The ?? is a Symptom

Aug 1, 2026 11:19 PM

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Fox News has been fomenting this for decades. This is the republican end game. This is what they are allowing, propping up really.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, I’m very sorry but I gave up on the USA when they re-elected that vile man. I hope you can come out of this period in your history with some strength and dignity in tact.

But to be blunt I do think that somewhere along this timeline there will be the shedding of blood. It’s that bad. The longer he is there to poison the pool things are going to get worse and worse.

What are you as a people going to do if he simply refuses to leave Office and goes full retard on those opposing him?

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There are no checks and balances. There is no gentleman's agreement. There are no red lines, no moral boundaries, no protocols in place to prevent this from happening again.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep. We've been here before with the Railroad Barons and their push for de-regulation (laissez faire - hands off - economics).

1 month ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

I think the issue is that the attitude she describes is because of the isolation of the United States. The people living in the USA have no one else to directly compare themselves against. Yes, they consume media, but the algorithm guarantees that you only consume the media that agrees with your bias! As such, you do not get the real picture of what is going on "over there". It's a fact that most Americans never even leave the town they were raised in, less another complete country.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bush crime family. $1.47 billion from the Saudis. Partisan use of extreme secret government Ops for extrajudicial violence against Blacks, the Left, and to manipulate elections. Sociopath alcoholics like Cheney, Bush Jr. front and center. War crimes, torture. Big oil corruption. Bush Jr, awol, cocaine Trump Jr. Cocaine. https://www.theguardian.com/us-">-haslett">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/bush-dynasty-donald-trump-south-carolina-adam-haslett https://www.salon.com/2004/03/12/unger_2/ 1

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All the self-serving lies. War pretexts to get re-elected since Nixon: Bush 2004 Trump/Vance/Theil\Netanyahu 2026? 2028? https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32501273 SCOTUS coups? 3 of the Justices are Bush v. Gore lawyers! Including Roberts- and mostly GOP judges secret FISA star chamber court against Dems, immigrants; The Federalist Society bribery by Right wing oligarchs. ht">archs. h">e Federalist Society bribery by Right wing oligarchs. https://lawliberty.org/repeal-fisas-star-chamber-court/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline/

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your exceptionalism and individualism are not keys to a healthy society. The capitalism that everyone bows down to also keeps you stuck.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because to some people "the worst version of themselves " is the easier version. It doesn't require work, or introspection, or patience, or understanding. It is easier to haye, for some people, than it is to underatand.
And when the only thing tethering you to morality (religion) is encouraging that worst version, what chance do we have.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have been saying this for decades. Having lived In the administration of every president since Harry Truman and watching the depredations of the GOP in the persons of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Jerry Falwell, and a host of others, I can confidently say that the damage has been going on for over 60 years. That's a lot of disinformation, a lot of gaslighting, a lot of lies and gerrymandering and douchebaggery. It will take generations to repair.

1 month ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 2

They're not going to get fixed as the desire to do so just isn't there, it seems. People like Mamdani, Sanders, AOC, etc., as well as, more importantly, people willing to vote for them, are the exception, not the rule.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I would argue that it has been brewing longer than that. The social rot this spewed from can be dated back to our civil war or even baked into the founding of our nation as unresolved and unreconcilable differences from before the Civil War. It only took a back-seat during the world wars with Truman being the bookend of WWII where things slowly picked back up where they started (and where you have empirical first-hand experience seeing these issues build during your lifetime).

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The disease, you can see when you listen to magats speak. These people want what they know absolutely is wrong. They will do everything they can to dance around, justify, and try to avoid the impression of hypocrisy but they know what they want is selfish, hateful, and destructive. Most of all they want to hide from the truth because that is more terrifying than the lie.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Republican Party has been Anti-Humanity since the Powell Memo. ALL of their works have been to further the goals of their main constituent - Capital - and the Legal Person who are Corporations who do that work for them.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I read that as "stage four stepmom"

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If only more people could see this; that Trump is just a late stage symptom of a disease that has been spreading for decades.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

He won because all the dems could or would provide were empty, passionless losers. But mostly because of the elitist narrative from liberals since the 80s: multiculturalism works (it never has), if you're white you're a racist; all white males are rapists; somehow wanting border control is racist (add rest of playbook here). Then Hillary: Deplorables. Then an old man won who was beyond hope and Kamala was ridiculous. Plus, on of course, social media...

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The entire GOP is at fault and has been since the Civil Rights Era. They've been planning this for nearly a full century.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They are so bigoted, so immoral, and so willing to kill anyone to get their way to loot the fucking treasury, they've destroyed everything.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The people responsible? They probably only "live" in the US for 2-3 months out of the year, max. The US is just their tax haven.

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1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

It's because this goes beyond a political problem; it's cultural; it's psychological; and frankly I also think it's moral and Spiritual.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

This is like the whole country was built on stolen land and graveyard, and founded on slavery and murder.....

