In a similar vein to @JakeyBoy 's post, if the military parade is genderand race balanced then itâs great according many modern day #resistance fighters
What does that even mean? What the fuck does gender and race have to do with Trump saying that not clapping for him during the state of the union address is treason?
Just making a bit of a joke that anti trump people seem to have only superficial goals in mind for progress.
They donât mind if there are dictators and war criminals as long as everybody has a fair shot at being one.
Whereas surely the goal should be to have no dictators or war criminals?
I hope Trump goes full Ghaddafi mode and wears a ridiculous military uniform during the parade.
And a Korean Army hat to hide his fckn bald patches !!
As a US citizen I understand why youâd react so literally (or in a concerned way) to the post by Electrifying, but it was a joke based on a previous post of mine. If I were based on the States I dont think Iâd find any of this kind of comment funny either. Get ready for some Margaret Atwood shit.
But we find the US situation pretty funny right now (because it feels quite abstract) but are increasingly worried. I keep expecting things to calm down soon but wonder at which point it stops being funny and becomes geologically very worrying.
I liked your last post humorously but weâre close to it being very genuinely accurate. I do believe that he mentioned treason humorously on this occasion, but heâs paving the way for such accusations of treason to be taken seriously.
Itâs my birthday weekend and Iâm beyond fucked⌠just reached home from a night out to mark the occasion so only Jesus Christ, Allah or Buddha knows why Iâm trying to comment on world affairs right now.
Mashallah the last few posts make sense tomorrow when I wake up
I think you meant geopolitically and not geologically
Maybe Jakey has happened upon the existence of the supervolcano âneath Yellowstone NP and is worried about the inevitability of a future extinction level event
Think you also meant InshaAllah there mate
Wasted Jakey is still more coherent than wasted Bl1nk
He mentioned treason humorously? He wasnât being funny at all.
Itâs not abstract for us. We have to live with the damage heâs doing. And Iâm sorry but all the humor about Trump has been sucked out of me. The reality of living in this country right now is frightening. Itâs a big joke to everyone else, but itâs not funny. They literally sold the internet to the highest bidder. Theyâre rolling back air quality standards, water quality standards, and making it harder to prosecute the companies how wreck our environment. Theyâve taken back protected land to lease it to oil companies, theyâve put tariffs on solar panels and wind turbines will be next. Theyâre rolling back allowing gay and transgender people to serve in the military. Theyâve passed tax cuts for the rich. The EPA, the FCC, etc are all being run by the very people they were created to protect us from.
Itâs just not funny to me.
If you canât find humour in it, what are you going to do?
Youâre not in much of a position to do anything about it until you get to vote later in the year so might as well make some dry humour. Itâs all that gets me through these times.
Because news flash, your country isnât the only one going to pot.
Mine is leaving the EU based on bullshit reasons and racism primarily, which will set everything back generations, is dismantling the best thing it ever created (free healthcare in the form of the NHS) and is using the hole created by lack of EU law to do many of the same deregulations as the US are doing now.
Also, donât pretend all that stuff started with trump. It was under Obama that the North Dakota pipeline was being built, Obama trialled the Muslim ban for a short period of time, to name just 2 examples. This stuff has been happening for a while.
You talk about treason, whistleblowers werenât treated all that well under the previous administration, were they?
Trump isnât a horrible aberration in my opinion, he is just an ugly, open, obtuse caricature of what US (especially republican) policy has been before him.
This is what happens when you consume celebrity culture and 24hour cable news to such an extent where you worship any steaming pile of shit they spout, put the rich and celebrities on such a pedestal. And have a system (the electoral college) that is such a joke of a way to elect your leader, which exemplifies this corrupt culture where now anyone known to the public eye thinks they can run for president.
Maybe need to spend less time getting on at me for drying pointing out some of this superficial nonsense and more time bringing down the EC, gerrymanderinf, etc. And also to recognise wrong, even when it is your side that perpetrates it.
Now the second bit isnât really addressed to you, but more in general again to members of #theresistance who are as we speak rehabilitating George Bush, bill Kristol, David frum, Henry Kissinger, Louise Mensch () etcâs images, lauding them as heroes in the fight against Trump.
So youâre right, it isnât funny at all how fucked things look for you guys.
And itâs the same for us, so I shouldnât really be preaching to you either when the UK is also so fucked. But apart from voting all I can do is make snarky funny comments so I feel I am entitled to that.
Trump can barely pass any legislations. Heâs just a pantomime villain.
Yeah but aside from that I canât see what heâs done thatâs that bad.
You are oh so very wrong.
And I havenât even started on the GOP tax plan. Because itâs a fucking tangled mess that ultimately ends up giving me ulcers before I get to the bottom of it.
I used to think like you. I laughed my way through Dubya. 8 years of that shit and I never lost my sense of humor. You can make all the jokes you want. Iâm done laughing.
Iâm just speaking my mind. I think you shouldnât expect everyone to react like you do. Doesnât mean Iâm having a go at you. Iâm just speaking my mind. You make jokes. I do angry rants. No love lost Jakey⌠Youâre still a sexy motherfucker in my book.
The one thing to cling to re: Trump and the harm heâs doing to progressive climate policy is that heâll be out by the time the US officially leaves the Paris Accord in 3 years time and the Democrat that follows him will have a much quicker time of it reengaging with the process. Who said red tape was a bad thing?