They don’t hold that power. If they step out of line Trump and Elon will berate them on Twitter and set their followers after them. If they still don’t fold they’ll “mention” their family members in the tweets. They will play ball. This is them pretending to have free will, not them actually having any .

Makes sense since they’ll use LLMs to sort through it. Just bots talking to bots using electrical power for no human benefit whatsoever.

The damage being done this time around isn’t fixable in a single term even with full congressional support.

It’s easier to tear something down than to build something up.

True, but more precisely it’s an order of magnitude harder to build than it is to destroy. Should there be a democratic administration after this they will find it impossible to put all these pieces back together in 4 years, and will get blamed for it like they always do, and lose again.

The right has put themselves into a position where destruction and failure are a future political asset for them.

I was a band kid when Enterprise first came out and I didn’t like that it didn’t have an orchestral score either. But honestly, it grew on me. As did the show. It’s one of those things that we didn’t know how good we had it until it was gone.

The stupidity that led him down that path still remains.

That seems to be his appeal, if you can believe that. He serves as validation for a specific type of degenerate lifestyle I think moreso than his views.

The sausage steering wheel is pure gold.

I suspect most people will take the latter option. Enjoy your “victory”.

The ideology that is currently in power is one where government is inherently bad, always. It doesn’t matter that people benefit, that is literally not part of the equation.

An severe economic downturn is probably one of the only things that would actually pose a danger to the Trump administration. Rich people have to lose money . It’s going to hurt a lot of others though.

They should be more careful about their membership criteria.

No body anywhere cares what John Bolton thinks in 2025.

Gerrymandering didn’t win Trump the White House. American voters did. At least learn to be mad at the right thing FFS. Gerrymandering at the federal level in the US affects the House of Representatives. The electoral college is what put Trump in the white House. But he won the popular vote too.

Think this through. At what point do things get better if we don’t start changing how we do things now? What do you prefer to do, and/or suggest as a solution, if those two things are not one and the same?

I did think it through. What have you thought throu that convinced you that appealing to the better angels of their nature in just the right way is somehow the solution. There are 2 broad outcomes here. 1. The fascists just outright win. None of Trump’s incompetence matters, he just keeps plowing forward, and wins. After he does someone else takes over. 2. Things get bad enough fast enough for enough people that change is forced. In America , poor people caring about things isn’t enough. Rich people have to lose money for anything to happen AND things have to get back enough for everyone else that Americans stop sleepwalking and start paying attention in a way that Congress can’t ignore.

Among these outcomes, 2 is the hopeful one. The best case scenario. Good luck.

That damage is incoming and clutching your pearls over my comment isn’t going to change that.

Bloodthirsty? Lol. You guys are hilarious. Those old people are getting exactly what they voted for. Asking for pity from abroad is futile and utterly pathetic. What I outlined is literally the shortest through this madness, probably with the least total damage. That you find that reality distasteful is irrelevant.

The solution is not to exclude, but to understand what got us here and start doing the work,

The solution is entirely beyond you. There is no combination of words or actions you can take that will make commited non-voters give a shit. The only way past this now goes through an era of suffering.

It’s fine dude, Trump tweeted threats against any country that tried to get off the USD has the global reserve currency so therefore it definitely won’t happen. Or something.

Then fucking do it. 1/3rd if eligible voters made an active choice to not vote despite the choices never being more obvious. They chose not to matter. I’m just respecting their choice. Why can’t you?

Many of those people who could’ve voted but didn’t believed the lie that their vote doesn’t matter. Does that make them stupid? Gullible? Irresponsible? Perhaps. Does it mean they understand and support what’s happening? No it doesn’t.

Does any of that make those people matter? No it doesnt. They chose to not matter by not voting. I’m respecting their choice. Not sure why you won’t.

Our education system has been decaying for decades. We are fucking FLOODED with propaganda. Our very voting system is heavily rigged against us. Sure, we could’ve done better, and should’ve done better. But I think it’s monstrous to imply that an entire population deserves the horrors of fascism.

Yeah that’s cool but asking me, a Canadian, to give a shit about this when your mess is about spill over the border is asinine.

Do you know what you guys have done? People like me used to wish the best for Americans. I wished that Americans would finally figure out universal health care and education funding so that the immense wealth of America could benefit more of its people. Now I wish that Trump moves to quickly gut social security and tank the US economy, because I know that rich people losing money in the presence of a lot of angry poor people is the only way Americans will fix this for themselves.