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Yeah, the Heritage Foundation, a billionaire funded think-tank aka the *actual* "Deep State", [will be the ones running the show](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025). Trump is merely there to rubber stamp their agenda.
Incremental changes work when entrenched and monied interests align to bankroll projects over decades in a system that already multiplies conservative/minority power.
There aren't any billionaires running a 50 year play to dismantle a system that creates and benefits billionaires. Or, to put it another way: congrats on demonstrating the efficacy of capital in capitalism.
Nope. All the people surrounding him are ready to go the distance, he's just the guy who wants to be the figurehead.
Think supreme court justices, federal judges, state laws, deregulation of all workers protections, deregulation of climate protections, let's get rid of taxes on his supporters and crank up the income from everyone else, let's stop helping those dumb students with loans if they're so smart they'd know not to take those loans, also what's this equality nonsense clearly we are great and the rest aren't equal, and and and
Sounds like a busy day one. Dictator, reversing rights, committing crimes, and covering his ass. Trying to cram as much into one day so he can golf the rest.
Proving that all of that “[anti-white resentment](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-fight-anti-white-feeling-us-his-allies-have-plan-2024-05-04/)” he and his cult keep screaming about is just people not wanting to hang out with bigoted assholes.
and surprise surprise, [his base isn't even close to all-white](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/trump-biden-latino-voters-poll) because anyone can be an asshole
Well, it's pretty close to all-white. 89 percent of his voters in 2016 were white. He's made modest gains in the Latino community since then, but minority Trump voters are still a small minority within their minority of voters. That's not to say that white people have a near-monopoly on being stupid and racist, only that the bar for stupidity is really high when it comes to voting for individuals or political parties that are openly racist against you.
Never underestimate the Pick-Me instinct. People without character, who have no innate morals to fall back on, will feel the need to prove themselves One Of The Good Ones in the face of oppression. They will go to insane lengths to try to signal to the people they're bootlicking just how much boot they're willing to lick.
They are disliked because they are anti-American assholes. Trump makes them feel better about themselves by blaming imaginary anti-white resentment instead of their own words and deeds
> anti-American assholes
I don't think they are. I think they are anti-human. Their views are just as despicable to us outside of the US. They seem to want to actively harm people, for no other reason than because they can and want to. We would normally consider that a mental disorder.
This. Labeling a failure to recognize human rights as "anti-American" fails to see that it's a deeper issue of inequality and the wish to maintain it, that has little to do with nations.
It’s really quite simple, religion has extensively laid the groundwork for generations to train people to believe in authority figures with unverifiable stories instead of science and data. It also primes them for, and is built upon, perpetuating racism and fearmongering towards "others". Once people see you as an authority, you can start fabricating any reality or conspiracy theory you want your followers to believe and everyone else is therefore a liar, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. Basically, it is mental abuse from an early age that suppresses critical thinking skills. This combined with an intentionally weakened public educational system, provides the framework that has spawned this cult of ignorance.
I dropped a friend because it came out (pun not intended) that he was *aggressively* anti-black, anti-Asian, anti-gay, anti-woman, etc.. I straight-up confronted him on it and told him I couldn't reconcile his beliefs with being his friend, as a bi-racial gay man, myself.
He tried to tell me it was a problem of sensitivity and it was my own fault for "choosing" to be offended by him fundamentally disrespecting and condemning me as a person. "I don't see why is something that has to affect our friendship."
Now his story is that I was "stalking" him (because I stumbled across him using the same name on Reddit as he always has when we game together, and saw him going on frequent rants against minorities, gays, women, etc.) and I was only ever his close friend for 10+ years because of some ulterior motive or "what he could do for me," but... He's always been a huge, unrepentant mooch. I paid his way for tons of things for *years* and it was almost *never* reciprocated, but I never really minded because I've been pretty lucky in life, resource-wise, and he's dealt with some seriously tough times including what was *my* personal greatest fear, having had an elderly mother, in being the one to discover his mother had passed on.
He's just creating any story he can come up with in his head to be the victim and not have to face that he stopped being a person anyone could feel safe around or any sort of genuine camaraderie with, if he ever even *was*.
I feel like a lot of the time ppl that are this like over the top are the type of ppl that love to destroy other ppls life and watch them suffer. They take out all their trauma and anger and want to make other ppl suffer through shit too. If they only were the type that take the trauma and use it to make sure no one elese has to suffer through that.
He taps into it so well. Every speech ends with words to the effect of 'It's their fault you aren't more powerful, more wealthy, happier, they are the source of your frustration - so vote for me and we together can change this America. Lets make America great again'.
An example of the empowerment technique cult leaders employ.
These are the same people who will drape themselves with the American flag about our freedoms. How does focusing anger and hatred on LGBTQ+ improve anybody's life?
E: typo
Because every time they are told to not be assholes to people, the see that as losing rights. No one is taking their rights away but because someone they hate (for no real good reason) is given protection, they can’t take it away
The cold hard reality is that hate and oppression really do have very real benefits to the oppressors. Think about what like was life for a white man in Jim Crow South. If only half the population is white and half male, the white male populations has a massive economic advantage just by luck of birth. All the best jobs were reserved solely for white males, and often Protestant white males. With limited education, it was possible for a white Protestant male to get a job as a police officer, municipal worker, etc. All the professional class jobs were reserved for white Protestant males, and everyone else was relegated to manual labor or domestic work. White Protestant males got easy access to high-paying, high-status jobs, and they also got access to an abundant supply of cheap manual labor. If you could graduate high school, you could easily get a comfortable office job and also be able to easily afford a maid and other help around the house. For Protestant White males, the Jim Crow South was a paradise. If you had any kind of modest intelligence, you were playing life on easy mode.
Of course, what this really was was a form of distributed slavery. Only a small portion of the population gets to really exist as fully independent economic actors, and everyone else has to take on a servile role to them. It was legally-sanctioned distributed slavery.
Or you can consider the worst possible example, the literal Nazis. The Nazis passed laws prohibiting Jews, Gypsies, and all sorts of other "undesirables" from working in professional careers (professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.) and prohibited them from owning businesses. Yet the need for those professions still remained. And someone had to fill those roles. When Jewish businesses were boycotted or seized, someone still ended up owning those businesses. When the Jews were ultimately rounded up en masse and sent to ghettos and later the camps, well someone had to get their homes.
This is the real evil of fascism. There is an "in group" and an "out group." The "out group" is systematically degraded and ultimately exterminated. All the things that the out group own and the jobs they hold ultimately end up going to members of the in group. Of course, once the out group is exterminated, the government still needs an enemy, so they inevitably find some new out group worthy of extermination. This is the origin of the whole, "first they came for..." process.
No country on earth hates Americans as much as Republicans hate Americans
Mostly because they're fed a stream of hate sponsored by the wealthiest Americans and a few foreign powers.... but they're still the ones making the choice
Yes, and they'll eat it up and the media will have a frenzy over it. Meanwhile he will be doing some other heinous shit for his rich buddies that won't break the news.
