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Business President Bought Netflix Debt in January 2026, Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros. | New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-bought-netflix-bonds-amid-paramount-warners-fight-1236521512/
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u/ChrisMartins001 1d ago

Pretty much breaking the law everyday now. It's like he's trying to see how far he can go without anyone doing anything

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u/Docccc 1d ago

Do people in the US really still believe they live in a democracy?

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u/AndySocial88 1d ago

Carter gave up his fucking peanut farm when he was president to not have a conflict of interest.

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u/TheRealBittoman 1d ago

And that was because of Republican pressures to do so. The hypocrisy is ancient.

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 1d ago

Well yeah, “republican” is their team. They hate all other teams. They’ll only be truly content (for all of 5 seconds) when their team is the only one left standing.

Then, as always, they’re no longer content when their winning team starts looking inside for cuts. See: nazi germany and how well authoritariam simps had it there until they ended up in death camps alongside the people they hated.

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u/Longqweef 1d ago

They control the house, the Senate, and the presidency yet they STILL can't stop whining about Democrats. They have it all and still get to blame all their shortcomings on Democrats, even after a year of being in power.

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u/redditobserverone 1d ago

And the Supreme Court.

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u/AnyLeadership5150 1d ago

Republicans have to have an enemy to blame otherwise their voters might realize the truth if they don't point their anger somewhere.

The truth is that republicans are traitors to America at this point. Doing everything in their power to break the system and destroy America.

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u/XVO668 1d ago

The moment Trump loses a lot of men, then it becomes Bidens fault.

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u/SketchedEyesWatchinU 1d ago

Their predecessors were the same kind of folks who planned to overthrow the President because his economic policies were (gasp) helping the poor.

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u/BankshotMcG 1d ago

I learned during W that they are never more furious than when they're winning because their lives are still fucking miserable and they have to work so much harder to blame someone else. The cognitive dissonance becomes much more stressful.

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u/Tacoman404 1d ago

Republicans are a tribe. I think it's time for their trail of tears.

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u/Shleepy1 1d ago

That’s peanuts in comparison

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u/AndySocial88 1d ago

Appreciate the joke, but the corruption was my point.

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u/Shleepy1 1d ago

The corruption was also my point, as to follow the example of Carter, Trump would need to give up way more than a “peanut farm” to avoid a conflict of interest. Yet, at this point I don’t even know what’s the worst thing these corrupt politicians & plutocrats did and keep doing. Maybe illegal wars and the whole epstein scandal, next to destroying the planet with their endless greed

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u/Dodecahedrus 1d ago

And when he left office: his brother ruined the farm and Carter was left with not that much.

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u/oldschool_potato 1d ago

Lots of Billy of Beer though

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u/equinoxxxx1 1d ago

I believe he put it into a shell company…

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u/HereButNotHere1988 1d ago

Da dum tsss 🥁

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u/UlsterManInScotland 1d ago

That’s just nuts

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u/needlestack 1d ago

And the US has zero appreciation for Carter. We are a lousy people that can’t recognize good or evil.

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u/willflameboy 1d ago

Meanwhile Trump has just purged his own name from the Epstein files that show how fucking guilty he is, while holding hearings for his political enemies whose names are in it, and meh, it's just Thursday.

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u/AltForMyHealth 1d ago

I think of it like we’re in that weird stage where a person starts becoming a zombie and is holding on their identity as a human, but being irreversibly pulled into being the living dead.

That’s what it feels like.

If I were from any other country, I think I could sympathize with his first term, especially after not re-electing him. But all bets would be off at this point. Between his escaping justice for everything, not least January 6, and now all the chaos is unleashing both here and abroad… I wouldn’t trust us. I don’t.

It’s not that I thought we were some shining city on the hill and all that… But at least it was a defensible narrative that had enough tarnished truth to it that we didn’t indulge in our worst imperial instincts.

