Collect enough "last straws" and they won't be last anymore
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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The lack of any response whatsoever is proof that the coup is complete.
There are about a hundred post-titles like this across everyone's feed right now, and not a thing will change.
It should be your glimpse into our atomized worldview that makes us think that "our side is winning, our day of retribution is coming any day now."
Meanwhile the right is also seeing their own versions of every story, often written by the SAME media groups, to make them think their side is winning, and their day of retribution is coming any day now.
Ha! They actually had more straws!
Yeah the "Last Straw" should have come years ago. It should have come in his first term. He should be in prison, where the only wars he can start are over who he's gonna blow next. We're way beyond any sense of the last straw, like he's only NOW gone too godamn far.
We have to start measuring in broken camel backs at this point.
All these last straws are really gonna break the camel's back.
Americans continuing to use newly made up units of measurement rather than use the metric system.
That letter is all the proof anyone needs that the adults left the room a long time ago. It's just like one of his dementia-inspired tweets
Grab em by the pussy should have been the last straw!
Didn’t he mock a disabled person before that?
And a few vets, including multiple ones disabled from combat related injuries
And made fun of American POWs
I can't remember the timeline - whichever came first should have been the last.
I am sure that the elected officials in DC are busy writing a mildly worded letter as I type this. What else do you want from them damnit!?
They started writing one, but then thought it best to cave and just give everyone in the GOP a firm handshake instead.
No no no, they're probably writing strongly worded orders for more F-35s. That'll show em!
Unfortunately it won't. The American society simply doesn't care of what Trump is doing outside USA or even worse it agrees with him. And I'm not talking about MAGA cult. https://bsky.app/profile/usapolling.bsky.social/post/3mcsfopfvik2u
Lol, why are there so many obvious trolls on Lemmy today?
People like this clown are trying to create division and anger behind the lines standing against Trump.
I don't understand the downvotes. Trump was elected by a majority of states. They wanted a child molester for President.
So many trolls today...
Trump won 32% of the eligible voter population.
Go back to Russia, Comrad.
I specifically said states, not population / popular vote. Funny that you'd try to dismiss me as a Russian Troll for pointing out that Americans voted for a child molester.
And he got a majority in the popular vote too. Enough people went to vote or didn’t care enough to vote to make that happen.
Trump is not at war with americsn people themselves. Hopefully americans learn from the experience and change the whole system
Americans are cheering Trump goons sitting other Americans in the street. You think they give a shit what stupid crap he says to Norway?