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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 168 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ashli Babbit was a fucking terrorist and a rube. As was everyone else attacking the Capital that day. She was just stupid enough to get shot after a Secret Service member told her twice to stop.

Donald Trump and everyone in his cabinet is a fucking fascist.

Donald Trump lost the 2020 election but he’s too much of a baby to admit he did.

Most of the US and the world saw what happened that day and it’s our job to remind everyone that it was a fucking coup attempt.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago

Every current and former US soldier should be fucking ready to kill over Ashi Babbit. That bitch was a fucking traitor, and every single person there on j6 should have gotten the same punishment she got.

And then Trump cheated his way back into office, posthumously made her an honorary US soldier, and gave 1 million in tax dollars to her family.

What real soldiers have to kill, die, and get maimed for, she gets for trying to overturn an election result she didn't like.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Ashli Babbit was a fucking terrorist and a rube.

Agree, but also I read a bit of her backstory (https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/) and it was full of things that happened due to regulatory / governmental policy failures and in a way was actually pretty tragic, just more in the "fell victim to multiple scams of various types" way rather than the "dedicated patriot who lost her life standing up for what is right" kind of way.

[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 184 points 4 days ago (11 children)

If we don't remove him sooner than later, we're going to have a really big problem. It's going go be too late to say I told you so and laugh about it. This is serious and everyone is just joking about how bad it is.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 88 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Fortunately, at 80 years old and with his unhealthy lifestyle, there's a fair chance that the Grim Reaper will find it in its heart to remove this vile shitstain from the face of the Earth.

But Trump really isn't the problem. The problem is all the other Nazis in power, the corrupt Supreme Court, and the puppetmasters behind them all - the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.

And of course, ultimately the blame rests squarely on a largely idiotic, gullible, racist voting public.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The problem is that worldwide, Nazis have gone from fearing for their lives to emboldened

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yep, Nazis need to have consequences for choosing that way of life. They need to feel the fear they subject so many others to.

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The reasons he's in power in the first place is because they're emboldened. He's a symptom, not a cause.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's both, he's a catalyst

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't really have an answer to this minidiscussion, but to me it was eye-opening to learn about the Tea Party (early 2000s) specifically, how it was sponsored by Very Rich People™, even astroturfed, how its stated goal was the infiltration of the Republican party, and how of course all their ideology and demented ranting were very much the same as what we see today.

And once my eyes were opened I started seeing it everywhere, going back in time: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, the very questionable influencing by so-called christian churches, Big Oil deliberately making kids stupider, etc etc etc

And of course that's only the USA; I must admit I'm not so fluent in other countries, but surely we must see that assholes like Netanyahu or Orban predate Trump. There's also the Phillippines which basically experienced a Trump in 2015 iirc.

tl;dr: Trump is "only" the culmination of something that we have since dubbed "Trumpism".

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But Trump really isn’t the problem. The problem is all the other Nazis in power, the corrupt Supreme Court, and the puppetmasters behind them all - the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.

And Putin, Dugin, Roy Cohn, and oligarchies on both sides.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Grab the obese child rapist and guillotine its gawping head clean off would get the rest of the Nazis running for cover.
Unfortunately the people who want to do it can't get near that fat orange thing. And the people that can get near that thing are all ok with his fascist paedo bullshit.

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

This is serious and everyone is just joking about how bad it is.

As a Honduran watching all of this unfolding, seeing it directly affecting my country out of nowhere as if by some unimaginable cosmic joke, what the fuck else do we do? Rise against the empire and become a tale of failed ideologies for future generations?

The US had a fucking DECADE to do something about all this, and they didn't. That's a willful decision, and not one that anyone on earth can do something about, due to certain mutual assurances that the US made sure to have in place long before most of us were even born.

So uh yeah... I'll just keep joking about it until you fucks bomb us all to death for national security or some shit.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

Lmao, its laughably too late for that. No one did anything about january 6th, no one did anything about his mishandling of covid, no one did anything about the various countries he has fucked over in the US' name. You need to face the facts homie: our ship is sunk. Leave while/if you can.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is serious and everyone is just joking about how bad it is.

Because there's jack shit we can do about it. The people with the power to remove him certainly aren't on Lemmy!

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep, this was Biden and the democrats responsibility and they didn't do shit when they had the reigns and thanks to our shit two party system we have no other viable options. Just the gutless losers they allow on the ticket.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yes, totally their responsibility and not the fault of the Republicans in power now, who were the same ones that rejected the other impeachment votes. But yeah, must be on Biden...

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, Biden had all the justification he needed for 4 entire years and he sat on his hands in the hopes that the justice department would do something. They didn't and he didn't do anything to make them. He the ball and holds an enormous share of the blame for this mess. Of course the fucking republicans aren't going to help, to expect otherwise is asinine.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry just wait til midterms... /s

[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we make it to them, we all need to vote. This might be our last opportunity.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is an enormous if. I'm not saying don't vote. But shit is going to get a heel of a lot worse before we get there. We can't afford to wait that long and those Dems who currently hold power need to be already taking a lot more action than they currently are to organize resistance if there is to be any hope. Unfortunately they seem to be limiting themselves to making snarky comments on social media.

[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I'm with you. What more can we do?

The dems appear to be useless and the gop seem hellbent on world war 3.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It won't stop when he's gone. Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It has to start somewhere. With that attitude, why do anything?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because it's a mistake to think that Trump is the root cause of the issue, and if you're putting your hopes into things changing for the better once he's gone, you'll be disappointed.

But you have to properly acknowledge the scope of the problem to start working on it effectively. This is a systemic issue, not an individual one.

[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know and I believe we need to read up on history.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

The founding fathers would agree. Much, much easier said than done, however.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Cut off the head and two grow back"

Then just keep cutting. There aren't infinite heads.

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And eventually the heads start to fear for their safety and stop poking out of their safe spaces.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let's treat the symptom and see where we end up.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We "treated the symptom" in 2020 and you can see exactly where we ended up.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If he was thrown in jail after Jan 6 like a common criminal along with the rest of the mob, the Nazis would be all back in hiding now.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

You're absolutely right but the previous president decided to wait four years to even charge him, after he'd already won the '24 Republican nomination, in order to pretend like he was taking action without risking actual consequences for Trump that might prevent him from winning the election for them.

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Did I just time travel to 2015?

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It will be this mindless drivel for eternity if the American people dont drag this guy out of office. It will then be hard again as we realize a lot of the fountry supports this. America is fucken toast. Do what you can to kick her in the cunt on her way down.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago
6.1.26 minipax malquoted insurrection rectify times 6.1.21
[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago

death to them.

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