You'd get nothing but disingenuous answers, rhetoric, and bad faith arguments.

I stopped trying to understand them because all measures are correct about them. They're racist, fascist, bigoted morons wrapped in Christianity and the flag as their excuses for being so.

I point to the likes of Mitch McConnell who has been working to undermine our government for decades, just that instead of someone with half a brain they got Trump instead so have to go with him.

Exactly. Everyone is scapegoating Trump like he's the cause of everything evil. But if he were just some fringe lunatic nobody agreed with, he would have been laughed out of the primaries immediately. The problem isn't him, it's the system that allowed him to even have a chance of being elected, and that includes the government, the billionaires running it, and a large percentage of voters

Nailed it. Trump to America is like Ringo to the Beatles. He’s a perfect fit.

He’s also like the Joker. He’s a reflection of hypocritical, first-world corruption, capitalism and consumerism. The citizens rely on Batman (establishment wealthy centrists) to save them every four to eight years. And when Batman fails to truly change material conditions, they let out the Joker from Arkham again, who promises to maintain their first-world consumerism.

Of course, the joker is a psychopath who wrecks shit, so he also fails on his promise to improve material conditions. He worsens them. The citizens get pissed and cry out to billionaire Batman again. Joker gets thrown to Arkham again for four to eight years. Rinse and repeat, without ever looking within themselves to see how they perpetuate the evil cycle of exploitation.

Even if voters didn’t directly vote him, they still support the system via there dollars to all the corrupt things. It’s exactly by design to serve the capitalist class. Batman and Joker are from the same DNA of the wealthy lineage.

If Americans woke up and addressed the true problem, which originates from their collective obsession with materialism and stop relying on Batman to save them from the Joker, then the joker has no reason to stick around and Batman becomes irrelevant.

dart gun*

And keep the nuclear football away from him

Browning M2*

BB. He needs to suffer long term

Arrest most of SCOTUS - then arrest the Don.

It's impossible that he'll do even one day in prison

Even in the best case scenario, that the Dems win the congress in a landslide, he gets impeached, gets 25th amended, forgets to pardon himself, then the legal proceedings will get dragged so long that the final sentence will come long after his death.

I don't think he thinks he'll go to prison at this point. He spent his entire life avoiding it.

Yes, you're right. Depending on the bubble, you'll get a lot of push back, though.

There are multiple checkpoints that need to be cleared. First, gotta have the overwhelming blue tsunami. It won't happen quite like some people suggest. There will be wins, maybe overwhelmingly so, but there will be losses. At the national level, it will take only a strategic win or two by Republicans to undermine almost any chance of progress. Not to mention the THOUSANDS of state and local level elections happening, and I can tell you that the Democrat party is way weaker at those levels, especially in rural areas and red states.

We're literally in a situation where everything has to go according to an exact plan or there's no real hope of success. It's a tough position to be in.

All that aside, even if there's a clear blue tsunami and literally every race goes to Democrat / progressive candidates, the American people are still going to have to hold those elected officials accountable and force them to actually fight back, make progress, and work for the people. Guarantee it. Money from corporations and the ultra wealthy in this country is far more powerful than our votes, our opinions, and our lives.

Emphatically agree except for the last sentence unfortunately, I think the reason that journalist boycott happened is because members of the White House press pool have agreement with each other to share resources

Like, the whole reason for a press pool is that it's a logistical impossibility for every interested news organization to get a journalist into most events because there just isn't enough space, so CNN Fox etc. say "Ok, your employees cover Monday, we do Tuesday, WaPo does Wednesday, etc., and we all share whatever video or audio we get."

So, I think Fox heard about CNN and the others getting banned, and they were like "Oh so now we're responsible Monday and Tuesday? Hell no, I'm not paying the staff hours for that, concentration camps and extrajudicial executions I can forgive but I will burn this government to the ground if they make me go over budget this quarter."

The journalist boycott has happened before. Last time Trump banned reporters, all the major outlets stood up for them. Whatever you think about any of those outlets, they all understand that an attack on one of them could just as easily be an attack on any of them - especially with The Idiot in charge. That’s why they respond in the way they do.

Weirdly, it’s a similar argument that supports the unions many of these networks spend so much time railing against.

Current thinking is that they are just going to refuse to seat the new reps.

Fear not, vote, press on!

Not close enough to the "shoots himself in his bunker" bit.