Look, we’re not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power? Revenge is very much something that we can do.
Brother I like the way you think
Deterrence has to be established.
Send every car dealership owner to re-education camps, very much starting with Elon Musk
no capacity is worth building unless we're certain it can't be undone the next time low-info voters swing pennsylvania
Accomplishing a realistic justice against the deliberate efforts to disintegrate America won’t happen until the Kremlin is finally brought to bear for its asymmetric warfare against the West and tRump’s gaggle of compromised cronies - Never mind, it’s just the voices in my head
I'm only voting for people who will make this happen.
ONE HUNDRED NAZI SCALPS TAKEN FROM THE HEADS OF ONE. HUNDRED. DEAD. NAZIS.
Masterpiece.
Blowing up PEPFAR is going to change the demographics of Africa
Send RFK to a prison that only serves pasteurized milk
It’s going to be hard to explain to people what we could have had. They won’t believe it. It will sound fantastical to them. They’ll retreat to vapid conspiracy theories about how big pharma would never allow it to justify voting for the people who stopped it.
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Honestly revenge is something we have to do
Yep. My vote for "these people rot in jail for the rest of their lives and I get to watch them waste away"
Not enough. They might escape and rally people to their side.
Ruin their lives? Fuck that shit, just kill them. Ends their threats for all time.
anyone who accepted an appointment from Donald Trump after Jan 20, 2025, should spend time in prison
lock absolutely all of them up
General "Razin cain" gotta go
I'm not so sure. The tech has been transferred to the EU and advanced Asian economies (including India)... There's a human capital piece that we will have to rebuild, but no fundamental knowledge or technology has been lost
Have become a single issue voter on exactly this.
Not just can; we must. It is a practical and ethical imperative
This feels good to say on BlueSky, but lacking any incursions into The Cool Zone, the tools you have to do all this are at best the tools Trump's thugs have right now. Less, actually, since you don't have six lapdogs on the Supreme Court
Agree. This is so awful and people don’t even understand the extent of it.
Even if the worst case, maximum doomer scenario comes to pass (it won't) then all we have is revenge and we should pursue it doggedly. Best case scenario revenge reinforces the justness of our cause.
“…justness of our cause” doesn’t call for revenge so much as it does scream out for justice.
FDR built the new deal in his first term. We can build new government institutions, all it takes is the will and the willingness to move fast.
To extract maximum $$$ from the funding parties that hold resp: think tanks, corporations, donors, then really it's about creating financial incentive to hunt big game legally. Immediately increase/pack SCOTUS, ram through anti-trust legis to force divesture/ break vertical/conglomerates.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We have to stop them before we can fix what they did. They are still gaining strength. We. Need. A. Plan. Neither Congress nor the Courts is going to save us.
Literally every single policy, the tax rates, gun control, whatever is going to take a backseat to the simple question of “how do we make ‘giving up your us citizenship in exile’ the most attractive option?” We have no choice but to ruin their lives. bsky.app/profile/teor...
America is going to have to re-write the constitution.
We just need to add clearly stated punishments for crimes, and who has the authority to enact them if any one branch breaches the public trust.
America willingly elected an insurrectionist government from top to bottom. That’s the crime that was committed on January 6th, and it wasn’t prosecuted. The GOP sacrificed America for absolute power.
Let’s be clear: Your citizenship AND your wealth. If you balk on the latter, well SOCOM has a job to help it regain its honor.
That’s right! Woe betide if we let these guys skate or stick around
I will not be satisfied until the Republican Party is declared a criminal organization and banned Germany banned the Nazi Party and I think we should learn from their example
I want maga hats to be treated like swastikas are now.
*monkeys paw curls* They already are 🙃🙃🙃
With all due respect, Mr Public, no one needs to give a fecund Fuck about "banning" anymore. The same mistake was made with the Confederacy and Nazis, and that was "letting even one of them go." It ALL must become ash on the wind, or we will never be free.
Yup.
Not just them, but their sympathizers and fellow travelling organizations must be dealt with.
Feel like the answer is "the president's band of roving vigilantes, officialy ordained as agents of the state to make life hell for republicans" is a good answer. Sure it ended up a hellscape but lets see if we can out "cultural revolution" the cultural revolution.
"Ruin?" Surely we can do better.
Before we get to retribution and revenge, the threat has to be defeated. In a Fascist state willing to use violence on whim, a lot of Americans that believe that "violence is never the answer" have to put that thought to bed. Fascism has never been defeated by elections alone.
But the answer to your question is "we will do violence, especially against you if you don't flee right now". They can work legal systems and what's left of institutions to maintain their power if we let them. But real threats of violence is the language they truly understand.
Luigi had back problems that millions of physical laborers live with daily, but decided to dome a powerful CEO over it. What happens when there are millions denied lifesaving care and only have 3 months to live? Or tariff affects lose someone their livelihood and lash out? Dark times coming.
Yep.
I’m salivating.
Oh, sorry, 1 addition: I’m willing to donate money to whichever operators bring back Bukele for trial here like this: youtu.be/YOUt-qq-snc?...
