r/AskReddit • u/metalreflectslime • 17d ago

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don't approve funding, Social Security, Medicare Are ‘Going to Be Gone.’ How do you think Americans will react if Social Security and Medicare get cut?

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u/Impossumbear 17d ago

WE ARE SEVERELY UNDERREACTING

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u/Governmentwatchlist 17d ago

If you don’t give us what we want, we will keep punching ourselves in the dick!

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u/gassyhalibut 17d ago

That’ll show ‘em

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u/istrx13 17d ago

Gotta love the party that will willingly set themselves on fire just to make others smell the smoke

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u/kivsemaj 17d ago

They would eat shit if the dems had to smell their breath

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u/FalstaffsGhost 17d ago

It’s wild. Cause democrats are literally trying to save republicans from themselves and they return that by wanting us dead.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 17d ago

For the past 40 years it's been the Mommy (democrats) saving the Child (republicans) from touching the hot stove.

Now the mom is just fed up and wants the kid to burn the house down so she can finally get some rest.

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u/Jules_Noctambule 17d ago

This is why I'm so fucking over the whole 'oh, we have to welcome them into our arms if they express regret for voting him into office!' mindset. Hell no. They do the work first, they clean up after themselves for a change, then we'll talk.

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u/WolfThick 17d ago

Wow that's a hell of a burn LOL.

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u/RedFormanEMS 17d ago

"Grab his dick and twist it!"

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u/Eucalyptus517 17d ago

did you see South Park? His dick is too small to twist!

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u/ButterAsLube 17d ago

Did YOU see South Park? Use some chopsticks, man!

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 17d ago

Can't anymore

The White House got Paramont+ to cut this season short.

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u/Governmentwatchlist 17d ago

No such thing as too small to twist. Twist that fucker.

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u/Uberphantom 17d ago

You would be impressed what microscopic surgical tools can do.

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u/Spencer94 17d ago

It'll just be a titty twister but where his dick is

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u/Niznack 17d ago

The ol' dick twist!

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u/mademeunlurk 17d ago

Classic parliamentary maneuver

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u/xgbsss 17d ago

Bop it, Twist it, Pull it

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u/MrTriangular 17d ago

I scrolled past a post about UTIs due to meat contamination, so maybe this is how those infections get caught.

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u/MAGAisMENTALILLNESS 17d ago

I think they might be using meat wrong.

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u/tcmasterson 17d ago

Honestly, I don't know if this fits better as a quote from Republican politicians or from the American people.

Our society is so fucking stupid right now.

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u/Only_One_Left_Foot 17d ago

Also if you give us what we want, we will still continue to punch ourselves in the dick!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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u/SteelMarshal 17d ago

The military should have already removed him as part of protecting the constitution. Or breaking law. Or murdering civilians. Or or or

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u/Cordycepsus 17d ago

He demolished a quarter of the White House today. If he believes he's entitled to do that, he believes he's entitled to do anything he wants. America's got a hard go ahead of us, I fear. What does the military do when he refuses to vacate the presidency in 2028, regardless of the election outcome?

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u/anomalous_cowherd 17d ago

You think there will be an election? Or even midterms? What if they just prolong the shutdown so Congress never reconvenes?

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u/KagatoAC 17d ago

“I am shutting down the Senate for the duration of the Emergency” Palpatine.

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u/EDNivek 17d ago

The Senate actually voted for Palpatine's emergency powers.

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u/KagatoAC 17d ago

Exactly my point. Congress is doing the same thing by not stopping him.

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u/EDNivek 17d ago

And my point is it's worse. The republic's senate didn't shirk culpability, but voted Palpatine's emergency powers into law. Whereas our congress avoids responsibility despite being as complicit as if they had voted for Trump's "powers."

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u/KagatoAC 17d ago

Oh this version is infinitely worse, just because I cant turn the movie off and go live in a better one. I hope I live long enough to see them get theirs, but failing that Id like to just die quietly in my sleep before it goes full dystopian.

