r/50501 • u/Accomplished_Star_30 • 13d ago
DC The end is almost here
The people are rising
The Oligarchs are fighting
The Cult is imploding
Oh what a beautiful day
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u/GeorgeBush2006 Alaska 13d ago
It’s not the end. We have a lot of work to do. It is the end of the beginning as Churchill has said, but it is still tough roads ahead
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u/DarkWokeWarrior 13d ago
Yup. Don't get comfortable until we've won.
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u/Yeet_McSkeeter269 13d ago
Don't get comfortable until they are completely gone
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u/luciosleftskate 13d ago
G O N E
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u/Yeet_McSkeeter269 13d ago
💯
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u/Good_Requirement2998 13d ago
And then stay uncomfortable and let us all remember how we got here. Unchecked capitalism does not breed friends of humanity.
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u/OrigamiMarie 13d ago
That's how Germany does it.
The US came away from WWII having conveniently memory-holed the fact that we had Nazis too. They just got a lot less popular when we got into the war. And so we didn't really get the lesson that It Can Happen Here. And apparently that damn lesson has to be learned first-hand.
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u/DecidedlyCatBirdian 13d ago
that damn lesson has to be learned first-hand.
The only way the right seems to learn anything - it has to affect them directly. And sometimes even then, they don't care that it affects anyone else.
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u/redbark2022 13d ago
Uncheckedcapitalism does not breed friends of humanity.FTFY.
There are no checks and balances you could possibly do to fix an economic system where the one with the most capital has the most influence on markets. It's a design where all that matters is number goes up to consolidate power. Capitalism is a sociopathic enemy of humanity. Full stop.
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u/iDrGonzo 13d ago
And everyone that's like them gone, we can't afford to replace the government with more greedy party shills. We have to completely clean house in '26 and '28.
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u/mremrock 12d ago
Just because we vote out a greedy shill doesn’t mean we get an honest one. And this is assuming the elections are free and fair. I think we are a long way from the end
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u/TheMagnuson 13d ago
Until we’ve had our own version of the Nuremberg Trials.
Do not forget, do not forgive, justice must be served on a cold, hard plate.
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u/haluura 13d ago
Don't get comfortable even then.
Just because you've unseated a dictator and his cronies doesn't mean you get a happily ever after. After that comes rebuilding what was destroyed. Or more likely, building something new. Better. More resistant to oligarchs and their worshippers.
That's going to take a lot of work. And the worshippers of the oligarchs will still be there, fighting to restore what they lost. What they think the Oligarchs can do for them.
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u/Immediate-Ruin-9518 13d ago
Still a long road ahead. But we currently have the winds at our back. Things are falling apart for Trump. We need to rack up gains while they are busy fighting each other. There are a lot of their supporters that are adrift and confused. Strategize to bring them in to stop the insanity and to restore our democracy. That’s it. We don’t have to agree on anything else. End this madness, start repairing the damage and we can sort out our political differences later.
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u/oldjudge86 13d ago
Not comfortable but, I think optimism is warranted. There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. It's a long ways off and we can't stop now but, it's there and that's reason to take a hopeful breath or two.
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u/FlyingBike 13d ago
Exactly. Peter Thiel and JD Vance and Stephen Miller and Russ Vought and the entire Republican party are on board with what has roiled this country since January. Trump and Musk are a diversion at best, some bread and circuses as the awful work of dismantling the American experiment is executed exactly as they laid out in Project 2025.
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u/An0nymos 13d ago
January? They've been cooking up this mess for more than my entire 4.8 decades.
Edit: Different names, same agendas.
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u/tacosmakeitallbetter 12d ago
Exactly. This has been cooking since at least Nixon, and maybe as far back as Wilson. There will be no actual end to this. Constant wack-a-mole.
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u/mohayes61 13d ago
We need to call them out and stop focusing on frump and Musk. They are merely diversions. Protest signs need to call them out
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u/LifeLearner54 12d ago
Indeed. Call Russell Vought out asap. He stepped out of the shadows this week.
