Fuck congestion charges; your Americas new King just gave himself supreme executive power over every single federal office including the ones meant to regulate him.
Constitution is terminated (just
like he said he would)
Article I
Section 9 Powers Denied Congress
Clause 8 Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
And don’t forget the “ASMR” post from a day or two before that. Imagine if the whitehouse posted something like a thunderstorm and captioned it “ASMR: conservatives crying over bakeries making cakes for gay weddings.” while Biden was in office.
No, it’s not. Because it’s not a tweet at all. Trump posted that on his own little unfederated modified Mastodon instance he calls Truth Social (seriously, it’s built on Mastodon). Note the red check instead of blue and them being called “retruths” because he calls posts on his instance “truths.”
It’s an important distinction if ever you need to find the original source for any reason.
1/3 of the population is freaking out and screaming, 1/3 is saying “hell yeah, brother”, and a 1/3 is like “I thought egg prices were supposed to go down.”
This is another Trump special, really. There’s no shortage of titles for the dictator, including just keeping “president”, and he picked the one that’s hardest to defend in terms of the American mythology.
Kings never really went away. Points to the entire British Commonwealth and the UK. Emperors neither. And let’s not get started on priests…yeeeesh!
Are you talking about specifically the USA? Because you’ve kept your priests, and treat your Presidents like de-facto kings, their reigns may end but Presidents they remain.
Loosely related topic but in the last few years I’ve noticed a uptick of people online prefacing a absolute horrible takes with “I’m xyz(entirely unverifiable)” or just some like “I’m very smart” then says something entirely idiotic.
I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn’t like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?
Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of “a joke”.
So now when I see a fascist dog fucker “joking” about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn’t my type of humor any more I guess.
They’re well evolved to survive in social groups. Even if they suspect someone is recruiting for something terrible, the loss of social status and allies isn’t worth confronting the recruiter. Even visibly suspecting it will harm social status. This is a feature, not a bug.
Historically, the kid who called out the emperor’s new clothes was executed. Every time you started shit in your tribe, you risked being shunned, which meant death. If the whole tribe was crazy, you were better off being crazy too.
Who jokes about these things? Plausible deniability my ass. I ever hear someone joke about fucking animals I’m gonna slowly, no actually, rapidly back away
Exactly. Have you ever heard an elected president joke about being King or invading their peaceful neighbor? Ever? Anyone? Animal fuckers. Its the only thing that makes sense.
Pretty sure it was just really dumb, low IQ dudes, the no one else really liked, who got along and one decided to share or got caught fucking an animal, and since they newcomer was also a virgin, this didn’t bother him as much as we would hope wh n he took his turn.
Yeah, but if those low IQ dudes wanted to overthrow democracy and they wanted to tell other low IQ dudes about it they could just shout it out real loud. The media will ignore it. Law enforcement will do nothing. The courts will do nothing. The public will do nothing.
How people have reacted doesnt make sense to me. Like the only reason people would “joke” about such shit is because they are really fucking serious about it. Its a declaration of intent being broadcast to like minded people.
When the president of the US “jokes” about being a king my reading is a constitutional crisis is more of a when than an if.
I mean, don’t they functionally own the mayor of NY? Like, wasn’t there a whole interview where it was all but stated openly that if the NY mayor doesn’t do what Trump wants he’s going to be charged with crimes they have evidence of but are holding back on prosecution for?
As long as your transit options don’t suck dick. My last job was a 15 minute drive versus a 1.5 hour bus journey, and my current job starts at 4am with no bus service to the area between midnight and 6am.
Of course, NYC has the best mass transit system in the US so it works well there. I guess I misinterpreted your comment to mean congestion pricing will work everywhere, and took the oppourtunity to bitch about my city’s shite transit.
Because god emperor king Christ almighty divine saviour of humanity and commander of the righteous and holy soldiers of maga forever and ever, amen, orange fascist.
The government is too big, why are we paying for healthcare, school, welfare and whatever else? It is unfair to those who don’t use those services.
…oh, except roads and the military, everyone must pay for those.
It’s amazing how many of these policies are posed as a simple fair rule (people should pay for what they want, not have the government decide where spending goes) but in actuality is just a convenient excuse for dismantling institutions that they personally don’t like.
A country losing its way and straying far off from the ideals it originally strived for, becoming the very thing it fought against without realizing. That describes both the USA and Israel to a T.
Well, if they turn a portion of the population into true believers, deport/incarcerate/execute the CIS White remaining who oppose… Could get messy globally. The American Reich could easily be even more of a problem than Mr Niceguy Imperialist America. And that’s saying something.
