r/UnderReportedNews • u/ExactlySorta • 23h ago

Video Stephen Miller announces the US has taken the action of formally recognizing left wing violence as a form of political terrorism, claiming liberalism "is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our Republican form of government"

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u/HopefulBuyer9077 21h ago

With everything going on, this better be the highest voter turnout in US history.

I don’t know if there will ever be a more important time.

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 20h ago

IMO that was November 2024 and I was shocked more people didn't realize the stakes.

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u/Nacht-hexen 19h ago

Same. The apathy is terrifying

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u/Viracochina 17h ago

Many people need to personally impacted to wake up, unfortunately the state of the world.

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u/WeNotAmBeIs 18h ago

It's because Trump's first term was easier to ignore for apathetic citizens who don't watch the news. So, going into 2024 those same apathetic voters thought "Eh, his first term wasn't that bad, who cares?"

This term is impossible to ignore. My Mom was full MAGA since 2016 and she renounced Trump a few months ago. I don't see any way she votes for a Democrat, but she's going to stay home on election day because she thinks they're all the same.

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 17h ago

I barely talk to my parents any more, because of their boomer politics.

It would be nice if they'd wake up like your mom did.

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u/Fine-Thought-5447 17h ago edited 17h ago

Still not ‘waking up’ if she plans to not vote because she ‘thinks they’re all the same’

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u/Redshoe9 17h ago

They think life will just carry on with their infamous, "I never pay attention to politics, nothing changes in my life."

That's why they've just now reached outrage stage because of gas prices and food.

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u/Distinct-Pack-1567 16h ago

It was, we failed. Now this is the current most important one we gotta win.

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u/Funnyguyinspace 20h ago

Honestly? its scary how many people are just burned out and whatever about politics right now. I know so many people just tuning out.

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u/weresubwoofer 20h ago

People don’t need to follow the 24-hour news cycle to know what’s going on.

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u/Clear_Broccoli3 20h ago

That's true, but also people are doom scrolling because that's basically the default way to engage with social media now. These apps are all made to keep you on them, to keep engaging, and the content that provokes fear or anger is way more effective at doing that than the content that promotes contentment.

As a result people are burned out. Engaging thoughtfully requires work, and most people don't realize they should be doing that until after they've burned out.

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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 17h ago

Idk doom scrolling makes me more amped to vote against the Republican morons.

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u/The_Freshmaker 17h ago

yup, other than the morning news I try to check out and care as little as possible unless there's something actionable I can do. I know exactly how I'm going to vote and the more I see about what's going on the more it just takes years off my life via stress and anxiety.

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u/Ok-Philosophy-856 20h ago

I’m mostly tuned out - for my own sanity - but definitely voting and voting Dem. I think many people are like me.

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u/dino_spored 18h ago

My household is the same. We avoid watching the news, it causes us too much anxiety over things we have no control over. We WILL be at the polls and voting Democrat, come hell or high water. We will be there!

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

Thank you. ❤️

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u/Robot_Dracula 20h ago

It bothers me how many people have absolutely no idea what’s going on because they never read the news at all and they think everything is fine

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u/Large-Produce5682 20h ago

Had an aunt who watched MSNBC religiously. After election night she hasn't watched "news" since.

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u/ScarInternational161 18h ago

I watch Jon Stewart.

He bangs it out pretty accurately

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u/MaddogBC 17h ago

2 or 3 times a month, assuming he's not on a long vacation of some sort.

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u/set-my-compass-north 19h ago

That is the point of what this administration is doing. They want you to burn out. It was part of the Steve Bannon flood the zone strategy.

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u/set-my-compass-north 19h ago

That is the point of what this administration is doing. They want you to burn out. It was part of the Steve Bannon flood the zone strategy.

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u/JRR_Tokin54 19h ago

Tuning out just plays into the hands of the authoritarians.

That is exactly what they want you to do.

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u/KitKitsAreBest 19h ago

Exactly and with them trying to pass their voter suppression laws, that'l make it all the easier to just become apathetic..

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u/ironafro2 19h ago

It’s the same method Putin uses, where Komrade Kompromat got issued orders to use the same methods

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u/GB10VE 19h ago

well, if you've ever donated to actblue, you are getting at least 5 donation requests via text a day, even with blocking the numbers it won't stop.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

We cannot afford to tune out now. If we don't stop this NOW our democracy is over. I feel burned out too. But if we give up now we will be looking at martial law & they won't only be coming after immigrants.

