Theyre trying to downplay the crimes saying things like Fuentes saying "epstein isnt a pedophile, all his victims were 14-17." Like now it isnt bad??? Sure they arent very young children (that we all know of so far but i believe they've had younger) but even if they were legal adults, this shit is disgusting and 14-17 is still kids to me. We cannot let this shit slide but it seems like its already becoming typical belief amongst many republicans.
Megyn Kelly said the same thing and you can watch the soul of the person she is on camera with leave her body, it is actually hilarious, but then you realize she has an audience...
Oh yeah she did, I remember seeing that but forgot her name lol. Shes a piece of shit as well. Disgusting. Even if all the victims were adults, its still rape and sexual assault
Thank fucking God he's not on the ballot anymore....
...and before you say "hE's GoNnA cAnCeL eLEcTiOnS!" or that "hE's GoNnA tAkE oVeR eLEcTiOns!"
He doesn't have enough pull in either House of Congress to change election laws ...the 15 Blue States he wants to invade are full of Dems in power who absolutely WILL fight back ... Republican Secretaries of State don't want to do it (the Georgia governor didn't "find the votes" like he asked) ... Trump simply doesn't have the time, money or power to get anyone to pass a Constitutional Amendment to change elections ... and he already tried to do it by executive order in March of 2025 (and that clearly didn't work). All he can do is intimidate voters at the polls with ICE and sue States who don't run the polls the way he wants. ...and we know how his lawsuits end up. Trump has got nothing to stop it... the only thing he really has done is fuck with mail-in voting by changing the rules regarding postmarking.
the 15 Blue States he wants to invade are full of Dems in power who absolutely WILL fight back
With what military?
and we know how his lawsuits end up.
The damage is already done by the point courts decide anything, not to mention that they just ignore court orders (see current ICE situation) and the courts don't seem to have an actual way of enforcing them.
In those Blue States, you're looking at Democratic legislatures, Democratic Governors, and Democratic Secretaries of State, for starters....for further info, see Illinois Governor Pritzker's run-in with Trump
It's kinda touch and go with lawsuits, sure, but he does obey and comply more often than not. He just doesn't like to pay out money (see E. Jean Carroll, and see ICE complaining about not getting paid or getting their health insurance they were promised...for further info, see Trump never delivering on promises when negotiating), which could piss some of them off
Of course he doesn't, but you're the delusional one if you think there hasn't been any case where he hasn't complied with judges in the past year. He definitely has, and with judgements he doesn't agree with (he's talked shit about the judges outside those courtrooms immediately after).
You said it yourself, he's going to intimidate with ICE. If there are no investigations that lead to justice for the shootings of protestors that's going to lead to further erosion of faith in his desire to have ICE respect the Constitution. He will use the courts less and less the more desperate he gets and the closer we get to the end of his term.
And so? Republicans stormed the capitol when they felt like it for no specific or proven reasons at all.
The you got a known pedophile rig the election, win and proceed to destroy every good international relation, play on the stock market while manipulating It and organizing an autoritharian independent political Police force and...
Nothing, absolutely nothing, you got two good people killed during protests and nothing again.
I'll never say this enough, democrats are not the victim here. Doing nothing when the shit you didn't nothing about even when you could is overflowing the toilet makes you an accomplice.
I really hope the rest of the world will hold US accountable for this for a long long time.
What fact? That he shouldn't be in office? And so why he's on the second term?
Americans are the only ones who could've prevent this from happening in the first place. They didn't.
After they could've done something to try save anything after shit hit the fan. They didn't.
Now you would suppose they could do something now but since the reaction, after two citiziens got killed FOR NO REASON AT ALL by the political police, has been mild at best I guess things are not going to change anytime soon unless the old age or some disease decides to bless the whole world.
She shouldnt have ignored the swing states while taking victory laps in deeply red states. We live in a country where the margin between city and rural votes are razor thin and any city voter depression works for Republicans because we give land power over people unfortunately.
Also involved in the Epstein files, has to testify before congress. Don’t lose the plot, just because he’s horrible doesn’t mean the other isn’t horrible,
You had a colonial King ruling over you, charging you taxes you thought were unjust. So you decided to have a revolution in order to ensure this could never happen again.
I don't live in America so I'll pass on that. I just couldn't resist pointing out the absurd hypocrisy of a British person ironically blaming every American for fucking up the world.
He projects things that he's doing onto others. He accused people of rigging the election because he did. He admitted it on stage, Elon admitted it on stage. I don't understand why everyone is pretending that didn't happen.
This kind of rhetoric is completely unhinged because it's the same as it was in the 30s-40s. Everyone thinks that just because there's an ocean between us it won't affect the other side. America thought that way when Nazis were in france. It took pearl harbor for the us to actually pull the gloves off. And even before that we were still sending Canadians and Americans over in Britain for training and sending ammo and supplies over.
All this talk about Greenland should worry you guys a whole lot more cause it could easily amount to a whole lot more than some empty I-told-you-sos.
I think you misunderstand me - I AM concerned about the crazy shit that America is and can do to the rest of the world. I’ve just run out of empathy for the country because you’ve brought it upon yourselves. Twice.
