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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Top left hat. I don't think he cares much about the constitution.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Is that Zelenskyy there? Imagine having to meet with this pompous asshole in the WH and be forced to stand there and "admire" his fucking stupid old man hat collection.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 20 hours ago

It's not a collection. It's a grift shop. There are multiples of each item. Look at the shelves on the right too. There are stacks of books to be sold.

It's not a collection. It's merch.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yes, that's Zelenskyy in black.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

That’s a merch store and trump isn’t running again his entire purpose was to bring JD Vance on to subvert MAGA culture.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I live in an unincorporated area. I have no other way to vote.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

That's because it's no longer a political party, it's a cult and you're either with their child rapist, insurrectionist, white supremacist ignorant bigotry or against them.

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, well, an absolute shit-ton of what that dipshit has done has been blasted as unconstitutional and very little of has managed to be stopped, so you'll forgive me if I just don't give a shit how "blasted" his actions get if there's no actual meaningful impact to them seeing fruition that comes from it.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

For the 679th time.

What are you going to do about it, Keep bleating that its illegal, while they laugh , do it, and secure more power?

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I'm gonna post about. I'm gonna post the hell out of it.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Does he care about constitutionality?

There have been many things he's done already that are unconstitutional, and the only response from the Dems are "Well, wait for the election gais, I swear!!"

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

He owns the Supreme Court and owns enough judges in the circuit that he can basically do whatever he wants right now. The only thing holding him back is he doesn't have the conviction of the nazis at this point, he is still moving slow and pretending to care about America enough for show that he hasn't started arresting governors and senators. Yet.

He knows he's old and won't see his glorious fourth reich or whatever bullshit tarded out vision of America he has in his addled head, but there are a lot of people waiting in the wings of power to swoop in and reshape America into some kind of moronic holocaust of white nationalism, day-drinking housewife medicine, bureau-of-flat-earthism, crystals and essential oils and warplanes banana republic with too much money where everything is a corporation and everything is a product and we all live in shanties.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

The man's very existence is unconstitutional. He cares not a whit for constitutionality and neither do his enablers

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

He knows the GOP can't win if people actually turn out to vote, so making it very hard to vote is the name of the game for the Repugnants.

[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A constitutional fight is just what he's after. No doubt scotus will find the constitution does in fact grant this power to the president, no take backs, neener neener

[–] TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

"6-3 We've found that the Constitution is unconstitutional."

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 114 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Guys, we're not getting him on the Epstein thing.

I mean, don't stop pushing it, it still is turning centrists and people on the right, but we have to understand that removing voting methods is one of the major steps in fascist takeover and there will be NO cases against Trump that will remove him from power or make his dedicated cultists stop worshiping him.

We beat this thing with grassroots restructuring of our states. Make some effort to get involved and get social with the people who are running your local elections. Hold some yard-sales and get to know your neighbors, do some volunteer work and inspire others to care about community. Most of all, STOP SPENDING MONEY. Stop feeding the corporate machine that is feeding the fascist dictatorship rising, stop paying for Doordash, data plans, new phones, new games and game systems, vape pens and everything else that you can live without. Shift priorities and change your habits. If someone wheels a guillotine down your main street I guess you can get involved in that too.

"Whaaaa life is miserable and my drugs and games are all I have."

Skill issue. We survived for millions of years in harder conditions without these things, and if you don't shift priorities you will lose ALL OF IT. Starve the monster and it will weaken and we will have our nation back.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think you underestimate how much damage this regime is creating. All the programs gutted and shuttered (so far) might not even come back, it's not as simple as turning something off and on again. Some crucial programs we've got taken away are already lost. And the damage being done in just the first year is still only the start. Everything from Projeckt 2025 is still being actively done. Remember when P2025 was mentioned everywhere? Now it's crickets, because it's nearly game over for at least a generation. It's good to remain hopeful in difficult times, but be very wary that it's going to get a lot darker when this regime feels the walls closing in. There will be bloodshed and it will be an ugly mark on our history.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I think you underestimate how much damage this regime is creating.