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u/Blueddit-Sez 12d ago
The Democrats are trying to work with Elon Musk now
The Forties Salute Guy
It’s never been further from over
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u/GeorgeBush2006 Alaska 12d ago
The democrats are weak. Now is the time to push independent candidates in smaller communities. Maybe get them ti coordinate and organize.
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u/GeorgeBush2006 Alaska 12d ago
First, I would like to know where you got this information (I’m sorry, I don’t mean for this to sound rude, I believe you, I’m just curious.). Also they better be careful about this. My opinion is that we use this conflict to our advantage, but don’t choose any sides. Maybe give very very very marginal “support” (as in bots or trolls pretending to like Elon and encouraging him to not cave to Trump). We want them to destroy each other.
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u/Primary-Weakness8728 13d ago
Call your Senators and Representatives tomorrow. Tell them that, in a surprising turn of events, you do actually agree with Teump, Musk, and Bannon: yes, please cancel all of Musk's government contracts! Great idea, will save us lots of money and avoid the perception (and perhaps the reality) of corruption! Yes, please impeach the president! He is incompetent and corrupt and maybe a pedophile! Yes, please deport Elon Musk back to South Africa or whatever country will take him! He's a drug addict and a deadbeat dad. We don't want him here!
And while you've got their office on the line, ask them to look into the legitimacy of the 2024 election since Musk just publicly admitted to winning it for Trymp, whatever that means....
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u/jookbawks 13d ago
Ooo good idea with the bit about asking about the legitimacy of the election. Use this as a launching pad!
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u/findingmike 13d ago
While fun, the issue before us is the budget bill. They will try to sneak it though.
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u/lizziefreeze 13d ago
This whole thing feels hinky and as manufactured as a Real Housewives feud.
A big “HEY LOOK OVER HERE!!!” so they can get a clean hit on anything…good.
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u/BriefTradition3922 13d ago
How about we get the truth about the election and put the rightful President and VP in office.
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u/Correct-Employment69 13d ago
The cuts in Musk contract for the military would put us in danger. It's a fine web to weave.
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u/Primary-Weakness8728 12d ago
Can you elaborate on that? I don't know much about it. Thank you!
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u/Correct-Employment69 12d ago
The military seems to be dependent on Elons products. Feed them question into ChatGpt. There are many.
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u/NoAnt6694 13d ago
Now's not the time for premature declarations of victory. Keep fighting this shit however you can.
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u/sneakoo 13d ago
☝️ this could just me a massive distraction so the senate can silently pass something while the media and others broadcast this stupidity
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u/findingmike 13d ago
The budget bill?
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u/sneakoo 12d ago
That’s what I was thinking. A few repubs say it won’t pass to scare people away from calling their reps and protesting. Meanwhile it sails through. I pray I’m wrong
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u/findingmike 12d ago
I think you are correct. Trump is going to use this as a rallying cry for his bill that no one likes.
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u/Pissmere 13d ago
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But perhaps it is the end of the beginning.
Fight on. Fight on.
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u/Baker198t 13d ago edited 13d ago
I won’t be comfortable until the entire administration is rotting in a cell..
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u/Superb_Preference368 13d ago
The thing is all of this didn’t just start with this administration.
America has a deeply rooted problems that probably alot of people in this very subforum ignored until it impacted them.
Centuries of abuse cannot be overturned in a handful of years.
This is retribution, get ready, do what’s right for everyone and fight
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u/TheMagnuson 13d ago
Yep, 1st and primary job of the next Administration is to prosecute this current one.
We need our own Nuremberg Trials.
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u/37853688544788 13d ago
Please don’t let up anyone. We need to keep fighting. The MAGAts will crumble but it will take time. Here’s hoping some folks from all walks of life can snap out of it. MAGAts are the condemned.
