It’s about power and zero accountability. The intimidation just naturally occurs.

That you thought he was ever a dove proves you’re a fucking moron of a journalist.

“You’re wrong for caring about the damage we do! Let us do whatever we want you liberal fucks!”

Because the humans making money off health insurance don’t care that we suffer. Our wellbeing is absolutely irrelevant. That is why the Luigi is a folk hero right now. Get Saint Luigi a meeting with your health insurance CEO.

Schools should be required to only teach facts across all fields.

And if you can’t think of a way it can be used, as if laws still matter to the wealthy, obviously, nobody else can…

They don’t have plans, they have schemes.

Weeps.

He’s convinced people to blindly follow whatever he does. MAGA is a cult.

Winning an election is a means to power. They aren’t selling their soul to win elections but to seize power.

Congress did not delacre war, making all orders to attack Iran, illegal. Soldiers are obligated to refuse illegal orders. Yet none are. Don’t put your hope in soldiers to prevent Trump admin from committing horrific war crimes, or lightning the constitution on fire and seizing power.

He got torn apart by Trump behind closed doors and now he’s overcompensating for his failures by being even more abusive than usual to try and salvage this and win daddy Trump’s approval again. Because conservatives think hitting harder and being less empathetic is obviously the solution and since Trump is a raging narcissist and has zero empathy, the standard for what’s acceptable is anything that doesn’t harm Trump. Why would anyone think Trump, the racist, serial child rapist, would give a fuck about some brown children getting blown apart?

Cuz he’s a bumbling idiot who convinced other bumbling idiots that he’s smart. He never has a plan, he just wings everything, making decisions on impulse like a toddler.

It’s perfectly fair to debate the degree of responsibility individuals have. However, there is a limit to the effective resistance and wisdom each individual is capable of when constantly bombarded by propaganda all day every day. Its in our schools, our media and entertainment, the news, the marketing campaigns of corporations shoving ads in our face everywhere we go, in the political messaging, even academics and science is used to propogate falsehoods and distortions. It is not reasonable in my view to expect an individual, especially in the education and science hostile red states, to be capable of navigating the labyrinth of propaganda and deceit to find truth. We are shaped and molded by our cultural environment from birth and just being capable of acknowledging your own culture is maybe bullshit is a significant feat.

We are not built to resist the intensity, frequency or repetition of the messages we are bombarded with. These groups are also pouring billions into finding more sophisticated and effective ways to shape our beliefs and behaviors. We are, from beith, under siege from a relentless attempt to make us behave one ways that benefit others and not ourselves.

I don’t know how much is whose responsibility but the individual isn’t the one who is creating the situation that necessitates the question. So primarily it’s the fault of those manipulating that population for creating the situation in the first place. Their goal is control. The more effective they are at that, the more responsibility they have.

Both ends of his digestive tract.

Realistically the general population endure so much misinformation, manipulation, lies and deceit that i find it hard to not blame the people who produce it for how their victims behave. They’ll tell you a narrative over decades about some bullshit to get you to say, vote Democrat, and don’t really care what else that disinformation campaign does to people. Bunch of vicious, selfish and cruel pieces of shit manipulating us like we’re just things. Or the GOP which has intentionally made red states dumber, less educated and easier to manipulate for themselves to get elected, but it also made them easier for others, like Putin and Trump, to manipulate. They don’t give a shit about how much suffering their strategy has caused their voters or America.

He seems to have pretty fucking good odds gambling with his presidency. How is this gamble any different than ignoring the constitution, attempting a coup in 2020 or working openly to rig elections? Fuck the news. These complicit, limp wristed, public sentiment manipulators.

These leader do not have the skillset necessary to rewrite the structure of the US government or the desire to do so to the benefit of most Americans. Any attempt would be a power giveaway to the wealthy, the well connected and the corporate.

The only way to stop it from normalizing is by stopping it from happening. People can’t negate the normalizing process by sheer will.

…tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

Yeah cuz those are the important things to be concerned with.