Where? How?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm blind. What does this say?

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There is a picture of stars, overlaid with a purple tone and retro-futuristic geometries including some overlapping triangles in the upper middle of the image, with the bottom third composed of a wireframe ground as if to simulate an old vector videogame.

Over this image, in an aggressive sans serif font reads:

"DAMN, THAT'S CRAZY! WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?"

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Apologies, I’m usually better at adding descriptions. I’ve edited it, and it says: Damn, that’s crazy. Where are the Epstein Files

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 22 hours ago

Thanks. If you're wondering why your image posts get down voted, that's probably why

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But online voting won't be touched?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I think online voting is not available in most states. Without looking it up, I think Oregon or Utah is the only state that allows it.

Edit : Most states have it for overseas or for people on military deployment. A handful of states have it for people with disabilities.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Incremental erosion. wait for 2028 surveillance state !(doesn’t matter who wins

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's how we all vote in Washington state. Its super convenient.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like he wants to make it super inconvenient whilst rigging the vote in his terrible favor

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[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool. Elections are administered by the states though, and my state guarantees mail-in ballots in the constitution. Sooooo, good luck with that, I suppose?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

If the Save act goes through I don't see how they couldn't do similar with this. I imagine the argument would be the same, that they are not taking the administration of the voting away from the states, just setting a standardized required method. I don't think he'd be able to do it via executive order legally, but I dont know who would stop it. He could just have the house/Senate pass it like the save act if they so wanted. Your state constitution doesn't matter at that point. We like to say it's a free country but it took us 4 amendments just to get to a point that still basically says our people don't have the right to vote.

The constitution didn't have a right to vote.

The bill of rights didn't have a right to vote.

The 15th amendment (1870) said we can't restrict voting based off Race.

The 19th amendment (1920) said we can't restrict voting for women.

The 24th Amendment (1964) said we can't restrict the voting by taxing polls.

The 26th Amendment (1971) said we can't restrict voters over 18 (previously 21).

Most people think this means all those people have a right to vote, but it is really the government doesn't have the ability to explicitly restrict those people from voting.

If U.S. citizens had the right to vote none of those amendments would have been necessary and we would be free to vote and our arguments would hold up in court easier. But the U.S. has long perpetuated the lie that we are free. We are a "democratic Republic" where the government can, has, and will try to restrict our freedom at every turn if it benefits those in power.

Tldr; If U.S. citizens had a right to vote, we wouldn't have had amendments, the Supreme Court would have ruled a long time ago that any act restricting U.S. citizens from voting was illegal.

[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

The ‘if’ in ‘if the SAVE Act goes through’ is doing a lot of work. The recent bill that was passed was only able to be done through budget reconciliation, because you only need 50 votes plus the VP to break the tie. But for bills outside of budget reconciliation, you need 60 votes to end the filibuster. Barring anything unforeseen (recognizing that breaking norms is the norm for this administration), there’s no way I could see it getting through the Senate.

[–] yakbone@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

More distraction from the Epstein files

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

The Epstein Files are a distraction from the attempts at a fascist takeover.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Sure but it's also a deliberate attempt at subverting democracy.

You don't need to worry about rule of law and popular public sentiment if you're "Dictator For life" and if you think only silly countries with brown people have those, we're all about to get a really rude awakening.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not a distraction, it's just more attempts at eroding democracy so that Trump's term and Republican's control doesn't end. The Epstein files is only worth something if Trump could be successfully prosecuted or impeached, which we seen won't fucking happen. Yeah they matter, but this is not a distraction, they've effectively moved on. It's done, they've gotten the prosecutor fired, and their star witness is on """work release""" probably resuming human trafficking

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a dare for US citizens all over the world! Do you dare travel 'home' and face ICE to vote ?? /s

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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Today I learned pedophiles are scared of mail-in ballots and American democracy.

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