Sorry to be morbid but Burning Man is actually a *genius level* location to commit a murder
Sorry to be morbid but Burning Man is actually a *genius level* location to commit a murder
#WhereIsTrump
Guys listen: Regardless of ol Dumpy’s actual state, please take note: *something* hinky is going down. So please social media can we please go NUTS asking where is Trump? Demand they put him in front of a camera. the Sleepy Joe media feeding frenzy treatment. Let’s make them squirm at least is fun
I dunno I think with the Dumpster I’d never attribute to incompetence what could as easily be explained by malice/graft/self interest. Every reason Dumpy *did* get what he wanted from Putin, & it’s purely beneficial to him personally, while he warlocks the narrative here to his liking
Big mad they felt they got played by Biden admin but happy to get played by Trump regime many times a day in broad daylight somehow
played for fools in *broad daylight* to their stupid cow faces
lol they’re saying people buying a house to live in, then a few years down the road buying & moving to a different house while retaining ownership of the old house are committing bank fraud. Meanwhile ol Dumpy is quite literally the convicted crown prince of fraudulent loan seeking
Sorry this is like saying someone is a good parent bc they feed, clothe, & house their children- it’s literally the minimum mandated by law to not or you get yr kids taken away. Sure, ol Chuck is doing what Rs have done for years to Ds- doesn’t mean one whit he is up to the moment or right person
Rent Is Too Damn High Remix ft Mr Cardamom
Somehow national media was DEEPLY disturbed abt feeling like they got played by the Biden admin via his acuity, diminishment, et al, (to the point that still given massive airplay months into Trump II) yet somehow *every day* they are played for fools by Trump & all his lackeys & it’s crickets
@kairyssdal.bsky.social i have seen opined that Trump appears to be attempting to crash the dollar (prob bc he views it as personally beneficial I’d imagine)? Does this track?
Lost the Senate to Joe Manchin & Kristen Sinema not to the Dems tho
In terms of media- they need to buy some! But until they fix the basic problem of being trash politically it doesn’t matter how much airtime they buy.
Call me crazy but here’s the thing- if the big donors threw their weight behind the actual *leaders* on progressive values (Sanders, AOC, hell, Mamdani) the “centrist” Dems would follow! *As they should- a healthier, better run society is as good for the billionaires as all of us, maybe better.
Like if you just poll Democratic Socialist *policy* (tax the rich! Help the little guy!) without framing it as “socialism” or whatnot shit is like 60-70% favorable. Dems! Look at who in the party is getting love rn! LEAD MOTHERFUCKERS!!
Just as nobody likes people who desperately just want to be liked so much that they pretend to be whoever they think the person they want to be liked by would like (“i love anime/khraunbin/hiking too!”) So too the national Vichy Dems, oblivious to the fact that Americans in fact LOVE FDR politics
I like to break the ice with a simple “Rough day?”
“*challenge* legal norms” FTFY
Maybe it will work this time!
Your fingertips to Goddess’ ears my friend. We’ll see- if somehow a large mass of people in blue cities/states could general strike, interrupt the flows of capital, I think that could be devastating to his coalition of backers/obsequiants. I just don’t see them giving up w/o an actual, like, fight
Going hot is sort of inevitable- the other side certainly is willing (foaming at the mouth really) to engage in violence before they will be removed from power. They are actively seeking conflict as provocation as we speak
Folks we are in a civil war & everyone in the opposition needs to wake up to that. GENERAL STRIKE
Sad to say my man but we are already in one- just most of the people on our team haven’t realized it yet
Air flow. You need fans in all the problem areas They hate wind
Cuban rn is pure distillation of what happens to these billionaires where they are entirely surrounded by yes men at all times
Only the Vichy national Dems could rail non-stop about the end of democracy & threat of fascism under a Trump return to office for an entire election cycle & then become total dormice when *it’s actually fucking happening* in real time
No you sure arent
I’M not throwing trans people under the bus. Newsom is not where I want him to be on it & in general I don’t like him. But he’s among the highest profile national level antagonists to Trumpism & Trump personally Defeating Trumpism is uniquely urgent, & that goes for trans people especially
Trans rights are *most protected* in the most Democratic states. CA is one of the trans friendliest states. The other side that needs to be defeated wishes to exterminate trans people. Again, your sense personal political purity is pure vanity