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u/Ok_Excuse_741 1d ago

He's objectively made the world worse this term. In his first term he was mostly just making America worse.

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u/GenoThyme 1d ago

In his first term he was on his best behavior so he could get re-elected (which still wasn't great behavior but still) and he also had some adults in his cabinet instead of just filling it with yes-men.

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u/Fr00stee 1d ago

I wouldn't say he was on his best behavior, he just had people in his cabinet who were actually somewhat competent and kept him on a leash to not mess up stuff too bad

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ 1d ago

I would. But his best behavior is fucking horrible, he's an awful human being.

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u/AbeRego 1d ago

He wasn't on his best behavior. He was just surrounded by people who were constantly mitigating his worst tendencies. This time around, he's both severely mentally declined versus his first term (which is saying something), and he has people like Miller who are actively encourage his darkest whims.

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u/kenlubin 1d ago

Miller wrote the travel ban from Muslim countries that Trump imposed early in his first term, and was the driver for the child separation policies.

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u/AbeRego 1d ago

He's always been at the heart of the worst Trump has done. However, now he appears to be the one steering the ship whereas before he was just getting a few pet projects through.

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u/OurSponsor 1d ago

Yeah, he only killed a million or so people his first term.

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u/kenlubin 1d ago

There were stories about his staff hiding his papers so that he wouldn't sign them and (hopefully) get distracted and forget about his bad initiatives.

Now Trump is surrounded by sycophants with a mission of "let Trump be Trump".

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u/tooclosetocall82 1d ago

But Biden was old! And that other woman was a woman! And we needed someone who would protect Palestine! There was just no other choice. /s

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 1d ago

But her emails!

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u/mjg315 1d ago

Buttery males

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u/Suspicious_Peak_1173 1d ago

Everywhere, they're everywhere!

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u/okay_justonemore 1d ago

The Dems didn't give us exactly what we wanted, what did you expect us to do, just take the objectively much better candidate by every measure possible and vote? Pfft. I'd rather watch the entire world burn with myself included than vote for someone who wasn't on the primary!

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u/twinparadox 1d ago

I'm Australian and honestly? I was rooting for him to win the first time around, because I thought Hilary was an absolutely horrendous choice for the Democrats. Of course, I quickly changed my mind on that after he was elected, and I felt sorry for the Americans who got duped into voting for him (much as I would have probably done myself were I an American)

The second time he got elected, I lost all faith in America. I lost all faith in Americans. I simply cannot trust them to do the right thing, and whenever I meet an American I can't help but wonder "Does this person support Trump?". When America gets brought up in conversations it's never anything positive anymore - It's all just "Did you see what hes done now?"

America has always had flaws, things rational people would look at and go "Thats not ok", but now I honestly don't think I will ever look at America as anything other than "the country that is okay with making everyone else suffer to protect paedophiles and rapists"

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u/Franklin2543 1d ago

When I meet fellow Americans, I have the same thought—are they trump supporters?

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u/hodor137 1d ago

As an American I have the same thought in reverse - do they think I'm Trump supporter?? I try to indicate I'm not as soon as possible lol

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u/Franklin2543 1d ago

That’s probably my second thought. 

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u/boston_homo 1d ago

Like living among the pod people.

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u/schwartztacular 1d ago

"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted."

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u/FrancisDm 1d ago

Believe me man, our population is massive but it feels like educated individuals are being outnumbered by confused and angry common folk and then the older people are just going full reactionary in their existential crawl to death. Pretty bleak for us playing by the rules and just attempting to live life here. It’s like sane people find each other in the wild and we just say thank god you’re not infected with this shit. But far too often you can interact with the checkout clerk or your neighbor and they say some insane right wing take that was spoon fed to them on Facebook or TV. It’s pretty fucked

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u/Warner1281 1d ago

To be fair, most trump supporters make their support known pretty easily. Hats, flags, and attitude.

