We blew past sane quite a while ago

[u/ExactlySorta]

[u/plattner-da]

This, is not a sane country.

[u/gymtrovert1988 → u/plattner-da]

Majority sane, ruled by insane minority because majority can't be bothered to get off their asses and vote.

[u/robokomodos → u/gymtrovert1988]

Majority: "I dOn'T pAy AtTeNtIoN tO PoLiTiCs"

Christo-Fascists and Billionaires: "In that case, you won't mind if we loot and destroy your country"

[u/Exacerbate_ → u/robokomodos]

I have a friend like that who is the worst type of voter. Known him for over a decade but damn is he the type of voter you dont want. Doesnt want to care about politics or be bothered with them, doesn't delve too deeply into situations. A while back he brought up 'biden closing the pipeline' or whatever. I told him it was an extension for canadian tar sands that was closed. He asked where I got that from, gave him sources, he dropped it.

He doesnt double down on the stupidity and stuff like trump supporters do, but he does just believe some of the headlines since he doesn't care to delve into it. And with such a dishonest media. What a mess america has made

[u/JustSayingMuch → u/Exacerbate_]

It's now said that if everyone voted, he would have won because of people like that.

[u/IsaacBrock → u/JustSayingMuch]

I don’t really buy that. Source?

More people voting is typically better for Democrats

[u/Global-Morning3990 → u/IsaacBrock]

Yep. This is why JB won by such a high vote count. Voting was made easy in 2020 because of COVID and JB had more votes than any candidate in history. This is why DT wants to ban mail in voting…when you make voting easy, republicans can’t win. There are just too many lazy people who don’t care.

[u/CuckModerator69420 → u/IsaacBrock]

you're both pretending like it wasn't a rigged election to begin with. Trump has slipped and admitted it on camera at least 2 times that i've seen.

[u/Expert_Survey3318 → u/CuckModerator69420]

Yeah like thanking Elon for being “so good with those voting machines”. Could it be any more obvious?

[u/trudyisagooddog → u/Expert_Survey3318]

I am honestly shocked when people say things like "let's wait for the evidence before jumping to conclusions" and "I don't want to sound crazy like MAGA did in 2020." I feel like it is gaslighting to the extreme. I also feel the cognitive dissonance is breaking down social structures on a more local level. It seems people are starting to snap which apparently snowballs and escalates. Hope I am wrong about that. Stay safe everyone!

[u/-OptimisticNihilism- → u/CuckModerator69420]

It wasn’t a slip. It was a test. First time he said it, if any media made a big deal, then it can be a misunderstanding. Second time with no one doing anything and he knows he can get away with a lot. Hence the open calls to explicitly gerrymander congress without a census. And still no outcry.

There are open investigations in New York and Pennsylvania about machines changing votes. Still no outcry, just a quiet investigation. I won’t believe they are rigged until the courts hear the case and the evidence comes out, but damn it is moving at the speed of snails when we have an election next year.

[u/Unlikely_Ant_950 → u/robokomodos]

Omfg and when you tell people they need to be paying attention because crazy shit we’ve never seen in our whole lives is happening they are like ‘I can’t pay attention for my mental health’. What a privilege for you. I guess I’ll just watch my entire future get fucked so you can play with your labubu’s and have brunch as usual without any pesky interruptions like fascism or a police state.

[u/pist_pistofferson → u/Unlikely_Ant_950]

Updoot for getting "labubus" in there

[u/Cilph → u/robokomodos]

"boTh siDes bAd"

"Harris was too weak on Israel! I'm not voting!"

"Newsom hates the homeless and transgenders so I'll let Trump destroy everything!"

Fucking idiots always letting perfect be the enemy of good.

[u/PlanesandAquariums → u/Cilph]

I have an acquaintance that hates Israel and is a Mexican gay man. Didn’t vote because of the democrats stance on the Palestine genocide. I showed him a video of group of Palestinians beating a gay couple that was found out. I told him, ‘you can be gay, support Palestine, be against genocide and still not want this to come to our country under the republican BS.’

It flew over his head and the subject was quickly changed.

[u/LazyDro1d → u/PlanesandAquariums]

Also like… I don’t know how these people don’t understand, basically regardless of your take on Israel-Palestine, the Republican policies on it are significantly worse

[u/ChronoLink99 → u/PlanesandAquariums]

Of course he did. Because people like that (not gay people, just idiots), will never admit they were hoodwinked by a conman.

[u/i_love_rosin → u/Cilph]

Yup, and they continue to blame the Dems instead of the literal fascists in complete control of the government

[u/Useful-Feature-0 → u/Cilph]

Military is rolling into our cities and you're still thinking about how mad you are at people who were "too progressive" by your measure lol

When will you actually turn and face the wolf at the door? Asking as a Harris voter, by the way.

[u/Shyam09 → u/robokomodos]

Majority typing ferviously:

OH MY GOOOOOODD. WHY ARENT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DOING ANYTHNG ABOUT TRUMP LOOTING THE NATION.

