Yet he’s the linchpin that holds the party all together. Notice that they’re all afraid to stand up to him.

Well, memes and tech are certainly also in abundance.

But this puppet is who the cultists at the bottom support. They won’t get their support for anyone else so easily, if they even need them at that point.

Félix Faure was president of France in 1896, but he didn’t visit Germany that year.

trans, furry, and mental health communities

I’m surprised you have anything left to view on Lemmy.

That is one smug-looking baby.

If everything you can get addicted to were made illegal, there’d be nothing legal left.

If that were true, no revolution would have succeeded, ever. You don’t win if you don’t believe you can.

Only if they were actually serious about their oaths.

This dictator is the leader of the GOP, a cult of personality. That’s not easily replaced

I guess it would be something like “Don’t pay your federal taxes, Californians, we will not cooperate with the federal government if they try to collect.”

No successor would be able to muster up the same support he has. It’s the danger of pinning an entire party’s fortunes to a single individual.

In true cult fashion, I don’t think there’s a bottom. They’ve decided that he IS the Republican Party and only his death will change that.

He has total power because the GOP is a cult and the Republicans in the other branches of government choose to let him have unchecked power.

Now there’s a Black Mirror episode with true horror!

Counterpoint: the dumb people could have them as well.

Nobody in that video looked in the least bit afraid, just annoyed.

Allowing the government to be taken over by fascists makes any “remembering” of horrific events pretty meaningless anyway. In the context of government, not individuals.