Democracy Has Died

Each and every intended appointment only serves one goal: the total and complete destruction of the United States.

There has to come a moment when we say STOP.

Well there won’t be r1. That ship has sailed, it did years ago when Garland refused to charge Trump, and then when Joe refused to fire Garland for it. Ginny Fucking Thomas should be rotting in prison right now — Joe refused. He refused to stack SCOTUS, he refused to drop out until the last second, then stuck it to Obama/Nancy by blocking a vote on his replacement and ramming Kamala through.

I’m not even a total Joe hater. He did some good too. But he fucking failed to protect us from Russia, and now it’s too fucking late. There is almost no way to stop them because people are rightly terrified as most of them identify as fucking NAZIS. Kash Patel is a Nazi, and he’s about to run out FBI. Are you brave enough to challenge him? I’m not, I don’t feel like being tortured in solitary confinement, so, no.

We are absolutely fucked, and even if some miracle happens where our side “fights back” they are in control for about 100 years now. I know this is negative and without hope, but I truly believe what I’m saying to you. I’ve read a SHIT TON, likely too much for my own mental health, and we really are fucked. America is dead, Putin is running this show with Elon as his surrogate. Dump’s days are numbered now, it’ll be the JD/Elon show, they’re just waiting for Inauguration.

I can guarantee too, whatever they do will surprise us all — just like they faked us out with Election Day, they will do it again. Just know, whatever seems to be getting a lot of press leading up to Inauguration, it’s likely just a distraction from what’s really coming for us.

It's a good time to be old.

They aren't in control if we show some courage for a change R2

He’ll only last 4 years.

We’ll have a rough ride, but we’ll survive.

[quote]R5: He’ll only last 4 years.

▲ Hasn't been paying attention.

I realize this is a sad example, but it's what I keep coming back to. Germany was destroyed at the end of WWII, the most hated country in the world. It came back. I don't know how bad things will get under Trump, but I think plague, famine and war are all possibilities. We can come back.

That picture is really chilling, OP.

I'm not one of those embracing the "let's come together and try to unite and get along." I'm not one who thinks all this chatter about accepting this outcome and the "peaceful transfer of power..." is useful. I think we should have been urging Biden to act under his immunity power to stop this take over. We're in the midst of a coup. By a foreign adversary who collaborated with bad guys in America. Same shit happened with France. The Nazis invaded and a lot of French people collaborated with the Nazis. Before and during the occupation. I would right now petition our NATO allies to help us get rid of these assholes...starting with Merrick Garland. We need to invoke the sedition Act and arrest a lot of motherfuckers. Not just the narrow circle of Trump cronies. I'm talking Alito, Thomas, Ginny Thomas, Kavanaugh and Roberts. I'm talking about the v147 members of Congress as well as this list of "nominees" Trump is announcing. The dumb fuck is telling on himself. Nothing is secret. This is happening in the open, in our faces. I am a Resister to the bone. But marching and rioting has limited use. This is serious. This is our country.

A lot to think about…

[bold] We don't come back from this. Ever. Keep your head down. Protect yourself. [/bold] FYI----->>Link is from 2017. Trump has gotten even worse since then.

What a horror

Stop with the drama. Democracy has not "died." We're in a ditch. A bad one. But Trump won't live forever neither will Putin, and we are going to figure out this messaging bullshit and push back. I am not prepared to surrender before they even start fucking with us. Don't act stupid. We need everyone to act smart. Inform yourselves. And for fuck's sake learn about government and our Constitution and WTF is going on.

Once they go after political enemies-----and they will----go on high alert. The Trump Regime will declare themselves the Elite. And they will have tanks. They are NEVER leaving the White House again.

You're assuming our entire armed forces will do whatever Donnie tells them. I think some will, but most won't. We can expect some violence but I don't think Trump himself wants it. Because he is chickenshit to the bone and he'd be running scared. and look what happened in 2020. All his so called loyal supporters, that he is appointing? They will shit themselves if it comes to violence. Personally I hope there is violence and I hope some of the bad guys pay a price.

I'm with the Hon. Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman from Texas. She cannot understand why so many of her Democratic Colleagues want to bring a butterknife to a gun fight.

R14, I'm already on "high alert." Starting at midnight, November 6th. After Black Tuesday of 2016, I stayed pissed off and angry for four fucking years. I had a nice break during the Biden/Harris years/ I really enjoyed the feeling of hope and the energy I found to campaign for Harris. But now, I am locked and loaded and will not capitulate before they even come after me. We all want a nice life. A predictable life where we work, we visit with friends and family, we go on vacations and make plans. We don't want to have to worry about the incompetent, angry, ignorant hateful POS extremists fucking things up. Fucking up the economy and the stock market and healthcare. It sucks. But we're faced with a situation that we cannot simply ignore. We can't bury our heads in the sand and hope they don't notice us. They will be as divisive and nasty as possible to distract us from all the corrupt shit they will get up to. Because they have stolen our country and want to sell it off in parts. Well, fuck them.

Fighting back relies on a set of assumptions. They won't play nice. They won't follow rules or recognize the law. We cannot afford to assume anything. There is practically nothing they won't try.

