America was broken before this. Giving Trump a second chance (or a first) was a symptom.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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I'm for second chances.....when the stakes are lower. A waiter messes up a few people's orders, you give him a chance to improve. A president of a country steals classified documents and attempts a violent coup to stay in power, you ban from ever being in a position of power again
The people capable of preventing him from to getting back into office condoned what he did. The oligarchy will never charge one of their own
Broke ain't the right word. Revealed could be used, or accelerated.
Simple people love simple answers.
It's a lot easier to blame trump personally and pretend we'd have been fine without him. Even tho most of the people saying Trump's the only problem, said the same thing about Bush.
It's easier to blame the sacrifice goat (especially when the goat is evil) than it is to understand if that goat was never born the same people would have just brought out a different goat.
Republican and neoliberal presidents are always just empty suits for the oligarchs.
But simple people never pay enough attention, they don't look past the surface. They'll never understand how to fix the underlying condition, because they only notice symptoms.
For 10 years every media outlet on the country has had to repeatedly show his face and play his voice throughout every single day of broadcast and publication. I'm tired bro, I'm so tired. I can't live in a world where every screen in the country is his face constantly staring at me. So I turned it off. I'm not ignoring what's going on in the world, but everywhere that normalized him lost me. NY Times, NPR, all of it. What broke in this country is I'm not the customer anymore of our traditional media system. And when he attacks those institutions, what am I supposed to do about it? Cry? You made your bed.
The total lack of selfawareness is staggering.
The 2024 election was stolen after their 2029 efforts failed. Simple as that.
Second chance!? Trump blew past second chance in grade school. Now he is on his 16,546 chance.
Edit: Alternative title
The ruling class broke America when they forced Trump on the American people the first time. This time around they are shitting on the ground and then rubbing citizens noses in it.
He lost the first time. Harris lost the second time (because she refused to promise sanctions against Israel for genocide).
Trump never won. Don't spread those lies.
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