Yeah, America is in the midst of a fascist coup .... the question is not if or when it is happening (it's already started) .... the question is when the people will react to it to stop it or let it all just fester and go on until it's way too late to do anything about it all.
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Dems Accuse Trump of 'Another Bullsh*t Manufactured Crisis' to Justify Chicago Invasion
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The latter. They think they can still vote their way out of fascism in 2026 and 2028. Until they experience a famine caused by the GOP and oligarchs running the economy into the ground, people are not going to be pissed off enough to do anything of consequence.
Even if Trump came out tomorrow and say "I am now your dictator. I am going to enslave you all, and if you don't agree, you'll go to a deathcamp where you'll be starved, tortured and worked to death". Americans would still just be a bit pissy, and half the country would still make excuses for him like "It's going to make everything much more efficient". While the other half are whining about not being able to resist, because things could always get worse for them personally.
The bread and circuses is still going strong in the US.
(Un)fortunately not enough people across the country have personally experienced severe negative consequences yet. I give it like 6 more months (optimistically) until it gets bad enough for everyone to start mobilizing.
Takes a few missed meals. It'll happen.
But honestly, would you rather have a fascist dictator and be able to feed and shelter yourself, or have no food and in a violent domestic war? Just something to consider. When people get hungry that's when action happens as has been historically shown, but who knows what comes after that.
It'd be great if they were toppled and some form of competent leadership and "normalcy" (when was the last normal period that we'd like to return to even?), but with violence comes further instability, death, imprisonment, etc. Ideally we can do everything non-violently within the system, but that hasn't really worked so... I don't know...
Youngster, there is no peace or food in a facist dictatorship, only fear and death. Those who seek to live, fight even though they may lose
lol youngster, no u
"There's no food in a dictatorship"... You should get offline for a bit and go talk to other people
Garuntee it.
You ever been dirt floor poor and hunted more than shopped? If not, stop taking about hungry. There's people the world over who know the truth of what I'm saying, even if you don't
Absolutely that's true all over the world. However in many dictatorships there are also plenty of well-fed people. Not as many as in a free society of course, but just because it's a dictatorship doesn't mean every citizen is starving. That's not me downplaying Trump becoming a dictator btw, that's still completely fucking crazy and he needs to be stopped.
Plenty of well fed people, as long as your one of the special ones.
I don't know what you're trying to peddle. But you're advice to simply take it is wrong and, frankly, cowardly
You do not beat destruction and cruelty by knuckling under.
Appreciate the convo, but I've seen too much. Collaboration, appeasement, and compliance are what allows facism.
Who said collaboration, appeasement, and compliance? Only you did. Go re-read what I said. I guess everything in your life is black and white and two things can't be true at once...
Watch for continued demonization of the left and then an ever-so-slight lift to the 2A winguts so that the regime can call on them to become a giant shitty posse to suppress anyone who thinks they might have rights.
Avail yourself of that amendment
Credit card debt too high for that.
It’s just the Epstein files distraction as well as the failure of the Ukraine peace Epstein files distraction failure.
I think rather than calling everything a "distraction" it makes more sense to call it what it is: desperate attempts to cling to power. If trump loses power he can no longer cover up the epstein files. Ergo, this is just the latest effort to cover up the files.
Even without the Epstein files he would still be doing all this shit. That is what he does, and the avalanche of shit serves to cover up the individual lump of shit. It was exactly the same back in his first term, he has just gotten a lot bolder now, which says a lot.
And on the red side, that jeans commercial manufactured outrage distraction started to Peter out, so now we're on to cracker barrel. It's really scraping the bottom.
Cracker Barrel?
Cracker Barrel did a modern rebrand including a more minimalist logo with just the words on a plan background, removing the chair, man, and barrel.
Which was stupid, showing they don't understand their folksy, old fashioned appeal, however conservatives have lost their damn mind, claiming that cracker barrel went "woke". Guess if they don't like it, then it has to be "woke"
I did bring myself to watch one conservative person that seemed all in on the too woke message. Then went inside and admitted they couldn't see how it was "woke" (i.e. the wait staff they met were all white).
Cracker Barrel changed their logo and the conservatives are pissed, tanking Cracker Barrel's stock value. Now personally, I think the new logo looks cheap, but I'm not about to trade stock over it.
Frankly, I do think it's worthy of tanking the stock, it's just a really bad sign that the leadership doesn't understand that 'old-fashioned' is key to their brand.
The 'gone woke' criticism is stupid, but it is a real head scratcher that Cracker Barrel thinks they should go all in on modern minimal design when their whole schtick is 'old country store'. They are relatively free of competitive pressure in that niche, and yet they go to a bland logo at odds with their niche.
Frankly, I do think it’s worthy of tanking the stock,
Because they changed the logo? Who gives a shit?
If it's a good restaurant, why the fuck would it matter if the sign looks slightly different.
Y'all are fucking weird.
As a restauraunt they are "ok".
Their unique draw is as an "experience", a folksy old-fashioned restaurant and country store. Chasing the modern minimalist design sentiment is a troubling sign of forfeiting their marketing advantage over an otherwise crowded market of other generic restaurants.
Now if that 'old-fashioned' was failing and the restauraunts were just a place where a few senior citizens go but is mostly a ghost town, I could see an urgency. Like last time I went to a K&W, you just had like a dozen people, with a surprisingly high number of people toting around some medical equipment. However, in my experience Cracker Barrel has been pretty busy still.
Yeah dude. The fascist takeover of our government is totally just a distraction.
At some point, these accounts have to be malicious, right?
No, the takeover is real. Trump uses chaos as a distraction as a way to mask or change the focus. A large amount of the time he is devoted to making himself look good or divert attention from something that he doesn’t like. That’s part of why he does outrageous things.
Yes it is bullshit we will just sit here a take a big bite and not say anything. We need to take action we need to untie regardless of political affiliation or gender identity. If not we will all be marched into the prison camps while looking at our phones.
The worst thing is it's going to work. Again.
“Work”?
It’s nothing but theater. The only thing it does is fuel the Official State Fascism Faux News channel bullshit and lies.
It will let them invade Chicago without consequences. And that's a first step in taking control over Democrat run states and cities.
That's how it works... It's all theatre, always has been. And it works. Look how many people are head over heels for pretty much anything this administration does. Actual outcomes don't matter. Consequences don't matter until it guts them personally, and even then sometimes it doesn't matter. All that matters is how it looks in the media and the theatre makes it look damn good to their demographic and they love it.
Wag that finger!
More like wag the dog
its a distraction from epstein files, and they are falling for it,(complicitly)_
It's also him just being a fascist piece of shit. If it wasn't Epstein, there would be something else. He uses scandals to distract from his scandals.
Alas! Verily our cup overfloweth with accusations! Were we not so o’er wrought and engorged on aspersions flung, we mayn’t find such callous rebukes so lacking in labour and easily loosened from their prison of parlance!
Go now we demand! Say not the things wished upon those who adversary your designs! Act instead as an extension of those that saw fit to place you in the very position to do so!
(There was zero use of AI in writhing this by the way. It sucks we now have to disclaimer our creativity. I was simply bored. That’s it)
Everyone with a conscience still wants to see people go to jail over the Epstein files. Will Trump eventually blow up the Hoover dam (blaming it on others, of course) in order to say "Hey everybody! Look over there!!!".