So is the separation of church and state.
And the right against unreasonable search and seizures.
But it turns out writing it down doesn’t make it so. It’s not a fundamental law of the universe. It has to actually be upheld and defended for it to do anything. Until the American people do something they’ll just keep walking all over it.
If it’s a legitimate threat, it’s not a distraction. It’s called “flooding the zone” and it’s intentional, but it’s mean to overwhelm us in general with the sheer amount of bullshit he spews.
But don’t make the mistake that this is a distraction. He’s opening a path to strip anyone he dislikes of citizenship and exile them to a foreign death camp. This is deadly serious and should not be ignored.
Stripping anyone he dislikes of citizenship and sending them to a death camp in El Salvador is important. It’s one of the most important things happening right now. He’s literally paving a legal path to kill anyone he wants.
Actual protest. Not just walking around with a sign.
But most importantly, organize.
Any of those will be more productive than mocking someone on the internet as a “tough guy” for wanting to improve things. You’d just sit there content with yourself thinking nothing could be done while fascism comes for you.
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Yeah, a motorcycle tilts as you turn so you stay stable. This looks like it would just fall over.
“Then I sacrificed myself to save you from the rules I made up myself. I could’ve just changed the rule, but somehow this convoluted plot line was simpler.”
The frustration isn’t yet producing mass resignations or major internal protests
It’s okay everyone, they’re just following orders.
So glad that No Kings Day protest stopped Trump in his tracks. One day of protest on a convenient weekend with signs and a catchy chant sure stopped them.
They are trying to strip your rights and take over your country every day of every week non-stop for 6 months now. You have to fight back with the same intensity. A few protests with signs have not stopped them, and will not ever stop them. They don’t care how far you walk down Main St. You have to actually protest. Look at the French. They dump manure in the streets. They block traffic and commerce.
Organize. Strike. Protest. Resist. Or you’ll have nothing left.
Don’t underestimate him and assume it’s just a distraction. He’s willing to do far more than this.
They’re called Hammer Pants, famously named after MC Hammer. He had a whole line of utility pants: hammers, parachutes.
This notion that tariffs will drive manufacturing and production back to the U.S. is a pipe dream, and even if it were to occur it would take a decade to build the factories, infrastructure, and supply lines.
And on top of that the counter-tariffs will make it even worse. Manufacturers would have to make their products within the US and suffer tariffs trying to sell to everyone else. That would given them ~350 million people inside the US to sell to, and literally everyone else would pay higher prices. They could never compete against that. So not only does it take a long time, stable economic conditions to invest in, but they would be restricting their market severely if they brought manufacturing onshore.
Still, the Canadian economy is heavily tied to the US. They’re going to tank their own, but it’s going to hurt us up here too.
Yeah, although it took them a couple years to even do that. I keep wondering what their “Pearl Harbor” will be that finally gets them to take action.
They’re not comparing it to today’s US mass incarceration. They’re comparing it to the usual levels of it. Even before Alligator Auschwitz there were huge numbers of prisoners per capita. That’s what they’re talking about.
Nice to see that he’s punishing Canada (35%) with higher tariffs than the EU. Also nice to see all those concessions everyone made have done exactly fuck-all.
Appeasing Trump does not work. It just shows him you’re weak and willing to back down. He will come back for more again and again as long as you keep bending over for him.
If things continue as they are, I have no doubt that day is coming.
“Home of the brave”.
Maybe it was at one point. Maybe it will be again.
Nothing of what you said is true. “Oriental” usually refers to east Asia. Australia is Australia and Europe is Europe.
That kind of question is pretty standard after an event like this. What’s interesting is how defensive he got though. He knows it was fucked up and he knows it could hurt him so he responds like a scared animal. It blows my mind that anyone can look at things like this and think “yeah there’s a strong leader”
Those who don’t read history are doomed to repeat it.