• VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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    Under no other president did I fear for the lives of so many Americans.

    At work, we used to talk about dumb shit. Who brought M&Ms or cupcakes. How some random movie ended.

    Now, some of my coworkers are terrified. We had a incident where some masked goons rushed up on a random woman and when we all came out, they ran away.

    Our manager openly said, “None of them are allowed in the building.” And during the worse of it, my manager brought a shotgun.

    Average office workers are arming themselves.

    This is what this orange motherfucker did.

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      I’m amazed more people aren’t standing their ground (opening fire) when masked goons jump out of an unmarked car and try to kidnap someone. So much for all that second amendment peacocking eh

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        People just don’t want to be involved, and I’m not going to judge them for that.

        As in, I have a wife and 2 young kids. My purpose in life is to care for and support them. If I’m at work or whatever and some goons show up to abduct someone I don’t know, I’m not going to start blasting and go down in a blaze of glory because of an ideological position.

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          If you or your wife/kids were being abducted and sent to the camps, would you be happy knowing everyone else stood by not wanting to get involved?

          I get being scared, but inaction is destroying countless families. If everyone stands together, the risk factor goes down.

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    49% think Trump this term is doing a better job as President than Biden did his last term, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

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    67% WANT LOCAL OFFICIALS TO COOPERATE WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES TO DEPORT CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

    2/3rds of this country are absolutely just fucking assholes.

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      The word “criminal” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I would expect local law enforcement to arrest criminals. I would then expect them to be deported. It doesn’t mean people want local police to help ICE with their terrorist bullshit.

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      The word “criminal” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I would expect local law enforcement to arrest criminals. I would then expect them to be deported. It doesn’t mean people want local police to help ICE with their terrorist bullshit.

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      The word “criminal” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I would expect local law enforcement to arrest criminals. I would then expect them to be deported. It doesn’t mean people want local police to help ICE with their terrorist bullshit.

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      DEPORT CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

      If they could stick with that, then it’d be a good*-sounding* idea – who doesn’t want to deport criminals who immigrated from somewhere else to be violent?

      Sadly they’re as incompetent as they are violent, and they can’t even deliver on that since they don’t even know the how of due process; or the why. It’s a “best I can do is gestapo” kind of situation. And for that, they need a Nuremberg. And lots of rope.

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          Huh. I see that now. I live in the SF Bay Area and it’s kind of a bubble here but some of those poll numbers are hard to believe. I’d be curious to know how their polling was conducted, I didn’t see any info on that. Maybe the rest of the country really is that fucked up, idk.

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            The January Harvard CAPS / Harris poll survey was conducted online within the United States on January 28-29, 2026, among 2,000 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX.

            That’s the only bit on methodology I saw in there, which isn’t much at all.

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    Now check this against anything that matters. Guarantee you that at the end of the day, this means nothing at all.

    People don’t like Trump. This won’t make a bit of difference to what he does, thinks, or feels.

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      Nah but Biden also didn’t make sure to choose an AG to actually put the motherfuckers in the Epstein files behind bars, either. It’s not like the Epstein information magically appeared when Trump became President, he literally ran in 2024 on the fact that Democrats hadn’t released the files. This information was available when Biden was President. Epstein was (very likely) murdered while Trump was President the first time.

      So, fuck Biden anyway, he was focusing on all this “decorum” shit when it comes to a fucking network of pedophiles and rampant corruption and oops didn’t want to make it “lOoK PoLiTiCaL” to go after criminality. Now the same people they didn’t want to look political prosecuting don’t give one single fuck about looking political in prosecuting their perceived enemies.

      Fuck, Biden was literally handed a free pass when the Supreme Court ruled that when a President does it, it’s not a illegal. He could have done any number of things to prevent this with the backing of a Supreme Court decision that was tailored to support Trump but technically applied to any President.

      Democrats may not be in the files, but they sat on their fucking asses writing strongly worded letters and throwing up their hands going “but it’s too hard to make sure they go down! Gears of justice turn slowly, so slowly that Trump can be voted back into office even with all this hanging over him!”

      It’s a crock of shit, Democrats are culpable for not taking this fight to the mat and instead being wishy washy limp dicks who handed over the reigns of the government to corruption twice in a row.

