The dumb part of this story is not that they’re trying to cover it up

The dumb part is that America just accepts it all as a cover up and won’t bother doing anything about it.

If any other president before had done any of this … the country would have erupted … but the US has become so complacent and apathetic to this orange menace that it’s become an authoritarian nation not ruled by force but by the adject stupidity and complacency of the entire country.

Explain what people are supposed to do. The largest US protest in history happened during the No Kings protest in October. Until the stock market crashes and everyone is fucked don’t expect people to violently rise up against him.

Everyone gets all bent out of shape when I say this, but those kinds of “yell at concrete buildings” protests are absolutely worthless when the government doesn’t give a shit about what you think.

The only thing that will get anyone to do anything is threatening wealth. We need a general strike, and not this “oh how does 2028 sound” b.s strikes people are planning… We need one immediately, not planned for years and years ahead…

Absolutely agreed re: your points but I’d argue some of it IS working.

How many GOP members have broken with trump recently? And House leadership? How many folks are actually not even running for office next year because they can see the writing on the wall?

It’s not nearly enough based on what he’s done and what he wants to do, absolutely. But for someone as recently as early this year appeared to have an iron lock on his party approaching lame duck status nearly a year ahead of time and before any votes have been counted in the midterms IS progress.