• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Even if Trump had lost, one fact remains: tens of millions of Americans voted for this guy three times in a row.

    The first time, it’s conceivable that Americans made a mistake.

    The second time, they knew Trump as actual President.

    The third time, they knew Trump as a convicted felon, insurrectionist and overtly wannabe dictator, and they voted for him even harder.

    At this point, MAGA isn’t a freak event, it’s the norm. Even if the dems had won, they’d have won the presidency of a MAGA country, and quite frankly, what’s the point… You can’t cure someone who wants to be sick.

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      It’s astonishing to me that anyone ever entertained the idea that MAGA was a freak event, even back in 2016.

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        I had no illusion in 2016. In fact, I had no illusion back in 2002 when I left the US and gave up my citizenship after Dubya was elected and signed the USA Patriot Act into law after 9/11. America is hosed and has been officially on the path to idiocracy and fascism since then.

        It’s just that a 3rd round of millions of Trump votes should confirm it without the shadow of a doubt to even the most wide-eyed believers in American exceptionalism. America today is the 1933 Germany of our time.

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        22 hours ago

        The rape trial was a civil trial for defamation and not a criminal one for rape. One does not get convicted in a civil trial. So it has been determined that he is a rapist, but he hasn’t been convicted for it.

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        There should be no need to pile on. Any one of those things would have been disqualifying in times past. Clinton almost got impeached over a blowjob. But Trump and all the things he said and done over the past 9 years is somehow okay. The mind boggles.