• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    A lot of very smart people want to get rid of Trump. The main problem is the hundreds of opportunists riding on his coattails, who are currently in charge of Congress and won’t let anything happen to him because it will affect their own fortunes. Hell, some of them are just sitting silently in committee meetings because they can’t speak in Trump’s favor without committing perjury, so they refuse to respond to questions (even though that’s their job). Unless Bonespurs has his final Big Mac Attack while in office, I think we’re stuck with him until 2026, when some of his Congressional minions might lose their seats and his lock on the US government will loosen a little.

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      Do you really think there’s anything short of violence that will will cause him to leave office?

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        Severe medical events. But I think the most realistic hope is if enough people help replace some MAGA congresspeople in 2026 so they can stonewall the rest of his term.

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          He isn’t going through congress or obeying court orders. He’s already replaced all leadership with yes men.

          How could you think normal procedures would work? Even if they did, the democrats have shown they aren’t interested in stopping him.

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    In Germany we say “Der Klügere gibt nach, bis die Dummen die Welt reagieren”. You could translate it with “A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will until fools rule the world.”

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    Personally, I think we should skip the home.

    This loser didn’t start forgetting his wife’s name or forget to wipe his ass after shitting on a regular basis.

    He’s a fucking traitor who is tanking our country in a myriad of ways and violating the fuck out of our Constitution. A much more…severe punishment is in order.

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    There’s nothing you can do, the system was made so you can’t just remove a guy you don’t like. It’s up to Congress to impeach and remove or the 25th amendment, but that just gets you Vance.

    Have the day you voted for, especially the protest-non-voters.

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    IMO there are two big, fundamental and inherent problems we’re not dealing with.

    1 - Democrats don’t want to do anything, because they want to run against Republicans on this in the fall, midterms and in 2028.

    2 - The folks who voted for Trump in the first place get their news and world view from Fox News and the GOP-aligned media. They aren’t telling the same story.

    Let’s look at the fucking headlines from Fox News right now:

    • Dose of Reality: Trump targets drug prices, pharmaceutical industry with new executive order.
    • Dems defend ‘storming’ of ICE facility - DHS hits back with all the receipts
    • Trump cuts deal with America’s top rival - here’s the fairer playing field the US now has
    • Storm Clouds: Middle Eastern royal offers to donate jump jet to Trump - Dems immediately make move
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      you’re forgetting about point #3. all you need to do is watch the commercials on major us ‘news’ stations to figure out who tells the news.

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    The problem I have with this thinking is that people think Trump caused this and that the fascist problem will go away if he does.

    He is a symptom. We need to fix the cause. I’m not saying I have all the answers, but going back to ‘the old way of solving problems’ and not changing anything will just lead to more fascists.

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        I think it’s more that they see Trump as a confirmation of their world view.

        They feel scared and threatened, they seek evidence to confirm their feelings, and Trump provides them with the reassuring narrative that affirms their world view.

        If people could get help dealing with the things that they’re actually afraid of struggling with they wouldn’t be as engaged with fear mongering.

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          Many people agree that Trump is the head of the snake. The amount of complete lies is remarkable. I’m on the side that believes, somewhat, that the cult spell will greatly diminish if he were completely out of the picture.

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            The Trump cult will dissipate after he’s gone. But the conservative virus will absolutely still be there. They will leech on to the next Republican scum that rises through the ranks. And now that Trump has opened Pandora’s box, all the scum in that party will rise to the occasion. Trump has proven that the presidency can be a massive cash cow now. People with lots and lots of money and no morals will use that wealth to run another disgusting propaganda campaign, it’ll fool stupid Americans, and we’ll have Trump copycats in the Oval Office again.

            Conservatives cannot do anything but vote Republican. It is in their programming.

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              It is often necessary to deal with the obvious symptoms before you can start treating the cause.

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      The cure is ranked choice voting and repealing citizens united, oh and kick Rupert Murdocks bitch ass “news” network out of the country.

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      Yup.

      This is just the beginning. Trump opened doors that are permanently open now. Other bad actors will walk through them. They know now, definitively, that Americans are largely stupid and that pretty basic propaganda works on them. And our government is configured in such a shitty way that any real change requires such a large majority in Congress that we’re not going to fix all the things necessary to prevent this all from happening again.

      I hope you’re ready for permanent decline, because that’s the future for America, short of a revolution that completely rewrites our laws regarding politics. And it’ll be written in a shit ton of blood.

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      Still I got down voted lots for suggesting merely banning Afd might not be the, eh, total solution to the problem. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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    We have to be victimized because the alternative is armed revolt and putting his fat orange neck under the guillotine. I’m sorry, but Americans aren’t suffering enough en-masse to be motivated enough to do that yet. I wish it weren’t so, but we’re stuck with it for now.

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      Give it a year.

      I’m assuming some of the Trumptards with a few brain cells still bouncing around will start looking at their grocery receipts and not be able to reconcile it with what their Daddy has been saying.

      “Hey, dat man lied to me.”

      Maybe getting evicted will open some eyes.

      We’re only 3-4 months in.

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        The idea of armed revolt always concerns me because of countries like N. Korea, Iraq, and more recently Afghanistan.

        All of these countries had periods of (relative) progressive tendencies before their current iterations. Yes, I’m aware Afghanistan was still rough 2001-2021 but there was still a generation of women going to school and getting educated and that concept just simply ceased to exist.

        And all of these people just kinda…watched it happen. And did nothing about it.

        I’m not sure, as an American, why we’d be any different. We have alcohol, iphones, air conditioning, fast food, and video games. No one is risking their creature comforts at this point.

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        You’d be surprised at what people will put up with. I say we aren’t close even if we gave it 3 or 4 years.

        They will bury their head in the sand so hard they’ll come out the other side of the planet before they’ll annoy they were duped.

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      Okay I’m up off my ass, what now? Apparently we need to talk about how to get rid of him - which is what Dave is saying.

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    “unprecedented,” “deeply concerned,” “alarmed,” — words have lost all meaning due to be in every other fucking headline

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    He’s pretty much describing all three sides of the problem and pretending only one of them matters.

    1. The anti-democracy movement, which wants a dictator and has gained enough followers to actually pull it off through democratic means.
    2. The pro-democracy movement, which is seeking to counteract the fascists through persuasion (the whining he’s talking about) and careful legal action that doesn’t undermine the very democracy they’re trying to defend.
    3. The revolutionary movement, which believes this democracy has already failed so severely that it needs a hard reset, so any action to remove the fascists is justified even if there is collateral damage.
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    In all honesty we should all be on the lawn at the whitehouse everyday until things change. No work no buying nothing but our constant presence. We’re the reason this continues.

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    Your politics is football teams, that way you can all stay nice distracted and disorganised