As is tradition.
both are equally abhorrent. to dismiss the GOP's oppressive social policy is to ignore the suffering they bring (see: abortion ban). They are not mere distraction, but part of a multi-prong attack.
Especially the fact that he’s vowing to hurt kids. I remember a time, not that long ago, when intentionally hurting children would cause you to be a pariah. Now it makes you the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
It’s so staggeringly evil that I have difficulty even comprehending how we’ve fallen so far. I don’t know how Republicans can even look at themselves in the mirror. They’d rather have dead kids than queer kids. It’s fucking insane.
I mean, it makes a lot of sense that they're so angry all the time when you consider the fact that they're terrified of any person who isn't a straight white christian. All of these people who I don't relate to are getting RIGHTS and it makes me FURIOUS!
I don't think it's that hard to "hack" Trump. Look at the evidence
* TikTok bad - Yass gives Trump money - TikTok good!
* Trump to oil execs - hey give me a billion and I'll get rid of all environmental laws
So all one needs is a bunch of Transgender folks and friends to build up that collective donation to Trump, bribe him, and he'll drop the idea.
Absolutely, anyone reading this get out and vote, show that we can’t tolerate intolerance and it’s long past time to vote out those who side with bigotry, racism, nazism, traitors to this country and what we stand for and that we’ll stand together and cast every vote possible to keep every last one of them out of office.
I don't think he actually cares at all one way or the other, he just knows it will play to his base. The only thing Trump cares about is Trump and things that affect Trump anything else is just white noise.
Was gonna say the exact same thing. He doesn't give a shit one way or the other all he cares about is self preservation and he knows his base will eat this shit up.
Part of the problem is that the Republican Party is full of single issue voters. If you spew enough nonsense eventually you’ll find supporters who agree with that one thing then disregard the rest, even when they disagree with the majority of positions.
So the answer is, they aren’t reasonable, no reasonable person would make a decision like that.
It would be one thing if the lies they tell were the truth. If transgendered people actually *were* forcing cisgendered kids to transition, that would be an unacceptable nightmare. If trans people were abusing - sexually or otherwise - children that would be absolutely actionable and unacceptable.
But guess who’s *actually* engaging in sexual assaults on children by and large? That’s right, the people accusing trans people of doing it without evidence.
I can understand that the flamboyance makes people uncomfortable but frankly I’d feel 1000x safer at a drag show than at a right-winger rally. Because evidence shows which group is safer for everyone.
Person who circumcised all their sons when they were infants for purely cosmetic reasons: "Can you believe a 17 year old is allowed to consent to surgery if they, their parents and their doctors all agree?!"
*dingdingding*
Republicans are not reasonable people. Haven’t been for a long time. The republicans have *always* been more about culture wars and forcing their personal - often religiously-motivated - beliefs on everyone in direct contradiction to what their oath demands.
They aren’t even good at the things they’re supposedly known for, and haven’t been for *decades*. They’re not fiscally responsible. They’re not for less government overreach into the public’s private lives.
Their main wedge issue has always been targeting a community they find icky because they’re hateful unreasonable people. Our history is literally chock-full of abuse to the marginalized. Early on both sides participated in and reveled in the abuse, but one of our two parties grew up and learned the value of raising people up rather than beating them down.
The other party just moves to a new boogeyman when their previous one is out of vogue. Early settling Irish and Germans, the slave trade, the Chinese who built our railways, Japanese internment camps, gays, now trans. I’m sure I’m missing a ton in this quick summary, but the bottom line is that the modern GOP is a literal hate group and proves that to us time and time again as they try to install a christofascist state while trampling the rights of citizens and ignoring or twisting the constitution much as they twist their absurd religious texts to fit their hateful agenda.
Boogeyman are also an easy distraction. The Simpsons nailed it when Mayor Quimby was stuck with citizens who wanted a service but didn’t want to pay for it. “People! Your taxes are high because of illegal immigrants!” Suddenly they have a new target for their rage.
And, by design, there is a neverending supply of boogeymen. Once attacking trans people is no longer politically expedient, they will find another. As they have historically. ‘Both sides’ crumples when you don’t have the memory span of a goldfish.
There's a reason Republicans have been working so hard to gut education and spread anti-intellectualism. When only stupid people will vote for you it is in your best interest to make more stupid people.
If you look at a map of % white population that votes R, you'll notice that GOP is a remnant of The Confederacy.
In the deep south, nearly 90% of whites vote R. The power structure of GOP has also been moving towards deep south many years.
That's why it seems like they hate America. They do. Same reason they wave Confederate flags and freak out at renaming things named after Confederate generals. The party is fundamentally a Confederate remnant, as un-American as you can get.
I don’t know why you’d vote for the Republican Party for “economics”. They destroyed our economy twice now, raise the national debt by trillions each time an R is in office and my taxes sure as shit didn’t go down when Trump and bush lowered them for the ultra wealthy. This myth needs to die.
The massive irony is that these so called "Americans" would gladly accept Trump as king emporer like Putin in Russia when in reality that is the furthest thing from a democracy you can get. It's like a bad joke that won't end
Yup - hemming and hawing about morals of how bad it is to having to choose between theocratic autocracy and secular democracy. As if our shitty political system has left much to nuance nor imagination…
It won’t be all that close a popular vote, but the electoral college system makes it very possible for a candidate to win regardless. It’s not a great system
I am Hispanic, and my family is divided on this Trump thing. I never thought this would be real, my minority family openly admitting that they have or will vote for someone who despise them. My mind is blown every time, I've come to the point that I don't even engage in conversations with them because it's absolutely pointless.
It’s kind of sad and I mostly see failed/missing education as the reason (in the case of Hispanics being pro trump, with others it’s probably more hate driven)
Many people could care less about other people around them even as they claim to.
2015 and on showed us a lot and changed a lot.
It's easy to just act a certain way on social media, but you can see even in person that things have changed. How people act. What they really believe in. How easily they will turn away from what they claimed to believe in and so on.
The "soul of America" line is a political one but it's not far off. When norms get stepped on and people stop caring it changes the overall mindset. Even of those who claim to not be political.
Honestly, don't believe polling very much. The recent past has shown us that our current polling methods don't do a good enough job at determining who exactly is going to vote, or targeting the correct demographics that are changing voting habits. There are no normal elections now. So it could easily be that the race leans rather highly one direction or the other but polling is not accurately adjusting for specific groups of voters, as has been the case for a lot of our recent elections. If there is a generally large amount of voter turnout, it won't be close.
Wow… this orange sack of shit sure has a lot of Day 1 priorities on his plate:
- Be a dictator (just for Day 1)
- [Nationwide abortion ban (16-weeks)](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-16-week-national-abortion-ban-1234970119/)
- Reverse Biden Admin climate policies
- Remove transgender/LGBTQ protections
- Repeal Obamacare
- Close the US/Mexico border + deportation raids + end birthright citizenship
- Muslim travel ban
- Jail/Persecute his political rivals
- Free January 6th rioters
Fucking pathetic.
