It blows my mind that there are no legal blocks in place to prevent this (yeah, I know it’s because this shit was so unthinkable that nobody prepared for it). This yahoo is on a mission to destroy EVERYTHING America was supposed to stand for. SOMETHING has to be done to stop this shit!

  • @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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    82 hours ago

    Trump keeps using the term “deep state” to refer to anyone that stands in his way, however it should be noted that the term typically refers to a shadow government whose purpose is to enrich or increase the power of its members. So it’s rather ironic to be used derogatively by someone whose primary goal is using the government to enrich and increase the power of himself and anyone who sucks up to him.

  • @freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    What the hell do you think this country was supposed to stand for when James Madison said that government’s role is to protect the opulent minority from the majority, when the revolutionary war broke out around the time England started considering outlawing slavery, when Thomas Jefferson kept slave girls in his bedroom and raped them daily, when Thomas Jefferson lobbies to end the slave trade because it would make his breeding plantations more money, when Mount Rushmore was carved into a sacred mountain out of spite for the indigenous, when the US government killed all the plains buffalo because they had a treaty with the Lakota people that included the term “for as long as the buffalo roam the plains”, when the USA without question invaded Vietnam in an attempt to maintain the French colony against the Vietnamese people’s desire for liberty, when the USA told Japan not to vacate the Korean peninsula where they raped and tortured people for years so that the USA could take over the colony on their behalf, when the USA took over The Phillipines from King Phillip of Spain and built a brutal occupying military police force so effective that they brought it back to create the State Police system that was used to continue violently breaking strikes when local cops started feeling bad about killing their neighbors, when the Philadelphia police department dropped an incendiary bomb on a housing in a black ghetto because it couldn’t arrest some of the people inside it, when the USA imprisons more people per capita than even the height of the Soviet GULAG system when it was housing Nazi POWs, when the USA votes every single year at the UN against the banning of the glorification of Nazis, …

    What do you think this country fucking stands for?

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    That’s because Republicans are Patriots who want the BEST for this Country! And allowing people who WOULDNT PASS A SECURITY CLEARANCE to have Access to ALL our Top Secret Documents is how we do that!

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      Yeah honestly, for all the value this has, they might as well just dispense with any vetting whatsoever. We know it’s a farce.

    • @SanctimoniousApeOP
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      No, because America is not really a democracy.

      EDIT: Here’s a comment chain I read last night that says it better than I can.