This so fucked up

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        I see lots of non-Americans telling Americans to “do something!” every single day here in the fediverse.

        Americans might have “vile and violent fantasies” but they’re far from the only ones and I’d wager if you talked to a neighbor or two you might find some of them have similar fantasies.

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          Nope, don’t see it in my environment.
          It’s a sick US attitude.
          A society drenched in violence and fantasies.
          Their sad little cope for their impotence and complete lack of reaction against their regime’s behavior.
          In their infantile minds they believe they are the great revolutionaries and warriors ready to battle injustice.

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      He is literally the President of AmeriKKKa. He literally controls the US military. If we wants your attention, he can literally force it from you. Ignoring him is not gonna make him go away.

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    He really doesn’t have to say something like that. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself.

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        He doesn’t. He’s not even remotely nice to her, she’s always in the background but never up front. If you went just on body language alone you would conclude that they have no relationship at all and he doesn’t even know she exists.

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    I’d line up to take a baseball bat to this man even if all I’d be hitting at that point was a puddle of goo

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    What he did to his political opponent???

    MOTHERFUCKER, THAT’S YOU!

    He won an election that you and your friends tried to rig and lied about, so you attempted a coup and lied about, then lied about the election, and then lied about lying.

    If you didn’t have your finger on the button, everyone would want you to talk shit about them because that would mean they did something right or cool at least once.

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    I don’r either. I feel sorry for his loved ones, but he can rest in piss like the traitor that he is.

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    Sucks for Biden, but I will never forgive him for not firing Garland & making damn sure pedo Trump died in a prison cell.

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        I was under the impression that it was Israel invading Gaza.

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            If Netanyahu just says nope to Trump’s peace plan, why would he say yes to Biden’s?

            And Reagan didn’t achieve shit - Israel carried on building in the occupied territories regardless, and they only abandoned their war in Lebanon because it was going badly. Reagan did telephone the Israeli prime minister but the Israeli cabinet had already voted to stop the campaign that day, but of course Reagan wanted to take credit for that and announced how stern he was on the phone and the American news outlets of course delighted in fluff pieces praising the president for stopping the war. But that’s all it was. Fluff.

            So, no, your “American president can stop Israeli wars with one phone call” is BS,

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              America supplied the weapons to do the genocide. If America stops supplying the weapons, no more genocide. Are you 12?

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                Are you 12?

                Username does not check out.

                I think you have oversimplified somewhat.

                You don’t think Israel has a teensy bit put by for a rainy day? I do. You don’t think Israel has a domestic arms industry? I think they export a great deal. You don’t think there are other suppliers than the USA willing to sell arms to an aggressor? I do. You don’t think electing trump is the worst thing America could have done for the people of Gaza? I do.

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            From an outsider, the US has always looked like the lapdog tbh. Not that I disagree that Biden (and every other president before and after him) should have been telling Israel to fuck off.

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              I mean…AmeriKKKa is way bigger, way richer, and way more powerful than Pi$$rael, all by a country mile. And Pi$$rael can’t survive economically or strategically without AmeriKKKan aid.

              Like I do get where your view comes from, especially with Trump basically giving Netanyahu whatever he wants and Biden having done the same thing except for going to war with Iran.

              Actually, even if the dominance relationship was reversed, i.e. even if Pi$$rael did control AmeriKKKa, this would not change the fact that AmeriKKKa sent aid and weapons to Pi$$rael all throughout the Gaza genocide. So while I do think it is important to clarify the dominance hierarchy between Pi$$rael and AmeriKKKa for other reasons (e.g. in pursuit of a coherent analysis of Pi$$rael as a vassal state of AmeriKKKa , although sometimes a belligerent vassal), here we can agree to disagree about the direction of the dominance relation and mutually conclude based on the facts that AmeriKKKa , and in particular its figureheads Trump and Biden, are demonic genocidal entities which are deeply responsible for the Gaza genocide.

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                What in the short attention span is this tik tok senior citizen format you’re using and what condition causes it?

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                  I mean usually I don’t use the emojis that much, but I had to use the words AmeriKKKa (AmeriKKKa) and Pi$$rael (Pi$$rael) a few times, and I just find and replace every instance with its burning flag. I refuse to give these settler-colonial projects even the minimal dignity of spelling their names correctly.

