Nobody who’s voting republican actually believes you when you say they are supporting these things, because we live in clown world, and they’re all brainwashed into thinking that you’re lying.

I tell people this constantly, and get ignored or chided for the thought. Meanwhile, I’ve got a previously Trump supporter boss, who I’ve slowly become friends with and have shown him the problems on the right and moved him further to the left.

I'm not going to chide you, but after 8 years of trying, it's only gotten worse.

I'm done. I need to focus on keeping my family safe and away from magas.

If you are having better luck changing hearts and minds, I applaud you for it. IME they aren't interested in listening to anyone but Trump.

What filthy fucking liars everyone in this admin is. Not that it's surprising.

Article below is literally from yesterday:

Trump says he’ll abide by court orders that block parts of his agenda

Just to start with, Palpatine also controlled the media! The direct connection was already there!

It's almost like I was right the first time.

The idea of a politician with principles used to be the punchline to a sitcom comedy routine or the climax of a utopian drama.

I'm talking primarily about the voters, which it's becoming increasingly clear I need to specify.

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

Whew, better be a big firm. Do you think they can analyze all those posts before the heat death of the universe?

I'm not surprised Vance knows what he's doing.

I'm surprised the people who voted for him don't, especially given how often I see a Trump sticker paired with a "We the People" window tint.

It didn’t take long after the Justice Department dropped the sweeping corruption case against embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams for political and legal observers to weigh in on social media.

The new development came Monday when a senior Trump administration DOJ official turned Adams’ criminal prosecution on its head when he ordered government attorneys to withdraw the charges.

But the swift dismissal of the case – less than a month after Donald Trump returned to the White House – didn’t pass the smell test with social media users, with many calling out Adams for cozying up to the president in recent weeks.

“This isn’t justice,” Democratic strategist Chris D. Jackson wrote on his X account. “This is corruption in plain sight. The rule of law is officially dead.”

So NYC elected a cop, who proceeded to act just like a cop.

It's like these people (edit- republican voters) have never read a book in their lives.

By about age 12 I had a reasonable grasp of our nation's checks and balances, a cornerstone of our democracy.

At a minimum you'd think a rabid conservative fanbase that claims to love the constitution would be aware of this, and possibly expect the politicians they voted for to uphold such core principles.

That would require Republicans and US Conservatives to have actual ethics and principles beyond making sure they create the most unwelcoming world possible for anyone not white, straight, male, cis, and Christian.

Well she certainly didn't vote for the party that's going to do anything about the backlog of untested rape kits.

https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/ending-domestic-violence/ending-the-backlog-of-rape-kits

Leading from the rear I see.

Remember, do not let R leadership or magas in your circle get away with DARVO. It's how they try to "Win" when you call them out. He's doing it right here.

Deny

Attack

Reverse Victim and Offender

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/27/the-conservative-urge-to-be-a-victim-why-right-wing-victimhood-is-spreading-so-fast/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/4/2013907/-Great-acronym-Republicans-are-now-the-DARVO-party

https://www.aconsciousrethink.com/35543/the-darvo-pattern-narcissists-use-when-you-call-them-out/

Which of the elected representatives at the front of that line do you nominate to have taken the bullet since you weren't there?

It’s the domestic part we have to concern ourselves with, and thankfully the Joint Chiefs seem to still think he’s an idiotic shitbag

As a veteran, I remain 100% convinced that the Pentagon has and has always had a plan for "a dictator becomes president." However, also as a veteran I'm sure there is a very specific checklist of things that must be true for that plan to be activated.

As a low ranking veteran I don't have any better guess than anyone else what things are on that checklist, but I feel sure it exists, and that if we aren't seeing them mobilize it's only because it's an extreme event and the conditions required to execute on that plan are many.

Groundwork for a coup by the sounds of it.

GROUNDWORK??!!

Something something stallmanwasright.

WTH is this headline? Is this fear of reprisal?

Last line in the article is no less vague:

The answer to all these questions is: Who knows? As long as Trump and his GOP are in power, the American people probably never will.

So brave!

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think the Jedi council was very clearly myopic and hidebound, not to mention their precognitive abilities were blunted by the influence of the dark side, much like the sanewashing of Trump in the media.

Why the fuck don’t Star Wars fans understand Star Wars?

Indeed.

This is America.

A CBS/YouGov poll found that nearly half of respondents want Musk to have little or no influence, with opinions split along party lines.

So literally what any of us would have predicted as the outcome to this poll, and it doesn't matter anyhow, because Trump is fully in "whatever, I'll do what I want" mode.

I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit.

Every time I see an article like this, I go check old.shittyplace.com/r/conservative and see nothing but Trump cheerleaders. When the tide starts to change there, I'll believe they might have gained a spark of awareness.