Randahl FinkJim Brown voted for Trump to get all those immigrants deported. Unfortunately, his own wife is from Ireland, so Trump is now deporting her.
I have met floorboards more intelligent than MAGA voters.
Massimiliano Siddi@randahl Some sticks tend to come back when you throw them away. #boomerang
Aho
João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦It's so obvious we can't even call it Karma... 🤷
David Bruchmann> I have met floorboards more intelligent than MAGA voters.
Well, actually that's democracy.
It dosent explain or justify what Trump and the GOP are doing without any decisions in congress, without any justification by laws, morals or common sense.
USA had 4 years to sentence Trump, and missed the chance.
Magnus Ahltorp@DavidBruchmann No, it’s not democracy. Not by any meaningful definition of the word. You’re referring to ”tyranny of the majority”.
Put away for the moment the fact that some districts are already gerrymandered and rigged in some kind since long time, actually the people decided for the tyrants.
The elections are fundamental aspect of democracy, so even if 100% vote for the Tyrant, till then it's still democracy -- no matter about the intelligence of the voters.
@DavidBruchmann If elections were the defining characteristic for democracy, Russia, China, Iran would all be democracies. Elections without civil liberties and human rights is not democracy.
Referring to the original posting of @randahl , every voter has the freedom to vote for whatever reasons wrong, bad-informed or with some strategical instead of direct reasons.
As you mentioned civil liberties and human rights it might be interesting to verify it further concerning the USA. What Republicans achieved to make elections harder or to count votes im-balanced is certainly critical for the democracy, not only since Trump.
Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦The point is that generally accepted definition of democracy isn't just governance by majority vote, but also governance by rule of law, with the law applying to everyone equally.
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Lenora@ahltorp @DavidBruchmann tyranny of the minority. Too many people can’t be bothered to vote
@FaithinBones ”Tyranny of the plurality of the people who are allowed to vote and actually vote” is a bit long and also not what the phrase is. Disenfranchisement is a huge problem.
Still not ”the minority”, because there are many minorities. There are lots of conspiracy theories about e.g. LGBT people being the ruling minority (very popular right now in connection to the murder of a certain person), so I would be very careful with that.
@ahltorp voter disenfranchisement and voter apathy is our biggest issues when it comes to voting. And when I say minority I mean MAGA
Darkpaw@randahl I'm torn on this.
She "made restitution and received probation", but Trump's OBB Bill likely disregarded that. All this for $25 that was eventually paid?
So, two thoughts:
- Leave the US. Move to Ireland. They'll enjoy it. No fascists.
- This is what they voted for.
While I'd like to lean to the second point, it doesn't help. I'd say they should leave the US and enjoy their lives in Ireland. Then they should go on TV and explain why Trump's an asshole, and how he's destroying the US.
Jima 
@darkpaw @randahl Those of us who didn't vote for this are getting it, so I'm not going to spare a single bit of sympathy for anyone who DID vote for it getting caught up in it.
The helpful part is "if you don't want people impacted by this sort of bullshit, don't vote for this sort of bullshit." Many of us understood what was at stake (and didn't care whether it impacted us personally); maybe next time, they will, too.
If there is a next time.
@darkpaw @randahl And in hindsight, I actually find the first point less helpful: not only did they feel like they could vote the "undesirables" away, but now that they found out they're part of the "undesirables," they ostensibly have the privilege to fuck off to outside the reach of the regime they helped bring to power, leaving the people who didn't vote for said bullshit, still impacted.
Lucky them.
CyI don't blame anyone for making a mistake, or being deceived. How someone voted doesn't matter in an election that's so obviously broken.
But this asshole wants to grind good people into meat just for not serving him properly, so fuck him all to hell. I'd mail his wife's head* to him in a gift box, if I didn't suspect she was getting bullied into going along with his shitfuckery.
* A cake decorated to look like her head.
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But this asshole wants to grind good people into meat just for not serving him properly, so fuck him all to hell. I'd mail his wife's head* to him in a gift box, if I didn't suspect she was getting bullied into going along with his shitfuckery.
* A cake decorated to look like her head.
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Samson - tief In Berlin@randahl
This was largely foreseeable. It rarely helps to warn these people about it beforehand. They seem to want to experience it. In Germany, it's exactly the same with AfD voters. Sobering!
This was largely foreseeable. It rarely helps to warn these people about it beforehand. They seem to want to experience it. In Germany, it's exactly the same with AfD voters. Sobering!
Thierry Van Kerm@randahl 🤣🤣🤣 the best way for MAGA aficionados is to feel the outcomes of their votes in their own flesh and blood
Brokar@randahl They always only recognize their errors when it becomes personal. I have no sympathies for these guys. And i'd really hope that more of these examples would surface to demonstrate that voting actually matters and people should think hard what they vote for in the next election.