I want JD Vance to experience the joys of state elder care in Moscow.
keep the rules about income taxes for expats exactly the same and you’re golden.
Oh, the income tax rate for “former employees of the Trump administration” is getting set to “confiscatory”
Hit them with something equivalent to the throwback tax we impose on accumulated offshore income and we're golden
so it’s staying exactly the same?
I don’t view it as revenge so much as deserved justice. They should be fearful to show their faces in polite society after this.
I agree. Trump et al look petty and small with his absurd revenge tour. Justice is what’s needed. I get the rage, anger & frustration. Trump administration & GOP legislators are not only breaking norms, they are breaking the law. It’s beyond infuriating watching them attempt to erase our history.
Karma is a bitch.
It's not even justice, it's about neutralizing known threats.
I am a single-issue voter now and that issue is vendetta.
If most of Trump's lackeys aren't crowding on to a plane bound for El Salvadorean exile at 11am on January 20th, 2029, we've failed to meet the moment.
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Frightening how hot this flame now engulfs my very soul
In a large part it will be a self punishing problem, reducing American stature and increasing the stature of other world countries.
It's helpful to observe God (the classic one, not the Christian Nationalist gawd) do his better-than-karma thing.
There has to be vengeance here to deter the next Republican administration, which will likely be as evil and stupid as this one. If we don’t get revenge, we are setting ourselves up to be punching bags for the rest of our lives. I want to inflict maximum pain.
Unironically this is one good thing the Trump admin is teaching us. Sometimes kindness is bad and you need to beat the shit out of someone to stop them from fucking around again. We tried bipartisan, we got fucked. The party needs to demand loyalty and enforce it
Thank you for not naming the party. It may very well not be the same one. Actually, I don't see how it can be the same one.
So still wanting to hold on to the 2 party system that is at the root of the collapse of US democracy? You have already accepted they will take power again?
im pretty confident theres no multiparty system in the world that would have kept trump out of power with the support he had in the last election
Silence, Canadian
Silence, Americans. You have failed to corral your authoritarians. For the love of God, destroy them, don't give them another chance!
chait following waster says what
I used to follow a lot of right-wingers when I was Twitter. Much less these days, but two remain mildly interesting to me, so yeah
As you would have if we hadn't, so bow the fuck down and show some gratitude.
Look, all we want from you Americans is to not give your authoritarians another chance to seize power once you actually decide overthrowing them is your way out. That's it, don't fuck it up
Thats a lot of words that aren't thank and you.
Way too premature for that, I'm afraid
You should probably learn to read.
Jesus you are a weenie aren’t you
Changed the name after the Parkland shootings, actually
Fuck off
Haha no, you need to right your damn ship of state
You should have been born in a place that was geopolitically relevant but here we are
Yeah, it sucks, because you don't deserve a decade of this shit
You are reduced to a strategy of being a dick to random strangers. Sad!
Stating facts is being a dick?
They are trying to murder millions with plausible deniability. They should be treated accordingly.
All I’m asking from the 2028 Dem nominee is the policy speech version of “Hit ‘em up.”
Why not? We basically created it for COVID. We could do that again.
And it's not just revenge. You don't keep an incorrigible enemy around, ever. You imprison, exile, or execute, as appropriate. The GOP and its confederates are not fit to be among us.
More people are saying it every day!
This is fucking evil
The same goes for the impact of DJT on the world at large.
I hope that us Canadians scoop the researchers so the work is not lost.
Please someone encourage Kennedy to prove himself genetically superior by surviving exposure to every pathogen that scientists were working to eliminate.
We didn't finish the job after Reconstruction or January 6th. We have the chance to start to do that in 2026 and 2028....
Yes. The J6 catastrophic decision for American democracy is at the feet of those spineless Republican senators who voted NOT TO CONVICT trump for inciting the insurrection and allowing the carnage and vandalism while THEY begged trump to stop it. It’s unconscionable & a major blow to our republic.
Republican legislators chose a criminal and a crime; in course, they have abandoned Americans and the US Constitution. Their complicity in the attempted takedown of our republic is their fatal flaw. The chaotic approach to fulfilling the P25 agenda, intended to overwhelm us,
has instead caused fury among Americans from all political persuasions. Their actions or the lack thereof has been seen by the world. Their unpredictability & haphazard governance is deplorable. MAGA republican legislators & the trump admin. have become the poster child for waste, fraud & abuse.
lol no one is going to get revenge on these people, they will all die of old age on a pile of riches.
No one who's American, anyway.
It's not even revenge, it's just justice.
It won’t be revenge. It’ll be punishment.
The GOP are Enemies of the Republic and must be treated as such.
I don't know I kind of thought the point of all of this was to help people. Starting to wonder if maybe a leftism built on spite may not be the path forward Marx said it would be.
You can't build on spite, but if you don't fucking ruin these bastards they will do their level best to do it to you, either them or their heirs.
people can resist though the point isnt to protect them oh those precious babies the point is what limits are there to what can be done without validating people on a certain basement level part of the problem here is we cant actually eject these people from society thats not literally possible
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