Most definitely.

[racingdaily@mastodon.social]

@BrianJopek Precicely, every atrocity and trashing of the US Constitution has happened because America allowed him to do it. You wouldnt blame a bear for shitting in the woods, and you cant blame a fascist for being fascist. You blame the country that is armed to the fucking teeth, but too cowardly to stop it

[edboythinks@hachyderm.io]

@BrianJopek there's definitely e. coli in the lettuce now

[yuki2501@masto.hackers.town]

@BrianJopek Exactly. Republican senators must be held accountable.

[47be0b2a89faaa66bc57f5c679203486da45660295cb3db3c2f38f4be8d8816e@mostr.pub]

Hey could John Oliver just do that checking and balancing because it's a lot of work and I'm kind of busy.

[zm@kolektiva.social]

@BrianJopek
@briankrebs

The US was created when 13 crown colonies that didn't want to pay taxes on their two largest exports. Genocidal land expansion and chattel slavery

[thenovemberman@bookstodon.com]

@BrianJopek Yes please

[haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com]

@BrianJopek
The slave owning founding fathers put in checks and balances against people ruining their genocidal settler state.

Although trump is clearly a raging maniac, he is a product of the system. Trump or not, the american economy is in ruins and the genocidal settler colony overseas was not made by trump.

Trump also did not invent epstein and his pedo cannibalism club. Clinton himself was part of that, along a slew of others.

The system is based on exploitation. Its working as intended.

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@BrianJopek
A line from "Married With Children" keeps coming back to me:

"If you hand a gun to a chimp and the chimp shoots someone, you don't blame the chimp." - Marcy D'Arcy

[tecnijota@laterracita.online]

@BrianJopek @briankrebs in other words, and (sadly) as we are starting to see it from outside, it’s not a Trump problem, it’s a USA problem. And I’m not sure we’ll be able to move past it once you get rid of him.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@zm @BrianJopek @briankrebs
The taxation is often emphasised. The reluctance of the British to issue "exploitation licences" of the Natives to rich white men is rarely mentioned.

The President was given too much "king-like" powers from the start and only well off white men had a vote.
The Civil War was more about control than slaves (see Jim Crow laws). You can be annexed (Hawai'i, Alaska, Mexican territory etc) but you can't leave.

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@BrianJopek hey it's an insult ... over the 5 years old kid, 5yo kids are more smart than trump xD