I also heard that some agencies sent out emails notifying they'd be shut down, and found out the emails were edited to blame Democrats...
I guess this is specifically illegal according to the Hatch Act which is supposed to prevent using public service websites from being used to smear a political party.
Who's going to stop them? Certainly won't be the "radical left democrats".
Certainly not the courts.
I'm naively hoping for Nuremberg 2.0
It's usually preceded by some storming of beaches, marching across the region before holding trials and hanging people.
You youngsters always want to skip to the end when there's plenty of killing fascists along the way!
"All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years."
Never thought I'd say this, but here's hoping that A. Lincoln was wrong.
We can't fix this for you (addressing Americans here, whether you personally are one or not). We're of course very thankful for the help with Germany (and Japan, even if here in Europe that didn't really affect us - you helped our Asian brothers and sisters). But America has positioned itself such that it's impossible to invade. It's the largest military power in the world, with spending larger than the next several countries added together, with bases everywhere around the globe. And in fact as a NATO member, my own country would have to assist the US if it's invaded and invokes article 5. On the west and east you're insulated by oceans. North and South there are countries that could be staging grounds for an invasion, but for now they're allied and even if they no longer are, good luck to us getting troops from the other continents to Canada and Mexico without the ships and planes being destroyed on the way. Even if we get people on the ground in like Nicaragua or something, that's going to be a long-ass drive to actually American territory.
No, this is up to you guys to fix. I can't speak for everyone, but I think I speak for many when I say we're sorry we can't help. Any insurrection has to come from within, hoping the people of the US military are unwilling to shoot their own neighbors, friends and family. If they are, then it's civil war time.
Americans need to fix their own shit.
History tells us it will come. It just might take a while, sadly. Meanwhile, we’re losing a lot of ground as humans while these fraudsters delay the inevitable.
Me too. Of course it would require some sort of cataclysmic event first.
At least half the shit trump does is illegal.
At this point everything he does is illegal because he should be impeached, tried, and hanged.
It's no longer illegal if the order comes from Trump. The 6 Republican traitors on the Supreme Court put him above the law.
if anyone knows where I can support these Radical Left Democrats please tell me, because im exhausted by the centerest neo liberal corporate dem's who have been in charge for the last 50 years.
Elections have consequences, hopefully more people are starting to understand that and take them seriously.
The current fascist coup in the US is not the result of a free and fair election.
Decades of gerrymandering and disinformation within an electoral system that was never designed to reflect the will of the population, combined with illegal vote buying schemes, foreign interference and the combined wealth of Russian and American plutocrats intent on an authoritarian state got us here.
The US didn't vote itself into this situation and no amount of taking voting seriously is going outweigh the power of armed wealth.
Thank you for articulating all my thoughts better and faster than I ever could.
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This kind of "dumb-dumbs voted wrong" attitude always feels widely off the mark to me. A bit elitist but mostly just inaccurate. I've been trying through a bunch of comments to think through why.
Dumb-dumbs fell for bullshit propaganda because it made them feel better. Have you talked to Trumpers? They're people of the land, the salt of the earth.
You can tell them they've been misled and they will get very upset with you.
It takes willful ignorance to still want to vote for Trump, and I'm afraid if we had an election in November they would probably do it again. Next year we will see how many want to vote for Trump's enablers.
I feel like "willful" implies that everyone is equally capable of distinguishing between facts and lies, and that people aren't easily swayed by propaganda. If the latter were true, the advertising industry wouldn't exist. Republicans have been working to dismantle public education for decades. How many people have been psychologically manipulated like this since before they could speak? They might be "old enough to know better" but did they ever have an opportunity to learn critical thinking skills? Look at what they're teaching kids in Oklahoma. What chance do they have?
The results of the election are not an accurate representation of what the country thinks.
You forgot the fact that the domestic terrorists got their hands on the voting machines and source code in 2020.
He didn't get shot. He didn't win. He's on the list.
The politically illiterate oxymorons are always really funny to me.
"Radical left democrats" / "Radical liberals" (my fav)
"Marxist Fascists"
"Fascist antifa thugs"
Woah woah woah, calm down there. MAGAts aren't politically illiterate. They are normal illiterate. Get it right.
Don't forget about "post-modernist neo-marxism" XDDD
git blame
Who committed this change? Who acquiesced? I want their name known, so I can join a class-action suit against them, citing the Hatch Act.
America, your idiot is showing
Theres been a spotlight on him for over a decade at this point
I really hope that the "normal" apolitical types see this for what it is.
Democrats have been outmaneuvered by the GQP yet again.
Instead of headlines everywhere saying, "Republicans, despite controlling the House, Senate and White House are unable to agree to keep the government running", the Democrats have allowed the narrative to become "Democrats unwilling to reach an agreement with Trump."
The Republicans have been willing to burn the country down to remain in power since at least the Bush/Gore election. At some point the Democrats have to stop playing by the GQP's rules.
VA had that, sent out emails before and the morning after.
I have seen this on another .gov website recently. I opened it in Tor Browser and on top of the stupid text it was also super annoying, popping up whenever I clicked a link.
Man, we better pray we don’t need actual leadership anytime soon because this dope is set to be worse than he was during COVID if anything happens
The key here is to remove the parties ability to control the narrative. If no one believes them when they say shit like this, it cuts against them. Largely, this kind of psychotic rhetoric only works when they are out of power; when they have total power, its obvious that its them that are the problem.
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