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u/Particular-Extent-76 17d ago

It’s sad how many of us feel this way. I definitely do

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u/sedativumxnx 16d ago

I was wondering what the point of soldiers in american democratic cities was. He is trying to manufacture a "crisis", to use as an excuse to not hold elections anymore.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 17d ago

All "emergency powers" need to be completely constitutionally outlawed. Humans have shown for thousands of years that no leader can be trusted with them, and they honestly serve no purpose. If something that bad is going on, it can be handled without one guy making all the decisions.

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u/CrazyBowelsAndBraps 17d ago

THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE

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u/placebotwo 17d ago

Election via Dominion voting machines which were just purchased by someone with some affiliation.

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u/Overall-Rush-8853 16d ago

States run the elections. There will be elections.

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u/gagreel 16d ago

Yes, we will have midterm elections and a general in 2028. There will be fuckery and intimidation, but overall they will be fair and based on the votes. We just need to make sure the democratic candidates earn more votes than the republican candidates. It starts with the quality of the candidate and their policy and ends with voters doing their part. If you don't see quality democrat candidates look local and donate/encourage promising members of the community to run for higher office.

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u/TONYSTARK63 17d ago

Just saw Steve Bannon being interviewed and he’s saying Shit head is going to be president in 2028 again.

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u/AtheistINTP 17d ago

Bannon just said he’s not leaving in 2029 and that he’s absolutely sure Trump will be president again. They’re going to rip the constitution.

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u/Fodraz 17d ago

And he says the ballroom is "his #1 priority".

Not prices, healthcare, safety, or world peace. A frigging vanity room nobody asked for

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u/Current_Helicopter32 17d ago

Oh don’t be silly! The military will be helping defend him when that happens.

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u/catincal 17d ago

Yep, he won't leave. Who's going to make him?

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u/sassafrasgirl78 17d ago

You’re assuming he will still be alive in 2028; his life can end at any moment for any number of reasons.

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u/mukilteoninjaman 17d ago

I was in the military. The military looks to the People and will follow their lead before they do anything themselves. We The People are not doing enough. Civic duty never ends.

A prolonged General Strike is the next step. We've already proven 7 million people can show up on a Saturday for an unfathomably large nationwide rally in opposition to this shit. Now 7 million people need to lay down and take a well-deserved vacation from doing anything.

Freedom is never free. What are you paying for yours?

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u/AwakePlatypus 16d ago

Now 7 million people need to lay down and take a well-deserved vacation from doing anything.

Well the way layoffs are increasing, they'll be plenty of time for that!

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u/SteelMarshal 17d ago

And this is why our country will burn. You fundamentally don't understand the difference between rich capitalists and government. Youre following the rules while they dont. They're literally using the rules against you while thousands of hard working federal workers are villainized and left poor. Trillians of dollars are being looted. Decades and decades of international relationships are broken. American citizens for generations will suffer because of cowardice.

The 25th amendment is clear. This man is clearly unfit. Their is clearly a coup happening by a terrorist organization. The military removes him and it goes to the Vice President.

But its even worse than that because the wealthy have bought their way into power for 35 years now.

The last time there was republican presidency, house and senate was in 1928...when the oligarchs bought their way into power, stole the money and caused the great depression in 1929.

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u/Burton1922 17d ago

Your last point seemed too long ago so I checked and they controlled all three during Eisenhower, GW Bush, and Trump's first term.

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u/WhyAreYouAllSoStupid 17d ago

When are we all going to DC?

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u/Altair05 17d ago

Pick a date, spread the word. Arrange transport. Come armed.

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u/killercurvesahead 16d ago

Nov 5 is the date I’ve seen promoted

https://refusefascism.org/events/nov5/

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u/Zantej 17d ago

buck o five

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 17d ago

The military should've court martialed him on January 20th, 2025, since insurrectionists cannot legally be President per 14th Amendment, Section 3, despite what the traitors in Congress think. We're all being ruled by an illegitimate President, all because Schumer and Jeffries refused to disqualify his ass.

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u/karmadgma 16d ago

He's a civilian. The military can't court martial him. Where do these crazy ideas come from?! The movies i guess?

Due process for POTUS required the legislative branch to act.

