The humiliation being so public and self-inflicted with social media that he paid for is just inspiring.
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The humiliation being so public and self-inflicted with social media that he paid for is just inspiring.
Both tactics serve their intended purpose. One is to win an election against a criminal candidate and the other is to thump the candidate who won last November over the edge of functionality, which he's teetering on at the moment.
Everybody in the Trump cabinet is getting a sharpie for Christmas. #jobs
Yeah, with the numbers out this morning, they're in deep doo doo.
Is @ossoff.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov out with his statement yet? The ad should be lit.
These idiots led by the idiot in chief are going to tear up this country and make us a pariah globally all at once in less than a year. Watching liberal governments flounder elsewhere, all I can say is you better get your shit together and fast.
What's so hilarious about this is that Bluesky is by no means a household word. For his own ego, Silver should act less offended at negative attention from his Bluesky critics than he always is. That holds true for several other people who are overly interested in how they're perceived over here.
Trump is a human grenade the GOP intentionally lobbed right into the heart of our system with the help of billionaires. Ironically, they're killing the only thing that saved them and us from their stupidity which caused ALL the past economic collapses in our collective memory. @democrats.senate.gov
Average people may be thick, but when the cause and effect is this clearly observable even Fox can't spin it to even the thickest.
Damn.
fervently hoping the worst people in our country* get put on trial one day *every single fuckin person in this administration
Voter turnout in Arkansas is among the lowest in the nation. It's complicated and we're trying to work on changing here, but poor red states are swimming against the riptide.
#arpx
The only reason I've believed we will survive this is that these are the stupidest people on the planet, bar none.
"His BASE"
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Trump bailed them out before. I'll be shocked if he does it this time. It will be the first time that his space has not been protected by the government from the consequences of their votes.
It just amazes me that this collection of pathetic losers run so much right now. The death of competence.
Maga idiots whose hate comes first had better figure out what they're doing. It is never acceptable under any circumstances for any group to have fewer rights than any other. The 2nd amendment, like other ways they've tried to attack trans people, is putting a foot in the door to come after you.
They're just asking for an expose that will reveal all of them. Sounded yesterday like that's very close to coming out.
Criminal trash
You've got such a small handful of filthy rich people in this country, many of whom inherited or got their start by nefarious means, and so many who are every bit as stupid as they are who tried to get filthy rich and failed due to lack of connections, inability to crime as well, or whatever.
If you're going to ban cell phones for kids in schools that's the only way to do it, bell to bell.
I really want to live long enough to see him convicted.
so it was stephen miller who made the call
When Dems regain control of anything, impeachments need to be a daily activity for everyone in this administration who's subject to them, plus federal judges all the way up to scotus. If that sets a precedent, tfb. This house has got to be cleaned up.
"Thought terminating cliches" is a very useful phrase for the times we're in.
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Isn't "maga intellectuals" an oxymoron?
They can prop him up every few days & he'll run in the same little gulches he always has. But he's so obviously worse they're not kidding anyone now. That's why Miller & Vought are getting so bold. They know their time is short to lock in their power. And Vance is just trying to look presidential.
These insular people need to read Old Yeller.
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This is great, other red state Dems take note.
Vought is Stephen Miller, with less revulsiveness, until he opens his mouth and then they're pretty much equal.
Some of these institutional corporations are not going to survive this, at least reputationally, and they probably don't need to.
Nothing will be protected if fascism isn't defeated. Everyone is going to pay.
These are all intentional attacks on public schools by red state governments.
Particularly disgusting from a mother and cancer survivor that she would lead an effort to put those two groups at grave risk of suffering and death.
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
The fever dream of the worst, richest, most powerful men from the beginning of bad, rich and powerful men.
“Several of us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them.”
Trump and maga are a lot of things. Subtle is not among them.
@davidjolly.bsky.social can speak to what this means personally, and this is a perfect example of the need for younger candidates who are living the experiences and dangers Republicans are putting us all through, especially the sandwich generation. #FL #Florida
Desantis is pure trash. If the end of the GOP doesn't make him wither and become an unknown, it didn't really end. No visits to FL for us, and any parents taking their kids to Disney World had better take note and rethink.
This is great.
I support Democrats and the Democratic Party. I oppose the the fascist party the GOP has become. But if we don't seriously examine where leadership is going in this crisis, we're going to fail. Historically, leadership changes when crises occur, especially when the leaders are already older.
No Kings 2 is on October 18. Sincerely hope the"where are the protest" people are organizing.
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
I think it's more trying to thump Trump over the edge than to get a leg up for 2028. I don't think people appreciate how personal Trump's military invasion of California, and potentially other blue states, is for governors. His staffer's got a knack for it and he's letting him go at it.
When you distill it all down, our military is run by an alleged day drunk misogynist who has a very bad record with alcohol and women and barely got confirmed. The military not being corrupted by that is going to be a massive challenge.
I do think Democratic states are going to have to play as hard a ball as they can play, and they have more to play with than red states by a whole lot.
Define "user base." Long before Facebook was thought about social media & forums on the internet have been mean & there was no block option. Ban? Seriously? Most moderators allowed an amazing amount of abuse before banning someone. Certainly, more than what I've seen people dish out to you.
