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Americans can’t take a day off to protest.

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argued that he was too “woke” and too concerned with diversity in the armed forces.

Soooo… that’s exactly what the world needs:

A military comprised of American klansmen, hell bent on purifying the bloodlines of every country they set a jackbooted foot in.

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That’s nice, we can set it beside the “Thursday night massacre” of the DoJ that happened last week. Only slightly higher, so we get a nice two-level effect with a path going down the middle and HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS WHY AREN’T THERE MILLIONS OF US RIOTING IN THE STREETS RIGHT NOW‽‽

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About 97% of my coworkers have no idea any of this is even happening. I’d imagine the majority of the US public has no clue what is happening.

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Because Muricans are sheep dressed in chicken hawk costumes

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Would be helpful to people who currently don’t know, and to people in the future, if you link to the Thursday night massacre of the doj, Google only showed me articles talking about the Friday one

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need a leader

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You know why we aren’t rioting…

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Well, my algorithm says everything is peachy

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Maybe it’s because I’m just very sensitive to these sorts of issues but when somebody fires a black man because they think he’s “woke”, it makes me believe that they didn’t fire him because he was woke. They fired him because he was black.

2nd. Is Trump just out there firing the people that will stand up to him ? If yes, we are in for a world of pain, this may not be how dictators are made, but it’s how they sustain their power 

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Is Trump just out there firing the people that will stand up to him ?

How is this even a question? Yes, of course that’s what he’s doing. He’s literally following the playbook right wing think tanks wrote before the election. They’ve stated openly that this is all part of their plan. Purge the government of everyone but loyalists, and then act with impunity because the people whose job is to act as a check on executive power will rubber stamp everything.

God, Americans should be panicking right now and you’re all just sleepwalking into this.

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Because a vast majority are fucking idiots. Everyone, with any sense, was yelling into the void between their ears about project 2025. Ads about it were everywhere, too. Stupid Stupid Stupid fucks.

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Panicked and panicking, I felt helpless

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Alone, there’s not much you can do. That’s why you need to organize. Find other people and groups to join with. Not only do you have more power as a group, but you have other people so you feel less alone and isolated.

Organize. Resist.

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As Tucker Carlson might say “I’m just asking the question “

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Donald Trump has no fucking clue what is going on other than what is being whispered in his ear by the people who are orchastrating this whole thing.

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Exactly why I keep saying in other threads that this problem doesn’t die with Trump. The damage is done, and the whisperers just need a new puppet once Trump kicks the bucket.

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They pronounce “Woke” with the hard R

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You are not wrong on either. This is exactly how a dictatorship begins. I only hope that the American public can see this for what it is. But I doubt it. Literacy is not a strong point.

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I’m still hoping that James Bond like character from the British government will take him out for us, but that might just be because I’m in the middle of a James Bond movie marathon

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Well, the British did burn Washington DC once before 🤷‍♀️

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I hope it’s Idris Elba. Dude was born to be the next Bond, maybe that’s the real reason he couldn’t.

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And there’s nothing wrong with that. Enjoy.

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The Iranians wanted to kill him for murdering their general but were waiting on him to lose the election so security would lapse.

Figures.

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The issue is I think enough of us want that. A “benevolent” dictator. They are already too lost and I think the only possible education will be difficult, painful, and generational in length.

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My evaluation is that a small percentage of Americans want a dictatorship, and a large percentage don’t but are not aware that the steps are being taken, because they think that the institutions of their government are immutable.

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DUH

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Sounds like all these people need to get together and lead armed forces in an uprising and coup the president…

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Or elect a Congress that will remove him

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Sure but I feel way more satisfaction watching him destroyed in some manner

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