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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago

McGill professors love warning about red lines from their safe space in a city that's "just more European". It's a gradient, and the US is in between cherry and crimson right now.

[–] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

American conservatives have proudly declared their desire to disregard these "red lines" for decades. I'm done waiting on the media to recognize them for what they are - enemies.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 9 points 18 hours ago

You can’t wait for the media, because the media is largely owned by the far right.

They make highly inflammatory right leaning news programs, and highly complacent left leaning news programs. It keeps the right active and angry, and tells the left to sit down and fret quietly while waiting for due process to solve problems.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

And nothing will be done because it's not just Trump crossing that crucial red line, every Republican is right there behind him.

[–] SomeNerdOutThere@lemm.ee 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He, his cronies, and half the party need to be tried for treason.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago
[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago

And at least a third of the country (and another third doesn't care).

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, eight years ago.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Man I miss old Looney Tunes.

I went and saw the new movie with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie and it was pretty darn good.

And listen, I know now isn't really a good time to watch a movie and get distracted, but it did a pretty good job of distracting me and made my mental health a tiny bit better not having to think about what we're going through and will be going through.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

There’s nothing wrong with taking a little break from reality. You’ve got to let your mind a soul rest for a bit or you’ll just get depressed!

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly it'll be all of us going off the cliff if this shit persists.

[–] brrt@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

Me an European laughs in Bugs Bunny

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

No shit. That’s why I voted for Harris

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 151 points 1 day ago (5 children)

LOL the Orange Turd crossed the line a long time ago when he tried to overthrow the government with his MAGAt army.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m so sick of the media playing this fucking game.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

The media in this country is so infuriating. They asked if we were going to do anything about it, and Bondi says its up to El Salvador. So they asked the El Salvador Hitler, and he says "What am I supposed to do? Its not up to me to make decisions for another country, its a preposterous question!"

Literally EVERY person in the world who could negotiate such a thing was sitting right there in that room, and none of the "journalists" suggested they work it out right now, with the whole world watching.

Yesterday, Peter Navarro was on Meet The Press, and the host never asked him a single question about his primary source for his tariff expertise being a phony expert whose name is an anagram of his own. Its all I would have talked about, but she never alluded to it at all, even at the end when he was blathering on with weird insincere flattery of the host (I got the idea that that's how he addresses HitlerPig). The guy is a total fraud, and yet he is in charge of our disastrous tariff strategy, and she can't ask him a single question about his obvious fraudulent qualifications on the subject.

The journalists in the White House Press Corps, and hosting shows like Meet The Press, are supposed to be the top journalists in their proffession, but they treat their jobs as if their only responsibility is to provide a platform for the worst people to present their propaganda as Truth, without any questions.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

Then they elected him again. Fucking leopards I tell ya.

[–] AreaSIX@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

"If that's not the crisis, nothing is," he closed.

The writer's almost there: nothing is.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 198 points 1 day ago (8 children)

You meant ANOTHER crucial red line.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're running out of red ink for all these red lines being crossed.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

experts are trying to convince americans to respond, but we aren't.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The previous dismissals of court orders were injunctions, not rulings. That’s a contempt of court charge, not a constitutional crisis.

Today were both the first and second rulings he has openly defied. The first was refusing to return Garcia. The second was refusing to allow the AP into the Oval Office to cover the press conference.

[–] Back_it_up@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

Right, so NOW we'll see how things are, or are not, going to work. Next, the military is up. They would need to remove him from office and let new elections run. If not, then it's up to us, the last line of defense.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I look behind us and I just see a red road. It's all red lines, all the way back.

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[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh. Okay. THIS is the crisis moment. Sure.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surely this time people will all get together and walk down to DC and drag his orange ass out onto the lawn. Surely.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Best they can do is applaud AOC and Sanders while they hold a speech.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Our nation still has the delusion of "Someone is coming to save us."

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 108 points 1 day ago (1 children)

people still absolutely SHOCKED by fascists doing fascism

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm crushing your head!

CRUSH! CRUSH! CRUSH!

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 day ago (20 children)

The American people's passiveness with regard to "red lines" is about on par with Putin's overuse of the term. I expect a bit of whining online for 24-48 hours but no meaningful actions.

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When 'Yes, Prime Minister' had a scene about salami tactics, it was referring to the Russians invading West Berlin.

It feels far more relevant to Nazi America today than the actual Russian invasion of Ukraine.

What parody are we living in?

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In a true democracy that would be way beyond the red line, but in USA today, this is just another Monday.

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