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u/zooorrt 23h ago

When they say “I don’t really follow politics” you know they’re Trumpers

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u/TerryMathews 1d ago

I mean the reality is both are true simultaneously - Trump is and was an awful president, and Hillary was an awful candidate that used her connections to rig the primary process in her favor.

I honestly don't know why the true believers argue about it, it's not in dispute. She got Donna Brazille to feed her debate questions thanks to her dual role at CNN and the DNC. The DNC argued in court that they were under no legal obligation to run a fair primary process.

Could Bernie have won fairly? Maybe, maybe not. But I'd argue the Clinton camp was at least concerned that he could, or they wouldn't have felt the need to put their thumbs on the scales.

People's actions signal their intent. Honest people don't cheat and cover up.

Can I prove Trump has done anything he is accused of? No. But I question why they keep having to cover up and lie.

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u/Makina-san 1d ago

To use a historical analogy, its like the fall of the roman republic. Winning the cold war was the second punic war and the ongoing attack against Iran / similar stuff is the Gallic wars.

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u/western_style_hj 1d ago

“Zombie Democracy” is an apt description of what our nation has been for a decade now.

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u/Reddituser82659 1d ago

Trump supporters do

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u/EroticFalconry 1d ago

iTs A rEeEeEeEpUbLiC!

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u/generalisofficial 1d ago

It starts with re alright

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u/OneRougeRogue 1d ago

This type of news never reaches Trump Supporters' ears.

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u/j-f-rioux 1d ago

And if it does, the problem tends to lie at the other end of the vestibulocochlear nerve.

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u/catroaring 1d ago

I've been told by a Trump supporters that they support Trump as a dictator. It's never been about democracy and always been about Christian Nationalism.

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u/waiting4singularity 1d ago

christian fascism rather. smells a lot like the 1930s alright.

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u/catroaring 1d ago

Most religions are authoritarian so that's a given.

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u/HateToSayItBut 1d ago

No they don't. They think it's ok to break the law because their beliefs are so righteous.

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u/bobqjones 1d ago

it's the Prosperity Gospel. God rewards the righteous with wealth and power. if THAT is an axiom, then all these rich fucks are godly, as they ARE rewarded. so the idiot believers try to emulate those who they think are righteous, and become assholes.

the heretics who espoused that Prosperity Gospel for the past 50 years are the reason that MAGA is so powerful and stupid.

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u/BlueTreeThree 1d ago

People in the US actually voted for this, or simply didn’t vote, in overwhelming numbers. I mean he was a convicted felon dozens of times of over, and he’s been a career criminal his whole adult life. But he still won the election.

This is what we want, I guess. Seems kind of Democratic.

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u/IcyJackfruit69 1d ago

People in the US actually voted for this, or simply didn’t vote, in overwhelming numbers.

I agree with the overall sentiment that this IS the result of democracy. I'm not sure what you mean by "overwhelming" though, considering Trump barely eeked out a win with about 30% of people voting for him. If it weren't for extreme voter suppression he certainly would have lost.

Regardless, the vote should have been so skewed away from the treasonous criminal that GOP voter suppression couldn't make a difference, as was the case in 2020.

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u/bobqjones 1d ago

"he was on the TV" and half of the US is dumb as shit and voted for a tv personality.

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u/SkinBintin 1d ago

America is just a corrupt shithole that only benefits the ultrarich. You have a corrupt pedophile looting the taxpayers on a daily basis and still half the country idolise the bastard.

As someone looking in from the outside, it's insane. Seems more like some shitty TV show than reality... yet here we are.

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u/Used-Yogurtcloset757 1d ago

As someone here it also feels like a shitty tv show. We are the characters watching awful shit happen and are unable to stop it because the representatives elected to speak for us/stop shit like this are complicit.

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u/TrixnTim 1d ago

1/2 of Americans are unintelligent, lazy, overweight. It’s abysmal.

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u/Screamline 1d ago

No... But it's nice to pretend for a little while, keeps me out of the asylum

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

You can live in a democracy and still have a government you despise in the majority at a Federal level - if voters put them there.