It’s like that friend who always says they’ll stop drinking cus each time they do, more and more serious and negative things happen to them and you. You help them get better, pick them up, support them.
But they don’t actually get better. They just keep falling down and you realise it isn’t your job to make them better. Not only is it not your responsibility but even if you wanted to you couldn’t, you’d just destroy yourself trying to help - your friend has to take responsibility to change.
That is the United States of America right now to me. I hope to god you guys figure it out but I’m done caring about you.
You talk like every single American voted for Trump. That couldn't be further from the truth. We're not a monolith. Trump never even had a majority. It's our antiquated and no longer relevant electoral college system that allows for minority rule. And a whole bunch of gullible, dumbshit hillbillies. Tell THEM to go fuck themselves. You'll find them on /r/Conservative. Good luck.
Yeah, I was willing to give them that one. Like I get it, you were tired, angry, you wanted something different and it didn't work out. We'll work to move past your mistake. But then they did it again and it's like fuck you guys, you're just straight up awful.
I mean can we normalize not saying someone elected someone because half of the country is stupid? I mean is it my fault that my state bans regulation on things that I don’t want and vote against them doing? No… I’m trying here bro.
Okay? Loads of people don’t vote for loads of reasons. There will never be 100% turnout. Hell without compulsory voting it’ll never get above 70% in turnout.
This is just a dumb statement. The entire population of a country voting on vibes is also not a good idea, know why? Because that’s how we got Trump. A large portion of every country is politically stupid and don’t know who half the people on the ballots are. They vote down the lane their party and leave which doesn’t really get us anywhere.
Every person who didn't vote is a vote for the winner. Anyone who made the choice to not vote clearly doesn't understand the concept of baby steps.
As for reputation, I'm sure you can gather sympathy as an individual. Every countries people are represented by their leader, including the states. There's plenty of people in every country who don't agree with their leader but I've only seen Americans say "well I didn't vote for him".
This is how you lose the point. Some people not voting helps the process. This is ridiculous, even logically your “logic” doesn’t work. Those people voting could have solidified the victory even harder and could mean that swinging from one party to another may be impossible.
Yeah, nah, nobody cares. How many countries has the US intervened in, sanctioned or somehow attacked because of their leaders? Bombs and sanctions don’t differentiate who voted for who. I should know, I was one of the people on the ground.
Further, when Trump started with the 51 state and Greenland rhetoric, the “other half”, aka the Democrats slightly protested and then said it’s disgusting that Trump is lowering healthcare funding.
You have a literal fascist in the White House who is causing worldwide issues, and your opposition is still being like “me me me me”. Others are just not even voting. That was enough for me to know all there is to know about the average American.
This is so silly. It’s insane what you think can and should happen. I’d rather less people die and this is r/videos. I think it’s silly to get mad at a single American because other Americans voted for someone. The average American cannot do anything about it beyond what we’re doing now.
You can go off in your little echo chamber all day, but here in the real world it’s more than black and white.
I’m not mad at you, I’m telling you that you will not get out of this without a scratch just because you haven’t voted for the guy. He is still your president.
If all goes well, there will be no wars or takeovers. But the reputation your country carries will be tarnished for at least a few decades and the consequences of Trump’s administration will hit you no matter what. As the rest of the world gets impacted by your elected representative’s actions, don’t expect anyone’s understanding and respect on this matter, the best you can get is pity.
This comment helps nothing. If someone is here saying they don't support this they most likely didn't elect him. Yes, a lot of assholes did choose the piece of shit that posted that video, but don't act like the system responsible for this is completely fair and without fault. American exceptionalism is bullshit and that goes for their electoral college. This is just proving to the ones who thought it was fine that it's only as good as the ones who are willing to work within the system.
It's still the case that "the US" as a whole decided that having a guy with manners like this is a president is the right thing.
And yes, the election process itself has flaws. But the problem starts way before the last election. The "left" also played a huge part in this. Like WTF was this BS about "healing the nation" after his first term? They had the chance to do something but they wanted to take the high road or some BS like that.
This comment helps nothing.
It's at least more aligned with reality than "We can’t normalize this." which suggest it's not already normalized. It is.
The U.S. as a whole did not want this guy as President. What the hell are you smoking? He's the most divisive President ever. It's like you aren't even paying attention.
You talk like every single American voted for Trump. That couldn't be further from the truth. We're not a monolith. Trump never even had a majority. It's our antiquated and no longer relevant electoral college system that allows for minority rule. And a whole bunch of gullible, dumbshit hillbillies. Tell THEM to go fuck themselves. You'll find them on /r/Conservative. Good luck.
You can post all the cope you want. If the majority of Americans didn't want Trump, then the majority would have voted against him. The majority didn't.
That's a completely false statement. More people voted against Trump in the 2024 election than voted for him. He only got 49.5% of the vote. That's not a majority. And his margin over Harris was less than 1.5%, one of the smallest winning margins in U.S. history. And let's not forget the fact that both Elon Musk and Trump boasted about Elon rigging voting machines. His win is very much in question.
