• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    If you’re an adult who has been put in charge of an entire government department, you should take responsibility for your actions

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      I am equally shocked and completely unsurprised this wooden amalgamation of a parody of a human actually used the “I was just following orders” line. Not a dumb guard or a patrol agent or a desk clerk, but an actual Secretary of Homeland Security. (for whatever prestige or value is held in a position that was invented in 2003 because white people suddenly got scared of Muslims.)

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        Well that’s the wonderful thing about being a cult leader. You’re the only one who can solve the problem. So you get whatever you want, you get all the credit when things go well, and when everything goes wrong… you become everyone’s scapegoat. It’s not a valid excuse, but it is human psychology.

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    PeeWee Himmler is a student of Nazi Germany, and expected that Americans would fold up like Germans still recovering from WW1. He thought that murdering a few people in the streets would intimidate the entire country into staying in their houses. He doesn’t understand that Americans grow up hearing fables of Revolutionaries whooping the most powerful army in the world.

    Americans don’t get intimidated, they get angrier, and eventually they get ferocious.

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      Tbh a big portion is that we have nearly live coverage from a million different angles. Without that the newspapers would have said he was a domestic terrorist and we would have had no further information.

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        Valid.

        It’s hard to convince us when we have footage from every angle, which is the reason for all these “auditors” with cameras, and also the reason that ICE Apes consider cameras almost as dangerous as guns.

        Minnesota is complaining that they can’t prosecute the killers without the evidence that DHS stole, but it seems to me that all the evidence they require is the many videos of each incident. Just play those for the jury, and they’ll convict.

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      And then we take a song you wrote to mock us and sing it as a celebration of that time we kicked your ass.

      The club of those who beat us includes only three members, two of which were proxy wars we ultimately weren’t willing to commit to. Not exactly a record that screams “easy target”

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        Who are the 3 countries? Canada, Vietnam, Afghanistan, ottoman empire, or cuba? Im sure there’s more that’s just off the top of my head.

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      All they’re doing is pissing off the people who already have guns, while convincing their political rivals to start buying guns.

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    shes evil, she knows shes evil, she enjoys that shes evil, but cant admit that shes evil bcs she knows everybody hates her.

    the essence of being a right-wing nutjob

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    Isla, She Wolf of the SS, is going to find out the hard way the bimbos are the first to get thrown under the bus in that party.

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    Welp, we won’t be seeing her much longer.

    Guess she’ll have to fall back on her hobby of shooting puppies in the face.

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    Kristi’s braincell: don’t say you were just following orders, don’t say you were just following orders…

    “It was Stephen!”

    Kristi’s braincell: nice 😎

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      I bet the fights, screaming matches, broken lamps, slammed doors and broken phones in the white house over the last week has been fucking glorious. I would pay thousands to be a fly on a wall there just to watch these unhinged freaks become unhinged freaks at each other when everything starts going off course.

      They thought it would be different by now. They expected more legal victories (it’s not covered but they’ve lost a LOT of ground in courts) and they thought they would have a stronger public mandate, they thought liberal, middle-class America would be looking at them like saviors and heroes by now, they thought their WWE fireworks and spectacle would win over more than the same, steady 28% - 30% of the country.

      But here we are, Trump is becoming unmanageable and may literally just DIE at any moment, they’ve made reverse progress getting JD Vance ready to take the reigns, and everyone is just staring at Miller, this egg-headed wormtongue that keeps feeding Trump schizoid lines because he’s basically just Elliot Rogers reincarnated. And now there are waves of rolling strikes going around, and the conservatives broadly are absolutely enraged about threats to their guns. Even the liberal nightly news is on network TV is outright saying Trump and his admin are making shit up. The tide is turning sharply.

      There is some satisfaction in all this.

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        Oh it’s absolutely beautiful. For the first time in a year and a half, I’m not fucking ashamed of my tribe; and I look forward to feeling similar about my government.

        Yoo. Ess. Ay.