When it comes to taking power, you should absolutely believe him. He tried to take more last time but he was stopped. He will continue trying.

Im sure that means his career is over, right?

Correct!

He’s been promoted to a different career.

Just a note, it’s “Ukraine” not “the Ukraine”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844

She’s real. She’s batshit crazy, but she’s real

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-weather-control-hurricane-b2626699.html

Gonna be a long 4 years.

Aw, you still think this is going to be over in 4 years? The US just had its last free and open election.

Remember last time he stole a ton of documents and he kept them at Mar-a-lago?

Or when he asked for info on US intelligence and all of a sudden Russia caught and vanished a bunch of US spies?

If those didn’t instantly disqualify him, nothing else will.

The discussion was about your claim that voting was all you could do, which is strange for a self-professed optimist to say. You responded with whataboutism. This conversation is over.

So no actual answer, just an attempt at redirection.

But guess what? All you can do is vote.

What are you talking about? Voting is the very least you can do. Get active. Contact your representatives. Take to the streets in protest. Stand up for something. You call him a defeatist and then say there’s nothing more to do.

Take your own advice and get off the internet and do something that helps you. Hoping the Repubs consume themselves doesn’t do shit. That’s not an ‘optimistic’ view. It’s a lazy and cowardly one.

“Sucks” isn’t even a swearword! Are we j*st going to st*rt censoring normal w*rds now?

Musk’s said his new department can find 2 trillion dollars to cut… presumably so they can funnel it all into private hands instead.

And then wait for the next right-wing psychopath to buy up that one? You can’t jump off Twitter to another privately held platform and not expect the same to happen there sooner or later.

People aren’t paying attention. This is the last legitimate election the US will have. They control all three branches of government. The words in the constitution are meaningless if no one is there to uphold them.

We are experiencing history.

Sept 9, 1776 - Jan 20th, 2025.

They will control everything. Americans handed the fascists complete control over the legal system as well as the judicial system. Democracy is finished. There will be no free elections going forward. They made their choice.

Even once I had a great doctor who knew what I had, it still took nearly two years to find a medication that worked for me with side-effects that I could tolerate. It’s a long frustrating journey.

Not only wouldn’t he see a punishment, but he’d be elected a second time to do it again!

I read it as a jail thing. His body in jail because of their (jury) choice.

But now I realize it was probably rape.

Don’t worry, soon the entire country will get dragged down to their level!

Memento. Great movie.

Do they plan to go down the line and just keep choosing groups to demonize?

Yes, absolutely. Fascism requires an “out group” to demonize and scapegoat, and an “in group” that sticks together to hold their power. It’s an us-vs-them thing that only works if you’ve got a them to be the enemy. They’ll go down the list of minorities persecuting them as they go. Today it’s immigrants, trans, and pregnant women. Once they’re taken care of they can move into the rest, like Muslims (from Trump’s first presidency), gay people, and likely atheists, intellectuals/academics, the disabled, etc.

The Nazis in Germany did exactly the same thing the American Nazis are about to do.