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- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish12 days
At this point, I’d prefer a fast and painful death. We need this fucker gone.
- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Fellas, fellas, we can do both. We can wish for him to instantly fall into a coma in which he cannot wake up from. Where all he feels is pain, and agony suffering to survive himself, inside his own brain. Where the only way out to end the torture is for him to push his ego aside, and admit that he’s never been the smartest person in any room.
Until that happens, he stays artificially life supported in his own coma of hell. Where time fluctuates for him 5 minutes is actually 5 months. And he’ll stay in that state for years.
Suddenly and instantly gone from our lives, but surviving in a never ending battle against his own ego which he’ll never overcome.
- flandish@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
little known fact: politicians in comas are still allowed to work. :(
- 10 days
They gonna auto pen the shit out of Trump while claiming that each of them have had a very nice 20 minute conversation with him the other day.
12 daysIt would be quite something seeing a politician on life support in the Capitol lol
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish12 days
have you seen mitch mcconnel, nobody has and hes being proxied by his “assistants”
- RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.orgEnglish12 days
I don’t think the very best thing we can imagine is gonna happen, but you know what does seem more realistic for that reason?
A dystopian horror where they keep him (barely) alive while he’s suffering immensely because they need him as figurehead, in order to continue their fascism. Yes it would be poetic justice for him, but it’s not gonna make anybody else’s life better.
- osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish12 days
there’s this thing called locked in syndrome. While not painful, I hope he gets it and all he can do is blink.
- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
I think I’ve heard of that, if it’s what I’m remembering.
There was this kid in tge 1960s. He got hit by a car, but didn’t die. He wasn’t in a coma, but it looked like he was in a coma but awake.
He was kept on life support, but really the life support wasn’t needed. They found he was actually breathing just fine. But they kept him on it, in his living room.
He was just a kid. Like 7 years old.
Flash forward to the late 90s and he, now nearly 40 was propped up on the couch like normal. His mom was watching wheel of fortune. Then his mom just hears her son take a guess at the puzzle. Not only was it the right answer, but it was the first words he had spoken in like 35 years.
Turns out his mom would watch wheel of fortune, and jeapordy every night. And every night in his own head he would play along.
The story never explains how he snapped out of it. He just took a guess at the wheel of fortune answer just as he’d done for years. This time it was verbal.
The son later on asked his mom if she remembered a moment that had happened in the 70s. His mom walked into the room, saw him, and said “Why won’t you just die already? You’re tearing this family apart. We can’t keep funding your burden…”
And then she left the room. Never to speak of it again.
That moment lived rent free in this guys head for 20+ years. Everyday knowing he’s hurting his family. Everyday being a burden. From his own mothers mouth. He’s their burden. That’s the thought he had every day.
And when he asked his mom if she remembered that, she burst into tears. She didn’t remember at all.
So now it’s the 90s. He’s speaking for the first time. His friend who he knew before the accident, left work early. Didn’t even tell anyone he was leaving. He got a text. “John is speaking”. He was in John’s living room within 15 minutes.
This friend had visited him sometimes every day. Sometimes a few times a week. But always with him. And because he had come over, everyday his friend for 30+ years had talked to him as if he were normal. So he learned of his friend’s life in real time. And from Johns point of view, he didn’t even need to catch up, because he was never out of the loop.
One of the first things he wanted to do was to meet his friends wife. He had been married for 10 years, but she never felt comfortable visiting. But his friend would talk about her so much that he felt like he knew her already.
I changed the names. Mostly because I read this story about 15 years ago and don’t remember the names. I’m probably forgetting other details too. It just stuck out to me that his mom, probably in a moment of frustration that she didn’t mean, gave him such mental trauma with just a few sentences that would last a lifetime. And also it stuck out to me how a 7 year old kept his friend in his life, until almost 40 years old without one word spoken from John.
Trump dying will not stop this. He’s a carnival barker and is not really in charge.
