• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    That official White House X-account is really something. The utter shamelessness combined with the harrowing inhumanity would make Goebbels blush.

    At the same time it is so honest and clear about the Trump administration’s perspective on things it’s refreshing. They don’t hold back, there is no secret agenda, they just put it all out in the open for the Americans and the whole world to see. They really feel invincible.

    • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I just hope they alienate enough people fast enough that we can see an actual effective check to this rogue administration. They’re taking a lot of power pretty fast but also burning a lot of bridges.

      • huppakee@lemm.ee
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        23 days ago

        I’m afraid they might burn more than bridges if they are opposed by an actual effective check.

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days ago

        I don’t see how this attempt to speed-run a dictatorship is going to work well for them. You’re supposed to turn up the heat slowly, so the frog doesn’t notice that they’re boiling until it’s too late.

    • laserm@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Would be shame if someone used it as evidence in a contempt hearing or impeachment trial.

        • laserm@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          I think that judges have had enough. Boasberg of DDC has already released a criminal contempt order and by the looks of it, Xinis of Maryland district is also getting pretty pissed.

          • witten@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            The question, though, is what the judiciary is going to do with these seemingly inevitable contempt rulings. Let’s just say I’m not terribly excited about the prospect of fines unless that’s just the opening salvo.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Because they know something the rest of us don’t - that they will never have to pander for votes ever again, because there will never be another election on the country.

    • kingofras@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      I wouldn’t say there is no secret agenda. It’s clear the administration is not in the loop of what the secret agenda is. Their blatant anti-everything-non-white and overall incompetence and ignorance is enough right now to keep the divide and conquer going.

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    The New York Times should publish this as its front page tomorrow, with malicious edits and all, and address it below.

    • Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      The boomers are dying off.

      They’ve decided to go after the edge lord young men for their next voter base.

      Unfortunately it appears to be working.

    • Absaroka@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Childish and petty? Or “winning”?

      I feel like a corner piece of the puzzle of MAGA is feeling like some how sending a brown Maryland father to El Salvador makes them feel better about their shitty lives. It’s a superiority thing.

      And some how Trump and Fox News have convinced them that they share in the victories of guys like Mush and Trump enriching themselves.

      • MunkyNutts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

        • Lyndon Johnson
    • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Remember when you have been 16 and you fell for every single rage bait there is on the internet, wasting your next 2-3 years on defending gaming and your virginity from SJWs and radical feminism?

      Imagine you never grew out of that. That’s your modern day republican.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      23 days ago

      They’re actually not.

      A lot of them are, and definitely the ones online 24/7.

      But trump having the actual official White House communicate like this does add up and will hurt Republican votes.

      trump isoving to fast and it’s what’s gonna end up stopping it. It’s why I hate when people act like trump is the problem, if he died today Vance takes over and they do the same evil shit, just smarter about it

      • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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        23 days ago

        While not the problem, Trump is still a problem. Vance doesn’t command the loyalty of the cult in the same way that Trump does. His closest successor in that regard is Musk.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          23 days ago

          If trump dies in office he doesn’t have to have cult backing.

          But he is more conservative than HW, and HW got the win after Reagan.

          Vance was groomed to lead this movement he even got set up with his wife by the “Tiger Mom” at Yale and then she got the wife SC clerkships.

          People are underestimating Vance just like they did trump

          Hillary pushed him to run because she thought he’d be the worst, and it backfired spectacularly. Don’t assume Vance can’t grab the reigns when crazier shit is literally happening as I type this.

          • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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            23 days ago

            Vance was groomed to lead this movement

            If you want some fun tin-foil conspiracy thing, there’s one I heard that I both find entirely plausible AND actually believe.

            Basically, when (not an if) Trump dies or is otherwise removed, Vance will come out as the ‘We’ve had a hard time, what with our last president being a batshit insane rot brained moron. I’m going to undo the worst of his decisions, and get MAGA back on Track’.

            And presto, we now have moved to the competent dear leader part of this whole play, and everyone from creepy neocons to the bleeding heart-ist liberals will applaud and say what a lovely thing this is, and all this change is good!

            Except it’s the same shit, just sane washed, because it’s not hard to be LESS insane than the Tangerine.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      23 days ago

      This is what they want. See, Trump is utterly destroying America’s economy and nucleus of global hegemony. The people are in for increasingly tough circumstances as China just stops trading with America, and all previous allies start to shun the country. Trump is trying to grow the US military to start his fascist wars of conquest both south and north. This will also put the people in increasingly dire circumstances, both with the massive amount of death involved in such a conflict and in the mass reallocation of resources towards war efforts. He can’t talk about those things openly to the people because he’d have to admit their lives are going to get significantly worse. So, what can he do instead?