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u/bbills91 18h ago

I hope they don't tune out too much, they NEED to vote in November, hopefully to reign in this very dangerous man occupying the White House

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u/OneToCrowOn 17h ago

That's the whole point, that's what this is. One more exhausting thing to think about. One more legalistic thing to have to pore over and prove incorrect.

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u/--Lammergeier-- 17h ago

That’s their actual strategy. It’s a tactic called “flooding the zone” which was popularized by Steve Bannon.

Basically, they know that people can’t keep track of more than a couple news stories/controversies at a time. So if you do so many controversial things that you’re constantly in the news, then most people won’t be able to keep up. Eventually they become burnt out from trying, so they just stop consuming news media.

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u/mikedareswins 17h ago

And the ‘I don’t follow politics crowd’ like fuck how can you not right now?

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

What you're gonna do? Harass them?

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u/mikedareswins 17h ago

Watch from another country where I live mainly

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Nice.

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u/Blacksad9999 16h ago

From what everything shows, the MAGA base and conservatives are pretty unmotivated to vote, while the left is very incensed to go vote.

Probably why they're trying to drum up fear, but using the old "red scare" tactics from 75 years ago won't cut it. Most people don't think Democrats are "Marxists and communists", even Republicans.

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u/p1nkfl0yd1an 16h ago

There was a man in a business suit standing outside the local grocery store yesterday with a clipboard collecting signatures to get on the ballot for town council recently.

I'm fairly well versed in our local politics, and already know which folks I'm voting for, so I politely declined to hear him out as I was mostly just in a hurry to pick up some prescriptions.

As I didn't talk to him, I couldn't venture a guess as to what his politics are, but I will say that he was not white, most likely from India, Pakistan, etc. When I got home I saw three or four posts on our unofficial town facebook about the guy.

"WAS APPROACHED BY A STRANGE MAN AT THE GROCERY STORE, WE RAN BACK TO OUR CARS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR TOWN."

"IF A MAN TALKS TO YOU OUTSIDE THE GROCERY STORE, DON'T GIVE HIM THE TIME OF DAY, HE'S AN OUTSIDER TRYING TO INFILTRATE THE CITY GOVERNMENT."

"DID ANYONE ELSE SEE THE PERSON TRYING TO TALK TO PEOPLE AT THE GROCERY STORE, SEEMS SUSPICIOUS SHOULD I CALL THE SHERIFF OR THE TOWN POLICE?"

I'm beyond burned out, it feels like at least a third of the population has been brainwashed to not just be overtly biased, but actively terrified of anyone who doesn't look like them. I don't know what the answer is, but I can't believe we're at the point where checks notes a brown person in a nice suit collecting signatures to engage in local politics now warrants a call to law enforcement for some people.

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u/Rattiepalooza 15h ago

It was aaaaaalll part of Project 2025. I cannot believe more people didn't read it, or take it seriously. It's already too late. The elections will cause massive issues, because they will throw out votes, arrest people, remove elected officials with their own, and ensure that anyone with another opinion is done away with.

If we start organizing NOW, they'll have less of a chance to continue to organize against us.

HOW do we do it? Read. History. ANY FUCKING HISTORY - and it will show us the resolve of human kind, and how we all yearn for freedom, and wish to be treated equally. Nothing will ever be the same. We have to start over from this point on....or at least kick out EVERYONE in office.

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u/Selgeron 20h ago

The most important election was 2016.

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u/Mr_Industrial 19h ago

The most important election is always the one coming up next.

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u/demoliahedd 20h ago

this may be a super down voted hot take but I kind of feel like if Hilary won it would have made the right way more radical and guaranteed a 2020-2028 trump presidency. Bernie, however...imagine how good things would be if we got Bernie in 2016

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u/steveatari 19h ago

It hurts me so deeply we didn't get Bernie. Could have been our best president ever. Literally. Sucks

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u/PuzzleheadedPen4675 18h ago

Bernie and HC should have gotten together. I cant believe Dem leaders didn't push it. Before anyone says they didn't like each other I remind you that JFK and LBJ despised each other but made it work. I think Bernie and HC would have crushed Bone Spurs and the GOP.

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u/Xray_Crystallography 15h ago

It’s not about likability. Bernie is antiestablishment and rarely tows the line and they despise that.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

We can't do anything about that now but we can certainly affect the next one.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 20h ago

Every single election for the next 20 years will be a more important time. This bullshit isn't going anywhere. We need new leadership and we need to vote out every scumbag before they become engrained in the system. No more incumbents, make them earn your vote. We are pretty fucked already.