I really hope his death is very slow, very painful, and very public. I want him to drag his cursed movement down with him. If he abruptly dies, he’ll be a martyr that bolsters this movement, and that would be worse.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish12 days
Trump dying will not stop this. He’s a carnival barker and is not really in charge.
But he’s the one they’re all unifying behind.
Once he’s gone, everybody else is going to be clamoring to become the next Trump, the next leader of the right wing. And this competition will divide them and turn them against one another. No more cooperation, no more covering for each other’s crimes – they’ll be at each other’s throats, throwing each other under the bus.
Eventually one will probably come out on top, but until then, the infighting over the power vacuum will cripple them.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish12 days
it will be fun to watch all these right wing grifters infighting as well.
- k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish12 days
I dunno, the bus is public transportation. Aren’t republicans against that? Throw each other under a cybertruck, maybe.
I’m not sure people are acknowledging the amount of money and slavery are behind this movement.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Eventually one will probably come out on top,
The last major infight was about 16 years ago.
- SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Trump’s perverted brand of charisma is what propelled him to the two-time presidency. It was glaringly obvious in 2017, when the rest of Republicans started competing in who can best emulate his assholery.
The way he looks like and handles himself it seems he is in the process of experiencing a slow, painful death, but he’s probably too high on painkillers and other drugs to really care.
- DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
I hope he gets something that makes him shit himself all the time, that he gets an embarrassing level of dementia, that it shows Republicans how shit they are, and he’s rated as one of the worst presidents to ever live.
- huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
⬜ something that makes him shit himself all the time
⬜ an embarrassing level of dementia
⬜ that it shows Republicans how shit they are
✅ he’s rated as one of the worst presidents to ever live
- protist@retrofed.comEnglish12 days
What if he has a stroke and loses much of his voluntary muscle function, rendering him unable to walk, talk, or use his hands, but he’s completely present cognitively so knows he’s trapped in a broken, doomed body and has to see and feel the Haitian immigrants wiping his ass every day at the home his children put him in
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish12 days
they will just to weekends at bernies, like they are doing with Mitch mcconnel.
- 12 days
I hope that slow and painful death takes place in prison, with all of his accomplices.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Do you want a person who might not remember what he did, and/or is otherwise delusional, a slow and painful death?
- Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish11 days
Lma fucking o. Just because he may not remember the last 5 or 10 or even 25 years, the man has a lifetime of hate of prejudice following him. For example, the first building he ever controlled refused to rent to black people.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
If a 6 year-old murdered 10 people, would you wish wt:thon a very slow and painful death? What if a dog killed 10 people? No in either case? Then what if it was proven that Trump, either now, or in the future, is/was [future tense] alive but had the mentality of a 6 year-old or a dog?
How many blacks (and others) were unjustly, or mostly unjustly, incarcerated in federal prisons early January 2017 that Obama could have pardoned, but didn’t?
- Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish5 days
I’m ignoring all your points because he’s been a grown man for over double what I’ve been alive and is a huge hateful piece of shit. I literally don’t care about anything you typed tbh
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
I’m ignoring all your points because he’s been a grown man for over double what I’ve been alive
So you want formerly-evil-now-senile-people to suffer?
and is a huge hateful piece of shit.
and if he suffers in his senility, this hate will be cured?
I literally don’t care about anything you typed tbh
Then why do you respond?
Sociopath. Even if you hate the guy, if you’re a public figure like trump, the least you can do is muster a bit of empathy.
But he can’t, because he can’t even fathom the concept of empathy. It’s completely foreign to him.
Electing sociopaths is how you get war and genocide, as we’ve known for millennia. And we’ve given a total sociopath the levers of genocide, both abroad and at home.
Not that I think he had much in the way of empathy prior to this, but he lacks a filter of any kind which is a symptom I had to repeatedly apologize for when my grandfather’s dementia got worse.
The dude has full on dementia, no one is doing anything and he will continue to degrade both himself and the reputation of anything associated with him as this keeps going.
Funnily enough, dipshit donny might be the best publically perceivable evidence of the need for reform we will ever get.
