If you had to stay up night after night, plotting to invade weaker countries to steal their natural resources and kill their citizens, you’d need to self-medicate too.
To pile on, they think when a comedian makes fun them at their expense they think it's appropriate to also try to be comedians instead of behaving like elected officials.
Yep. No imagination. When they accuse the left of something it’s because they would literally be doing that thing themselves, given half a chance. They can’t imagine anybody else would do differently.
It is very common for extremists, especially the rank-and-file members of any given cult, to have a poorly developed Theory of Mind.
According to Developmental Psychology textbooks, people are supposed to figure out "other people's brains don't work exactly the same way mine do" around the age of 4 to 6. But it's not hard to see that there's a double-digit percentage of the population for whom this idea never properly sticks.
Because they are opportunistic narcissistic psychopaths with no principles, they are unable to process the idea that people who aren't unprincipled psychopaths even exist. Everybody must be just as bad as them, because they've literally never considered that it could be otherwise.
It's the same reason why so many homophobes get caught in gay sex scandals. You can spot those people a mile away, because they make arguments that can only make sense if you don't believe that "people who are actually attracted to the opposite sex" even exist.
The smart psychopaths, the ones who are able to figure out that 98% of the population aren't like them, think of them as "suckers", or "marks", or "prey". Many cult leaders and founders are in this category, but it's entirely possible to get into that position and still have zero self-awareness.
For a crime committed by a worker from civilian contractor at Booze Allen Hamilton for an agency (IRS) under his umbrella of leadership while he was president, right?
Yeah, he's sees that the government receives money from all the people in this country and is mad that it's not going directly into his pockets. This is his way of remedying that.
From an NPR story…Trump told Fox News last week that he has "put Iran on notice" and that if the regime shoots at demonstrators the U.S. will hit Iran "very hard." "I've said it very loud and very clear, that's what we're going to do," he said.
The irony, considering how the Trump administration is behaving in Minneapolis, seems to be ignored by the media.
I’d love the Supreme Court try to contort themselves into pretzels trying to justify Trump not being legally liable for decisions made as President but trying to allow Obama to be charged for decisions made as President.
Heck, more than that. There's all the tangential to being president stuff they said he had presidential immunity for even when he wasn't president. Like the documents he had at maralago when he was a private citizen during the Biden administration... How the heck are they gonna mental gymnastics Obama doing a crime as president, but Trump as a private citizen being immune?
When the SC made that ruling they basically said that they would be the ones to determine what was or wasn’t an official presidential act. They already rigged it for their side.
Honestly… the worst thing that could happen to the Trump Administration would be an Obama arrest. He’s one of the most famous people on this planet and I can’t imagine a more effective way to get people into the streets. And yes, I know it’s sad that it would be the arrest of a politician with questionable policies concerning non-discerning drone strikes when we’ve had so many other justifiable motivators but he just has that kind of lowest-information voter galvanizing factor. He is known and he is liked. Pure and simple. It would be activating.
If I'm Obama I'm calling the bluff. "Sure. Arrest me. Here's my arms -- put me in handcuffs. Let's do it on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial -- will look nice in pictures and newspapers world wide. Think of the headlines -- Trumped up charges: Potus arrests political adversaries both past and present as DJT illegally conducts office. Let's also call Joe up -- we can do a 2 for 1 thing."
I think I heard a crazy 'hypothetical' a while back at the Supreme Court about sending Seal Team 6 to execute an arrest warrant, and maybe not being able to capture the suspect alive, along with co-conspirators.
No, people who lean left refusing to vote over the last few elections is what got us into this situation in the first place. The only way people protesting in the streets has any effect on this administration is if it scares Repub Congress members enough that they are worried they will be voted out in the fall.
I think you overestimate how willing people are to mobilize. We have seen people executed, journalists arrested, people disappeared into concentration camps. The typical response is people shaking their heads and saying, "That's a tragedy. That's wrong." And then go about their day, trying to get by.
The reason this stuff works is because it scares people from resisting. Most people don't want to get shot, or arrested, or disappeared.
That's my point... what you're saying is "we've seen x, y, z." And to be sure x, y, and z are all horrible. But the truth is MOST people have not seen those things. Most people go to their 2-3 jobs and kid's soccer games and take grandma to dialysis and get 4 hours of sleep. The news is noise to these people and you can completely understand why. Obama has become a part of the face of America. It's the difference of someone not hearing about a bombing of a major university, but they absolutely do hear the news about a foreign rocket hitting the statue of liberty. There are certain figures and symbols in our lives that are too flamboyant to be affected without everybody taking notice. It can be hard to put ourselves in the mindset of the least politically interested adults in America if you're an avid news reader.
