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    Democrats if they ever get the white house again: “Well, we better keep the plaques. We don’t want to upset them.”

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      Oh don’t worry, a big chunk of the likely Democrat voter population will make sure they lose.

      Fixing the plaques is easy and they’d do that. It’s funny that people criticize Trump for using the presidency for revenge but then demand that Democrats do the same thing.

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        It’s funny how your slip is showing over and over. We have literal Russians in our governments and people like you clap. GFY and go send some flowers to Trump and the rest of the GOP who in many cases would have had fusillade treatment a long time ago. There are crimes more than worthy of that.

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    White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”

    Lmao

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      You’re letting people with the mentality of spoiled school children scare you into inaction

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        If you’ve ever spent time with an adolescent, you will understand how scary the idea of school children, with unlimited power, money, and knowledge of the world, is truly horrifying. I’m not scared of school children, but if one had a bazooka pointed at you, I bet you’d be finding cover like the rest of us.

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    This is childish and petty.

    I am so fucking embarrassed to live in the USA.

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    When I read shit like this I think of Trump tearing down the East Wing. He didn’t do this personally. Multiple people had to agree and execute.

    For example; I managed a reprographics shop. We would have flat refused to make signage such as these plaques. Not because management was woke, we simply wouldn’t handle toxic messaging. Somewhere in DC is a shop that said, “Fuck it, the money matters more than morals.” Same for the demolition company.

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      I was a park service employee when this administration began and the back breaking speed everyone bent over and let Trump have his way was disgusting.

      I’m talking entire HR departments working fucking COMP TIME (not even OT) just to make sure their colleagues are fired as quickly as possible. Like damn policy allows you to take up to 3 sick days no questions, call out and let people have a few more days of pay.

      Everyone with a conscience in leadership instead of trying to resist just resigned day one. The rest fell in line.

      I was disgusted and disappointed

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    The eating of trumps ass by his maga moron is out of control. They named renamed the Kennedy center. Who memoralizes themselves while living? Dictators. Only Dictators do this shit. My family is lost to his nonsense. There isnt a single free thinking person in my family anymore. Dad mom, brother all lost to his bs. Wake up America, im begging you, before he takes all your rights away

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        the issue with maga recognizing it is they relish it. that’s what they’re here for. they think this is what it means to hold the elite accountable: sending mean tweets, being a petty bitch, lashing out omnidirectionally.

        where trump is losing people, and i’m starting to really see it in my community, is his claims that america has never been more affordable than it is today. you can lie about why you’re going to war and the dangers posed by people racists don’t talk to, but you can’t lie about the price of bread. you can’t hide that. everyone can tell if the cost of living is getting better or worse. they can tell because we’re all living it

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    How, and I’m serious here, how can this thing get voted in? And how did it happen twice?

    You’d have to be fucking moronic to the point of being a dribbling idiot to even think that this orange thing was not just a huge piece of unusable scum!!

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      I get a lot of hate on Lemmy every time I post this, but I genuinely think American voters don’t like women.

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        Biden won as an old white man. Harris lost as a younger non-white non-man. Policy virtually the same.

        It gets a little hard to deny.

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        There seems to be a weird aversion to anything that can be seen as politics in America. So I think most of the general public there are not aware of the political ongoings so if and when they vote they see a male and female running they just vote in the male irregardless of who they are.

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          Happily, enthusiastically. I don’t think she’ll be the one to take it in 2028, though, and I’d rather not see her burn her political viability this early in her career.

          I’d love to see her unseat Schmuck Schumer, and help Bernie cement the Progressive foundation in the Senate, the way she did in the House. She inspired many others to run for Congress, and now she can help them get a strong foothold on the Senate, too. That’s as important a job to the future of America as being president for a few years.

          After she’s spent a decade or so in the Senate, perhaps as Senate Majority leader or some other leadership role, she should have the support of the voters to be President, and I think she’ll make a truly great one. Just give her time.

          The problem, is that few others approach her in terms of credibility, and we can’t have another weak Democratic placeholder, just filling in long enough for voters to be convinced by a relentless flood of propaganda that they are really better off living in economic and social instability for their entire lives, so that the wealthy can be even more comfortable than they already are. That’s been the role of literally EVERY Democratic president since Carter. Not one of them did anything substantial to protect American citizens from a takeover by the nastiest organized criminals the world has to offer.