- 12 days
Reforms that are needed:
- Compulsory voting for all citizens
- Ranked choice voting system
- Age limits for politicians
I’m sure there are more, but this is just off the top of my head.
- kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish12 days
I’d go with term limits as well. Too many people in what are essentially life terms
- huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Plenty of countries have laws that fine or otherwise punish people that do not vote, afaik this doesn’t tend to lead to better functioning democracies. I think this is a thing where the carrot works better than the stick.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
- I’d be less oppose if it’s accompanied with NOTA options.
- What if A gets 26% of the vote, B gets 25%, C gets 24%, D gets 15%, and E gets 10%?
- What should be the age limit for US Presidents? and should the 35 be lowered to 18? Ditto for US VPs?
What if A gets 26% of the vote, B gets 25%, C gets 24%, D gets 15%, and E gets 10%?
The standard method of ranked choice voting: E gets eliminated as they have the least, everyone who voted for them goes to their next ranked choice. Repeat until one person has over 50%.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Please forgive any ignorance on my part, but would it be required that we’d know what the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th and so on) preferences of those who voted for E in the first choice?
If so, and if such could be done, what if of those who voted for E on their first choice, in their second preference, half of them (i.e. half of 10% being 5%) voted for C, a third of them voted for B, and a sixth of them voted for A;
meanwhile two-thirds of those who voted in their first preference for A, half of those who voted in their first preference for B, and a third of those who voted in their first preference for C, voted for D in their 2nd preference? —i.e. (⅔ x 26%) + (½ x 25%) + (⅓ x 24%) = 16⅔% + 12½% + 8% = 36⅚%.
Please forgive any ignorance on my part, but would it be required that we’d know what the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th and so on) preferences of those who voted for E in the first choice?
Yes. Please look up “How ranked choice voting works” instead of asking randos on social media to explain it to you. The information is readily available.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
(my bold)
Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters’ rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked vote system depends only on voters’ order of preference of the candidates.
Ranked voting systems vary dramatically in how preferences are tabulated and counted. This gives them different properties with respect to satisfying various voting groups and adherence to mathematical rules.
…
Some ranked vote systems do not use ranking to transfer votes but instead use ranks as weights. These systems are called positional voting. In the Borda method, the least-favored candidates on each ballot receive fewer points; the most-favored receive more points. The points on each ballot for each candidate are added together, and the candidate with the most points is elected.
- sys110x@aussie.zoneEnglish11 days
Here’s a brief explanation of how preferential voting works in Australia: https://www.chickennation.com/voting/
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Thank you. 🙂
1st count
Bamboot got 39.
Floundra got 35.
Aggy-Waggy got 20.
Gort got 6.
But why did Bamboot get 4 of Gort’s votes while Aggy-Waggy got only 1, even though the latter got over half the number of the former?
Shouldn’t it be 3+2+1 instead of 4+1+1?
and why in the 3rd count did Floundra get 16 of Aggy-Waggy votes, while Bamboot got only 5 or less than 1/3rd?
Presumably in a run-off, it would be Bamboot versus Floundra;
while in proportional representation, the Complete Scumbag Party, Discreet Scumbag Party, the [Gort Butterson Party], and the Nice Party, in a parliament of 100 might get 39, 35, 6, and 20 seats respectively, with probably the Nice Party being in a coalition.
Even if it was 1/2 PR and 1/2 FPP, each system electing 100 candidates (hence a parliament of 200), and in the FPP vote, the Complete Scumbag Party won 51 of the FFP seats, the Discreet Scumbad Party won 38 seats (i.e. less than 75% of the former’s number of seats, or conversely the former got over less than 35% the latter’s number of seats), the Nice Party won only 8 (2/5ths of what they won in the PR count) seats, and Gort won 3 seats it would still be:
name PR FPP % Complete Scumbag Party 39 51 45 Discreet Scumbag Party 35 38 36.5 [Gort Butterson Party] 6 3 4.5 Nice Party 20 8 14 We could have 3 possible coalitions:
Complete Scumbag Party & Discreet Scumbag Party most powerful but least probable Complete Scumbag Party & Nice Party most probable Discreet Scumbag Party & Gort Butterson Party & Nice Party possible, but probably most unstable
I’d like to believe but do you really see a future where old (white) dudes in power will vote in favor of a reform where old dudes arent allowed to be in power because they are “supposedly” unfit for it?
