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      Now, I am not an expert of US law, but if American news has taught me anything, the only possible outcome of going through the courts is the following:

      Court decides against the govt
      Govt appeals to a higher court

      Higher court decides against the govt
      Govt appeals to a higher court

      Supreme court decides Trump is God and all is well

      The end.

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    Very professional and mature. This is what everyone expects from a government institution.

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      It’s not so much that they can’t meme, it’s that they have only one joke: “Look how I can make this person fear me”.

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      They generally don’t have a language-based way of thinking, it’s why they just say shit. Call them weird narcissists? Guess what they’re going to be calling you next week. Say they’re violent? Guess what they’re going to be saying about the left tomorrow.

      It’s all reactionaries and grifters who enable those reactive attitudes by showing them how to ignore criticism.

      I would be far more optimistic if we just had a stupid population with misguided, reactionary tendencies. We can work with that. You can fix stupid. You can’t fix evil though, and the people leading our country’s stupid are pure evil. And they know it, which is why the whole slew of podcasters, AM radio hosts, FOX pundits and cabinet members weasel and worm around accountability all day, every day.

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    the white house has zero credibility under the trump regime with me. they release fake pictures along with fake news to push their Nazi agenda behind doors.

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          You can sue Donald Trump without suing the US Government. Right now several lawmakers are preparing a lawsuit against Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files.

          If we flip the house and senate I’m gonna start sending drafts to representatives for a law that makes the Trump estate and all future president’s estates liable for all the avoidable and frivolous lawsuits on the basis of which they did not protect the human beings who live in this nation nor represent the system of laws which govern them, rather that they were personal and need to be paid for personally by the officials responsible for giving the orders resulting in lawsuit.

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            You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn’t happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.

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                  Just because they avoid it doesn’t mean that the express purpose of a CEO isn’t to take that fall…

                  That’s the entire point of the role and excuse for the compensation, is it not?

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      The jolly old USSR was as half-assed as the Trump DOJ. There’s a famous case of someone being airbrushed out of a group photo, but they couldn’t be bothered to get rid of his shoes.

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    An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story… has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?

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      Just the Old Testament. Yahweh is bit of a dick in that half, from what I recall. Gaslighting some dude to sacrifice his child, I think?

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        Well in that particular case he stopped him last second like ‘oh man, you were actually gonna go through with it, nah bro just joking you don’t gotta kill your kid.’ But in other instances he fully destroyed cities, the world, and just killed random people cause they didn’t do what he said.

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        YHWH is the archetype of a controlling, abusive father.

        The other highly informative part is the Book of Job, where God and Satan are hanging out and making wagers on how severely they can fuck with some decent, honest guy before he loses it.

        The opening verse of Highway 61 Revisted should be added to the Bible. It’s more insightful and better-written than most of the canonical parts. I’d also throw in Dante’s Inferno and Paradiso. I’m in two minds about adding Milton, though.

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    If Democrats don’t prosecute the FUCK out of themselves for being complicit with this administration as well as the scummy admin itself, then we are FUCKED because they’d just enable the next wave of fascists.

    Fuck Trump and everyone who enabled him up to this point

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      Why people always talking like the Democrats need to fix this shit. They are controlled opposition. They’re not going to be our saviors.

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        It physically hurt when Cuck Boomer said that we still need to investigate Renee Good’s murder before we know what the outcome is. I’m sorry, but that centrist slop is the exact opposite of what we need. What I believe we need.

        So yeah, I’ll keep talking shit about the Dems because they’re supposed to represent my views, since we live in a Representative Democracy.

        But maybe that needs to change. I’m all for a general strike to make these maggots in suits crumble to their knees. Minnesota is trying to do that today in fact

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          So yeah, I’ll keep talking shit about the Dems because they’re supposed to represent my views, since we live in a Representative Democracy.

          Not really, they’re supposed to represent the views they said they’d represent. If you disagree you should have voted for one of the other options. The real issue is that this “democracy” only gives you two valid options: right and far right.

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            You cannot know what every single issue will be in the future.

            Sure, vote for people who have the same values, but even then people can flip flop or cave to pressure.

            What I’m advocating for is pressure from the citizenry to have these politicians do what we want OUTSIDE OF ELECTIONS because their duty to represent people doesn’t start and stop in an election season.

            Fuck that noise

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              You don’t vote because you can’t predict the future?

              That is the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard.

              OUTSIDE OF ELECTIONS

              You don’t pay attention to what they do outside of elections. The number of times I’ve seen phoney fucking progressives criticize the Democrats only to be immediately proven wrong because they did no research. Lazy self-centered fucks exist on memes and assumptions.

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                You don’t vote

                Nice fucking strawman idiot.

                Let me know when you’re ready to discuss like adults without misrepresenting other’s beliefs.

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          t physically hurt when Cuck Boomer said that we still need to investigate Renee Good’s murder before we know what the outcome is.

          You understand an investigation is a good thing?

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            I want a Democratic party doing propaganda IN THE LEFT DIRECTION.

            At least at the start. Cuz that’s what the Right does. Lie at first, then walk it back.

            Do the investigation when the fire dies down.

            We don’t have time for liberals to compromise and capitulate. People are dying every day.

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          This isn’t about Biden (who was also a really bad president). It’s about what happens next. If we want to end fascism, we can’t rely on the Democrats to do it for us, we need to start holding the Democrats accountable for all the ways they enabled fascism and build a new movement for and by the people. Democrats are beholden to the same oligarchs as the Republicans who directed this outcome.