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        Part of the problem is a lack of information. It’s out there if you go digging for it but only if you go digging for it.

        You need to introduce some media laws that restrict people from using the word “News” is any case but actual journalism. Also anyone who uses the phrase “alternative facts” should be executed, there are no such things as alternative facts, they’re called “lies”.

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          Also anyone who uses the phrase “alternative facts” should be executed

          No we’re not going to throw away the Constitution over reactionary nonsense like this.

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        I’m sure that it’s quite common worldwide. We’re probably missing out on a lot of competent people because of that.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      Because America has decided that prideful ignorance and belligerence are the highest virtues, and nobody embodies these virtues more than Donald Trump.

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      1.) He runs a personality cult - his cult supports him no matter what.

      2.) His opposition stupidly cannibalizes itself when it matters most.

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      One thing is that America hasn’t given a new presidency to the same party that held the office since the 1980s, at there’s already a tendency to waffle back and forth.

      Trump got through the GOP primaries by virtue of energizing the racist hateful folks that people like McCain famously tried to talk down.

      With the general election, people were miffed about Bernie, polling told them they could safely sit it out and Trump would still lose, and frankly people didn’t think Trump would be that terrible, even if they didn’t like him.

      His first term made us a laughing stock and inflicted injustice at the border, but was mostly milquetoast otherwise until the pandemic, which tanked any chance at the election

      Then various things contributed to a terrible economy with Biden, so people voted for “different”, and hey, Trump was not great but, pandemic aside, domestic situation wasn’t so bad…

      So now here we are, an administration totally off the leash…

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      He manipulated the first election, and he literally stole the second one.

      Shut up. Yes he did, and you ALL know it.

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          Trump has cheated at everything he’s ever done in life. He is astonishingly ignorant because he bullied other kids into doing every homework assignment he ever had. We know he called on Putin to manipulate the 2016 election. He tried to take back the 2020 election by force.

          By 2024, he was facing almost certain conviction for his Insurrection AND stealing hundreds of classified documents, and was facing a life sentence in prison.

          So you are telling me that after a lifetime of cheating in everything he does, even when he doesn’t have to, just because he figures it will give some sort of an advantage, the ONE election that he DIDN’T cheat in, is the one election that would keep him out of prison for the rest of his life. You actually believe that?

          And I’M a “fucking idiot?”

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    Epstein deadline is tomorrow, right?

    Gotta throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

    Misdirect, misdirect, misdirect

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      Only on paper. In reality, the authors of the bill wrote that Trump and Bondi get to decide what to release and can withhold as much of the documents as they want under the guise of “national security.” It was just more kayfabe.

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        The trove has been leaking like a sieve over the last few months. I’m not sure what else people are expecting to see at this point.

        There’s this bizarre insistence that one more big scandal will be the final straw. And we’ve been playing this game since Hillary released “Grab’em by the pussy”.

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      It will be heavily guarded or hidden. It will literally be defaced in the first hour. I will dance on the day of his death. The entire world will celebrate his Demise.

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    Dude’s a frail and frightened little failure of a man. Everthing he does is a result of pure cowardice.

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    What kind of fucking fanfiction is this whole thing. Satire truly is dead.

    Also

    California Governor Gavin Newsom, no stranger to mocking Trump online, slammed the stunt.

    Stop “slamming” and similar terms because they fucking mean nothing

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      I think we need to get more graphic not less.

      “Newsome DOUBLE SUPLEXES president and VP in latest witty tweet. World leaders RIOT NAKED in response.”

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      Nothing seems to mean anything anymore.

      Like it’s batshit crazy and the right and left and people eat it up and it makes them feel like they are a part of something because they haven’t cultivated their own worth as a human being beyond their consumerism and materialism. Their values are based on their owners ideologies that they are born into and not universal human understanding.

      All I can do is watch all of it and want to kill myself when I realize everything truly is and has been bullshit and so many lives are wasted in participating is the bullshit culture they manipulate people with.