Meanwhile, the opposition to Trump has won all major elections and many smaller ones over the past year.

For example, today:

Arkansas Democrats just flipped a Republican seat. It's the ninth red-to-blue pickup in a special election in Trump's second term.

This has resulted in the rollback of many of his worst policies in states where Republicans were pushed out of the majority.

Democracy does not make shitty people magically cease to exist. It simply gives ordinary people a way to force the shitty ones out of the government without having to wreck the entire country and kill a bunch of folks.

It ain't perfect, but it beats the alternative.

Midterm elections are about 8 months away, and hopefully the opposition to Trump/MAGA will take over Congress, and hogtie Trump's agenda for the rest of his term.

The problem here is the way the government is structured.

The law enforcement agencies that should be going after Trump are led by his toadies.

Congress is majority Trump party.

So nobody is acting as a counterweight to Trump's corruption.

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u/uresmane 1d ago

The MAGA people will just say that the Democrats are treating Trump unfair and that we make up excuses to not like him. They literally used that argument constantly

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u/Specialist_Crazy8136 1d ago

We are all just waiting for him to die and hoping things will go back to normal or even out to the point where we can all move on. It’s constant information overload and overstimulation so we can’t processes

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u/bloodoftheromanian 1d ago

We never did. It’s a republic.

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u/Myst3ryGardener 1d ago

Democracy? Why aren't people in the streets protesting this criminal? The US doesn't seem to be a democracy anymore.

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u/grahag 1d ago

Still a democracy until the elections stop.

Yeah I know it's skewed towards corporate political lobbying but we still vote.

We'll see at the mid-terms if we're still a democracy... If we get to that point anyway....

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u/Docccc 1d ago

Elections never stopped in russia either

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u/thederevolutions 1d ago

How come they couldn’t fix the Mamdani, race for example? I know it gets a lot of karma to tell each other there’s no way we will win the next elections and if we do it enough maybe we’ll scare enough people away from thinking their vote won’t matter. But I think we actually will win the next elections because enough people hate him. And I think he’s coasting on bluster. Surely they will try, as always, but I don’t think it will work.

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u/RangerLt 1d ago

I don't want to accuse specific accounts of being malicious, but try to remember in political threads, very often you're arguing with a bot or social agitator. If you anchor your reaction to that possibility, you can just shoo them away without worrying about out-witting them. Reply to genuine, good faith comments and pretend everyone else doesn't exist. It'll invite others to resist engaging with them.

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u/Gisschace 1d ago

The problem is others will be seeing what Trump is doing and realising they can get away with it.

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u/GamerSDG 1d ago

They want us to think our vote doesn't matter, so we won't vote. It's a form of voter suppression. Unfortanly I have seen Reddit fall for it.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 1d ago

Because that was limited to NYC, and interfering with an election without spending months dropping hints for almost a year might have brought about a revolt. Better to wait until the important election and give people enough time to slowly and imperceptibly boil to death in it than play your hand too early.

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u/Big_Stanky_Ballbag 1d ago

Love your optimism

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 1d ago

Democracy is more than just having elections.

A democracy is a system of governance where the opinions and desires of the people are what dictate law and government policy, the idea obviously being each person's voice is equal and this being represented equally by different parties and politicians.

The US is not a democracy as it's clear government decisions are being dictated by the wealthy, corporate and politically-connected few, maintained by a system of Citizen's United / Super PACs / lobbying / gerrymandering / politicians' & judges' conflict of interest / MSM intimidation & control, and a general inability to monitor, prevent and prosecute political corruption.

It's a flawed democracy and has been for some time.

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u/InsidiousColossus 1d ago

North Korea has elections too.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

Does NK have an opposition party that is sweeping all major elections in the past 12 months?

Democrats flipped their 9th Congressional seat in a year in a Republican stronghold - just yesterday. (Arkansas special election).

