A week ago, a MAGA pastor assassinated two Democrat politicians in an act of terror. It's not even in the top three stories of the month
A week ago, a MAGA pastor assassinated two Democrat politicians in an act of terror. It's not even in the top three stories of the month
I have a prediction:
Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the 'behalf' of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don't need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.
The Trump Regime has destroyed America's intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.
Probably many sleeper agents in the US already
President Krasnov is one.
American concept of law enforcement at the hands of the Executive resulted in this lawlessness
I have seen articles and discussions about all of those items multiple times. We've known trump was an associate of Epstein for how many years? 20? 30? The problem is that there's literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything unless the person being held accountable is just a regular person living paycheck to paycheck.
Mostly agree, but the Epstein bit gave me pause. Did anything new come to light recently?
I don't believe so. Looking at the released evidence, it doesn't seem to really say more than what everyone has known for years. That Epstein had contact information for a lot of people and a lot of people flew on his plane.
Sure there is. There's more of you than there is of them.
there's literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything
There is, it's voting.
The problem is that democracy relies on voters being informed. Aside from being racist, sexist and classist, one reason that the US founding fathers initially limited voting to white male land-owners is that they thought they would be educated and knowledgeable. In 2025 we're in a situation where any US citizen over 18 gets to vote, regardless of knowledge or education. At least half the country is buried under an avalanche of disinformation and propaganda, so the system that should hold people accountable for things is broken because nobody can agree on even the most basic facts.
Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it's not even connected sections.
But Mexico was going to pay for the wall...
8% is honestly impressive. The Mexico / Texas border is 2000 km. If they actually built 160 km of wall that's a real achievement.
But, it shows how unrealistic the project is. 160,000 metres of wall is a massive undertaking. There aren't many other human projects that involve building something that big. And it was only a tiny fraction of the distance they needed to cover. They would have left the hard parts for the end. The hard parts are both hard to construct and hard to legally acquire.
Some sections of the wall would have been hard to construct because of the type of soil/rock, and because of how remote they are from everything. The costs there would probably have easily been 10x the costs to construct in easier places. Good thing Mexico was going to pay for the project.... right?
Then, there's the issue of expropriating private land to build the wall. A lot of the land along the border is privately owned, and even when the owners are die-hard Texan republicans, they're not want to give the government their land so the government can build a huge wall. The stuff that was easy legally would have been the first to get done. The stuff where they needed to claim eminent domain and defend lawsuits in court is another matter. The really tricky stuff would have have been put off as long as possible.
So, it's 8%, but it's not the hard 8%, it's the easiest 8% of what was frankly an impossible project.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/
It's a decent article explaining where money didn't go, how much of the wall isn't really connected l.
Why do you think fascists create wars?
As a distraction for internal problems they caused
The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.
It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.
Peak lib delusions. That's why y'all lost. Quiet down and go back to brunch.
🤔 is this accurate? I don't even follow political stuff and I've heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things
"People" meaning major news stations which are controlled by billionaires and are the only source of news for the boomer generation. This has lead to the brainwashing that allowed our current president to get into office.
It's hardly better for the Facebook generation, or the Twitter generation, or the TikTok generation, or the Roblox generation. Everybody is living in their information silos in the US.
suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations
the three pillars of american education
That's four pillars... I'll start again...
...
"Amongst the pillars of American education are such diverse elements as..."
Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP's strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.
Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.
It’s literally called “flooding the zone” and they’ve talked openly about the fact they’re doing it
There are so many things that should make the headlines that nothing makes the headlines anymore.
It's called desensitization.
And honestly, if you think some cazy dude killing two people is what should be on page one these days, you got your priorities wrong.
Hypernormalisation
Like you said, I think it's more prioritization than desensitization. It really isn't the most important story out there now, and it's not a conspiracy that it's not being mentioned.
We have limited ram in our biological CPUs.
"Flood the zone with shit" is working as intended. It‘s chilling to see how quickly push comes to shove and we‘re in a world war once again.
War, what is it good for?
Apparently it's good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.
waging the dog, Reichstag Fire, whatever you want to call it that's all this is. We can't have the plebs focusing no us assassinating the opposition, lets go bomb Iran saying we took out their nuclear capabilities meanwhile we actually didn't.
Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.
¿Por qué no los dos?
The news has been captured by monied interests for decades now. Stop expecting it to televise the revolution.
I already see way to much news from the USA while the war in Ukrain is a day driving away. We see almost nothing from that.
USA would much rather support genocide in palestine than resist genocide in ukraine.
And that's only the last couple of weeks. That list could be a hundred times longer.
For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.
Strap in because the next one will distract us from war with Iran.
We're drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won't forget that turd, but there's literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It's amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C'mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.
Firehose of falsehood also is Russian thing
Elon's minions are still running amok in our government agencies doing god knows what with our personal data.
Mario's Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.
Just like when tRump became the oldest candidate and suddenly no one was talking about age anymore.
I stole this. Quite shamelessly, too.
Can we impeach and convict and remove/imprison him yet?
Impeachment requires majority, Republicans have majority and MAGA will never cross their cult leader.