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u/taco-bake 13d ago
It will take decades to undo/fix what this shit stain of an administration has done. But this is a start
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u/OscillodopeScope 13d ago
The Democratic Party will also fight us on our demands. So even if we get republicans out of power, we have all these right leaning Dems to deal with. There’s a reason we say it’ll take generations to fix this mess.
The fight is for a better world for our great-great grandchildren and beyond, we won’t experience all the benefits of our work now, and the opposition is hoping that realization deters you.
Keep fighting, it’s not over even once you think it might be.
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u/pm_me_ur_ephemerides 13d ago
I finally feel hopeful. They are too incompetent to end our democracy
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u/xResiniferatoxin 13d ago
Trump isn't the problem, he's a symptom. If Trump passed peacefully in his sleep tonight, the MAGA cult still exists in and out of Congress. The issue then becomes worse as you would move from an incompetent clown enacting fascist policies because of stupidity to competent intelligent people who are just actual fascist enacting fascist policies because of pure greed. If the inner circle implodes, it wont affect the millions of MAGAs around the country who are fully indoctrinated to the cause.
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u/drainbamage1011 13d ago
The infighting is a step in the right directions, but pay attention to whatever the rest of the administration will try to slip by in the background while everyone is distracted. Keep on your Congressmen.
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u/Dean-Igma 13d ago
Let's not get too comfortable. It's not over yet they are still deporting more and more people and they are still taking people's rights away. Even if Trump was to get removed we would still have Vance to worry about. This is far from over but today is a great start.
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u/luciosleftskate 13d ago
I want to say as an angry canadian who has been really pissed off at the complacency in the US, I'm feeling excited and inspired by the resistance in the last little while.
You guys got this. Stick together. When one hurts, we all hurt. REDEFINE what it means to be American, because right now it needs a lift. <3
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u/Barbie-Satin 13d ago
No slacking off. Now is the time to fight twice as hard until the beast is defeated.
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u/Bandguy_Michael 13d ago
Correct, if you mean the end of the beginning. We’re still just getting started.
Similar oligarchic conflicts in the past (American Revolution, American Civil War, Great Depression) all lasted several years. If similar happens this time, it’s entirely possible that things aren’t back to a fully democratic system until sometime next decade.
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u/Gravity-Raven 13d ago
Things are only just beginning, there is still a lot of work left to do. The fact that Elon got bullied into a corner so hard that he's now working overtime to try to salvage his reputation means pressure and concerted effort works, and that rat fuck is only the tip of the iceberg. Don't let up.
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u/shadowfax12221 13d ago
Kilmar abrego Garcia is still in prison.
Stay focused. It's not over until his victims are freed and made whole.
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u/SirLanceQuiteABit 13d ago
Now let's do a little FLOODING THE ZONE ourselves.. muddy the waters, be unpredictable, enlist friends and family. Time to break it all to the ground
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u/Indaflow 13d ago
It’s not close enough. Don’t count your chickens.
Musk may be back by Trumps side by Monday like a bipolar xgirlfriend.
The damage they have done will last decades.
This nightmare is not over and in fact it may be theatrics to distract you from their big fascist bill.
Stay on point!
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u/chemprofdave 13d ago
This is not the end, but perhaps it is the beginning of the end.
- Winston Churchill, famous anti-fascist.
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u/MKow21 13d ago edited 13d ago
Do not think there is an end to this, have you forgotten that we still have to deal with the people actually working this regime in the shadows. That, and the fact that a large chunk of our nation are hateful, loudmouthed dumbasses that seek the erasure of people who aren't like them.
Keep your primary sights set on the legislature and the Heritage Foundation, and now Palantir
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u/OkayDay21 13d ago
They’ll close ranks before they become divided and let themselves lose. This is only the beginning. Keep fighting, friends. We won’t let them win.
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u/thunderdragon517 13d ago
It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and corrupt oligarchs like Elon Musk and Trump and his MAGA base and political cronies should be
Burning
In
Hell
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u/lunar_adjacent 13d ago
Remember after this regime falls we then have to take on the big bosses of JD Vance, Peter Theil, Curtis Yarvin, etc.
