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this is a video exploring the various means by which the orange pedo and his room full of dopes plan to fuck with the midterms.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,835 posts)Histrionic clickbait video does not equal eventual reality.
Never forget this one absolute truth (that the defeatist Doomers always seem to):
Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless
As you observed, they are a room full of dopes, with the ability to cause chaos and destruction, but with very little actual control over anything outside of the executive branch.
SpankMe
(3,692 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(22,835 posts)Just because you can imagine something (or see a video that tickles your amygdala) and type/post it on the internet, does not make that thing plausible, possible or probable.
It definitely doesnt make that thing an unwavering certainty.
AZJonnie
(3,533 posts)involving many minors and many men and many OB/GYN's and a tropical island, all acting in cahoots and whacking people (some in jail) to cover their tracks, with the FBI (for 17 years) purposefully protecting all the other men besides Epstein.
As totally distinct from Epstein and Maxwell grooming a ring of minors (recruiting other minors) for cash handouts and false promises to fulfill all their dreams, which is 100% real, disgusting and deplorable. And frankly BAD ENOUGH without the all the rest, to be clear.
Oh, and the sweetheart 2008 deal was also fucked up and wrong but fundamentally similar to how rich people are always treated, i.e. with undeserved deference.
kwolf68
(8,439 posts)They have controlled EVERYTHING. Courts rule they ignore it. States want their rights and the federal government rolls in anyway. They've been leveraging to get voter rolls, they've taken some ballots from Georgia, they tried to overturn the 2020 election (and MAY Have had it not been for Pence), they are disenfranchising people and waging war on blue cities, etc.
I do believe we WILL have a fair election in November, but I am also not 100% of that either.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,835 posts)Despite acting with lawless impunity on a daily basis, this administration has been stalled, stymied and restrained numerous times.
No troops deployed in Chicago or Portland.
Kilmer Garcia free on US soil.
Liam and his father back in Minneapolis.
IEEPA tariffs overturned.
States and cities across the country refusing to lease buildings to ICE to be used for concentration camps.
Numerous states ignoring EO�s on elections and refusing to turn over voter rolls.
Etc, etc.
This administration is an evil clown car full of incompetent goat rodeo rejects- they are not the organized, effective and efficient Nazi�s everyone fears they are.
AZJonnie
(3,533 posts)They have still gotten away with a lot of shit they shouldn't have as well though, even if you can find some good examples where they've met up with resistance/backed down. Just saying.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,835 posts)They are agents of chaos and destruction, but have very little actual control outside the executive branch.
A bull in a China shop will get away with a lot of shit too, but he cant make the shop owner bend to his whims.
North Shore Chicago
(4,233 posts)For your voice of reason with absolutely zero hyperbolic content.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,835 posts)If we abandon facts and reason for Doomerism, panic and hysteria, then all will truly be lost.
Torchlight
(6,701 posts)and ablative absolutes, yet I tend to believe the midterm results will surprise even the most jaded of hipsters.