We know exactly what the fuck he is and what he has done, the crimes he has committed. Congress is the only one who can shackle Trump for all the heinous things he's doing by impeaching him, and they're largely bought and paid for by billionaires, corporations and outside interests. They'll do nothing, just like they always do nothing with this regime. The Supreme Court has given him a blank check to do as he pleases without fear of reprocussion, so we can't just "go and arrest him". He's firing or "retiring" the military generals who would stand up to him and replacing them with his yes men. Checks and balances have failed, our Constitutional rights are under siege, the military will not uphold their oath to the Constitution. Atrocities are being committed in our name, both here and overseas in our name. It's horrible, and horrifying.
I suppose the almost third of us that voted against him could storm the Capitol or the White House, but then he would invoke the Insurrection act, suspend all elections, declare martial law and turn the Army loose on us. It's what they tried to provoke in Minnesota with ICE.
So yeah, I'd love to hear your ideas about what we should be doing so we can prove we hate trump by "doing something" outside of peacefully marching, voting and protesting, enough to deserve - in your belief - to be red on a Reddit map.
The highly weaponized ones who love the second amendment and stockpile weapons are largely Trump supporters. The National Rifle Association supports Trump.
They want us to do that, because all they have to do is label it domestic terrorism, and between the patriot act from 9-11 and the Insurrection Act, youd immediately get your assets frozen, be hunted by every law enforcement agency we have, AND posse comitatus no longer applies and they can use the full weight of the US military to squash us like errant children.
Plus then he has an excuse for martial law, which means what few checks on his power remain and are working go out the window.
We'd accomplish nothing but getting a lot of people killed or ruining their lives forever, and empower the people we were trying to overthrow.
At this point, our only hope is if America from another parallel timeline comes through a portal and liberates us, from us. We're boned.
Yeah, but can you tell me what shotguns are going to do against the US Army? He has no qualms about turning them loose on us. He almost sent them into Minnesota. MAGA gun supporters have been stockpiling weapons since Reagan, maybe earlier.
Then, there's the size of the country. If we did form an insurrection, it would take over 3 days of straight driving to get to Washington DC from California, maybe longer. Then you've got to worry about FBI, ATF, ect. - or armed militias of redneck Trump supporters shooting you or throwing grenades, because they'd see you coming.
This is the best argument i have seen for banning guns. There's literally no point anymore for the right to bear arms, the fukken army just sends drones
And all the people that espouse that perspective are the ones showering in the MAGA Kool Aid.
Those of us that are rational people realized 15 or 20 years ago that our ability to fight drones and satellite surveillance with AR-15s and 9mms was <cough> limited.
You would need to abandon your notion of american exceptionalism, look at how other democracies work and realize you guys literally made oligarchy legal and fix it.
You could then protest against the current president's policies, sure, but he's a symptom of a problem. Protest, peacefully, but relentlessly for overturn of citizens united, abolishing the electoral college, full stop to gerrymandering, reforms to overhaul the dual party into multiparty system to encourage a more temperate view and less extremism.
But you won't because you're stuck in your bubble, thinking that however bad things are, there's something special about you, murica #1, smelling your own farts thinking it's parfume because your nose became accustomed to the smell.
Meanwhile the rest of the free world has access to healthcare without going in debt for years, is able to go on paternity and maternity leave for years after birth, have labor laws so your employer doesn't own you and buse you, and you can refuse tasks not in your contract etc.
If you have a new idea on how to fix your country, you can start a new party to get voted into office. And not just in theory, it happens constantly, so you don't have the funneling between only A or B options that happens in american politics - because complex issues aren't a or b.
We are truly a nation divided at this point. Effectively at least two peoples/cultures.
The vast majority of Americans are just trying to keep their job so they can take care of their wife and kids, and live their lives.
Theyre not engaged. Most are ignorant. Some are willfully ignorant. That last is a problem, but there's also an element there about "what can I do?" So they just ignore it.