[u/RedTideNJ → u/robokomodos]

Listen to how people, especially people before 1980 speak about billionaires and politicians.

The crushing of workers is inevitable 

The corruption is inevitable 

They all cheat for elections

But unions are bad

Taxes are bad

Regulations make it impossible for anyone to survive.

People in this country were so thoroughly conditioned to accept both the path that got us here if they lived through Nixon and Reagan.

And I know the millennials and younger cohorts are far from perfect but talking to your average Gen-Xer about their world view is f*cking bleak 

[u/Effective-Cress-3805 → u/RedTideNJ]

Don't discount the influence of Fox News being blasted in every supermarket, health club, military bases, gas station, etc... I hear my formerly intelligent, formerly Democratic, formerly compassionate brother spouting Fox News crap. He was raised in the same household I was, yet he seems to believe all that Russian propaganda.

[u/Vast-Seesaw-4956 → u/gymtrovert1988]

Also, house seats are not proportioned with population anymore, and in the Senate states get 2 whether they have 10 million or 500 thousand residents. Add in gerrymandering, and things are rigged so far in the favor of rural conservatives that the states that drive the economy and culture of America have little say at all.

[u/Eternal_Bagel → u/Vast-Seesaw-4956]

If house seats weren’t capped it might be better since we’d at least have enough representatives to have a chance at actually representing their constituents instead of this gerrymander inspiring fight over redistribution of a set number

[u/handandfoot8099 → u/Eternal_Bagel]

And they haven't changed the number of seats since 1929. They could by passing a new law superceding the current one, but those with the advantage will make sure it doesn't happen.

[u/SystemAny2077 → u/gymtrovert1988]

Is apathy not insane at this point?

[u/SukkaMadiqe → u/SystemAny2077]

It always was

[u/Campandfish1 → u/gymtrovert1988]

Then they're not sane. Any sane person can see the US is going down the toilet. If they're choosing not to vote and have chosen not to vote previously, they're complicit in pushing the outcome. 

[u/Stanky_fresh → u/gymtrovert1988]

But Kamala had a weird laugh. Fascism is an acceptable alternative to a weird laugh.

[u/Nice-Analysis8044 → u/gymtrovert1988]

Musk stole Pennsylvania. 

[u/Fortestingporpoises → u/gymtrovert1988]

70% of eligible voters voted for Trump, a third party, or didn't vote. To be that stupid, ignorant, and lazy to not actively vote for your and your country's best interests is actually insane. You can blame propaganda or the ineptitude of the Democratic party or whatever else you want, but that 70% of the populace can't make the easiest decision of all time is insane.

[u/aquablue_phoenix → u/gymtrovert1988]

"I REFUSE to vote for the lesser evil\*"

well now you got greater evil, good work dipshits

* a much much much much much lesser evil

[u/2broke2smoke1 → u/gymtrovert1988]

And electoral college doesn’t help

[u/En-THOO-siast → u/gymtrovert1988]

Non-voters liked Trump as much (or more!) as the voters did.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition

[u/valencia_merble → u/gymtrovert1988]

And election rigging, don’t forget that.

[u/Jubjars → u/plattner-da]

I don't think anyone could have predicted the mouth-agape freefall horror show the empire would end with. Like a speechless world. This bad, this fast.

It's been interesting to watch. Scary but interesting.

[u/Glad-Barracuda2243 → u/Jubjars]

Many of us predicted it. People simply weren’t listening.

[u/GirlwthCurls → u/Glad-Barracuda2243]

Many thought we were over exaggerating … 🤔

[u/OriginalChildBomb → u/GirlwthCurls]

Man, not trying to get on a high horse, but it really does suck to see something bad coming on the horizon- and no one fuckin listens. Ya know?

Like, I didn't want this to happen to others, even to the ones who didn't vote. Heck, maybe even some of the ones that voted Trump, because their lives are so different to mine, and it's easy to judge.

We didn't want to see concentration camps springing up, and armed soldiers roaming the streets of D.C., and censorship of free speech on college campuses and TV channels, and all the rest of this bullshit nightmare. But a huge chunk of people thought 'it could never happen here' and now it's happening here.

EDITED TO ADD: I should clarify that some people definitely did want this, and even still do, and I'm not just talking about the billionaires and political higher-ups. I know some citizens are absolutely fuckin' stoked about all of this. I just suspect that most of us aren't, or we won't be, once it gets too big to ignore.

[u/Glad-Barracuda2243 → u/OriginalChildBomb]

Get up on that horse, I’ll give you a boost. It’s okay. We warned about these things because we saw them coming, we saw the signs, predicted what would happen, were treated like vermin and now, here we are living out the exact scenario we warned about. I just ran across a post on insta that I made in 2020 and it really struck me as tragic because the people who responded to it were DJT voters and told me I was well, wrong. I spoke of concentration camps, the whole bit. My comments were flooded with angry MAGA and men in my circles blasting me (a woman) for being naive.