Yeah that wont be happening any time soon in my opinion.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
They could vote for the legislation, maybe push for an amendment, that doesn’t kick in for about 10 years.
e.g. starting 1 January 2036, no person can be a member of Congress who has been in office for 10 or more years, consecutively or non-consecutively. This does not apply to any person who was a Congressperson at the time that this amendment was ratified; and years served before 1 January 2030 will not count.
and/or,
e.g. notwithstanding the aforementioned, starting 1 January 2060, no person can be a member of Congress who has been a member of Congress for 10 or more years, consecutively or non-consecutively.
“they’ll only vote for policies that benefit the country if it doesn’t affect them” tells you everything about the people currently in power.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Agreed, it does;
nonetheless, my example indicates that positive change is still possible, not soon but neither too long, even by such incumbents.
If they did this 20 years ago, and my suggested dates were 20 years earlier, wp:Chip Roy couldn’t run in 2030, wp:Matt Gaetz couldn’t run in 2028, and wp:Mike Johnson could not run this November.
- atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Had me until you said “muster a bit of empathy”. Trump would never.
- brachiosaurus@mander.xyzEnglish12 days
if you’re a public figure like trump, the least you can do is muster a bit of empathy.
Public figures have even more reasons not to muster empathy for genocide supporters
- chortle_tortle@mander.xyzEnglish11 days
Wish we had public figures that were unbothered by it for cool reasons.
- Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
talks about genocide and then wants empathy for the scumbag they called Genocide Joe.
Respect is earned while someone is alive and healthy, Biden has earned no respect.
Despite his many crimes, I am nearly sure Joe Biden has done more to deserve respect than you ever will.
- fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
“If Biden deserves so much respect, then why am I still an asshole?”
- Assholes- WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish12 days
Biden is a war criminal that prepped the way for Trump to come to power.
If you feel any pitty for him, you should stop NOW.
- WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish11 days
Being a Democrat in name only, does not make you a decent person whatsoever.
Mr hair sniffer, stall on Ukraine, drill in the arcticson, is not a good person.
Also does not make them to blame for Trump above all the people who voted for Trump, and all the politicians actively supporting him and not reigning him in.
- mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Genocide is the mother of all crimes. Financing it nullify all the good thing you did. He also supported balkanizing Iraq.
- 12 days
Yeah and the other guy rapes children. What’s the point of comparison in this scenario?
- mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
You didn’t brought trump raping kids in the comment I reply to. You don’t seem like a good faith user. Israel rape children with usa diplomatic cover. Trump is also complicit with genocide so yeah i hope both trump and biden suffer
- 11 days
Both sides need to die where we dance on their graves.
Anyone that has an ounce of respect for him based on what he has done throughout his life and the harm he has caused on untold millions of people deserves no respect either.
- Azzu@leminal.spaceEnglish12 days
It’s not about respect for his actions, of course they’re terrible, it’s about respect for a human being suffering. There is no real point to wish suffering on anyone, other’s suffering never helped anything except satisfy one’s vengeful fantasies/sadism. If someone is hurting others, you make them stop hurting others, but you still give them basic human respect, i.e. don’t make them suffer needlessly etc
- Azzu@leminal.spaceEnglish11 days
Yes, I do have empathy for sick old humans. I wish Trump was safe in a nursing home or wherever, wouldn’t feel the need for constant validation and would feel loved. He’s quite obviously got massive internal struggles that make him do terrible things to feel less terrible himself, if he was doing better, I’m sure he wouldn’t do any of the things he’s doing and likely wouldn’t be president or similar.
- 12 days
No. Basic respect for the life of your fellow human is intrinsic. Nobody should have to earn the right to live, jackass.
When the actions they’ve committed throughout their life has led to the harm of others, there is no intrinsic respect.
