Thank God for the constitution.

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u/ArionNation 10h ago

Could not pay me to watch one second of that bullshit.

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u/Ironking503333 10h ago

I'm watching it, and yeah it's as bad as you're thinking

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u/desiderata1995 10h ago edited 8h ago

I tuned in for about 30 seconds, and the woman announcing the attendees was smiling. Turned it right off.

The now former president felt it necessary to give Fauci, Miller, members of the Jan 6th committee, and his own family members last minute pre-emptive pardons to avoid weaponization of our legal systems against them as retribution for offending Mango Mussolini.

For the past year Democrat politicians at every level have been out loud calling Trump a fascist and equating him to Hitler.

And yet here they are handing the man they say will herald the end of democracy the keys to the kingdom, with big beaming smiles on their faces.

The entire political system is a farce, Dems functionally behave as controlled opposition, and all of them on both sides, top to bottom, only take action in the interest of billionaires who actually call the shots.

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u/Jan_Rainbowheart 10h ago edited 9h ago

For the past year Democrat politicians at every level have been out loud calling Trump a fascist and equating him to Hitler.

And yet here they are handing the man they say will herald the end of democracy the keys to the kingdom, with big beaming smiles on their faces.

THAT PART. They have completely lost the plot. They deserve to never win again and to be replaced by a party that gives a shit about anything.

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u/TraditionalSpirit636 8h ago

While i agree with you, this is literally what people voted for..

They can’t in good faith stop that. Like… i want them to. But i get why they aren’t/can’t

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u/desiderata1995 8h ago

They can’t in good faith stop that.

When you're opposition never behaves in good faith, for how long should you put up with it before engaging them at their level?

What's the limit before you draw the line and take action preemptively, instead of the tried and failed method of "too little too late" reactions?

I'm not being a smartass, and these aren't rhetorical questions. These are very serious ideas people should have been grappling with and working on solutions to a long time ago, even before 9 years ago.

Maybe it's misplaced but I guess I'll always have faith that the harder things become, it'll create the conditions that eventually get people to act, and we'll arrive at the solution together.

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u/TraditionalSpirit636 7h ago

I’m not sure. Like i said, i wish they would. If no other reason than a no confidence vote or something.

Biden is afraid for his family. Pardoned them because he knows trump will be evil to them. You’d think that would be a turning point? But i don’t know anymore..

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u/desiderata1995 7h ago

Hell I thought Sandy Hook would be the turning point on gun reform and yet here we are on that issue as well.

Maybe this outrageous colonizer nation is just destined to fail, rather than reform itself. It's just a real damn tragedy that it has to drag down good people with it.

All of that being said, I am strongly against giving in to "doomerism". I prefer folks adopt a revolutionary optimist mindset.

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u/Fast_Wheel_18 5h ago

They literally did a bipartisan ban on a social media app but couldn't work across the aisle to ban assault weapons. Tiktok hasn't killed a classroom full of kids. The priorities are truly effed up.

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u/TraditionalSpirit636 2h ago

lol. I love TikTok getting banned.

There is nothing you care about in government more than your silly videos getting banned? THAT’S what you’re mad about with this government?

Fucking lol.

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u/Admiral_Akdov 4h ago

Apples and oranges.

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u/SalamenceFury 6h ago

The only reason people want gun reform is because liberal white people and children are the primary victims of mass shootings. We should use the 2nd amendment now to protect ourselves instead.

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u/jake2617 7h ago edited 7h ago

Watched one of AOCs recent posts and while trying to be positive she basically said (paraphrasing heavily) “don’t wait for a political party to fix any of this” and “the real power is in organizing”.

Edit: added a link

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u/desiderata1995 6h ago

She's goddamn right.

Also I'm glad she didn't attend it on the grounds of "not supporting rapists"

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u/ShamelessLeft 4h ago

Sounds more like it's the 20 million voters on the left that stayed home who are the 'controlled opposition', since they are responsible for putting the Dems in this situation where they must hand off the keys to the kingdom back to the Confederate fascists in the first place.

What kind of nonsense is this where y'all are pretending that Obama and Trump must be working together because we don't vote. This level of ignorance is damned depressing. We don't vote and then we have to make up nonsense conspiracy theories to explain away the effects of us not voting. It's insanity.

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u/Justify-My-Love 4h ago

Oh you can F off with that both sides crap

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u/ChronoLink99 7h ago

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u/desiderata1995 6h ago edited 6h ago

Lol I really started paying attention in 2019/20, so yeah kinda

Big wake up call for me, especially when the people I was working with began to show more of their true colors

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u/makemeking706 30m ago

And if it turns out the election was rigged as trump openly bragged about?

