Add in Missouri while you’re at it.

Trump literally said last time he was President take the guns first, due process second. maga crowd still gargling.

We’re going to take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system. Because a lot of times by the time you go to court … it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida; he had a lot of fires [and] they saw everything. To go to court would have taken a long time, so you could do exactly what you’re saying but take the guns first, go through due process second.

-President Donald J Trump

I mean… that’s a good fucking sell still.

I don’t have any illusions he doesn’t want to get higher up. I don’t have any illusions that he’d motorboat a few billionaires to get richer. But right now any step in the right direction is a far better situation than we’re in right now.

FWIW this is why I think it’s so important to keep the farmers and union workers on our side.

WHELP

Hell, we imported a few of them from Germany.

I stopped trusting that from 2020. I thought there was hope for people then they turned around and voted again.

I don’t expect much, but to keep an idea I keep wandering over to the conservative areas.

The Epstein Files are the only thing I’ve seen he’s not been able to shake off from his cult.

I read it somewhere that anyone talking rule of law or the Constitution anymore is starting to sound like sovereign citizens, waving a document around like it’s a magic shield that in reality does absolutely nothing.

I would like to disagree with this thought process, but I can’t.

The millennials were robbed of their chance on the world stage by the boomers.

Gen X over there like “What the fuck!?!” (I’m a millennial, I get the plight.)

I’ll be cantankerous… yes.

I live in a red state. My jobs are me the rare left in the entire crowd. I have to learn how to talk, chat, joke with these people. And last Trump administration I kept talking with them. Things I learned. Since I wasn’t willing to immediately extol the good of Trump, I must be against him (not even talking politics, just me keeping my mouth shut.) That they’re against many of the things on helping people.

But hell, years of working with one crew, I was getting them over, realizing that the wealthy were fucking us over, that the insurance that was fucking everyone over was why we needed better. That many of the “sullied” republicans were against it. Hell I think one thing that got them listening was they said something good about Biden, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut and made a snark about Trump and when I was told “I said something good about your guy” I outright tore into them to never say that Biden was “my guy”, I may look at lesser of evils but it wasn’t some fucking football game.

But I saw chances… I saw hope that maybe… maybe they could learn. But the second Trump started running again, it was the same parroted stuff, even from a soybean ventures guy who was watching to see if his prices would ever go back up because he was losing money on it.

So no… I don’t trust them. I think there are some who need to be out there to welcome the people when they’re willing to join sides, yes… but there also needs to be those to remind that these are not friends, and they are very likely to stab us in the back unless they actually show that they’re willing to put the work in to make change.

Andrew Johnson. The guy kneecapped Reconstruction, basically was a friend of the confederates and didn’t finish cutting out a rot that would destroy the nation a century later.

Oh all his people he loves keeps having elections. They just run unopposed, and win no matter what.

He WANTS the elections… it’s a popularity contest, you think Trump would get rid of that?

Actual fair elections on the other hand…

I don’t disagree with that, but more to the point I was putting is there’s going to be a fast refugee crisis for the blue states for those of us that see the writing on the wall if the states fracture.

I’ll be honest… I HOPE I’m wrong… god I fucking hope I am… but I’m not seeing a “United States” being the case much longer after this administration. Partly being one living in this area… I do not see how we come back… there is no middle ground left.

I was gonna say, I’m of the demographic and they’d still find a way to take my vote because of living in a blue city.

Fuck man, I’m in the middle of all that fucking bible belt out. you’ll have a lot of us trying to get the hell out.

Honestly, we still are now.

While I agree, the cult has fractured a few times. It’s the irritating part of Trump that he’s just smart enough to back off when he knows he’s losing his cult.

The vaccine thing is one of them. Early on there was a speech where he’s talking about how good it was, and that he has it and that his people should have it. His crowd booed him. That moment he went full anti-vax in his rhetoric. Trump is in the lead and pouring gasoline on the fire, but he doesn’t have control over his own cult if it goes a way he doesn’t want it to go. Unfortunately he’s just smart enough to keep them happy knowing they’ll tear him apart if he steps in their way.

HE WAS THE ONE THAT PUSHED OPERATION WARP SPEED! The literal thing that created the shots! The method of them being “developed too fast” was Trump!

We were always at war with Eastasia.

Mitch McConnell could be argued to be the man who killed the US with how much damage he did to it. Right now Trump is the evil that’s at the top because he got control of the party, but the house wouldn’t be falling apart around had the termite infestation of Moscow Mitch not put holes through the entire thing.

You’re completely right. Identifying as a republican doesn’t matter if you voted Trump or not, Republicans ARE the problem.

A southern term I grew up hearing and will use “I wouldn’t cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire.”