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I’ve been a loyal Trump supporter since 2016.
I lost a job, friendships, been smeared online, doxxed, and pressed charges on people who’ve stalked and harassed me for supporting him.
If Trump doesn’t want my support, because I care about the Epstein Files, then I’m done.
Bye.
The part that chaps my ass about this is… The damage is already done. Trump can not get voted in again. He’s on his second term, of two max.
So all of this shit is too little too late. You fucked up. You fucked everything up. And now you realize the guy is a piece of shit because he won’t release a list of rich people who are paedophiles and rapists? A list he’s very likely to be on?
This is the line?
Holy shit. Of all the terrible stuff he said he would do, and all of the terrible stuff he actually has done… And you fucks put him in the office again.
And this is the point where you finally stop supporting him?
The damage has been done, yes, but we can stop further damage. If MAGA finally turns on him for being a prolific pedo, we can roll the clock back on some of this stuff. I’m afraid they’re going to have to catch him live with his dick in a minor for his base to believe it, though.
Can we though? We’ve never seen a sitting US president get thrown out of the job forcibly. Some were under investigation, or indicted, but stepped down voluntarily. The courts didn’t kick them out of the job.
I do not believe, for a second, that Trump would ever be sensible enough to voluntarily step down. By the time they dragged him through the legal process of ending his term, his term would have ended anyways.
Even if we started today, the time that he would still be in office, actively harming America and Americans, would not change. We are unable to stop him because there’s simply too much red tape involved; not that you could find someone to charge, and/or prosecute him… Which is a whole other problem.
The damage is actively being done and getting worse. It will continue to get worse. And the only thing that could bring this insanity to a rapid conclusion is a radical and illegal act against the man himself. Honestly, I don’t expect anyone to be able to “Luigi” Trump.
You can’t roll back the loss of 100 years of progress. Especially in the sciences since we’ve already lost a lot of the people, can’t roll back the loss of prestige, or the devaluation of the dollar, at least not easily.
Honestly, I’m a bit relieved at the current situation, because I wasn’t nearly as certain he was done. With incidents like January 6th, all the claims of voter fraud, his clear abuse of systems like presidential pardons and executive orders, I really thought Trump had a genuine chance of overturning the 2-term limit and twisting the US into a bona fide dictatorship.
I’m relieved to see his astounding incompetence finally reaping results in his polling numbers again and again, because it’s breaking the spell he seemed to have over half the country. Hell, it’s even breaking the allure of fascism in the elections of other countries at this point. His gross incompetence during this presidency is single-handedly moving the whole world a little more to the left.
I’d say this is silver lining on a very dark shitstorm cloud.
You overestimate his supporters long term memory. You’re still only 6 months in, still 3.5 years left to go. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
Who would have thought the way to make the world better would be to elect the worst of the republicans, not that other republicans are much better.
First of, Trump is not a Republican. He is Trump. Secondly, Trump has had since his first mandate a nefarious effect in politics worldwide, and he is in part why the far-right and nationalistic movements across the globe, are also rising, through the spread of misinformation on the Internet, that transcend US borders. While I was very well aware that there was a thing like anti-vaxxers in the US, that was never a problem here in Europe, and the rise of misinformation, with the pandemic, and with Trump and the MAGA movement, that became a thing now here, along with other conspiracies on Facebook, like the “Moon landing being a staged hoax”. Retired boomers, that have nothing better to do all day, gobble up that shit as if it is ambrosia!
Only by turning super-fascist can the voters get the Dems to shift left of fascist-lite
Realistically speaking, whatever chance he has had never lied with a legal election result. He was going to have to go against the constitution in a pretty blatant way anyway. So if he ever had a shot at it, he still does. Popular support no longer matters that much one way or the other, either he’s out in 2028 because he follows the rules of the democracy no matter how popular he is, or he just carries on against the constitution, which doesn’t need popular support anyway.
Still room for him to be melodramatic about something or another and declare a bogus national crisis that requires suspending elections and such. He’s declared everything an emergency to claim he has various authority, he doesn’t have to stop short of the elections themselves.
If I were you I wouldn’t be getting my hopes up. In four years, if elections still happen, MAGA is still going to vote for Trump and Vance because “A Democrat as president would be worse.” Don’t think that term limits are going to stop Trump.
A-fucking-men. These people need to know that just because the scales have fallen from their eyes, we will not be welcoming them back to the ranks of civilized society anytime soon. They may be pissed about this, but we’ve come down a long road of atrocities that they either supported or ignored, and they have a LOT to answer for in that regard. Their enthusiastic dismissal of simple human - and American - decency will not be forgotten, and all MAGAs have a long way to go to redeem themselves, which in many cases will be impossible.
For me, it’s enough for anyone to turn their back on fascism and vow to never vote for the party that endorsed fascism again.
Yeah, they’re shit heads. But they’re people too. Anyone committing to be better, has a chance.
Punishing them for doing, what they thought was the right thing to do at the time, won’t endear them to critically thinking, nor voting for the opposing party. Right now, we need them to vote these fucks out and keep them out.
Trump may be grand pubah now, but there’s a huge line of people behind him that are just as bad, or worse.
What’s stopping him from doing a Nayib Bukele and sending the National Guard to Congress to force through legislation?
At least he has a bottom line, and might think a little more critical next time, maybe. Some people just close their eyes and chant the propaganda.