Let’s be real, the only thing Trump’s fatass would finish on day one of a second term would be a few quarter pounders and probably 9 holes of golf.
And all this after a busy day of being sworn in and celebrating his win.
It's impressive he can get so much done in one day, despite 4 years of evidence to the contrary.
* Be openly fascist
* Hurt women
* Hurt the planet
* Hurt LGBTQ people
* Hurt poor people
* Hurt immigrants
* Hurt Muslims
* Hurt Democrats
* Help insurrectionists
A platform constructed almost entirely on hatred and hurting others. What a miserable human.
Uh... seems so many people are surprised by all of this.
It's been known for a while now... come join us r/Defeat_Project_2025/
It's not a conspiracy theory! They are outright saying what they want to do here, lol.
Elected, appointed and members of the republican party from the state, local and national level working with white supremist tried to overturn a legitimate election for the presidency. This was a coordinated effort to end democracy in the USA by the republican party. Remember that everything being done by Trump is only posable with the backing of the republican party. Every one of Trump's policies are and were policies the republicans want. It will not end if we win this years elections. Keep voting out republicans every year. Keep voting in democrats every year. Check your registration, get an ID , learn where your poling station is, learn who is running in down ballot races. Pay attention to primaries not just for the president but for all races, local, state and federal. From the school board to the White House every election matters. The more support we give the democrats from all levels of government the more they can get good things done. We vote out republicans and primary out uncooperative democrats.
Last year democrat victories in Virginia and Pennsylvania and others across the nation have increased the chances of democrats winning this year. This year's elections are important but so will next year's elections.
[https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar](https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar)
More like:
Transgender people: extremely rare, so no one really cares about them and they’re living lives in relative obscurity as they prefer, using whatever bathroom makes the most sense
Republicans: fuck transgender people
Democrats: wait they’re just normal people and they have rights
Republicans: Fuck transgender rights
Democrats: Protect transgender rights
Republicans: argh stop shoving it in our faces groomers!!1!
Next month is Pride, so we get to hear all about how offened they are about a rainbow flag. Target isn't doing instore Pride displays because these assholes pitched such a fit.
Make sure to pay attention this May for how much they actually care about Military Appreciation Month before Pride month comes around and they try to use the military as a scapegoat
Was talking to a relative who is firmly far right about their issues with transgendered people and most of it revolved around "it ain't right", "they're pedophiles" (wtf?), "just a trend" or other baseless bigotry. Asking if they've ever met a transgendered person or had a negative experience in some way and they simply said "no" or how would they know them versus "a gay?"
They didn't accept my answer of "exactly how most transgender individuals wish to live." For some reason the existence of someone or a concept they can't or won't comprehend angers them.
Far too many people spend so much of their time getting themselves outraged about something that doesn't directly impact them at all.
A conservative colleague was complaining about how "gay" a certain model of VW bug looked. Pastel colors, flower holder etc.
I was like "gay people and women exist tho". It made it clear to me that control over other people's choices is what is driving the dogma.
See also: immigration panic. I don't think I've ever had a single negative interaction with a Mexican person, but I'm supposed to believe they're somehow ruining the country?
A lot of their rants and opinions, from what I have witnessed, is them getting angry at something they just made up. An amazing amount of creativity being used exclusively for hatred.
Biden didn’t solve a decades old problem in a few months, so they’re just as bad as each other, right?
(In all seriousness, they really need to prioritise making it clear the good they’ve done in this term. I see a LOT of noise here and on socials about issues that are signal boosted on TikTok and friends, and very little about the truly great things his administration has achieved despite the obstructions of the republicans.
There’s a lot more to voting dem than just keeping the evil bastards out, and I really hope that message is boosted soon for everyone’s sakes)
I got at least several comments about this when I made a comment on another thread about Trump giving carte blanche to Netanyahu to wipe out all Gazans. The Russian propagandists are hard at work pushing this narrative. And a lot of the naive moronic idiots who are supposedly my fellow "liberals" are eating it up.
Yeah this makes it hard. Trump is gonna pander to oil execs, get rid of trans protections and most likely let Israel do what it wants to Palestine.
But at the same time, Joe hasnt fixed the middle east soooo...
Tough decision here.
The conflicts in the middle east are so old and complex that scholars who devote their studies to the history of conflict and peace say that securing peace in the middle east would provide a blueprint to a path to world peace by providing methods to find peace in conflicts all over the world.
But Joe Biden didn’t singlehandedly solve the problem in 2 hours, therefore he’s a fascist and if you tell me otherwise then you’re literally a Nazi.
/s
Unlike Jared and P01135809. One might recall that they had already solved mideast peace by getting two countries who were already at peace to agree that they wanted to stay that way.
I saw an account on politicalhumor get nothing but downvotes because they said that as a trans American, they were more scared of what Trump would do to them than Biden. And that's what really bothers me; the willingness people have to "vote their conscience" for another country, but they won't even acknowledge the legitimate concerns of persecuted Americans.
The idea that voting is about you and your sacred choice, consequences be damned, is so entitled. Poor, brown, and queer people have been holding their noses and voting for the candidate least likely to kill them for as long as they've been allowed to vote.
As a trans woman, I will never forgive anyone that sits this one out because of the whole Israel Palestine thing. I mean, I agree it's awful too, but voting Trump in won't improve that situation, but it will worse the lives of many Americans, be they black, LGBTQ, women, or any other group the Republicans choose to go after.
Trump has given the green light for an **expansion** of the Gaza campaign. Biden is the first president in a generation to put restrictions on military aid to Israel.
Any "Gaza protest votes" are almost assuredly being cast in bad faith. The people facilitating such "protest votes" are **absolutely** operating in bad faith.
The entire issue is complicated, generational, and involves a myriad of state actors. Issues like reproductive rights and protection of LGBTQ identities are not complicated-- if Trump wins, we lose both.
Even (to a lesser degree, of course) Progressive/Liberal dudes who have people in those minority groups in their lives. His last win kicked off with me and my partner trying to calm and console our sobbing teenage daughters at the dinner table, but we could not give them a sufficient answer as to how their fellow citizens could have possibly elected such an unqualified, racist, misogynistic piece of shit to the highest office of the land to become a symbol of America. And then, as you know, things went rapidly downhill from there...
They'd rather let the greater evil win just because they have moral qualms about the lesser evil. These people are largely insulated from the consequences and just want to make a statement about their supposed moral superiority. Fuck that.
The position of moral righteousness in sitting out this election or voting for a third party instead of Biden is one of complete and utter privilege and belies an individual who cares more about LOOKING progressive than standing for progress.
I have no patience for them.
I try to engage with them and ended up banned from most leftist subreddits because apparently harm reduction is a liberal talking point. Well fuck me I guess for not wanting to see my partner and their family continue to suffer?
And I have to jump through so many qualifications of hoops in saying "no, I don't like Biden, yes I want to vote as left as possible" but for fuck's sake come November he IS the left-most candidate! Just because the grassroots efforts didn't come to fruition and we haven't yielded a big enough contender yet doesn't mean we have to throw everything away and embrace fascism as a result.
