Yeah, they don’t really seem overly concerned with maintaining electoral majorites. Or the vote. Or the rule of law. Or the Constitution, etc…

We destroy capitalism or capitalism (finishes) destroying us. Appear to be the only two options available.

Boring, slow incremental progress is great. Not ideal, but great.

However, a two-party system where one party is ALWAYS a single lost election from the advent or fascism is a democracy too brittle to survive.

Won in 2012

Won in 2018

Won in 2020

Won in 2022

And this is where it got us.

So… They are just going to pretend he’s mentally sound, and for as long as they do, this shit just gets worse and worse until we all die from it.

… Now?

There are no checks. There are no balances. There is nothing stopping them…

This isn’t Trump’s vanity - this is the oligarchs, who do not care about nation states, carving up the globe as a resource grab.

The US will annex Greenland. The US will invade Canada. The US will kill protesters, starting with the students.

Concentration camps. Gulags. The disappearing of opponents and mass killings of the undesirables.

Europe will try to unify, but their democracies are already beset by oligarchs, from Putin to Musk, who are financing newly emboldened far-right fringe groups and political candidates.

Europe may rally and pull together.

Or, they may fracture from external pressure and splinter from internal dissention; that is the plan.

I’m not even looking for windscreen washer fluid and I’ll buy European SUPERPISS

So very tired of Putin’s bullshit…

This is nuts.

We can’t choose our leaders based on how effective they are in hand to hand combat!

Stick with the current system: the one where we choose our leaders based on how much money they can raise.

Oh man… probably should have passed laws to regulate data harvesting and digital privacy back in the 90s

when the Internet was still just a series of tubes…

He has, ultimately, too much money for him to accidently experience a brush with sanity…

So… You’re saying we shouldn’t be giving the richest man in the world an animal tranquilizer along with unlimited power over our government?

I mean… we all have that friend who does mushrooms or drops acid and thinks they are the savior of the human race.

The only difference is that the next day they have to go work their shift at IHOP rather than waking up and being the richest person in the world.

Republican administrations tank the economy when it’s business as usual.

This is the dissolution and piecemeal sale of the US Government.

Of course there is going to be a fucking recession!

I mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…

… Big Meat?

Can’t make an omelette without breaking the bank.