Whaaaaat? A wannabe despot is doing despot things? Wild
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I don’t know that you needed to use “wannabe”…
He's not president yet. The US will knowingly hand the keys to power to a madman who wants to abolish democracy. Great job, guys.
This is on par with "the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself."
Media should of been asking "what does deporting millions of illegals looks like logistically." But they softballed him for the ratings and scandalous stories.
They brought this onto themselves.
They absolutely coddled and voiced all his insane rantings while never refuting any of them.
I hope their 30 pieces of silver are heavy in their pockets as the rope is put around their necks.
Did you wrote that last sentence yourself ? I might steal it, great writing
I think so but it's probably paraphrased from something I heard once upon a time, feel free to use it.
So glad the media hedged its bets and still lost and is taking the rest of us with them
Doesn't suing for damages mean you have to prove damages? The fucker just got reelected president, what damages did he succumb to?
Trump is a shit throwing champ. His shit is so noxious it sticks to and destroys almost anything it touches. Even if you make it away without being completely Broken down it sticks with you like the stank of the Bog of the Eternal Stench!!!
He's throwing shit cause now he can start throwing shit again at the media being shills and hurting everything to ruin trust in the words spoken and ideas passed .. since now the platform is no longer helpful in his victory.
It would if our legal system wasn't a sham. Unfortunately basically every "rule" it has is snapped off at the base from the lightest breath of a wealthy Pearson.
It's special, from the outside (I'm not American) to see the USA will go in full blast dictatorship in 2 months. If we believe Trump will do what he said, basically there will be no more future election, no department of education, no FBI, no press freedom, no veteran healthcare, etc and also Hillary, the Biden, Obama, etc will be in jail yada yada.
Will see from the outside, with a popcorn bucket, the shitshow.
From the outside, a lot of people are also saying that USA deserved it because they voted for it, like brexit for instance.
Sorry for you guys ☹️
Except Ukrainians, Taiwanese and others may pay a hefty price for this one.
I've been thinking about how Ukraine has been able to hold out against Russia for so long, but the US just surrendered to them without a fight. Never thought I'd see the day. But at least our pending top intelligence person already has contacts inside the Kremlin... SMH
They'll pay the upfront cost, after the big countries follow the US in tearing up climate goals we'll all be in a river of shit.
This is not to dismiss what they're going to suffer through, there are going to be horrifying crimes of humanity committed against them that won't happen to most of the rest of us, I just want to clarify that there is nowhere to go to avoid being impacted by this.
Well, twenty something percent of citizens voted for him but yes. I don't think it'll be quite as bad as he said since there guard rails, but we apparent voted for a full Congress for him too and hoping "sane" Republicans will save us is a fools errend.
But if 2016 is any indication, it's probably not as bad as brexit, lol. I think we need to leave NATO or something to be that bad. (But, Brits didn't deserve that, either, nor their crappy Tory leadership. They have my sympathy, as anyone conned by evil people should).
There were guardrails, but most of them are just litter on the side of the road now. The supreme Court has essentially justified any action he takes, Congress will not dare to oppose anything he wants, and he is appointing toadies and lickspittles to the highest offices of the land. Oh, and he is reclassifying all the major bureaucrats as political appointees so they can be fired at will.
It really is as bad as it seems.
We'll see. The guy practically steals political capital so it is unpredictable; traditional candidates usually have to cut deals with folks in house and Senate when a policy would cost that person votes, but he doesn't play by that because he can just make shit up. Gaetz will be a good test to see if he's still able to force bad choices on people.
The only upside is he's also an idiot who doesn't trust people around him. 2016-2020 was bad, but man it could have been a lot worse if he wasn't inept.
I'm hoping he announced the gaetz nomination to get him to resign, and it's going to nominate someone else for reals (all over some perceived slight). I have nothing to base this off of, other than it would be funny.
over 70% of all eligible voters didn't vote against him.
That's a democratic mandate.
Sucks for the US, but also for all the other countries dependent on the US for passive protection. Russia and China are going to do whatever they want now. North Korea might even get a chance to see some action. Historically, the US has made an effort to keep an eye on our enemies from the borders of our allies. Trump legitimately believes the only enemies that exist are within our borders.
The same media companies that helped him get elected?
The sanewashing has consequences after all.
And will anyone sue Fox other than some private business?
Nope. Democrats will just sit back and let Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the like all go and call them communist scum that want to kill babies and destroy everything.
It's so aggravating.
That's what I was going to say, why don't the Democrats ever reply in kind? Because clearly going high never worked!
That’s their whole MO. Do nothing when they have the chance, wring their hands and whimper when they don’t.
This screams "I'm so insecure that I must silence any and all criticisms."
What a pathetic human being.
Ah, right. Quoting the candidate and discussing his behavior is election interference now 🤦♂️
This is what bezos was afraid of.
Rest assured, Jeff Bezos is not afraid of anyone. No billionaire is.
One might argue that is the biggest problem we face
The media can lie in their freshly sanewashed bed.
Aside from democracy and society as a whole, the biggest loser in this last campaign was traditional media. I don't think any outlets came out ahead and confidence for many in publications like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, MSNBC, and others is at rock bottom.
I really hope the media loses these hard, honestly. At this point I don't even mind if Trump benefits some, I just want to see the media that sanewashed Trump and pretended there was anything reasonable about him returning as a presidential candidate get what they deserve.