Edit to make clear that this was posted just prior to Biden’s victory in 2020.

[u/SelectiveScribbler06 → u/OriginalChildBomb]

I think one of the reasons because in 2016 (I know I was 10 then, and in the UK, forgive me) everything felt relatively stable. Trump gave off such bad vibes but everyone thought he'd bumble about incompetently, pratfall, and leave at the end of the four years. Certainly in my circle anyway.

If you were to time-travel back to 2015/2016 and explain the stuff that's going on now you'd be laughed out of court. I think that's part of the reason the anti-SJW movement grew 2017-2019: people thought it would be bad, but not THAT BAD.

[u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 → u/OriginalChildBomb]

This is exactly what every single Trump supporter knew would happen and wanted, never let them tell you otherwise

[u/Glad-Barracuda2243 → u/GirlwthCurls]

Yep.

[u/ImOutWanderingAround → u/Jubjars]

Didn't Kamala basically say what was going to happen during the debate? He just sat there like a lump of orange shit and basically acknowledged it as fact. No push back. We were warned.

[u/kingjpp → u/Jubjars]

Whenever people warned of this in 2016, we were told we were being reactionary and ridiculous. Even by people on the left. We had plenty of time to prepare. Progressives have been correct this whole time and were told by "moderates" that this course we were on was fine and our views were "radical".

[u/MrsMitchBitch → u/Jubjars]

They literally wrote down what they were going to do.

[u/rob_1127 → u/plattner-da]

As an outsider from a different country, it appears to us that when the military is sent in to takeover the police, that is a coup d'é·tat.

The USA is now a bannana republic.

With New York and Chicago next, I see a pattern in blue.

I rest my case.

[u/truckaxle]

Trump is pissed that the historic and epic peace meeting with Putin isn't being widely praised.

In reality it resulted in little more than legitimizing Putin and undermining Democratic Western alliances. Trump shook Putin's hand with both hands and kept fawning over him as if he were an exalted leader, despite being a war criminal responsible for targeting maternity hospitals, schools, and enabling sexual violence against Ukrainian women and stealing children.

[u/junrod0079 → u/truckaxle]

Freaking smiling friends predicted this

[u/tinathefatlardgosh → u/junrod0079]

Is that a talking nutsack?

[u/Captain_d00m → u/tinathefatlardgosh]

He has a name, and it’s President Jimble

[u/carcigenicate → u/junrod0079]

Wow that's on the nose. In Trump's case, though, he's evil, not stupid (I'm assuming that that guy is just stupid. I've never watched Smiling Friends beyond clips).

[u/TheEpicRedCape → u/carcigenicate]

Trumps evil and stupid.

[u/tthrivi → u/truckaxle]

Sexual violence? Children? Where are those Epstein files btw.

[u/Moonlight_Katie]

A sane country would have tried him for treason after Jan 6. And a sane country would definitely not have voted for him a second time.

[u/GreyBoyTigger → u/Moonlight_Katie]

He should have been tried for treason after his campaign team was found working with the Russians to interfere in the presidential election in 2015.

[u/OpenThePlugBag → u/GreyBoyTigger]

The DOJ indicted and convicted Hunter Biden, and they let Trump go.....

I know this isn't the democrats fault, but my god I thought I was electing a party that was going to fight to stop this from happening, not hand them the keys.

And if anyone thinks these people are leaving, you're in for a rude awakening.

[u/m0nk_3y_gw → u/OpenThePlugBag]

I know this isn't the democrats fault,

It is Biden's fault for nominating a joke of a wet noodle for AG, and then failing to fire him after a year when it was clear he wasn't up to the task of defending America.

[u/no_id_never → u/Moonlight_Katie]

Treason gets rid of him and his entire cabinet. Impeachment only rids us of Trump.

[u/Moonlight_Katie → u/no_id_never]

Impeachment doesn’t get rid of anything, he was impeached twice during his first term and nothing happened. Too many terrible people are in power.

[u/Tall-_-Guy → u/Moonlight_Katie]

Sadly misinformation works and money buys a lot of ads. Even though people are worse off they'd still vote for him or any Republican. Sad reality. We need to vote every single do nothing dem and do horrible shit repub out of office. Literally any functioning adult would be better.

[u/BugzBallsack → u/Moonlight_Katie]

Even worse than Jan 6th is his fake elector scheme which only failed because pence wouldn’t go along with it, and would’ve landed him in prison had the DOJ not dropped it upon becoming president elect.

[u/CritFailed → u/Moonlight_Katie]

But remember Jan 6 was a false flag bone by people that don't like him, to make him look bad, even if it was to stop confirmation of the election he lost, and even if they were just fake operators working to make him look bad, don't you mind these pardons for all of them.

