Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

What will it do instead of recover?

@Wiimeiser
Learn nothing and appoint someone who’s somehow even worse that Trump next, probably.

Are the Republicans vile? Absolutely. But Democrats and Biden had four years to prosecute Trump and his cohorts following J6 and didn’t so much lift a finger. They aren’t that much better at this point.

@IWTCIEM
I mean, the Democrats are complete doormats at this point. Basically MAS Fluttershy turned up to 9001.

@The Smiling Pony
Bold of you to assume I go to church.

@IWTCIEM
The hell are you talking about? Jack Smith worked his ass off trying to hold Trump accountable.

@Wiimeiser
Learn nothing. As we elect shitty leaders in charge of our government.

Trump will be remembered as the worst president of all time.

They tried. But Republicans are corrupt. The problem with the Dems is that they play by the rules when they should be going lower and pulling mob shit to deal with opposition

@neutralgrey
You say that like it’s easy to get off the path of corruption once you start it. The last thing we need if for politics to effectively be a gang war (especially if that’s the goal of the republicans).

You’re not wrong but you’re missing a key point about the ratchet effect.

Democrats will maintain the status quo, no matter how shitty it is currently. Republicans will actively make things worse.

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Trump has signed an EO cutting funds to all schools who mandate the COVID vaccine.

Besides the standard War on Education the GQP has been doing for decades, it shows that even 4 years later this death cultists are still pro-Covid.

@Meanlucario
Why not? Let’s not pretend Dems are squeaky clean to begin with. I will say this though, I was wrong in saying that Dems play by the rules. I should have said they like to give off the appearance that they play by the rules and are “good” and “moral” when really they’re still slimy and corrupt. They just suck at playing politics.

@neutralgrey
Because trading one corrupt party for another has the same end result. Winning today means nothing if tomorrow is just as bad, if not worst, because the ones who replaces the old are just as bad.

@igotnopicks
Worst president of all time SO FAR… Those who voted for him this year would gladly vote for someone more extreme than him. They will never admit that they objectively voted for the wrong person. They will still find ways to blame Democrats, Canada, etc., everybody except themselves. That is exactly what a cult does to its followers.

@IWTCIEM
You say that like everyone who voted for him are in the cult and there aren’t those who are misinformed or the like.

My brother thinks white people and straight people are being systematically suppressed and shamed. He’s never had to hide being white, he’s never had to hide being straight. The government pays his bills because he’s disabled and I’m the only one who can put up with him, so his impromptu caregiver is gay. His life is bad because he doesn’t value it, he doesn’t clean, or bath, he drinks alcohol and eats barely cooked meat on a skillet that’s never cleaned

He has his own castle and state essentially for free, he’s disabled and lives alone. I come over to help him. He never has to interact with minorities or homosexuals, but he hears about them from these stupid right wing gaming channels. He worries about DEI hires, but I’ve never seen him desire a job. Scared of gays but undatable to anyone, on account of no self care or job.

I’m saying all this in public, because this is what that dogshit garbage like right wing gaming journalist have done to my mentally disabled brother. They take all his insecurities, and make him think it’s gay people, or diversity hires.

I mean if people still voted for Trump or didn’t vote at all after witnessing the past 8 years, “misinformed” would be a huge understatement.

@IWTCIEM
You say that like most people pay attention to politics nearly as much as we do.

How do we know Musk is an illegal immigrant? I want to make sure I know what the source is incase someone asks me to prove it.

@Meanlucario
Same result? No. You’re making the mistake of thinking all politicians are the same. The methods may be the same but the goals never are. There are politicians who just want to turn this country over to corporations so they can be given a golden parachute and an invite to Epstein Island 2.0. There are politicians who want to maintain American geo-political dominance because they know the alternative is Russian or Chinese geo-political dominance. There are politicians who want to help their constituents. Politicians who want to see them burn. And so on and so forth. Huey Long is a famous/infamous example of what I’m getting at. He wielded almost dictatorial power and used that power to do things like give kids free school textbooks, created public works programs, raised corporate taxes, as well as other policies that were in line with his “Share the wealth” ideology. He also raided casinos and other establishments suspected of illegal gambling. Reality isn’t some Disney movie where everything is black and white. Reality is brutal, cruel, and unfair. Every world leader throughout history has had blood on their hands.

The short of it is that he came to America off a student VISA to study here, but never went to school (You don’t say) thus voiding his VISA.

So yeah, he didn’t border jump but he still violated the terms of his (initially) legal status. So basically the same story as the vast majority of “illegal immigrants”.

@Dustcan
Thank you.

@neutralgrey
Regarding that last part, I can definitely agree. In the worst case that tensions with Canada do escalate into an all-out war the Democrats will have as much blood on their hands and Republicans, Trump and their cultish voter base, simply for not putting the latter behind bars after J6 and agreeing to give them the power.

@IWTCIEM
There wont be war, Trump is just one man and the MAGA politicians just want to line their pockets and have their fragile egos be stroked.

@Dustcan
And if fElon tries to deny it, he admitted that he did indeed violate his visa to create Zip2 in internal emails that WaPo dug up

@Background Pony #D0BC
Hates DEI, and yet the only way they’d get a job was if they were a diversity hire.