#democratically — Public Fediverse posts

#Americans still believe that
because they #democratically #voted
to put that pervert piece of shit #Trump
and the dickheads who support him
in power
they can also vote to take power away from him

it doesn't work like that

to 'democratically vote' first you need a Democratic Government (that no longer exists)
respects to the 'right to vote' (that is not respected)
ensures for honest elections
(which are not assured)
so
the 'democratic 'I vote you out''
is not really a 'thing' in Trumplandia

#Americans still believe that
because they #democratically #voted
to put that pervert piece of shit #Trump
and the dickheads who support him
in power
they can also vote to take power away from him

it doesn't work like that

to 'democratically vote' first you need a Democratic Government (that no longer exists)
respects to the 'right to vote' (that is not respected)
ensures for honest elections
(which are not assured)
so
the 'democratic 'I vote you out''
is not really a 'thing' in Trumplandia

#Americans still believe that
because they #democratically #voted
to put that pervert piece of shit #Trump
and the dickheads who support him
in power
they can also vote to take power away from him

it doesn't work like that

to 'democratically vote' first you need a Democratic Government (that no longer exists)
respects to the 'right to vote' (that is not respected)
ensures for honest elections
(which are not assured)
so
the 'democratic 'I vote you out''
is not really a 'thing' in Trumplandia

#Americans still believe that
because they #democratically #voted
to put that pervert piece of shit #Trump
and the dickheads who support him
in power
they can also vote to take power away from him

it doesn't work like that

to 'democratically vote' first you need a Democratic Government (that no longer exists)
respects to the 'right to vote' (that is not respected)
ensures for honest elections
(which are not assured)
so
the 'democratic 'I vote you out''
is not really a 'thing' in Trumplandia

#Americans still believe that
because they #democratically #voted
to put that pervert piece of shit #Trump
and the dickheads who support him
in power
they can also vote to take power away from him

it doesn't work like that

to 'democratically vote' first you need a Democratic Government (that no longer exists)
respects to the 'right to vote' (that is not respected)
ensures for honest elections
(which are not assured)
so
the 'democratic 'I vote you out''
is not really a 'thing' in Trumplandia

1953: Iran

"After the United States established the CIA in 1947, it began to use the agency to #overthrow or prop up foreign governments in a much more covert way. Before WWII, the United States didn’t try to hide its interventions in foreign governments. But with the onset of the Cold War, the United States became much more concerned about hiding its actions from the Soviet Union, Kinzer says.

"'In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, it was a priority for President Eisenhower and [Director of Central Intelligence] Allen Dulles to assure that America always had #PlausibleDeniability,' he says. 'Eisenhower was probably the last president who believed that you could do these things and nobody would ever find out.'

"In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup of Iran’s #democratically elected prime minister, #MohammadMosaddegh, in order to consolidate power with Iran’s shah (or king), #MohammadRezaPahlavi. Declassified CIA documents claim the coup—known internally as Operation Ajax—was designed to prevent possible 'Soviet aggression
in Iran, but Iranian-American historian Ervand Abrahamian has argued the real motivation had more to do with securing U.S. #oil interests."

https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments

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