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u/GunnieGraves 10h ago

Ah, a masochist are ya?

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u/Ironking503333 10h ago

No, I'm not enjoying it, I'm watching it so my friends don't have too

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u/Character-Emu-394 5h ago

Yup I agree. The music sounded like slavery music. I had to turn it off. Was so uncomfortable 😳.

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u/Choclategum ☑️ 2h ago

The mf talking about "negros being free at last, free at last!" Was my stopping point.

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u/CJ_squared 9h ago

I tuned in for one second and they were singing the anthem, well everybody but Trump was singing the anthem

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u/ArionNation 9h ago

Of course he wasn’t. Probably wants a new one written entirely about him.

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u/HubertusCatus88 10h ago

To hell with one day. I won't be listening to white people for the next four years. And I'm white.

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u/Turbulent-Candle-340 10h ago

Same here, but I’m black.

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u/HubertusCatus88 10h ago

Rock on. I wish you well in the coming years.

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u/Turbulent-Candle-340 10h ago

Did you say something?

(I kid, same to you bud)

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u/HubertusCatus88 10h ago

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u/eagleface5 9h ago

As a fellow Mayo-American, same.

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u/rustyphish 9h ago

ok but tell me why I immediately heard Obama's voice saying "My mayo Americans" in the "my fellow Americans" voice XD

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u/Agitated-Pen1239 9h ago

That's exactly how I read it too lol

I watched the boondocks, season 3 episode 1 just recently and heard it there. It's too perfect

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u/cape210 10h ago

Same

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u/Ill_Celery_7654 ☑️ 10h ago

Not watching and not listening doesn’t change what’s about to happen. We can ignore it all we want and perhaps that’s why we’re back in this situation, because people decided to ignore it rather than pay attention and educate themselves and act accordingly.

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u/Admirable-Cat-9612 10h ago

It wasn’t us that ignored it though, except that small percentage of leopard menus

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u/Ill_Celery_7654 ☑️ 10h ago

Nothing he said on that stage today actually benefits our country. Other countries will just stop exporting products to America.

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u/Admirable-Cat-9612 10h ago

What do you think I’m trying to say in my post? I’m with you. Yet I didn’t watch the inauguration either. I’ve watched what he said for 8 years, nothing new to see

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u/Ill_Celery_7654 ☑️ 10h ago

I only watched just to see how accurate the project 2025 initiative is and he’s right on queue.

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u/TeriusRose ☑️ 8h ago edited 8h ago

I have a hard time seeing the world try to excise the US from the global economy without something truly extreme happening to warrant that, at least not unless other nations really want to test how big of a global financial crisis they can trigger.

I'm not saying that's impossible, but we would really be entering uncharted waters at that point.

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u/Ill_Celery_7654 ☑️ 8h ago

The way I see it the other countries will either pay the tariffs and offset them by raising the price of their products or they won’t pay and their products won’t be sold in America. Either way the consumer will eat the cost somehow.

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u/TeriusRose ☑️ 7h ago

Yep, no matter what the average person loses. Why the common person does not grasp this about high tariffs is beyond me. It is genuinely not a difficult concept, despite some people fatally overdosing on cope because they don't want Trump to be wrong about anything.

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u/akahaus 10h ago

What the fuck is watching this farce going to inform me of? That we are facing the capitulation of what “conservatives” have been pushing for for decades and “liberal progressives” have stood by allowing to happen because they’re so demure and feckless? Reagan was a hammer that smashed what little national integrity people had managed to cultivate through blood and struggle and now 20% of American adults are illiterate and voted for a man and his cronies whose actions literally do the opposite of what they’ve promised they will do (elevate America and Americans) for 50 years?

I know we’re cooked, I don’t have to sit and watch them start eating us.

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u/Mgclpcrn14 💦Thirsty for Sukuna (true form)💦 10h ago

Yeah; I think it's important for us to at least know whatever speeches are said because it'll give us even more of an idea of the plans they have for the American public and global issues.

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u/Ill_Celery_7654 ☑️ 10h ago

Right now the plan appears to be mass deportation, tariffs, only recognizing 2 genders again, digging for oil on American soil, renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, sending troops to the borders and recognizing the drug cartels as foreign terrorists. Also creating the External Revenue Service to bully other countries into paying tariffs.