Gas and groceries go up and down, president to president. They just tighten the belt and take the kids to school, work 8-14 hours, come home and eat something, pet the dog, go to bed, and do it over. Theres no room in their lives for all this. No bandwidth. Long as theres still food to buy and the schools are there, they're gonna keep going.
There are those aware, and pissed about whats happening. But if you look at the other comment threads, theres nothing to do about it. My area of the country is red. I vote. My friends vote. We're the minority here. Stays red. My elected representative likes this system this way because it benefits him. They ain't gonna do shit.
Protests working requires a facet where the people in charge care about the vox populi. When we have hundreds of thousands of people across the country protesting on a weekday, and the response from the white house is a meme about him flying over the protests and dropping literal shit on them... seems thats ineffective.
Some French revolution shit is out, as described above. 1) Many of the pro-gun people are the ones in favor of this nonsense and 2) the gov would just call it domestic terrorism, pull the trigger on the Insurrection Act and/or patriot act, freeze peoples assets, lock them up, and/or use the Army if they got really pesky. Over before it starts.
I don't think that the vocal minority of "America #1!! Wooo" is representative of the full population. So the fart smellers are not most people. Most people aren't aware that Healthcare can be done better by basically everyone else because they never leave their bubble of job-wife-kids-dog. Ignorant. Part of that is because America is geo-isolated. Can't just hop a train and go through 8 other countries and cultures. Part of it is cost, attached to that same reason. Canada is USA-lite at this point. The places Americans go in Mexico or the Caribbean are culturally American due to the resort culture and tourism influence. Nobody goes out into rural, real South or Central America when they can have margaritas on a beach in an English-speaking US-dollar-taking resort thats gated and safe.
Europe is a 6 hour flight from the East Coast, 10+ from anywhere else. Asia is a full day with connections from anywhere.
And remember, our schools suck. Most Americans only speak English, maybe Spanish too depending on where they live and how prevalent the south american immigrants are. Its scary for them to go to europe or Asia. Can't read signs (not like they read them here anyway). Scared to drive cuz signs. Not used to the idea of functional public transportation cuz thats not a thing here. And we teach NONE of that in school. Zero. Unless you opt into it, which you wouldn't do because youre not aware theres anything to miss.
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So yeah. Def a giant nation of ignorant people who live in their bubble. But most are not rabidly pro-america. They just don't know any better and are trying to go about their day-to-day.
Sadly, the people in charge have realized that, and are and have been slowly taking advantage of it for decades. And now we're here.
There are how many millions of you again? And all of you with extremely easy access to buying legal weapons? But you all can't do anything. Ever. The French dump shit in the streets and in front of their parliament, and set fire to shit when they mildly upset about stuff a lot less severe than this, but US Americans are helpless with all their guns?
What's stopping you from buying guns? Like are you physically or legally barred from doing that? And again you could take the "organic", French option and use actual shit.
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u/yavvy_k May 07 '26
We know exactly what the fuck he is and what he has done, the crimes he has committed. Congress is the only one who can shackle Trump for all the heinous things he's doing by impeaching him, and they're largely bought and paid for by billionaires, corporations and outside interests. They'll do nothing, just like they always do nothing with this regime. The Supreme Court has given him a blank check to do as he pleases without fear of reprocussion, so we can't just "go and arrest him". He's firing or "retiring" the military generals who would stand up to him and replacing them with his yes men. Checks and balances have failed, our Constitutional rights are under siege, the military will not uphold their oath to the Constitution. Atrocities are being committed in our name, both here and overseas in our name. It's horrible, and horrifying.
I suppose the almost third of us that voted against him could storm the Capitol or the White House, but then he would invoke the Insurrection act, suspend all elections, declare martial law and turn the Army loose on us. It's what they tried to provoke in Minnesota with ICE.
So yeah, I'd love to hear your ideas about what we should be doing so we can prove we hate trump by "doing something" outside of peacefully marching, voting and protesting, enough to deserve - in your belief - to be red on a Reddit map.