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He is the symptom, the disease is the Republican party. Trump will be gone eventually, but the Republican party will live on. We need to acknowledge that reality and decide what we are going to do about it. Are we going to let that disease keep festering, or are we going to do the hard work and eliminate it?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It’s not even the GOP. It’s the people. It’s a deeply ingrained cultural problem, which may take several generations to turn around. If it ever comes that far.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The disease is the party that enables it and shields him from accountability

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

The U.S. was founded by a bunch of rich, white supremacist, genocidal, tax dodging rapist who owned slaves and were more than willing to throw the poor at other poor people in order to gain and keep power. Donald Trump fits in perfectly with founding fathers, and the only problem they would've had with him is that he's uncouth. This isn't a problem of just one party but a system that enables rich assholes to be their worst selves, or to put it more succinctly,

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

The disease is in the people and their culture. It’s in the way they vote, the way they allow themselves to be misled, their selfishness, shortsightedness and greed, their worship of false prophets who make them feel good, it’s in how they externalise their own responsibilities.

Saying it’s in the party is just externalising that which comes from within.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Post the second part. wtf

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I moved out of the States in late 2025, the thing that makes me sick is there are so many people that follow that joker so wholeheartedly…wearing t-shirts and flags in their front yards. They aren’t fans of his economic policies, they are fans of the hate…hate of people with dark skin like me, or childless women like my wife. Knowing how many there are is chilling.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Damn I wanted to see more. I want to know the antidote.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trump tore the scab off of a festering abscess and showed it to everyone.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trump inherited everything in his life. His wealth, his beliefs, his image, his success.. everything. He was simply the one to step into those shoes that had already been prepared by USA and the GOP.

In a Democracy the people gets the representation it deserves, for better or worse. And Trump truly is the American peoples president. Nobody else can truly claim to be a product of their society more than him.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The American republic has been sick since we allowed a group of unrepentant traitors back into the union rather than cleaning them all out with fire and the sword.

It turns out trying to negotiate with a cancer like the republicans only leads to the death of the host.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 8

If you know the original source (of the video that’s not cut off prematurely), please post it.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Not my job.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Well then, stop whining. The content is good - the source is irrelevant.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That ship sailed long ago. Not to mention that the content should be judged on its own merit.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Weird, I don't see any OC in your feed from anywhere, just like a dozen political posts that are just images. Go fuck yourself.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, when you start a country on white supremacy and genocide and all your leaders venerate the genocidal white supremacist you can't act surprised when your country turns into a genocidal white supremacist shit-hole. Trump is the truest face of America. He is America without the fiction that makes the country look pretty. What we're seeing now is what America's always been.

1 month ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

He may well be the Menckenesque logical end point of democracy, but our government didn’t used to be anywhere near this corrupt. Even the second and third place winners there are orders of magnitude less fucked up. While there have been horrors throughout our history, there was a certain internal consistency in the government. While the rules were biased, it largely remained close to them. These motherfuckers are just blowing everything up. It’s a very different thing.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I hate that op is not wrong. The fix is going to take much longer, and more pain than any of us is ready to admit.

1 month ago | Likes 174 Dislikes 4

I don't know, as quickly as he is dismantling things we can undo them. saying it's going to take extra long is something. someone who would profit from the process might say as a sales pitch.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Yeah?? When have things improved? Give actual examples of undoing things that have survived this admin. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

all the people the government had to hire back after being fired. and yeah I hear you. we're still waiting for things to stop being so stupid so we can undo them. hopefully.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It's always been there, festering, since birth.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

It used to be acting out of self interest "when America sneezes the worlds catches cold"... Now its "I will gladly snort lines of asbestos and smoke unfiltered cigarettes for the chance to watch americans suffer consequences"

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm most worried that the cancer goes so deep that a lot of people will die before it gets better. First through terrible things the government does to us and then through violent revolution to overthrow them.

1 month ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

We're already in deep with at least a million and a half dead because of /one/ guy. A /lot/ of people are going to die, and even then i doubt we're gonna see much change until the /right/ people start dying.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

The average age of the 6 conservatives of SCOTUS is 66. The 3 liberals average 64. This won't be over of 2 decades at least.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't think the trade deals going to go your way.

1 month ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 6

I hope that I can express, or maybe you already know, that your average American doesn't want this and are embarrassed and sorry for these dumbass trade moves. Our "representative democracy" hasn't actually been one in far too long of a time. We are all getting fucked over by it and it's only going to help the rich get richer regardless of what border they're behind.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Except he is literally making Americans sick by messing with the food supply. The country known for saying sorry is probably going to kill you. At this point you're all just waiting around to die, for a Pedo-Nazi, lol.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 7

You're getting down voted not because anybody disagrees that Trump is a pedo-nazi (I agree he is), but because your response was weird, unwarranted, and not based in any kind of objective reality. I mean, good chance you're a bot anyway, fuck knows half of imgur is these days, as is the rest of the internet.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not at all a bot, my first post predates the no selfie rule. Definitely feel like you underestimate how much real danger you guys are in because of Trump. Like you acknowledge you are following the whims of A pedo-nazi.
People are living like Anne Frank and my response is unwarranted. Trump is literally causing NATO allies to get attacked. You should be worried you don't live in the most advanced nuclear power.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

Yup. Decades of damage to undo. And that's IF we can ever get adults in the white house, congress, AND supreme court.