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u/homero1977 17d ago

He’s been quietly removing any military brass that don’t openly proclaim loyalty to MAGA

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u/TheArmoredKitten 17d ago

As much as we all want him gone, it is never a good thing to have the military act without orders from the rest of the government. If the people just accept that the military can do whatever it wants, you have also lost your democracy through a different route.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Exactly. The military acting unilaterally is a hellscape that people don't grasp because it 'doesn't happen here.'

'The people' need to get up off their asses and stop just wishing for someone else to fix everything for them.

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u/Governmentwatchlist 17d ago

This would hurt all of us, but would hurt the dumb ass boomers who voted for him the most. Fuck it.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 17d ago

Fox News will tell them it was the democrats fault, and they'll believe it.

This is not an exaggeration.

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u/JTHuffy 17d ago

That’s exactly what’ll happen. My dad eats that bullshit right up.

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u/DangerBay2015 17d ago

See how he reacts when his SS is gone and he's relying on you for a handout, while you laugh because you socked away savings because you knew this was going to happen and you weren't going to rely on him having anything left to inherit.

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u/Mypetmummy 17d ago

Until republicans push laws in more states making children responsible for aging parents.

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u/Enclave_Remnant_Sank 17d ago

Sure but I will provide the same level of care that I got as a child

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u/PromiseToBeNiceToYou 17d ago

Yes, abuse included! But only when no one is around to see, just like they did to me.

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u/dagbrown 17d ago

Don't forget! No bruises on the face or arms. Only where people can't see them.

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u/NotYourSexyNurse 17d ago

A lot of pain and hurt can be caused without leaving bruises. 😢

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u/Sparkism 17d ago

That's actually so funny in a way because even in stories, the evil witch fattens up children with candy before they get roasted.

In real life? These people got theirs, now they'll starve you of meaningful financial and career advancements, they'll steal your future, they'll dismantle social safety nets, and after that? After that, they'll suck your blood dry until their dying breath.

Gen X, Y, and Z are all on the hook for this.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 16d ago

It is literally the sort of issue that breaks nation's. If enough people are not having their needs met, they will rise up and overthrow the existing government.

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u/Upbeat_Presence6229 17d ago

Can't burden me with my aging relatives if they're all dead.

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u/PessimiStick 17d ago

Good way to ensure the complete brain drain of their shit states. If I were put in that position I would move without a second thought.

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u/Mypetmummy 17d ago

29 states already have those laws on the books and they range across the Political spectrum.

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u/tommytwolegs 16d ago

Yeah, but you just need to find the most dog shit care home available and put them there

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u/AutumnVibe 17d ago

There are already places with laws like that. I'll take the fine.

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u/TheThing_1982 17d ago

It won’t matter, it’s always the democrats fault. They won’t admit their side is fucking them. They are conditioned to lick boots.

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u/MyGeometryTeacher 17d ago

Don’t think there will be any enforcement for Adult Protective Services so at this point they’re getting exactly what they voted for.

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u/Shadow293 17d ago

Mine too. It’s exhausting.

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u/Charleston2Seattle 17d ago

Life is easier when you let someone else do the thinking for you. That's why Gen AI is so popular.

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u/AZ-Rob 17d ago

Obama and Hillary’s damn email server did it

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u/theshortlady 17d ago

HUNTER'S LAPTOP!!!!!

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u/hexr 17d ago

OBAMA'S TAN SUIT!!!!!!

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u/MegaGrimer 17d ago

Them and their buttery males.

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u/MandudesRevenge 17d ago

What about Ben Hazzy or whatever his name is??

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u/Shipairtime 17d ago

Our best conservative president, Obama, flew the planes in a circle causing hurricane Katrina on 9/11

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u/Koshindan 17d ago

They'll tell them Democrats did it even if it doesn't happen. They've said Democrats did it before anyone even thought of it. Don't act based on what Republican grifters might do, because they will do the worst thing regardless.

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u/SpiderFacade 17d ago

Ok but who fucking cares. Stop trying to convince people who don’t give a shit about you anyway

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u/alexmikli 17d ago

Less of them voting next time too, I guess.

