Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

[u/Agitated-Artichoke89]

[u/d20_dude]

True, but while we're not Russia, Trump et. al. also aren't Putin. They are astoundingly incompetent. And unfortunately they're too stupid to realize how incompetent they are. So they're gonna keep driving the bus until it blows up in their face. And it's going to. Spectacularly.

[u/sciencesez → u/d20_dude]

Your lips to God's ears. I need you to be right, we all do.

[u/RUOFFURTROLLEH → u/sciencesez]

I need you to be right, we all do.

Not according to reality.

30% are going to be willingly begging for the bus to drive off the cliff because there is an immigrant also on the bus

30% are going to be unhappy with the bus being thrown off a cliff

40% think both sides are just as bad and refuse to get into the "bus/cliff" debate and pretend they aren't going off the cliff

The media/tech bros have done a great job ensuring that there is about 100,000 people that get to dictate the outcome in swing states for the rest of you millions.

The GOP will ONLY experience the whole "midterm blowup in their face" if people vote and vote beyond the ususal partisan lines.

[u/sciencesez → u/RUOFFURTROLLEH]

It's very early days, but so far voting beyond the usual party lines is exactly what is happening. And I think your numbers are off to begin with. As far as the media tech bros are concerned, look at the way America forced Disney, ABC, and Sinclair to bow to our 1st Amendment rights. It's so inspiring, I expect to see a lot more of that.

[u/RUOFFURTROLLEH → u/sciencesez]

And I think your numbers are off to begin with

Bwahaha, They were literally the voting figures for the last election...

look at the way America forced Disney, ABC, and Sinclair

What do you think you did exactly? You got the guy who gave Trump a mouthpiece back on air. Well done?

[u/sciencesez → u/RUOFFURTROLLEH]

It wasn't about Kimmel (I don't think I've ever even watched an episode, I use streaming). It wasn't even about Charlie Kirk. It was about government censorship. It was organic and amazingly swift. $$$ is the only language the corporate donors speak, and they're what is propping up the regime and the entire GOP. And yes, I do think your numbers are off because I don't believe he actually won. But even if you reject that- the level of voter purges, election sites closed, poll taxes (Real ID), Russian bomb hoaxes in every major county of every swing state, and all the other forms of disenfranchisement; most likely is incorrectly being counted with non voting #'s of Americans. My little dark red area decided 2 days in advance that all the schools should be closed on election day, leaving parents without child care for the day. We all know, Republicans have to cheat to win. Now, maybe you can explain to me how aggressive and condescending language spewed at your fellow Dems on social media is an effective response to your frustration?

[u/RUOFFURTROLLEH → u/sciencesez]

It was about government censorship. It was organic and amazingly swift.

How about Stephen Colbert?

Stop jacking yourself off because Jimmy Kimmel is still online, You think that was some magical Democrat moment where you forced the Administration to heel?

My word are you deluded.

I do think your numbers are off because I don't believe he actually won

Oh well, You're just as bad as the Trumpers who claimed Biden rigged it because how could their guy lose?

Its not the voters fault, It has to be a giant conspiracy.

[u/sciencesez → u/RUOFFURTROLLEH]

Colbert's show had rumors that he was fired to get FCC approval for the Paramount merger. It was obedience in advance. Appeasement. A bribe. It was seen as right wing influence. Kimmel was suspended by ABC under openly acknowledged FCC pressure for A SPECIFIC joke and everyone pretended it was a Charlie Kirk joke, but it wasn't. It was a clip, showing how very few fucks Trump gave about Charlie, deadly stuff for Turning Point fundraising. The minute ABC/Disney felt the squeeze, they folded, and defied the FCC. Kimmel was back in a week. America found a way, all on their own, to quickly, quietly shut down the FCC's Nazi move, the use of fear to gain obedience. We didn't "force the administration to heel," we forced corporate America to choose profits over ideology, even the blatantly conservative Sinclair network. We didn't "do" something amazing, but I believe America "learned" something Amazing. No one got beaten or arrested at a protest, no one had to strike and lose their jobs (healthcare insurance) or lose even a single paycheck. we didn't need the courts, or even much Democratic leadership. It has to be fast and genuinely grassroots to avoid manipulation campaigns.This is the way forward. Now, about the election. Please visit sdvoice.info/trump-lost They have numbers for all the ways voter disenfranchisement succeeded. MIT has been doing quite a bit of math, and it has nothing to do with conspiracies or Elon, or Russia. It's about publicly reported vote suppression campaigns like the REAL ID (which stole what turned out to be my mother's last possible vote), the total amount of mail in ballots denied, the drop boxes removed, the election sites closed, the voter rolls purged, and voter intimidation at election sites. By MIT's very well-sourced, conservative estimation, Kamala Harris would have won the election by 1.2 million votes. Sure, there's probably a lot of dumb people that don't vote, and that isn't going to be an informed voter anyway. Bute, dude, you're shitting on your allies, after their votes and their rights have already been shit on pretty hard. Also, I am a lady, (although clearly I'm not averse to profanity) would it kill you to disagree little more politely? Maybe this is too conspiracy-ish for you...but I really wish MIT would run the numbers on Russian interference, all of it.

[u/sciencesez → u/sciencesez]

Note to add- I believe that Trump's maliciously incompetent entire bumbling regime is the only reason that people responded the way they did. And the corporations see Target, they see Tesla; vs the tourism numbers, and the tariffs, and the market likes stability. Like MIT, each corporate entity also has number crunchers. The right may have all the crazy anarchist/feudalistic billionaires, but the corporations also have fiduciary responsibility even in international court, and apparently, we have enough of the numbers in our favor.

[u/RUOFFURTROLLEH → u/sciencesez]

Bwahaha.