Stealing the Supreme Court was their trial run. There were no protests of significance, certainly not from DNC leadership. Just acceptance. When they declare Martial Law (probably 2025) they will have stacked the military leaders with Trumpers..He is putting so many criminals in his administration he is going to remove official background checks. We don't come back from this. They aren't leaving in 2028.

You need a President who is both competent and benevolent, in addition to not carrying about his own political future. But that person would almost be as rare as a truly benevolent dictator.

No, we don't need any whining about foreign influence or elections being stolen - that was (and is) Trump's own schtick.

Orderly transition of power, and focus on the mid-terms and taking back control of either house.

R11, what pisses me off is that the article was written in 2017, and we have observed a trial run of all t heir plans. They have done most everything right out in the open, and it's as if we're suffering from Brain Fog? WTF. And when the alarms were sounded the mainstream, corporate media simply ignored or disregarded them. I'm constantly amazed at how much influence the media has over viewers and consumers. None of this shit could have happened without their being complicit.

Parroting another poster in another thread :’’ This is a good time to be old.’’ Lady liberty held hostage by Trump & friends.

No group of people that forces women to die outside of hospitals or legalizes bump stocks, which enabled the Las Vegas Massacre, 5 months before the most fraught election since the Civil War, can call itself a court.

This is a death cult.

Trump will probably replace Alito and Clarence Thomas. I wonder with who......hmm......

I predict Aileen Cannon and Matthew Kacsmaryk. He's the religious nutcase judge in Texas who's been most instrumental in taking away women's rights.

But Donald Trump is a friend of the working man and blue collar guy. He's just like one of us, a real man's man. He's a regular, non-establishment type of guy.

Trump may elevate Cannon to an appeals court position but he won't replace a man with a woman on the Supreme Court. The SCOTUS is a big deal. I can't see him giving it to Cannon.

[quote]Trump won't live forever neither will Putin

Yeah, but there are people who will die while they're still alive, like possibly my 88-year-old father.

Imagine dying of old age while Trump is president. Sad.

Biden is a weak stupid old man with no grasp or reality.

Stop with the hysteria. Please.

There's trouble all over.

Love me some hysterical queens.

Yes, and that foreign state is Israel.

Nice that people are finally realizing this

I have a very strong feeling Trump will cash it in within the next two years. It may be a matter of a few months.... stay tuned. Keep an eye on Musk and Putin.

Something to put into perspective is this that same struggle is happening to countries all over the world(See: Georgia, Romania, S. Korea, Argetina, etc) Not that that makes it any more tolerable, but it also the case that Democratic countries are well aware of this phenomenon and are actively banding together to fight against it.

The Silicon Valley techbros think that the technology to control all the people all the time is here. They are wrong.

All you chicken littles failed to account for how much no one gives a fuck.

A country much smaller than the US, with few resources but bigger balls and ovaries put the breaks on the meddling.

😎

lol r37. NATO and the US forced this decision on the Romanians via that court decision.

Oh no the people chose wrong because of TikTok.

It’s going to be a lot worse than you think. There is a real chance Trump will be seen as a very popular beloved potus by the time this is over.

Disagree?

We were wrong about Biden, we were very wrong about Trumps rising popularity from 2016 to 2020:to 2024, we were way wrong about Harris, And Pete ?

WTF have we been correct about? Nothing . Not one fucking thing. How can we be wrong about everything and all the time? Lots of practice..

The government asserted that there had been “cyberattacks” meant to undermine the vote and security council documents indicated possible Russian meddling.

I'm not in a bend over ans take it kinda mood.

If you are, that is on you.

I'm not interested.

What r3 and r39 said.

In October, I was dead certain that Americans, no matter how flawed a candidate they perceived Harris to be, certainly wouldn't allow a 4 or 5 times bankrupted, adjudicated rapist, insurrectionist, ignorant, incompetent. bigoted bully back into the WH, right?

Right?

And yet, like Charlie Brown when Lucy pulls the football away, when early in the evening Steve Kornacki reported that Harris's vote totals in North Carolina were lagging behind what Biden got, that dread, that inner this-can't-be-but-I-know-it-is, sick, heart-rending certainty took hold.

Trump was going back in.

That's all I need to know to know this country is done. Warm up the bus.

I'm sure some here will say, "See? You're giving up, Della. You're part of the problem."

Yeah, I'm part of the problem if that is I naively thought physically pounding the pavement, canvassing, organizing, voting for Democrats would carry the day.

This country is no longer mine. More of my fellow Americans want what the Repugs are offering.

The only thing left is to hope is that incompetence, bungling, infighting will prevent the Trump agenda.

But the looting of the US Treasury by Trump, his family, Musk and that ilk, will be interesting to watch.

And that Bessent guy, who will Treasury Secretary, will show them the way.

Good. The USA has had a mixed run, and now, Americans got what they voted for.

As r3 said, I'm just glad, barring sudden fatal accident or illness, I'm outta here in a couple of decades, and that I didn't have children.

I knew democracy was toast when that staged assassination took place and no one doubted it

R28-yesyesyes-Dana’s doing a superb rendition ‘’SNL’’ at the same time it’s a so sad and bitch stayed too long at the WH so now we are dead men. Happy Holiday!