1 month ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 2

At least you’re seeing it. I’m tired of the denial hidden behind “decorum” or fundraising emails just because Trump is bad. The system is screwed up and primed to create him as evidence by the fact this isn’t the first time having a corrupt president.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

America is cooked. The culture is rotten. Our grandparents forced the rich to pay 92% income taxes between 1944 and 1963. Its been going downhill since 1964. Maybe the current teens will do something.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's that mythological/philosophical/whatever trope saying "You gotta die before you can live" - well...

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination."

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It will not be fixed in my lifetime. Things will not be good again before I die. That is a terrible realization. That the rest of my life is going to be a miserable slog through a society that is broken and controlled by the 1%. That I will likely die under a fascist dictator.

1 month ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

While I certainly agree with this as a mood, I don't think I agree with it as practical. I just imagine being an adult during WWII, or the Great Depression- those times DID get better. We've got work to do, and you'll probably see things get better so long as you're not already in your 80s. You might not see it hit social utopia, but it WILL get better; we just have to put in the work.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I would love to say I agree with you. But the corruption of the Republikkkan party is now endemic to the USA, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1% is far beyond any previous extremes. Couple that with "AI" and the massive layoffs, and you have a recipe for something that will last decades. I don't have decades left.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh I know I could be wrong; I know it's gunna be a mess, but here's hoping a lot more of us see the other side of that mess than were expecting to see it. Many blessings your way for health and safety stranger.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey, you might get lucky and have a great, intelligent, and caring president administer the decline of USA.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not convinced he legitimately won in 2024

1 month ago | Likes 90 Dislikes 4

It's okay. He didn't. It's why the GOP and their media pieces constantly lied about Trump winning in 2020. It's wasn't because it happened. They did it so that in an attempt to make the Dems have to spend the next 4 years doing the same thing as them. Calling the election results fake. It muddies the water and an election process that the entire country doesn't trust is easy to replace.

1 month ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

He did not.

American has not had a free or fair election in decades, if it ever has.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Depends on what you mean by "legitimately". Like, no, votes weren't changed or stolen... But a whole bunch of foreign money did go into propaganda in violation of election laws.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

ok guy, sure...
hundreds of thousands of people just voted for nothing but democrats except for Trump, sure, whatever you say

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The polls for months before the election in all the states that he won were pretty well in line with the election results, so if they cheated on the election they must have also cheated on every poll run by every organization

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

some polls were, some polls weren't...

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Considering the rabid musk literally said he rigged the machines? I would be astonished anyone actually believes he legitimately won.

1 month ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm convinced he didn't, but I can't prove it.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I'm not too surprised that it happened again. Democrats royally fucked up on their side. Harris came in way too late and wasn't a great candidate to begin with. She has exactly none of the charm Obama had for example. It's very clear Americans don't vote based on what benefits them, but based on who seems convincing.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A Republican, him, winning every swing state ?

1 month ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

And in those states, Democrats won all over, down-ballot. People voted for Dems for all other offices, but HIM for pres? Fuck off.

1 month ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Read about bullet voting. It's definitely part of it

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And doing so almost exclusively through bullet ballots? and they're all states that during Biden's entire tenure, people associated with Trump repeatedly got caught messing with voting machines

1 month ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Plus Elon Musk's involvement

1 month ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Why?! You think USAers are any less stupid, racist, xenophobic, etc than in many other parts of the world?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 9

Racist, Xenophobic...
Hmm
This you?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Erick Salgado was a commissioner in the NYC Office of Immigrant Affairs in the Eric Adams' administration. His appointment was opposed by many for his many instances of bigotry. My post was a demonstration of this bigotry and my comment under it made it clear my post wasn't an endorsement of his post.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes, you demonstrate bigotry quite well.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

So if you think "USAers" are all "stupid, racist, xenophobic, etc"
I guess that makes you stupid, racist, xenophobic, etc.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Not all but enough are so that Trump is president and mean-minded people such as Charlie Kirk and Lindsey Graham are mourned by many. Such is the country in which you live.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

in which *I* live? You speak as if you live in a different country.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

stupid?
Here's you admitting to being stupid, and blaming it on measles

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Too bad you can't recognize sarcasm when it kicks you in the ass.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're right, my bad. You compared yourself to a bunch of great minds. Very arrogant for someone with an IQ of 81.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And here's you being a pedophile, didn't expect to find THAT...

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Holy fuck, that's bad

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nellybelly1 in fucking shambles

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A joke - don't remember the context of the OP. Or do you actually think this is something that might be a reality?

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OP was someone explaining the tariffs were making clothes, school items, etc way more expensive.

So you "joked" saying that clothing optional schools should be a thing.

Then when peopled called you out, you ignored them.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's a nice bit of unintelligible word salad you have there. Is that because of the measles?

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're a fool. I'm gonna leave it at that.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1