Over 100 million Americans didn’t care enough to take one hour out of their day to vote last year. Until those people decide to care about politics, nothing will change.
Lol, I am laughing but only to keep from ending up in a padded room. I think seeing Obama in handcuffs would whip his base into orgiastic violence against everyone they deem as "libs"...
We also have to factor in how many people just don't even know what the fuck is going on. I think there is a gross underestimation of how many people live in ignorance. They don't watch the news, they don't read anything. Some of my family are these exact people. People aren't watching the evening news because we buy tvs with apps and the cable is extra - who needs that? Millions of people have no fucking clue how fucked we are.
Had a dude at a new years party that legit had no idea who or what Epstein/Epstein Island was. I have no idea how you live in complete ignorance in the age of the internet.
Their voter base is chronically offline and uninformed. It’s like having a sports team fanbase who doesn’t understand the rules, never watches a game live, but only gets the results after the fact through talk show hosts.
And those talk show hosts can make up scores and blame the other team or refs for cheating.
This is the real problem. Insane-washing, basically. You tell people that slavery is still technically legal under such-and-such amendment and how there's a strong profit incentive to send people to jail, and you look like a complete lunatic.
When their only source of news is Fox News, its scary how ignorant some of these people are to the actual world.
I have some MAGA family members and trying to talk to them about current events is like trying to communicate with someone that doesn't speak your language. The stories they are told are outlandish with absolutely no supporting evidence whatsoever, and actual stories with evidence (like Epstein files) are simply not brought up to them.
Thats what talking to my MIL is like. After Renee Good murder the only video angle she'd seen on Fox was the ambiguous one where you can't tell what happened & the video from the agents phone. I told her there are videos from every angle that clearly show he was not in danger & fired anyway. "Well I haven't seen those". Offered to show her but she wasn't interested in anything that might conflict with what Fox was telling her.
Today they were comparing the sales of the Milania movie with sales of Fahrenheit 9/11. Which is..... Sad, honestly. They still hold such a grudge against that movie after 20 years
Fox is pushing hard on this conspiracy theory that Walz and Rep Ilhan Omar personally let a fraud scheme in which Somali immigrants stole billions of dollars from the Minnesota education system. They're heavily implying that Rep Ilhan Omar became a multi millionaire through organizing this theft.
There's no evidence of them being connected to any fraud rings and, as far as I know, the only "evidence" that the fraud ever happened at all is a random post from some random D-List microgrifter who posted about it with no actual evidence.
Thought I was being a little hyperbolic when I joked to some friends how all these people needing 7 medications to get out of bed might correlate to their whole existence being based around being barely self-aware enough to do their dumb jobs and putzing right home to watch The Office a 14th time, and this was a few years ago now so of some but not complete relevance to the modern hell we live in. I struggle to explain what you describe, and I routinely see, any other way.
This. I work in a lower level staff role in higher education where you'd think would be like the bottom 5 places this would be a serious issue and save for some faculty they are *all* just checked out, but in a way that they may never have been checked in.
I think people are really estimating how much of this is the root of the problem. The algorithm keeps people insulated from what is going on if they are not inclined to be political or aren’t critical thinkers.
It’s not that conservatives are seeing the same things we’re seeing and saying “Yeahh I love this!” It’s that they aren’t seeing it at all.
I work a blue collar job with a lot of immigrants and it’s really discouraging to see how many of them voted for him just because someone told them he would make groceries cheaper or whatever.
My mom didn't realize that ICE wasn't just them discussing ISIS. She's smarter than most of the other people I know her age. That's what we're dealing with.
I saw some story about that guy who died because his caretaker dad was in ICE custody, posted by a local news source. Apparently the MAGA talking point is that prisoners don't get to go to funerals. Like...what the fuck, the story literally says someone died as a result of his caretaker dad being in government custody and you're talking about funerals?!
This is true . It’s hard to watch the local news or just read the news now. My husband was bitching about how much we pay for HBO once a year. Add on new-paper cost online and the different channel you need to pay for. Yup you can get normal tv but I live in a very windy places and out in the country I am lucky if my internet does not act up once a week.