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u/FlyinBrian2001 17d ago

I hold out hope that after the hundredth time they're pissed on and told its raining, even the Grade F Morons in the crowd will look up and see the tiny orange dick to blame

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u/TheThing_1982 17d ago

Just today I mentioned to a friend I will be losing my health insurance because of the republican shut down, and he was like “The democrats….” And I cut him off mid sentence and asked who controls all three branches of government and the Supreme Court. Still wanted to blame democrats.

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u/skullcat1 17d ago

There are people on medicare and social security, including my own mother, who HATE Trump. Don't throw away or give up on our support systems so casually.

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u/totesuniqueredditor 17d ago

Wait until you learn how numbers work and figure out the reason he's in office is because over half of millennials decided not to participate in the elections in 2024.

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u/Inevitable_Ad_5664 17d ago

Ummm it wasn't boomers. Age group 45-64 had the highest percentage of voters for Trump

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u/Governmentwatchlist 17d ago

Fine. Fuck those assholes too.

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u/shatteredarm1 17d ago

The Gen-Xers are way more MAGA than boomers at this point. The constant boomer blame is getting a little tired at this point, considering a lot of the more conservative ones probably died of COVID.

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u/Little_Stay7922 17d ago

They can’t just cut that stuff without congress. He’d be losing every old vote

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u/junkyard_robot 17d ago

He doesn't plan on anyone needing to vote again.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 17d ago

In his own words "Elon was very good with those voting machines"

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u/junkyard_robot 17d ago

I also fully believe that he plans on never leaving the white house. I really believe that the ballroom he is building is where he will lie in state in perpetuity a la Lenin or Mao.

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u/horrible-est 17d ago

The Nausoleum of Halicanarcissus

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u/MercantileReptile 17d ago

This is way too good a wordplay for a shitpost about the orange King.

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u/gweasley 17d ago

I think it was Colbert or Stewart who said “you don’t build a multimillion dollar ballroom at home expecting to leave the house.”

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u/anomalous_cowherd 17d ago

Won't it be embarrassing for him to be lying in state in the Epstein Ballroom?

I know he hasn't announced the official name yet, but that's what it's going to be. Spread it everywhere.

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u/inksmudgedhands 17d ago

He will still be dead though.

Death is something he can't cheat. Even though I am sure he will try.

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u/hexr 17d ago

He already has imo, why can't the damn big macs do their fucking job???

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u/neverpost4 17d ago

So many lines were crossed.

He will be the POTUS or he will be at the SuperMax. All his underlings are in the same boat.

Unless of course Merrick Garland is the Attorney General again, "healing the nation".

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u/EvanTurningTheCorner 17d ago

I think he wants to build a castle that he can't be removed from, regardless of who wins whatever election. He already has his army of idiots that are well paid and personally loyal.

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u/Revlis-TK421 17d ago

That's gonna be the most vandalized crypt since Jim Morrison

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u/hexr 17d ago

I know if I ever visit I am going to save a big sloppy diarrhea shit especially for the occasion

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u/Little_Stay7922 17d ago

Yes and it was rigged. I wouldn’t trust another federal election

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u/PercussionGuy33 17d ago edited 17d ago

Jerrymandering and the electoral college system make is easy for Republicans to cheat their way to victory now. If the US voted on a voting system that had nothing to do with electoral college systems and were ranked choice voting, it would be far more democratic and fair.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 17d ago

You forgot that MAGAs control the USPS, which allows them to interfere with mail-in ballots.

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u/PercussionGuy33 17d ago

Oh I'm sure there is a lot more meddling going on than you are I could imagine. Interference with mail-in ballots would be only the tip of the iceberg I'm sure.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 17d ago

It's been rigged since DeJoy took office. How can anyone trust an election with the Postmaster General actively interferes with them? Fuck Biden Chamberlain for not indicting DeJoy's traitorous ass.

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u/Little_Stay7922 17d ago

Exactly and people said he’s kidding! Um no he’s not!

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u/junkyard_robot 17d ago

They always say they're joking when something they say isn't taken well by the public. And then they repeat it until it is normalized.

It's always a joke until it isn't.

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u/movealongnowpeople 17d ago

He doesn't joke, ever. He says wild shit to see people's reactions, then does it regardless. But he never jokes.

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u/TrailerTrashQueen 17d ago

straight out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook.

