Impeachment. In a functioning government. Because the elected person campaigned on not doing any of these things.
Do I think anyone not drinking the koolade could see this coming? Sure. But that wasn’t the question, the question is what could be done. There are exactly two things, only one of which is legal, which is impeachment.
Why are so many liberals pretending to be offended Trump supporters online? It’s obviously fake.
My company is majority conservative, not one single person I’ve even heard of is mad at Trump - except that he isn’t going far enough fast enough for them.
I have no empathy for such people. If they run the country into the ground, I just hope they suffer too.
If that's extreme I'm happy to be an extremist.
He might be a well known liar, and people might’ve been stupid to believe him when he disavowed Project 2025, but his campaign did not promise to enact these policies.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/30/donald-trumps...
So he specifically did the opposite of campaign on it then. Most voters weren't going to go and read through his proposed budgets and everyone knows that.
"I'm not a litigious man... that's why I have lawyers." -- Conrad "Skip" Meinhofer IV
If a politician tells a bold faced lie we shouldn't minimize it by saying "oh but everyone knew what he really meant". He lied to voters.
So that’s why it bugs me when I see someone say “he’s doing exactly what he said he’d do!” and the story quickly pivots to “well yes of course he specifically said he wasn’t going to do that but it was obvious he was lying”. A lot of people are living in vastly different information ecosystems, which is why the words coming out of a candidate’s mouth matter.
That's when we knew this would happen.
"we knew this would happen" !== "he campaigned on doing exactly these things"
Perhaps they don’t deserve a vote. But if they don’t then a lot of voters don’t deserve a vote. And maybe we ought to be asking ourselves “what systems have we set up that have led to such wildly underinformed voters? Are there things we can do to rectify that?” rather than just give up on a significant section of the population. Much easier to write it off as a person’s individual failure than consider it as a societal issue.
(not to mention, “they don’t deserve a vote” doesn’t say a whole lot. They still have a vote even if we decide they’re undeserving. We’re all in it together, like it or not)
I can't help that people are this stupid. And if they hurt themselves in the process, good. It'll be a cleansing.
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth and sooner or later that debt is paid"
So what is “my propaganda” you’re referring to? There’s just a truth that some people weren’t made aware of.
The propaganda is pervasive enough to not realize its there at all. You shouldn't accuse others of being in their own informational bubble without realizing you're in your own. The desire to disenfranchise is also an extreme authoritarian impulse.
> The desire to disenfranchise is also an extreme authoritarian impulse.
Just as well I didn’t do that then!
We are, unfortunately, a country where the most popular search on Google on election day last November was "Did Biden drop out?".
That's the lack of an educated electorate we have to deal with.