Trump is alive, for now But polling suggests Americans are starting to be as concerned about his health and fitness for office, as they were when Biden started to show similar levels of decline Read it here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
BI and AI, "I" meaning inauguration. In that context the changes are noticeable. He's bumping 80 with known serious conditions. His odds of going 3 more years are already slim. Most autocrats don't get that late a start.
Money already appropriated must be spent for its legislated purpose in its legislated amount. Then talk about what else has to happen.
Be mad if you want, but @velshi.com is right about Dem leadership, which makes it harder to see the great stuff Dems are doing who aren't in leadership. Shows of strength in leaders increase the impact of everyone's actions. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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He's functional, looks tired, low energy, typically rambling, no different content, lying nonstop. Certainly doesn't look improved over what he's been, so six months from now, who knows. It's still clear he was struggling over the weekend, whether he's had treatment or whatever.
Finally, a tie, no cap, but rough, and his hair looks awful.
Is it at half-mast?
That thing's gonna look like the Epstein prison cell edit.
If he's wearing a cap and not in a suit and tie it tells you everything you need to know. If he takes no questions, if it's a short read statement, etc, he's in steep decline compared to even last week.
It's getting to be a problem that people are speculating so far afield of where we are right now. If we're this bad in seven months, by a year from now there's no telling--we may be under full dictatership, or they may have been overthrown already. It's too chaotic to speculate atm.
They'd have to have enough popular support to pull it off, and without Trump, that's not going to happen. He's very late to an appearance for one announcement. We haven't gotten through this holiday season. By a year from November, no telling how mad Americans are going to be at this administration.
I am not seeing "Constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United" on any of these New Reconstruction wishlists folks are circulating, and. Absent starting over from scratch, I don't see us establishing any semblance of democracy here without that plus Supreme Court expansion.
exactly. i'd rather take the hit for what dharunni is bitching and moaning about here than have to treat the "actually remigration is good" site as good (god, dharunni is so funny man. i remember she once blocked me over there because she didn't understand the word "nominative determinism")
In fact, we at Bolts have reported on what the GOP governors cracking down on intra-state blue cities has looked like, and it's not pretty: boltsmag.org/louisiana-go...
it is genuinely shocking how pathetically weak all these guys are psychologically. just the softest bunch of participation trophy seekers imaginable.
I've also watched Jain get his ass handed to him several times on here, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. He can't stand that he's publicly challenged by people who know what the hell they're talking about.
I like @velshi.com a lot. I watched him take heat here & engage. He blocked some, but I've noticed, while very direct, it was mostly based in content & real differences in perspectives & views. People who can't take that without turning petty about the site need to stay on corporate social media.
They can't cover things that are antagonistic to the interests of their owners... & also they support what Trump is doing.
He's 79 years old & wasn't in great health to start. He's been sweating profusely for a long time. He's now wearing a cap and no tie virtually all the time. The bruises and swollen ankles are obvious. There's something observably, physically wrong with him that wasn't before. Fatal? Who knows?
Or complete gibberish that his staff will insist is one of those two things.
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I'm not surprised at his answer. Ben Smith represents a huge facet of the degradation of political reporting.
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
On the other hand I bet if you offered tofu to that guy he'd melt into the ground.
I think that too. I also think many journalists/newsrooms seldom post here because they can’t recreate the bot numbers elsewhere and so avoid the truth that exposes.
the continuation of the war at this point and for some time is simply indefensible. this is a govt run by the settlers.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
I really think it's what bugs them the most, is that independent journalism has a voice and an audience here that's not drowned out by bots and trolls.
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
I've been asking that, has it suddenly fallen out?
Ten years ago I would have never predicted that I'd be on the edge of my seat about elections in Brazil or Poland.
Those of us dialed in have been watching it for years now, which is why we were in such a panic about this election. The rest won't know any more about it based on bluesky posts than they did before.
The whole thing was a stupid construct from the beginning. Let's pick an old guy who's a nut and a convict instead of the old guy who was actually doing a good job keeping things stable.
That will continue as long as their priority is sustainable quality, not maximizing monetization. They appear to be doing fine. Other places that popped up after Musk bought Twitter would be thrilled to have their engagement. @jay.bsky.team
Whenever this place starts getting political traction, the bots flood it & conversation about how it's dying starts being dropped. It's the most successful at what it's intending to do of any social site engaging right now. Unless they're accruing significant debt, hack opinions are irrelevant.
this made me laugh out loud. I see the posts about the *dying* site and I wonder why the people bleating on and on about this are posting here. GEAUX AWAY. Post on the "alive" site [whatever that is]. It's so tedious.
He needs to be sued directly by the states and institutions whose money he's stealing.
I read somewhere here yesterday that he is scheduled to meet with the Polish President this week. What happens with that meeting will tell a lot. He doesn't need to be dead to be incapacitated.
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
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He's wearing a cap constantly, and his hair looks odd under it. Is he losing it?
I just said something to my mother yesterday about how he's not holding his mouth closed, reminding me of my granddad not long before he passed, interestingly, of congestive heart failure.
These people are so painfully idiotic, how the hell did they even get to the point anybody knows who they are, much less on the verge of driving western civilization into the ground?