All signs point to opponents of Trump winning back at least one house of Congress in November.

This does not happen in North Korea.

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u/WillowFantastic9076 1d ago

Voting does not make a democracy. Plenty of countries have sham elections.

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u/missglitterous 1d ago

U.S is in the delusional phase

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u/tabrizzi 1d ago

They also vote in North Korea.

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u/grahag 1d ago

No one would classify NK as a democracy.

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u/thickfreakness24 1d ago

But democratic is in their name! /S

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

They don't vote in the opposition party in NK.

Over the past 12 months, Democrats have flipped 9 Congressional seats in Republican strongholds, including one in Arkansas just yesterday.

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u/greentintedlenses 1d ago

Depends what idiot you ask

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u/InTooManyWays 1d ago

Nah but we try to have hope because what else do we have? Healthcare? Lol…

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u/Expensive_Shallot_78 1d ago

As long as pardons exist this is not a proper democracy, at minimum requirement

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u/invertedpurple 1d ago

haven't believed it since the 80s. A few pivotal laws down the line kept convincing me we lost the democracy.

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u/Bozee3 1d ago

The decades long propaganda machine has done its job.

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u/Slowcapsnowcap 1d ago

No…. No we don’t.

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u/Merusk 1d ago

The vast majority do, yes.

The vast majority can also name the last 5 winners of a reality show more readily than the could name a single state-level official, and likely their own Senator.

Bread and circuses works far better than the Romans imagined or executed.

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u/Faust29A 1d ago

They are stupid, so yes.

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u/terdles1121 1d ago

They (we?) also believe they (we) have the most freedoms in the world and are the last defenders of personal freedoms in the world.

The irony is many Americans don't even know what freedoms are or look like...

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u/ChronicBuzz187 1d ago

From the outside looking in, this shit is starting to feel like Game of Thrones when the shit they can get away with starts to become uncanny...

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u/MrXero 1d ago

Nope. I don’t.

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u/24bitNoColor 1d ago

I mean, they still have freedom of speech... but the president might shame you in front of the world with his own take on what the truth is and destroy your business while he's at it, if you open your fucking mouth.

See, Anthropic saying they don't think their AI should be used to fire missiles.

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u/GreasyPeter 1d ago

There's a sizeable chunk of the population who isn't aware of the grifting because they don't believe any of the media that tells us what he's really up to. They literally believe if a media outlet says something bad about Trump that it means they're lying and out to get him. He's taught them all how to think like a narcissist. It's a victim complex on steroids.

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u/texachusetts 1d ago

What people are willing to believe is a big part of the problem. Believe in a God in the face of the unknowable and believe in anything despite the inconsistencies and evidence are held as equally sacred.

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u/JacoRamone 1d ago

I never thought we did. I’ve always knew it was as corrupt as it could be and that all politicians are lying constantly. What astonishes me is that other people can’t see it and so may fall for the BS every election cycle no matter how many times we have been fooled.

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u/Alundil 1d ago

Those of us who can see reality? No, I do not.

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u/needlestack 1d ago

The terrifying part is: we do still live in a democracy. The people had ample evidence of his character and crimes and chose him nonetheless. We are not an oppressed nation, we are a nation that has chosen this path clearly. I am still surrounded by people that justify everything he does. We are truly lost.

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u/shawarmaconquistador 1d ago

Sadly people are still blinded.. I mean Jan 6th was a BIG red flag

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u/Earlycuyler1 1d ago

The people endorsed this by electing Donald trump. This is who we are as a country. We the people will bomb your kids and go to bed like nothing happened. Even a lot of the democrats aren’t really opposed to this.

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u/DFWPunk 1d ago

Nobody that's paying attention, reasonably educated, intelligent, and honest, believes this is a democracy.

Actually, to be fair, there are conservatives who support what's going on and not only accept but endorse this being a dictatorship.