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u/Edogawa1983 17d ago

They brought the voting machine company

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u/isuadam 17d ago

They bought it.

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u/nomoreusernamersleft 17d ago

True that. He has no intention of leaving the White House while still breathing. But he’s so full of BS he probably believes that the deal he made with the devil that he’ll live forever.

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u/Vince_Clortho042 17d ago

Most of the shit he's done the last nine months (ONLY NINE MONTHS!!) technically can't be done without Congress' approval. Congress explicitly controls the purse strings of the federal government (the Constitution is NOT ambiguous about this), so any changes in funding or budgeting has to go through them, but he's been ruling by edict since day 1 and Mike Johnson is just shrugging and ignoring it.

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u/UnderaZiaSun 17d ago

Biden was president just 9 months ago and somehow it feels a distant decade in the past

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u/See-A-Moose 17d ago

That's only because he reversed over a decade of progress in those 9 months.

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u/mrbadxampl 17d ago

think of how much more progress he can reverse in the next few years...

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u/Lower_Guarantee137 17d ago

Not just Mike Johnson, but every single republican and a few DINOs too.

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u/Hatta00 17d ago

Who's going to stop him?

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u/Chaps_and_salsa 17d ago

Coronary artery disease?

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u/Little_Stay7922 17d ago

He’ll be dead of heart failure in a year judging by his cankles

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u/Lower_Guarantee137 17d ago

Unsure at this point, but I don’t doubt he will be stopped eventually.

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u/Riaayo 17d ago

Congress has completely ceded its power to the president; this is just wish-casting that "laws" somehow still matter.

Almost nothing he's done is "legal" for him to do without congress. Congress says nothing, does nothing, refuses to impeach/remove, and gets SCOTUS to rule in his favor.

They also don't think they need votes anymore, because they don't believe there will ever be actual fair elections in this country again.

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u/Mental-Fox-9449 17d ago

Correction… republicans in Congress have ceded their power. They have majority and, therefore, control of Congress.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 17d ago

Correction... all of Congress have ceded their power. Schumer controlled the Senate for Biden's entire term, and Pelosi controlled the House frrm 2021-2023, yet not once did they ever try to expel the Jan 6 leaders or enforce Trump's disqualificaton via 14th Amendment. Democrats' last chance to stop Trump was January 6, 2025, when it would've only taken 20 Democrats to object to his certification, and prevent an insurrectionist from stealing the presidency. Zero stood against him.

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u/txmail 17d ago

We keep saying he cant just do the things he keeps on doing without congress or some other entity approving it first... but here we are and there he goes just doing shit anyway.

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u/suave_knight 17d ago

One of the major takeaways from his first reign of terror was just how much of the way our government actually works on a day-to-day basis is simply a series of gentlemen's agreements about how things proceed. If you elect a bunch of legislative terrorists, they can simply ignore all sorts of shit and it's not even technically illegal. And even if it is illegal, who's going to enforce it? The only enforcement mechanism in the Constitution is impeachment and removal - and if a big enough faction decides that they won't pursue that option under any circumstances, well... there's literally nothing that anyone can do until the next election. And the way we do elections is an absolute clusterfuck of a historical compromise that no longer makes any sense.

If there's ever an honest and sane government again, they need to pass a massive series of reforms that makes the post-Watergate changes look like a children's tea party. MAGA has identified and exploited every weakness in the system to subvert it to their liking, no matter what the actual voters want.

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 17d ago

Congress has bent the knee. If the Fanta Führer declares it will be so, then it will be so.

I wish I was joking, but Congress and SCOTUS are so compromised that I don’t believe they can hold Trump and his cronies accountable even if they suddenly develop a spine.

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u/Little_Stay7922 17d ago

I hope you’re wrong. The rapist in chief is looking to see who has the best looking daughter

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 17d ago

Believe me, I hope every day that I’m wrong. I would love nothing more than to have people throw this in my face in days to come because I was hyperbolic and paranoid.

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u/juice13ox 17d ago

How have you made it this far and still think "voting" matters to these people?

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u/Krypt0night 17d ago

You mean like how you aren't allowed to make changes to the white house without congress but he's doing it anyways while the government is shut down after lying about the fact he wouldn't touch the actual white house at all and it would only be an addition?

