Lil Mike needs some knee pads and jaw ointment for the work he’s doing.
We have to disband this entire government.
Republicans are obviously doing crimes but the Democrats are complicit to these in spite of the inexcusably lazy defense of “decorum”. You don’t stand on decorum when criminals are killing people outside and shitting all over your floor.
We could always take a page from the French and burn DC to the ground lol
Preferable to a nationwide civil war IMO
You mean the D.C. that is famously full of people of color, none of whom have representation, despite having a larger population than two states, and who have been historically marginalised, in large part because a few blocks of the city have some marble buildings filled with ethnonationalist, corpofascist kakistocrats? You’re suggesting we burn down that D.C.?
more just the marble buildings filled with the evil dudes, that DC
Except, what everyone seems to be ignoring is that those buildings literally aren’t filled with the evil dudes most of the time. I was born in DC. Those buildings are almost entirely empty, and there are always multiple orders of magnitude more tourists in and around them than there are potentates. Most of the most powerful people in the country don’t even live in DC most of the time, because they’re rich enough to just fly in whenever they need to, or drive in from nearby states, where they have massive mansions. I’ve given my perspective in a different reply which you are welcome to read, but torching DC is an inane idea, tantamount to screaming and breaking a plate so you can feel like you’re helping the situation.
Yeah I am screaming and breaking plates currently
Don’t get me wrong, we here in Lemmy have got the screaming part down. However, any revolutionary effort that doesn’t go toward either mutual aid or grinding the system to a halt is, ultimately, ineffectual.
While you have a point, are you suggesting we continue to let them be victimized by doing nothing and continue on with the status quo? Sometimes forests have to burn and the old has to die to let new life flourish. Such is a fact of nature.
As I said to a different response: when demolishing buildings, we use high explosives, not gasoline. I was born in DC. The buildings didn’t do anything wrong, nor did the people who live near those buildings. Very few of the traitors to the nation even live in the capital most of the time. Burning a city to the ground is never an acceptable solution to any problem; It wasnt appropriate in WWII for Dresden, London, or Hiroshima, it wasn’t in the war of 1812 for D.C., and it isn’t now. Large-scale retaliation will only cause collateral damage and put up a smokescreen. It would be nothing more than senseless violence amounting to stomping your feet on the ground. Any action which has a hope of success in bringing justice must be done in an orderly and methodical manner, I don’t go in for all the modern second amendment crap, and am a conscientious objector, because the one part of that amendment which is most important is this: a well-regulated militia is necessary to protect the rights of the people. The declaration of independence makes it clear that we have a right and a duty to throw off this government, which is openly seeking to reduce us under absolute despotism, but that doesn’t mean just burning some uninhabited buildings with god knows how much collateral damage is a good plan. It would be nothing but theatre with an extreme innocent death toll.
Don’t be dense. No one wants to burn all of D.C. Just parts of it.
Are you aware of how large-scale fires work? Don’t be dense yourself. There’s a reason we demolish buildings with high-explosives, not fucking gasoline and matches.
I believe it was the British that burned DC down
Oh I just mean the way the French set fire to Paris at the drop of a hat lol
They had yet to prove any fraud
I beg to differ.
Context… But yes of course
The only fraud in any election the pants 10 years has been perpetrated by republicans
“Fraudulent” means “not what MAGA wants.”
“We had three House Republican candidates who were ahead on election day in the last election cycle, and every time a new tranche of ballots came in, they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost, and no series of ballots that were counted after election day were our candidates ahead on any of those counts,”
Counting. That magic is called counting.
Typical Republican tactic: cheat to win, win to cheat.
I’m sure the Democrats will have a unified and muscular response that puts the best interests of their constituents first.
Honestly, I fully expect people to continue to invest their time and effort into ineffective hope and action.
Epstein files? Dud, their base was never going to care.
People resigning? By all means, tell them what positions were problematic and leave them open to replace with loyalists. In this regard, at least people have begun circulating CIA guides for people trying to subvert regimes, so at least it has not continued to the same degree as when Trump’s second term began.
Midterms? Turns out the January 6th guy is going to try to compromise them (never mind that he has persistently ignored congress and gone over them, that right now it is the weakest branch of government). I can’t even comprehend how people are falling on the impeachment line and sinker he’s laying out for them to bite on when he has fully compromised the federal agencies that would be in charge of such an investigation, never mind that he has already been impeached and it lead to nothing. Meanwhile, they continue to take no effective action, because permitting illegal unconstitutional acts peacefully is somehow better than allowing them to commit the same acts but with somewhat less bullshit excuses even when it doesn’t matter how bullshit the excuses has been so far.
