“Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? You’ll have to get more specific as to which particular deception you mean.”

I’m sure he’ll get right onto disclosing as soon as he discloses his tax returns like he promised.

You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make them drink.

The issue here is that the horse has been drilled into being gullible for generations now. Compared to other civilised nations, what Fox & co are allowed to spew forth on a daily basis goes way beyond what would be considered libel or incitement in other places. But the root of the problem isn’t even that, the real crux is that whoever pays the most, decides what is legal and what not in the US. The fact that pumping money into politics has been decided to be perfectly a-ok freedom of speech instead of skewing legislation towards the richest is incomprehensible in many other societies. The Supreme Court and the lobbies make a mockery of actual democracy in favour of buying influence.

I have an easy answer: just give Trump full control over everything and he’ll fix everything and make the good things and good words and good and stuff.

That’s a very narrow grouping you draw there. Because in that group you are describing, the democrats got the most votes bar none. Nobody in that narrow category got even got close.

You seem to be wrong. Donald Trump didn’t demand better and he didn’t lose. The more pro-genocide party objectively won.

Yes, I hope you can take this time to internalize a lesson: you should not support genocide or genociders.

Sorry, what exactly is the lesson to be learned from this election, in which the candidate who more vocally supports the genocide won? As in, showing more support for the genociding party and demonstratively siding in all points with the genociders with not even rhetorical pushback, just pure endorsement of the genocide? Which lesson will analysing this election yield again?

Technically, the US also has protections against wannabe dictators claiming they are above the law: a supreme court which, were it not undermined by that dictator’s toadies, should shut that shit down in a second. Still, there’s a difference between blindly following everything that court makes up out of thin air and supporting the actual rule of law. Same with democracy.

Being called socialist isn’t even the issue. My point is that a news monolith has spent decades radicalising half the country and at this point there are enough cultists that will mercilessly tear down anybody Fox&Co paint a target on. Until there is a solid defense against such a hate machine, no party will flourish on its merits as long as Fox-drilled stooges will only be fed a caricature of any opposition Fox designates as the enemy. Even your perfect ideal candidate would lose the election. The boogeyman Fox would paint them to be would be so repulsive and half the country would never even hear their ideas anyway, except what skewed perspective Fox would blast the viewers with 24/7.

Counterpoint: anybody not cheering for Fox News’ talking points sufficiently enthusiastically is declared “socialist” and all but suggested as target for public lynching (or in some cases actually the target of a lynch mob storming the capitol) and the masses have been drilled into going berserk at hearing the right keywords, regardless of what happens in reality.

Calling an attempt to break this information monopoly over half the nation an uphill battle is the epitome of understatement.

No opinion on the matter at hand, I’m just throwing out there that saving a woman’s life when she’s bleeding out due to lethal complications in her pregnancy is illegal until the last second in many states (let’s see how Project 2025 will impact that in the future). Appointing the kind of special counsel that has been perfectly normal and legal since like forever? Illegal the moment he investigates Trump. Doing crimes? Illegal. Doing crimes as president? Immune, according to Trump’s Supreme court sock puppets…

What’s legal and illegal only depends on how many judges you’ve bought these days.

PS: Oh and all that brazen bribery shit that would get any other official not just fired, but straight up locked up? Perfectly legal but only if you’re a Supreme Court judge. Guess who got to decide that? Go have a cookie if your guess was the very people accepting the bribes.

An education system sufficiently funded to actually do what an education system is supposed to do would be a start. I’m sure the cult profiting from getting free sheep from the status quo will immediately get on funding the department of ed-

Oh.

When you look at what the mainstream media spew 24/7, it’s obvious that aggressive propaganda works. And by “mainstream media” I mean the network with the greatest reach: Fox&Co-conspirators.

Don’t worry, Trump will be there to throw some paper towels into a crowd. Problem solved.

Well, you see, applying the law equally to everyone might make some rich criminals appear like they are criminals on account of the crimes they evidently committed and thus make them appear less worthy of holding the highest office in the country and nobody wants that, right? Gotta keep the election fair by letting rich people get away with their crimes until they can pardon themselves, right?

The point is that he’s proven that his claim of deporting “illegal” people has no meaning at all. When faced with the fact that the Springfield migrants are objectively not illegals, he put the goalpost one step back and claimed that their being legal was illegal because something something Khamala Harris. So if we can conclude that actual legal status will not be a factor in his musings about who is and is not illegal, the only prediction that can be made is that his plan is to deport anybody he THINKS SHOULD be illegal and I would not mind betting that his criteria will coincidentally encompass the racial minorities he dislikes, regardless of what previous laws considered legal or not.

Which oune wold yo souggest?

I hear the alphabet they’re teaching is also being used in some of the books banned in Florida for being too satanistically woke. Also some of the numbers that appear in Sesame Street were used in counting all the fraudulent votes in 2020 that were fraudulent because they had someone other than Trump selected.

Trudeau got in trouble for blackface costumes but nobody cares when Trump clownfaces.