The comment by Wilco@lemmy.zip is right, but isn’t complete…
There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too…
We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.
Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short…
Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc…
Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of “inherent” confidence, on average, that most don’t, simply because the way others relate to their body’s “status” programmed that into them…
Some lives are born with “teflon” preventing accountability.
Some lives are born with “glue” making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.
Trump’s life is characterized by non-accountability.
HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn’t.
Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.
This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.
SANE worlds wouldn’t allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but … politics won’t tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that’s what gets to own/rule the world.
Anyways, it’s karma.
His continuum/soul’s previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and … his soul’s future is not anything I’d want to be caught-in.
Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.
All the Western religions which hold that change isn’t possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans…
narcissism.
Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.
Getting caught in a life that has “teflon” protection against accountability doesn’t prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.
Universe’s action->reaction law applies, anyways.
That is the folly of getting a “fortunate” life which consumes all one’s good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then … railroading one’s own soul’s future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them…
shrug
Action-reaction’s real.
HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn’t.
It’ll learn, same as all souls learn…
From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of … 9:1 or something?
Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.
IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?
But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won’t make accountable.
& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.
I have zero reason to believe anybody’ll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.
It’s educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!
It helps break one’s unconscious-presumption of “belonging” based “validity”.
But … speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it’s worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it’s false/lies, because it’s of “me”.
& that’s proper!
Exactly as it’s proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump’s kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn’t normal, right?
( only partly sarcastic: it isn’t YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is … NOT quick to learn )
( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?
THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-“validity”, the class-based-“validity”, the muscle/body/height-based-“validity”, the money-based-“validity”, etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!
THEN one can have detachment-from-human-“validity”.
Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.
I wish it had been easier to learn, but I’m woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )
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A) the Supreme Court decided the president is above the law
B) that destroyed any chance to “use the Constitution” as it dramatically undermined what few checks and balances there were
C) MAGA congresspeople willingly gave up their own power to him
D) now riots are coming
What came before that:
- Several members of the US SC have been compromised (Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and possibly others) by having been photographed/filmed at sexually explicit events with minors.
- In the case of Kavanaugh this was even dangled in front of his eyes at his confirmation hearing to make sure he understood he was to walk the line or else.
- Cases were brought in front of the SC to make sure they could rule on “Presidential immunity”
- Even though this empowered Joe Biden to unprecedented levels of presidential impunity, he choose to do nothing with it and let the the his AG continue his slow work on trying get anything to stick on Trump, or attempt to push.
- Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
I still rage thinking about this…
Obama: Scalia dies in the beginning of the election year and Mitch McFuck says “it’s too close to the election, we need to let the people decide.”
Trump: Ginsberg dies WHILE MAIL IN VOTING IS HAPPENING and Mitch McFuck rams through a nomination…
God I hate that piece of shit. They got two justices by having no fucking morals whatsoever and playing double standards. Not to mention Obama calling their bluff. They tried this “Obama just wants a far left judge he’d never pick someone respected like Garland.” So he picks Garland and they pull this it’s too late bullshit…
And then your party appointed an attorney general who did absolutely nothing.
It’s “my party” as in: I hold my nose, disgusted at the fact they’re the only viable option until we change the voting system, but am fully aware they’re 90% shit and do dumbass fucking things like “make the same person Republicans wanted as a justice be an attorney general responsible for holding Trump accountable.”
Doesn’t change the fact that Mitch McFuck is a piece of shit that has no standards other than “whatever gets me more power.”
If you keep holding your nose and supporting them they have no motivation to change. This tells them they can do whatever they want because you’ll keep coming back for more. That’s how Democrats have gone from the party of Jimmy Carter to ‘what genocide?’
Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.
Whack people in the face with big wads of cash for long enough, and they numb out.
…and I’m generously assuming nothing more sinister was in play.
I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years and its not just money. The mindset has completely changed.
Was it good tho
I dont know… The movies made it seem great, but yeah, its movies.
That was what the election was for.
When someone votes for a person like Trump, they are voting to not hold him accountable and to continue doing worse and worse things and to do away with guardrails, rules, rights, and all those other niceties of the socio-politico contract.
This is what every MAGA sounds like the moment their token gets spent or the chickens come home to roost for them (and emphatically not a goddamn fucking minute sooner or st any point prior) and they receive the same consequences they wanted and voted for others (“but not meeeee”) to be treated with by Trump’s regime
Because the usa never had any accountability policies agsinst american presidents
Well, we did, it just requires functional legislative and judicial branches, which we no longer have
Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death. The US Legislature and Supreme Court have reined in presidential power for literally the entire existence of the US. Even during the first Trump Admin this happened. What’s happening now is a total abdication of the separation of powers
Oh yeah? Give me an real concrete example of a president getting hold accountable in the usa. By accountability I don’t just mean impeachement but real consequences like jail
Jail? No, never.
We do kill them occasionally. Would be nice if it was for good reasons.Jfk was assassinated. Trump had an assassination attempt. Lincoln had an assassination.
Did you mean accountable legally? Not an agitator from the far right, or unknown agitator in JFK’s case.
Yes I mean legally
It’s not full accountability, but
ReaganNixon resigned because he was going to be impeached and removed. The failure was not convicting him of a crime. Still some level of accountability, but not enough.Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached and removed.