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      I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect that the Democrats intentionally pressured to delay those prosecutions with the following idea, “If we wait until the last minute, then these prosecutions of crimes, which we 100% know Trump is guilty of, will torpedo Trump’s presidential chances, and the Republicans won’t have any time to boost a different candidate.”

      I think they didn’t expect that the most slam-dunk case, the classified files case, would be pulled by one of the most outlandishly corrupt pro-Trump judges we’ve ever seen, Aileen Cannon.

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        Either that, or they thought letting Trump run again would make their candidate a shoe in, so they wouldn’t have to try at all and could run a “Status Quo, everything is fine so nothing is going to change” candidate.

        Either way they put their own desires for power above law and order.

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        I don’t care why they did it. It was either the wrong call or an unforced error. One that we are paying for.

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        I sincerely disagree with this. I think Merrick Garland genuinely viewed his role and himself as “separate” from or “above” politics and totally disregarded the threat Trump because of that. This is honestly more in line with previous DOJs as far as political impartiality, however he was not what we needed in that moment.

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      As much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It’s horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I’m relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.

      It’s hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don’t win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.

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        Failing to prosecute a known criminal out of a fear of appearing nakedly partisan/political is, as it turns out, as bad as corrupting the justice dept to make it nakedly partisan/political.

        Biden should have had an AG who went after criminals regardless of the political consequences.

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          If trump went to jail, it would mean every alive presidents could be persecuted including Biden do it will never happen

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          Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.

          The DOJ’s independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.

          Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.

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            Well, your so called guardrails were never anything more than a gentleman’s agreement, that much is plainly obvious.

            The simple fact is Garland’s DoJ completely failed to provide timely justice for the citizens of the USA. Full fucking stop.

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              Those same guardrails have repeatedly stopped trump this term.

              Just because things didn’t happen as you wish they did does not mean they failed, full fucking stop.

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                Incorrect. The Judicial branch has stopped Trump repeatedly. Furthermore, I was talking about the DoJ’s failure regarding the whole speedy trail thing we are supposed to have in this country. You can stop putting words in my mouth. We don’t need your strawman arguments here.

                FYI, the Executive Branch & Judicial branch are separate.

                The current DoJ has attempted every single illegal thing Trump has requested.

                Please learn how the separation of powers works in the USA.

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                  Did you mean to respond to someone else? What words were put in your mouth?

                  And you might note the thousands who have resigned from the DOJ, leaving mostly incompetent goofs behind who cannot secure convictions. (Because, yup, they respected the DoJ’s independence. In other words, one of those guardrails working.)

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      The way he looks like and handles himself it seems he is in the process of experiencing a slow, painful death, but he’s probably too high on painkillers and other drugs to really care.

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        Fellas, fellas, we can do both. We can wish for him to instantly fall into a coma in which he cannot wake up from. Where all he feels is pain, and agony suffering to survive himself, inside his own brain. Where the only way out to end the torture is for him to push his ego aside, and admit that he’s never been the smartest person in any room.

        Until that happens, he stays artificially life supported in his own coma of hell. Where time fluctuates for him 5 minutes is actually 5 months. And he’ll stay in that state for years.

        Suddenly and instantly gone from our lives, but surviving in a never ending battle against his own ego which he’ll never overcome.

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            I think I’ve heard of that, if it’s what I’m remembering.

            There was this kid in tge 1960s. He got hit by a car, but didn’t die. He wasn’t in a coma, but it looked like he was in a coma but awake.

            He was kept on life support, but really the life support wasn’t needed. They found he was actually breathing just fine. But they kept him on it, in his living room.

            He was just a kid. Like 7 years old.

            Flash forward to the late 90s and he, now nearly 40 was propped up on the couch like normal. His mom was watching wheel of fortune. Then his mom just hears her son take a guess at the puzzle. Not only was it the right answer, but it was the first words he had spoken in like 35 years.

            Turns out his mom would watch wheel of fortune, and jeapordy every night. And every night in his own head he would play along.

            The story never explains how he snapped out of it. He just took a guess at the wheel of fortune answer just as he’d done for years. This time it was verbal.

            The son later on asked his mom if she remembered a moment that had happened in the 70s. His mom walked into the room, saw him, and said “Why won’t you just die already? You’re tearing this family apart. We can’t keep funding your burden…”

            And then she left the room. Never to speak of it again.

            That moment lived rent free in this guys head for 20+ years. Everyday knowing he’s hurting his family. Everyday being a burden. From his own mothers mouth. He’s their burden. That’s the thought he had every day.