you will be shocked to find that people can do both! I dunno I guess I just think my sense of my own political purity is secondary what I think will actually *help* the people I would wish to protect. In this case this means trying to build the common cause to have a chance against Trumpism
How bout a general strike as a first step? Way likelier to work/same degree of collective action Btw marxists we have to promote & argue for our worldview not just sound off
I’m talking abt your political stance not your access to care! I think access to care & protection of trans people & their human rights/dignity is FAR likelier to be preserved/advanced under Democratic governance. CA is one of the trans friendliest states in the country. We need to find common cause
Hogwash. Newsom is governor of one of the trans friendliest states in the US. The people you would help by fracturing the possibility for common cause are the people who actively would like to eliminate trans people from existence. What side is better for trans people? Support that side
again, this is your self regard over actual literal harm to people. Like those who wouldn’t vote Biden/Harris over Gaza (I get it! Fuck Biden! Fuck the genocidal Israelis!) the Trumpists are infinitely worse for the Palestinians. You’re not helping the community you say you’re trying to protect
It’s not about choosing Newsom. It’s about advocating for trans dignity, humanity & rights while allowing for the reality that the electorate is sadly to varying degrees transphobic & political animals like Newsom reflect that. It’s uniting against the common enemy as much as possible
Also I plainly called it a *SHITTY* choice But the choice will make a big difference for trans Americans in the level of persecution & threat they are facing
The people who want trans people “gone” are the side in power & you are actively helping them win so you can have a pure & uncompromising self image The question people need to ask themselves is what side is better for trans people & which is worst & vote however is necessary to minimize harm
Cool so you are, to soothe your own ego & self image, helping to empower the side that wishes to literally murder you & is currently putting that plan into action 👍
I agree. But we live in a world of deeply flawed choices. & if you dont see that the other team is unspeakably worse for the highly vulnerable people you want to protect, I don’t know. Also that we live in a broadly transphobic era & political speech reflects that, unfortunately.
SOOOO much love/respect to the trans community HOWEVER we are at war people. Vs forces that are INFINITELY more dangerous to trans Americans than Newsom, who is playing politics & trying to hedge on stuff that feels controversial bc America is broadly transphobic & he’s him
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social yo Mayor NY needs a ad spot w you & Jimmy McMillan ideally a rap song
*general strike* Unless/until we can interrupt the flows of capital there is no hope for change. But sorry to break it to you overwhelming likelihood is that we are cooked We are in a 2nd civil war & our side mostly doesn’t even understand that’s what’s happening
There are highly suspicious anomalous voting patterns in multiple states (all D down ballot/no Pres vote, Trump vote/no down ballot vote) in sufficient number in swing states to suggest tampering, on tabulating software Rs had access to compromise post 2020
In hindsight it was not probably the best decision to have a two party system where the parties more or less represented the two sides of a not too distant civil war
@governor.ca.gov get with me on this, Newsom socials team- the whole “TACO” thing is weak sauce & an affront to the wonderfulness of tacos. Here you go: “Ol’ Dumpy” “Dumpy Don” “The Dumpster” “Dumpster Donny”
Twice elected by (& still popular in!) the 2nd most left state in the Union seems to indicate that, yes, indeed, Newsom is left
What’s needed, at scale, is Dems/Libs to go full FDR “I welcome their hatred” & again, for the cheap seats, the “Joe Rogan of the Left” is sitting in plain view: Joe Rogan himself who is highly persuadable & currently disillusioned w the Trumpist movement. @governor.ca.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov
We wouldn’t have won WWII without Stalin/USSR Being fussy about this shit is like not supporting Biden over Gaza (a legitimate stance in normal times!) without taking account of how infinitely worse Trump would be for those you wish to help US culture, broadly, is transphobic, sadly
The enemy of my enemy is my friend Until someone else in Big D party politics starts fucking with the Trumpists like Newsom ima overlook his oiliness
If any Democrat were smart enough to develop a high level Trump impression a la Shane Gillis or Godfrey it would be devastating. @governor.ca.gov if you see this you know what’s up get on that asap
It took losing a world war vs the greatest coalition of military force in human history, a continent in ruins, & some 50m deaths (abt 300m relative to current pop) to end the Third Reich.