      He can do the same thing he’s been doing the entire time. Build a fervore for ethnic cleansing and eugencist racialist politics. The people are trained to lap it up without even thinking, and they get genuinely itchy for their next fix. Who’s the minority we’re hating today? Who’s the person of color we’re going to commit vile acts of cruelty on today? Where do I direct my homicidal rage at the threat to my inherent superiority today? This is how they are. Every single day, Fox News, Twitter, and the White House all come together to deliver. They fill the bowl, and the bigots heads are down gorging themselves on it while their own lives are horrifically torn apart around them.

      It doesn’t matter what else he’s doing. He’s fighting DEI. He’s putting black people and women in their place. He’s making immigrants, muslims, jews, and the queers afraid again. His support base is unyielding. We know they will never yield because fascists never do. Even decades after the end of World War 2, many former SS and former Nazi supporters STILL thought Hitler was sent from God and that everything he did was right. Even as Soviet bombs were falling on their heads. The ardent supporters of fascism will support it literally until they die. They loved that Hitler was committing genocide. They loved that he was cruel and inhuman. They admired how the image he portrayed so neatly fit with their patriarchal worldview. Its why they supported him to begin with. Economy this, nationalism that, but down to the line it was all about cruelty.

      Are the people who support these kinds of tweets petty and childish? Absolutely they are. This isn’t even about pettiness though. This is what they voted for. They voted for people of color to suffer. They voted for immigrants to suffer. If it came out tomorrow that he died in that hellhole they’d all cheer.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Yeah, and the engagement metrics are massive. This reaching people. Heck, I wonder if more eyeballs see this than the actual NYT article.

    God, anyone, please send some meteors to Twitter data centers. And Facebook while you’re at it…

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    They had their chance to show MS 13 gang membership in court, and failed. Screaming it over from podiums/media doesn’t make it true, or a basis for jail/death camps.

  • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 days ago

    That is actual contempt of court. Could I tell a federal judge to piss off if he gave me a court order?

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    The fact an official gov channel is posting this kind of childish shit is abhorrent and embarrassing. If I pulled shit like this at my job I’d be thrown out. Fucking slime.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Nah in Dystopias the megacorps and evil governments tend to be intelligent and refined with armored limousines and some sense of style, even the glutenous autocrat steriotype tends to have a kind of weird refinement or at least be intelligent enough to not be ridiulous in public, or at least in the presence of a large number of guys with guns who can look meaningfully at anyone who might laugh.

        What this is, is some weird idiocracy shit only without any of the redeeming characteristics of the people in that film.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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          23 days ago

          Thank you for using Idiocracy in the correct context. I hate always seeing it used as-is without any caveats.

        • huppakee@lemm.ee
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          23 days ago

          Actually, dystopia is basically a ‘bad’ (dys-) ‘place’ (-topia). So the common view of what a dystopia looks like is not the only way it can look. Being ruled by dumb toddlers that break everything in their way is a very different dystopia than one with evil megacorps but it is still quite dystopian to me.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        23 days ago

        It’s… dystopian…

        We’ve already used up our big words in February. Supercynical “I have no words” in March.

        Now, the horror getting worse every day has become the new normal coming out of the US, every day, steady as a slow machine gun.

        Had I known how much worse it’s going to get I’d have saved up some words during the first months.

    • dryfter@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I didn’t notice who posted it on X until I read your comment and I just…I’m shocked I am shocked by this because I feel like I’ve been getting numb to the stupidity of the last ~4 months

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      I don’t know how to express this feeling I have properly so bear with me. I kinda hate the reference of political office as a job. It’s not really a job. It’s a position of societal power. One that should come with, frankly, deadly consequences when people in that position of power start talking like this. This is a branch of the government saying fuck the courts and their decision. There should be blood over that. Equating it to a job just rubs me wrong. Not to shit on you, I have no problem with what you said, I agree with it even. Just expressing general thoughts

      • hector@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days ago

        That’s actually how democracy is understood in France ! The office you hold is a privilege and a responsibility : executive power delegated to you by the will of the people, underpinned by the rule of law.

        You know your country political idea/marketplace of idea is turning to shit when the majority yearn for a providential man that will fix all their problem with the magic wand of repression and prejudice.

      • Infinite@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Yeah, a duty to hundreds of millions of people and the future, that one has to volunteer for and convince a plurality of their fitness for… not just a job that you should be able to neglect, let alone subvert.

      • Liberteez@lemm.ee
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        22 days ago

        Comments like this get deleted off reddit and the user flagged by the admins.

        Btw I’m new here