From world police to mafia protection racket.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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we did impeach him for extorting ukraine last time.
Let's do it again! Let's make sure nobody can break his record for impeachments.
I’m just going to tell you something very important today. You know, we’ve all heard about impeachment, right? People talk about it all the time, but let me tell you—nobody knows impeachment like I do, okay?
I’ve been impeached not once, not twice, but three times. That's right. Three times, folks. And you know what? Nobody else has been impeached more times than me. Believe me.
It’s an incredible record, a huge record. People are talking about it everywhere. They say, “Donald, you’re amazing, you’re a winner!” And you know what? They’re right. Who else has had such a remarkable impact? I’ve made history. Some people, some really great people, say it’s the most impressive thing anyone’s ever done in politics. I didn’t just get impeached once, or even twice—no, I did it three times, folks. Unbelievable.
And, you know, there were a lot of people who tried to bring me down, but they couldn't do it. They tried, but I stood strong. Stronger than anyone thought. They couldn't break me. No one could break me. It’s a testament to how tough I am. The greatest toughness, folks.
Let me tell you, other politicians, they wish they had that kind of resilience. They wish they could say, “I was impeached three times and survived!” But they can’t. Only one man, only one—Donald J. Trump—has done it. And it’s amazing. It’s absolutely amazing.
So when you hear people talk about impeachment, just remember—no one, and I mean no one, has done it like me. And I did it better than anyone ever could. Big league. Thank you, thank you very much.
Unrealistic he stayed on one topic the whole time it's way too coherent
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans. Fuck you, you selfish, coward, pieces of shit.
I think a global boycott on US-made goods + services is necessary. Trump can only do this because the US is such a powerhouse.
As an American, I'd like the boycott to be more targeted. But yes, every company that licks the boots of this obviously fascist regime should see no more sales. I don't have a full list, but it includes at least Meta, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon.
The US is only such a powerhouse, because they generally have the support of their allies. That makes it the unparalleled biggest economic block in the world.
But without their allies, USA isn't that much stronger than China economically. And USA wouldn't be nearly the powerhouse they've gotten used to be.
So China just has to look on and do nothing, while USA is losing their world dominance quickly.
That is already happening in Canada. Those imperialists threatening annexation was finally what brought us Canadians together on something lol
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Would be nice to see global sanctions against the US. Not realistic, but I hope all countries are moving towards significantly reducing American reliance. It'll be a slow process, but needs to be done.
Honestly sanctions agains companies like these that can be weaponized politically sounds very reasonable.
They are national security threat in the true meaning of the word.
I've been looking at getting solar installed, and been talking to a few different companies for quotes. One place only supplies PowerWall batteries, and I said to the sales rep that I wasn't really interested in buying anything from Tesla and his face made it pretty clear that that was the answer he'd been getting a lot recently
Yea, buyFromEU is already getting traction. More intense on reddit and a little bit on https://feddit.org/c/buyFromEU
I moved all my cloud computing from DO and Vultr to European owned options. It's a small thing, but it's about the only thing that I had been purchasing from the USA.
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American here: hard agree. This is all insane, but it’s predictable, and they told us about it ahead of time, and people still fucking voted for it. We shat the bed, now we must lie in it.
I’m probably gonna try to leave the country and renounce my citizenship at some point, particularly if the next few months are as catastrophic as I think they’ll be.
I was planning a holiday in the US this or next year, but decided not to proceed with it. I’d rather go anywhere else now really. Currently for me Russia = India = China = North Korea = USA now. Plenty of european countries I’d rather throw my money at.
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.
The fuck did we... Oh right, Modi.
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Well, I certainly apologize. I know that's pretty worthless.
The worst thing about all of this is you have guns, you just can't aim for shit.
Don't apologize, organize.
The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans.
As an American, I'd just like to say we absolutely deserve this.
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I understand your feelings, and I share them. Let's stay strong and united, refusing to let fear or hatred divide us. Remember, we have allies in America who stand against extremism and are working tirelessly to promote justice and equality. There is a growing movement of brave activists, judges, and everyday Americans who are standing up against these challenges. It's crucial that we support them and let them know they are not alone. Together we are stronger.
You can find an overview of the current resistance in yesterday's post on Substack: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism
As someone who didn’t vote for the Cheeto Nazi, thank you for the nuance.
That said, comment OP and anyone reading this - please boycott and sanction the US! Starving the billionaire leeches and smacking government into pretending they have an iota of decorum or sense is necessary, and any outside influence on that is helpful.
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Nevermind that the terminals were not free and were paid for mostly by European allies. Duo of fuckers will leverage them anyway.
And it blows my mind that the Ontario government is trying to set up Starlink here. Just setting ourselves up for disaster.
Look at the Premier though. He is only the latest disaster in a family line of disasters.
Time for the UK government to make good on all that money we spent rescuing OneWeb...
Please, everyone else quickly develop options other than the US. We’re going to need a minute to sort this mess out. :(((((((
the weird cube man has been dicking around the Ukrainians over his satellite service since before he got involved in the election he just won. if you look into the history of spacex, a meeting with russia looms large in its early history. i personally think he's been a kremlin asset since 2004, at least.
That is an utterly crazy assertion. The Russians refused to sell him a rocket, if he was a Kremlin asset why would they refuse to sell him a rocket?
The money is bad enough already, you don't need to make stuff up.
He may have been a russian asset since 2004 (I don't know either way) but it certainly was nothing to do with that SpaceX meeting. He went there to try and buy Russian rocket engines, they told him to pound sand. He was forced to do it the hard way and hire a team and they designed what are now the Falcon 9 engines.
I don't understand why people keep making stuff up (not just this post, it's one of many), he's evil enough on the actual facts
I see it as an extension of the myth of American purity and external corruption. "This person is evil, some outside power must have compromising info on them." "Immigrants are violent criminals preying on innocent americans."
These attitudes ignore the reality that bad people can come from anywhere. There are plenty of villians with very mundane origin stories. What matters is if everyone else has the will and ability to keep bad people in check and hold them accountable.
The grifters in charge need no other motivation than a sense of superiority and an opportunity to make a buck.
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