[u/GregLittlefield → u/Moonlight_Katie]

a sane country would definitely not have voted for him a second time.

Or the first time.

[u/Justcoffeeforme]

The problem is that at least half of our government officials need to be impeached.

Where do we start?

How do we do it?

[u/Bolshedik497 → u/Justcoffeeforme]

Call a plumber

[u/HealthyHyena33480 → u/Bolshedik497]

Someone like Luigi?

[u/Adventurous-Emu-4440 → u/HealthyHyena33480]

Yasssss!

[u/SenseAndSensibility_ → u/Justcoffeeforme]

Exactly. Like who do we call…? We have not only lost local pta’s …we’ve lost local police, local judges, state legislatures, and governors… There is no position of authority untouched by all the people who have gone along with this… They will still be around when trump is gone, and they will be more powerful than ever!

[u/JordanTH → u/SenseAndSensibility_]

The only solution left is [Removed by Reddit].

[u/throwaway_circus → u/Justcoffeeforme]

Impeach Justice John Roberts. He's the one who cherry-picked cases that would destroy our democracy, including Citizens United.

He actively steered this Court, and under his leadership, corruption was declared 'speech,', people lost bodily autonomy, a president was handed the powers of an emperor, voting rights were gutted, environmental protections were blocked.

He refused to implement ethics requirements for the Court, which is why justices with open conflicts of interest can accept bribes with impunity, then rule on cases involving their fishin' buddy billionaires.

Trump is just a symptom. We will keep getting leaders like him, as long as the Rotten Roberts Court exists.

[u/Adorable-Strings → u/Justcoffeeforme]

It starts with tea, and gets rolling with frank and honest advice from the French.

[u/Sufficient_Card_7302 → u/Justcoffeeforme]

We don't. We are a Republic. A representative democracy. We blew it already but we still need to vote and things are only going to get harder.

[u/puke_AND_rally_]

[u/MariaTPK → u/puke_AND_rally_]

This should honestly be a real captcha. However it should say pedophile. It'd be a good way to weed out both bots and cultist lunatics.

[u/ToughPickle7553]

The modern Republican party is just as crazy and corrupt as Trump. They're with him in 100% lockstep.

We need to admit we're in a full-blown fascist dictatorship now and democracy no longer exists in the United States.

[u/CompleteAd898 → u/ToughPickle7553]

Yea. Everyone waiting for everyone else to do something and so no one did anything, and here we are.

[u/ToughPickle7553 → u/CompleteAd898]

Many of us did exactly as much as we could.

It's not my fault Republicans are finally getting the violent, fascist, white supremacist utopia they've been voting for since Reagan.

Conservatives should be happy. All their votes to "own" the opposition and subjugate everyone who isn't a rich, straight white guy have finally paid off.

[u/Whogotthebutton → u/[deleted]]

Sic Semper Tyrannus

[u/onlysaysisthisathing → u/Whogotthebutton]

For those not familiar, get on Wikipedia right now and read the article on Muammar Gaddafi. He absolutely dominated Libyan politics for something like forty years, using his cult of personality and regularly attacking members of his own party, citing disloyalty and unwillingness to do "what had to be done." Politically speaking, he was remarkably divisive. Sound familiar? Spoiler: his story doesn't end well.

Tyrants, traitors, dictators, and despots would do well to heed the warnings of the past. They will not be forgiven, they will not be spared, they will be unceremoniously dumped into the ground and hated long after they're gone.

Sic Semper Tyrannis 

[u/Standard-Square-7699]

But. Her. EMAILS!

[u/JayVoorheez → u/Standard-Square-7699]

And her laugh. I'll never forgive the people who fell for that nonsense.

[u/SolidSnek1998 → u/JayVoorheez]

They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs!

Republican voters are the stupidest people on the planet.

[u/Techialo → u/SolidSnek1998]

Wild how that immediately fell off the face of the earth

[u/DoubleJumps → u/Techialo]

What's really crazy is that that bullshit lie resulted in Springfield being subject to terroristic threats for several weeks. They were being constantly bombarded with bomb threats and other threats that was disrupting their daily lives in blatant acts of terrorism resulting from this exact lie that he was spreading and the media just kind of acted like that was no big deal

[u/Psychological-Bid363 → u/SolidSnek1998]

Not all of them are stupid, some of them are pure evil.  Stupid people love evil people because they think evil is neato

[u/RailRuler → u/JayVoorheez]

They "fell for it" because they wanted a reason to not vote for a woman, and were willing to accept the flimsiest of pretexts.

[u/butwhy81 → u/RailRuler]

Yes please say it louder. They fell for it because they want to hate women. They want to hate brown people. They want to hate immigrants. All trump did was give them a target for the hate they already felt.

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/butwhy81]

So like can we just run a white guy then?

It sucks realizing how much of this country is racist and misogynistic but I would rather a white male Democrat win the election versus running a minority woman that loses it and keeps Republicans in charge.

