It makes sense because he’s a criminal.
nhaa, he’s a criminal, but it makes sense because the troops are supposed to threaten the opposition into submission, and if they don’t, their orders will be to get rid of opposition. It has nothing to do with him being a criminal, and everything to do with him being a dictator.
Are dictators not criminals?
I suppose they can be, but it would be pretty stupid since they can rewrite the laws themselves.
I don’t remember when I first heard about Trump, but when I started reading articles about him and seeing videos of him speaking in 2010 (such a long time ago…) I came to a conclusion very quickly that he was a fool and not to be taken seriously. Even on cracked.com (if those articles even still exist on their site!) back in the day he was universally reviled. The guy is just a criminal, pure and simple. He isn’t even a particularly smart criminal. The one thing I had to really come to a sobering conclusion is that being ‘smart’ and being ‘successful’ are two entirely different things… also the world is absolutely full of irredeemable jackasses, a fact I should have come to the conclusion to as a young child, but I didn’t until much later.
This. Anyone who actually thinks Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos is a self made man is gullible as hell.
You know if he’s not able to rig the election this shit is going back fire on him.
They’ll be rigged even if he has to station troops at every voting location in the country.
Never forget, he promised everyone that they’d never have to vote again.
If there is another election, you can be absolutely certain he will rig it. Nobody is even bothering to push back against him this time. He can do whatever he wants to get his thumb on the scale, just like he is right now with redistricting.
Also, I’m not even convinced he didn’t rig the last one. He tried to cheat in 2020, failed, and nothing bad happened to him because the Democrats were too scared to put the full force of the law behind prosecuting him for it. Why wouldn’t he cheat again? Why would he ever leave office if the SCOTUS rules that the President is immune to both civil and criminal prosecution?
I read headlines like this and my only reaction is;”:
“Fucking duh”
Yeah, no shit.
Kansas City keeps getting rated in one of the most dangerous cities.
Want to know something neat about it? The city doesn’t have control over its police.
Nope, instead the police is controlled by a 5 person board 1 is the mayor, the other 4 picked by the governor. So Republicans have had control of the police force in the past decade, you think that’s been going well?
I mean to be fair, the police did crack down on the street racing thi- oh, wait, right, it’s because one of them got ran over by a 4 wheeler, otherwise the governor(s) have been ecstatic to talk about how bad “liberal cities” are while fucking them over.
So everyone! Prepare for this on the national level! Have fun!
The governors of red states have been invading blue cities within their state for years. When Trump finally just declares war on his own people they’ll already be set up and ready to take full control in several states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and probably Tennessee (Memphis for sure. They’re actually #1 on the FBI list. Nashville has been successfully fighting back against their own governor for several years. Mostly bc they have the concentrated wealth necessary to win a legal battle compared to the rest of the state).
I think Trump faced way more pushback at the state level than he was expecting when he tried to take L.A. Not that he won’t keep trying for L.A. and other blue cities, but D.C. was already federal territory/a relatively easy target by comparison. He needed a show of force, so he picked a fight he knew he could win.
You mean to tell me he may be biased against his political opponents?
I wonder when he’ll pull the old “soldiers in the room for an important vote” trick.
Doh, and why do you think he does that?
But you see, he is deploying troops to the most dangerous cites–the most dangerous to him and his regime, that is. No need to take control of cities that are on his side.
Yup. It has always been politics. It has always been the long game. The long, slow burn as we descend into Nazi rule and ultra late stage capitalism.
Does anybody even pretend to think this is about fighting crime?
I have several Republicans in my circles that do, it’s surreal.
Time for a new circle
Just act like normal people and they’ll find their own circle eventually
Your enemy isn’t the other people of your class who are uneducated, ignorant and being manipulated.
Your enemy is the people who are educated, rich and intentionally manipulating the most ignorant people in our society.
I’m not saying you need to socialize with them, but recognize that the actual enemy is the people using billions of dollars to pour poisonous lies into the minds of the uneducated masses in order to grab as much power as possible.
People get too lost in dunking on MAGA voters that they don’t focus on the people making MAGA voters.
By “acting normal” i literally mean speaking plainly about everyday issues like the fascist takeover of our country, giant child sex trafficking coverups, abuse of military, etc. instead of pretending this is just “politics” and so we need to censor ourselves to avoid offending Trump supporters. They certainly don’t.
I’m not suggesting “dunking” on any Trump supporters in the group, but they will likely take it that way, and if they can’t maintain adult discussions about it they will run from the truth just like most of the MAGA supporters who still haven’t gotten a clue after 8 years of this. If they don’t though, maybe they aren’t so hopeless.
