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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 98 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Independently verifiable detail number 28543 showing that Trump and everyone he has appointed are unfit for office, and that no one who voted for him will ever care about, and from which no consequences will ever flow.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. -- Mr. Donald J. Trump

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Could everyone please stop repeating "nothing will ever come of this" every time fucked up shit happens?

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

Until someone actually faces consequences, it's just people spitting truth sadly.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 days ago

Man I don't have enough time in the day to be doing that.

I save my cynical outbursts for when he gets caught. And I have reasons, though you may not agree with them.

I think it's important not to lose sight of the fact that our government is incapable of dispensing consequences to this man, regardless of what he does, regardless of where his loyalties clearly lie, regardless of how he continually works at the destruction of the United States of America. So we're not surprised at where things are four years from Jan 21 like we were four years from Jan 06.

While we are all tempted by the complacent comfort of "someone in government will handle it" now that he's actually at the peak of his power, it seems key that we all remember "no one in government handled it" for four years when he was out of power and arguably at his weakest.