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Right, who's going to hold a cabal of the richest men on Earth accountable?
Therefore it would be technically impossible to hack voting machines since the paper trail would not match up. Wishful thinking though."
Yeah if you ask for a recount. The one the DNC never bothered with.
Pretty sure nothing can or will be done about it.
In this case, unfortunately, the past is indeed indicative of the future. Oh and by the way, fuck you Merrick Garland you useless quisling and coward.
The one thing I know in my heart and in my soul is these guys will fuck something up so badly that their own base will demand they be torn to shreds before these 4 years are up.
As he said, many years ago now, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
These people do not care about rules, they do not care about law, they do not care what is good for them and those they care about. They care about owning the dems.
Owning the dems, to the oligarchs themselves, is merely a means to an end. They say it because the base loves it. That's all.
IDK man. Itallians eventually took care of Mussolini
The part of the country that didn't like fascists hanged him after Allied troops landed in Italy and the country had a civil war
The fascists didn't hang him. They didn't change their minds about what happened.
People fucking shot them in the face for being fascists until there weren't enough goons left to protect him.
And then a communist hanged him.
I don't want you to be right, but I know you probably are.
This would be easier to deal with if I didn't have to worry about my families fate too
The only recorded instance of which I can think of someone who was even slightly pro-fascism taking out a fascist is literally Hitler... he killed himself, but only because the Red Army was already inside Berlin and looking for him.
And they are also back in the government by the way. Financed by...drum roll...
Maybe if he actually imposes his stupid ass tariffs and collapses our dollar, people will wake up. Who knows.
The base will never turn against trump, never
Whatever Trump fucks up, they'll just blame it on democrats
It had worked for the GOPers every time so far. So why not now?
How many of them will survive the next preventable pandemic?
50% probably
Bird flu really feels like a thing we all need to be watching right now... just saying.
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.
Except that Elon actually doesn't know shit about computers. Trump is just rambling delusionally like usual.
Elon dazzels Trump with tales of setting the correct time on all sorts of video players.
I wish people would stop conceding even that about Elon. The guy is not some technical whiz at anything that I can discern.
Does he even have a real degree?
Virtually all of the self-created myth about Elon seems to be complete bullshit.
Elon musk is great at buying companies that could be promising and getting them to massively grow. It's likely mostly about being able to secure funding, but it's something I guess.
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It doesn't fucking matter. He can splatter an infant against a tree like an old testament god and nothing will ever happen then either.
None of this defeatist bullshit. It matters.
https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack
Keep track. Or don't keep track and keep it out of your head for your health.
Just no defeatist bullshit.
Thanks for pointing out that community, because I've been trying to figure out how to get some kind of news feed that only covers the important things that we actually need to know about, without having to subject myself to the firehose of irrelevant bullshit that the media breathlessly covers as if it was just as important as news about stuff that is actually happening and getting buried in all that distracting trash.
Keeptrack seems like it should work for me for this purpose. It looks like posts there will be just the actual actions taken by our new overlords that impact us, without all the crap that's just bluster for drama and stoking the base.
Oh come on... Maybe in 2020 you could get away with this blind positivity but at this point you're just denying reality.
Keep track has existed pretty much since Trump first showed up, "we've" accomplished fuck-all. We did however elect a feckless piece of shit who picked another feckless piece of shit to run the DOJ and together they also accomplished fuck-all.
Trump is going to get away with literally everything, as he already has, save for some state level civil b.s he can't use the DOJ to make go away.
Defeatist or blind positivity, none of it matters. We have no control. You can, as I have, and many others, shout from the rooftops of all the shit we've kept track of, but as long as fox news exists, as long as Elon keeps buying social media to control, we will have next to 0 impact getting people to realize.
Honestly keeping with what I've just said, even this means nothing and has no real purpose. I think "keep track" just triggered me. It's all useless.
Maybe it's worth keeping track of so when the dust all settles and it's all over, someone has a real-time record of it.
I basically agree with everything else you said though.
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Sorry, we can't prosecute a sitting president. It's tradition.
It's a tradition we're starting just now, but a tradition nonetheless!
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Here we go again. Even when he's literally found guilty, it makes no difference because there's just not the will to make it stick.
Get the message: the system will not save us from Trump.
We need a Luigi.
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He can confess to multiple murders and show the bodies on stage and nothing will happen. The US "justice" system only applies to poor people.
And Democrats. You're going to see the DOJ move at light speed now. Moved at glacial pace with the previous administration but now that vindictive retaliation is on the menu they're going to give Sonic a run for his money.
Maybe, or maybe we'll get a lot of firey talk, sternly worded letters, terse lunches, and frustrated phone calls from both sides.
And then they'll all meet on the green at 2pm and have a leisurely game of golf before going home to their mansions in their gated communities.
And the media will jingle the next shiny thing for us to look at.
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It's only day 1. I can't wrap my head around 4 more years of this shit.
It didn't help it's already been 8 years of this shit. Even losing he never shut the fuck up. Ever.
I hope I live long enough to read his obituary
Honestly, I could see spontaneous celebrations breaking out when he passes.
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