Trump says DOJ will sue California over redistricting as he celebrates Texas effort
"We're going to be [suing] through the Department of Justice," Trump said when asked about Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting push in California.
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And of course the courts are in his pocket so guess who will be allowed to go on their merry way and who won't? I fucking hate it here. Keep fucking around, Don. The find out is coming.
I fucking hate it here
I know it's not for everyone, but emigration is an option. I left the US 25 years ago and never regretted - and that was when Dubya only barely started turning the country fascist, and it was still normal and somewhat pleasant to live in. So just imagine how much better life is outside the US today...
If you have the possibility, you should consider it.
I really wish I could but I'm just a worthless uneducated factory schmuck. Nowhere worth moving to would have me :/
If you are fully literate, you can look into teaching English as a second language.
You don’t need to speak the language of the place you work, they even sometimes prefer you don’t because they teach through immersion after a certain level.
They handle visas and housing and stuff most of the time, too, and it’s not just Asian countries, like most people think. Like you could go teach in Greece if you want.
I’m looking into this, myself. I may just do it but I have to give up my solo homestead dreams so it’sa last resort.
Don't sell yourself short. You never know... You might have some skills that are in demand somewhere. Or if not, but there are welcoming countries that only require one to be motivated enough.
At any rate, it doesn't cost anything to look around for the minimum requirements for immigration into the countries that might interest you.
Leaving the usa instead of fighting to fix it will only mean the entire world is doomed since the worlds strongest military is the united states, so itl only be a matter of time untill wherever you move is captured.
The Wehrmacht thought they were the most powerful military force on the planet, but piss poor leadership, THANKFULLY, starting from the top. The Little Fucking Austrian Corporal wrecked the strategy by replacing his best field commander with "yes" officers. Guess who is repeating the identical mistake.
The difference is the Wehrmacht didn't have hundreds of ICBMs, nuclear subs, aircraft carriers, and the ability to land an entire military base anywhere in the world in a week's time.
All the meth also didn't help...
Well, like I said, it's not for everyone.
Even in the best of times, the United States is a country that requires a background level of stress and paranoia to live in. You realize that when you move to another developed country where you don't have to lock your door or wonder whether the next person you meed is armed, mentally unstable or up to no good.
Even before this whole fascist shitshow got started in 2001, I considered the US a lost cause that's not really worth fighting for. Dubya and the USA Patriot Act was the thing that finally pushed me to leave.
I only have a finite number of hours on this dirtball and I fully intend to spend them as best I can with my family and my children, and offer them a good life. I don't have time to fight for lost causes.
It's a choice ultimately. Emigration isn't for everybody. If you want to stay and try to make America better, more power to you. I just want people to know that life is sweeter elsewhere.
Where did you move to?
Originally Canada. Then the UK, Australia, then back to Europe where I lived in several EU countries. Currently I'm in northern Scandinavia.
I'm wondering, what qualified you to get to be moving this much? Some special skills that most people don't have?
I assure you that I had no special skills when I moved out of the US the first time 🙂 I was a decent but otherwise run-of-the-mill junior software engineer. The only "special" skill I had was being rather good at coding tight assembly - something that was in demand when embedded systems didn't have gigabytes of disk and RAM and processors that would rival a Cray-I just to flush a toilet or something.
I picked up skills that are quite valuable along the way (I am certified aero QA engineer on the white collar side, and I have a degree in a rather obscure but highly-specialized metalworking sub-field that I shan't mention because there are so few people working that field on the blue collar side). So it helped to find new jobs for sure.
But the relocating and moving countries was just me wanting to see the world before I was old by living where other people lived for real instead of being a crass tourist for a week, and it didn't have much to do with my professional qualifications.
How have you navigated the visa and residency issues? I'd like to settle somewhere and stay, but in a lot of the places I'm considering residency and a path to citizenship are potentially challenging.
In many countries, your best bet is to get sponsored, or otherwise helped by your employer in the country of destination. If they won't help you, you simply apply for a resident visa.
In Canada for example they have (or at least they used to have, I don't know if this still applies) a system of points whereby you get x percent for having this or that skills in demand, x percent for speaking both French and English, x percent for having found an employer in Canada already... and the visa is granted automatically if your total is over 80% or something to that effect.
In Australia, I got a visa by proving that I had a bunch of money on my bank account. Again, I don't know if it still applies today, but at least back then, all Australia was interested in is whether you could take care of yourself financially or if you were a bum coming to leech off welfare. I didn't really have the money, I asked friends and family to lend me as much as possible to make my account fat enough to enter the country, then I gave them the money back.
As for Europe, I had dual citizenship (not anymore, I gave up my American citizenship). So I didn't have to do anything to enter the EU country I have citizenship with. Once in the Shengen area, you can relocate anywhere you want without asking permission.
I have no money, no job, and no degrees. Odds are the government kills me before fixing one of these problems. Unfortunately leaving is not an option most of the targets of a fascist regime have
Fantasy Land
Yes, the U.S. has the worlds strongest military today. However, nothing is ever static. Warfare evolves quickly, and can render past strategies and weapons systems obsolete. Consider trench warfare, which was the most important tactic of World War I. The French dug massive trenches, and its Maginot line was considered a formidable defense against German aggression. When Germany attacked France in WWII, did it throw its troops into the meat grinder of trench warfare? No. Germany leveraged the growing sophistication of air power into its Blitzkrieg strategy, and easily crushed France in weeks.
We're seeing the same thing play out in Ukraine today. Russia went in with its "Special Military Operation" expecting to take Ukraine in days. Now, over 3 years later, Ukraine is still in the fight, and Russia is still expending resources trying to take Ukraine. Moreover, drone warfare has evolved at a rapid pace, and Ukraine has used sea-going drones to nullify Russia's Navy.