- Azzu@leminal.spaceEnglish12 days
People that are able to say stuff like this are exactly why we have the situation we’re having. If you can turn off your empathy for the “bad guys”, all it takes is just misidentifying the “bad guys” once, either by mistake or on purpose or by being manipulated.
Even serial killers or mass murders deserve some basic respect. You got to deal with them appropriately so they can’t be a threat anymore, but once that’s done, the respect should be the same as for anyone else.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
So your basic respect for them doesn’t necessitate your grieving their deaths?
Nuance is not needed, he caused harm and that’s what he needs to be remembered for
Respect and derision are not the only choices.
e: for example, failure to even acknowledge is a deeper social slight, and one that stays through time, not something cheap and transient. But that requires a bit of sophistication.
- PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
That’s actually not how respect works at all, what your thinking of is adoration. Respect is lost, if you don’t start with a baseline of respect for everyone, you don’t respect anyone.
Neither have you. So get lost to the maga community on lemmy (if there even is one)
reddit.world moment when not respecting a genocider makes you a trumper apparently
Incapable of believing that a critique of one piece of shit implies endorsement of the other piece of shit?
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
If Trump was choking on a big piece of cheesecake, would you perform the Heimlich maneuver on him if it’d save his life?
If he said thank you and extended his hand, would you shake it?
His followers will screech about “civility” any time anyone says anything like that.
The correct reply to that is always, “Fascists don’t deserve civility.”
- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
And I will screech at them SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PEDOPHILE SUPPORTING FASCISTS!!!
- ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.comEnglish12 days
I’ll simply reply in the mortal words of Charlie “got kirked” Kirk when he said “uhhghahhaowhhhglughgnhgurgle—”
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
What instead if he’s impeached soon after November, lives to be 100, while either running in the 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, and 2044 GOP primaries and/or having a proxy/proxies such as Ivanka, Jared, Don Jr, Eric, Rudy, Whisky Pete, and/or even Vance run in such?
- Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish12 days
All these ancient politicians dying in the next 5-10 years, we can finally be free
- krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
It doesn’t work that way. There will be many reasons to celebrate, sure, but this problem doesn’t go away with a few obituaries.
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Just what the US needs: a military coup, perhaps lead by people who oversaw atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and perhaps Vietnam. :-/
- somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Billionaires and megacorps are not going to stop running the country because a few figure heads croak. I wish.
- modus@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
I will buy a flag pole and extend it so that It may fly the flag higher.
- nailingjello@piefed.zipEnglish12 days
Article is from May 2025 in case anyone is assuming he just said it. TBH, he’d probably say the same thing today though.
This felon rapist is so insulated from reality that I honestly don’t believe he realizes that the nation (world?) is going to make a fucking holiday out of his passing.
- Grannymcgrannypants@lemmy.nzEnglish11 days
I’m from New Zealand, and I will ABSOLUTELY be celebrating the end of this fucker.
- Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I need to figure out a way to fly a flag at double mast. Maybe a helium balloon?
- DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish11 days
I’ve said it before on Lemmy, but anyway I kept buying a bottle of spirits ready to celebrate. ( well bubbly two times initially ) but I kept drinking them. So now I’ll just wait for the great day to buy. Cheers for the future.
- Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish10 days
And when we do, all the conservatives will suddenly start their pearl-clutching bullshit about being ‘respectful’ once again.
- Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Hit them with a “I wish for Trump what Trump wishes for his enemies.” They don’t really have a prepared response for that.
- Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish10 days
Haha I actually used a similar one recently. I was talking about how much of a piece of shit Mitch McConnell is back when he was in hospital and someone called me out for being mean so I said “I hope he receives the same amount of respect and care that he showed to others throughout his life.”
Sucks for Biden, but I will never forgive him for not firing Garland & making damn sure pedo Trump died in a prison cell.
- BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish12 days
I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect that the Democrats intentionally pressured to delay those prosecutions with the following idea, “If we wait until the last minute, then these prosecutions of crimes, which we 100% know Trump is guilty of, will torpedo Trump’s presidential chances, and the Republicans won’t have any time to boost a different candidate.”
