• ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world
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    As a born and raised New Mexican, fuck this absolute piece of garbage, and fuck anyone who has voted or is continuing to vote for the convicted rapist and pedophile party. New Mexico is a culturally rich and diverse state, full of traditions going back hundreds, in some cases thousands, of years.

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      There’s dozens of us New Mexicans here! Dozens!

      It’s such a stupid idea because even people who voted for him have New Mexican pride and wouldn’t agree with this change, it’s simply stupid

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        Are there still Americans who don’t know NM is part of the US, or it that long past?

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          No that’s still something you come across, not as often as it used to be. 10-15 years ago I had someone ask if they needed their passport to visit NM, which was funny because they were dead serious. I think since Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul got as popular as it did people figured out NM was a state but I cannot confirm this, it’s just my head canon.

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              As a born and raised New Mexican, who now unfortunately lives in the Midwest. Nah, still happening. Got a roomful within the past two months. I blame Missouri public education.

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      My wife and I love NM. We’re from shithole TX and if there isn’t a blue wave here, we would love to move.

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        Hey neighbor’s neighbor! We’re in AZ, I’ve been looking fondly over at NM for a bit.
        Love visiting NM, except the mountain pass we have to go through to get there. Absolutely hate that part or we might get over more.

        We moved here from a cold state many many moons ago and Phoenix had a lot to offer for jobs. Feel like we shoulda looked harder back then. To poor now to make another move but, we will if we gotta.

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      At some point he was told patriotism or some like thing polls well and his dementia addled brain locked onto it. On some level he understands he’s dying, wants to leave his mark and can’t get away with naming everything Trump as he’s done his whole life, so “America” it is.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        Or he’s just trying to preoccupy people with random stupid shit to distract from things that actually matter…

        Anyway, where them epstein files at tho?

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      He only has room in his head for like 10 words at a time. That’s why he thinks remembering 5 in cognitive tests is a huge victory. It takes half his brain! And the other half is “America” “golf” “China” and “besty Putin.”

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      Well to be honest he probably wants to name after Himself but even his most loyalists followers refuse to do that. They probably told him that when he wins they will do just that. I mean he did complained that he had to build all these moments after himself because noone will do it after he dies.

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        The french are protesting against education funding. And americans wont get off the couch to rescue their own country.

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          Mobs are easier to form when your entire country is the size of a single US state and everyone who wants to participate in the country is within a day of driving to the same location. Your people aren’t less willing to be fucked over by the government. It’s just easier for the small percentage of you who will riot to meet up.

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            And most countries don’t have a police force more heavily armed than a small country’s military.

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              Decades of no accountability and poor hiring practices have made the police thugs against their citizen peers. Funded by the have nots, while protecting the haves and themselves.

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          Eh. Honestly, I think it’s pretty likely both incidents in which someone got “close” were probably false-flags. Orangeboi is a complete coward. I genuinely think he’d piss his pants and run away screaming if it was a real attempt on his life. There are a number of very suspicious points to the rally event in particular.

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            So this coward you speak of agreed to allow a teenager to fire a rifle at him from 350’? And Joe Biden’s USSS, who he had purged of MAGA agents, and Joe Biden’s FBI (who agreed Trump was dinged by a rifle round or fragment) were in on it?

            Watch him when they pull him up seconds after we hear the “all clear”. He is fucking stunned. Couple of photographers angle in for a shot (lemmy tells they were in on it as well), Trump sees the first thing he understands, “Cameras on ME!”, and does the fist pump.

            And all those USSS agents who were demoted or fired, and both shooters, all agreed to upend their careers and lives for…?

            Or we could just admit that a couple of dudes shot their shot at the most reviled man in America, possibly and all-time hatred in American politics.

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            Do not let perfection be the enemy of good.

            Vance does not have any of the charisma nor the following that Trump has. His ability to coalesce a ruling party is low. It’s why Trump is still in power.

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              The bigger issue as I see it is that Trump wants to rule by charisma first. I don’t think Vance particularly gives a shit if people curse his name - meaning that, at the first sign of things getting out of hand, I think he’s more willing to hit the “start killing protestors until the streets are red” button.

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              Yep! Add in that what’s left of MAGA will viciously turn on Vance for all the things they could bring themselves to pin on Trump. Vance’ll be a copegoat.

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            With no charisma or leverage to get anything extreme done. It isn’t their daughter in law that controls the GOP and is able to fund primary challengers.

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              You think they’d impeach the younger smarter asshole who wants to hurt their enemies?

              No fucking way. The Republicans want this. Trump is only useful for his distraction otherwise they would have stopped musk.

              Plus it gives them an incumbent to run in 2028 (if they aren’t already planning to run Trumps corpse again).

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                I didn’t say anything about impeachment. What would matter if they did anyway? A presidential impeachment has never ended in consequences. No, they just want have the ability to jam through controversial bills or wars. Congress won’t just go along with them.

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                They’d be morons to run Vance in 2028. As sitting VP he can’t fill a high school auditorium.

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                  They’d be morons to run Vance in 2028

                  Only if the US still has legitimate elections. Guess we’ll see during the midterms.

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      The ultraconservative cabal behind his back who wants their schemes signed and greenlit. They have to keep their puppet alive.

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    There are no adults coming to save us. It won’t even be that surprising if this ends up happening. Certainly not becausw it makes a shred of sense, just because this timeline is satire.

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    Comically, New Mexico acquired its name long before “New Spain” became Mexico. Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

    Edit ended up reading the article, it is listed in the article further down as well “New Mexico’s name predates the founding of the United States back to the 16th century”

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      Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

      …

      New Mexico predates the modern country of Mexico, yes.

      But when Spanish Conquistadors first reached the Valle de Mexico, in the 1520s, it was the most densely populated urban area on the planet at over a million people.

      That’s why New Mexico includes “new”, because it wasn’t the original.

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      Mexico made a power move naming itself, knowing New Mexico already existed. “They might be ‘new’ but we’re the og.”

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    What a lousy POS. I’m going to throw in the age old question, “Where are the damn Epstein Files?”

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        He is mentioned more than Jesus in the Bible. Trump is the New Testament of the Epstein realm. Thousands and thousands of times his name appears. There was a tracker a year or so ago that in ream time was showing the redactions hiding trumps name, DOJ activity. It started around -4,500 times rapidly dwindling daily as they tried to hide it. Not duplicate mentions, either. Individual instances of him.

        Now, luckily, some valiant stewards have maintained physical and digital copies of the files that hopefully lead to far and wide repercussions for these cretins. But, this is viewed through the lens the are constantly building of doubt, AI, “fake” everything. It really does start to click what has occured and who was involved, We must never forget.

        Only silver lining i have found is that a few countries in the EU have made moves, made arrests, and are actively prosecuting some of the retchid cohort. One is better than none, but it must be most/all.

        There are 4 lights.