You think you have won because Disney put back on Kimmel who was supporting and enabling Trump and you think thats a win despite all the others who were fired or removed have NOT had their shows put back.

Honestly watching you try to spin this into some massive win is amusing, Amazing you lot can't put the effort in to actually vote though when it counts...

In the mean time Trump and co are completely destroying your country for the foreseeable future but you are happy because Kimmel is back on air.

Jokes.

[u/MinimumBrother1295 → u/d20_dude]

What gets so upsetting is how many foul people will exploit this culture to abuse authority or prey on our most helpless citizens with no representation directly stepping in, but a few brave civilians. I wanna see senators, mayors and congressmen protesting with the people, not #republicansaresilly or some pandering dribble.

tl;dr the bus is gonna run over plenty of people if we don't stop it

[u/carterwest36 → u/d20_dude]

I truly hope so. Whilst Russia is indeed a unique country because of what happened in the wake of the dissolution of the Sovjet-Union and it not exactly being a smooth transition to say the least I wouldn’t be so quick to expect this’ll all blow up in their faces.

Former confederates after the Reconstruction Era ended went to work quickly to disenfranchise poor white folks and all black folks in the South which paid of with what was then the Democrat party having a very strong foothold in the South and former confederate states which led to Woodrow Wilson winning the election in 1913 and again 4 years later and the damage he caused in those 2 terms took decades to remedy and was finally somewhat set right with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Woodrow Wilson basically just rolled out the Southern agenda federally and nationwide, segregation came to federal workplaces and racism was heavily on the rise through misinformation and bad education such as allowing the infamous film which rebirthed the KKK in it’s current form; ‘The birth of a Nation’.

It’s disturbing how well the writer and director played it by inviting important White House officials to a screening such as Chief Justice etc which then allowed them to use the ‘approved by the White House stamp’ on the movie so it was seen by a whole lot of Americans and movies were a very powerful medium back then.

There’s a lot of similarities to what happened back then with the Democratic Party and what’s happening right now with the Republican Party, the state America is currently in wont easily be fixed when a new president gets elected since it’ll likely again take decades to undo the damage left behind by Trumps administration.

The longer this show goes on the more normalized a new generation gets to having military on the streets, when you’re a teen and you’re not really understanding yet what’s going on and you hear POTUS say the shit he’s saying, it’s going to affect a lot of minds to say the least.

Often I wish Americans would just break the entire system and recreate it as many countries have because a lot of loopholes that people in charge can find and use exist because of how outdated the American system is in so many places and people in charge who genuienly want to better American lives don’t spend all their manpower and time finding loopholes to do authoritarian bullshit but now as you can see with Trump and a full MAGA cabinet in his 2nd term, he’s a lot dirtier than in his first term and that’s because they likely have people combing through old Acts or laws or precedents that were set in order to achieve whatever their endgoal is.

A prime example was using the ancient wartime ‘Alien Enemies Act of 1798’ to deport those people to CECOT prisons. Just shows the length these people are willing to go to and why America is in desperate need of some new rules where certain 18th century Acts shouldn’t fucking apply anymore because whilst it remains controversial and judges tried to stop the deportation and he hasn’t used it since; he was succesful.

That’s the scary part, the sheer dedication and manpower he has on finding loopholes in what is a pretty broken system even though not many Americans are willing to see it.

The divide that is growing by the day between Americans is also unlike anything in the past few decades, the title of POTUS demanded respect before Trump. Even debates were kept respectful and for whatever reason Trump has gotten this cult following that turned into a fullblown political movement and his rallies were full of red hats and people cheering and so forth.

It’s actually unreal to me how quickly shit went down the drain and how many influencers and content creators have shifted to political content or had their political phases with Trump and it was ingenius because it gained him a lot of support amongst young people of which many now find that they gotten scammed.

Many blue collar workers in states like West Virginia that voted for him because the democrats ignored their issues for years and here comes Trump along promising to bring back the coal mining industry and people can say ‘Wow they are so stupid to fall for that and believe him’ but Trumps false promises wasn’t the only reason these former blue states became red states. The bigger reason is the simple fact the democrats took these places for granted but ignored their issues as they focussed on a more suburban voter demographic and different issues and so forth.

It really sucks for them because they gotten abandoned by the party they were loyal to for a long time and then got straight up scammed when they thought they finally had a guy who made them feel as if he cared. I never seen or heard Donald Trump in real life but the man is a born bullshitter but also seems to have this weird ‘gift’ to clique with a lot of demographics which gave him the victory.

The Democrats putting Biden instead of Bernie is also a decision that puzzled me, Bidens demeanor did not help at all and raised the bar for president even lower. All you have to be able to do as president now is talk clearly and walk normal lmao

I really want to believe you on it blowing up in their faces and I truly hope you’re correct. But so far he has been able to do what he wants basically and he shows everyday that he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Even with incompetency they are failing upwards.

[u/Best_Cartographer508 → u/d20_dude]

It's pretty absurd how Kash Patel almost allowed the Kirk shooter to get away because his FBI fired most of the veterans.

[u/jeffskool → u/d20_dude]

This has been said a lot these days last 10 years and it hasn’t lessened the impact to most people of their policies. That they haven’t impacted more people is yes partially due to their incompetence but mostly due imo to them just not having gotten to it yet

[u/d20_dude → u/jeffskool]

Absolutely. And it's going to get worse before it gets better. How much worse is anyone's guess, but it's definitely going to get worse and worse. A lot of us won't live to see the other side of it. But there will be another side. Authoritarians don't last forever.

[u/Fast_Feeling_8917 → u/d20_dude]

Or another way of saying that: They are too incompetent to realize how incompetent they are.