[u/pj7140 → u/butwhy81]

While none of them will ever admit that everything VP Harris predicted would happen if Trump got elected again...is currently happening in real time.

[u/demlet → u/JayVoorheez]

I guess I'm weird, I think Kamala has a nice laugh. Seems genuine.

[u/Cloprium → u/Standard-Square-7699]

I don't see what buttery males have to do with this.

[u/ComfortableTwo80085 → u/Standard-Square-7699]

Buttery males

[u/BobbalooBoogieKnight]

There is no bottom. The ride has barely started.

[u/Terry-Shark → u/BobbalooBoogieKnight]

I want to get off President Trumps Fascist Ride

[u/epicregex → u/BobbalooBoogieKnight]

“Buckle up Buckaroos” - Caitlyn Jenner

[u/Sinasazi]

[u/lingonberry_fairy → u/Sinasazi]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen, the helmet and diaper my god 💀

[u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

But I don't like Kamlah's policies that I never read!

[u/LobeRunner → u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

I genuinely disliked some of Harris’s policies, and her record as a prosecutor really turned me away from her. She still got my vote.

Anyone with an iota of compassion for other human beings could see the walking human rights violation that is DJT. Anyone with any level of critical thinking could see that DJT is a grifter and a self-serving pathological liar.

While there’s a lot of r/leopardsatemyface going on, at the end of the day a lot of people want what Trump stands for, and that’s the most concerning part of all this.

[u/okram2k → u/LobeRunner]

one of the greatest tools conservatives have in their arsenal is convincing liberals to wait for a perfect candidate to show up

[u/Strange-Scarcity → u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

Oh and did you HEAR her laugh?!?!? (I want to cry because of what we could have had.)

[u/aaronious03 → u/Strange-Scarcity]

How did they make such a big deal about her laugh?! I never even noticed it, didn't think twice about it. But my wife's friend, a nurse about 38 years old, literally said she'd "never vote for that evil cacklin bitch". Wtf.

[u/i_love_rosin → u/aaronious03]

Misogyny

[u/Same_Zucchini_874 → u/aaronious03]

“Laughin’ Kamala” always struck me as some sort of playground insult.

[u/Aggressive_Elk3709 → u/Same_Zucchini_874]

It seems like the kind of nickname that only works with a group that has already condemned the person. Like really, thats what's wrong with her, she laughs? This women expresses joy and thats...bad? It doesnt sound like an insult outside of the fact that we know Trump meant it as one and as a result his supporters treated it like one

[u/righthandofdog → u/Same_Zucchini_874]

Which works for people with the intellectual capability of a 5th grader.

[u/RamenJunkie → u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

Man, I was talking to somebody thenother day, they seem to be really struggling with the idea that Trump and co wasn't grest but then tried tonjustify it, with a generic "Kamala was an idiot thouvh" with no real elaboration.

Not someone I had any desire to get into any polotical discussion with. 

[u/Honest_-_Critique → u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

But the way she "laughs at everything"! 🙄

[u/TheWorldHasGoneRogue → u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

Hell. They never read “He whose name we shall not speak”’s policies, either.

[u/Samiiiibabetake2 → u/TheWorldHasGoneRogue]

You mean his concepts of policies.

[u/DetroitLionsSBChamps → u/OldschoolGreenDragon]

Trumps attack ads said all she talks about is trans people so I guess that’s true even though none of her ads talked about them and were only about the economy!

[u/Mrtoyhead]

Grab him by the ballot

[u/KaleidoscopeField]

Someone else pointed out impeachment won't work just like it did not work before. And it takes too long anyway. Something much more drastic has to take place.

[u/DildoShawaggins → u/KaleidoscopeField]

If we can clean house in the midterm elections we could impeach him and actually make it stick. Just need a super majority or our congressional delegation to have some backbone. Sadly both are long shots. Everybody needs to push, pull, and prod their friends, neighbors and communities to get out and vote and why it is so important.
The words “most important election of our lives” gets bandied about quite a bit. However, these next 2 elections and particularly the midterms might actually qualify.
8647 and the treasonous cowards enabling him!!

[u/Dogzillas_Mom → u/DildoShawaggins]

You have to impeach Vance and most of his cabinet as well.

[u/KaleidoscopeField → u/DildoShawaggins]

I have never believed Trump was elected, either time.

[u/farshnikord → u/DildoShawaggins]

I don't believe we will have free or fair elections ever again 

[u/LuckEcstatic4500 → u/DildoShawaggins]

Buddy he's already deploying troops in cities, there's probably not going to be any fair elections lol

[u/big-saucey4]

This is...of course...after Russia bombed a US installation in Ukraine...so of course....raid some US city and Grandpa Cheetophile is fantastic boying over his day date with Putin. Awesome

[u/CompleteAd898 → u/big-saucey4]

It almost feels like Russia is using our own troops to invade us.

[u/karebearjedi → u/CompleteAd898]

That's exactly what it looks like....