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u/eastern_canadient 20h ago

2024 seemed pretty fucking important from those of us who were watching from afar.

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u/WorkinName 20h ago

Get ready for 35-40% of the nation to sit this bitch out again.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

No way. We're coming on.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

No, you aren't.

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u/MorningMushroomcloud 20h ago

Talk to your neighbors. Make sure family members go vote...do your part as an American.

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u/pogulup 19h ago

I am expecting full election interference.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

Yes. But we're ready for them.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

No, you ain't.

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u/MusclyArmPaperboy 20h ago

Mate, you guys have said that like the last four elections and you still get low turnout

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u/HopDropNRoll 19h ago

I thought that last time and here we are.

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u/mfGLOVE 19h ago

I don’t know if there will ever be a more important time.

The next time will be the next more important time. Just like the last two times.

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u/Expensive-Sundae-831 18h ago

Prepare to be sorely disappointed.

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u/black_pepper 17h ago

With everything going on, this better be the highest voter turnout in US history.

Well looking at the turnout for the primaries (at least where I am)....it won't be.

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u/HistoricalSea5600 20h ago

what did they expect? 2 years ago, the midterms were still going to happen two years later and they did everything they could to stick a finger to even their own supporters. cause and effect lol

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u/Vairman 19h ago

I work with people who still think "both sides are bad", which is true to some extent, but they take that to an extreme and say they're the same - which is not true. And these are not stupid, fairly educated people. They are willfully and knowingly ignorant because otherwise they have admit that they've been wrong all along. Everything is black/white with them, they live in a constant quantum state. No grays, no middle ground, either/or only. We're doomed.

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u/Impossible-Shoe5460 19h ago

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u/mfGLOVE 18h ago

You are the exact voter MAGA loves. They can lie to you and tell you anything you want to hear because you’re a one issue voter, and then they turn around and do the opposite after they get your vote. They will surely lie to you about this, too. They only care about themselves, full stop. It’s innumerable the amount of lies Trump told in 2024 only to go back on them. I wish you luck, don’t let your passion for one issue cloud your judgement.

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u/scotchglass22 17h ago

i mean yeah it seems obvious but it was just as obvious in 2024 and he even won the popular vote. the average voter is an idiot who is being brainwashed by whatever algorithm they are on.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Voting won't fix ANYTHING.

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u/chasetheusername 17h ago

With everything going on, this better be the highest voter turnout in US history.

I suspect that they want to declare protesters etc. terrorists, to revoke their right to vote, increasing their chances of winning.

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u/Named_after_color 16h ago

It's not going to be. I have no faith in the voting public.

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u/Rattiepalooza 15h ago

It's too late. They already won. In project 2025 they discuss this very thing. They will invalidate the local elections, throw out votes, and arrest people. It's coming.

Since he was voted back in, it signed the death warrant on our country. The elite have won -unless WE THE PEOPLE do something about it, we're about to all lick boot and told we like it.

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u/Happy_Kale888 20h ago

not to be cynical but isn't that spoken at every election yet no one ever shows us just like all the people that did not vote that got us in the current situation.

I don’t know if there will ever be a more important time.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

Not true. We've been getting tremendous turnout in all of the special elections. And winning!

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u/filmAF 19h ago

i mean, that's not going to happen. for a midterm?? most people only vote every 4 years for POTUS. and how many were too busy or too apathetic to vote in 2024? and this presumes that the election won't be canceled, postponed, or royally fucked with.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

People have been coming out in droves for even the special elections. It's going to be a blow out & we're going to be a part of it.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Wrong.

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u/ScarInternational161 20h ago

Trump isn't doing anything but signing what they put in front of him and clapping his tiny fat fingers when his face is put on something.

Miller, Vought and Thiel are the ones doing EVERYTHING.

Trump couldn't spread soft butter on a piece of toast with his finger without someone talking him through how to do it.

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u/Madara1389 18h ago

Right, can we please stop giving the clown so much credit & pretending he's the mastermind pulling all the strings behind this shit. The other snakes he's surrounded himself with are the ones with their hand up his ass puppeting him around like the movie Dead Silence.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

Yep. Project 2025. Steven Miller etc.

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u/bbills91 18h ago

Well, he kinda is. He comes up with some nasty shitty outcome and his minions find some horrible way to make it so.