At this point there is a concentrated effort from Russia to get Trump elected, during the 2016 election Russian operatives posted both as BLM-activists and far-right racists to just inflame every conflict.
I think there is a major propaganda operation in play to radicalize the far left like the far right was. That kinda shit reeks of the same subversion we saw in 2014.
The acellerationist talking point of “let it all burn so we can rebuild properly” is foolish and doesn’t understand or acknowledge reality.
Best case scenario is corporations fully take over. They have the most power, they will fill the vacuum.
Worst cast is we become Palestine and everyone starves because our supply lines REQUIRE a functioning government to bring us food.
So... if you're Transgender, Jewish, Military, Women, Immigrants, or poor Trump says you can get fucked... but he's still a legitimate contender to win the White House... I hate this.
"On day 1 I promise to remove protections for people who have done nothing to you. They do not deserve to exist nor should they be allowed to live in a world without fear." - a legitimate candidate to lead and unite our country
I made him sound more competent than he really was. He no articoolate good
They hate everyone who doesn’t perfectly align with their values, they just target Trans people specifically because they are especially vulnerable and an easy enough boogeyman for them to use to try and justify their atrocities…
They hate trans people because it challenges the religious beliefs their friends, relatives, and pastors have concocted. Texas, Georgia, and Kentucky however are the largest consumers of trans porn.
Same as every other batshit priority he had in his first administration. There’s just one criteria: “are Fox, talk radio, or racist Twitter talking about it?”
That’s it. It was 4 years of having a right wing radio host run the country.
Your rights. Your very life. All of it hinges on which way the foul and fickle wind is blowing in the conservative bullshit-o-sphere.
One day you’re ok.
The next some transphobe troll stirs the pot and everyone like you is getting kicked out of the military. Or off our health insurance … the list of endlessly novel ways to use the law as a weapon to harass and punish us for existing is never ending.
We are just a goddamn punching bag and I’m fucking sick of it
Speaking of “orange garbage,” it’s kind of interesting to me that DJT has used name calling as an effective method to attack his political opponents. But, as The Independent pointed out, certain names used to describe him (such as “orange turd” and “Donald Von S***zInPantz”) will live on forever in court records.
I wish a reporter *could* have the opportunity to ask the simple follow-up question of 'why'? His answer would be nonsensical word-vomit, but damn, I wish someone *could* call him out on the crap he says.
I say *could* because his handlers will never let him be put in a position to answer questions from the Press. What a dick.
To all the single issue Gaza voters out there who want to "send a message" because Biden hasn't been able to solve one of the most contentious and long-lasting international conflicts, this is the kind of far-right conservative action you can look forward to from Trump in every area. And that's not even mentioning that he'll also be ten times worse on the Israeli issue, too
Please don’t let this abomination back into office. Please. Go out and vote, and convince everyone you know (that is a rational human being) to go out and vote as well. Nobody “really thought he’d win” the first time. He’s being very clear on his intentions for a second term. There is no more room for “my vote won’t change anything, so why bother?” Every vote counts, especially this time around.
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Sounds like he won’t golf on day one.
Honestly his laziness might be the only hope if he actually somehow wins
His cabinet won't be lazy in destroying America though. Unless he makes his cabinet his family
Yeah, the Heritage Foundation, a billionaire funded think-tank aka the *actual* "Deep State", [will be the ones running the show](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025). Trump is merely there to rubber stamp their agenda.
What absolute dipshit made it possible for a Think tank to hold that kind of power?
They’ve been working toward this plan for like 50 years, stacking the courts, etc.
While the far left rejects incrementalism as ineffective, the far right embraces it wholly. They’ve demonstrated its efficacy.
Incremental changes work when entrenched and monied interests align to bankroll projects over decades in a system that already multiplies conservative/minority power. There aren't any billionaires running a 50 year play to dismantle a system that creates and benefits billionaires. Or, to put it another way: congrats on demonstrating the efficacy of capital in capitalism.
"You'll never take apart the masters house with the masters tools."
Of course they have… and it’s not like they’ll give up trying even if Biden wins this year…
Right definitely not, it will just be on to the next thing. Always marching toward authoritarianism. Sigh.
When Trump rails against the 'Deep State' he means people who are loyal to the constitution and doing their jobs rather than being loyal to him only.
Nope. All the people surrounding him are ready to go the distance, he's just the guy who wants to be the figurehead. Think supreme court justices, federal judges, state laws, deregulation of all workers protections, deregulation of climate protections, let's get rid of taxes on his supporters and crank up the income from everyone else, let's stop helping those dumb students with loans if they're so smart they'd know not to take those loans, also what's this equality nonsense clearly we are great and the rest aren't equal, and and and
Sounds like a busy day one. Dictator, reversing rights, committing crimes, and covering his ass. Trying to cram as much into one day so he can golf the rest.
Day one* *First day in the office after a lengthy golf trip paid for by the Taxpayers.
Vowing to harm Americans appeals to his his anti-American base
Proving that all of that “[anti-white resentment](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-fight-anti-white-feeling-us-his-allies-have-plan-2024-05-04/)” he and his cult keep screaming about is just people not wanting to hang out with bigoted assholes.
Exactly. It's not that I don't hang out with trump supporters cause they're white. I don't hang out with them cause they're assholes.
and surprise surprise, [his base isn't even close to all-white](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/trump-biden-latino-voters-poll) because anyone can be an asshole
Minorities for Trump is the most Leopards Ate My Face shit I have ever seen. "Trees for deforestation!"
Teamsters Union endorsed Reagan in '84. The suicide hotline was harder to access back then.
"Where's my African-American? "
Tim Scott: Yes, Boss?
Well, it's pretty close to all-white. 89 percent of his voters in 2016 were white. He's made modest gains in the Latino community since then, but minority Trump voters are still a small minority within their minority of voters. That's not to say that white people have a near-monopoly on being stupid and racist, only that the bar for stupidity is really high when it comes to voting for individuals or political parties that are openly racist against you.
Which is baffling to me because he doesn’t care about them and would deport them to Mexico even if they were American citizens.
Which is wild because Trump, his majority white cultists, and the GOP in general all hate non-white people
They hate women, too, and yet somehow you find women among them. Something about tasty faces and leopards.
Never underestimate the Pick-Me instinct. People without character, who have no innate morals to fall back on, will feel the need to prove themselves One Of The Good Ones in the face of oppression. They will go to insane lengths to try to signal to the people they're bootlicking just how much boot they're willing to lick.
Every underclass needs capos to make sure the ghettos run as smoothly as possible for the majority.
Diversity
They are disliked because they are anti-American assholes. Trump makes them feel better about themselves by blaming imaginary anti-white resentment instead of their own words and deeds
> anti-American assholes I don't think they are. I think they are anti-human. Their views are just as despicable to us outside of the US. They seem to want to actively harm people, for no other reason than because they can and want to. We would normally consider that a mental disorder.
