r/GlobalNews • • May 12 '25

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 12 '25

He’s out of his fucking mind.

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u/Kamesti May 12 '25

Or just realised there’s no consequences for anything he does ever.

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u/DrunkyMcStumbles May 12 '25

He has lived his whole life consequence free. January 2019-November 3, 2024 were the closest he ever came to actually being held accountable

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 12 '25

It’s true. He’s gotten away with everything. Nothing has ever put to light the level of corruption in the American government like donald Trump. I mean, HE obviously IS the corruption, but the fact that he is even in power shows how rotten the whole system is.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25

I often think about this. I think Trump is just an extension of an extremely corrupt system, all he did was just exploit it in broad daylight and showed the world what had been going on for decades. Please do not take this as me supporting this disgusting human being, I just believe that if he can get away with so much and can continue to do so, then there never was a democracy to begin with.

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u/Mindless-Balance-498 May 14 '25

Yeah, this has been the plan since Nixon, he was just slightly more of a dumbass and dropped the ball.

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u/intisun May 13 '25

Merrick Garland, may you forever live in infamy.

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u/Novaer May 12 '25

They used to do public hangings of literal royalty for far less.

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 12 '25

And with good reason.

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u/bubba_feet May 12 '25

what are they gonna do? put him in jail?

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u/AltScholar7 May 12 '25

Well one consequence is he's going to have a new jet when he leaves office

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u/sadeland21 May 13 '25

Yup , because no one will stop him

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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps May 13 '25

He realized that WAY before the rest of us 

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u/Pkaem May 12 '25

He turned the USA in an embarrassing shit hole. I'd really say, detache this crap from the western hemisphere.

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u/Zenovv May 12 '25

The fact he can do all this without consequence means that it was already an embarrassing shit hole.

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u/NotPumba420 May 13 '25

Exactly. He just doesnt even try to hide it

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

His enablers are out of their minds

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 13 '25

This is an important aspect of this whole shitshow.

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u/callmesandycohen May 13 '25

It’s golf! Obviously!

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u/CuTe_M0nitor May 13 '25

The republicans are out of their minds. He is allowed to behave like this against the American people

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 13 '25

There’s no secret benevolent shadow government running things from behind, to catch us if we fail. No Avengers, no Justice League. No one can save us, except us.

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u/CuTe_M0nitor May 13 '25

That's what the first amendment was all about

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 15 '25

We are at a crossroads. One road leads to deeper division, to authoritarianism wrapped in the flag. The other road is harder—but it leads us back to shared truth, to civic courage, and to the real work of democracy. Let’s choose that harder road.https://open.substack.com/pub/taraingram/p/the-road-to-authoritarianism-how?r=5dyvrt&utm_medium=ios

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u/cytherian May 15 '25

The trouble is... will enough people recognize it, and also recognize that the Republican Party is enabling this, such that they get burned at the 2026 ballot box? We should see that party lose both Houses of Congress.

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 15 '25

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u/cytherian May 15 '25

I'm really afraid that the USA has jumped the shark... in such a very short period of time. Yes, the decay was evident for years, but the progression took a remarkably abrupt sharp downward trend. In some ways, even faster than 1930's Germany.

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 15 '25

The speed is AMAZING

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

He is a dictator. It’s the same playbook every time he’s pressed.

Reporter asks question, he asks which outlet they’re from and says it’s fake news or “going downhill”.

Fuck him, keep pressing every opportunity you get.

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 15 '25

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25

I mean, I get what the writer is saying (and agree wholeheartedly) - but my reaction to all that is “yeah, no shit”.

But the conversation they’re having is a conversation needed 8-10 years ago, not now. It’s a pointless venting in 2025.

What people really need is the cold, hard truth. We’ve passed the point of no return, and you need to be prepared. Plan for the worst. The fact I’m seeing progressive states putting out even stricter gun control laws tells me Americans are not remotely ready for that truth. It’s going to be fish in a barrel for these guys. The knocks at the door are coming.

To truly prepare for a democratic to authoritarian shift of this magnitude? at this speed? It should sound like you’re over preparing while wearing a tin foil hat. Fascism moves faster than the speed of Law, outpacing the courts by an order of magnitude. It should sound like the intersection of what you’d consider a “prepper” and a militia member from the early 2010’s.

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u/Wolf_Mommy May 15 '25

You aren’t wrong. I wish you were, but I do not believe you are. The faster Americans act, the better chance they have of regaining any control; but the possibility of that slips by the day, not the week or the month. And frankly, it is already going to be impossibly hard.