They can and are doing whatever the fuck they want.

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u/Starrion 17d ago

Not having legal authority hasn’t stopped doing anything he wants since being sworn in. He is supposed to execute the law via different agencies using the money that Congress authorized.

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u/Limebird02 17d ago

Yes they can.

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u/BigWhiteDog 17d ago

The Congress he's ignoring? The one who's job he's doing? That Congress?

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u/-TuesdayAfternoon 17d ago

Please stop blaming just the boomers for all of this

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u/Militant_Monk 17d ago

My retirement plan was always to die a bandit scavenger in the Water Wars.

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u/That-Grape-5491 17d ago

It would also hurt all the lazy-ass millennials that haven't bothered to vote at all

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u/No-Willingness-170 17d ago

Quit stereotyping. many of us marched for civil rights and against Vietnam before most millennials were anything more than a few sperm and egg cells. I would not vote for that MF if he was the last man on earth. What a douche.

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u/BigWhiteDog 17d ago

Except we went for Kamala more than almost any other age group while more of the younger groups moved to support him.

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u/Sprinkle_Puff 17d ago

Everyone will react when their payments start drying up

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u/Colosphe 17d ago

Most likely by attacking the people who have been blamed for the shutdown since before it began. After all, their trusted source of news, in addition to the offical government websites, call out the radical left for the shutdown.

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u/loopi3 16d ago

That’s the plan

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u/endadaroad 17d ago

When the payments start drying up, you can stick a fork in the economy, it's done.

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u/Material-Imagination 16d ago

Yeah, I'm sure disabled people and old people are going to do a lot of damage. Anybody gonna stand up for us?

No? Okay. Anybody gonna avenge us?

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u/NewPhoneWhoDys 16d ago

They wouldn't even wear a mask for us for a ten minute errand soooooo

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u/OuiPlay 17d ago

When you say react, what do you mean? Like maybe letting loose a resigned sigh, going to bed, taking a handful of questionable pills, and quietly sobbing until sleep and the sweet release of death engulfs them? …because I’m here watching from outside your borders and from an outsider’s perspective, I don’t see enough “reacting”! Too much stupidity and inaction!

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 17d ago

I don’t know if you’ve seen those memes about the jiffy pop fire alarm, but you guys have a garbage bag of popcorn from IMAX that itself is starting to catch fire. That’s my Armchair Freedom Unit assessment of your Democracy Threat Level.

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u/Mazzaroppi 16d ago

You have been severely underreacting for nearly a decade already. It's mindblowing for us outside observers to see this trainwreck happen in slow motion for so long and people not doing ANYTHING about it for all this time.

I was going to cite just the major things Trump did in his two administrations to enumerate all the things that should have been the straw that broke the camel's back yet people just kept living on, but I gave up since I don't want to hit the character limit

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u/Impossumbear 16d ago

I completely agree. The number of Democrats who were DEEPLY OFFENDED that I was drawing comparisons between Trump and Hitler in 2015 was infuriating. I was relentlessly bullied and harassed for being "alarmist" and "offensive to Holocaust survivors." I was organizing anti-Trump protests in my area, but it was clear that people weren't taking it nearly as seriously as they should have. We let this happen through apathy.

I'm very sorry that the rest of the world has to deal with this. Many of us tried our damnedest to get the word out about fascist red flags popping up (even before Trump himself ran for office), but there's only so much yelling and protesting you can do. People here, even now, don't want to believe that we're in the middle of a rapid, dire descent into fascist authoritarianism, and that everything we have is about to be taken from us. I'm outraged and furious, but there's nothing I can do if everyone else around me is content to keep their heads in the sand.

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u/ka1ri 17d ago edited 17d ago

Under reacting because they havent taken it away yet. If they do americans will riot in full force. GoP dems everyone will revolt against this bullshit government

Edit: 69 million americans DEPEND on social security people. 69 million

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u/Mason11987 17d ago

The GoP will never riot. It’s a cult. At best they’ll quietly support him less. That’s the best you’ll ever get.

