This is just Year 1.

Hell year one! Hasn't even been 6 months.

Judge arrested

There probably won’t be midterm elections. If there are, it will be with armed ICE agents accosting people in line to vote and making arrests.

Time to play dress-up and vote in your best MAGA outfit. But I'll warn you--you can't out MAGA me, I'm Latino, after all. 😂
- Believe it or not, straight to an El Salvador death camp
There probably won’t be midterm elections.
Talk to me when Trump cancels the gubernatorial elections in NJ and VA. Then we can worry about cancelling the midterms.
I like how they'll get away with it because if you say to arm up and use direct action against violent Nazis on this site you get banned and a mod sends you a message telling you to get help.

DNC: Oh no! Our fellow party members have been harassed and killed.

Also DNC: Anyway....

But but but....there "sounding the alarm". You don't understand it's sooooo hard to run candidates someone would really vote for. (sarcasm)
- Well Trump won in 2024 so obviously that means the american people want conservative policy. Trump moved right, that means if we run on Trumps 2024 platform, every Republican except the wackos further right than Trump will vote for us! And everyone to their left has to vote for us anyway! W/Elon 2028!

No way the party incapable of doing anything defeated by the party capable of only evil, never would have seen this coming

You're selling the dems short. They've shown theyre capable of facilitating genocide, sending the police to kick the shit out of politically activated college students, the kind who get all their friends to vote, funding ICE, building bigger "migrants overflow facilities".

Don't WORRY! Democrats ALREADY have the Fundraising text WRITTEN and READY TO GO for when the NEXT Democrat Politician gets Assassinated!

I'm BEGGING YOU on my KNEES! We need ONE MORE GIFT to FIGHT BACK the CONSERVATIVE AGENDA. We can't stop TRUMP, his MAGA CRONIES, and the CORRUPT REPUBLICANS without your HELP! Will you STAND WITH BERNIE and DONATE NOW? $20=$560. Select your answer below!
HELL YES: bullshiturl com
NO I DON'T SUPPORT DEMOCRACY: catholicgrandmaguilttrips.com
- Aww, not a real site. Bummer.
- https://youtu.be/4wtnaQvdjiM
  No donation page on the video or the description or the comments...

*This is just year 1/3. There will be eleven times more of this before Trump's term is (theoretically) over.

thr year is nearly halfway over already so its closer to 1/2
- The year is only just starting to get to the halfway mark. It's only been 4 months and 25 days since inauguration.
  Fuuuuuuuck
- Right, you got me there.
Pointing it out, and spreading the message is the first step to getting a critical mass required to affect real change.
Instead of shouting it down, maybe take up the chant.

Question: I'm not one for protesting and marching in the street. I'm sure it matters, but I'm introverted and large crowds make me very anxious. I also have health condition that needs regular management and live in the rurals, most of my time is spent at home. What can I do to actually help?

I already donate to causes I care about regularly, such as my local food bank, wikipedia, NPR, and PBS. Is there something else I can or should be doing? I hate what's happening to the US right now, but I don't feel like I have much, if any power to do anything about it or help, outside of donating to charitable causes.

Check out https://heywhatcanido.com/ ... Even if it's not tailored to your specific region, it should give you ideas about the types of things you can get involved with to actually make a difference. Much of it from home.
- Thanks!
A couple more suggestions:
- Take a look at stealth activism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo0qgvkbgvM
- Start or join your local timebank: https://hourworld.org/_Map.htm
You can search for local mutual aid groups. You won't have to be in crowds but you can still help with organizing, and making a difference on the ground. Logistics and administration are crazy helpful.
- Any tips on what I should be looking for? Or sites that might help?

For those of you keeping track, for this week it’s MAGA 5 / “Resistance” 0

Hey but the cities around me had protests that went till 2pm, only on a non-work day and family friendly so everyone could get their photo ops and be home in time to watch the game. That's surley going to change things right? ... right?
- Read this if you're having difficulty understanding the purpose of the recent protests.
- I don’t know. I think it took at LEAST four “peaceful protests” to stop the Nazis, so you still have a way to go.

Let's not forget all the Bad Things™ the Republicans have dealt with this year! They have:

A Republican-funding billionaire throwing a tantrum at Daddy Donny.

A Republican senator arrested for CSAM.

Good American patriots are being targeted and singled out! Woe is them, it's not fair! /s

It is only half way into year 1 FFS

Technically it's been almost 5 months.

But hey, at least people are gathering in the streets! If there's one thing that fascists hate it's groups of people walking together.

I love how American's are all proud of their "No Kings" turnout but are too stupid to realize at the end of the day it means nothing. It changes nothing. Trump and his Christian Nationalist handlers don't give a shit and don't even have to pay attention to it. The county is still falling down.
- Read this if you're having difficulty understanding the purpose of the recent protests.
  Spoiler: It's not to convince Trump of anything.

It's only been six months!

Year 1? Fuck is not even been 5 whole months

Where's Nancy Pelosi? Probably too busy getting rich. These Democrats supported a genocide and they got us in this position because all they are is controlled opposition. In order to have any thoughts about domestic politics in the imperial core, you need to understand the world as a whole. Liberals struggle to do this. This little island called the United States likes to smell its own brand. I think the right-wing piglets call this fuck around and find out. At least these fascist neoliberals are actually working for their money nowadays. You ain't getting no tears from me. I saw it down the track, a hundred miles away. There is no fucking war, but the class war

Where’s Nancy Pelosi?
So cool for Democrats to be in functional retirement, but still squat on their House seats like they're taking a lifetime shit.
- Fucking Boomers.
  Yes, she was born 4 years early to officially be a boomer, but she's definitely a "fuck you, got mine" boomer.

