So he thinks killing people is a joke.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
599 points (98.9% liked)
politics
25292 readers
2933 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Zelenskyy’s comment about war and instability was NOT BEING THE SIDE THAT STARTED THE WAR.
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
anyways, EPSTEIN FILES. WHERE THEY AT?
So Putin invades Alaska in 2028 to give him an excuse, got it.
It's not even that. It's about what the country's structure permits. Ukraine doesn't allow for midwar elections, the us doesn't allow for skipping them.
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
It's really not. Lincoln held midterms in the middle of the Civil War. FDR held elections after Pearl Harbor. Ffs, Bush cleaned up the year after 9/11 and rode the pro-war election wave through 2004.
The idea that your elected leadership is immune to recall when you're in a state of war is anathema to democracy. It insulates unpopular leaders and empowers military dictators.
There is no distinction, save that liberals like Zelensky and hate Trump.
It makes a big difference whether the war is in your own country and touches everyone, or if it's waged elsewhere or touches only a small part of your country.
US Civil War didn't have 500 drones flying to various cities across US each day and night. If Ukraine had elections now, there would be queues on the street and those queues would get bombed by the Russia. I don't think this would have been a risk around the time of Pearl Harbour.
What is your suggestion for how the elections in Ukraine could be organized safely and so that the result would be reasonably representative?
If this mf tries for a third term. We civil war.
You have been at war since the January 6th beerhall putsch attempt. It's just that one side didn't realise and didn't even put your new dictator into a luxury prison first before letting him get re-elected. Rookie mistake honestly.
Why wait?
Again? He was saying the same thing his first term
"It's just a joke! Unless..."
Dictator does dictator things, Americans do nothing. News at 11.
Joking?
yea, you know just like how he "joked" about rounding up brown people, or cut most people's medical aid, or destroy the american soft power.
you know, just funny things he would totally never ever do, because that would mean his voters are retarded.
guys guys he's just joshing around. he's not actually gonna use the world's most notoriously influential military power to invade mexico or greenland when the economy fails and he needs to steal a bunch of shit to prop it up. those invasion plans theyre planning are just for funzies trust me bro
Americans are a bunch of pussies, Trump knows that. The land of the brave have become the land of the meek and coward.
Stop talking about civil war, just do it or shut up. Americans are pathetic...
Fascists manufacture wars to declare martial law and stay in power.
Just like Nazi Germany, Russia, Isreal
Stop assuming he has good intentions. He does not
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Anyone But Trump, 2028
Also, where are the Epstein files?
If we've learned anything from 2024, it's that this won't fly... Sign needs to say "Looking for Unicorn to run for President, otherwise we'll get trump again"
If there's anything we learned from 2024, it's that we need to all get behind the same person instead of not voting or voting third party instead. The game sucks, but if we don't play it, we lose, and if we don't play it, there's no working towards getting any other systems in place (ranked tier voting or whatever it's called, or any if the other even better systems), and if we son't play it, fascism takes over.
A divided left means the right wins.
inb4 "YoU'rE nOt ThE lEfT" memes - that shit is part of the problem and is allowing fascism to take over, so anyone posting that can fuck off with that unhelpful shit.
The other thing we should learn is that primaries matter. Primaries are where you vote for the person you want, general elections are where you vote against the one you don't.
no. the game is rigged and it's time to stop playing by the rules until the rules are enforced fairly. if you think you can vote your way out of the fascism you're dead fucking wrong.
Did he release the Epstein files yet?
We're way past that. He's doing full on fascist takeover
Oh just dictator things.
9/10 chance trump tries to cite the Ukrainian Constitution, then putin simultaneously tries to de-legitimize Zelenskyy.
Before any tries to use that as an excuse, let me say this: Ukraine has a different history, different circumstances, resulting in a different "social contract", you cannot apply a foreign country's constitution in your own country. Besides, all of their political parties have already agreed to postpone until after the war.
Was this more of a dig at Zelensky then anything?
I hope that’s all it was but with this maniac I doubt it
"by joking" you fucking dumbwits, are you not learning at all? He doesn't care if he can or not, he will bruteforce his way through legislation with his MAGAlitia. They are ALREADY utilizing fear and suppression with their masked terrorists kidnapping people off the streets or posting up next to demonstations. If you are not acting now, tomorrow might already be too late.
He is NOT JOKING. This is his plan.
You think he's deploying the military on US soil because he gives a fuck about law and order? Guess again. He's testing the waters now to see what he can get away with when the time comes.
Federal elections have never been cancelled or postponed in the history of the nation. Not even for the Civil War, or WWII. It's mandated by the constitution.
load more comments
(1 replies)
So… basically the thing he said he would do before the election?
He isn't joking and you shouldn't pretend he is
Oh no! Who could have seen this coming! Oh, everyone? Oh ok. And people voted for this? Idiocracy to the max! You get what you ask for. You want an autocrat dictator getting rich from your backs, you'll get it!
view more: next ›