.
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!