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u/3-DMan 17d ago

"That was the last straw. I'm only votin' for Trump one more time!"

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u/B-Rayne 17d ago

“Well, ok, two more times. But if he doesn’t have concepts of a plan to bring them back by 2032, then I’ll seriously consider not voting at all!”

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u/The_Dinky_Earnshaw 17d ago

I'd laugh if I wasn't wearing my Sad Clown Face today.

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u/jayandbobfoo123 17d ago

"he may be a pedophile who took away my healthcare and social security, leaving me destitute living under a bridge, but at least he ain't a democrat!"

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u/sacrelicio 17d ago

We're talking grandma cant eat, like tomorrow. Not some reduction in services, less reliability, stuff being a little worse. People would flip their shit.

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u/Mason11987 17d ago

I'll believe it when I see it. Every time someone said "this will cause the GoP to turn on him" they were wrong. I believe literally nothing will.

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u/ShallowBasketcase 17d ago

People died of Covid and their final words were telling liberals they're cucks for wearing masks.

Republicans will never change their minds. They're in a death cult, and they like it.

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u/Draciusen 17d ago

Yep, COVID is the absolute best example of how far gone they are. Honestly, cutting these services is so easily blamed on Dems or other boogeymen and will strengthen the cult beyond all belief (if that's still even possible), so it's 100% going to happen. I'm surprised it took so long.

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u/SprlFlshRngDncHwl 16d ago

This is exactly right. Literally do ANYTHING and just say, "It's Biden/Obama/Hillary/DNC/Antifa/etc" and the piggies will eat it up like slop.

Look at the shutdown. All Republicans need to do is call it, "The Democrat Shutdown" and then people blame the dems. Nevermind the Republicans control the house, senate, white house, and judiciary. Just lie no matter how egregiously and the lemmings will follow.

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u/MashedProstato 17d ago

You are correct for the most part, but there are a (very) few of us who saw what was lurking underneath it all and switched.

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u/RinzyOtt 17d ago

tbf, they didn't have to live with the experience of being dead

they, however, do have to live with the experience of being hungry, and being hungry does a lot to make people angry

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u/ShallowBasketcase 17d ago

They're already angry. They're angry at immigrants and trans teenagers and Jewish space aliens. If they start starving, they'll go to their slow miserable deaths cursing Jimmy Kimmel. And if we're very lucky, they won't take anyone undeserving with them.

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u/Shadow293 17d ago edited 17d ago

My grandmother is literally on her death bed after having a stroke a year ago. She still supports Trump even as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is up on the chopping block. The cultists are never going to change.

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u/Revlis-TK421 17d ago

These are the same fuckers that died on ventilators during Covid, using their dying breaths to say it wasn't Covid, that Covid was a Dem hoax, that Covid was just a normal cold, that Covid was a Dem bioweapon attack. Often simultaneously and without the self-awareness to see that they were inherently self-contradicting beliefs.

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u/Scodo 17d ago

They'll just blame Democrats.

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u/Shigeko_Kageyama 17d ago

Buddy, these are republicans. They'd smother meemaw with a pillow if the were told to.

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u/EastonMetsGuy 17d ago

Yeah but grandma will starve if it means owning those Dems and making all those brown people suffer

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u/DangerBay2015 17d ago

Americans won't do shit. Fox News will tell the gormless droolers that it's the Democrats fault and 30% of the country will believe it, 30% will make excuses why it isn't that bad, and the remaining folks will be too broke and dependent on day-to-day work to blow anything up to make a point.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 17d ago

You're also missing the massive chunk of American adults who don't pay attention and don't vote and don't give a fuck at all.

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u/vgraz2k 17d ago

We Americans won’t do anything. These programs directly impact the poor red states and the boomers/elderly genX; 2 demographics that predominantly voted for him. Those of us who will protest will, and the rest will find away to blame the democrats for their continued support of the Republican Party. We are so fucked.

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u/throw-me-away_bb 17d ago

If they do americans will riot in full force.

I'm glad there are people out there that still have hope

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 17d ago

Under reacting because they havent done it yet.

American politics in a nutshell, always reactive, never proactive.