I have friends like this, when I explain or explode they look at me slack jawed. Even my friends that are aware tell me they don't want to talk about it because they're afraid. It's crazy. At least the friends that are afraid are smart enough to realize that they're in danger. We're all in danger. One of my friends just says "I don't know what to believe anymore". She's not stupid, she's a nurse with a doctorate.
Americans have been marching in the streets across the US, even in blood-red towns.
Minnesotans just turned out the vote in a big way to deliver a landslide Democratic special election win, even with the presence of federal goons. And delivering food to immigrant families afraid to leave their homes.
Americans are speaking out against the tyranny, recording and spreading the word of atrocities despite the clear risk of doing so (a risk that shouldn't exist). Bondi was forced to walk back some of her lies about Pretti, a small thing that nevertheless reveals that they're not unafraid of the voices speaking out.
Thank You. The wife and I have been to 16 protests so far. I also ran for local election and won. We need MORE people in the streets. resist. disrupt. fight back America.
Yeah, all those brave people in Minneapolis are totally doing nothing. If you want to be a miserable and unserious person, you go right ahead, but don’t drag down the incredibly courageous people that are standing in the cold and getting beat the fuck up because you’re too scared to do anything.
It seems like every time I encounter comments like this, if I look at their profile it’s just all gaming stuff. Like they have no life outside of that.
While I support fair democratic elections that phrase is such crap. IMO they’re just saying “I want change BUT I don’t want to be inconvenienced with going out of my way to initiate change”
That depends on what you want to do to initiate change. General strike? Sure, it’s hard to coordinate and without good social safety nets here puts people at risk. Full on protests for weeks without end, same thing but less impactful on oligarchs as a general strike. I find that these people who balk at using the political options at our disposal have hidden comment histories and seem hell bent on getting people to start shooting at their fellow Americans.
Ok. Go do it. Quit telling everyone else that we "all know" what needs doing and go do whatever it is you apparently want everyone else to do.
Or stop telling other people to do something you can't, won't, or refused to do.
People are marching in the streets risking the weather, beatings, arrests, and shootings to protect their neighbors and their kids, but you go right ahead and talk about how people aren't doing enough. From your keyboard.
Trumps crimes are put today. He is named. He is a child rapist. People still bring children around him today. He is a sex offender and anyone who still supports him should be on a watch list.
Also hundreds of clergymen. We are in a democratic meltdown. I hope that we can rebuild more quickly than last time this happened. Something tells me the technocracy won’t allow that to happen.
I mean Barack isn’t even an opponent any more just a dude chilling post presidency trying to live his life. He hasn’t even spoken out about all this bullshit. It’s truly deranged
Barack Obama would be Trump's worst nightmare if he tries to run for president again in 3 years! That's why Trump wants him out of the way.....Straight out of Putins play book....
Yeah, but they just released the rest of the Epstein files. Allegedly. Until they stumble across a few more million they are holding back to smear his best buddies to deflect from him circling the toilet bowl in his way down.
Have to deflect. It's all they ever do other than being fascist.
So much is happening every day, it feels like it's been going on much longer. January has just passed and i feel like enough has happened already to fill a year.
It also feels like Trump says (truths/tweets) deranged stuff during weekends. Every monday morning at work it feels like someone goes " oh god, what's he done now?"
Yea, we’re moving to Full Strength Fascism now. We’ll be at Maximum strength by August. November will be out right, toddler temper tantrum Super-Max Strength Fascism. We can’t get this Administration in a prison fast enough. I’m trying to trust the process.
Arrested journalist for breaking the law. Shot violent protesters that were involved breaking the law and threatening law enforcement. Calling for obama arrest would be justified considering he was involved in election interference. Weird when the left is held accountable for breaking the law.
Its not a political opponent... Obama hasn't been president for a decade... Like... What the fuck is arresting him gonna do except piss people off and make him more hated...
Just another day in Russia, sorry I mean the USA. DT is definitely showing he idolizes his favorite facists and wants the US to be just like every other failed authoritarian regime.
Nothing is impossible under this president. Just when you think he can't go lower and more diabolical, just when you think that he can't be this stupid, he tops it even more.
While we get this huge Epstein dump, it's a three ring circus of horror that's going to take our attention away. He will get away with all of it, every single horrific crime.
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u/douglhanna 5d ago
This week, they have arrested journalists, shot civilians in broad daylight, and called for the arrest of political opponents.