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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (5 children)

The Republican Party dies as soon as that happens. Every Republican knows it. That's why they will fight to keep it from happening and grift the situation as long as they can.

Fascism does not outlive the guy at its center. It can't. Anybody who could step up to take control would have been a threat to the old leader's position. The leader, therefore, has to make sure his people are loyal to him personally, and that tends to select for people who aren't very competent and are incapable of fermenting the same sort of faux populist up swell.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (13 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sad to say that in a fascist regime, even speaking up like this puts a target on Letterman's back. Trump is thin-skinned and petty.

Moving the average at "something is wrong" towards "let's do something about it" is a step in the right direction.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"...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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Since Letterman is a millionaire I vote he starts the revolution, instead of trying to convince us to do all the work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I have to admit this timeline is weird enough for a revolution started by David Letterman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Hank hill “do i look like I know what a JPEG is”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Honestly US has too many retarded people for democracy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

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."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Do you really think there's anything short of violence that will will cause him to leave office?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

A lightning strike on the golf course?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Please suggest how Democrats should stop him now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not vote for his cabinet nominees, to start with

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Who voted for RFK and Pam Bondi and Hegseth?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

If he had another daughter to molest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Can it be a funeral home?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your politics is football teams, that way you can all stay nice distracted and disorganised

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Well, we haven't really had an uprising since that one 250 years ago. But that one went well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Well, there's always one thing we can do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How is this statement any different than anyone else's "whining" about the goon? It puts me in mind of a scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

We've go to get up off our asses and stop just talking about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Okay I'm up off my ass, what now? Apparently we need to talk about how to get rid of him - which is what Dave is saying.

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