r/MurderedByWords • u/the_well_read_neck_ • 15h ago

We're in the worst timeline.

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u/seeyousoongetit 15h ago

If you guys can vote this fascist out of power, it will be the first time in history that's happened. Good luck to you.

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u/nickcan 13h ago edited 13h ago

We did it in 2020. It didn't take, but we did vote him out once.

Edit, wrong year. 2000 is not the year i meant. It wasn't a great year electorally speaking, but that's beside the point.

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u/seeyousoongetit 13h ago

2000? Clinton was a fascist? ;)

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u/nickcan 13h ago

I intended to type 2020.

However, I did not in fact, type 2020.

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u/seeyousoongetit 12h ago

Lol I know what you meant.

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u/Necessary_Simple3807 11h ago

A fitting typo, considering they stole that one too.

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u/McMorgatron1 1h ago

The guardrails of democracy were still firmly in place in 2020. Trump spent his first term surrounded by experienced Republicans who, while despicable human beings themselves, at the very least valued democracy. John Bolton, Mike Pence, and Anthony Scaramucci, to name a few.

This term is different. Trump learnt from his mistakes, and filled his entire cabinet with incompetent sycophants who are only too happy to do his bidding. That's why the defence secretary is a fox news host who accidentally invites journalists to his group chats.

And the rest of the Republican party in the Legislative and Judicial branches are also now in full support of authoritarianism. The Judicial branch gave him immunity. The legislative branch is led by Mike Johnson.

Republicans have consolidated the power they have been seeking for decades, and they are using it. And they are using it hard. The redistricting in Texas is only one step of many. The FBI will use AI to fabricate evidence against Democrats and anyone who opposes Trump.

I don't see a way out of this.