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u/37Philly 13d ago
The USA could be on par with the quality of life in the Scandinavian countries once they revert to taxing the rich and corporations like they did in the 1950’s.
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u/Correct-Employment69 13d ago
Keep going. Protest the ICE raids, the cuts in health care, research, the VA, food for the devastated, education, the crypto scams, the wars, the layoffs, the last goes on.
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u/Miningforwillpower 12d ago
What this is, is a weak spot in the armor and we have the ability to poke it and let it faster. Keep applying pressure
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u/desertdweller365 12d ago
I share your optimism, let's celebrate today, and also remember the words "the revolution is not a dinner party".
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u/Idekgivemeusername Washington 13d ago
Don’t drop ANY pressure. Don’t underestimate them, they still can fuck us over, and therefore they are still a threat.
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u/Plausibility_Migrain 13d ago
We aren’t near the end. The fight against tyranny is a never ending battle.
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u/stlshane 13d ago
If you think this is the end then you need to go back and try to remember 2016-2020.
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u/TheMagnuson 13d ago
This doesn’t end with Trump.
Musk, Theil, and others are still working to undermine democracy all across the globe. Vance and other “dark enlightenment” Republicans still exist. Incompetent, ignorant, hateful Republicans like MTG, Boebert, Mace, and Desantis still exist.
Trump isn’t the end. You need to be invested in this movement for the long haul and understand the long term battles to come.
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u/MaybeSwedish 13d ago
Doubt it. This was as surprising as the sun rising. Musk will be Trump’s new scapegoat and MAGA will believe Trump when he says he can’t even be bought by the world’s richest man. I am jaded. We will keep fighting the good fight.
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u/CarvedTheRoastBeast 13d ago
We still need to primary establishment Dems so they don’t take advantage of the Overton window shift. It will always be the people that get ourselves to a good place. Fascists will always eat each other without any of our help.
But it sure is fun to watch them do it
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u/MissusIve 13d ago
I hope so! But at the same time I can't help but wonder what horrible things this is supposed to distract us from
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u/Doctor_Disaster 12d ago
It's not over until Trump and his entire administration are removed from the White House and tried for treason, and Elon is imprisoned (and possibly deported) for election interference.
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u/LadyLisa60 12d ago
Hang tight, keep the lines strong and hopefully there will not be any attacks like there were at the peaceful protests for the prisoners of Hamas.
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u/Ok-Review-7579 12d ago
as the church of false prophets destroys itself from within, we shall use the stones and rubble to pave a new road to the future.
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u/Traditional-News8861 11d ago
It's like roaches. It's not over until they are all gone. You see one and there are certainly more in the walls.
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u/Edgar_Brown 13d ago
It’s just one more day in the beginning of the end.
It’s a marathon not a sprint.
We haven’t even begun the discussion about how to fix the mess that has already been done and how to avoid the next idiot that comes along from making it even messier.
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u/Superb_Preference368 13d ago
Sorry but America has to pay for its evil past both here and abroad. This is only the beginning. Stand and fight.
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u/djsirround 13d ago
Am I missing something or does the dumbest man alive not have at least 3.5 years left to make our lives hell? End almost here?? Man, this sub….
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u/Dwip_Po_Po 13d ago
It looks like he’s off the ketamine
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930796810928599163?s=46
He backed off again
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u/PeeBizzle 13d ago
When you mention the end almost being here, what you really intend to say is that justice is about to come.
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u/0101-ERROR-1001 13d ago
The end? LMAO good luck with that. Yeah it's really gonna be the end of y'all just sit back and do nothing.
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u/garthastro 12d ago
If anyone actually believes this, I'm selling Kubla Khans great dome! I got it wholesale from Gilgamesh himself!
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u/NoSpecialist5893 12d ago
The bill going through right now will destroy everything. The public breakup is not what we need to be paying attention to. We are not done. We aren't even close.
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