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Trump Says America Is Over 'As We Know It' if He Can't Do Crimes While in Office
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It’s upsetting to me that rich people posting in call caps about how they should be allowed to commit crimes resonates with me ANY Americans, never mind enough of your voting population that Donald Trump has a decent chance of winning the next election.
I mean every country has morons, but Jesus what is going on in your country man?
The list goes on, but take your pick or mix and match; there's really no wrong answer. 🫠
Man my dad a Vietnam vet... Told me that jan6 was a shame and that they killed "that poor woman" trying to get through a door.
I was like... Dafuq? What about protecting elected officials lives? What about protecting the constitution? What about that whole "foreign and domestic" deal?
I told him.. I watched the live stream video of her being given a warning and a lawful order to stop and to remove herself from the area. She didn't. She got shot.
She wasn't a patriot.. she was a criminal who fucked around and found out.
Anything telling you otherwise is propaganda.
Crazy the spin they are trying to put on Jan6. :/
This is what a lot of people think, but the reality is it's because a large portion of our society measures their own (and other's) worth and happiness using money. This includes a big chunk of our educated class
Those members of our society have no capacity to build deep and authentic bonds (especially the men). Creating a silent epidemic of loneliness with resent-fueled victims searching for someone to blame for their misery & miniscule self-worth.
Trump only has, perhaps, 20% of the population truly behind him. He gets 46% or so of voters in his favor through a combination of Republicans who hate Democrats more than they hate Trump, and Enlightened Centrists who vote for the GOP because they voted for Democrats last time. Those are rooted in the problem of a voting system that only makes room for two parties.
Even that wouldn't be enough, except for the criminally stupid electoral college system.
In short, he doesn't have real support, and he only gets in by exploiting flaws in American democracy that have always been there but nobody has abused to quite this scale. Incidentally, exploiting flaws in democracy is also how Hitler took over Germany. His true base of support was never very large, either.