Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying “Trump fucked kids” to “Trump rapes kids” in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying “Trump fucked kids” to “Trump rapes kids” in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
ACAB includes the troops. Fuck em
Is there evidence of this (yet)?
Do you think soldiers are different than cops? Do you think someone who somehow has less law enforcement training than a cop will do the job better?
It depends what “the job” involves. I suspect Soldiers are better than cops at following rules of engagement.
Sure. They’re also historically terrible at being actual police. One groups job is to enforce the law and the others job is to apply force.
A soldier invariably has more training into the rules surrounding the application of force, but they have a significantly higher baseline level of violence than the police do. It’s unusual for the police to wear full armor and carry automatic rifles. In fact, one of the largest concerns about the organization of modern police forces is that they are becoming increasingly similar to the military.The military is better at following their rules, but their rules include how to decide the number of known innocent civilians that are acceptable to kill.
We like to pretend that the people we train to dehumanize their opposition to increase lethality and who have a track record for sometimes stupendous civilian death rates will, when deployed domestically, not view the civilians here as the opposition, have a keen awareness of their personhood, and generally not act like every other time the military has been deployed against their nations civilian population.We have rules against the military being used domestically for a good reason.
“Trump floats the idea of starting a civil war.” FTFY.
Trump floats the idea of starting a civil war
Russia floats the idea of a new American Civil war. FTFY.
Russia already won their information campaign. NATO is dismantled, Europe is weak and the US doesn’t listen to Europe’s complaints and concerns anymore. Leaving them free to start wars wherever they want in Eurasia, no one will stop them. America is checked out, and Europe doesnt have the guts to make a stand.
Nato is not dismantled. Stop pedaling bullshit
hit me up when Europe stops playing second fiddle to the tune of what America says.
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We need a similar ending here.
I just want a quote.
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I reluctantly welcome that, if only because that is permission to force his ilk into a well deserved box. At this point, I consider the Turdpublicans and Geronocrats to be the enemy of anyone who isn’t wealthy.
We are already at war, it is just that ordinary people believed we were all part of the same society.
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Trump will disovle the states quickly from here in my opinion. He doesn’t like any executive authority except his in my opinion, and the Trump administration will make the country out of a few hundred corporate counties run by the richest fascist in each corporate county in my opinion.
I’d say by the end of September in my opinion.
What else do you say IN YOUR OPINION
Wow digital screaming at a very interesting part of my opinion. These days it is very important to delineate fact from opinion.
But that is just like … ya know … my opinion.
Dumbfuck really wants a ground war.
they dont fear confrontation because they think they have the means to jail, out-shoot, and out-kill the “Left”
They really think they will just be fighting the left.
Depends on how loyal to him the military is.
They aren’t supposed to loyal to him, they are supposed to be loyal to the constitution.
My sweet summer child. Part of the oath says you will obey the orders of the President. Soldiers are also highly conditioned to obey orders unquestionably. There’s no time for a moral debate on the battlefield.
Which is why he cleared out a lot of the higher ups. If any loyalty to the constitution still remains though, the current higher ups should reject the president’s orders that go against it, meaning the lower level soldiers will still be following orders by also rejecting unlawful orders.
I’m not super hopeful but that’s how it’s supposed to work.
Or more so, the people.
Oh, supposed to.
More diversion from the Epstein files?
I’m not sure taking over the government and making himself a king with a personal army who cannot ever be removed from power no matter how obscene his abuses are is a diversion.
I agree, but he does (or tries to do) so much and says so much that some of it probably is a smokescreen. Which parts? I don’t know.
The craziest shit is that he’s not even going to make it beyond this term.
Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying “Trump fucked kids” to “Trump rapes kids” in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
I wish I had something meaningful to say about this.
FYI - He tried this in Portland last time:
Bonus: The guy in charge of it, Chad Wolf (not making that up) had been illegally appointed and had no authority:
https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/dont-shoot-portland-v-wolf/
How quickly people forgot that unmarked vans with unmarked personnel were kidnapping people off the streets of Portland during BLM
“No the billionaire owned news told us they were l00ters!”
Nevermind the exact same rhetoric being used to suppress civil rights 40 years ago
Did we forget? I kinda feel like this is an extension of the BLM persecution. It worked so well they decided to keep using the same techniques.
He’s getting everything prepared for when he denies the next election. He doesn’t want to lose power to a pesky thing called democracy.
If he’s even on the ballot all norms have already broken down at that point.
