Put your money where your mouth is, Letterman. You’re worth almost a half billion, so what are you risking other that being just another rich guy telling others to do the heavy lifting while you stay nice and safe?
“…think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn’t think of how to win.” - Richard Rahl
Hank hill “do i look like I know what a JPEG is”
Honestly US has too many retarded people for democracy.
Osho said it best.
Garbage in, garbage out.
We’ve got a mass media that exists to pump everyone’s brains full of Fear, Uncertainty, and Distraction.
From local “If it bleeds, it leads” news coverage to shopping aisles full of celebrity gossip and fad diet magazines to damned near every radio channel in America being operated by two companies that are owned by white supremacist families… we’re all living in a soup of ignorance and hate. We have been since we were born.
Is it any surprise more people are angry at Muslim migrants than local mega-churches? That foreign governments are more vilified than domestic lobbying firms? That the homosexual agenda is scarier than climate change?
Whining about “the people” seems short-sighted when you’re living in the shadow of the Big Racist Propaganda Machine.
Since Letterman is a millionaire I vote he starts the revolution, instead of trying to convince us to do all the work.
A lot of very smart people want to get rid of Trump. The main problem is the hundreds of opportunists riding on his coattails, who are currently in charge of Congress and won’t let anything happen to him because it will affect their own fortunes. Hell, some of them are just sitting silently in committee meetings because they can’t speak in Trump’s favor without committing perjury, so they refuse to respond to questions (even though that’s their job). Unless Bonespurs has his final Big Mac Attack while in office, I think we’re stuck with him until 2026, when some of his Congressional minions might lose their seats and his lock on the US government will loosen a little.
Do you really think there’s anything short of violence that will will cause him to leave office?
He left office in 2020 because the military leadership wouldn’t back him and the Mike Pence wing of the party was sick of him.
Very possible that he gets kicked out because Peter Thiel is tired of him and wants a replacement.
But who replaces Trump? If the Dems decide to re-run Joe Biden and Marc Anderssen joins Mike Bloomberg in chairing the DNC, what do you win by electing the Silicon Valley Certified Democrat over the Silicon Valley Certified Republican?
A lightning strike on the golf course?
Diarrhea
Severe medical events. But I think the most realistic hope is if enough people help replace some MAGA congresspeople in 2026 so they can stonewall the rest of his term.
He isn’t going through congress or obeying court orders. He’s already replaced all leadership with yes men.
How could you think normal procedures would work? Even if they did, the democrats have shown they aren’t interested in stopping him.
He isn’t going through congress or obeying court orders.
Congress rubber stamped Trump’s cabinet and actively facilitated his budgetary demands. Hell, they passed the Lake Riley Act before he took office. Bureaucrats who put up any kind of resistance have been fired en mass while Congress and the Courts did nothing to object. He’s faced no meaningful resistance.
He doesn’t need to go through Congress because Congress is bending over backwards to appease him. He doesn’t have to respect the Courts, because the Roberts Court seems intent on clearing his path.
An opposition legislation/court gives the bureaucracy a foundation on which to refuse compliance. Nobody is offering that.
Please suggest how Democrats should stop him now.
Not vote for his cabinet nominees, to start with
Who voted for RFK and Pam Bondi and Hegseth?
If he had another daughter to molest.
The problem I have with this thinking is that people think Trump caused this and that the fascist problem will go away if he does.
He is a symptom. We need to fix the cause. I’m not saying I have all the answers, but going back to ‘the old way of solving problems’ and not changing anything will just lead to more fascists.
Either way, the fix is going to involve getting rid of Trump.
People are literally infected with his BS. Removing the main disease gives others a fighting chance to provide treatment with a possible cure.
I think it’s more that they see Trump as a confirmation of their world view.
They feel scared and threatened, they seek evidence to confirm their feelings, and Trump provides them with the reassuring narrative that affirms their world view.
If people could get help dealing with the things that they’re actually afraid of struggling with they wouldn’t be as engaged with fear mongering.
Many people agree that Trump is the head of the snake. The amount of complete lies is remarkable. I’m on the side that believes, somewhat, that the cult spell will greatly diminish if he were completely out of the picture.
The Trump cult will dissipate after he’s gone. But the conservative virus will absolutely still be there. They will leech on to the next Republican scum that rises through the ranks. And now that Trump has opened Pandora’s box, all the scum in that party will rise to the occasion. Trump has proven that the presidency can be a massive cash cow now. People with lots and lots of money and no morals will use that wealth to run another disgusting propaganda campaign, it’ll fool stupid Americans, and we’ll have Trump copycats in the Oval Office again.
Conservatives cannot do anything but vote Republican. It is in their programming.
I won’t say Trump is the worst case scenario, however. You have to be just the right amount of fucking stupid to fuck things up as much as he has.
Any smarter, and on the first day of his first term he would have just summoned the CIA and told them about the blackmail that Putin has. Any smarter, and he’d be able to see how alienating our allies hurts him, even if he is fully self-serving.
Any dumber and he’d be drooling on himself, which makes it hard to get elected. He has to be at least as smart as a monkey so that he can pavlov up the right phrases that make the audience clap.
It is often necessary to deal with the obvious symptoms before you can start treating the cause.
The cure is ranked choice voting and repealing citizens united, oh and kick Rupert Murdocks bitch ass “news” network out of the country.
