Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than Stealing. Recasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-anti-weaponization-fund-january-6/687215/
46 Comments
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 74d
Hang em all
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 74d
Lincoln's refusal to execute the principal Confederate traitors publicly and exile the rest was a mistake that has cost the world dearly.
I say this as an admirer of Abraham Lincoln.
tomiant@piefed.social · 11 pts · 74d
The South never lost the civil war, they just kept waging it by other means.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
The North won the war but lost the peace.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 74d
Wasn't that more on Johnson?
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
Tough call on the exile part, they would have likely fled west and created more of "the south" is in California
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 74d
Unlikely. California was admitted as a free state in 1850, and San Francisco is actually considered to be a part of the Underground Railroad by some.
tomiant@piefed.social · 11 pts · 74d
You need to take the whole course of antibiotics, otherwise you'll just get sick again.
After they won the civil they stopped taking the antibiotics.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 70d
I agree!
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 74d
MAGA spent four years screaming that J6 was all Antifa
8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 73d
devaly@ani.social · 23 pts · 74d
laying the ground to show his supporters they can do it again in case their undermining of the next elections wont be enough
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 74d
It's about funding death squads loyal to PEDOnald.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 74d
ICE is version 1.0
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 74d
J6ers got reparations before black people and Native Americans. What a time to be alive. So much winning everywhere!
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
That’s likely his point.
sudo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 72d
His point is to embolden them to support him and stand by while he illegally occupys the Whitehouse after he is removed from office.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 73d
He needs them fully operational for 2028.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 74d
Well, they were stupid enough to actually fight for him. Imagine what those idiots would do now when Trump gets threatened by the harsh reality of the law?
n4ch1sm0@piefed.social · 8 pts · 74d
He's consolidating more power, gutting the people who aren't the utmost loyal to him, and gathering more people he knows will commit violence on his behalf. The ballroom is turning out to be more of a doomsday bunker than just a ballroom. He's getting cornered as dissent begins to grow from within and from the public as his approval rating continues to tank. They're moving faster and faster on goals they intend to accomplish, and are now beginning to talk about Cuba the way they were beginning to talk about Venezuela before the capture of Maduro; this suggests another invasion is coming. There are warehouses getting bought intended for immigrants and probably "domestic terrorists" by the standards of NSPM-7, intended to occupy up to 100,000 people in each one. The Republican party has decided the future of the party is more vital than the future of this country, and they and Trump are willing to cheat in the upcoming elections to maintain power and control, while the opposition is currently failing to maintain the aggressive poise they need fight against this and counter gerrymander. Mass economic hardship projected because of the Strait of Hormuz, with the possibility of famine ranging throughout the entire globe, and is most definitely a matter of time before it hits home.
People are sleepwalking into this and need to wake the fuck up; be ready and give it everything you got. Tell your friends and family. Your participation is fucking vital.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 1 pts · 74d
Other than voting wtf are we supposed to do?
zbyte64@awful.systems · 3 pts · 74d
Take a look at what black America had to do to win the right to vote.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 1 pts · 73d
Other than that, protesting has done nothing for the last 30 years I've attended so many protests in my life and we are still in the same fucking situation
zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 73d
Protesting? I am talking mutual aide and survival programs that simultaneously agitated the status quo.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 1 pts · 73d
Show me where that has made a difference though? That's my point we are pretty much powerless in today's society to do much of anything that will cause change
zbyte64@awful.systems · 3 pts · 73d
Aside from winning the right to vote? We owe to the black panthers the free school breakfast program. But they too recognized how the system makes us powerless, which is why they sought a dual power structure
mangobanana@discuss.online · 1 pts · 72d
What was that 50-60 plus years ago? Since then nothing has worked to make things better for the common person. If anything they are worse now. Since at least LBJ the conservatives have been trying to set up the system as it is today. They have been playing the long long long game and it's worked. Americans today are far too dumb and lazy to ever go on a months long boycott of anything. Nobody wants to be inconvenience. I'm too old and tired to be fighting for our rights like I used to. Young people will have to do it, but they are not
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 73d
The J6ers should have been machine gunned on the Capitol steps. The Capitol Police won't make that mistake again.