Yep, and there’s no way to stop him. Everyone just sat there looking while politicians slowly dismantled all the protections.
Yes there is, it’s just violent.
Not really since he controls the army.
Oh, wow, 100k combat troops (who won’t all join the fascists) with places they sleep at night.
What hope does the sane portion of 350 million people in the most armed nation on Earth have?
The real question is whether the generals will let him nuke American cities.
The generals quite realistically cannot stop him, short of an active coup.
The launch process is based on authentication, not authorization. As such, people who are not present are asked to verify various authentication codes. The details of the order are often not even visible to the person in question.
This allows for training exercises that are indistinguishable from a real launch order until the people in the bunker turn their keys and the readout tells them that no launch has occurred.
The selection process involves finding people who say they’re willing to kill a billion people without questioning it, screening out those that want to so you just have the ones who follow orders and don’t care, giving them snuggies, locking them underground for long enough that they’re not certain about world events, and occasionally handing them a loaded gun with orders to point it at the world’s head and pull the trigger before they find out if it’s a blank or not. If they even hesitate you replace them.The orders are pre-cached and distributed after being vetted by lawyers. The soldiers are then trained that the order are pre-approved as legal so questioning the legality isn’t valid.
The only safeguard is for one of the few people who both know the order and is responsible for verification of identity to just refuse to validate the code.
In this case, that would mean relying on Hegseth to object.The resistance would very likely have other countries supplying weapons.
It’s way more than that. We’re only 7 months in. This is complete power grab, complete takeover. Democracy will only barely matter by 2026. And there will be no loss to deny.
Guess I need to get more storm matches.
but but but guys, Kamala Harris had a weird laugh….
/s
I think you dropped this:
- supported genocide
- supported an unpopular president
- ran on unpopular policies
- let the voters know that she didn’t care about what they wanted
- wanted to keep the US military the “most lethal fighting force” despite the fact that we use them to kill innocent people
- gaslit the voters on the economy
Is Trump still worse? yes, absolutely. But maybe the Democrats could try running candidates that aren’t obviously terrible if they want to win.
That was never the criticism from anyone actually opposing Trump. The criticism is that she built her career as a cop, locking people up for minor offenses, fighting to keep them in prison for cheap labor, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth. But sure, go ahead and whitewash her record because it’s easier to joke than to confront the fact that your “lesser evil” still has blood on her hands.
That was never the criticism from anyone actually opposing Trump.
Yes it was. It was a dumb and invalid argument, but it came up more often than it ever should have. It was an EXCUSE to not vote for her, because it was easier to say that than to admit that they’re just afraid of a woman in power.
I realize there were many more valid reasons to dislike her but compared to trump, she’s a goddamn saint. Plus, I liked her VP pick better than trump’s. She also would have selected a much more competent and qualified cabinet.
The criticism is that she built her career as a cop, locking people up for minor offenses, fighting to keep them in prison for cheap labor, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth.
Those are all valid criticisms, but trump built his career as a criminal, is deporting people for minor offenses, fighting to deport innocent people to prison labor camps in countries they are not even from, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth.
So comparing the two with just those criticisms, it’s a wash. And then adding on all the other AWFUL shit trump is doing, especially “project 2025,” it’s no contest.
But sure, go ahead and whitewash her record because it’s easier to joke than to confront the fact that your “lesser evil” still has blood on her hands.
I’m not whitewashing anything, I made a sarcastic comment mocking the misogynists who have put a LITERAL AUTHORITARIAN MADMAN in the presidency because they couldn’t handle a woman president.
When our choices are : lesser evil or absolute evil (and the third choice is: just let absolute evil win), we really can’t let petty things like “annoying laugh” (again- just a lame excuse for misogyny) go.
I was accused of having “blood in my hands” for voting for Harris. But really, protest voting against Harris is drenching yourself in that same blood plus gallons more.
I only really saw those criticisms of her from people already on the left. What I saw (in generalized and slightly exaggerated manner) from conservatives was, “NO, SHE’S A LIBERAL, WOKE, COMMUNIST WHO WANTS TO DESTROY AMERICA!”
To which most people I saw on the left respond with, “Communist? The former cop and DA?”
That’s literally what I’m saying.
At least she isn’t nazi, traitor, piece of shit like Trump.
She absolutely is a Nazi. A nice Nazi that supported genocide.
You are a moron.
You support genocide, just not when it’s GOP branded.