I don’t hate Trump supporters in general, but boy did they fuck this one up… If they feel bad when someone points that out i really don’t care
By “acting normal” i literally mean speaking plainly about everyday issues like the fascist takeover of our country, giant child sex trafficking coverups, abuse of military, etc. instead of pretending this is just “politics” and so we need to censor ourselves to avoid offending Trump supporters. They certainly don’t.
I agree with you completely. I’m not saying you have to avoid offending Trump supporters, if you speak the truth they are going to get angry.
I’m saying make sure you’re directing your anger at the people who are poisoning their information so that they live in an alternate reality.
I don’t hate Trump supporters in general, but boy did they fuck this one up… If they feel bad when someone points that out i really don’t care
Oh yes, the damage caused by people lacking media literacy and a basic education has been immense.
But, you don’t get mad at the sheep who are shitting in your yard, you get mad at the shepherds who pushed them there.
People trying to stir up intra-class conflict are part of the problem.
That the class traitors have been deceived doesn’t stop them from being your enemies as they actively support the regime.
Yeah, but the difference is that they are possibly redeemable, contrary to the elite pushing that crap.
- Elite that know what they’re doing? → Gulag → Forced work for the rest of their miserable life, IDGAF.
- Person who was manipulated in being an angry fascist through lies and fear? → rehabilitation → back to a happy life
Exactly.
I’m a leftist living in a rural southern area. I encounter these people every day. The vast majority of people have had their sources of information deliberately poisoned and their views are rational but they’re built on lies (which, again, are deliberately created to have this effect).
Yeah, there are definitely bigots and people who would support this crap even without the massive disinformation campaign. But, most of them are ignorant and being misled.
Those people can have their views changed if the firehose of bullshit is interrupted. This is impossible if you’re creating an environment where you’re attacking people who are redeemable.
Your enemy isn’t other poor people, your enemy is the elites who are deliberately poisoning people’s perception of the world in order to obtain power.
It feels good to write angry, self-righteous crap online and be showered with upvotes. But, choosing to target other people in your class is a tactical error.
Easier said than done
Yes. The way this always works is through useful idiots. There’s a core group that knows it’s bullshit, but they want to use it to pursue some other agenda. They then filter talking points to their media contacts. Those people may or may not believe it, but their paycheck depends on convincing masses of people that it’s true.
The random MAGA guy on a Facebook post? He probably believes it. He’s two degrees removed from the people who don’t. The Enlightened Centrist who tries to mix both sides into a resemblance of an ideology is three degrees removed.
This is also why the only “journalism” outlets that aren’t financially struggling are conservative podcasters and YouTubers.
I have a reasonably conservative brother but it’s hard to tell what he actually believes vs what he wants to troll with
Most recently he got me with Harvard. Apparently it’s a hotbed of racism and harassment, so the federal government needs to step in. wtf? Does he really believe that’s anything more than a pretext to control “woke” education?
The news seems to be
boughtconvinced
Well, yeah. Because the “danger” is not the crime. It’s the people thinking “wrong”.
All major cities are blue cities. The most dangerous cities are in red states because red state governments dont let blue cities run their cities without interference and beat them up to score political points. They want their cities to remain dangerous because harping on the cities for being dangerous is 85% of their political appeal to rural hicks
St Louis voted to legalize weed, for a $15/hr minimum wage and plenty of other things that would have drastically improved life for residents and reduced crime over a decade ago now. The state government took it away every time. More recently, the state government took control of the police department away from the city. All of this shit makes the city worse off, even though it has been steadily improving for the last decade in spite of the fuckery
Home rule should be a federal policy for all cities over a certain size
Missouri State government is so awful.
Vote for sick leave passes, state government shoots it down.
Vote for abortion rights passes, same deal.
We have politicians openly going against the will of the people as certified by majority vote and I’m so damn frustrated I don’t know what more I can do. I normally like to start with sensible options but we can’t even get what we want by voting for it!
Release the Trump/Epstein files
*Trumpstein
I kind of wonder what that would change. It has been known for years that he was best buddy whith the most notorious pedo of the past 50 years. We have tapes, letters, etc. He clearly his a pedophile, if people didn’t realize that before, they’re stupid
The right wing alternate reality machine has been hammering their brain with “The Epstien files are nothing/a plot by the democrats/fake/don’t say anything about Trump (according to Maxwell)/etc”
Anybody can succumb to propaganda, be angry at the people who are intentionally misleading people. Attacking your own class is playing into the hands of the fascists.