I think they didn’t expect that the most slam-dunk case, the classified files case, would be pulled by one of the most outlandishly corrupt pro-Trump judges we’ve ever seen, Aileen Cannon.
I don’t care why they did it. It was either the wrong call or an unforced error. One that we are paying for.
- protist@retrofed.comEnglish12 days
I sincerely disagree with this. I think Merrick Garland genuinely viewed his role and himself as “separate” from or “above” politics and totally disregarded the threat Trump because of that. This is honestly more in line with previous DOJs as far as political impartiality, however he was not what we needed in that moment.
- 12 days
Know what else would do that? A deep dark military prison cell he’s never allowed out of, or a firing squad.
Either that, or they thought letting Trump run again would make their candidate a shoe in, so they wouldn’t have to try at all and could run a “Status Quo, everything is fine so nothing is going to change” candidate.
Either way they put their own desires for power above law and order.
- 12 days
I will never forgive him for the Gaza Genocide
- 12 days
And which country is
the lapdog of? Which country could have ended the genocide with a single phone call? (Not a defense of Reagan btw, he was a Zionist neoliberal demon even with this one action, and the world is a better place without him)- k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish12 days
From an outsider, the US has always looked like the lapdog tbh. Not that I disagree that Biden (and every other president before and after him) should have been telling Israel to fuck off.
- 12 days
I mean…
is way bigger, way richer, and way more powerful than , all by a country mile. And can’t survive economically or strategically without aid.Like I do get where your view comes from, especially with Trump basically giving Netanyahu whatever he wants and Biden having done the same thing except for going to war with Iran.
Actually, even if the dominance relationship was reversed, i.e. even if
did control , this would not change the fact that
sent aid and weapons to
all throughout the Gaza genocide. So while I do think it is important to clarify the dominance hierarchy between
and
for other reasons (e.g. in pursuit of a coherent analysis of
as a vassal state of
, although sometimes a belligerent vassal), here we can agree to disagree about the direction of the dominance relation and mutually conclude based on the facts that
, and in particular its figureheads Trump and Biden, are demonic genocidal entities which are deeply responsible for the Gaza genocide.- 11 days
I mean usually I don’t use the emojis that much, but I had to use the words AmeriKKKa (
)
and Pi$$rael () a few times, and I just find and replace every instance with its burning flag. I refuse to give these settler-colonial projects even the minimal dignity of spelling their names correctly.
- Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
If Netanyahu just says nope to Trump’s peace plan, why would he say yes to Biden’s?
And Reagan didn’t achieve shit - Israel carried on building in the occupied territories regardless, and they only abandoned their war in Lebanon because it was going badly. Reagan did telephone the Israeli prime minister but the Israeli cabinet had already voted to stop the campaign that day, but of course Reagan wanted to take credit for that and announced how stern he was on the phone and the American news outlets of course delighted in fluff pieces praising the president for stopping the war. But that’s all it was. Fluff.
So, no, your “American president can stop Israeli wars with one phone call” is BS,
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish12 days
America supplied the weapons to do the genocide. If America stops supplying the weapons, no more genocide. Are you 12?
- DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Didn’t Reagan give weapons and a Bible to the Iranian theocracy?
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish11 days
I know you guys also literally trained and supplied the group that would become Al Qaeda
- Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Are you 12?
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I think you have oversimplified somewhat.
You don’t think Israel has a teensy bit put by for a rainy day? I do. You don’t think Israel has a domestic arms industry? I think they export a great deal. You don’t think there are other suppliers than the USA willing to sell arms to an aggressor? I do. You don’t think electing trump is the worst thing America could have done for the people of Gaza? I do.
- MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish12 days
As much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It’s horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I’m relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.
It’s hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don’t win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.
- NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Failing to prosecute a known criminal out of a fear of appearing nakedly partisan/political is, as it turns out, as bad as corrupting the justice dept to make it nakedly partisan/political.
