What if they had asked for a couple of soldiers to be there?
Stultifying personality trapped in this little glass slab.
146 followers 147 following 450 posts
view profile on Bluesky
What if they had asked for a couple of soldiers to be there?
Um yeah that's actually treason. So that "all enemies foreign and domestic" oath we all made? Here we go.
🤮
That's okay, they've already bought 2/3 of the Supreme Court.
The phrasing of the lead nearly made me choke on an ice cube, but it's a third-person quote, not reference.
Maybe this is what finally breaks him. Where they find him under the Resolute desk, wild-eyed, a line of drool soaking his tie, clutching his phone and muttering "it's all lies. All of them."
More to the point, does he care?
It may be what we *have done*, but it doesn't have to be who we are now, or what we *could* be. Actions carried out in my name do not always have my blessing. But like many, I do what I can to make things right.
Yup. *My* congress critter is getting the boot this cycle. Don't care what committee they're chairing, or senior member of, this is unacceptable. Primary competition automatically gets my donation.
Gum up the works @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, you and your associates need to STOP PLAYING NICE and put a halt to all Senate business. This government no longer represents the people, and you need to represent *that*.
How much do I need to contribute for you to do it again?
Actually the argument that federal law enforcement is completely out of control is rather convincing.
"He should stay in jail so someone doesn't accidentally arrest him" is that actually what I'm reading? I need to go find my pills now.
Stewardship of the commons is a basic function of government. If your grandchildren have nothing left, then you have failed at that task.
Are all these people really that gullible?
In other words, he got caught out in a market position and it cost him a bundle.
The proper response if you think a law unconstitutional, is to go to court and have it struck down. Simply defying it is illegal, and you can be... Oh. Um, oh wow. Now I see the problem. This is a bit of a pickle isn't it.
"I don't need proof I'm a citizen. You need proof I'm not!" [Muffled shouting from the floor in the back of the van]
You see the dilemma: be a rubber stamp so to preserve the prospect that adverse rulings would be obeyed, or refuse to be a rubber stamp even just once and reveal just how illusory the Court’s power has always been. The Roberts Court brought this upon itself and our democracy is suffering for it.
So asking "do you have concerns with going to Venezuela", if they answer yes, then "okay South Sudan it is!".
No but defenestration is looking like an option.
The United States Supreme Court: Come for the corruption, stay for the human trafficking.
DID I STUTTER
So this was on the books, Biden & co had shopped and tuned it. Donny just pulled the trigger, and now wants to take credit for coming up with the whole thing. He won't take blame for any fallout from it though.
So you're going to stop it, right?
"Joey did it too" does not make it right, then or now. Maybe if there is a bona-fide "warheads inbound" emergency could haste be an excuse, but none of these events qualify even in the most generous analysis.
Starting to miss the whimsy and innocence of our time under the last Bush regime.
"Avoided asking Congress for permission." You guys do have a... way with words. As if it's his annoying co-worker, instead of, maybe the god damned Constitution.
"...we will hold him and his enablers accountable." Um, when?
The President of the United States can't even spell his own fuckin name. Can we just roll the tanks back into DC please?
And these "sleeper cells" would continue to not be a problem, if we didn't just BOMB THEIR COUNTRY FOR NO REASON.
Yah we're fucked.
Well I guess not then. About Iran, not the other horrible crap.
LA was the first test of this. We have failed twice now. I do hope *somebody* will balk at shooting unarmed US citizens when that order comes.
Hey just wondering, how much is this all going to cost? Because I gave up daycare, college, breakfast, and the idea of having teeth so far and I'm running out of things.
"We will wait for Bibi's next instructions."
And people thought the eggs were expensive...
In fact, Trump himself was kind of surprised once they told him.
This is going to age like buttercream frosting in the Arizona sun.
The law is not going to jump out the books and save us from people who are intent on destroying everything in their path and who are willing to kill us all in the process. Please understand this.
For those in back: "RUSSIA SAYS WE WILL NOW GIVE IRAN NUCLEAR BOMBS TO THREATEN YOU WITH".
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
Blindingly obvious now for anyone that was still pretending otherwise: America is an Israeli puppet.
"ICE" stands for Iranian Covert Extraction, the name of their insurgent network currently active within the United States. If you see this group operating, report it.
an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks
Vulcan Corollary: But not too much.
Government is *supposed* to run at a loss. If you run it for profit it's called corruption and... we used to have laws about that.
