Yeah I was ready to be excited.

I just can’t care anymore.

It’s actually proven now, it doesn’t matter.

No matter how many stories are run about the awful things he does and the good things he doesn’t do, the people who voted for him will love him just the same.

No matter what he does, no matter how awful, nothing the media prints matters, and our institutions will do nothing to stop him.

We now just have to hope that he and his supporters don’t decide we are done with elections in four years. We exist at their whim.

Edit: And might I add - the “opposition party” just ran an election centered around courting voters from Trump’s party instead of their own, and shows no signs of learning from it. (again) We are well and truly fucked.

Fuuuuck yes.

Not one word in there about turning to the right, campaigning with Cheneys, ignoring all progressive policies, and generally behaving like R-lite in a bid to court R-votes that never came, with no message other than “look how much worse Trump is”. I’m a little disappointed in Rolling Stone, but not at all surprised that the people they interviewed left those things out.

Ultimately, if this is their analysis, they’ll make the 2016 mistakes for a third time in 2028.

Marshall, a former OBGYN and leader of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus, emphasizes nutrition and preventative care but ignores systemic issues like poverty and racism.

A conservative who ignores the impact of unaddressed and systemic poverty and racism in his policies? I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.

That’s fine, we’ve got other options. Let’s just see how big the disconnect needs to get before we start taking them.

Really Shameful describes their entire history.

Voters feel abandoned by both parties but resonate with Trump’s anti-establishment rhetoric and perceived authenticity.

If their impression of Trump includes a perception of authenticity, these people are well and truly lost. I have nothing to say to them, and want nothing to do with them.

What can I do to piss them off if I never had any in the first place?

Use an instance that has pre-emptively defederated from threads.

.world has not done so FWIW based on the blocked tab here. https://lemmy.world/instances

Fucking Republicans. They are literally the party of taking things away and making things worse. I cannot fathom how they have duped tens of millions into believing they are the party trying to help people.

And yes, Dems have their issues too, but R is just rabidly “fuck you I got mine, and double so if you aren’t a white cishet man” at all levels.

Not on my 2025 bingo card I’ll admit, but I’m here for it.

DOJ: Police Shooting Family Dogs has Become ‘Epidemic’

Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.

Ah, so trust me bro. Good day!

All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump

Not likely, obviously.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/12/meta-zuckerberg-1-million-trump-inauguraton/76945613007/

If you are going to make a statement counter to the UN, Amnesty International, and the governments of Ireland and South Africa (among other institutions that I’m too lazy to link below) you’re going to need more of a citation than “trust me bro.”

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/world/europe/ireland-icj-israel-genocide.html

They already have a subscription fee

FYI for anyone who cares:

Absolutely no worries anyhow but thank you! Have a nice day!

Primarily not having a history that looks like this. Over time, yes it will be just as bad or worse now that Musk is in charge and Trump is in office. Facebook has taken every opportunity to be the worst possible corpo citizen during their entire existence. Finding hot coeds was literally the original goal. It will take some time for Twitter to catch up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Criticisms_and_controversies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms#Lawsuits

Ah fair point!

Ah yes - remember all those convicted Jan 6 insurrectionists who turned out not to be magas? (Me neither.)