Unfortunately, last time the people revolted, the gov only had muskets and heavy canons. This time around, the gov can assassinate you from high altitude with drones, missiles…and the gov forces have firepower that far exceeds what the population could fight against.
Good point. The English civil war and the French revolution both went the way they did because the ‘rebels’ had armies which equalled or exceeded those of the government. Same with the other regicide that comes to mind, Nicholas II of Russia in 1918. So much depends on whether the military remains loyal.
Right… How would you fight a military that has tanks, drones, fighter jets, Apache helicopters… The people would have what? Handguns, non auto rifles? Maybe some have converted firearms to full auto… It’s still not enough to counter the modern army. Plus you need real intricate coordination, techs to fight the cyber war… I can’t even wrap my head around how normal people could organize enough to mount a real threat.
It is going very poorly here folks. There isn’t any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.
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“long live the king”, in the very country founded on saying fuck you to the last king. what a shameful display.
Fuck congestion charges;
yourAmericas new King just gave himself supreme executive power over every single federal office including the ones meant to regulate him.https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/
/edit: didn’t realize I was in a local community
Constitution is terminated (just like he said he would)
Article I
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C8-4/ALDE_00013204/
Trump has been throughly wiping his ass with the constitution since the day he stepped into the whitehouse.
It’s just meaningless paper until someone actually steps up and enforces it.
…holy fuck - that’s a real tweet.
I guess you haven’t seen what the White House account posted then…
I’m going to be sick…
I’m going to regret asking but…
For example?
https://lemmy.world/post/25805042
And don’t forget the “ASMR” post from a day or two before that. Imagine if the whitehouse posted something like a thunderstorm and captioned it “ASMR: conservatives crying over bakeries making cakes for gay weddings.” while Biden was in office.
Irony is dead
No, it’s not. Because it’s not a tweet at all. Trump posted that on his own little unfederated modified Mastodon instance he calls Truth Social (seriously, it’s built on Mastodon). Note the red check instead of blue and them being called “retruths” because he calls posts on his instance “truths.”
It’s an important distinction if ever you need to find the original source for any reason.
Thanks! I was already aware of that, but others might not be.
I used tweet in the generic sense because like hell I would ever say “Holy crap, that’s a real truth!”
1/3 of the population is freaking out and screaming, 1/3 is saying “hell yeah, brother”, and a 1/3 is like “I thought egg prices were supposed to go down.”
wellp, time for guillotines, i suppose.
I support this.
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
~ attributed to Denis Diderot
It’s a lovely dream, but I’m pretty sure we’ll just come up with a different title for the people who manipulate us.
We already did, and now they want to be called kings again.
This is another Trump special, really. There’s no shortage of titles for the dictator, including just keeping “president”, and he picked the one that’s hardest to defend in terms of the American mythology.
Kings never really went away. Points to the entire British Commonwealth and the UK. Emperors neither. And let’s not get started on priests…yeeeesh!
Are you talking about specifically the USA? Because you’ve kept your priests, and treat your Presidents like de-facto kings, their reigns may end but Presidents they remain.
Any man who must say, ‘I am the king’ is no true king
Loosely related topic but in the last few years I’ve noticed a uptick of people online prefacing a absolute horrible takes with “I’m xyz(entirely unverifiable)” or just some like “I’m very smart” then says something entirely idiotic.
I think you just came up with rump’s new name.
Well… Except for these kings? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchs_of_sovereign_states
I don’t think they need to go around claiming they’re the king because their status isn’t challenged.
Well, in Andorra, the princes gave to share the throne.
I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn’t like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?
Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of “a joke”.
So now when I see a fascist dog fucker “joking” about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn’t my type of humor any more I guess.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
I’m an ADHD person and I had this exact same realization when I was younger.
I think maybe this isn’t something neurotypicals ever figure out? Because they seem to be accepting of those “jokes” and it blows my mind.
They’re well evolved to survive in social groups. Even if they suspect someone is recruiting for something terrible, the loss of social status and allies isn’t worth confronting the recruiter. Even visibly suspecting it will harm social status. This is a feature, not a bug.
Historically, the kid who called out the emperor’s new clothes was executed. Every time you started shit in your tribe, you risked being shunned, which meant death. If the whole tribe was crazy, you were better off being crazy too.
Congrats on writing one of two comments I’ve ever starred.
Who jokes about these things? Plausible deniability my ass. I ever hear someone joke about fucking animals I’m gonna slowly, no actually, rapidly back away
Exactly. Have you ever heard an elected president joke about being King or invading their peaceful neighbor? Ever? Anyone? Animal fuckers. Its the only thing that makes sense.
At work we say “there’s many ways to fuck a cat” implying you can do something different ways.