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        Yeeeepppp the controlled opposition party made sure to protect their billionaires

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          controlled opposition party made sure to protect their billionaires

          The actions of the Democratic party don’t even warrant the term. Look at Schumers and Jefferies response to the literal kidnapping of a sovereign head of state. They were basically mad Trump didn’t do the right paper work, but fully supported the action.

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        Biden had all kinds of programs that looked out for US citizens and built up our healthcare and education.

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          biden also had all kinds of programs that specifically helped rural people who voted for trump. the chips act brought battery factories (now cancelled thanks to tariffs) AND his infrastructure bill that is bringing high speed internet to rural country right now.

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        To run a successful casino, you need to make your customers feel like they’re winning and you’re losing. Trump is incapable of that.

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        There were at least two “Biden pooped themselves” incidents. One was the DDay memorial. The second was an audience with the pope.

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          I honestly don’t even care if our president accidentally shits themselves. I mean, it happens.

          What I do care about is if our president has such a fragile ego that they’ll lie and punish other people because they shit their pants. The kind of person who will accuse everyone else of shitting their pants, but only because that person’s own pants are constantly weighed down by dookies. The kind of person who can’t forgive themselves for a little brown downtown, so they steal and extort an entire country, just so that they can extort other countries and become friends with other people who love lying about their bowel movements.

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            I honestly don’t even care if our president accidentally shits themselves.

            And the problem with that, is that other people do. And if you don’t pick a candidate that is acceptable to a broad enough coalition to win the election: you don’t win the election.

            Its not a matter of what you’ll accept out of a candidate; its a matter of what the electorate will accept as a candidate. And while you might be accepting of pants-shitter to make some of the most impactful decisions that will affect almost every person on the planet, the American people wont. You being willing to accept less makes you irrelevant; you aren’t a vote we need to work to get. Which is fine. Its your vote. Do what you will. You don’t need to have standards.

            But, by putting the bar so low and accepting a pants-shitter, you sabotage our collective ability to actually get that person into office. It should be obvious to you now, that not enough other people wanted to elect a pants-shitter. And as a cohort, the Biden apologists, by insisting that everyone else lower their standards to that of a geriatric who was barely present, these people are saboteurs who kneecapped our ability to stop Trump.

            And since you have such low standards, I expect that you should be willing to accept that your view doesn’t matter and shouldn’t be weighted as highly as people who need something more, like a specific set of policies or a certain level of competency. We don’t need to work for your vote: you’ll vote for a pants-shitter. This is great because it lets us narrow down the field to candidates for people who do have some standards, for example, that they don’t want to vote for someone who is an advocate for genocide them as a people. Or who want police reform. Or any number of other issues. Literally any ones opinion should be weighted more highly, since, like you said, you’ll basically vote for anyone, even a barely walking, senile geriatric, who shits their pants on stage.

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      He supported the terrorist state that Epstein was working for and that is a safe heaven for pedophiles

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        Right and Trump is doing much better than Biden on that front? Talk about mental gymnastics, phew.

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    But in the new poll, 51 percent said Trump is doing a worse job than President Biden did

    This is staggering: 49 percent think Trump is at least doing as well as Biden. The mind boggles…

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      Not sure how anyone can be alive and experiencing the same reality as the rest of us and come to that conclusion. Let alone basically half the people asked. We are truly fucked.

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        They’re not experiencing the same reality

        HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]


        The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4] He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.[5] Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend, an effect Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.[6] It has since gained further resonance in the social media era in 2025 in the U.S.[7]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

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        It’s hardly surprising. While voting for Trump the first time could be an honest mistake - and possibly even the second time if you’re truly a dumbass - the third time, Trump voters deliberately voted for a convicted felon, sex offender, patented liar, insurrectionist fascist. They knew exactly what they were doing, they wanted this and Trump delivered exactly what they wanted.

        Those 49% are today’s America: a disgusting, fascist America. They’re the disease, Trump is only the symptom.

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    Biden was fucking garbage - a corporate tool all too eager to sell us out to corporate rule and a servant of Israel without even needing to be blackmailed by the Trump-Epstein child rape operation. Hell, Biden wasn’t even mentally there half the time, his staff covered up his dementia riddled brain for the latter half of his term as he stumbled about shaking hands with invisible people on stage.

    And still, Trump is objectively worse by several orders of magnitude.

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    Our dumbshit president will not see this poll nor this article.

    But cool clickbait headline anyway from this site.