And that does't only count for the USA.
"What’s bad is that Trump is so demeaning to people, and he’s so condescending and so retaliatory that people are afraid to say anything."
As they didn't know since 2016.
Alexandro Lacadena 📷@randahl nominated for the top bright minds of the world
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@randahl In fact, ALL my floor boards are more intelligent than MAGA voters. This includes the one I need to replace because it's badly cracked.
avatastic 
@randahl I'm remembering something about leopards and faces which feels like it applies here...
Stuart 
@randahl "I didn't think the leopards would eat *my* wife's face."
xs4me2Cannot make this stuff up…
Hans Dampf@randahl In Germany we say: "Dumm wie Stroh" ("Stupid as straw!") OMG, unbelievable...
Tofm2 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@randahl @Tschekka1982 Totally agreed, French translation is "bête à manger du foin" or "stupid enough to eat straw" (i.e.:donkey), which equals
@Tschekka1982 in Denmark we say "Dum som en dør", which is "Dumm wie eine Tür" or "Dumb as a door"
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKin Dutch its "dom als een deur" - I can sometimes (very slowly) read Danish by translating it into Dutch.
Although these days there are smartdoors (I had to program the keyfobs for many of these in my last job, they had the most cursed software and weren't even that secure)
Benjamin Braatz@vfrmedia @randahl @Tschekka1982 Can also offer „dumm wie Brot“ – “dumb as bread” or „dumm wie 100 Meter Feldweg“ – “dumb as 100 meters of farm track” from German. … And, yes, you can kind of see that all of our languages are quite related.
Graeme 🏴@randahl Dumb as a box or rocks, indeed. Odd that in all that time she chose to remain on a green card.
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shironeko@randahl half of US is dumber than a floorboard, I would believe that.
G. Clavier@randahl "Brown, who served in the navy and marines for decades, said he had supported Trump’s promise to deport “criminal illegal immigrants” but that federal authorities were targeting other people to reach quotas."
The denial that the line between what is "criminal illegal" or not can be arbitrarily moved to suit the needs of an authoritarian power, and that his wife was actually considered as such by the Trump administration, is very strong here.
Jonathan"Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president."
When he loses his medical coverage and pension he gets to 100% regret it twice more.
ikeacurtains@randahl I don't understand how a bad cheque gets you a misdemeanor charge and probation. I feel there's some missing information here.
CurmudgeonBecause she's white.
If black or hispanic she would have gotten a jail term, and likely a referral to immigration for deportation.
Not what you meant, but the reality even in pre-Trump America.
@jetton @randahl definitely not what I meant at all! 😆
Seriously... Bad cheque, to me, means it bounced. Here in Canada a bad cheque incurs a fee charged to you by the bank. That's it. You don't get charged with a crime. I'm sure you'd be reported if you were constantly scamming people with bad cheques but that would become a fraud investigation and carry heavier penalties.
Is there some other definition of bad cheque that I'm not aware of?
And that is still how most banks handle it, especially if it was just an unintentional error. Often you just have to pay a bank fee and a penalty to the recipient, so a total of under $200. But if they report it to the police, you will most likely be charged with a misdemeanor. No prior arrests, likely it'll just be probation and a fine. And court costs. And probation fees. And drug testing fees, etc.
But depends a lot where you are in the US and your skin color.
My camera shoots fascistsSuck it up, buttercup. At this point I just laugh at this shit and have zero sympathy. I'm glad there are people willing to reach out and connect with these people and empathize and help them see the folly of their bigoted, small minded ways… But right now I'm not one of them.
And, honestly? Does anyone think these people are going to make the connection between the injustice inflicted upon them and the injustice inflicted upon immigrants who are not white and don't speak English as their primary language? Let's just say I'm not holding my breath. They'll probably somehow blame it all on antifa and Democrats.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@randahl Divorce on it's way!
🐈⬛David Sommerseth
The Animal and the Machine@randahl
He didn’t mean the white ones.
He didn’t mean the white ones.
Passwordsarehard4@randahl I’m sure she’ll be ok. She has the white to an appeal.
Total Sonic Media@randahl - even the leopards getting fat from all the faces they've been eating are starting to have some regrets.
@randahl I'm kind of surprised that they also target people who could be so very obviously their own electorate. It's a very grim kind of fair, maybe even unbiased, but I wouldn't have expected that.
They must have been dumb enough to set the quotas so high that the ones lower in the food chain resort to arrest middle-aged white women for banalities to fill them.
What is even sadder is that the Jim Browns would have never realised how evil all of it is if they had just continued to only target people of colour who also have done nothing more than his wife.
Claudius@randahl maybe he didn't actually like his own wife 🤣