Piggy Vance just can't seem to tell any of those brown folk apart.
Facts are optional when you're determined to be aggrieved.
So the official line then is that masked, heavily armed vigilantes were abducting ethnic-looking people and driving them away in vans? We're all honestly surprised that these people haven't been shot yet; the administration is desperately trying to make this happen.
This is sure to boost morale. Years of hard work and dedicated service count as nothing against political contributions. Wonder if they'll get to "retire" with benefits?
"You fall to your level of training." With the first rush of panic-adrenaline, logical brain takes a step or three back, and what you're left with is whatever reflexes you have managed to bake into automatic brain.
This is some real horseshit. If you want to know how bad it gets when sport stadiums go from staging centers to detainment camps look no further back in history than Chile 1973. ☠️ #la #abolishice
This is good: in two weeks so much other horrible crap will have happened that we'll have forgotten all about Iran and he can move on to instigating more immediate atrocities without losing face.
Block lists are awesome. Subscribe and *poof* there's two worlds: your Bluesky, and theirs, and the 'twain shall never meet.
Nope. July 4th.
America is being controlled by whoever was last in the room alone with Trump.
It's really supposed to explode from just the end, not all over like that.
Can't they all go rapture on like an island somewhere so the rest of us can get back to accomplishing things?
I find it... interesting that #CouchFucker comes to Bluesky, and right about the same time a bunch of new people suddenly start saying the #AltGov people are fakes and need to publicly identify themselves. I was hoping we could leave all the knuckledraggers behind.
Found one!
You can scan someone's followers list for a strong hint of who else to block. Recurse as needed.
So, what are you going to actually *do* about it? I am excited to see you bring forward real legislation to recognize trans people as equal human beings.
*You* people need to suffer equally.
CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
Hey kid, line starts back there.
That Mexico is going to pay us back, right?
Of course without charges, they want to avoid disfavorable legal precedent.
Once more the "smaller government" folks are inserting the government between you and your doctor. Don't want to vaccinate my kids against polio/measles/Covid? Fine! My child needs hormone therapy because their chromosomes are the wrong way 'round? Nope go to hell.
A proxy battle between the Russians and the Fundamentalists. I honestly have no favorite to win here.
Where *is* Vance? Maybe he's having a spine surgically implanted...
Casually threatening asassination of foreign officials... We are supposed to be above this.
"arrived in New York Harbor" I have this vision of it wading up Godzilla style...
Have they already invoked the 25th Amendment and just not told anybody, including Trump?
This began when he started taking Elon's ketamine.
Difficult to reconcile with the established legal precedent that if congress declines to regulate a thing, then the states are free to do so. I believe attempting to mandate no regulation falls flat here.
If they refuse (as I think here) to positively identify themselves, is it still interference?
Since they arrested the escorting cop too, apparently not even LEO is on the side of LEO.
Didn't Lander ask these questions beforehand, and got no answer? I guess now we can find out if "assaulting an officer" is still viable if the "officer" provides no identification as such. The decision either way is about to make things very interesting.
Roll for persuasion.
ICE: "You are under arrest" Citizen: "Why? You do not have a warrant." ICE: "You are under arrest for asking for a warrant."
Hey hot take: Where is J. D. Vance right now? Who is he talking with? Have we actually invoked the 25th amendment, but not told anybody (including Trump) to avoid further panic?
They (legitimately) don't trust him with the document, so they gave him a coloring book to show off.
A "positive" spin, FWIW, is that animosity towards this admin's antics is so wide-spread that they couldn't leave it to chance and expect most soldiers in the audience to not react negatively to the speech. Curious to see the number who self de-selected here.
Nothing to see here, just the President admitting that he has had no communication with Governors of the states. Shall we ask who he *has* talked to? DeSantis, Abbott, Newsom of course, oh and Mills but I'm not sure if that really counts... That's about it, right?
Kind of surprising that the answer to "should the government follow laws" seems to be "eh, depends."
Current events could take a hint from this though.
Thank you. Scores of random internet denizens were left hanging.
just please remember, whatever the news says about LA after this, that this is *always* how it goes. Everything is extremely calm until the police actively escalate for no reason. It was true during all the BLM protests and it’s true now.
Whoever snuck this into the queue for Donald's parade is a hero. Whoosh right over their heads. But *we* get it, anonymous music picker guy. We get it.
Absolutely contributing to the legal defense of whoever does this.
I did donate. With my FUCKING TAXES. Now that money's being used to trample brown people instead.
