This is easily the saddest time in American history.
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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.
@Skwerlgyrl @Strandjunker yep, especially frustrating when people minimize with "just a few years and then he'll be gone", "presidents come and go" etc.
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@Strandjunker I would argue that the system is refusing to stop it, not failing. It still has the power to do something but doesn't choose to use it. Soon, it won't have the power to do anything either.
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.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker @briankrebs when the system fails, you shutdown the country. General strike. Everyone everywhere. You can’t wait two years.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
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 #democracyPeople together as a force to be reckoned with
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker I have been asking for months "How is this possible?".
Obviously being the case, "why would we want it back?"
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@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.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker Commiserations.
That being said, all empires fall!
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@Skwerlgyrl @Strandjunker yep, especially frustrating when people minimize with "just a few years and then he'll be gone", "presidents come and go" etc.
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*>
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@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
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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.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker This is the system in action. This was inevitable.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker Your system has been failing to stop them for decades. Stop waiting for it to work. It is not going to happen.
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MAGA/Trump political supporters are the fascist *collaborators* allowing this to take place. Remember everyone of their names and locations....... payback will come, accompanied by some real rage....
@yuhasz01
No, they are the nazis. Those among the rest of us who don't try to stop them are the collaborators.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
Yep, the very "system" that was designed to protect the interests of rich white men... still works for them.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@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....
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@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).
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@Strandjunker We *are* the ‘system’.
#Americans have *allowed* the #MAGA cult and #BananaRepublicans to ‘drain the Treasury’ and trash the reputation of the #UnitedStates by *refusing* to abandon the party system that the #FoundingFathers *intentionally* left OUT of the #Constitution. They saw that that it was a cancer on #UKpol - with Whigs and Tories responsible for the same corruption #Democrats and #Republicans wallow in now.
Use #math to flush the
, #PrimaryFromTheCenter.@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.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker It's not the system that's flawed; the problem lies with the greedy and utterly incompetent people within it.
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This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
@Strandjunker
It's never the system that does the stopping, it's always the people.