Call me names, it doesn’t change the facts at all.
No. You are a fool.
Good point. Read some books.
Liberals have supported plenty of genocides.
As have socialists.
You could say this about nearly any group in history.
Right, and when socialists and actual liberals do it they’re being ideological hypocrites as opposed to fascists who literally don’t believe in human rights.
She’s not a Nazi, she’s a hypocritical liberal.
This is untrue.
Every criticism presented is completely true. She would have been better than trump, but she was a terrible Democratic candidate. She would have made a better Republican candidate. Her campaign would only needed to have focused on her prosecutorial career.
Hope the next election (if there is one) goes your way and the candidate is perfect.
- supports a genocide
- supports torture programs
- supports increasing military and intelligence funding
- supports deporting innocent people
- supports a highly unpopular president
- runs on highly unpopular policies
I think you might have a skewed definitions of what “perfect” means. I think most people would settle for “not a monster” but that’s too high of a bar for the DNC.
That, but unironically.
Winning a presidential election isn’t about the votes that are cast. It’s about the voters that stay home. It’s really difficult to get people to the polls when your entire platform is “a little less evil than the other guy.”.
I voted for the lesser evil, and I know why so many did not. You do us no favors by refusing to recognize that the lesser evil is still evil.
If you didn’t turn out to vote you didn’t oppose trump.
I said criticism, you think no one who opposed Trump should have criticised former cop who built her career on locking people up?
ACAB, just not one of the worst kind?
She was an attorney working for the executive branch, not a cop. Applying for a job higher up in the executive branch. If we are going to call everyone who executes the laws bastards, then you can’t vote for anybody to join the executive branch, as you are willingly choosing to make them a bastard apparently.
Just so everyone is on the same page, to you the slogan All Cops Are Bastards applies not to all corrupt people in the legal system that abuse us and imprison us, but it’s exclusively police officers?
Just checking.
Downvote and run away.
And the emails… Bondi will make sure it gets done!
We had a bad choice and a worse choice. So i said let it all fall.
Fuck you
We had a bad choice and a worse choice. So i said
let it all fall.I’m a sociopath that’s fine with seeing minorities being brutalized and killed so long as I can maintain some kind of bullshit ideological purity.FTFY
Now I voted (not that it would have mattered as Kamala was going to win my state regardless), but for the sake of argument I also didn’t see minorities NOT being brutalized and killed under Biden or Obama. Or Clinton for that matter.
So i said let it all fall.
At lest vote 3rf party.
Otherwise the material reality is that you got out the way for the worse choice. Obstruction isn’t ideal, but its helpful none the less
At least with the bad choice more people would have energy and resources to fight back in more meaningful ways.
Worse option is exiling American citizens, tanking the economy, persecuting minorities, taking away rights, ignoring the constitution and, notably, full backing genocide in Gaza.
Bad option would not act to stop genocide in Gaza.
Clearly the same thing.
Worse option is exiling American citizens, tanking the economy, persecuting minorities, taking away rights, ignoring the constitution and, notably, full backing genocide in Gaza.
I saw all of these things happen under the past few “bad options”.
WTF is in those files???
How will this shit end?
Hard to predict, but you can get some good guesses by researching what happened to previous fallen empires in history.
Suspension of the constitution and President Trump for life.
Even worse because when he dies we’re stuck with a techno facist dictatorship for the foreseeable future
This. Thiel and his cronies are next in line. Trump is simply paving the way.
Whose life?, because little donny two scoops doesn’t have a lot of years left in him.
Could be a decade.
Look at Mitch ‘the lich’ Mcconnell. They’ll blood transfusion, dialysis, and any other medical means they can to keep Trump and any at the top alive despite his condition. That is one of the biggest advantages to having billions: medical care isn’t an issue, extending to where the customer dictates when they get the care instead of the doctor or insurance company.
I would also like to remind any reader that one of the first actions after a revolution is power consolidation. Any ‘other’ person perceived as a threat to the new regime will face the wall or be otherwise removed. We are seeing the soft version of this now. At some point this will turn bloody.
best case, bloody
worst case, bloody but under authoritarian rule
How will this shit end?
Some prisoner with a life sentence will never be out of commissary funds.
Is that a promise ?
A prediction.
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Not sure whether you’re talking about the MAGA cult, or describing the other side as a cult. Could go either way. Or both.
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You were referring to the hero who shoots trump and we all donate to his commissary as tribute, right?