Repealing Citizens United for sure. Ranked choice has no place in the American system.
For what reason?
Yeah, if you want to keep the two party system first past the post, we’re gonna keep getting what we have now.
Still I got down voted lots for suggesting merely banning Afd might not be the, eh, total solution to the problem. 🤷🏼♀️
Yup.
This is just the beginning. Trump opened doors that are permanently open now. Other bad actors will walk through them. They know now, definitively, that Americans are largely stupid and that pretty basic propaganda works on them. And our government is configured in such a shitty way that any real change requires such a large majority in Congress that we’re not going to fix all the things necessary to prevent this all from happening again.
I hope you’re ready for permanent decline, because that’s the future for America, short of a revolution that completely rewrites our laws regarding politics. And it’ll be written in a shit ton of blood.
In Germany we say “Der Klügere gibt nach, bis die Dummen die Welt reagieren”. You could translate it with “A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will until fools rule the world.”
IMO there are two big, fundamental and inherent problems we’re not dealing with.
1 - Democrats don’t want to do anything, because they want to run against Republicans on this in the fall, midterms and in 2028.
2 - The folks who voted for Trump in the first place get their news and world view from Fox News and the GOP-aligned media. They aren’t telling the same story.
Let’s look at the fucking headlines from Fox News right now:
- Dose of Reality: Trump targets drug prices, pharmaceutical industry with new executive order.
- Dems defend ‘storming’ of ICE facility - DHS hits back with all the receipts
- Trump cuts deal with America’s top rival - here’s the fairer playing field the US now has
- Storm Clouds: Middle Eastern royal offers to donate jump jet to Trump - Dems immediately make move
1 - Democrats don’t want to do anything, because they want to run against Republicans on this in the fall, midterms and in 2028.
This reminds me of the olde biology joke.
A scientist observes a frog jumping. He [ sequentially removes legs and observes until the last leg is gone; then he] observes that a legless frog will not jump when provoked, concluding that a legless frog becomes non-compliant.
It’s fun to absolutely render a party useless, ignore the rallies its better members are holding (and how that’s all they can do) and just decide they must not want to do anything for a reason then supplied.
Can we beggar a question when there’s no question?
I’m gonna need receipts; especially for the Bernie and AoC cases.
The Senator who went to El Salvador gets credit, Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland.
Also I respect Cory Booker’s 24 hour speech.
We probably shouldn’t have let Fox News fester and metastasize all these years.
you’re forgetting about point #3. all you need to do is watch the commercials on major us ‘news’ stations to figure out who tells the news.
Personally, I think we should skip the home.
This loser didn’t start forgetting his wife’s name or forget to wipe his ass after shitting on a regular basis.
He’s a fucking traitor who is tanking our country in a myriad of ways and violating the fuck out of our Constitution. A much more…severe punishment is in order.
Funeral home?
Thrown into the middle of the ocean.
The ocean doesn’t deserve that
“unprecedented,” “deeply concerned,” “alarmed,” — words have lost all meaning due to be in every other fucking headline
don’t forget slam
SLAMS
BLASTS
CLASH
OUTCRY
UPROAR
PUSHBACK
FUCK
You know if they started writings “FUCKS” instead of “SLAM”, I certainly would start to get more interested in the headlines
There’s nothing you can do, the system was made so you can’t just remove a guy you don’t like. It’s up to Congress to impeach and remove or the 25th amendment, but that just gets you Vance.
Have the day you voted for, especially the protest-non-voters.
We have to be victimized because the alternative is armed revolt and putting his fat orange neck under the guillotine. I’m sorry, but Americans aren’t suffering enough en-masse to be motivated enough to do that yet. I wish it weren’t so, but we’re stuck with it for now.
Give it a year.
I’m assuming some of the Trumptards with a few brain cells still bouncing around will start looking at their grocery receipts and not be able to reconcile it with what their Daddy has been saying.
“Hey, dat man lied to me.”
Maybe getting evicted will open some eyes.
We’re only 3-4 months in.
The idea of armed revolt always concerns me because of countries like N. Korea, Iraq, and more recently Afghanistan.
All of these countries had periods of (relative) progressive tendencies before their current iterations. Yes, I’m aware Afghanistan was still rough 2001-2021 but there was still a generation of women going to school and getting educated and that concept just simply ceased to exist.
And all of these people just kinda…watched it happen. And did nothing about it.
I’m not sure, as an American, why we’d be any different. We have alcohol, iphones, air conditioning, fast food, and video games. No one is risking their creature comforts at this point.
You’d be surprised at what people will put up with. I say we aren’t close even if we gave it 3 or 4 years.
They will bury their head in the sand so hard they’ll come out the other side of the planet before they’ll annoy they were duped.
If you revolt, then you can’t use “Jan 6th” as a gotcha afterwards lol
He’s pretty much describing all three sides of the problem and pretending only one of them matters.
- The anti-democracy movement, which wants a dictator and has gained enough followers to actually pull it off through democratic means.
- The pro-democracy movement, which is seeking to counteract the fascists through persuasion (the whining he’s talking about) and careful legal action that doesn’t undermine the very democracy they’re trying to defend.
- The revolutionary movement, which believes this democracy has already failed so severely that it needs a hard reset, so any action to remove the fascists is justified even if there is collateral damage.
Stop making sense!