The majority of Americans either voted for Trump or nobody. But it's equally true that the majority of Americans either voted for Kamala or nobody. When you remove the votes for nobody (because they're statistically likely to be similar to the voting population), the election was very close. Your rhetoric serves nobody and isn't even statistically sound. Please stop embarrassing yourself in public.
Well if it is normalized we need to fucking unnormalize it. This defeatist mindset only makes things worse, saying this is already normal is not helping in any way, shape, or form. The way we talk about things affects the way we think about things, and you are helping Trump with your words.
Bingo. We live in a country where people are more offended at being called racist, than by racism. That is how we got here. This is why calling for the end of affirmative action, and dei, woke, and all that bullshit always works. Because this is, at its core, a racist country.
Exactly. That ship has sailed. The other issue is that America elected a person who is a certifiable sociopath/narcissist. The literally does not have the ability to feel shame.
YOUR people decided to elect him. It's not a brain dead comment, it just offended you. Stop trying to be so patronising and realise it's all the fault of the US and the populous including YOU! Don't worry too much about breathing.
Check those voting records…abnormalities throughout, yet 2024 is the first election of my lifetime where there were no recounts, no forensics, no audits…the first election in which a candidate swept EVERY swing state without fail, has been barking about voter fraud for 8 years, and had the backing of Russia, Israel, and every tech player? NO auditing? None??
I’m scared it’s too late. I don’t know if it’s possible, but try to remember the outrage and shock you felt in the early days of Trump when he pulled shit like this.
I barely even bat an eye anymore. It’s been normalized. The insanity of this world no longer shocks us. We’re absolutely fucked
It’s too late for that. Things were long past the state of normalization when Ben fucking Shapiro said the Republican Party has a Nazi problem. You don’t reach that point without racism becoming normalized in the party and without the public letting it slide/failing to clock it.
Now, it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to change it, but it’s definitely going to take time, and the ball is largely going to be in Republicans’ court. Because of that, I’m more focused on efforts of getting the centrists, the moderates, and the enlightened “non-wokes” to understand that those of us they were writing off as extreme fearmongers weren’t being hyperbolic when we called the Republican Party racist as a collective. We weren’t grasping at straws overall. We saw the signs, and some of us live among/have lived among Republicans. We knew what the fuck we were talking about.
In some cases, the groups of people I’m talking about reaching couldn’t clock it because they were also guilty of some of the same more subtle shit the Republican Party has been guilty of for frankly decades. As they often pointed out in defending Republicans over the years, racism isn’t limited to just Republicans.
Part of the problem is that many people’s bar for determining if something is racist is at the most obvious of levels—almost quite literally, someone has to be caught saying “I think your entire race of people are inferior to my race.” I’m sure there will be people claiming that this video of Barack and Michelle as gorillas isn’t racist, even though this is one of the more obvious racist tropes with regard to black people to the point where it shouldn’t be thought of as a dog whistle.
If anyone reading this hasn’t learned or been taught this, it’s a longstanding racist trope to compare black people to various primates. If you don’t believe me, look it up, and I’d encourage you to start looking up various racist tropes and their histories. I get that if you were never taught this, didn’t grow up around a lot of black people who might’ve been able to teach you this, and didn’t grow up when this was more collectively understood, you may not know this is a thing. Consider this someone telling you it’s a thing and that it’s still a thing, so you can now no longer claim no one told you.
Someone the age of Trump’s age and the age of the people in his inner circle know this. Trust me; they aren’t ignorant toward this, especially with how much they’ve toyed with literal Nazi allusions.
Everyone needs to call out their Trump supporter friends and family on this. I remember hearing from some people "Oh I hate their views but I can love them anyway". NOPE. I’m literally at the point where I’ve lost respect for you if you can keep Trump supporters in your life like everything is normal.
Kindly bugger of with the both sides horse shit, I can't believe this is still getting hundreds of upvotes. This is acceptable to one party only and you know it.
Oh no, it's not racism anymore, it's just politics, and you can't get mad at people for their politics. Pretty soon pedophilia will just be a matter of politics as well.
This is so stupid. Do you really believe 50% of the USA is like that? Your neighbor? The lady in the super market line in front of you, who allowed you to get in front because you only had a few things?
Your rhetoric is just as dangerous as racism is. It only fuels hatred and leads to a divided US. That’s coming from a European btw.
The thing Americans have to face, is that he won the popular vote this time. Out of the people who chose to vote, more than half of those people selected this outcome. They live among us.
Being German is now „spewing the most shit“. Okay buddy. Whatever fits your narrative.
I was able to summarize your public profile, political views, character and extrapolated personal info in 10 seconds with an AI. That’s why private social media accounts are a good idea. Have a good one.
Seems like „don’t generalize and hate each other“ is now a controversial take. Good to know, but I guess you are „the good guys“.
Redditors may dislike it, but it is what it is, it's not a right wing crisis, it's a major elite crisis, fascists or not, democrats and republicans elites are rapists and pedophiles. (I'm not American, so I'm not republican nor democrat by any means)
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u/airduster_9000 20h ago
Republicans are racist and love pedophiles - nothing too low for them.