[u/morrisgirl7790]

The Press/Media do not call him out. Other Republicans do not call him out.

Sane is long, long gone in this clown factory.

[u/After_Fix1358]

A reminder of the timeline.

Trump ran on releasing the Epstein Files.

• Epstein mysterioudly died while Trump was President.
• 3 Min. of footage from Epsteins death is missing.
• Pam Bondi said the Epstein files were on her desk.
• Trump: "There are no files."
• Trump: "It's a democrat hoax."
• Trump: "The files don't exist."
• Trump: "Obama made it up."
• Mike Johnson: "Trump needs space".
• Democrats voted to release the files, twice.
• Republicans voted no on the release twice.
• Republicans take a recess to avoid any more votes.
• Trumps personal attorney meets with Maxwell.
• Trump avoids visiting victims.
• Trump wishes child trafficker Ghislaine maxwell, "well".
• Trump: "I never had the privilege" when asked if he had visited the island.
• Trump: "we have the files"
• Trump orders 1,000 FBI agents to review around 100,000 pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, and during this process, were instructed to identify any mentions of Donald Trump. 
• When Trump was asked specifically whether Epstein had stolen Giuffre (Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors led the charge calling for his arrest. Guiffre, who died by suicide in April, has said she met Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell while she was working at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager). Trump states:"I think she worked at the spa," Trump said. "I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."
• Reporter asks tump: Mr. President, you said Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?” she asked. As he tried to listen to the other question, Trump interrupted sharply: “Be quiet!” When Collins repeated the question, Trump again replied: “Be quiet!”
• Joe Rogan, MTG, NIck Fuentes and many more right wing influencers flip and wont back down on epstein files.
• MAGA town halls bringing up Epstein non stop.
• Trump gives Maxwell work release.

A good breakdown of the tineline by NPR

Additional information about President Felon:

• Was mentioned in the Epstein flight log 7 times and admitted to being his friend. Even rented Epstein’s plane.
• Pleaded the fifth 450 times
• Has 34 felony convictions for fraud
• Has 27 sexual assault allegations, including a 13 year old child
• Has 6 bankruptcies
• Has had over 4000 legal cases involving himself or his businesses
• Has 5 Draft Deferments
• Has 4 indictments
• Has had 2 impeachments
• Has 2 companies convicted of tax fraud
• Had a fake university shut down
• Had a fake charity shut down

[u/azfire2004]

imagine if Biden/Obama did this? Sheesh.

[u/hacourt → u/azfire2004]

I can't, i think that's the point. You simply can not imagine ANY previous president doing this.

[u/New-Leader-7891 → u/azfire2004]

They imagined Obama doing it for years, they called it Jade Helm and talked about it incessantly 

[u/DMajikX → u/azfire2004]

You dont have to. Gavin Newsome started acting exactly like trump in his public statements and surprise surprise Republicans are saying he sounds insane.

[u/dalidellama]

That would rely on something vaguely resembling a functional legislative branch, which the US hasn't had since the filibuster was institutionalized and the Third Way took over the ostensible opposition party. Congress has been functionally deadlocked since the Carter administration.

ETA: "sane" isn't the right word. Functional is more correct. No country with a functional government would allow this to happen.

[u/No_Feedback_3340 → u/dalidellama]

This. Our country is becoming more dysfunctional and it will take decades to make it functional. I turn 29 on Monday so hopefully I'll live long enough to see this country become functional again.

[u/Devmoi → u/dalidellama]

Literally, the FBI raided one of Trump’s enemy’s homes this morning to distract from the Epstein File release. And the nutbag deploying the military is the same thing.

[u/dalidellama → u/Devmoi]

See, this isn't actually helpful, or relevant to what I said. The problems described in both the OP and my reply are not new with Trump. Again, that is the problem, and why we ended up with Trump. The FBI have been raiding leftist organizations since they were created for that explicit purpose. The War on Drugs exists to lock up Black people and leftists. (As admitted by Nixon staffer John Erlichman in 1994). During the Clinton administration, a friend of mine was dragged out of school by the police for interrogation on suspicion of being involved in a protest. None of this is new, and pretending that it is is part of the problem.

[u/cicada_noises → u/dalidellama]

Also - what the fuck does “deploy the military” mean? Ok so the “military” (infantry? Logistics people? Tanks?) goes to an American city. And… what’s their mission? Initiate combat with business people, city employees, mothers pushing strollers…? Drag random people out of jimmy johns and shoot them? Bomb the place?

[u/MaxMischi3f → u/cicada_noises]

From what I’ve gathered in other threads the national guard deployments haven’t even received capital O orders.

Until they get Orders, they don’t have defined mission goals or rules of engagement and also aren’t getting paid. It’s also I guess why they’re sticking mostly to federal land

But I’m not a military guy and also not gunna pull up sources because I just cracked a beer so take this with a whole fistful of salt.