Biden should have had an AG who went after criminals regardless of the political consequences.
- mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
If trump went to jail, it would mean every alive presidents could be persecuted including Biden do it will never happen
- MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish12 days
Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.
The DOJ’s independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.
Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.
Well, your so called guardrails were never anything more than a gentleman’s agreement, that much is plainly obvious.
The simple fact is Garland’s DoJ completely failed to provide timely justice for the citizens of the USA. Full fucking stop.
- MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish11 days
Those same guardrails have repeatedly stopped trump this term.
Just because things didn’t happen as you wish they did does not mean they failed, full fucking stop.
Incorrect. The Judicial branch has stopped Trump repeatedly. Furthermore, I was talking about the DoJ’s failure regarding the whole speedy trail thing we are supposed to have in this country. You can stop putting words in my mouth. We don’t need your strawman arguments here.
FYI, the Executive Branch & Judicial branch are separate.
The current DoJ has attempted every single illegal thing Trump has requested.
Please learn how the separation of powers works in the USA.
- MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish11 days
Did you mean to respond to someone else? What words were put in your mouth?
And you might note the thousands who have resigned from the DOJ, leaving mostly incompetent goofs behind who cannot secure convictions. (Because, yup, they respected the DoJ’s independence. In other words, one of those guardrails working.)
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish12 days
After all the MAGA shock at the unsympathetic Democratic response to Charlie Kirk’s death, MAGA will be far more savage to Biden when he dies. They expect respect for their traitors/pedophiles, but they won’t give it to those who have actually helped America, and not just a exploit it.
- Kurtismayfield@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
And Kirk died for what he believed in. Gun rights. Biden prided himself in funding cancer research.
- atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Wait til they see the celebration in the streets when Trump kicks the bucket. If they think Kirk’s (well deserved) death reaction was heartless, I have some news for them.
So when the orange fuck face dies we can all say the same thing without getting fired, right?
- osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish12 days
no, of course not. He’s the orange turd. We’re expected to mourn turds. I, by contrast, will be dancing for joy when the turd dies
- 11 days
It is amazing the hold Biden has over his ego. It is like still being bitter about the kid who beat you in the spelling bee in high school.
It’s honestly the only thing I like about Donald Trump.
I’ve known people that can’t get others out of their heads. They live miserable existences.
Maybe that’s why you’ve never seen a true smile on Trump’s face and why you can’t name anyone that’s actually his friend, except maybe a dead pedo.
- Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish10 days
I genuinely think he just doesn’t have that part of his brain. He has people that he temporarily stops fucking over and tries to charm-bomb while they’re useful to him (who he then throws under the bus again once he doesn’t need them anymore) but that seems to be about as close as he can get.
I think that’s the same reason why he’s never had a pet - if you take things like companionship and love out of the equation, a pet is just something that consumes resources without giving anything material back. I wouldn’t be surprised if he just sees them as pointless.
- FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Ear cartilage doesn’t grow back but ketchup packets are everywhere
- nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
I see lots of non-Americans telling Americans to “do something!” every single day here in the fediverse.
Americans might have “vile and violent fantasies” but they’re far from the only ones and I’d wager if you talked to a neighbor or two you might find some of them have similar fantasies.
- Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Nope, don’t see it in my environment.
It’s a sick US attitude.
A society drenched in violence and fantasies.
Their sad little cope for their impotence and complete lack of reaction against their regime’s behavior.
In their infantile minds they believe they are the great revolutionaries and warriors ready to battle injustice.
- Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Trump can’t bear the fact that Biden beat him. It really gets to him like few other things do.
Of course he also hates it when people ask him why the other half of the Epstein files aren’t getting released.
- 11 days
If Obama had not humiliated him at one of those press dinners who knows, he may have never really ran.
- ecvanalog@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Everyone says this, but remember he had already done several third party runs. He always wanted to “collect” a presidency to sate his enormous ego.
- BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
Yeah if any of you guys build a time machine, I know Hitler is a target, but please tell Obama to not goad the Donny.
