• hector@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    All because bad leadership. Where were the rallies in DC demanding action on punishing the coup? Why were there not indictments hitting the ground running on january 20?

    Biden did not even fire the army generals that refused to back up the capitol until it was clear the coup would fail, one of which was Michael Flynn’s brother. Let alone recall Flynn himself and court martial him. They let hundreds of threats against election officials that crossed the line go unpunished, and they allowed the weak prosecution of January 6 rioters to go on, did not push back when the cop that died had causes attributed to other factors than the rioters, no conseuqences for the capitol police being purposefully abandoned, for them to be removed from their riot gear, back up. None of the institutional players involved were punished.

    All because we trusted Biden, and democrats still do, that is the most damning part. Even now most will argue vociferously that he did the best he could, as if there was no bully pulpit, as if the president doesn’t have a duty to make sure captured federal agencies across the board but especially the Justice Department, fulfill their statutory duties, firing their captors and appointing people that would.

    It would take too long to go over half of the grievances just related to the 3 month revolving coup attempt in 2020, to say nothing of the rest.

    We need leadership, and these dumb motherfuckers (democratic sheep,) still trust the establishment. I don’t get it, we must all be getting dosed with compliance inducing pollutants and taxoplasmosis brain infections for some. What other explanation could there be?

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      14 hours ago

      “Germany lost WWII, but fascism won it.”

      -George Carlin.

      You’re seeing the results of over 80 years of planning by ghouls.

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        That appears to be true. Although this long game to fascisize the west really was a long game implemented in 1971 in the business round table in a first iteration of this long game, there were previous attempts but they failed and this one succeeded.

        From then, from the 70’s, everything went to shit, including notably the value of our work. They changed inflation to understate it, and we’ve been taking pay cuts every year without knowing it, averaging 5-8 percent a year average just by 2008 under the old metric, and 2-3 percent under the new. Any job paid for life, for an entire family, by the 80’s, it didn’t. Now you can’t live as well on 4 minimum wage jobs as a family could off one before.

        They did a lot but that is a big one that goes unnoticed somehow. As if we could trust these politicians and institutionalists to change numbers honestly. Figures Don’t Lie, But Liars Do Figure.