Lil Mike needs some knee pads and jaw ointment for the work he’s doing.

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    Well, at least maybe after November, people will stop thinking this is going to end in 2029. I’ve been so frustrated people saying things like “it’s only for four years” “I’m looking forward to when he’s out of power” “maybe I’ll visit the states in 2029”

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      Midterms are more than half a year away and they already start normalizing the narrative of the next ‘big steal’. Until November they will have convinced their base that a democrat win would solely be based of the Reps not being allowed to cheat the election (which is somewhat true but you know how they’ll mean it).

      Good luck hoping for the outcome to be an non-violent end of Trumps presidency.

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        It’s really easy for Republicans to make this argument as well.

        How can libs win elections when you don’t know any?

        This makes a lot of sense to some guy from Kansas. Everyone he knows loves Trump, so how can Trump lose? I hear this from a lot of relatives.

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        Hitler didn’t have nukes and the most powerful military in the world, so I can’t blame them for being reluctant. Plus, most other countries have their own surge of far-right parties to deal with.

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        They will have to before its over if we don’t get rid of this trash pile of humans.

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    Why does it seem like everyone forgot that he already tried to rig the elections on Jan 6? Democracy officially died on January 20, 2025, and we were screaming from the rooftops that it was going to die if Trump were reelected. But Trump is just a symptom of a larger issue.

    The real rot in our system has been here since the founding of the country. The founding fathers chose capitalism as the form of economics, and what they didn’t realize (or maybe did) was that they were just replacing one king with another. They explicitly allowed people who seek power to continue to be allowed to have power over others. Regardless of how much it is or isn’t regulated, it will always lead back to the same road. Call it monarchy, oligarchy, fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, or whatever else you want, but this is the road that we travel down whenever we allow rulers in society.

    The only way to fix this forever is to not allow rulers in society. Anything short of that will lead us right back here.

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      This is a perfect comment because it describes exactly what happened (from their perspective) in the most succinct way possible. 💯

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    With the fascism, the shit in the epstein files, and this shit, its just a fucken joke now. Burn it to the ground.

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      None of it is a joke. If Americans treated it seriously when it all first started, we wouldn’t be here right now. It’s a fascist coup wrapped in the American flag, always has been.

      But saying it doesn’t seem to motive people to do what’s necessary to oppose it. Those words have been overused and misused to the point of being completely ineffective to communicate the seriousness of what’s happening. It’s a five alarm fire and ppl are just going to work and doin their hobbies and acting like this is someone else’s problem to fix. Which is exactly what the political class has taught us for decades, don’t engage, don’t participate, don’t think to be actively involved in your own governance, don’t have any power of influence, just vote every couple years and then fuck off back to your wage slave lives.

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        You know full well that it’s just a figure of speech. Don’t be deliberately obtuse. It is a joke of a government.

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          It’s as serious a government as America has ever had. Incompetent, corrupt, abusive, cruel, ignorant, arrogant, elitist, racist, narcissistic, but also very, very serious. Humor has a way of disconnecting us from the seriousness of things and I’m guessing that’s why you characterize it as a joke. It may be a figure of speech but you using it says something about you that I’m going to take seriously.

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    “It just looks on its face to be fraudulent, because we didn’t win. Of course we win, we always win because we say so. Any loss is fake. There is only the Republican party. If you don’t love the one party state you don’t love freedom.”

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    Almost time for the guillotines. Go ahead, try and suspend elections … announce that Republicans are officially rebels.

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    “It just looks on its face to be fraudulent.”

    “Can I prove that? No, because it happened so far upstream,” Johnson added.

    What a little shit

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      Y’all have complete control over the government, and are willing to manufacture facts at every opportunity. Prove it, or shut up

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      1. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
      2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
      3. Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
      4. Keep your weapon on safe until you intend to fire.

      1. Know your target and what is beyond it.

      Four weapons safety rules (and an extra for good measure). This is the bare minumum general knowledge needed before handling a firearm.

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        Unless you’re an ICE agent, then you don’t follow any rules, including laws.

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      and ammo, and about two to three weeks worth of fresh water and food if you possibly can. (and a lot of garbage bags in case you can’t poop in your toilet and don’t have a dirt yard.)

      If we need more than that we’re beyond fucked, but the track forward may get bumpy and there may be civil disruptions as various states, agencies and companies actually start preparing for an authoritarian takeover on US soil, it would likely come with something akin to martial-law, which people will resist and there would be large-scale violence that could disrupt power grids, water and sewage, and of course logistics routes.

      It wouldn’t last forever, we’re nowhere capable of an actual civil war on US soil unless like, half the armed-forces don’t follow the leader, but by then it’s very likely the admin will have replaced every general and military leader as they’ve been trying to do. But it could get very bad for a lot of people.

      Pray we’re not about to see history unfold, pray the “nothing ever happens” dipshits score a win on this one.

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    Yep. The death throes of a nation begin and ends with a cowardly little weasel promoting fascist ideologies.

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    Of course, it must be fraud. Everyone knows that Trump is the most popular president in human history. If he isn’t winning every election by at least 99%, then the other guys must be cheating. /s

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      Excuses are just delay tactics while they maneuver to secure the mechanisms of power behind the scenes. What is America going to do if they succeed, the election happens, and everyone knows it’s bullshit? What is each of you reading this going to do? Anything? Democracy dies with a whimper?

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        For people like me, we’ll be relying on our local governments and neighbors.

        I’m lucky that I live in Seattle, Washington. My government will do its damnedest to fight back and protect us. If there is a civil war, my local government is on my side. That helps. It also helps that we’d have Oregon with us. California, maybe, but there’s a lot of red between Eugene, OR, and San Francisco, and their state and local governments are more entrenched in the federal status quo (looking at Newsom).

        We are also very active as far as activism and mutual aid go in this region. And our gun ranges can get crowded.

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          Maybe you can teach the rest of complacent America what standing up and fighting looks like.

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      That’s what they will claim if their meddling isn’t enough to win the election. All the claims of fraud and fake polls and being supported by the silent majority is just the groundwork for not accepting an election loss.