“Fun” (read: nauseating) fact! We now have Fox News because Roger Ales said “If we had a friendly media Nixon would never have had to resign.” He then went on to start Fox News with
the devils rotten semenMurdockHe was right! Fox News now keeps the Republican party completely unaccountable by keeping the population in an alternate reality news space…
It’s not accoutability at all , it doesn’t prevent mistakes to happen just look at how more much worse Trump is in the second term after being impeached. This is the dirrect results of what I critisize
It absolutely is a small amount of accountability. If it wasn’t, he would have finished his term.
My brother in Christ, you are confusing Richard Nixon with Ronald Reagan. Nixon resigned. Reagan was wildly popular while implementing policies that have fucked over America for nearly half a decade now.
You’re right, it was a long day in the office and my brain is fried. Don’t gotta be a dick about it.
Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death.
Some for of punishment is required when you do the level of bullshit he has done.
No argument here. My response was to the idea that the US has never had any form of accountability for presidents, which is just not true.
Respectfully, I think this is a naive myth.
Ask yourself this: if Bernie won and began executing his agenda with the brash disregard for criticism of Trump, do you think he could do it and people would say the same things we say about Trump? Or do you think we would see the collective power of congress the supreme Court the state governments and the corporate world come down on him in 100 different ways?
I think the more honest truth is that there are people with power who like what Trump is doing, and the people who don’t like what he’s doing don’t have power.
Because the constitutional methods for fixing a rogue presidency lie with the legislature. The legislature is complicit.
Unfortunately the Constitution is toothless when bad actors control anything more than like 40% of the government.
Corruption
They’re benefiting from the grift. Everyday people either think they’re going to be graced by him, or fucking hate his guts.
I had an old coworker who had given MAGA organizations her life’s savings. She was working well past her planned retirement and wound up getting a head injury when a patient bopped her on the head three times. She shouldn’t have been put in the position to work high acuity psychiatry in her 70s. She was going to retire destitute but after that nobody could deny she just wasn’t safe to work anymore. And to the day she retired she kept saying trump was going to reward her any day now. I know somebody here is gonna talk shit but aside from being too damn naïve she was such a kind soul. And I’ve only ever worked psych as a nurse but she’d done all kinds of things like oncology and wound care so if I had a patient with a medical problem or who needed an IV placed she had my back. She’d rant to the high heavens about the lizard people but damn if she didn’t know her lab values and meds back to front. I hope those grifters rot in hell.
It’s just a variation on Christianity.
Preachers prey on people like that all the time and it’s ok because it’s privileged superstition. Replace “trump” with “Jesus” and that’s the story of millions and millions of people.
What you are seeing is the unmasked version of US politics. This is what US politics has always been, but it’s always been a lot more covert. The political parties do not have any issue with what he is doing, they only have an issue that he is so blatant with it.
This is what US politics has always been
sounds like donald quack is the missing piece that unites them all. The plot is similar to HP book when Voldemort goes back to power
the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent
Nazis voted for nazis
Because the red team literally doesnt care. Their team is winning, nanannanabooboo. The blue team wabts the red team to think they’re cool or whatever, and pointing out the insanity gets them called crybabies, so they dont do it.
Everyone is 12
The Dem establishment have not beaten the paid opposition argument at all.
They’re not even trying. Schumer is doing it right in public and thinks it’s cute.
Because he’s a meat puppet for the world’s oligarchy who want him for different reasons (1) remove restrictions to global illegal transactions (2) magnify climate change denialism (3) destroy science and education (4) advance ultraconservatism, plutocracy and theocracy (5) destroy progressivism and social justice (6) give a lot of freedom to the oligarchy (7) destroy the Western world’s influence to realize Dugin’s idea of Russian New World Order.
It is important to realize that what is happening in the US is not because of any single person.
The orange baboon is but a sympthom, not the disease. I like how some YT video put it: the disassembly of the rule of law is being done by a rare and fragile coalition of multiple small but powerful private groupings on the one hand and the clueless masses on the other.
Yeah, it’s a very long game played by ultraconservatives wanting to “beat the devil”, notably Roy Cohn (fucking dead) and others like him in Heritage Foundation wanting to see Supply Side Jesus.
- He is in to pockets of the wealthy
- This is a coup by the wealthy to takeover the government
- No one in government will stop him because this is exactly what they want.
- Money
- Money
Because congress is filled with old rotten pussies
Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.
Add to that the fact that a stupid president presents a massive economic benefit to anyone that can keep his attention for more than five minutes and he is predictably surrounded by people that benefit from his continued presence.
His mistake in the first term was trying to be a real president and surrounding himself with people who wanted the same thing. This time it’s just criminals all the way down.
democratically elected
I mean he wasn’t even eligible to run according to the constitution so it’s hard to keep a straight face while calling the US a democracy
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I’m fairly sure a traitor who engaged in an insurrection is forbidden from being president. I don’t care to look it up honestly, because I’d rather not be even more depressed by finding that this tidbit is me thinking wishfully and not a fact I heard at some point.
Thanks for calling me a moron though.
George Washington was a traitor who engaged in an insurrection.
I’m not comparing Trump to George Washington, but I’m pointing out why the American Constitution doesn’t really have a developed concept of treason or any broad exclusions to eligibility for the presidency. The election itself is the qualification.
I didn’t call you shit.
You clearly just want to fight. No thanks.
I didn’t call you shit.
Mod team disagreed apparently.
Sorry that facts make you sad.
There’s no simple answer, but if you look up how cults are made and operate you’ll get an idea.
Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I’m not interested in one person’s story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.
I’ve been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically “how minds change”) podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.