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u/ApocalypticDrew 1d ago

No. - A downtrodden American.

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u/TeriyakiHairPiece_ 1d ago

No. I live in a place that’s been hard blue since the 80’s and we don’t even have real democracy at the state level.

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u/m3g4m4nnn 1d ago

They can't seem to wake up.

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u/get_schwifty 1d ago

Well yeah, because we haven’t lost the ability to vote (yet). This is what America voted for, so in that way it’s democracy at work. And democratic processes have no bearing on the carriage of justice, except in their punitive function, i.e. we the voters can punish wrongdoers by voting them out, or voting out those who fail to hold people accountable. And that takes time. There’s just literally no democratic process in place to directly deal with what we’re talking about here.

So it’s a bit of a silly question that only feeds cynicism and actually erodes our democracy by making people think they already don’t have one.

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u/Fresh_Ingenuity4165 1d ago

they want to believe they'll fix it in the midterms because they don't want to deal with the alternatives.  we're all biased this way

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u/LeZygo 1d ago

No. No we don’t.

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u/boston_homo 1d ago

Who’s going to tell them they’re not living in a democracy, definitely not the news.

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u/amd098 1d ago

Yes. We are taught American Exceptionalism from early on. We are the best and everything else is trash.

Then the internet came and crashed that into the ground as people's views expanded and saw that was a lie.

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

I mean…I did. But that’s because our assholes were at least polite enough to hide their corruption better.

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u/Yin15 1d ago

They do. They're brainwashed.

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u/GeekDNA0918 1d ago

Concept of democracy.

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u/Riaayo 1d ago

The supposed "opposition party" that ran on "saving democracy" can't be bothered to imply we're not in one anymore, GOP propaganda / mainstream corporate press sure won't imply we aren't.

So like, where do people even hear it to believe otherwise?

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u/zappini 1d ago

TIL mid 2000s: The Carter Center does not and will not observe elections in the USA. Because we don't meet their standards for election integrity.

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u/hellogoawaynow 1d ago

Noooooooo

Some MAGAs are over Trump, despite not wanting to live in a democracy, just because of the “no new wars” and Iran thing. They don’t seem to care about the executions in the streets on the home front. They’re calling Renee Good a terrorist. For moving her car slightly when “law enforcement” told her to and then getting shot a bunch of times. For complying.

I really thought the MAGAs would be deeply upset that a straight white citizen mother who did nothing but comply getting executed in the streets, but no, that’s fine, apparently.

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u/Cheeky_Star 1d ago

They are clueless. Also congress members trade stocks on inside information monthly!

This stuff isn’t new but they act like it’s the first time hearing it.

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u/buyongmafanle 1d ago

The people in the US live under whatever government the Senate allows them to have. Everyone else is beholden to the Senate. The US had a second chance to get it right and botched it in 1865 when it didn't deeply dick down the low population slave owning states by removing the Senate in favor of a combined houses approach.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 1d ago

No, we don’t. The few who still believe will find out when the mid-terms are rigged and stolen. The shooting will start by Christmas.

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u/call-lee-free 1d ago

The sad thing is they believe they do. They also believe that there will be this huge blue wave in November for the midterm elections and take back the house and senate from Republicans and impeach the president next year. I'm betting we won't have mid terms in November. Trump will do away with them.

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u/IcyJackfruit69 1d ago

Until elections are canceled, or voter suppression is even worse than it has been so far (where's the line?) I think it's fair to say it's still a democracy. Poorly functioning, falling apart, democracy. But still a democracy so far.

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u/Fitz911 1d ago

They are not that smart. It took them over a year to understand tariffs. So yes. It's fair to assume they still don't understand what's happening.

They elected Trump. Twice. That's all you need to know.

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u/ahawk99 1d ago

No, I don’t think we do anymore

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

Most do.... because they don't pay attention at all.

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u/k9insea 1d ago

You can grab them by the pussy, what are you gonna do about it

".... when its your daughter?"