Fuck all the assholes that voted Jill Stein over Palestine or some stupid reason like that. It never was about Palestinians, and these assholes got us here: Hell

You brought all of us here, you deserve nothing

Fuck Joe Biden and team for watching the devolution to fascism happening in real time and deciding to spend their time doing genocide instead of stopping fascism.
- I still can't believe they sat on their fucking hands after Trump's multiple indictments, and did nothing to prevent the dude from running again after breaking the law 90+ times. What a useless party. All they did was try to look good.
- Not just that but ABSOLUTELY REFUSING to defend the country from domestic terrorism
- For those that are confused, the above comment is an excellent example of propaganda
- And fuck all the accelerationists who, instead of telling people to vote for Harris anyway, shouted her sins from the rooftops down at the voters.
If anti-genocide Americans weren't significant enough to listen to, they're not significant enough to blame.
- Concepts like that are too logical for the Liberal mind to comprehend
- Need that on a t shirt
Yeah all those third party voters who if they all voted for Kamala wouldn't have changed the results of any state are to blame. Not picking unpopular polices, or breaking away from Biden who was a deeply unpopular candidate. It's the people who had zero impact state and federal level.
Not worth listening to, but big enough to blame. The enemy is weak and strong.
- It's sad I recognize your username because you always have the dumbest fucking thing to say.
A brain so smooth its literally frictionless.
You're right about the few morons that voted Trump who do not share his hatred and bigotry, but remember... most of the country didn't even vote.
You should probably spend more time stomping around your basement yelling at the monitor screen
Fuck all the assholes that voted Jill Stein over Palestine
Point to the state Harris wins with the Green Party vote.
- Notice how they can't but will regurgitate their talking points, because fact checking is propaganda, or something.
fuck the people that never even bothered to vote at all even though it's literally the most important thing you can do as a citizen in a democracy
- fuck the people that never even bothered to vote at all
  Funny, because so much of Trump's support came from people who were totally checked out of the process under Romney and McCain.
  If you look at his gross turnout, he's presided over an enormous surge in GOP participation.
- You know there's more to vote for than president right, and more things that effect you directly. Not even dwelling on the fact that politicians earning your vote is the cornerstone of democracy, not candidates that have your vote no matter what because how awful the other guy is.
  Always curious to hear when people lash out at other voters who have clear concise demands and a non-cursory grasp of politics if they spent the time to research and vote for the different props in their area, or if they just read the ads each side puts forth and just pick one. Or worse yet, skips them or randomly bubbles.
You are scapegoating a tiny minority of people, of only about 0.5%. You are no different than the conservatives, maybe you should consider joining them instead?
- With how things are shifting, if they stick with them in 2028, they'll be 2016 Republicans. They're already doing a lot of the policies and voting for it.

So you can see where this is going? What are you going to do about it? What are even realistic options? Perhaps a strongly worded post on X?

- Luigi's Haunted Mansion
Instead of bitching in the same public manner they are informing people on, what's YOUR resolution..or do you just complain about others
- Not from the USA, very simple for me. I would go outside and talk to people what they think. If they are pro Trump, see why that is. Then show them how he is absolutely not doing anything for them, based on quotes of him directly, if possible.

thats despite peaceful protesting btw.

On the up side, Nancy Pelosi is running for re-election.

It is only June 15, so technically it hasn't even been a full 5 months

This is just the end of month 5.

"Filthy Communists" - Hitler 1933

I'm sure if you stand around in large crowds holding a sign it will all go away.

You're right. It will. In concert with all the other things people are actually doing to fight back.
You got it buddy! Being politically active and engaged with your community is how this works.

It's all Biden's fault.

You get downvoted, but it's a simple fact that he knew what the threat was and ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to do anything at all to defend the country.

Side note: Year 1 is an awesome movie with Jack Black and Michael Cera as cavemen who venture out into the world.

Side note: it's actually terrible.
- Side note: entertainment is subjective.

Lemmy split hairs between leftists & liberals as if that gets us anywhere.

Liberals kill leftists all the fucking time
- Their favorite pastime even.
Your statement suggests you don’t know what liberals are
Liberals are just people who believe in limited to no government
As Trump is authoritative they wouldn’t support him but that doesn’t mean they side with leftists. And you’ll find authoritative leftists, like those that complain about Liberals
- I can assure you that in the US of A, that's a distinction without a difference & we just call the left liberals.
I used to think so, too, until I gave it some thought.

Lefties killing their own. It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

Incorrect
Conservatives arrested a Democratic mayor.
Conservatives indicted a Democratic congresswoman.
Conservatives tackled and detained a Democratic senator.
Conservatives killed a Democratic state representative.
Conservatives put another state representative in critical condition.
- Don’t even entertain the bad faith little cunt with a response
Imagine being this dumb 😂
- But like, how would they know they're dumb?
Drank the kool-aid, huh bub?
- It's Kaboom. Reddit has r/conservative for kool-aid door to door salesmen, and Lemmy has a handful of well-known names as our fediverse equivalent.