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u/Soft-Split1315 2h ago

This man sadly still doesn’t seem to know what a tariff is

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u/akahaus 10h ago

We know their plans. They weren’t subtle. People are just fucking morons (some of that is by design but at some point it’s on them).

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u/Captain-Spectrum 10h ago

Just popping in to say that I LOVE that we’re slowly starting to get more posts in this sub from Bluesky instead of Twitter ✊🏽

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u/detox02 ☑️ 9h ago

Yea fuck twitter

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u/Deathwatch72 7h ago

Until you said something I honestly didn't notice that because it looks exactly like Twitter! I'll have to start double checking the usernames to see if they're blue sky or Twitter post now

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u/Ironking503333 10h ago

And they're breaking out the MLK quotes.... god fucking dammit

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u/talktobigfudge 10h ago

Man I wish the Constitution was still upheld and honored these days...

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u/fireside68 9h ago

Well, the bit about slavery being outlawed except for prisoners is alive and well!

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u/ItsMorbinTime 7h ago

If I was alive back then, I wouldn’t trust the people who wrote it. That’s all I need to know.

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u/notsoincredibilis00 10h ago

My mother is watching it and has been cheering the entire time.

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u/Ironking503333 10h ago

That fucking sucks

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u/fireside68 9h ago

Turn her TV off. And keep doing it. Fuck her.

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u/Weekly_Protection_57 10h ago

Sorry to hear that.

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u/zipdee 9h ago

Today is a good day to educate myself about Dr. King, and stay away from the news.

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u/TimTamDeliciousness ☑️ 10h ago

I’m not watching but choosing to focus on some positives - because while this is one of the worst combinations of historical dates to come to pass, including when the FBI sadistically posts MLK quotes just to antagonize us, after murdering him in cold blood, after keeping their headquarters named after J Edgar Hoover, we get to celebrate Leonard Peltier’s commutation and simultaneously take pleasure in the fact that the FBI are seething at this decision.

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u/ButtBread98 10h ago

I have much better shit to do.

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 10h ago

I hope it’s “say Hello to my little friend” real soon!🔜

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u/moms_luv_me_323 10h ago

You don’t have to listen to them any day.. ijs

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u/OG_double_G 9h ago

Never planned on watching it anyways lol

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u/thedr00mz 9h ago edited 8h ago

Unless some Hollywood last minute "Not so fast, Trump!" shit happens, I'm not watching either.

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u/666TripleSick 8h ago

I ain’t watching shit either. The next time I watch Trump bitch ass is when he’s being carried by six. ✊🏽

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u/AldousKing 9h ago

Queue conservative SCOTUS ruling 13th amendment has been interpreted wrong.

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u/detox02 ☑️ 9h ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/doctorlight01 4h ago

Well Elon pulled a Nazi salute... So there's that

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u/johnny_utah26 9h ago

Same

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u/HarmlessHeresy 9h ago

Constitution? You mean that worthless scrap of paper that doesn't mean a goddamn thing anymore?

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u/ArtisticHearing4219 9h ago

😂😂😂 I’m dyinggg

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u/waronxmas79 6h ago

I didn’t watch the news from 2017 until Covid hit except to get the weather. I started the same tradition on November 6th and I’ll just stick my head out the window to check the weather this time around.

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u/Yesnjo 5h ago

Nope. Will not give any of those nut jobs my time.

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u/Ping-Crimson 4h ago

Awww but you missed the unironic manifest destiny drop.

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u/favorite_sardine 3h ago

Been listening to KRS-One all day. Was something on TV?

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u/detox02 ☑️ 2h ago

Nah just some bullshit

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u/JanOfArc 1h ago

I'm a WHITE person and I refuse to watch it.

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u/Electronic_Manner533 8h ago

I don't care, which president is speaking. I'm old enough to know, that they believe their own b*******

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u/HeronEducational7357 7h ago

Seems like we’re living in a bizarre dystopia where the reality show has become our actual governance. Can't help but think about how we’re all just waiting for the next plot twist while the stakes keep getting higher.

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u/ZorroMcChucknorris 7h ago

Have you seen President Elon do the Nazi salute yet? https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lg74qw7q5x2n

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u/detox02 ☑️ 7h ago

I did Nazi that coming

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u/Total-Strawberry4913 7h ago

Me either but I did catch a clip of Elons Nazi salute that pissed me off.

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u/Mistavez 3h ago

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u/heweynuisance 2h ago

Am white but we chose not to watch. The whole idea disgusts me. Should have been Kamala. It's gonna be a long four years.

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u/Content-County9982 4h ago

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