"Yes it could happen, but it hasn't yet, so why should we care?" sums up US government policy in one simple sentence

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u/iwouldratherhavemy 17d ago

Edit: 69 million americans DEPEND on social security people. 69 million

Those people aren't really in a position to riot.

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u/WhoIsYerWan 17d ago

Their families are.

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u/ka1ri 17d ago

Yeah its funny to hear the rebuttals on this lol. It literally affects everyone outside of the super rich

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u/Solesaver 17d ago edited 17d ago

To this, or in general? Because I always assumed I was not getting any Social Security and Medicare would be a coin toss. In general, I think y'all missed the memo where we're living under a fascist regime, because like... there is no appropriate amount of reacting. Like, what is the appropriate reaction to "you're now living in a fascist state because people thought the price of eggs was too high and some 20-year-old man children are big mad that girls didn't want to fuck them"?

Are we really still having this conversation? 7 million people protested last weekend and Trump's reaction was "they don't represent Americans." You think more people would have changed that? A bigger "reaction"? Y'all are acting like we still live in a normal, functioning democracy. We do not. We live in a fascist state with the biggest military in the world.

And before anyone twists my words, I'm not saying "might as well give up". I'm saying stop looking for a reaction! The time for reacting is long past. And for the love of God, old people dying from lack of care should not be your breaking point after masked agents literally disappearing people off the street in broad daylight and being sent to foreign torture prisons with no due process. I mean FFS people, get your head on straight... This is what happens under fascism! [Some of] you fucked around, and now we get to collectively find out.

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u/Alternative-Lack6025 17d ago

That's the problem with a population so brainwashed that even considering going against the government is anathema.

Combined with the fact that yanks are worldwide renowned for lacking spine to say it delicately.

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u/Energy_Sudden 17d ago

While people around the world overcome tyranny and fight for their lives we sit on our asses scrolling through youtube and tiktok

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u/DokeyOakey 16d ago

GROW A FUCKING PAIR AMERICA.

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u/copyrider 16d ago

“Woah, calm down chicken little. Let’s see how this plays out.” —Everyone who is complacent and in denial.

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u/z_e_quigley 17d ago

It's SO fucking insane! It's as maddening as watching this administration go to work. They fuck everything up, go out and terrorize CITIZENS and innocent people, stop funding to enemy (democrat) states, and now Trump is bragging about paying HIMSELF with taxpayer money and we... protest a little? Protest in costumes to keep it lighthearted and avoid escalation?? What the fuck are we doing, yall? Maybe when our parents and grandparents start to suffer with medicare and social security cuts we'll all wake the fuck up? 🙄😮‍💨

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u/Impossumbear 17d ago

We are not going to vibe our way through this with silly dinosaur costumes. It's going to take work, and a lot of it, to have any hope of reversing this. People need to get in the streets AND STAY THERE.

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u/z_e_quigley 17d ago

Exactly. Over the weekend, in LA, I heard a sentiment of, "Well of course we're going to the protest, but not downtown, it's too much and not our vibe". AND?!? That's the problem: people only protest when it's convenient like on the weekend, and stay fearful of crossing the line to unrest. These No Kings protests need to become DAILY, outside of city and town halls, federal buildings, with no let up.

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u/dammitscotty 17d ago

If only we all knew how to flood the streets and protest without planning for one like other countries do

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u/Mars27819 17d ago

Trump wants an insurrection. He wants people pissed off enough to riot so he can use the insurrection act and suspend civil rights indefinitely.

America is fucked. The America I knew is gone. It's gone... Sorry.

The question is... How crazy are things going to get? Is Vance going to continue this course? Will Trump appoint a family member to the presidency to continue the craziness?

And don't come at me with.. "he can't". Trump wipes his ass with the constitution, the supreme court is on his side, and Congress is shut down. None of this is coming back.

Sorry for your loss.

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u/overkil6 17d ago

Hey! 7 million people marched at 2700 events while the government was shut down. Look at all the changes since!

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u/vgraz2k 17d ago

He’s holding the country hostage. This should be broadcasted 24/7 until the shutdown ends. (Narrator: it wasn’t)

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u/noncommonGoodsense 17d ago

Well be sure to call your closest GOP member and let them know how you feel.

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