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u/coinneach_stiubhard 20h ago

The election won't address the actual problem. It will just determine the full transition to or delay in the transition to full fascism.

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u/weresubwoofer 20h ago

This election is our last best change to change anything. If we blow this one, it is game over. For democracy, for the environment, for working people.

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u/hotleadburner 20h ago

Your best chance to change anything is on the ground organizing outside the party structure. An elected official didn't make the labor movement, or the civil rights movement, or the anti-war movement. The movements forced the hands of the politicians. This election is just our best chance at slowing the degradation -- although some would argue that slowing the degradation, when done improperly, causes an accelerant backlash like we saw after Biden. If this election goes against Republicans, the Jeffries/Schumer/Pelosi/Biden style of Dem politics will need to be left behind or there will just be another Trump in 2-6 years.

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u/seriouslees 17h ago

The movements forced the hands of the politicians

The politicians of those eras weren't cult leaders who had a base that will still vote for them even if they murder a baby on live TV.

The days of forcing the hands of Republican politicians is long over.

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u/Quom 15h ago

Weird how Musk disappeared with his tail between his legs when people started burning down his buildings. Before anyone starts with the 'he got what he came for', remember that he entered The White House with Trump deferential to him and his son. He left with the minimum after being cut off like an infected limb. The left just believed the propaganda that it was caused by infighting/the right never liked him rather than them actually making a difference.

Same with ICE in Minnesota. It got someone murdered but the resistance was also all over international media (so presumably your own) showing that these things don't have 100% support (but people are just too embarrassed to admit to it) like right wing outlets say they do. Suddenly the talk went from a heroic moving in and rescuing people from hellscapes to needing to work with the community etc.

I don't know what they're putting in the water but it's like every piece of evidence showing that change can still be made through opposition (and doing anything) isn't seen.

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u/hotleadburner 48m ago

Yeah man I don't think you understood me. The movements made the voting just a rubber stamp. When the labor movement was at its peak, more than half the population was disenfranchised from the vote. Women didn't vote in protections after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Men didn't vote women into the right to vote! Schools weren't desegregated because of Brown V Board or the Civil Rights Act, they were desegregated because 10 years after that passed there was still a strong enough, organized enough movement to continue taking action against governments and school boards that tried to evade it.

The idea that you need the politicians to vote your rights into place was specifically taught to you to stop you from taking action.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

Yes. Please. Everybody out there just do anything you can. We don't want to look back & regret this one.

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u/dstlouis558 17h ago

For society theyll unalive us all

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u/TD160 20h ago

This is the most realistic way to look at all this. Thanks to Merrick Garland, that transition was accelerated these last four years. My cynical self says the next four will seal it. I’ve no faith in the midterms and even less in ‘28. 🥺

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u/GrapefruitExpress208 20h ago

Defeatist attitude. Get out of here.

This mentality helps no one. It discourages enthusiasm and turnout.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Nah, he's saying the truth amd it hurt your feelings.

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u/hw999 20h ago

Fascism always eats itself. Its too hungry like a cancer that destroys the host. It can last quite awhile and do alit of damage. Everyone of us has the duty to drag our feet, fight, and be as difficult as possible at every opportunity. Don't give the bastards an inch.

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u/PM_Me_Macaroni_plz 20h ago

I share the sentiment but have to hold out hope. Only spread positivity that there’s a chance, while holding the cynical thoughts inside. That cynicism just discourages others that are on the fence, when we need every voice we can muster as this really feels like our last chance

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Hopium.

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u/paintballboi07 19h ago

How would replacing Merrick Garland get around the immunity from SCOTUS?

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u/deaddreamsneverdie 20h ago

Gotta love defeatism, super helpful from the sidelines as you sit on your ass.

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u/breadfiesta 16h ago

Agreed, it's exhausting reading these defeated armchair revolutionaries. If they can't be bothered to vote, then they're absolutely not bothering to fight the fight they claim is the only way.

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u/Deluxe_24_ 20h ago

A delay is still helpful so people can at least prepare for the worst

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u/No-Abalone-4784 18h ago

If that's true then why are they sweating so hard?

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Theater

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u/DeadlyYellow 20h ago

If they lose they'll just start arresting representatives now.

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u/dawn_thesis 20h ago

It's not just Trump. It's the entire party leadership.

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u/VoidOmatic 20h ago

The Islamic Republic Of Japan and the Trans Sisters are closing in!

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u/BeeefSupreeeme 19h ago

he knows if republicans lose the midterms his presidency is over.