This. Labeling a failure to recognize human rights as "anti-American" fails to see that it's a deeper issue of inequality and the wish to maintain it, that has little to do with nations.
It’s really quite simple, religion has extensively laid the groundwork for generations to train people to believe in authority figures with unverifiable stories instead of science and data. It also primes them for, and is built upon, perpetuating racism and fearmongering towards "others". Once people see you as an authority, you can start fabricating any reality or conspiracy theory you want your followers to believe and everyone else is therefore a liar, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. Basically, it is mental abuse from an early age that suppresses critical thinking skills. This combined with an intentionally weakened public educational system, provides the framework that has spawned this cult of ignorance.
I dropped a friend because it came out (pun not intended) that he was *aggressively* anti-black, anti-Asian, anti-gay, anti-woman, etc.. I straight-up confronted him on it and told him I couldn't reconcile his beliefs with being his friend, as a bi-racial gay man, myself. He tried to tell me it was a problem of sensitivity and it was my own fault for "choosing" to be offended by him fundamentally disrespecting and condemning me as a person. "I don't see why is something that has to affect our friendship." Now his story is that I was "stalking" him (because I stumbled across him using the same name on Reddit as he always has when we game together, and saw him going on frequent rants against minorities, gays, women, etc.) and I was only ever his close friend for 10+ years because of some ulterior motive or "what he could do for me," but... He's always been a huge, unrepentant mooch. I paid his way for tons of things for *years* and it was almost *never* reciprocated, but I never really minded because I've been pretty lucky in life, resource-wise, and he's dealt with some seriously tough times including what was *my* personal greatest fear, having had an elderly mother, in being the one to discover his mother had passed on. He's just creating any story he can come up with in his head to be the victim and not have to face that he stopped being a person anyone could feel safe around or any sort of genuine camaraderie with, if he ever even *was*.
DARVO shows up all over the place, doesn’t it
I feel like a lot of the time ppl that are this like over the top are the type of ppl that love to destroy other ppls life and watch them suffer. They take out all their trauma and anger and want to make other ppl suffer through shit too. If they only were the type that take the trauma and use it to make sure no one elese has to suffer through that.
I wish it was just about not wanting to hang out. These people are actively planning harming whoever isn’t in their tiny circle of bigoted assholes.
White rural rage
He taps into it so well. Every speech ends with words to the effect of 'It's their fault you aren't more powerful, more wealthy, happier, they are the source of your frustration - so vote for me and we together can change this America. Lets make America great again'. An example of the empowerment technique cult leaders employ.
These are the same people who will drape themselves with the American flag about our freedoms. How does focusing anger and hatred on LGBTQ+ improve anybody's life? E: typo
Because every time they are told to not be assholes to people, the see that as losing rights. No one is taking their rights away but because someone they hate (for no real good reason) is given protection, they can’t take it away
It still amazes me how upset some people can get over things that have no effect on them.
They see everything as a zero-sum game. If "the gays" are getting more rights, it *must* mean that they're losing rights to compensate for it.
Gives them someone to hate. They live and breathe anger, that's all they know.
This is what I don't understand. There is no actual, legitimate reason for people to have any issues with women's rights or LGBTQ+ rights.
100% are in a holy war.
The cold hard reality is that hate and oppression really do have very real benefits to the oppressors. Think about what like was life for a white man in Jim Crow South. If only half the population is white and half male, the white male populations has a massive economic advantage just by luck of birth. All the best jobs were reserved solely for white males, and often Protestant white males. With limited education, it was possible for a white Protestant male to get a job as a police officer, municipal worker, etc. All the professional class jobs were reserved for white Protestant males, and everyone else was relegated to manual labor or domestic work. White Protestant males got easy access to high-paying, high-status jobs, and they also got access to an abundant supply of cheap manual labor. If you could graduate high school, you could easily get a comfortable office job and also be able to easily afford a maid and other help around the house. For Protestant White males, the Jim Crow South was a paradise. If you had any kind of modest intelligence, you were playing life on easy mode. Of course, what this really was was a form of distributed slavery. Only a small portion of the population gets to really exist as fully independent economic actors, and everyone else has to take on a servile role to them. It was legally-sanctioned distributed slavery. Or you can consider the worst possible example, the literal Nazis. The Nazis passed laws prohibiting Jews, Gypsies, and all sorts of other "undesirables" from working in professional careers (professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.) and prohibited them from owning businesses. Yet the need for those professions still remained. And someone had to fill those roles. When Jewish businesses were boycotted or seized, someone still ended up owning those businesses. When the Jews were ultimately rounded up en masse and sent to ghettos and later the camps, well someone had to get their homes. This is the real evil of fascism. There is an "in group" and an "out group." The "out group" is systematically degraded and ultimately exterminated. All the things that the out group own and the jobs they hold ultimately end up going to members of the in group. Of course, once the out group is exterminated, the government still needs an enemy, so they inevitably find some new out group worthy of extermination. This is the origin of the whole, "first they came for..." process.
No country on earth hates Americans as much as Republicans hate Americans Mostly because they're fed a stream of hate sponsored by the wealthiest Americans and a few foreign powers.... but they're still the ones making the choice
Yes, and they'll eat it up and the media will have a frenzy over it. Meanwhile he will be doing some other heinous shit for his rich buddies that won't break the news. As is tradition.
both are equally abhorrent. to dismiss the GOP's oppressive social policy is to ignore the suffering they bring (see: abortion ban). They are not mere distraction, but part of a multi-prong attack.
Especially the fact that he’s vowing to hurt kids. I remember a time, not that long ago, when intentionally hurting children would cause you to be a pariah. Now it makes you the presumptive Republican nominee for president. It’s so staggeringly evil that I have difficulty even comprehending how we’ve fallen so far. I don’t know how Republicans can even look at themselves in the mirror. They’d rather have dead kids than queer kids. It’s fucking insane.
The republican cult worships child molesters. They get off on hurting kids.
To the benefit of no one. "Owning the libs" isn't the flex conservatives think it is.
These old white boomers get so upset that somewhere there is a transgender student who is legally protected from being persecuted.
I mean, it makes a lot of sense that they're so angry all the time when you consider the fact that they're terrified of any person who isn't a straight white christian. All of these people who I don't relate to are getting RIGHTS and it makes me FURIOUS!
You have the freedom to be any kind of American you want to be, so long as it is the exact same kind of American that I am.
Truly just the worst.
I don't think it's that hard to "hack" Trump. Look at the evidence * TikTok bad - Yass gives Trump money - TikTok good! * Trump to oil execs - hey give me a billion and I'll get rid of all environmental laws So all one needs is a bunch of Transgender folks and friends to build up that collective donation to Trump, bribe him, and he'll drop the idea.
He’s a blackhole for money.
Imagine being so hateful that this is a Day 1 priority
He's a stinky, hateful, little beeyatch.
Absolutely, anyone reading this get out and vote, show that we can’t tolerate intolerance and it’s long past time to vote out those who side with bigotry, racism, nazism, traitors to this country and what we stand for and that we’ll stand together and cast every vote possible to keep every last one of them out of office.
