As the wise John Oliver said a few months back: "Fuck you, make me".
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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Lock him up.
Trump won't respect the results of an election?
Don't like the result? Rigged!
Fun history on D.C.... When the mayoral office was created in 1802, the mayor was not elected, they were appointed by the President:
https://dccouncil.gov/dc-home-rule/
The ability to elect a mayor did not actually exist until 1973(!) and the first mayoral election was 1974(!)
Like he was going to take back NYC?
Or LA?
take back NYC
From whom? New Yorkers? LMAO
what a shitbag
also:
I wish the president trying to intimidate voters was surprising.
Shut up, old man. Have another stroke.
This is the project 2025 people moreso than his senile person. Their end goal, and it's not a secret, is to be able to declare martial law in districts that displease them. Not just in DC but the States as well in violation of the 10th amendment.
So this doesn't end with him.
He made threats about New York and hasn't done shit
Yeah but think about it like this - when a center pin of a family dies, like good ole meemaw or peepaw, the family kinda disbands in a way because they were really just centered around that person.
This happens in most families at one point or another. Do the people in the family change their beliefs? No, they typically don't. However the family drifts apart. They don't all get together anymore for holidays or put in as much effort with the family. They don't keep in touch as well as before. That's what we're hoping happens here.
His base isn't really as cohesive anymore as was in the past. Still strong with that sheep-like desire to follow the shepherd and be herded by the dog, but fracturing in some places due to the Epstein files and the war, inflation, etc.
This doesn't end with him, I 100% agree. However, it won't have NEAR as much steam. The new center pin of the family won't have the magnetism that child raping don has, they're truly a cult after all. Cults don't do well when they lose a leader.
Also, all of the shit trump has been hiding comes out when he goes, although that may be a drip or a deluge, no one knows yet.
It's just a reprieve after dear leader passes, the base won't long accept some Vance that can't rally the base.
It's going to make it worse really, as their new guy will be smarter presumably.
But yeah, that interregnum inbetween finding a new supreme leader is the chance to take it from them. Not likely with these democrats running the show though.
That's fine. Let's hope there is a reprieve after reprieve
Eh, I dunno. Their MO is to work behind the scenes, often with Vance or random GOP congressmembers doing stuff. This feels a lot more like the usual from our Idiot-in-Chief
But I agree that the midterm elections are under serious threat from multiple parties, including the project 2025 assholes.
When covering most of Trump's statements, the press has to quote parts of them directly ("take back"). That's because no one, including Trump, knows what they actually mean.
And it makes things really easy when he inevitably says "I never said that."
I hope Americans realized by now that they live in a fascist authoritarian state
Yes, we realized that back when they started shooting and killing us with zero consequences. Thanks so much for your concern.
What's funny, in a sad disturbing way, is everyone I know who was an anti-govt conspiracy theorist said the "next democratic president" wants to turn this country into a Police state, thought crime big brother blah blah blah, round up citizens into FEMA death camps, sharing pics of old "purchased" railway hubs with barbed wire pointed inward, they're gonna send black helicopters and black suited troops to rip people out of their homes and put them in internment camps...
..turns out they were right but it was the wrong party. Most of the are celebrating now and guess who they support
I really wish that the rest of the world would realize that only about 23% of the total American population actually voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Even fewer of those people actually support him now.
And while there are certainly nearly infinite arguments as to why Americans should get out and vote, the reality is that the votes of merely 74 million people are now dictating our lives of over 330 million Americans, and the rest of the world is paying the consequences of that, too. But, before anyone else, Donald Trump fucks over Americans. Over and over and over. And, at the moment, there's not a lot we can do.
The vast majority of Americans fucking hate Donald Trump. I really wish the rest of the world didn’t lump us all in with him and his supporters, which are an increasingly shrinking fraction of us.
edit: "Well, why don't you do something about it?"
he's been impeached twice and there's another impeachment cooking, and 3 of us have tried to assassinate him. so, ya know... WE'RE TRYING
TL;dr: the vast majority of Americans are good, honest folk. A small number of us are unforgivable shitbags — that we admit. But, we are not a monolith. We are in a lot of trouble, and we kind of just don’t know what to do. We’re just trying to afford rent and groceries. But we’re doing our best. And we really are trying to fix our shit. But how?
We’re trying to really really hard. And the best of us are really, really sorry
Ignore the downvotes. Sane, non-fascists should all be allies regardless of where they live. There's a good chance those downvoting have rising fascist populism threats in their own borders too.
To people are downvoting or blaming anti-fascists within the US just because they haven't "solved" fascism yet, I'll just say: if you actually care about stopping Trump and fascism around the world, try to make friends and not enemies. Fascists would prefer we fight each other.
Thanks. A lot of motherfuckers forget about Normandy.
Thought I read something about overseas influence operations active on Reddit. Seems to make sense they'd be working other social media sites as well.
we have a very big boat to turn around. a nation of 330+ million people is no small thing to manage. we've done the whole "political revolution" thing twice, and it cost us nearly half our population each time. we'd rather not do that again , especially if there's a better way. and, of course, there is.
but it's... complicated and it takes time.... but, with these midterm elections, there's an opportunity to make things better, or, at least, shut off the firehose of nightmares.
Merrick Garland and Biden had a chance to prevent all of this
Don't forget RGB. She stubbornly brought about the end of many checks and balances, and also set woman back a generation with the fall of roe v wade.
Fuck RGB. All she had to do was retire well past the age anyone should retire. But she needed that power, I guess. Power hungry assholes ruin everything.
"So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own." - Abraham Erskine (as played by Stanley Tucci)
at least we can claim this over the nazis-- we know our concentration camps are concentration camps, and we're doing everything we can to constantly protest and expose them and shut them down.
our efforts thus far are... far less successful than we had hoped. but we're doing everything we can to stop it and let the world know what's happening. In that, we have been extremely successful.
And those responsible… we will make them PAAAAAAAY for their fucking crimes!
But there is a lot of shit we have to crawl through before we see that light at the end of the tunnel. And at this point,… whether we’re even going to see that light? That’s a matter of faith. Faith in the best of us.
For now, we’re navigating shit in the dark. Wish us luck. We are all going to need it.
A good 55% of us knew that going into 2025
A lot of us knew going into 2020
More than that. Some voted for the fascist state.
but half of those decided they had better thincs to do than voting against it
The Democratic party's refusal to stop red state governments' voter suppression efforts or do much of anything else will tend to have that effect
Oh boo the fucking hoo; US citizens need to get up off their ass and take responsibility. They shouldn't need handholding to vote against fascists when they have the chance.
It always has been fascist
Oh boy yep, that's a fasces
Fucking hell, where is that?
Edit: that's the fucking speakers chair isn't it?
That's the House chamber, not even the speaker's office, just the House of Representatives
GW some fasces.
From Wikipedia:
Two fasces appear on either side of the flag of the United States behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives, with bronze examples replacing the previous gilded iron installments during the remodeling project of 1950.
It's clear that the symbol has had widespread usage long before and beyond historical fascism. Idk if the 50s get a pass..
Election interference from within. Is there anything not tainted by a greedy lust for power and control anymore?
Thankfully most DC residents have cast their ballots by now. Mail-in voting is incredibly easy in D.C. and those ballots went out near the end of May. Trump's late to the party. Also most folks in D.C. hate him and many lost their jobs due to this administration.
