Well so far he has committed sexual assault, fraud, corruption, collusion with hostile foreign nations, soliciting election fraud, promoting violent insurrection, promoted murder of political opponents, sexual assault of a minor, bribery, misappropriation of tax payer money, contempt, interference of criminal investigations, war crimes, and lied every day through his miserable goddamn face every goddamn day for the past 10 years, and most of these things he doesn’t just admit to, he brags about.
And most of those things were known before and during his first term. Seems to me he can literally get away with literally anything because American institutions and corporations are complicit in the corruption and madness that permeates in the American political and social sphere, and there is not a shred of integrity in the justice system.
The only thing that will stop him is the American people and so far they have not. It sucks but standing up to fascism when it has gotten this far is a lot of work and takes a lot of organization and sacrifice, so far regular people have not undertaken that difficulty. I believe most of the world is hoping they will.
You could say voting is one way to change things… But voters were the ones who chose Trump… AGAIN. Voting is important of course but it is only one factor in maintaining democracy and American media, culture, education, and many many things have made a LOT of Americans stupid and dangerous. And let’s be real, the Democrats are spineless capitalists who were happy with the system that led to a president like Trump.
Trump famously said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and he would still win. ICE has already literally murdered American citizens and nothing has happened. Trump has sent Americans to torture prisons outside of the country. Trump has raped children and you have media defending him, he has stolen so much money and caused so many problems for so many people and hundreds of millions of people all over the world defend and worship him.
Its madness. Its all madness and from all the obvious bullshit and lies and just plain assholery and I’ll never understand the appeal of Trump or modern conservativism. It’s all grift and hate and misery for other people and its so obvious and I will just never understand that. And why should he ever stop taking and taking? No one had stopped him so far, he has only gained more power and control the more evil shit he has does.
It only ends when good people find the courage to stand up and stop him.
End rant
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Depends who you ask.
While most of us are asking how he can get away with these things, his followers are celebrating his victories.
Why are they celebrating? Because they have decided to join his “side” and every time Trump does anything, they consider it a victory for the team, even if it causes them additional hardship in their life.
To them, it’s worth a little suffering as long as the “other team” doesn’t get a win.
meco03211@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s not that it’s worth suffering. It’s that it must be done despite any suffering. There’s the lovely saying that a MAGAt will gleefully eat a shit sandwich if they think a liberal will have to smell their breath. They see a win as only possible if liberals are somehow losing. Even if both sides would benefit, even if their side would benefit more from some action, they must not let liberals have a “win”. It’s a psychotic depth to their zero sum game.