Doesn't matter to these slime bags until a recall vote is put into action.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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If only there were some warning signs they could have noticed along the way to the edge of the cliff....
Like his first term in office...
Hahaha... But when it all comes down to it, he'd support party over country. Every time.
"Megalomanic"? Yes, this is not totally wrong.
This approach was planned. When it was continuously pointed out, these are the same people that kept their MAGA hats on and stayed obsessed with "taking the country back".
You can't fix stupid, and now the world has to suffer for it.
It has to be so disconcerting to think for years that the liberal news is lying only to find out that the people you trusted were the liars.
I don't think they've made that connection yet.
Not all, but some. Let's hope that number keeps growing
Methinks you may be attributing just a smidge too much cognitive ability to Trump voters and Fox consumers.
Nah a lot of them at this point are generations deep into conservative propaganda and culture. It doesn't really matter how intelligent one is when literally everyone around you is saying the same thing and has created a fucked up little reality bubble. Sometimes folks break away from it but it takes time and frankly speaking may not even be all that widespread.
A Trump voter not only knew the word megalomaniac, but used it correctly in s sentence? Color me shocked.
Just says 'local residents' so there's still a good chance they're not MAGA
"Look at that snob, she's a RINO, burn her!"
They probably said MAGA maniac and the news is being generous
Why are you assuming these are Trump voters?
MAGAlomaniac
Thread's over, folks. Pineapplelover won.
Yoo so many updoots. Thank you everybody.
Amazing, I thought they'd be ghosting ~~they're~~ their constituents by now.
Edit: I am so ashamed of myself.
They still have to drum up the crazies enough to grift more donations out of them.
My republican senators have all but abandoned their constituents. Full voicemail, never answering their phones, no responses to email, no town halls. Only servicing trumps mushroom cap dick.
My democratic representative, on the other hand, is a true bro. Always communicating, always helping his constituents.
Depending on the population of your state, your senators could have far, far more constituents that they represent than your Congressperson.
Another state with the same experience
Do they though? A party that enables and empowers the oligarchy will have all the funding they need. Musk donated north of 270 million to Trump in the last election. Similarly most of he rich tech bros donated to Trump's inauguration fund.
If they take care of the "voting problem" while in office, they have no further need for their base.
"will have all the funding they need". True, though people like that don't care that they have enough. They "need" more.
What I meant to say is "Will have more funding than they could ever dream of. " Small donors do not matter. They will happily take money from normies, but that would never change who they work for.
They just cut a huge amount of government jobs that fund a lot areas that are overlooked. They're not going to have any money to grift.
Faces getting eaten by leopards known to eat faces.
I personally, advocated voting for the "leopard that doesn't eat faces, but was still a leopard" and got told that was just as bad. Personally, I preferred the illusion of democracy vs the cessation of all remaining rights.
You got called a genocide loving false progressive too, huh?
Two of the old weak, confused, incompetent grifter's violent supporters are worth twenty of his critics. Move along.
I never had any expectations of republicans, so they havent really been any more disappointing than they always have been. Authoritarian idiots who lack empathy (republicans), the rich, and religious facist nutcases have always been with us and always will be with us. They live here too, unfortunately. I did have some expectations of the Dems that have been catastrophically not delivered in the past few decades.
To combat the troglodytes on an ongoing basis we need to maintain a good education system, minimize religious influence on government, and have a robust counterweight to troglodyte greed and self centered tendencies -- that resistence is in the form of a robust leftist movement that champions the basic needs of all peoples, not just the privileged or the tribal-clique groups. Otherwise democracy cant work.
Part of the problem in 2025 is that we have demonized, disempowered, and basically destroyed the left within the democratc party, even though their causes are exactly what Dem and Trog people say they want. So now there is only centrism, which is not a philosophy that will mount up and defend anyone against the troglodyte hoardes. Our presidential candidate standing on a stage with liz cheney talking about her glock and saying nothing about a dnc sponsored genocide, or the struggles of the common american people is pretty ample proof of that. They fear the left more than they do the trogs, and they never envisioned that the system could actually be brought to an end by the trogs. School shooting rates have never been higher than they are today. Its not even backpage news anymore for dems. That means something, dont you think?
So here we are, watching it all get burned down with no serious leadership on our side standing up to resist it, beyond what rhetorical scraps bernie can muster, an old man standing on a beach in front of a hundred foot tsunami wave. God knows the DNC dem leaders dont have the will or stomach to lead this fight. They just want to keep getting bribes. They just appointed a new head of the dnc who already wont take a stand on anything and answers in the vaguest possible terms when interviewed. He wants the donation money to flow, not to fight and win a philosophical struggle. He should be working at the DMV, not leading a party that needs to save the US from its own worst tendencies.
(no offense to DMV workers)
Worse. There are dems (or so they claim) that the voices are advocating 'vote blue every time' when we call out the sitouts for their inaction, insisting that we not hold them to account for their essentially letting the orange fuhrer back into the white house and handing him the fire axe to take to the country.
These idiots didn't understand their choices have repercussions on the country and the world and choose to plug their ears and blah blah it out for the next 4 years hoping it will blow over. They earned every ounce of ridicule for not educating themselves about how things work and how their decision matters.
You right the ship first, then fix the engine. Fools.
Last time, we held back the Rottweiler from mauling the toddler. The wife got rid of it for a while, but then brought it back. It seems like the only way we can convince the wife that it is bad is to have it maul the toddler and have the police take it away to be destroyed. But we can't just take it out for a walk and let it loose, it has to chew through the back fence and get at a toddler, otherwise we will be held accountable for the Rottweiler's destruction. And of course, we don't want any toddler to be hurt. What to do?
Rottweiler = Trump, Toddler = Vulnerable Americans, wife = the electorate, the back fence = the constitution of the united states, for those who didn't get the analogy.
Just hope the milk is cheaper, then.
Milk = eggs
Hey Megalomaniac, you're not Jesus, yeah you're no fucking Elvis
That song is about a hundred times more relevant now than when it came out
Yup, absolutely. I am sure it was about Bush at the time (though they deny it was any specific person) but now it genuinely feels like a Trump protest song.
Decades late to the party, pal
I wish. It would mean that this genocidal freak would feel his sins crawling on his back.
I am shocked. Shocked, I say.
Why because he hurt you and not the 'lessers'?
I don't think these companies notice anything shorter than a 3 month quarter
Please people, choose words trump has a chance to understand
Why bother? Not like he hears anything with his head somehow up both Putin and Musk's asses. Or would care if he did.