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[–] jvw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 123 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Kids in cages, kids taken from parents and put up for adoption

Outing of all undercover ops in Russia (who were then jailed or murdered)

Installing the most corrupt supreme court justice since the 19th century

Attempted violent overthrow of the government

Ivermectin, "inject a little bleach..."

And that's just off the top of my head without coffee

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

You need some covfefe, because you forgot the most important one:

  • attempted dismantlement of the post-ww2 world order at the explicit cost of America and her western allies (broadly construed to include Japan, Australia, Korea, NZ, etc.), for the explicit benefit of Russian hegemony under Putin, with the knock-on effect of empowering most significantly our greatest geopolitical rival, China, which hopes to promulgate its fascist hellscape throughout Asia.
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And how about packing the courts with right wing nutjobs? Roe vs Wade's demise is far from the only consequence there

[–] jvw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago

Absolutely. Seems like a good thread to turn into a handy bookmarkable catalog of anti memory-hole of those nightmare years

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For people on grad it's a feature

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It literally is. When I used argue with them about Donald intentionally destabilizing the US so China could gain influence they would drop everything and write long-ass comments praising the idea.

I guess they love the economic system of "state capitalism with generating hundreds of billionaire characteristics." They'll certainly excuse any amount of Uyghur genocide for it.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

They decided to separate the children with full knowledge that they did not have the resources to track them. They straight up lost children. How many of those missing children were trafficked?

The absolute nerve that the Qanons were ever screeching about pedophile rings. Their guy is the pedophile ring.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 13 points 4 months ago

...kids taken from parents and put up for adoption

Literal kidnapping and trafficking of children.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ivermectin

Seeing my old college professor suggest that shit was wild. I remember telling the school his ass needed a sabbatical. They later ended up paying him a large settlement after students chased him off campus with baseball bats.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

With all the bullshit trump did it's hard to keep up with it all. I must have missed this one. What was Ivermectin?

[–] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug used in treating heartworm. It was one of the early conspiracy cures for covid, despite the fact viruses are notoriously different from parasitic roundworm. There was also a constrained supply of the drug used for human treatments, so the qanon types were buying the version of the treatment meant or horses.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They'd rather go through all that, rather than just wear a mask and get vaccinated???

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Vaccines will make your testicles grow spikes and drop off, like chestnuts. Haven't you heard? Apple-flavored horse paste is not only good for you, it also tastes just swell!

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

A horse dewormer people were taking for killing covid infections.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Thomas is the most corrupt, but the others aren't much better.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Thomas is brazenly and nakedly corrupt. Alito is more of a seditious traitor. Barrett is a theocrat. Boofer owed tens of thousands that someone paid off.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

The police response to the BLM protests

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah everything looks bad when you notice it

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Tbf one of those things was a bipartisan effort.

[–] jvw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Withholding aid (voted on, pledged, budgeted) to Ukraine unless Zelenskyy made up some crimes about Hunter Biden.