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 72d
I hate maga & this take is insane. State violence even against fascists is just state violence, that would have just given more power to idiots claiming the government was compromised. It’s not like J6 actually prevented Biden from becoming president.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 72d
It was an INSURRECTION! They literally tried to overthrow the government and install a Dictator-For-Life. If they had succeeded, a lot of legislators would have been murdered, as well as the VP. Those people were no longer American citizens, they were TRAITORS, trying to overthrow the government. Death is exactly what they deserve, either in the commission of their treason, or after. None of them should have been pardoned, because they all should have been executed.
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 72d
Actually, the fascist government blindly killing civilians, contrary to your belief, is not a good thing. You want it to be legal for the US government to open fire on crowds of civilians? There were journalists in that crowd, and I’m sure there were kids. Yeah that’s the insurrectionists fault but that doesn’t mean you can just open fire on them and their wives and kids, a crowd full of newscasters and fucking journalists wtf is wrong with you? That’s psychopathic bloodthirst.
With this logic, you must support China’s actions in the Tiananmen Square protests? I’d be very happy if you read that story and told me your insights!!!
Edit: oooo! What do you think of HAMAS? that’s a good one
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 72d
Who said anything about firing on crowds of civilians? That would be an atrocity.
These were seditious, treasonous Insurrectionists, attempting do LITERALLY DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY! Defending against that sort of domestic terrorism is the very least that I expect the Capitol Police to do.
The entire reason they felt comfortable actually assaulting the Capitol is because they were counting on COWARDLY people like you putting POLITENESS ahead of our Democracy. You would have let them destroy our democracy before fighting back, because it would be unseemly.
Your cowardice, and the cowardice of the Democratic Party is why so many people still support MAGA - because they know if America is truly threatened, Democrats aren't courageous enough to fight back, and they proved it over and over during the Biden administration. If Dems won't protect the nation, they won't protect their people.
Smug, polite liberals like you are the reason MAGA is in control.
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 72d
Your comment made it seem like they should have opened fire on everyone at J6 which is insane because you’re just cheering for the neoliberal state to kill civilians. They were civilians. If you said military members I would have said hell yeah, but you said J6ers. I should know better to engage with this kinda cringy fedposting, but just so u know it’s not real praxis.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 72d
Do you understand what an Insurrection is?
The moment they decided to join an Insurrection, and overthrow their nation, they surrender their protection as citizens. At that point they are enemy combatants, attacking the seat of our government. They erected a gallows, and imtended to kill many elected politicians, including the VP. If you don't defend the very seat of your Democracy, with all the major players present and under fire, when do you defend it?
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 72d
It’s very funny to me now that you called me a lib cuz this is very lib coded fedposting to me
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 71d
Yeah, peaceful human-rights demonstrators are exactly the same as a gang trying to overthrow a democratic election.
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 71d
Well, yes, exactly. Most Americans call it a massacre. What you are describing is the American government mass killing people, like people claim China does and they are lying. I mention Hamas because it is an army born out of necessity in brutal Israeli apartheid. I was just wondering. Americans truly have no idea how good we have it. You all think killing republicans would make capitalism better and it won’t, it’s just childish
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
It means the Government of Putin does not support law enforcement, but the only police officers that understand this are with the Capitol Police. This part of the GOP build up for the mid-terms and 2028. Hitler, Stalin and Mao did the same thing for their violent thugs, made them heroes.
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 74d
Like I said in another thread, do the guards who protected our democratic institutions also get a payout or how does that work?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
I honestly wonder if this is not being done to distract from his megaheist that might make him the richest person in the world (STABLE-GENIUS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4fG6o2VLfA