• Xanthrax@lemmy.world
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    Pride. Simple answer. Public image, foot hold, etc… ass holes trying to hold onto wealth they don’t deserve. Public kindness is protecting them. If they admit he’s wrong, they’re wrong, and that’s an admission of guilt. They’ll die before we experience them changing. All we can do is fight back loudly and quietly.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    Because, in my opinion, Trump has 70 years of organized crime surrounding him.

    Because, in my opinion, Trump has organized violent militias to protect him.

    Because, in my opinion, Trump uses the NSA as a personnel filing system for blackmailing and extorting people.

    Because, in my opinion, we are all hoping that he just dies without having a civil war over his tiny teeny tiny hands.

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    6 hours ago

    Because the red team literally doesnt care. Their team is winning, nanannanabooboo. The blue team wabts the red team to think they’re cool or whatever, and pointing out the insanity gets them called crybabies, so they dont do it.

    Everyone is 12

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    6 hours ago

    does thing

    “hey the constitution says you cant!”

    continues to do thing

    hey the constitution says you cant!"

    continues to do thing

    hey the constitution says you cant!"

    continues to do thing

    hey the constitution says you cant!"

    continues to do thing

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    Because the republicans are full of low intelligence sycophants whose only goal in life is power over others. All they want to do is grift and hurt.

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    Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.

    When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That’s why they’d quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.

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    6 hours ago

    Because he must serve 2 years so when they hit him with the 25th, Ol’ Couchfucker McGuyliner can reign 2 years and then run two more times.

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    Because he’s a meat puppet for the world’s oligarchy who want him for different reasons (1) remove restrictions to global illegal transactions (2) magnify climate change denialism (3) destroy science and education (4) advance ultraconservatism (5) destroy progressivism and social justice (6) give a lot of freedom to the oligarchy (7) destroy the Western world’s influence to realize Dugin’s idea of Russian New World Order.

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      It is important to realize that what is happening in the US is not because of any single person.

      The orange baboon is but a sympthom, not the disease. I like how some YT video put it: the disassembly of the rule of law is being done by a rare and fragile coalition of multiple small but powerful private groupings on the one hand and the clueless masses on the other.

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        Yeah, it’s a very long game played by ultraconservatives wanting to “beat the devil”, notably Roy Cohn (fucking dead) and others like him in Heritage Foundation wanting to see Supply Side Jesus.

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    Because enough of the people who would be responsible for stopping this senile psychopath see him as THEIR senile psychopath and they’re more interested in seeing the people they don’t like get hurt than they are in preserving the rule of law or the constitution. The rest could try to send a message by pushing for articles of impeachment, but the message it sends is entirely wrong if and when he’s just fully acquitted by his ruling party.

    This incidentally is a big part of why the mid-term election is going to be so important. If his shitstick cronies get thrown the fuck out then maybe something useful will actually get done about him.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    A) the Supreme Court decided the president is above the law

    B) that destroyed any chance to “use the Constitution” as it dramatically undermined what few checks and balances there were

    C) MAGA congresspeople willingly gave up their own power to him

    D) now riots are coming

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      What came before that:

      • Several members of the US SC have been compromised (Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and possibly others) by having been photographed/filmed at sexually explicit events with minors.
      • In the case of Kavanaugh this was even dangled in front of his eyes at his confirmation hearing to make sure he understood he was to walk the line or else.
      • Cases were brought in front of the SC to make sure they could rule on “Presidential immunity”
      • Even though this empowered Joe Biden to unprecedented levels of presidential impunity, he choose to do nothing with it and let the the his AG continue his slow work on trying get anything to stick on Trump, or attempt to push.
      • Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
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        Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.

        I still rage thinking about this…

        Obama: Scalia dies in the beginning of the election year and Mitch McFuck says “it’s too close to the election, we need to let the people decide.”

        Trump: Ginsberg dies WHILE MAIL IN VOTING IS HAPPENING and Mitch McFuck rams through a nomination…

        God I hate that piece of shit. They got two justices by having no fucking morals whatsoever and playing double standards. Not to mention Obama calling their bluff. They tried this “Obama just wants a far left judge he’d never pick someone respected like Garland.” So he picks Garland and they pull this it’s too late bullshit…

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            It’s “my party” as in: I hold my nose, disgusted at the fact they’re the only viable option until we change the voting system, but am fully aware they’re 90% shit and do dumbass fucking things like “make the same person Republicans wanted as a justice be an attorney general responsible for holding Trump accountable.”

            Doesn’t change the fact that Mitch McFuck is a piece of shit that has no standards other than “whatever gets me more power.”

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              If you keep holding your nose and supporting them they have no motivation to change. This tells them they can do whatever they want because you’ll keep coming back for more. That’s how Democrats have gone from the party of Jimmy Carter to ‘what genocide?’

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      Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.

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        Whack people in the face with big wads of cash for long enough, and they numb out.

        …and I’m generously assuming nothing more sinister was in play.

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          I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years and its not just money. The mindset has completely changed.

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    the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent