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“We are hope despite the times” is my mantra.
These Days. “We are young despite the years…”
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“He is risen indeed” will be the new MAGA slogan. And it will be emblazoned on a flag that will be a felony to burn.
The corpse of Trump is inhabiting the skin of Biden. This would make for a good b-horror drive-in franchise. I would pay for that.
As Trump rots and dies, we are going to have christo-ethno fascist rump seeking to secure their authoritarian rule with a Vance-Vought-Theil alliance. We need to do everything to fracture this with the MAGA cult who think their fetid orange savior will rise again.
As Trump rots and dies, we are going to have christo-ethno fascist rump seeking to secure their authoritarian rule with a Vance-Voight-Theil alliance. We need to do everything to fracture this with the MAGA cult who think their fetid orange savior will rise again.
Powered by Ketamine and meth.
Degenerate gambler telling me where to place my bets. Let’s put the kid’s inheritance on red. What could go wrong?
Degenerate gambler telling me where to place my bets. What could go wrong?
Blue state Governors need to order the arrest homan, noem, miller, bovino, all of them if they step foot on blue state ground. Take the game from them, do not play.
When it happens: red, white & blue smoke should come out of the White House chimney.
Somebody needs to market Trump EO toilet paper.
The problem is that it is “textbook”. A vast number seek every escape to *not* crack a textbook open to read it. A significant number are deeply unserious and willfully ignorant, looking for someone else to stoke their resentments and tell them what to do to hurt the people they hate.
This 1000% 👇
Keep hope alive.
I will vote for the anti-fascist candidate. Collaborationists or centrists that insist that the fascists “have a point”, will never get my vote.
Community and collective action are the only way to bolster one another. “Two are better than one”. That’s why I am riding with the Bulwark crowd. It gives me energy and courage when I read and hear from the likeminded trying to defeat fascism and promote liberal democracy.
Currently under this fascist regime we have no civil or criminal means to stop these abuses of power by these cowardly federal agents. All we have is public shaming and outrage, demanding they identify themselves & documenting their actions to used to prosecute these thugs after this regime falls.
1978: 4 rows from the wall center stage: Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath.
Can we put all the crackers in a barrel and send it over Niagara Falls? That might solve the controversy and would be good pay-per-view.
A century to build the expert civil service, a few months to burn it down for generations
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
The cons got their drowned govt baby corpse floating in the fetid MAGA bathtub. And we all got fascism.
Since masked federal thugs are are terrorizing hard working lawn and sanitation service employees, we are making the military do that work. I am sure National Guard troops are really enjoying their role in supporting ICE and DHS.
The rent is too damn high.
The historical reality is that few speak up. Few have the courage and fear what they will lose. That’s why I am riding with the Bulwark crowd (and the TPM crowd-I am a member). They lost it all and had to rebuild in resisting Trump 1.0 and are clear eyed about this fascist movement.
The bottom of the barrel, worst of the worst among us is in power.
I should have recognized this, but I find this more alarming. You could take stills or video of an event, and manufacture activity. A peaceful protestor assaulting a federal officer. A federal officer assisting a protester when in fact they beat the tar out of them. Brave new world.
As Pritzker pointed out in his remarks yesterday, democracy is not the natural order. We have to fight for it. "A republic if you can keep it." Life experience in employment and religion is a hierarchical autocracy. We evolved from packs ruled by alpha males. Is it any wonder they seek to dominate?
As Pritzker pointed out in his remarks yesterday, democracy is not the natural order. We have to fight for it. "A republic if you can keep it." Life experience in employment and religion is a hierarchical autocracy. We evolved from packs ruled by alpha males. Is it any wonder so many go along?
I cannot emphasize enough, everyone who voted for this shit damned us as a country and has hands drenched in blood. We are all going to suffer. Why should the people who represent us, the ones who didn't vote to do that, apply scarce resources to their welfare over my community?
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Dictator on day 1 to day 218. Let’s hope his days are numbered.
And this is supposed to concern me amongst the billions in defense spending? This is small potatoes and a waste of time. No legislation should be assisted to pass by Ds in this Congress. Obstruction should be the priority. Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.
Osama Bin Laden is defeating the U.S. from beyond the grave. The Trojan horse of DHS and ICE has been opened.
I expect more from our elected Dems. Especially ones I would think would be on the front lines resisting this fascist takeover. Spending cycles on this obscure issue is the distraction. If you can’t focus on the immediate emergency, then please step aside for someone younger.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Let's all start burning Trump flags, the one with his face emblazoned over and desecrating the stars and stripes. I would say it is the proper way to dispose of such fascist symbols. Let's see if Trump flags fall under the diktat from dear leader.
Let's all start burning Trump flags, the one with his face emblazoned over and desecrating the stars and stripes. I would say it is the proper way to dispose of such fascist symbols. Let's see if Trump flags fall under the diktat from dear leader.
"We are watching. And we are taking names."
NO KINGS! NO INQUISITORS! NO OCCUPATION!
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
MS-13 tattoo. Schedule him for immediate deportation to Antarctica.
Reactionary centrist, bleeding out as a firing squad in MAGA hats pushes him into a mass grave and covers it with dirt. "The . . . left . . . did this."
All these bootlicking sycophants bowing and scraping before dear leader. Disgusting.