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      They always enable fascists because they prefer fascism to socialism. The American people are left with a choice, either revolution, or submission. Fascism is the inevitable end point of capitalism. Power and wealth concentrates at the top while the rest of society is starved of resources, and those at the top use those resources to get the working class to fight amongst themselves, by blaming their failures on minority groups.

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      Spoiler: they won’t!

      “WhAt wE nEeD nOw iS uNiTy”

      …and as a bonus, you know what else they won’t do? They won’t bother to roll back or repeal any of Trump’s bullshit. Welcome to the new normal, where nothing is normal and your government is either fascists or the spineless cowards who pander to them

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      They don’t care. They will launder the reputation of Republicans and pardon many of them. Meanwhile any protesters against this will be shown no such mercy by the same democrats.

      And all this will be in the name of ‘healing’.

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      Goddamn you fucking idiots will never rest until Democrats never win again.

      Why they would they prosecute themselves and WHAT FOR?

      They’re not “complicit”, you stupid fucks didn’t vote for them and now they don’t have power. That’s how that works.

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        I voted for them. Many Leftists voted for them because we were doing harm reduction.

        But there are no elections happening now, so why the fuck would we do harm reduction? Primaries don’t happen for a couple more weeks! General elections don’t happen for months or even years!

        The Democratic party, whether they realize it or not, are supposed to act as the opposition party to the fascists. The fact that they are CONTROLLED opposition doesn’t change their primary function from the perspective of the voters. To the rich and wealthy, of course Democrats are the controlled opposition, and for good reason to the rich and wealthy.

        NOW is the time to pressure Democrats to do what we want, and scold them for ignoring to. NOW is the time to fund and volunteer for progressive candidates across the country who are participating in this year’s primaries. NOW is the time to organize with political organizations and mutual aide groups.

        Democrats should be prosecuted because they’ve enabled this administration when they’ve had plenty of opportunities to ACT in the past to prevent this present time from occuring. I’m mostly referring to the triple crown of Blue Executive, House, and Senate twice since Obama’s first term.

        May I remind Marxist-Leninists who give a fuck about the US that revolution cannot be forced on a people. Revolutionaries must work within the systems of the masses - indeed voting and paying lip service to their petty “democracy” - until the time is right.

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    As an American, watching the highest office in this country be turned into an absolute joke over the decades has been demoralizing, to say the least. There’s nothing to be proud of. I feel like, thanks to social media, we got to see the real people, and then it distilled people down to their worst parts. I despise seeing the leaders of the nation be so petty, so idiotic, so childish.

    I mean, throw this on the pile of reasons the current administration isn’t worthy. The felonies, the child raping, the blatant attempts to start wars, the blatant disregard of the Constitution, and just misinformation galore. They edited a photo… how small of a person do you have to be to think “I’m part of the government, I have access to the White House official channel, I’m going to be very transparent about what I think of the current situation and use AI to mock and try to spread misinformation.” I hope people link back to these things (all of these things, not just this photo) every single time anyone in the current administration speaks. When ever any company supports them. When ever any person supports them. Like NEVER let it go. Just flood them every single time. They say Merry Christmas, bring up the Epstien files, the rape, the photo editing, the felonies, the… everything. Just non-fucking-stop.

    It’s just so god damn fucking embarrassing to be an American right now. And I know by the end of the year, I’ll be wishing to get back to how it is now, I’ll look back fondly on how it was “only” so bad at the start of 2026.

    Sorry for the rant, I’m just, so god damn tired of every single day Dimentia Don, doing yet again, another dumbass thing.

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    I know history is full of nasty little dictators and their lackeys but have any of them ever been this fucking childish?

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      Hitler was actually extremely childish as was his entire regime. The similarities are remarkable.

      Henry VIII of England was basically what would happen if a pro American football player was a powerful king. He’s suspected to have had CTE.

      Versailles was basically a cruel experiment on the mental health of trapped nobility and rulers, that involved basically nothing but petty social games for power and prestige, but no options to use them.

      Rome had plenty of emperors like this including Caligula and Nero. Nero had a neck beard and unhealthy attachment to his mother. Meanwhile if half of what was written about Elagabulus is true then we have proof of how bad of an idea it is to give absolute power to a horny teenager with neither qualifications nor training.

      Speaking of weird mommy issues, Wilhelm I of Prussia/Germany was a weird childish man whose family spat was the first world war. On the other side was Nicolas of Russia who wasn’t much better.

      Also Ghaddafi was nuts, like in funny and horrifying ways, but definitely never matured after taking power young.

      So yeah, I’m conflating kings, emperors, and dictators as all more or less the same, because they kinda are. Julius Caesar took the title of dictator, was assassinated to prevent him from being a king, and was invoked by the emperors. We have a modern tendency to think of dictators as people who came to power through coups or the military, which can lead towards more mature and sane figures, but we still use the term for the hereditary absolute ruler of North Korea (it’s a socialism themed monarchy) and we don’t use it to describe the huge portion of roman emperors who were generals installed by coup. Additionally, history indicates (to me at least) that you likely have to be a bit nuts and immature to overthrow an established republic, because of the behavior shown by citizens in a destabilizing republic.

      I understand the urge to treat this administration as a freak of history, but they’re just too similar to the third reich to do so responsibly. And yeah those similarities include immaturity. It seems that a destabilizing republic is best hijacked by the narcissistic, and narcissists who are leaning into their disorder tend towards immaturity because growth often requires painful self reflection.

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      I don’t know about childish but the Khmer Rouge was batshit insane, their way of “governing” was completely unsustainable.