            And when he asked his mom if she remembered that, she burst into tears. She didn’t remember at all.

            So now it’s the 90s. He’s speaking for the first time. His friend who he knew before the accident, left work early. Didn’t even tell anyone he was leaving. He got a text. “John is speaking”. He was in John’s living room within 15 minutes.

            This friend had visited him sometimes every day. Sometimes a few times a week. But always with him. And because he had come over, everyday his friend for 30+ years had talked to him as if he were normal. So he learned of his friend’s life in real time. And from Johns point of view, he didn’t even need to catch up, because he was never out of the loop.

            One of the first things he wanted to do was to meet his friends wife. He had been married for 10 years, but she never felt comfortable visiting. But his friend would talk about her so much that he felt like he knew her already.

            I changed the names. Mostly because I read this story about 15 years ago and don’t remember the names. I’m probably forgetting other details too. It just stuck out to me that his mom, probably in a moment of frustration that she didn’t mean, gave him such mental trauma with just a few sentences that would last a lifetime. And also it stuck out to me how a 7 year old kept his friend in his life, until almost 40 years old without one word spoken from John.

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          I don’t think the very best thing we can imagine is gonna happen, but you know what does seem more realistic for that reason?

          A dystopian horror where they keep him (barely) alive while he’s suffering immensely because they need him as figurehead, in order to continue their fascism. Yes it would be poetic justice for him, but it’s not gonna make anybody else’s life better.

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        Trump dying will not stop this. He’s a carnival barker and is not really in charge.

        I really hope his death is very slow, very painful, and very public. I want him to drag his cursed movement down with him. If he abruptly dies, he’ll be a martyr that bolsters this movement, and that would be worse.

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          Trump dying will not stop this. He’s a carnival barker and is not really in charge.

          But he’s the one they’re all unifying behind.

          Once he’s gone, everybody else is going to be clamoring to become the next Trump, the next leader of the right wing. And this competition will divide them and turn them against one another. No more cooperation, no more covering for each other’s crimes – they’ll be at each other’s throats, throwing each other under the bus.

          Eventually one will probably come out on top, but until then, the infighting over the power vacuum will cripple them.

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            I dunno, the bus is public transportation. Aren’t republicans against that? Throw each other under a cybertruck, maybe.

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            I’m not sure people are acknowledging the amount of money and slavery are behind this movement.

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          Trump’s perverted brand of charisma is what propelled him to the two-time presidency. It was glaringly obvious in 2017, when the rest of Republicans started competing in who can best emulate his assholery.

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      Do you want a person who might not remember what he did, and/or is otherwise delusional, a slow and painful death?

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        Lma fucking o. Just because he may not remember the last 5 or 10 or even 25 years, the man has a lifetime of hate of prejudice following him. For example, the first building he ever controlled refused to rent to black people.

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          If a 6 year-old murdered 10 people, would you wish wt:thon a very slow and painful death? What if a dog killed 10 people? No in either case? Then what if it was proven that Trump, either now, or in the future, is/was [future tense] alive but had the mentality of a 6 year-old or a dog?

          How many blacks (and others) were unjustly, or mostly unjustly, incarcerated in federal prisons early January 2017 that Obama could have pardoned, but didn’t?

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            I’m ignoring all your points because he’s been a grown man for over double what I’ve been alive and is a huge hateful piece of shit. I literally don’t care about anything you typed tbh

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              I’m ignoring all your points because he’s been a grown man for over double what I’ve been alive

              So you want formerly-evil-now-senile-people to suffer?

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              and is a huge hateful piece of shit.

              and if he suffers in his senility, this hate will be cured?

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              I literally don’t care about anything you typed tbh

              Then why do you respond?

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          What if he has a stroke and loses much of his voluntary muscle function, rendering him unable to walk, talk, or use his hands, but he’s completely present cognitively so knows he’s trapped in a broken, doomed body and has to see and feel the Haitian immigrants wiping his ass every day at the home his children put him in

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          I hope he gets something that makes him shit himself all the time, that he gets an embarrassing level of dementia, that it shows Republicans how shit they are, and he’s rated as one of the worst presidents to ever live.

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            ⬜ something that makes him shit himself all the time
            ⬜ an embarrassing level of dementia
            ⬜ that it shows Republicans how shit they are
            ✅ he’s rated as one of the worst presidents to ever live