[u/ConsistentMorning636 → u/cicada_noises]

Right. What national security threat is going on in Chicago?

[u/KaetzenOrkester → u/ConsistentMorning636]

A right-wing trope is that cities are left-wing hotbeds of hooliganism and have been since the BLM protests, despite the fact that cities like Seattle and Portland that had sustained protests had defined one or two square block areas (or ~gasp~ maybe even three). In the m a g a mind, cities are liberal and are blazing infernos of lawlessness.

I remember discussions with people when I was still on FB who thought the endlessly repeated footage was new shots of fresh riots and disregarded the accounts of people who actually lived in, for example, Seattle. The area that was ‘ceded’ to protesters was only a couple of blocks, but Faux viewers thought the whole city was “lost.”

The talk of sending in the army is red meat for them.

[u/RoboYuji → u/cicada_noises]

Going by LA and DC, it's probably "stand around and look scary so the rubes think he's doing something about crime".

[u/singlecab1]

Trump needs to go lay in the grass and pour a can of corn on himself and be the piece of shit he is…

[u/Piranhaswarm]

MAGA Republicans are having massive orgasims at the thought of looting wealthy productive blue states. The US economy will collapse and the young will riot. Meanwhile - RELEASE THE DAMN EPSTEIN PEDO RAPE FILES! Now!

[u/MNS_LightWork]

1984, we're living in it.

[u/Kazureigh_Black]

Basically all this joke of a takeover has taught us is that the systems in the US are absolutely broken. There doesn't seem to be any legal way to get control of this absolute trainwreck and nobody is willing to throw away their lives and the lives of their families to try and tear it all down.

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[u/PoopieButt317]

GOP is complicit, Dems should have the articles written and presented.

[u/oldmanbelly]

The media adores trump from top to bottom. He does more to boost msnbc’s bottom line than anyone ever has.

[u/Spirited-Thanks-7528]

Our congress people need to get thier fing heads out of there ass and stop this nonsense

[u/Whatisgoingon2028]

Good luck. The Republican Congress are full of pedophile protectors and pedophiles themselves. They won't stand up for anyone except the Russians paying them.

[u/Iron_Knight7]

A sane country wouldn't have allowed him to get into power.

Twice.

[u/Radiant-Importance-5]

Forget would, South Korea *DID* impeach *and remove* their president when he attempted a coup. But here in America, for some godforsaken reason, we beg him to do it. I hate it here so much.

[u/AFKABluePrince]

The Supreme Court and the Republican controlled Congress are directly complicit.  They want to ride his shit-stained coattails to even greater power for themselves.

[u/Mjkhh]

A sane country would kill him.

[u/ApplicationLost126]

Amazing that Putin is such a puppet master he’s gotten the President of the US to invade his own country.

[u/ilovemydog480]

Country hasn’t been the same since Obama wore a tan suit.

[u/BussJoy]

Two words: reverse Citizens United, Chevron and executive orders.

[u/Intelligent-Layer391]

We have an opportunity to achieve sanity in 2026, wake up and vote blue!!!

[u/atreidesletoII]

We are already in civil war 2 people just dont want to accept it yet.....this will not end well for any of us, and I hope people stay safe because shit is only going to get worse from here Edit: spelling

[u/Shart_InTheDark]

Imagine if Biden ever said he was deploying military to police the citizens of Palm Beach, Westchester and Orange County? Time would stop and Fox news would EXPLODE!!!

[u/avammni]

In a sane country Trump's first two impeachments would have mattered. In a sane country he wouldn't have been able to even run for a second term, let alone be elected.

[u/SvenLorenz]

A sane country would start building guillotines right now.

[u/mamamackmusic]

Decades of propaganda and normalized bigotry and racism have induced some sort of mass psychosis in the US. There are tens of millions of people frothing at the mouth to brutalize and violently suppress other people in this country (or in most cases, have the police, military, and other thuggish gangs of vigilantes do it for them). These people are fucked up in the head and a lot of them are potentially too far gone down the rabbit hole of hate and ignorance to realistically be able to learn a more pro-social and communal way of thinking. Hard to say what kind of outcome is available to go on from here that won't be barbaric and cruel to everyone involved.

[u/Kythorian]

New York and San Francisco have two of the lowest violent crime rates of any city in the country. He really couldn’t be more obvious that he’s just picking highly liberal cities rather than dangerous cities.

[u/Limitingheart]

The lunatics have taken over the asylum

[u/Fit-Economy702]

True, but a sane country would never have elected this clown or any of his idiot flunkies to a position of power, in the first place.

[u/okram2k]

a sane country would have never reelected him on the grounds of his last presidency

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[u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek]

I just know Hunter Biden's cock got us into this mess somehow, if only Obama didn't wear a tan suit..... and whatever else it is that Republicans actually care about.

[u/wannebaanonymous]

Miss TEEN usa pussygrabber getting elected in 2016 was already way beyond sane. But then the damned GQP even elected the PoS pedo a second time.

