The US is looking pretty fucked right now. RIP
Did it to ourselves
I did not. I did my damnedest in order to try and inform everybody who was around me. I try to help bring up all of the aspects and all of the problems. Our biggest failure is all those who didn’t even vote. Not those who did but those who couldn’t even be assed to get off of theirs and go out and fill out the form. But let me Tell you what this administration did Nazi coming… My unadulterated ass now being even more bold and happy just telling them to fuck off. Might as well start feeding them the same bullshit they’ve been doing to us for the last eight years. I am now refusing to do absolutely anything involved with anything that they want done I am going to drag my dick on everything and anything I might construe as being helpful to their cause. I’m going to bitch and moan as loudly as possible . I’m going to be the most cantankerous pain in the ass that anybody has ever come across.
That orange fuck can get stuffed should have stayed in oompa loompa land maybe And I’m just saying maybe lighten up on the amount of tanning cream that he’s using or at least tell his apprentices they need to slow up cuz we all know Mr tiny hands is incapable of squeezing the fucking bottle himself. Don’t want to accidentally use too much energy might be construed as exercise and that might actually physically kill him God damn medical oddity. How can somebody eat that poorly and do literally nothing and still be walking around.
Yes we did… as was said a long time ago, the only thing that can destroy America is America
Well that’s not true. 49% of voters voted against him. Many of us did a lot more than vote. We failed to stop him, sure, but that’s a different thing.
Well, that’s democracy. The fact that Donald Trump, famous dumbass, got even 20% of the vote would be embarrassing, but he actually won the election. Twice. As a convicted criminal (once).
I had pity the first time, but this one is totally on you guys. This time I’m here to browse /r/leopardsAteMyFace and I brought popcorn.
What percentage of your adult population vote for him? Isn’t it something like 1/6th of your population?
Part of living in a democracy is accepting that 49% isn’t enough
The first thing in democracy, I would say.
At least all that stuff about a weaponized DOJ is over right?
The only thing worse than Russia is a wannabe Russia that had a feasible choice.
The only thing that Americans can do is obvious and yet all I’ve seen online is finger wagging and “hot takes”. Fucking embarassed for you.
If we protest we lose our jobs which means we lose our healthcare. Are you beginning to see how they have us by the balls?
Wouldn’t that even more of a reason to protest? It’s almost a meme at this point, but the US is the only developed country without universal healhcare. But people keep voting for the party that countless times has threatened to cut even Medicare.
And if a random dude in Germany knows this, every voter in Bumfuck, Nebrahoma should, too, but here we are.
Almost half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. One day of missed work means that their kids could starve.
It’s just not that simple. Believe me, we all wish it was.
It could be as simple as voting for the right person (Bernie Sanders in the past, maybe AOC in the future), but the fact is most Americans believe what billionaire TV told them and don’t want Universal Healthcare.
I think you’re underselling the effects of fifty years of deliberate, targeted propaganda a bit. This isn’t the result of measured thought, this is what happens when you allow a right-wing media apparatus to operate unchallenged for generations. (Not alone, other factors like our national narrative of self-reliance and an erosion of resources and respect for public education are significant. As well as racism since we never properly dealt with the losers of the Civil War)
Good luck on voting for anyone that isn’t a token in future elections.
Don’t worry, neither party gives a shit about healthcare. It doesn’t matter who we vote for.
Bernie Sanders thinks otherwise. But people seem to prefer Clinton and Biden.
neither party gives a shit about healthcare
Were you born in the last decade or do you not remember Democrats moving mountains just to get Obamacare passed? Which gave me affordable healthcare when I had none.
I worked in health insurance when that happened.
The insurance companies were ecstatic about Obamacare. A big ole fat blank check from the American public, backed by the US government. They had to cover more but the feeling was, and it ended up being true, that they’d claw back their exclusions in court.
Obamacare was a health insurance scheme in a healthcare costume. Maybe at inception it was about healthcare, but after the Democrats spent months trying to negotiate with Republicans and giving them pointless compromise after compromise, and the Republicans still refused to support it, they passed health insurance reform, mandated everyone buy it, and paved the way for the fastest increases in health insurance costs in history.
I mean, the democrats haven’t given us healthcare either, despite having had the opportunity more than once. Best they’ve done is make a nationwide marketplace and told us we have to buy healthcare from one insurance corporation or another, or we get fined in the form of additional taxes for not contributing to billionaires.
I mean, the democrats haven’t given us healthcare either
They gave me affordable healthcare when I was younger (Obamacare). It isn’t always about getting exactly what you want, because you never will in politics. It’s about scraping and clawing and fighting to get anything, at all. And in my lifetime I’ve gotten WAY more out of Democrats than Republicans. Respect where respect is due. It took a monumental effort for Obama to get that shit done.