Don’t look now but we *are* a Russian style kleptocracy just not socially acceptable to say so
I have very little hope man we are fucking cooked I’m just saying what would need to happen to get us somewhat less so
Precisely backwards imo, respectfully. Ideas like this have *always* germinated among smallish nexuses of like minded opposition before making it to the next stages. By your logic, *any* plan for resistance through direct action is sort of doomed
Doesn’t need to be everyone- the blue cities & the largely blue professional classes are the engine of the flows of capital. Shut that shit down for a day or a week & at least get to watch ol Dumpy’s coalition of oligarchs get *very* unsure of their current course of action
A general strike
Ron Howard voiceover: “… & that stranger was NYT columnist David Brooks”
How bout them apples you fahkin Trumpahs We fahkin ovahthrew one mad king 250 yeahs ago an we’ll fahkin do it again kid My mayah’s wicked smaht
“Mountainhead” was barely fictional in its portrayal of tech wealth gone mad
The *word* has a gender but its *meaning* does not. The word’s gender is in itself meaningless- all words in Spanish have genders totally irrelevant to their meaning. Again- you fail to recognize the real point: the *imposition* of terminology to a given community without consent is crazy & wrong
Listen it’s fine obv if people want to *self identify* as latinx. But I think the expansion of that to non participants who do not wish to is lexical imperialism. Also, in Spanish you would have to specify “hombres Latinos” if you meant men bc Latinos itself is *non specific* vis gender
“Latinx” is trash nomenclature imposed without consent on a people whose language doesn’t posses this phoneme & think it’s ridiculous. Much love to the Latin queer/NB community & those who wish to self identify this way but is def something the Dems need to abandon.
Listen guys the c-suite nepo babies need to make things happen to justify their generous compensation- if that means a years long rebranding the ends up returning to the original brand so be it
Conservatives specifically utilize displays of rank hypocrisy as a power dynamic to demoralize & exhaust the energies of the good faith opposition. The hand washing by the press of the journalistic duty to actually *report* alongside he said she said horse race bs is the problem
Guarantee you they are instructed to be as provocative as possible- regime wants nothing more than actions of resistance/violence towards ICE goons so they can declare martial law in that locale. Mark it.
I’d bet my life savings that Trump got a very large amount of *personal* financial incentives agreed upon. & the fact that he cares not a whit abt shitty optics should scare you shitless- bc it signals, as w everything else, that they have no intention of real elections
Fun idea- who is the precinct that arrested him? Let’s all call them & report assaults wherein someone threw a sub sandwich at us.
And more importantly, tacos are wonderful & do not belong in the same sentence as fuckface. More national Democrat fail on framing
This TACO bullshit is infuriating & embarrassing. Trump is *anything but* a chicken- this is a man who attempted a coup in broad daylight & is currently (successfully!) instituting authoritarian permanent rule in 2025 USA. Back n forth on tariffs is a function of mafioso state capitalism.
Can’t even begin with how wrong this is, & how this strain of copium is hindering the mass urgency needed to *actually force change* (general strike) Trump sending military into cities is 1000% them following through on their plans to stay in power forever. Not a win for our side in the least
Can’t for the life of me understand why this is being handled this way by Dems. Like, this is a *tiny minority* of people who simply want to be treated fairly & decently. A classic case of sticking up for the little guy, & that’s the framing everyone on our side should be hitting, relentlessly.
Wow Mayor Pete flubbing the moment w maximum fail. When you find out your “strongest friend & ally” is a sadistic mass murderer who wishes to draw you into preemptive regional war maybe you rethink your friend/allyship
Well as I said other reply- it’s precisely this level of dooming that is needed to organize the scale of collective action (general strike) the situation actually demands
Critically, tho I see a lot of copium on our side in the shape of stuff like this, that I believe is actively harmful to gathering the desperation/urgency to take actions that could actually have an effect (a general strike).
I’m not saying don’t litigate the bastards I’m saying until I see *any* traction in conditions on the ground I am deeply skeptical.