We also say “it’s not my dog to fuck” when it’s not your job
Or “I’m fucking the dog” or “they’re fucking the dog” when someone is taking a stupid amount of time to do things.
Blink 182 - Fuck a Dog
Congrats you work with a bunch of dog fuckers
Well it sounds like these are idioms, not jokes.
Best thing I read on internet today, thanks
Pretty sure it was just really dumb, low IQ dudes, the no one else really liked, who got along and one decided to share or got caught fucking an animal, and since they newcomer was also a virgin, this didn’t bother him as much as we would hope wh n he took his turn.
But dumb people get caught, so now we all know.
Yeah, but if those low IQ dudes wanted to overthrow democracy and they wanted to tell other low IQ dudes about it they could just shout it out real loud. The media will ignore it. Law enforcement will do nothing. The courts will do nothing. The public will do nothing.
How people have reacted doesnt make sense to me. Like the only reason people would “joke” about such shit is because they are really fucking serious about it. Its a declaration of intent being broadcast to like minded people.
When the president of the US “jokes” about being a king my reading is a constitutional crisis is more of a when than an if.
What the hell is congestion pricing?
Charging cars a toll to incentivize alternative transport during peak hours.
And it fucking works.
WorkED
You think that turd has jurisdiction? They’re also pretty tired of his shit in NY
I mean, don’t they functionally own the mayor of NY? Like, wasn’t there a whole interview where it was all but stated openly that if the NY mayor doesn’t do what Trump wants he’s going to be charged with crimes they have evidence of but are holding back on prosecution for?
As long as your transit options don’t suck dick. My last job was a 15 minute drive versus a 1.5 hour bus journey, and my current job starts at 4am with no bus service to the area between midnight and 6am.
NYC has transit.
Of course, NYC has the best mass transit system in the US so it works well there. I guess I misinterpreted your comment to mean congestion pricing will work everywhere, and took the oppourtunity to bitch about my city’s shite transit.
Why is it ‘dead’?
New York can no longer enforce it under decree of trump. It mostly targeted Manhattan and his billionaire homies couldn’t stand to pay $9.
If I was a rich guy I’d be all for it, less traffic for me to drive/be driven through.
But $9! You could make that in less than a second if you were a rich guy!
Unexpected factorial
But if you could make $9 per second, you could make $9! per day
no no the factorial was intentional
More like Republicans in Jersey whined until they got their way.
lord diaper just wants to antagonize, anger, and hurt ‘the libs’ in any way he can.
Because god emperor king Christ almighty divine saviour of humanity and commander of the righteous and holy soldiers of maga forever and ever, amen, orange fascist.
The Emperor has no clothes.
The government is too big, why are we paying for healthcare, school, welfare and whatever else? It is unfair to those who don’t use those services.
…oh, except roads and the military, everyone must pay for those.
It’s amazing how many of these policies are posed as a simple fair rule (people should pay for what they want, not have the government decide where spending goes) but in actuality is just a convenient excuse for dismantling institutions that they personally don’t like.
Also corporate and bank bailouts are fine
A country losing its way and straying far off from the ideals it originally strived for, becoming the very thing it fought against without realizing. That describes both the USA and Israel to a T.
Absolute monarchies tend to come to a very sticky end, as happened in England in the 17th century and France in the 18th.
Unfortunately, there’s never a shortage of people that will sign up to for power in exchange for a risk of dying horribly.
That’s not even specific to monarchies, every autocracy runs on that principle.
Well, if they turn a portion of the population into true believers, deport/incarcerate/execute the CIS White remaining who oppose… Could get messy globally. The American Reich could easily be even more of a problem than Mr Niceguy Imperialist America. And that’s saying something.
Unfortunately, last time the people revolted, the gov only had muskets and heavy canons. This time around, the gov can assassinate you from high altitude with drones, missiles…and the gov forces have firepower that far exceeds what the population could fight against.
Good point. The English civil war and the French revolution both went the way they did because the ‘rebels’ had armies which equalled or exceeded those of the government. Same with the other regicide that comes to mind, Nicholas II of Russia in 1918. So much depends on whether the military remains loyal.
Right… How would you fight a military that has tanks, drones, fighter jets, Apache helicopters… The people would have what? Handguns, non auto rifles? Maybe some have converted firearms to full auto… It’s still not enough to counter the modern army. Plus you need real intricate coordination, techs to fight the cyber war… I can’t even wrap my head around how normal people could organize enough to mount a real threat.
It is going very poorly here folks. There isn’t any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.
That’s not good enough.
Very REPUBLICAN, that traitor.
America needs a 1918.
or an 1814.
Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.