Baby steps to universal healthcare.
But we just lost dozens of baby steps by electing Republicans. Good job voters.
They didn’t have the votes to pass anything better, and even this the Republicans tried to undo.
Now without McCain (or some similar with some convictions), you can kiss Obamacare goodbye. And I’m 90% sure they will repeal it without a replacement.
And I’m 90% sure they will repeal it without a replacement.
Oh absolutely. Look what happened when McCain shot down the last effort. They didn’t go back to the drawing board and re-work it and try again. They just gave the fuck up. After spending years saying they could do better than Democrats.
And our homes, meaning our family members also become homeless
If someone has you by the balls and they won’t let go, then cut off their hand.
There’s a reason every American was raised on the mantra of “violence is never the answer” and “if you fight back you’re just as bad.”
Peaceful protest against tyrannical governments only work if they’re seen as an opening offer backed by the potential for non-peaceful escalation.
Too bad one party decided that guns were bad and spent the last 50 years disarming itself.
What are you gonna do when the government comes after you with your scrawny ass weapon? It’ll work against a neighbor, sure, but the military can see through your walls using wifi alone. There’s a literal helicopter above your house tracking your every move. They know more about you than you realize. This is the strongest army in the world we’re talking about.
And, even if violence sounds tempting, there are so many things to do before any of that, like resist and organize. You can definitely fight back in man other ways besides a picket sign and a gun. I’m not sure why those are the only two options.
You don’t get in a tank fight with a pistol. Pick your battles.
United Healthcare just lost 80 billion in value when some rando took out its CEO.
What are you gonna do when the government comes after you with your scrawny ass weapon?
The same thing al quaeda did in Afghanistan I presume
No way that would work here. We have like, grass and stuff. The sand helps to… slow them down or something…
It’s not that funny but I’m poking at the anti 2A people who always ask what you plan to do with your rifle against an apache helicopter. There’s good examples to point to as you noted, but I’m more interested in the obvious counter point, which is what are you going to do to that apache without a gun? I never hear an answer to that one. Obviously nobody on the ground is going to be having a good time in that situation but at the end of the day I’d rather be taking shots at it than throwing rocks or just lying face down and hoping they miss me.
efore any of that, like resist and organize. You can definitely fight back in
resisting and organizing are necessary steps.
Do you really think they’ll be effective against the man that will happily mow down the people resisting?
When one side is ready to use violence and the other side is not, the other side always loses.
We’re still monkeys with sticks over here.
Is he mowing people down? He’s purging and people are resisting, as they should. And despite that the only threat has been towards us foreigners. You have more to worry about your fellow bleeding heart patriots. Arm yourselves against those first if you must.
Let’s let this post sit here and we’ll see who rusts first
Alright, fine by me.
Americans can vote, and a majority of them voted for this a short few months ago. This is exactly what he said he would do. This is what he did the previous 4 years he was in power. Americans want this. They don’t even have the excuse of popular vote this time around. They fully committed to this.
Yup.
As an American I can confirm that Americans are fucking stupid.
Hope you’re comfortable with us having the most powerful military to ever exist. I’m certainly not.
49% of voters, about a 3rd of eligible voters
49.8% (so rounding it would be 50%) and 3 million people more than in 2020. And a whole a while 14 million more than in 2016. Eligible voters who didn’t vote made an explicit choice and are equally complicit.
They had a choice of a dumbass and literal criminal and a prosecutor and they made their choice.
If only there was an amendment for that very situation…
All the 2A nutjobs who have been waiting their entire lives for this turned into fucking crickets.
The nutjobs still think he’s on their side, unfortunately.
The system didn’t fail them, voters did.
If being convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud and civil liability for rape did nothing to persuade voters then there was nothing Jack Smith could have done to change their minds either.
This is the real nail in the coffin.
Take Trump and Republicans entirely out of the equation and you’re still left with a majority of braindead stupid Americans. That problem ain’t going away anytime soon.
Our populace simply isn’t intelligent enough to maintain a democracy.
We’re cooked.
This is the mental dead end I reach every time. It’s not even just “elections have consequences” or “voters are frustrated.” It’s that huge numbers of Americans are passionate supporters of this specific monster. Many of them have bad reasons, or are ignorant, or have been deceived, but the support that matters is there.
Things like the electoral college, FPTP, and gerrymandering are serious problems we need to fix. But fixing those will not fix the hearts and minds of the people. There is so much more that has to change.
