This is easily the saddest time in American history.

[skwerlgyrl@hear-me.social]

@Strandjunker

Unfortunately I would have to agree with those who say the system is doing as the system has been designed to do, and most of our established leaders (from both parties) are just playing out their roles as they have been written. It's performance politics at best.

And I'm not usually the conspiracy theory type. I'm just calling it for what I am seeing: injustice sewn into the fabric of society, metastasizing into unbridled, unapologetic fascism.

The saddest part of all, for me, has been watching friends and family just ... carrying on, like nothing is wrong. Like somehow the nation will self-correct, and nobody will actually have to make any changes to their lives or choices.

[dave@az.social]

@Skwerlgyrl @Strandjunker yep, especially frustrating when people minimize with "just a few years and then he'll be gone", "presidents come and go" etc.

[c64whiz@oldbytes.space]

@forced_gump @Strandjunker

Let's be clear...it is not the system...it's the people running the system. I hear the same complaint about computers, "computers are doing bad things". No they're not. They're doing exactly what people are telling them to do.

People are causing the corruption. People are not stopping the corruption.

[letoams@defcon.social]

@Strandjunker @briankrebs when the system fails, you shutdown the country. General strike. Everyone everywhere. You can’t wait two years.

[libramoon@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker

Article II, Section 4 – Annenberg Classroom

The impeachment process begins in the House of Representatives with a vote to impeach. Then the president stands trial for the accusations in the Senate.

Annenberg Classroom (www.annenbergclassroom.org)

if enough US citizens wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed
outside their office to our congressional reps to IMPEACH
or face voter outrage ending their career, and kept it up, we could regain our #democracy

People together as a force to be reckoned with
Spread the word

Just a moment...

(www.congress.gov)

[waldorf@infosec.exchange]

@Strandjunker I have been asking for months "How is this possible?".

Obviously being the case, "why would we want it back?"

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@Strandjunker There are many who would argue that there was a time in American history when things were significantly sadder for a huge category of people. And I would agree with them.

[unknowable@troet.cafe]

@Strandjunker Commiserations.

That being said, all empires fall!

[skwerlgyrl@hear-me.social]

@dave @Strandjunker

I'm just sitting here, shaking my head "no" because evil never dies, it just changes form.

I'm predicting that Emperor Cheeto's successor will be just as bad, in his own way. And it won't be JD Vance, because Vance has (smartly) started to put a little distance between. It will be some other dreadful curse, like Stephen Miller, or Kegsbreath, or maybe even John Thune. <*shudder*>

[tsyum@thepit.social]

@Strandjunker yeah living thru the fall of an empire like this is not fun. In our case, so much delusion and denial from both classes. It is bizarre. Hang in here

[overtondoors@infosec.exchange]

@Quasit @Strandjunker

Along this line of reasoning:

3-Letter News: "RFK halts another (vital pillar of the American) health monitoring system."

No dumb bitch, no: "Oligarchy continues building out their plans to decimate the American population."

It's all Big Tobacco's corporate strategy for maximizing revenue. Stochastic violence and plausible deniability. Two hands washing each other.

[qirenni@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker This is the system in action. This was inevitable.

[unruly@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker

When an evil empire lives, it is the worst of times.

[ooze@wirejunkie.net]

@Strandjunker Your system has been failing to stop them for decades. Stop waiting for it to work. It is not going to happen.

[tlariv@hachyderm.io]

@yuhasz01
No, they are the nazis. Those among the rest of us who don't try to stop them are the collaborators.
@Strandjunker

[richardwrightfan@surf.social]

@Strandjunker

Yep, the very "system" that was designed to protect the interests of rich white men... still works for them.

[tasket@infosec.exchange]

@Strandjunker The opposition are absolute idiots stuffed with facts that they have no idea what to do with, and the corruption that MAGA is now super-sizing.

And the people who thought opposing a Hitler-loving monster by portraying him as either a bumbling fool or a balloon in the shape of a cute baby, while donning "pussy hats", are pretty stupid too. TrumpCo just seized control of >1/3 of the world's oil supply and almost of fertilizer production... they are going to starve the world's liberal democracies until they turn fascist.

And our response to this situation is supposed to be "Look at the incompetence"! Hon, I've got news for you....

[hteph@blahaj.zone]

@David_Esposito@universeodon.com @Strandjunker@mstdn.social I think it is the opposite, the elite think it is Untouchable and Infallible, and that the rest just bends knee and serve them (which they currently do).

[hteph@blahaj.zone]

@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science While I completely agree with you, I just wanted to point out that putting hashtags into the text makes it hellish for those of use screen reeders.

[bsm@swiss.social]

@Strandjunker It's not the system that's flawed; the problem lies with the greedy and utterly incompetent people within it.
The system does have checks and balances, but the people are either too corrupt or too stupid to use them.