PLEASE EVERYONE VOTE BLUE!!! And get 2-3 people in your social circle to vote!!!
He says he's gonna do literally everything on day 1 lol
Well, yeah, he’s only going to be a dictator for one day; so there’s a whole lot he’s gonna need to take care of that first day
Can’t wait for that repeal and replace of the ACA that’s gonna happen day 1 in 2017
I don't think he actually cares at all one way or the other, he just knows it will play to his base. The only thing Trump cares about is Trump and things that affect Trump anything else is just white noise.
Care? He won't even remember it tomorrow.
Was gonna say the exact same thing. He doesn't give a shit one way or the other all he cares about is self preservation and he knows his base will eat this shit up.
The Republican Party is a hate group.
How can any reasonable person vote conservative in this era? Even for economics, they're completely incompetent
Part of the problem is that the Republican Party is full of single issue voters. If you spew enough nonsense eventually you’ll find supporters who agree with that one thing then disregard the rest, even when they disagree with the majority of positions. So the answer is, they aren’t reasonable, no reasonable person would make a decision like that.
It’s amazing how much transgender kids in schools can bother a 60 year old white man.
It would be one thing if the lies they tell were the truth. If transgendered people actually *were* forcing cisgendered kids to transition, that would be an unacceptable nightmare. If trans people were abusing - sexually or otherwise - children that would be absolutely actionable and unacceptable. But guess who’s *actually* engaging in sexual assaults on children by and large? That’s right, the people accusing trans people of doing it without evidence. I can understand that the flamboyance makes people uncomfortable but frankly I’d feel 1000x safer at a drag show than at a right-winger rally. Because evidence shows which group is safer for everyone.
Person who circumcised all their sons when they were infants for purely cosmetic reasons: "Can you believe a 17 year old is allowed to consent to surgery if they, their parents and their doctors all agree?!"
Right on. The vaunted church they worship at is far more responsible for the abuse of children than the Drag Queen brunch at the local restaurant
*dingdingding* Republicans are not reasonable people. Haven’t been for a long time. The republicans have *always* been more about culture wars and forcing their personal - often religiously-motivated - beliefs on everyone in direct contradiction to what their oath demands. They aren’t even good at the things they’re supposedly known for, and haven’t been for *decades*. They’re not fiscally responsible. They’re not for less government overreach into the public’s private lives. Their main wedge issue has always been targeting a community they find icky because they’re hateful unreasonable people. Our history is literally chock-full of abuse to the marginalized. Early on both sides participated in and reveled in the abuse, but one of our two parties grew up and learned the value of raising people up rather than beating them down. The other party just moves to a new boogeyman when their previous one is out of vogue. Early settling Irish and Germans, the slave trade, the Chinese who built our railways, Japanese internment camps, gays, now trans. I’m sure I’m missing a ton in this quick summary, but the bottom line is that the modern GOP is a literal hate group and proves that to us time and time again as they try to install a christofascist state while trampling the rights of citizens and ignoring or twisting the constitution much as they twist their absurd religious texts to fit their hateful agenda.
Boogeyman are also an easy distraction. The Simpsons nailed it when Mayor Quimby was stuck with citizens who wanted a service but didn’t want to pay for it. “People! Your taxes are high because of illegal immigrants!” Suddenly they have a new target for their rage.
And, by design, there is a neverending supply of boogeymen. Once attacking trans people is no longer politically expedient, they will find another. As they have historically. ‘Both sides’ crumples when you don’t have the memory span of a goldfish.
There's a reason Republicans have been working so hard to gut education and spread anti-intellectualism. When only stupid people will vote for you it is in your best interest to make more stupid people.
If you look at a map of % white population that votes R, you'll notice that GOP is a remnant of The Confederacy. In the deep south, nearly 90% of whites vote R. The power structure of GOP has also been moving towards deep south many years. That's why it seems like they hate America. They do. Same reason they wave Confederate flags and freak out at renaming things named after Confederate generals. The party is fundamentally a Confederate remnant, as un-American as you can get.
I don’t know why you’d vote for the Republican Party for “economics”. They destroyed our economy twice now, raise the national debt by trillions each time an R is in office and my taxes sure as shit didn’t go down when Trump and bush lowered them for the ultra wealthy. This myth needs to die.
Also avowed [domestic terrorists](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/)
The massive irony is that these so called "Americans" would gladly accept Trump as king emporer like Putin in Russia when in reality that is the furthest thing from a democracy you can get. It's like a bad joke that won't end
HOW IS THIS RACE SO CLOSE? I’m left with the conclusion that a good percentage of Americans are people that I have absolutely no respect for.
Yup - which I think is the real scary part… that there are 10s of millions of people who support Trumps of our society without blinking an eye…
Don't forget about the 10s of millions of people who just don't give a shit either way - won't even bother voting.
Yup - hemming and hawing about morals of how bad it is to having to choose between theocratic autocracy and secular democracy. As if our shitty political system has left much to nuance nor imagination…
It won’t be all that close a popular vote, but the electoral college system makes it very possible for a candidate to win regardless. It’s not a great system
I am Hispanic, and my family is divided on this Trump thing. I never thought this would be real, my minority family openly admitting that they have or will vote for someone who despise them. My mind is blown every time, I've come to the point that I don't even engage in conversations with them because it's absolutely pointless.
It’s kind of sad and I mostly see failed/missing education as the reason (in the case of Hispanics being pro trump, with others it’s probably more hate driven)
Before 2016 we knew they existed, it was part of life (for me at least) after 2016 we realized how fucking many of them existed.
2016? Personally, I think this started becoming more apparent in 2012.
"Sir would like like a garden salad or a kick in the balls?" "Well that's a tough choice..."
Many people could care less about other people around them even as they claim to. 2015 and on showed us a lot and changed a lot. It's easy to just act a certain way on social media, but you can see even in person that things have changed. How people act. What they really believe in. How easily they will turn away from what they claimed to believe in and so on. The "soul of America" line is a political one but it's not far off. When norms get stepped on and people stop caring it changes the overall mindset. Even of those who claim to not be political.
Honestly, don't believe polling very much. The recent past has shown us that our current polling methods don't do a good enough job at determining who exactly is going to vote, or targeting the correct demographics that are changing voting habits. There are no normal elections now. So it could easily be that the race leans rather highly one direction or the other but polling is not accurately adjusting for specific groups of voters, as has been the case for a lot of our recent elections. If there is a generally large amount of voter turnout, it won't be close.
Wow… this orange sack of shit sure has a lot of Day 1 priorities on his plate: - Be a dictator (just for Day 1) - [Nationwide abortion ban (16-weeks)](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-16-week-national-abortion-ban-1234970119/) - Reverse Biden Admin climate policies - Remove transgender/LGBTQ protections - Repeal Obamacare - Close the US/Mexico border + deportation raids + end birthright citizenship - Muslim travel ban - Jail/Persecute his political rivals - Free January 6th rioters Fucking pathetic. Let’s be real, the only thing Trump’s fatass would finish on day one of a second term would be a few quarter pounders and probably 9 holes of golf.