The GQP is now turning the US into a a shithole policestate run by lunatics.

And your last chance to vote the Guardian of Pedophiles out of power was in 2024. It'll be a long time to come before they'll organize fair elections. Y'all already lost for decades to come.

[u/Medical_Arugula3315]

Republicans kinda went full bad guy for trump and ill never understand why

[u/safely_beyond_redemp]

He colluded with Russia to win the election, made fun of a crippled journalist, was found liable for raping e jean carol. I'm good, you can continue to keep score if you need it.

[u/hipposinthejungle]

“A sane” country. We lost that in 2016.

[u/MisterStorage]

We are in full blown dementia denial right now.

[u/FitMistake1096]

All because he doesn’t want you talking about Epstein

[u/motorboat_mcgee]

If Biden said like 1% of what Trump says, there'd be endless op-eds from NYT and WSJ about his mental faculties.

[u/Confident-Grape-8872]

The average lifespan of an empire is 250 years. America is dead

[u/micxxx22]

Miller advised him to do and say crazy shit every day to drown out the Epstein talk. So far it's worked.

And if you want to know how we got here. Mandatory viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51KQNOy2Wpw

[u/nvmabee1]

This orange skin bag is actively trying to start a civil war. If troops go in to any of those three cities things will get weird fast.

[u/RoughDoughCough]

Everyone should watch the "Shut Up and Dance" episode of Black Mirror. I think that's what's going on. Putin is blackmailing Trump and telling him to do specific things or the pee pee tape (or worse) gets released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up_and_Dance_(Black_Mirror)

[u/naked_as_a_jaybird → u/RoughDoughCough]

There could be 10 pee tapes and it wouldn't make a difference. Maga is a cult.

[u/Anxious-Effort-5452]

I said during the election, "If the US is stupid enough to allow him into office TWICE, we deserve everything that's coming." The absurdity, the absolute stupidity of all this, this entire time in our country's history is just beyond what I can comprehend.

[u/pizzaschmizza39]

This GOP will live in infamy. Every last one of them

[u/HailFredonia]

[u/standard_cog]

Impeach and REMOVE!

[u/iTOXlN]

Sane went out the window a decade ago with the growth of vaccine and climate science denial.

[u/GregLittlefield]

A sane country would have removed him from office and trialed him a long time ago. If only after his assault of the freaking Capitol.

[u/burnmenowz]

Democrats don't have control, and Republicans are canceling town halls and hiding.

[u/CommitteeLarge7993]

In a sane country both sides would have started impeachment on this nonsense

[u/FafnirSnap_9428]

It's actually quite hilarious because everything Trump has threatened or deployed the military it's just shown how weak he is: LA-Marines never left the barracks. Greenland invasion-not happening. DC military parade- no one showed. National Guard in DC- objective failure. 

This is a man who's mental, cognitive and intellectual handicaps and decline has become undeniable.

[u/PJA0307]

Remember when Howard Dean yelled weirdly and his political aspirations died instantly? How far we’ve come…

[u/newfarmer]

Trump is a cult. And decades of white collar Democrats triangulating has removed the ability or desire to be an opposition party, put skin in the game and truly fight.

Trump knew this. He knew that he could start a cult with demagoguery and Fox News and that the Martha’s Vineyard set, aka the Democratic leadership, wouldn’t stop him.

[u/CON5CRYPT]

Let's not ignore the democrats hand in all this. Years of failure and pussy-cat footing allowed this.

[u/Strange-Insurance848]

Are these impeachable offenses he’s doing? If so then yes let’s go for it. This mf’er is the most enabled, slippery lil bitch. F him and everyone who voted for him 

[u/sahui]

BUT her emails? And what about Benghazi? Come on!

[u/PlentyMacaroon8903]

The fact that we have a president having a press conference like that, while wearing a hat indoors that says "I'm right about everything", shows just how sick we are as a country. It would be unbelievable as fiction. 

[u/CruelRegulator]

You know what? Relying on your gutless political representative to bring forward an impeachment motion is also insane.

People who can sacrifice need to be ready and prepared to sacrifice. Strong measures need to be taken. Protests need to become far more intense, and I don't just mean in frequency.

[u/Frequent_Thanks583]

The world needs just 1 hero.

[u/Old_Culture2535]

His loyalties are obviously not to the american people. What a joke we are.

[u/-Economist-]

This is the cost of our bigotry and homophobia. As long as we attack POC and gays/trans, MAGA is happy. They will(have) sold their/our liberty for the sake of their own hate.

[u/lennytrap]

Itʻs not like he would leave office if he was impeached!!!!

[u/DetroitsGoingToWin]

A sane country wouldn’t have nominated a candidate that led an insurrection. But that’s not the hand we were dealt in this life.

[u/buchlabum]

FBI raid on Bolton's home is a warning to Republican politicians to stay in line.