While I get the need many have for small hopes in this nightmare, until SCOTUS rules against Trump regime in *any way whatsoever* AND regime actually obeys ruling, all this lawfare is fucking meaningless
I don’t know how anyone would be able to measure this in a scientific way given the shell company ownership structures by which finance entities are involved in housing. Irregardless, in basic economic terms, the broader financialization of housing as a commodity/investment vehicle is a *problem*
Mario was a good guy politically but he sure did raise a couple of epic entitled pricks as sons (which says something)
100k is literally the base amount a household needs to live a basic non-poor life (place to live, a car, 1 *modest* vacation per year, save a little for retirement) in any large US coastal city. Fuck Cuomo that nepo baby rich boy has never had to work for anything a day in his life
lol you’ll never guess WHY there was a civil war in Spain Hitler came to power in the aftermath of the greatest market crash in history. Fascism in Italy came in the immediate aftermath of the Great War
Sure but the racial grievance motivated group is not enough to win an election on its own without loads of low information literacy people also falling prey to a massive con job. If everything is so rosy then why is the will of the electorate to end the status quo
lol go read a fucking book on fascism & the history of fascism
Likewise your choice to be a fussy obtuse weirdo
Also- I’m not going to engage w people who can’t themselves be bothered to learn the actual history of authoritarian movements & how they come to power
lol I work buddy
It means that widespread economic anxiety is a precondition for the rise of fascists in a democratic country
“Most Americans” doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If most Americans were doing “pretty well” you would never see something like the Trumpist movement succeed in gaining power.
FRED numbers might be reliable insofar as accurately sampling a lot of data. Whether that data set *accurately reflects the lived experience of broad masses of humans* is unclear- there is no way for it to account for people’s fears abt the future, which I’d argue make up much of the malaise
You realize that this whole line of argument makes you seem spectacularly out of touch (almost certainly not unrelated to the fact that you yourself are financially stable & living in the one city actually tackling housing) People don’t just feel financial anxiety bc of memes man. I sure don’t
It’s a crisis on the entire West Coast
Ofc it’s not *really* abt groceries or CPI goods & services. The *inflation* packaging is just the system’s way of exploiting people’s mostly legitimate general economic anxiety & insecurity vis the direction this is all heading in.
Bc the fundamental COL (housing, health care, education for one’s self or one’s children) continues to rise *relative to inflation* The threat of future homelessness is not far from a lot of normal, at present middle class people’s minds. A worsening climate crisis i think most people believe in &c
You’re largely correct abt media driving the inflation narrative/perception, but ignore the reason that narrative has traction. It’s not abt inflation, but widespread, generalized insecurity & accurate persecution that the quality & crucially, *stability* of life in US for most people is declining.
Hypocrisy is a rhetorical weapon deployed strategically by fascists
Not sure if “ineffective” is the right word when, vis Israel, Dems have mostly been actively complicit *with evil* even now, where public opinion has really turned. Nor the case when Biden’s admin furiously pursued the dupes who raided the capitol instead of the architects of a broad daylight coup
Quibbling over language is a mug’s game that plays straight into the apologists hands. Fine, don’t want to call it “genocide”, Bret Stephens? No prob it is certainly mass murder, collective punishment, relentless asymmetrical warfare against a kettled civilian population, organized famine, &c
“Legitimate military response” yeah definitely if somebody murders your family member it is totally legitimate to level their whole district & murder all their neighbors & children. The Israeli state is rotten to the core & has been from its earliest conception. I say this as a Jew
“Gruesome slaughter”/“sexual violence” is pure Likud framing of resistance to a brutal apartheid regime The sexual violence claim, like the decapitated babies claim, is thoroughly debunked. 70% of casualties were legit military targets & unclear how many deaths caused by IDF/“Hannibal Directive”
Basing one’s political opinions on a purely relational calculus as halfway between other people’s ideas is the most moronic possible way of choosing a belief system except insofar is it appears to be richly compensated for well platformed pundits. It is the ego driven puffery of a lazy intellect
Sadly though the ongoing Israeli madness, mass murder, dispossession, organized famine, sheer scale of brutality & dehumanization of the Palestinians has rendered this maybe-at-one-time “solution” utterly impossible. Part of their plan, honestly