Anymore it seems the only out may be 86.
Flood the zone. This is by design
Some great explanations in this post:
Idk I saw news and discussion for all these things and when I brought them up with people I know they also heard of them. We all have a somewhat wide diversity on how we learn about current events too.
I dont think the disinformation/distraction machine is working as well as it thinks
Agreed, my friends knew about 90% of these and most of them are not on Lemmy. I think the weak link, or the one most hadn't heard of, is the new funding bill that grants Trump more crazy powers to thwart the justice system ... but at this point who can be surprised by that.
A pastor? Never heared of "Thou shalt not kill"?
Someone hasn't read the Old Testament...
Another descriptive term is wagging the dog (referring to the tail having disproportionate leverage over the beast) which is a (not uncommon) presidential tactic of taking a serious military action in order to distract from other scandals.
News media, including classic liberal media will allow other stories to die to report on attacks or invasions (or when you can get it, attacks on the US by foreign units).
George W.Bush used this method, but also blitzing the public with countless scandals. (George H. W. Bush did too) So Trump's kitchen cabinet was likely informed by history when considering becoming Bibi's personal B.
Yeah, man, let's get back to talking about it. Like we were doing. Just sittin around, talking about it, while more and more of this list happened. And then we just kept on talkin. That's what we need to get back to, suddenly, no one's talking about it. That's the problem.
I thought the 2024 election rigging was all wild speculation?
I agree the pieces are there for it to happen but I didn't see any actual evidence.
I saw an analysis of results in deep-blue Arizona cities where there were quite a few people who voted for Trump...then Democrat down the rest of the ballot.
It's not hard evidence, but it's suspicious. The problem the US has is that the winners are quite okay with winning at any cost and don't see a problem, even if the win was stolen.
Establishment Dems have been trying to sell the fantasy concept of a full Democratic ticket, with Trump at the top. I'm sure there are a few, but they are as rare as white squirrels.
The idea that it was common is ridiculous. I've never heard ANYONE say that voted that way.
There's an active court case in New York uncovering indications of tampering and wild statistical anomalies. This blog is a little conspiratorial sounding, but it's also doing a difficult job of putting back together the pieces of what is looking like a well executed technological coup.
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
Yes and no. As others have stated, there isn't a whole lot of evidence that any specific cheating was happening. But historically Republicans have always cheated and if there was a way to cheat they would cheat. They have been slowly putting people into positions that would allow them to affect the elections. They have been making laws to make it harder for people to vote that they don't want voting.
I think the more interesting question is if they did cheat, would it even matter?
More and more evidence is coming to light. Even more will come out, eventually they'll start getting connected together, and eventually names will be attached.
Unfortunately, it won't be the cowardly Dem leadership that will find this. People on the outside are going to have to uncover the facts and blow it up to the point that the Dems can't ignore it.
We are used having a crisis per quarter not crazy Orange Chicken spamming the controls and creating 4 crises per day
I remember seeing some post of reddit while lurking of a bunch of election letters being dumped in a drain
I wonder what came of that
You think "nobody" is talking about it?
What a tiny world you live in
Joffrey has really upped his game this season.
Oh yes we are. The news has a short memory but we don't. F that guy.
I am so drunk rn but I can't wait to read this tomorrow because you are a goddess sharing fucking .gov sources to a mother fucking bill and I'm ALL ABOUT those kind of sources after years of clickbait news
we the people have probably read more of any given proposed bill than the republican congress voting on it, how fucked is that?
No a real act or terror is burning empty cybertrucks.
/s
It does feel like that story just got moved from way too fast.
The news around Donald changes faster than the weather in the mid-west. He's done more or been involved in more in a few months than most presidents could accomplish in 2 full terms.
Throwing a brick into a dryer is less chaotic.
War is a beautiful thing...
Censoring across the board.
Well, Americans shooting each other is hardly news.
it is when the republicans skim their knee
It's almost to that point with republican domestic terrorists. Hell, they admitted as much at cpac
Fascists shooting people isn't news because it's always been a major foundation of the state.
Spread spread spread! Cowardly press will give the people what we want when they see us doing it first. Spread spread spread.
Spot on!
I know about ALL those things, and more, so it's getting covered somewhere.
The list might get longer, But we still talk about it.
mush used "a.i." to rebrand himself as an autistic mother-loving manic-techboi whose father recounted, suddenly at the height of misdiagnosis crisis, he was called "retard" in grade school. and just like that, a white african repackaged himself using every grief he could mine from american grit and soul.
he channeled the white negro and sold it back to american men after jeff bezos reduced their morale with the API Mandate (why anyone celebrated this draconian move, will remain a mystery of capitalism).
This is just another drop in the bucket. Not even worth mentioning. It serves no use to imperial narrative.
USA is a racist genocidal empire. It actively supports fascism like this attack. But the far greater fascism is inflicted upon palestinians, iranians, lebanese, yemenis, syrians, etal. We don't ever hear an honest narrative about this terrorism. Forget about some fash pastor.
(Also crying about "american citizens" is just supporting attacks on refugees. This lib shit is really gross.)