Especially when the first things they do are start taking apart consumer and environmental protections, disband social safety nets, increase taxes (tariffs) on imported goods, attack FEMA, and stop farm subsidies, all of which hurt the working class.

Not only do people still believe the ridiculous lie, they believe it despite the mountain of evidence they don’t give a fuck about you.

How many other things is he not allowed to do, but is doing anyway with permission (either tacit or direct) from congress and the courts? You think this will stop him?

Words on a piece of paper only have power if people uphold them. No one’s upholding them.

One of our help desk reps spent 45 minutes on the phone helping someone set up their authenticator app for MFA. It’s a simple install of an app and linking it to your account. If the user listens and does as instructed, it takes about 2 and a half minutes. If they don’t? 45 minutes.

The rep took their break and worked on something else for a while to recover.

it’s incredibly hard for the people to replace their leadership outside of election season

What have you tried? Have you written any letters? Protested? Marched? Gone on strike?

There’s a whole lot of defeatism in your comment and I’m getting major “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” vibes.

That’s true, the spellings are very different.

But otherwise they’re all countries ruled by petty men trying to project their power and rob their neighbours of their resources, liberty, and lives.

Come visit us in Canada! It’s beautiful here. Better come fast before Trump decides to invade us for our oil and minerals though. I expect it’ll be much less beautiful after that, and we won’t have as much time to spend with you while waging a guerilla resistance.

Congress has already shown they have no power over Trump. They gave away the power to fight him already by going along with everything he’s said and done. It’s too late for them to try and rein him in at this point.

A generation from now, they’ll ask you why you didn’t help stop fascism and your reply with be “well grandson, it was a 3 hour drive”? That’s your excuse?

This isn’t going to be easy! You can’t fight fascism from your couch. You have to do something to stop it. And right now all it’ll take is driving 3 hours. That won’t always be the case as they solidify their power and crack down on dissent. And you’ll sit there as the brownshirts drag people out of their homes and wish all you had to do was drive 3 hours.

And still the American populace just sits there waiting for someone else to save them.

I can proudly say I never wear my stupid seat belt and for 20 years never had an accident! I’m just a better driver!

… see how stupid that sounds?

That’s exactly the problem. Vaccines have worked so well that people have forgotten the horrors of the diseases they prevent.

I read an article a while back about a mother who’s little girl caught whooping cough. She hadn’t vaccinated her, but said that watching her daughter struggling to breathe was the worst thing she’d experienced and wished she had listened and given her the vaccine.

People realize very quickly why vaccines are important, but it’s usually by experiencing it firsthand, and unfortunately it’s too late by then.

Impeachment? Midterms? Those words are meaningless now. The system has been broken and dismantled. You can’t vote your way out of fascism. The fight needs to be fought on every front, including those ones, but they will not save you.

The only way out is for the population to rise up in mass protest.

Alone, there’s not much you can do. That’s why you need to organize. Find other people and groups to join with. Not only do you have more power as a group, but you have other people so you feel less alone and isolated.

Organize. Resist.

It’s a security measure to make sure no one else gets the wrong idea and emulates him. They have to treat him poorly and make an example out of him.

I hope it backfires.

very little return

Seriously?! Stopping the march of fascism is “very little return”?! You understand that this will get worse and worse, right? It might not seem that bad now, but they’ll haul away more and more minority populations, steal more power, start wars, and oppress everyone else. You’re not fighting against what conditions are like now. You’re fighting against what they will be when he takes full control.

There is only one way out of fascism, and that’s by fighting with everything you’ve got. But it seems like once you finally realize this, it’ll be too late.

Musk and his shitty crotch fruit who told Trump he isn’t president.

The US already kidnapped and stole a ton of kids last time Trump was president. The American public said “yes please” when offered a second round. You’re already there.

When a fascist “jokes” about taking and keeping more power, they’re not joking. They’re absolutely serious.

He wouldn’t have to be elected again. He lost the vote last time and still tried to launch an insurrection to overthrow the legitimate government and maintain power. He’s learned a lot since that failed attempt. He’s dismantling the government and the checks and balances by the day. There won’t be anything left to stop him in 4 years. He will not leave willingly.

Oh, they’re not closing anything. This is West Texas we’re talking about.

You still could, but it requires taking to the streets in protest. The days are ticking away as he consolidates his power. It won’t always be an option.