I always assumed America would swiftly deal with a racist fascist criminal megalomaniac.
Boy was I wrong.
This nation is WEAK.
Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.
That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.
Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.
Well, I guess the Soviet Union didn’t really help there.
The USA is distracted with treats. It’s economy is the imperial core of the planet. That fact affords Trump some time before the masses realize what’s going on.
Remember that the Nazis made the economy temporarily better for the in-group. They actually allowed socialist benefits for the German workforce before clamping down on that during WWII.
Trump isn’t making the economy better for anyone though. He’s screwing everyone over, and channeling that hate towards anything else but him and his base.
Just as we’ve seen with Charlie Kirk’s murder and Candace Owen’s conspiracy theory to blame it all on Israel, the Right can fracture very easily. I don’t think this Admin will make it to the height of the Nazis. Their own incompetence and marriage to the rich will sew the seeds of their demise. Of course, anti-fascists throwing wrenches in things doesn’t hurt either.
This is what I keep expecting, but there has been minimal pushback on all the horrible economic policies and somehow the economy is mostly shrugging it off.
To be fair, we’re not really sure what the economy is doing because Trump rejects any reports from his Admin that show the economy in a bad light.
We’re back to COVID level unemployment, iirc.
Edit: we also haven’t seen the full extent of the impact that deportation of undocumented immigrants will have on the economy.
Turns out conservatives were just waiting for one evil and horrible enough all along.
And the Democrats… Jesus Christ are they useless. They roll over at the very sound of a stiff breeze.
just no one is gonna be there like for Luigi, if we Americans had any balls he’d either be out of jail or someone broke him out, no balls, especially if you’re a dumb fuck Republican, hey trump imma shit on your grave you orange POS, come get me, boom shaka laka
I’d call America a nation of bitches, but bitches have a backbone.
ABC just caved and fired kimmel, the fascists are winning
The thing is you’re confused here, but it’s fine because he’s confused. It’s the wrong ABC. He thinks it’s the American broadcasting corporation. And you could be forgiven for thinking that because that’s all the identification we get here. This is actually the “Australian” broadcasting corporation. I’m not as familiar, but it looks like their PBS.
Being an Aussie doesn’t mean they won’t try and go after him.
Somebvody posted a link from Australian ABC about this story, but it was American ABC.
It seems to be a recurring theme where Australian Broadcasting Corporation gets attacked. Black lives matter they beat a group of them, then what else there was another incident just recently.
There was period of time during Trump’s last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of “not the onion” headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.
I remember one was like “Judge determines woman can’t prove she didn’t want to be set on fire.”
This would fit in nicely.
Huh…I’m trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn’t want to be set on fire.
I can’t think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also…how did THAT headline happen???
The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn’t know she didn’t want to participate.
my lay person understanding of the law is that in situations like these you don’t need to prove what should be so overwhelmingly self-evident
there’s probably some Latin phrase for it a lawyer would just know but when a thing is so far away from a gray area of reasonableness you’re fine
you shouldn’t need hard evidence, people as a rule don’t like to set themselves on fire
Getting set on fire is really something that where the burden of proof is on the burner.
If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, stop doing Nazi shit you sack of human shit.
Historically most fascists leave office in body bags
They don’t call him Mango Mussolini for nuffin…
Ghetto Gadaffi could also work. 🤞
“1 year ago our country was dead”
WHAT
I mean, a dead horse does die at some point well before the beatings are done.
BREAKING NEWS: “President Cunt Cuntily Says Some Cunty Shit”
ALSO: “European Union Stockpiling ScotchGuard Reserves in Anticipation of Future JD Vance Visit”
Trump is using the “bully pulpit” to bully people out of their constitutional rights.
Ah yes, open threats leveraging intentional division, like a true leader
Anytime you win, you know it when he starts talking about how hot the country is
The second is there to defend the first.
O he will eventually, make no mistake. Longer he is allowed to be the tyrant he wants to be, all of his ‘threats’ are very real