Yes, the U.S. has the most formidable military in the world, even given the recent changes in the way wars are fought. However, the assumption that the U.S. will remain able to dominate the world militarily indefinitely is dangerous. The manufacturing capacity of the U.S. is not nearly what it once was, and being able to crank out inexpensive drones is likely an area where China could outclass the U.S.. Moreover, if the U.S. continues along its path of bullying the world, it weakens its alliances and induces other countries to ally against it. Can the most powerful military in the world stand against the entire rest of the world fighting together? Further, one of Germany's biggest weaknesses was the leadership at the top. Having a narcissistic psychopath at the top that thinks they know everything is not conducive to effective military strategy, especially when they punish those who tell them what they don't want to hear. Trump is constantly shutting down dissenting voices, rather than listening to see if what they're saying has merit. When you surround yourself with yes-men, sooner or later your fantasy bubble runs into the cold, hard reality of the actual world around you.
Finally, you state that it's "only a matter of time until wherever you move is captured." This simply isn't true. There are lots of places in the world that don't hold significant resources and/or strategic value to make them worth expending resources on to capture and hold. The coming fight isn't going to be everywhere, all at once. There are many small, insignificant corners of the world where it will be relatively safe to live while the powers at odds fight it out.
Russia has also shown us how quickly a shitty narcissistic leader can utterly waste a formidable military and reduce it to being meat waves of confused prisoners and immigrants who thought they were going be factory workers. With people like Trump and Hegseth in charge with no experience and no ability to be reasoned with, paired with their insane lack of opsec and abundance of comprised personnel, the US could run out of expensive toys very quickly in a global conflict.
Our allies, NATO, and the general support and acceptance that we were the "good guys" (or at least generally better than the alternative) was a far FAR greater asset, and those wheels are already falling off.
Our allies, NATO, and the general support and acceptance that we were the "good guys" (or at least generally better than the alternative) was a far FAR greater asset, and those wheels are already falling off.
It's incredibly sad how quickly we've squandered what took an incredible amount of blood, resources, and time to build. We emerged from WWII as the most formidable power in the world, and instead of using that power to conquer and exploit, we instead used it build allies and good will instead, and created the Western World Order. We helped rebuild Japan and Germany and made them into staunch allies. Instead of using military threats and coercion, we used soft power to bring countries around to our way of thinking. As a consequence, we made ourselves and the rest of the world wealthy. Now we have spoiled children with no understanding of how things work or the precarious nature of our prosperity making ham-fisted changes and bullying the world, using threats to try to coerce nations that we should be treating as allies. Before we were the benevolent giant. Now we are a dangerous threat to be dealt with.
and instead of using that power to conquer and exploit, we instead used it build allies and good will instead
lol
I wish I did but I really don't, along with countless others. It just doesn't make fucking sense to me. The globe could be fucking nice. There's no reason for all of this bullshit. It is the definition of insanity. /rant sorry
This is my plan. There is literally nothing for me in the United States anymore, and I don't want to be a party to what comes next. I think I need to get out before the clamp-down on leaving comes.
Lmfao this is so funny and sad at the same time, the US is already the second country I've lived in. Seem like anywhere you can go, dictatorships just happens anyways.
These types of things are so easily said, so much more difficult to do. The US was one of the easiest countries to immigrate to, and that took over a decade of waitlisting. Like they started with the paperwork before I was even born.
Like idk you can't just hope over to another country and expect everything to be perfect.
Like what next, go to the third country, start learning another language and history all over again, then some wanna be dictator gets elected, and I go running to a fourth country again? When does this ever end?
Like... unless they actually starts doing a Tiananmen, sometimes you just have to accept life isn't perfect. You can't always have a place to run to, because there aren't a whole list of countrys ready to accept an average normie that doesn't have any special skills like idk nuclear scientist or something..
Let me guess, you immigrated from a country ruined entirely by the US and fail to recognize that? Your sample size is 2 countries, expand your outlook, there are way better places to be. No country is perfect, but your conclusion doesn't match reality.
The US was one of the easiest countries to immigrate to, and that took over a decade of waitlisting. Like they started with the paperwork before I was even born.
You see that contradiction there? The US is known to be one of the hardest countries to immigrate to, it was just more desirable and that's probably why your parents chose it.
And yes, get educated, get experience, and utilize that to go to any of the "hard to get into" countries that base immigration on merit, and you'll have a much better life. Many of them don't require you to learn the language if you speak English.
This is such a stupid take. "Don't like the way things are going? Move away and pretend it's not happening! Make your problems somebody else's!"
I am 100% for everyone that can leave to leave. America needs to be abandoned and it needs to happen immediately.
I say this, and I also happen to be one of those that would be left behind as I don’t meet qualifications for visas pretty much anywhere.
No one is pretending it’s not happening. But when your landlord starts to raise your rent, starts yelling legally acceptable racist slurs at you, threatens your children, and tries to have you illegally deported-
You leave.
You don’t stay and try and fight a battle you cannot ever win. Trump owns America. It’s his possession. You have little rights to speak, let alone act. All four branches of the military are his fucking toys.
A federally mandated martial law is closer than you think. And if you think he can’t do that….
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This goes for everyone: If you can leave. I’d advise that you do it. Especially if you have a family that depends on you for their wellbeing.
Everybody wants the fascists to die but nobody wants to kill them. It's OK, I'm sure someone else will take care of it.
Our grandparents came to the states in search for a better life for their kids, now it's our turn to do the same for ours and find a better place with a brighter future.
Keep fucking around, Don. The find out is coming.
Me:
walls are closing in on him now!!!
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