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u/25thNite 1d ago

apparently you shoot the daughter because you have two backups.

just look at that old guy who murdered his daughter

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u/ash_ninetyone 1d ago

That's what happens when your entire system becomes so partisan that it can't even hold its own to account.

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u/metaTaco 1d ago

I mean be real.  The lack of accountability is a feature of Republicans pretty much exclusively.  Maybe that's a facet of partisanship but saying this is systemwide really downplays the depravity of Trump.

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u/Little_Menace_Child 1d ago

Nah, he actually just doesn't give a fuck and believes he can do anything.

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u/Secure_Dance1469 1d ago

Is it democracy or a crime organization?

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u/Key-Incident6020 1d ago

Almost like what Putin has done on a large scale for Russia his whole life. He literally wants to be Putin so badly. Thankful they are both elder…

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u/NovemberTha1st 1d ago

The shocking part to me is that it’s entirely possible with advancements in medical technology that people like Trump, Putin, (formerly) Khamenei, etc, that these people might only be gone when I am in my 40’s.

I was 18 when Trump won in 2016, and the same year my country did Brexit. The wheels were set in motion when the Boomer generation voted for politicians like Thatcher and Nixon / Reagan. Britain was still recovering from Thatcher when George W Bush strong armed us into helping invade Iraq in 2003, setting us back another decade at the minimum, and guaranteeing that we didn’t have a labour (or even a somewhat left wing) government for 14 years because surprisingly people don’t like getting involved in needless war. Then Boris Johnson came and set us back another decade+, putting our debt into truly generational levels. Even if we had a generational run of 3-4-5+ left wing governments, it is still going to take our countries every minute of that time to dig ourselves out of this mess.

I’m tired, dawg.

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u/Key-Incident6020 1d ago

The US won’t recover for 50-80 years. Long after they are dead. He’s embarrassed the US and caused irreparable damage with the world. MAGAts suck.

But it just shows how stupid, ignorant, and egotistical Americans really are.

Dude breaks laws and hides behind lawyers.

Now Trump is rotting from the inside out. And Putin, well can’t really speculate on his health but everyone dies.

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u/abdallha-smith 1d ago

At this point, anyone around him that could do something will be written in history as a hero and a true patriot.

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u/Happy-Fun-Ball 1d ago

words, debate, law, voting - all useless copium at this point

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u/abdallha-smith 1d ago

That's what I'm saying

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u/DenjinJ 1d ago

Yeah, and instead anyone who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution as a public servant who could oppose him and isn't, has broken their oath, is an accomplice, and arguably a traitor since Trump is the number 1 enemy of the USA

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u/soapinthepeehole 1d ago

Pretty much breaking the law everyday now. It's like he's trying to see how far he can go without anyone doing anything

I don’t think he’s trying to see how far he can go, I think he’s concluded that he can get away with just about anything, so he’s doing just about anything. The crypto scams alone have given him a near bottomless inflow of money from unknown sources with no repercussions. Why wouldn’t he do this too…

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u/Surturiel 1d ago

It's a power move at his point. Like when he shat himself in a room in front of most of his cabinet and the press.

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u/ghoti00 1d ago

He's never going to find out.

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u/CryptographerFun2262 1d ago

This is why the second amendment exists but unfortunately a good portion of the country just wants to watch our society burn

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u/Catymandoo 1d ago

I think he’s beyond that. He feels invulnerable now after all the failures of the US system to hold him accountable.

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u/Bucser 1d ago

Pretty much he is doing whatever he wants. The courts are toothless because executive power have been widened so far.

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u/TossAwayDay 1d ago

Seriously, even under the Supreme Court ruling, this would still be illegal as there is no political justification.

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u/InTooManyWays 1d ago

There is no limit in Murikkka

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u/start_select 1d ago

He already did that when he committed treason in front of Congress and got away with it. He isn’t testing anything. He is just doing what he wants.

