volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@rightardia exactly.

This is a campaign stunt, no more.

People really need to get a sense of context here, people really need to understand how the government works and not buy into this silliness.

@KeithDJohnson The most important reaction to this is, the president doesn't have that authority.

EVEN IF Trump intends to create such an authoritarian state, which runs counter to his campaign promises and the mainstream wants of his voters and everything else they say, even if we accept that extreme claim by his partisan opposition, he wouldn't be able to. Because we don't give presidents that choice.

So this kind of sensationalized talk is just nonsense. It doesn't help us oppose the guy, it just makes you sound like a kook.

@ezwal yes.

@manton

@jim but that's not true.

Federation has happened, and it's not vaporware since the product has been delivered. You can pull it off of GitHub anytime you want.

@manton

@UptownGirl Tuberville is a moron. Nobody should listen to him. He keeps comparing everything to being a coach, because again, he's an utter moron who can't get it through his head that he's not coaching now.

The Senate majority leader doesn't have nearly the amount of power that people believe he has. All of the senators are welcome to override him at any point, so he just reflects what the Senate as a whole wants to do.

Tuberville sees this as a football game, because he's a moron, and so he doesn't understand that the the majority leader isn't a quarterback or something like that. He doesn't understand what the majority leader does and so we get quotes like this.

@sidereal That's not all it does, though.

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com you don't understand, Gaetz is not a loyalist. His history is one of backstabbing and generally screwing things up even for his own side, if he has one. That's not what's going on there.

Mass deportations? Well if the president has the authority to connect such negative things, then he should have had that authority taken away by law. We need to hold Democrats accountable for not having fixed the law.

You say Democrats must regroup, but in the end they screwed us over real bad here. It's not about regrouping, it's about calling them out and firing the whole lot of them for being utter failures to fix the laws that obviously needed to be fixed.

@BrianJopek I mean, putting an energy expert in charge of the department focused on energy...

@JapanProf

Here you're promoting conspiracy theories that just don't add up. Somebody is misleading you and you should stop listening to them.

Billionaires bought the Supreme Court? Well that doesn't make sense considering the Supreme Court ruling against billionaires over and over.

Thanks to technology billionaires no longer have to fear angry mobs? Well that's going to be news to the billionaires getting attacked physically and also losing market share to movements coming out of tick tock.

Somebody is feeding you some lies here, and you really should stop listening to those people.

@freemo

@Legit_Spaghetti The problem is, the alternative was promising to double down on that situation.

@Mikal

I mean, it's a blog post from someone who clearly seems very out of touch with a large part of the country, not understanding them, but feeling very entitled to project assumptions onto them to suit personal cognitive biases.

That's not the way to make for a better life, to make for a better society.

It just doubles down on the stuff that got Trump elected in the first place. It doubles down on the stuff that trolling Trump supporters are making fun of such people over.

It's better to go for understanding than to close back up into the echo chambers that kept the opposition from staging a solid, well, opposition during the election.

@Popehat

@QasimRashid meh. Democracy decided it didn't care.

@geos heaven forbid one engages here on social media.

@mpopp75 The story that Trump tried to overthrow an election was roundly debunked by anybody who bothered to point out how the Electoral College process actually works.

So no, that conspiracy theory never had legs.

Trump committed crimes, I'm pretty sure of it, but that nonsense doesn't help convict the guy of the things he actually did.

In fact, people spouting that myth helped get him reelected instead of put behind bars.

@sun Yeah, a lot of people with that priority probably helped tilt the election in favor of Trump.

@parsley what?

RFK has stated publicly that he supports vaccinations. And it's not really up to him in the first place.

Those rumors are false and need to be called out.

@Legit_Spaghetti no.

But I do remember getting really good health insurance without an employer before the ACA, and then getting a job, and then after the ACA losing my good health insurance even though I had one.

So many of us lost out on health insurance thanks to the ACA.

We should not hide that. We should present it as the failure that it was.

@mpopp75 kind of under sells a lot of the really bad criminals we've had around here.

Trump's white collar crimes are goddamn stupid, but we've produced much worse in this country.

@realTuckFrumper Well part of the issue is that Lloyd Austin sets such a low bar that this guy is a step up.

We were never set up for anything good coming out of this presidential election. Both candidates were awful. The best we can do is try not to make things much worse before we can try again next time around.

@everton137 ... The direction in the US right now is skeptical of authoritarianism. That's the whole reason Trump got elected, because people wanted to fill the vacuum of authority that had let them down.