It has had me seriously wondering if whatever hellish stuff Trump’s handlers have planned to dismantle the government is going to be the FASTER way to get to the part where we rebuild something better.
While voters do share some responsibility, they correctly mobilized and ripped this asshole out of office 5 years ago. The voters were failed by Merrick Garland, who clearly didn’t think treason or insurrection were that big of a deal.
Yeah, but that took an unprecedented situation (once in a century pandemic) and a million+ dead Americans. He absolutely would have won a second term if COVID didn’t happen.
American voters are pretty goddamn stupid and there’s really no way around that.
Huh, fired? For what cause?
A criminal is the head of the governing body that makes the laws. Why even bother asking why he’s not following them?
Attempted justice.
Oh don’t worry about that -they’re reclassifying then as at-will first. Which is the crookedest hiring policy ever. We have it here in Illinois and it’s total bullshit.
“cause what are you going to do about it?” Apparently
Its US. You can be fired at any time. What do you think this is? Europe?
By private companies. Federal employees have a lot more protections.
Literally, from the article:
It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees
That tells me federal employees have different rules and they may have a path to make things uncomfortable for a while. Whether that’s worth the effort is up to them.
I live in a at-will
right to workstate, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-willright to workstate, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?On paper or in practice?
Because seems like whatever president says goes.
Fair question. On paper. On paper is what actually matters, long term… So long as the checks in balances in place aren’t all totally neutralized.
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The BS reason they gave is in the article. We all know the real reason is that they aren’t loyal to Dear Leader.
Fascism is here. Causes aren’t required anymore.
Probably because they think he is incompetent and should be in jail. If your employees don’t respect you and think you should be in jail, then they might not be a good fit.
This is just the start. He’s going to purge every competent person who believes in the national mythology / shows an ounce of backbone and replace them with incompetent yes men. These people tend to be very intelligent, resourceful, and well-connected. I don’t think this will be the last we see of them. Something tells me that giving a whole lot of people who plotted the overthrows of multiple foreign governments lots of time off together maybe isn’t his most brilliant idea yet.
Straight from the Project 2025 manual. It’s crazy that I tried to get people to read it before the election and I got called a conspiracy theorist, but here he is actually executing the plan and these same people just deny it’s happening. I can’t help but think they prefer to be ignorant.
Unfortunately it’s always a conspiracy theory until it’s put into action. But by then it’s too late…
It’s exactly like the Nazi problem. To most people they aren’t officially Nazis until we’re literally being shipped into death camps. Anything that happens before that is just “awkward waves” and “political disagreements.”
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I guarantee that they STILL won’t be Nazis to those people even then. There is ALWAYS an excuse.
Yep, had republicans I know believe Trump when he said he knew nothing about P2025, now here they are following it to the letter.
Its infuriating because his “Agenda 47” was basically project 2025 with less words.
Welcome to 1930s Germany.
A bunch of ignorant, uneducated people experiencing economic hardship that vote in a proto-authoritarian out of desperation because their minds were warped by propaganda and hatred.
Expect things to get much worse.
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Fired on what grounds? Can a suit, perhaps many, be filed for wrongful termination?
Ordinarily you’d need ground for dismissal, yes. But one of the first things Trump did was follow the plan for Project 2025 which included, amongst other things, reclassifying a fuck ton of government jobs as political jobs, enabling Trump to hire and fire people for political reasons.
In almost everywhere in the US, you can fire anyone, at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, as long as it’s not because of membership in a protected class (age, sex, gender, national origin, etc.). (Or, obviously, if there’s union or other rules around it.)
Government jobs are like the one place where that isn’t true.
Not anymore :(
Yeah… :-(
It’s gonna be a long four years.
Lol aww bless your heart thinking it’s over in 4 years.
Let the Gleichschaltung begin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/germany-1933-democracy-dictatorship/Good luck USA. Don’t stop fighting.
Sue him. Inundate him with lawsuits regardless of the fact he’s already gotten away with being a criminal so that the courts are forced to give attention to the numbers of wrongfully terminated gov’t employees
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Hey now, America won’t idly stand by while Russia and China illegally annex territories. We’re just late to the party, had to find Greenland on a map first.
Greenland is just cover for the other two.
Don’t you worry. Donny has plans to join them.
“The horse has fired the horse catcher.”
“I didn’t know he could do that.”
Remember when they admonished Biden’s administration for not firing anyone after the Afghanistan evacuation? Yeah that’s all Republicans want, to fire people. Well actually they might go after these guys.
JustUs Department
Of course, it’s more than just losing their jobs. What employer would hire someone with a target on their back from the President of the United States?
Their entire careers are screwed.