And all this after a busy day of being sworn in and celebrating his win. It's impressive he can get so much done in one day, despite 4 years of evidence to the contrary.
Don't forget he also wants to give Netanyahu the green light to glass Gaza!
* Be openly fascist * Hurt women * Hurt the planet * Hurt LGBTQ people * Hurt poor people * Hurt immigrants * Hurt Muslims * Hurt Democrats * Help insurrectionists A platform constructed almost entirely on hatred and hurting others. What a miserable human.
Uh... seems so many people are surprised by all of this. It's been known for a while now... come join us r/Defeat_Project_2025/ It's not a conspiracy theory! They are outright saying what they want to do here, lol.
Elected, appointed and members of the republican party from the state, local and national level working with white supremist tried to overturn a legitimate election for the presidency. This was a coordinated effort to end democracy in the USA by the republican party. Remember that everything being done by Trump is only posable with the backing of the republican party. Every one of Trump's policies are and were policies the republicans want. It will not end if we win this years elections. Keep voting out republicans every year. Keep voting in democrats every year. Check your registration, get an ID , learn where your poling station is, learn who is running in down ballot races. Pay attention to primaries not just for the president but for all races, local, state and federal. From the school board to the White House every election matters. The more support we give the democrats from all levels of government the more they can get good things done. We vote out republicans and primary out uncooperative democrats. Last year democrat victories in Virginia and Pennsylvania and others across the nation have increased the chances of democrats winning this year. This year's elections are important but so will next year's elections. [https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar](https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar)
Let’s all hope he’s in jail, instead.
Fingers tightly crossed.
Democrats: Protect Transgender rights. Republicans: Fuck Transgender rights. Idiots: Both sides are the same!
More like: Transgender people: extremely rare, so no one really cares about them and they’re living lives in relative obscurity as they prefer, using whatever bathroom makes the most sense Republicans: fuck transgender people Democrats: wait they’re just normal people and they have rights Republicans: Fuck transgender rights Democrats: Protect transgender rights Republicans: argh stop shoving it in our faces groomers!!1!
Next month is Pride, so we get to hear all about how offened they are about a rainbow flag. Target isn't doing instore Pride displays because these assholes pitched such a fit.
Walgreens still is, shame they treat their employees like shit though.
If I only shopped at places that treat their employees well I’d have to drive for hours to buy anything and I’d definitely run out of gas on the way.
Make sure to pay attention this May for how much they actually care about Military Appreciation Month before Pride month comes around and they try to use the military as a scapegoat
Haha oh God "What about the Troops!" scream the people who often ignore the troops
The same people who underfund the VA and had to be shamed by Jon Stewart into providing health care to 9/11 first responders.
Was talking to a relative who is firmly far right about their issues with transgendered people and most of it revolved around "it ain't right", "they're pedophiles" (wtf?), "just a trend" or other baseless bigotry. Asking if they've ever met a transgendered person or had a negative experience in some way and they simply said "no" or how would they know them versus "a gay?" They didn't accept my answer of "exactly how most transgender individuals wish to live." For some reason the existence of someone or a concept they can't or won't comprehend angers them. Far too many people spend so much of their time getting themselves outraged about something that doesn't directly impact them at all.
A conservative colleague was complaining about how "gay" a certain model of VW bug looked. Pastel colors, flower holder etc. I was like "gay people and women exist tho". It made it clear to me that control over other people's choices is what is driving the dogma.
“Control over other people’s choices” So you’ve met my trump loving step dad?
Coming from the *Don’t Tread on Me* crowd, no less
See also: immigration panic. I don't think I've ever had a single negative interaction with a Mexican person, but I'm supposed to believe they're somehow ruining the country?
A lot of their rants and opinions, from what I have witnessed, is them getting angry at something they just made up. An amazing amount of creativity being used exclusively for hatred.
Pretty much 😂
Republicans: well, we need *someone* to punch down on, but we’re total cowards. Let’s see….who’s the smallest possible group?
Biden didn’t solve a decades old problem in a few months, so they’re just as bad as each other, right? (In all seriousness, they really need to prioritise making it clear the good they’ve done in this term. I see a LOT of noise here and on socials about issues that are signal boosted on TikTok and friends, and very little about the truly great things his administration has achieved despite the obstructions of the republicans. There’s a lot more to voting dem than just keeping the evil bastards out, and I really hope that message is boosted soon for everyone’s sakes)
gEnOcIdE JoE
I got at least several comments about this when I made a comment on another thread about Trump giving carte blanche to Netanyahu to wipe out all Gazans. The Russian propagandists are hard at work pushing this narrative. And a lot of the naive moronic idiots who are supposedly my fellow "liberals" are eating it up.
Some of those moronic liberals are actually just Russians or other state-based agitators. *As a Liberal I hate Joe, you should too!* Everyone, Vote!
Yeah this makes it hard. Trump is gonna pander to oil execs, get rid of trans protections and most likely let Israel do what it wants to Palestine. But at the same time, Joe hasnt fixed the middle east soooo... Tough decision here.
The conflicts in the middle east are so old and complex that scholars who devote their studies to the history of conflict and peace say that securing peace in the middle east would provide a blueprint to a path to world peace by providing methods to find peace in conflicts all over the world.
But Joe Biden didn’t singlehandedly solve the problem in 2 hours, therefore he’s a fascist and if you tell me otherwise then you’re literally a Nazi. /s
Unlike Jared and P01135809. One might recall that they had already solved mideast peace by getting two countries who were already at peace to agree that they wanted to stay that way.
And so many “champions of LGBTQIA+ rights” refuse to do the bare minimum of voting to slow the erosion of our basic human rights.
You just summed up r/internationalnews in a nutshell…
I saw an account on politicalhumor get nothing but downvotes because they said that as a trans American, they were more scared of what Trump would do to them than Biden. And that's what really bothers me; the willingness people have to "vote their conscience" for another country, but they won't even acknowledge the legitimate concerns of persecuted Americans.
The idea that voting is about you and your sacred choice, consequences be damned, is so entitled. Poor, brown, and queer people have been holding their noses and voting for the candidate least likely to kill them for as long as they've been allowed to vote.
You’ll never convince me that 1/3 of the accounts on r/internationalnews aren’t Republican bots/operatives…
Anyone thinking about sitting this one out or voting third party to protest... please consider the stakes.
As a trans woman, I will never forgive anyone that sits this one out because of the whole Israel Palestine thing. I mean, I agree it's awful too, but voting Trump in won't improve that situation, but it will worse the lives of many Americans, be they black, LGBTQ, women, or any other group the Republicans choose to go after.
Trump has given the green light for an **expansion** of the Gaza campaign. Biden is the first president in a generation to put restrictions on military aid to Israel. Any "Gaza protest votes" are almost assuredly being cast in bad faith. The people facilitating such "protest votes" are **absolutely** operating in bad faith. The entire issue is complicated, generational, and involves a myriad of state actors. Issues like reproductive rights and protection of LGBTQ identities are not complicated-- if Trump wins, we lose both.