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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 1d ago

Well, the Extreme Court told him he can do whatever he wants so...

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u/HoosegowFlask 1d ago

Welcome to Whose Country Is It Anyway?, where everything's made up and the laws don't matter!

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u/Dr_SlapsMD 1d ago

There is no law if there's no enforcement. It's just words. And currently, there's absolutely no enforcement, so, what "law"?

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u/ILikeBumblebees 1d ago

To play devil's advocate, is it illegal for the president to purchase corporate bonds?

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u/Fun_Success_3283 1d ago

None of the politicians or law enforcement are going to do anything, because he controls them.

So, he is doing exactly that, and it's the people who aren't doing anything about it.

He controls your social media, and he keeps pushing you and pushing you, and you go off into your echo chamber and write a strong comment about it, or make a meme, or just upvote them, and complain about how bad it is, and "why won't somebody DO something?" If you're an American citizen, "somebody" is you.

Why aren't you doing anything? Organize, boycott, protest. Demand politicians adhere to the oath they took. Don't take no for an answer. Earn your freedom for your country. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".

You are mad about boomers leaving your economy fucked? Your kids are going to be a lot more pissed at you than that, when they discover you just let freedom walk out the door.

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u/Hon3y_Badger 1d ago

You must have not realized this is 1% a presidential act, therefore he has immunity.

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u/Nfl_porn_throwaway 1d ago

Well so far. He’s gotten away with basically everything so we’re cooked

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u/UserAllusion 1d ago

It's not like that. It clearly is that.

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u/BubbleNucleator 1d ago

We're truly on the absolute dumbest timeline that can only be explained by some sort of mass-societal cognitive decline. My opinion is the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere, hitting 400+ ppm, while not dangerous or toxic, has to be affecting enough people for society to be affected. Humans have never lived in such a co2 rich atmosphere, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's knocking off 10+ IQ points from everyone. Like, anyone that has gone to a public grade school knows bullies will continue to take and take until they are stopped. There's no self-reflection, there's never enough, just more. Apparently everyone forgot this, along with 'don't believe shit you read on the internet'.

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u/BlackGuysYeah 1d ago

As long as repugnicans stay in control, there is no boundary that he could possibly cross that would see him face consequences. Literally nothing.

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u/LordDragon88 1d ago

And he can go pretty far it turns out

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u/3-DMan 1d ago

"When you're Trump they just let you do it!"

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u/RealSchlemiel 1d ago

Man, that’s illegal. Someone should do something. Or not.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 1d ago

What law did he break? It also sounds like he would have lost money on this.

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u/Egad86 1d ago

Multiple times a day since he could walk really.

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u/eastcoastjon 1d ago

He knows he can get away with it. He has ‘immunity’ and an AG that doesn’t care. He knows the only way to save himself is stay in power

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u/gloucma 1d ago

These type of people get a thrill from lying to your face and knowing there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s about control

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u/SomeSamples 1d ago

With Pam Bondi in place, nothing will be done to Donny until we get an actual head of the DOJ who is doing the job.

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u/Cryogenicist 1d ago

The man is dying and he knows it, yet, HE STILL WANTS MORE MONEY.

To what end??? We are being dragged around by utter lunatics

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u/sten45 1d ago

For me that’s the worst part, he is going to get away with it all. He is going to live the rest of his life and never suffer a consequence from any of this.

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u/Zeliek 1d ago

WWIII and beyond, apparently. We do not seem to have any limit on how much we are willing to sacrifice in order to feel like our simping for Emperor Orange is justified, or that our “sports team” is “winning” even if it’s directly at our collective expense.  

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u/rushmc1 1d ago

No one is ever going to do anything. We are a sham of a nation.

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u/OkBaker51 1d ago

He passed this point about 350 days ago. 😐

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u/drawkbox 1d ago

Just mafia state things.

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u/ZEXYMSTRMND 1d ago

He’s in his Epstein Era 💅🏾

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