Protests? Not really that effective when you hold them in like-minded societies. They would need to start happening in the red states where people are living within their bubbles to pop them out of them, but you wouldn’t have oligarchs financing the fleets of buses and logistics necessary to begin moving them never mind that the reception would not be even the same as the sort of reception they’ve been exploiting for their MAGA crowds. Protests against abusers just tend to egg them on when not only do they pose no actual resistance, but they can get away with literal murder.
If Europe had gone up against the USSR, they’d be a lot more cooked than Europe and Ukraine working to stop Russia’s advance. Stop being a schizo-nation that holds “indivisibility” above all else, US, because you no longer hold the same values throughout your territory. Maybe next time don’t ignore the canary of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine as it is butchered to death.
Don’t get me wrong, I have little hope for opposition, if any. I can count the governors taking the threat seriously and for what it is with a single hand, never mind that they are essentially acting independently and with questionable support from the state authorities they should supposedly have authority over.
because you no longer hold the same values throughout your territory.
We have never held the same values through the territories. The Constitution is a series of compromises to keep the farmland and urban centers sort of happy. Stark moral differences have been in our blood since day 1; the expansion of slave states (ignoring the native genocide for now) lead to the annexation of Texas and the American Civil War. Nobody is ever held accountable, slavers and secessionists and fascists are allowed to hold political power because the entire house of cards that is the United States is and has always been barely held together through a shared willful ignorance.
Don’t let propaganda confuse you. The US was built on genocide and has since been responsible for more deaths than any other nation.
Just our sanctions alone are estimate to have killed 500k people a year for the last 50 years. That is 25 Million people dead just because the US doesn’t like other nation’s policies.
They are getting desperate. They know they are all going to jail when the adults are back in office. They will do ANYTHING to avoid jail, including burning the country to the ground.
They aren’t letting the adults in the room
Oh they are allowed, it is just sane adults don’t want to hang out with a chomo who shits his pants. The smell alone would keep any normal person away.
given all the projection we have seen from these guys. this makes me very suscpicious.
Mike Johnson is nothing but a spineless shithead. That SOB needs thrown out of office
This seems like a recipe for someone to burn down his house.
Mossad must have videos of him doing some weird shit
Go fuck yourself Johnson. Start yapping about how your fucked up your pal, Krasnov, is mentioned 38,000 times, and counting, in the latest Epstein files.
Honestly, I’m surprised we haven’t seen someone put on a suicide vest to take out ICE/Republicans. Maybe they have a terminal illness and want to some good on their way out. That’s honesly the most stunning thing about today.
It’s too late for that. ICE has galvanized a culture of oppression since the 7 or so murders they’ve committed. Maybe ICE would have tucked tail a year ago but now they’ll double down. Meanwhile Trump is itching to justify actual military intervention.
And this cunt calls himself a Christian.
Matthew 7:22-23
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
With the fascism, the shit in the epstein files, and this shit, its just a fucken joke now. Burn it to the ground.
None of it is a joke. If Americans treated it seriously when it all first started, we wouldn’t be here right now. It’s a fascist coup wrapped in the American flag, always has been.
But saying it doesn’t seem to motive people to do what’s necessary to oppose it. Those words have been overused and misused to the point of being completely ineffective to communicate the seriousness of what’s happening. It’s a five alarm fire and ppl are just going to work and doin their hobbies and acting like this is someone else’s problem to fix. Which is exactly what the political class has taught us for decades, don’t engage, don’t participate, don’t think to be actively involved in your own governance, don’t have any power of influence, just vote every couple years and then fuck off back to your wage slave lives.
You know full well that it’s just a figure of speech. Don’t be deliberately obtuse. It is a joke of a government.
It’s as serious a government as America has ever had. Incompetent, corrupt, abusive, cruel, ignorant, arrogant, elitist, racist, narcissistic, but also very, very serious. Humor has a way of disconnecting us from the seriousness of things and I’m guessing that’s why you characterize it as a joke. It may be a figure of speech but you using it says something about you that I’m going to take seriously.
Humor is also a way to take power from the powerful, and give the powerless a sense of agency.
It may provoke behavior but that isn’t empowerment.
It’s weird you’re arguing against people saying things dismissive of this administration.
I’m arguing against arguments, not on behalf of one team vs the other.
Don’t forget the shit in his pants, too.
How do I know they cheated? Because we cheated and they beat us!
This is what I’ve been saying since they first started claiming voter fraud
This is a perfect comment because it describes exactly what happened (from their perspective) in the most succinct way possible. 💯