Christ’s work and teaching as recounted in the NT show him comforting the afflicted, and afflicting the comfortable. That is a good test of those who supposedly profess to follow him. Matt 7:21-23 will be the the harsh reality for many a professing Christian nationalist.
The cons are making a great leap forward and ensuring the youth are properly indoctrinated with Christo-ethno-nationalist propaganda. Dems need to be explicitly campaigning on revoking any contracts with Prager U at the state or federal level as they seek election in 2026 and 2028.
This is what you expect in third world dictatorships. I have travelled in African countries run by strongmen where this was the common practice. If my group was not with a local doctor, we would have been shaken down harassed and maybe worse. Fascism is here. We need to non-violently resist.
Not a lawyer, but it is clear that our descent into fascism is enabled by torturing legalese and maximalist abuse of vague historic law to mobilize the military against its own citizens. We are living at the birth of a fascist militarized police state enabled by corrupt elites and judiciary.
Not a lawyer, but it is clear that our descent into fascism is enabled by torturing legalese and maximalist abuse of vague historic law to mobilize the military against its own citizens. We are living at the birth of a fascist militarized police state enabled by corrupt elites and judiciary.
@justsecurity.org has also been tracking this since Feb 2024 and has a good explainer. www.justsecurity.org/92568/federa...
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
If you ever wanted to know what would happen if Idiocracy had a love child with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, well, here we are
Frost: On one end, we have the big ugly law. And then on the other, we have the federal government occupying our cities.. It's not two different things. It's the same damn thing. These aren't things that distract from one another. This is the thing to enable the other thing,
Trump is mentally ill and needs treatment. I say this as a mental health professional who is concerned about a person who appears to be a danger - if not to himself (because he is so closely watched) - then to others
Every tyrant knows how to conduct a good coverup. And when to so use criminals and a state intimidation apparatus to do it. Ghislaine Maxwell. FBI. DOJ.
Dem’s need to be explicitly campaigning on: - Holding public hearings and trials of all criminal conduct starting with the top cabinet officials-Noem, Miller, Vought - Dismantling ICE and DHS - laying off all newly hired ICE agents. - Court reform and DC statehood. -
Bill Maher calls it a “slow-moving coup” and predicts Trump will use the army he’s amassing in D.C. to maintain power even if the Democrats win.
I share the outrage, but still am trying to differentiate those in the military who go through rigorous training and the Sturmabteilung-like para-military goon squads in ICE. I would rather focus my wrath on the latter and still give some respect for the former until they obey illegal orders.
This must be discouraging to the majority of military men and women who take the oath seriously. To be reduced to a backstop for goon squads made from the dregs of our society at the whims of a mad king is humiliating. Will the chain of command resist unlawful orders? I hope so, but not sure.
The degradation and depravity of the Oval really is a sight to behold. It makes the likes of other dictatorships of the 70s/80s/90s look mild in comparison.
He is a mob boss ordering hits on former associates who have violated omertà.
He’s a mob boss ordering hits on former associates who have broken omertà.
Or “Trump is governing as a mob boss and ordering hits on former associates who have broken omertà.”
He’s a mob boss ordering hits on former associates who have broken omertà.
He’s a mob boss ordering hits on former associates who have broken omertà.
He’s a mob boss ordering hits on former associates who have broken omertà.
He’s a mob boss ordering hits on former associates who have broken omertà.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
So the right wing cons invented a racist frame and blamed the 2008 financial crisis on poor black people taking out toxic home loans. Now they are weaponizing mortgage loans to go after political opponents. Oh, and they just *happen* to be black. MAGA is not a racist movement, right?
“But you cannot reform the secret police. You can only destroy them; or eventually submit to them.” Feed it into the wood chipper and crush all of the vehicles into recyclables.
I thought a Dyson sphere was a gigantic vacuum cleaner ball that sucked up orbiting space junk. I guess that’s why I am not trusted with billions in capital.
Didn’t Billy Ocean write a song about her?
I know it is a bit dark and insensitive. But why is a Billy Ocean hit humming in my brain.
These masked goons are lawless fascist thugs, on the fast track to becoming Latin American death squads. They're a disgrace, anti-American to their core. Dissolve their agency, put them on trial, and jail the ringleaders.
FLASHBACK: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
"If America was still capable of liberal democracy, then a rotten conservative movement wouldn’t have been able to push us to this point."
Every filmed encounter of these Gestapo goons should be accompanied with loud shaming and heckling and a verbal reminder that we will see them on trial when this regime is deposed.
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
A 79 year-old felon with dementia, compromised by Russia ,is going to meet alone with a former KGB agent without translators. What could possibly go wrong?
Scorched earth. Lets make Sherman look like a moderate.
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
“One would like to think that David Rose represents the real and lasting America. One would like to think that Trump and Kennedy are sad historical aberrations whose current prominence and power we will one day—perhaps one day soon—look back on with horror and disgust.”
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
Besides the Epstein diversion, the deployment of troops to DC is to create two chilling possibilities. One, to invoke the insurrection act and put down any demonstrations as the country goes south. Two, to suspend elections and declare martial law if the country turns against him.
I feel more allegiance to four girls in 90s Derry, Ireland than I do half of my fellow Americans.
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
Why Donald Trump needs a police state to implement his agenda