A hell of a lot more than that is over.

The shitty thing is that enough liberal figures are wrapped up in the Epstein files as well that I seriously doubt it ever gets fully addressed or brought to justice.

The Panama Papers showed us how it's likely to go.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

This right here.

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u/GB10VE 19h ago

I think it is more the people who got trump elected are having the minions they placed take over. I doubt trump knows about any of the actual going ons of the gov, he's just grabbing info to send to his kids to make stock plays

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u/Perelin_Took 18h ago

They are going to rig the elections and then repress any protest as “far left terrorism”

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Probably.

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u/MrGattsby 18h ago

They won't. They voted for this shit show! Enjoy the handy work.

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u/rogbriepfisch 20h ago

No mana weaving allowed. You still have to shuffle the deck and let your opponents cut it.

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u/ChampaignCowboy 20h ago

Sadly polling shows a full 37% of this country are still dumb enough to support Trump. 37%. What. The. Fuck.

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u/YoursINegritude 19h ago

Dumb enough to support the Republican Party. It’s the Party that his directed and supported what Trump has done, each step of the way.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

Just average America.

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u/ron-mexico33 19h ago

Apparently Miller is referred to as the prime minister by the people around trump. He's an exceptional brown noser with zero shame. Trump is in the last stages of frontal temporal dementia and Miller is all the time in his ear being the true evil brain behind the fascist takeover

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u/buddymoobs 19h ago

That's why they are going to lie, cheat and steal to claim the midterms. It's their MO.

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u/Agitated_Award_9831 18h ago

When the only thing you fear is other Americans you know you're the bad guy.

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u/LostVisage 18h ago

Democrats holding Trump responsible? I'd love for it to happen - but I'm not holding my breath.

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u/cororona 18h ago

Just imagine two more years of that, but this time without even trying to keep up appearances for the next election.

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u/Explorers_bub 17h ago

His presidency is over and the Turd Reich is just beginning.

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u/ChaosRainbow23 17h ago

I think free and fair elections are already dead and gone.

We should obviously all get out and vote in ABSOLUTE DROVES, but the fix is already in.

The upper echelons of the DNC are merely controlled opposition at this point.

They have been planning this for DECADES, and Trump was only ever the useful idiot for the Heritage Foundation and the actual Christofascists. He was merely the vehicle in which fascism arrived in the US.

We are in SERIOUS trouble here.

I predict the shit will hit the fan shortly after midterms once enough people wake up to reality.

Or they will just let the fascists steamroll us.

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u/GovtCheese619 17h ago

The corpo dems are also trying their hardest to prevent electable progressives from winning in primaries. They've made it clear that they prefer fascism over democracy. They're captured by capital and the quasi socialist wave that's building absolutely terrifies them.

Support your local, state, and federal socialists and help them Trojan horse TF out of the Democratic party. Give working people a voice and place at the table by getting them elected.

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u/bolanrox 17h ago

unless the old guard DNC are gone very unlikely. they are bribed by the same people as trump.

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u/Rattiepalooza 15h ago

It is already done.

There will not be another democrat sworn into office. It's all in Project 2025. As soon as they had the majority in the House and Senate, we were doomed.

I've been saying since 2016 when he first started to run, that if he was elected - it would spiral into chaos and possibly ruin our country. E V E R Y O N E called me crazy in my family... WELL WHO IS CRAZY NOW!?

We either need to take action as a populace, or be ready lick boots. This is absolutely unacceptable, and we're fucked. You'll all see when midterms come around and they are either cancelled, invalidated, or just plain stolen by throwing out votes.

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u/RumpleDumple 20h ago

Hopefully there are enough disallusioned Republican election officials who will do their official duties this fall, and not the jobs they were hired to do.

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u/Pas2739 17h ago

There aren't.

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u/FoxyInTheSnow 19h ago

I hope so too. However, people like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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u/Bimlouhay83 20h ago

I'm not so sure he has dementia. I just think his level of corruption is so corrupt that normal people think "there's got to be a health issue, right? Nobody can be this blatantly corrupt." But, he is. 

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u/Impossible-Shoe5460 19h ago

Friend, his presidency in the United States was over before it began. He should just move to Is-rhull at this point - because Trump is the president of Is-rhull.

He's done more for Is-rhull than any president ever.

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u/beedunc 18h ago

Agreed, but trouble is, so many gullible ‘both sides’ voters will help get Rs elected by voting 3rd-party.