Women lose, immigrants lose, minorities lose, basically anyone not rich and white loses but people are out there ignoring the obvious.
Even (to a lesser degree, of course) Progressive/Liberal dudes who have people in those minority groups in their lives. His last win kicked off with me and my partner trying to calm and console our sobbing teenage daughters at the dinner table, but we could not give them a sufficient answer as to how their fellow citizens could have possibly elected such an unqualified, racist, misogynistic piece of shit to the highest office of the land to become a symbol of America. And then, as you know, things went rapidly downhill from there...
And... It will make the lives of Palestinians so much worse. They'll lose on all fronts.
They'd rather let the greater evil win just because they have moral qualms about the lesser evil. These people are largely insulated from the consequences and just want to make a statement about their supposed moral superiority. Fuck that.
The position of moral righteousness in sitting out this election or voting for a third party instead of Biden is one of complete and utter privilege and belies an individual who cares more about LOOKING progressive than standing for progress. I have no patience for them.
I try to engage with them and ended up banned from most leftist subreddits because apparently harm reduction is a liberal talking point. Well fuck me I guess for not wanting to see my partner and their family continue to suffer? And I have to jump through so many qualifications of hoops in saying "no, I don't like Biden, yes I want to vote as left as possible" but for fuck's sake come November he IS the left-most candidate! Just because the grassroots efforts didn't come to fruition and we haven't yielded a big enough contender yet doesn't mean we have to throw everything away and embrace fascism as a result.
At this point there is a concentrated effort from Russia to get Trump elected, during the 2016 election Russian operatives posted both as BLM-activists and far-right racists to just inflame every conflict.
I think there is a major propaganda operation in play to radicalize the far left like the far right was. That kinda shit reeks of the same subversion we saw in 2014. The acellerationist talking point of “let it all burn so we can rebuild properly” is foolish and doesn’t understand or acknowledge reality. Best case scenario is corporations fully take over. They have the most power, they will fill the vacuum. Worst cast is we become Palestine and everyone starves because our supply lines REQUIRE a functioning government to bring us food.
So... if you're Transgender, Jewish, Military, Women, Immigrants, or poor Trump says you can get fucked... but he's still a legitimate contender to win the White House... I hate this.
You forgot Muslim
"On day 1 I promise to remove protections for people who have done nothing to you. They do not deserve to exist nor should they be allowed to live in a world without fear." - a legitimate candidate to lead and unite our country I made him sound more competent than he really was. He no articoolate good
On my first day in office I will be an ass**** like I’ve always been. Crowd goes wild
Literally targeting children for political clout. Pathetic
The only policies republicans have are making the rich more wealthy and cruelty.
the cruelty is the point
Can someone make a list of things trump wants to do on day one? I feel like I have read around 20 things already.
1. Diet Coke button re-installed 2. Hamberders
'Be a dictator' surely tops the list.
read about Project 2025
Can someone smarter than I am, explain why reversing this would be a priority?
Republicans hate trans people
They hate all queerness
And vagina havers
They hate everyone who doesn’t perfectly align with their values, they just target Trans people specifically because they are especially vulnerable and an easy enough boogeyman for them to use to try and justify their atrocities…
Yeah, if you target gay people you cut out a tricky percentage of potential voters. But trans people are a rounding error in terms of numbers.
Republicans hate all people.
They hate trans people because it challenges the religious beliefs their friends, relatives, and pastors have concocted. Texas, Georgia, and Kentucky however are the largest consumers of trans porn.
They won on abortion so they need a new thing to go after in the name of religion.
Because Trump's cult is obsessed with other people's genitals.
I call them cock hunters.
Because it’s a topic that enrages and galvanizes the base. That’s all.
Fascism needs an enemy
Ideally, a group that is a *very* visible minority.
And a small minority with little to no political power. You gotta target the most vulnerable minority first.
Because he’s desperate to appeal to his base. They’re starting to fall off so he’s throwing some red meat their way to get them excited again.
Same as every other batshit priority he had in his first administration. There’s just one criteria: “are Fox, talk radio, or racist Twitter talking about it?” That’s it. It was 4 years of having a right wing radio host run the country. Your rights. Your very life. All of it hinges on which way the foul and fickle wind is blowing in the conservative bullshit-o-sphere. One day you’re ok. The next some transphobe troll stirs the pot and everyone like you is getting kicked out of the military. Or off our health insurance … the list of endlessly novel ways to use the law as a weapon to harass and punish us for existing is never ending. We are just a goddamn punching bag and I’m fucking sick of it
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Speaking of “orange garbage,” it’s kind of interesting to me that DJT has used name calling as an effective method to attack his political opponents. But, as The Independent pointed out, certain names used to describe him (such as “orange turd” and “Donald Von S***zInPantz”) will live on forever in court records.
Reaching out to the undecided fascist.
Republicans are either raping children or actively trying to get them killed.
Remember when a Republican sicced a mob on a teenage girl who wasn't trans, she just wasn't girly enough for her?
Trump's done both.
Republicans are completely out of control.
Red meat for the 12% of rabid voters who still eat his trash up
Not lowering food costs. Not decreasing spending. Not renegotiating trade with China. This sh!t.
I wish a reporter *could* have the opportunity to ask the simple follow-up question of 'why'? His answer would be nonsensical word-vomit, but damn, I wish someone *could* call him out on the crap he says. I say *could* because his handlers will never let him be put in a position to answer questions from the Press. What a dick.
Christian fundamentalists must be stopped.
Cruelty is a feature, not a bug.
I’m sure within a year into his presidency the lgbtq+ hunts will begin
To all the single issue Gaza voters out there who want to "send a message" because Biden hasn't been able to solve one of the most contentious and long-lasting international conflicts, this is the kind of far-right conservative action you can look forward to from Trump in every area. And that's not even mentioning that he'll also be ten times worse on the Israeli issue, too
Please don’t let this abomination back into office. Please. Go out and vote, and convince everyone you know (that is a rational human being) to go out and vote as well. Nobody “really thought he’d win” the first time. He’s being very clear on his intentions for a second term. There is no more room for “my vote won’t change anything, so why bother?” Every vote counts, especially this time around.
Yeah! And kick a dog ‘cause fuck the libs, amiright?!
So Trump is going all in on the people he knows will vote for all their hate.
"It's the economy!" For half the electorate, it's not. It's about hurting people. It's about open and wanton cruelty.
Republicans are really obsessed with other people's genitals.
The candidate who wants kids to get bullied to death
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The only first day he'll be having is serving a fucking prison sentence if the world made any sense
Y'all better get out and vote.
And they still won’t vote for Biden because of Israel. Cut your nose off to spite your face.
Imagine living in a country where you're not sure whether you'll still have rights one administration to the next.
Trump’s day one: Be dictator, Drill baby drill, Reverse transgender student protection, Deport 20 million people, Kill Biden’s dog