I wonder how impactful that will be, given they have 125 million subscribers.
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I wonder how impactful that will be, given they have 125 million subscribers.
ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
That’s straight-up criminal assault. They only do it because they’re confident there will be no consequences.
I don‘t want to ruffle any feathers nor imply that anyone involved in the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel are bad, because they of course are all lovely people, but you should cancel your Disney + subscription immediately while the charred remnants of democracy still allow you to do so.
Future historians (if any exist) will be baffled by how readily American institutions capitulated to this fascist takeover. When, in next year’s mid-terms, Trump declares fake ”emergencies” to cancel the elections of selected blue states, will the only response be clever memes?
Maurene Comey was also a prosecutor in the Epstein case and was as familiar as anyone with the contents of those “files” Trump so desperately doesn’t want the public to see. If she had been fire, she would have had some leverage over releasing them.
I guess real estate will become pretty cheap for the remaining 30 million.
This of course is deliberate. He is treating the use of the phrase by Trump and other MAGAs as fundamentally different because it promotes the idea that Trump’s opponents aren’t human. Instead, we are “vermin” and ”scum,” so it’s okay to call us enemies of the people.
Dehumanizing.
it‘s obvious to everyone paying attention that Trump‘s pronouncement are far more provocative of violence than anyone’s. A better point is that to Trump followers, it doesn’t matter. Because he has thoroughly dehumanized us. It‘s easier to hurt and kill “scum” and “vermin” than people. #itscoming
Or Gandhi?
They’ll face history’s judgment if there are any historians in the future to evaluate this time. Given the astonishing amount of damage Trump has already done, it seems all bets are off, future-wise.
Groyper.
I'm still not sure what to make of this. His face looked normal during his speech.
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It‘s hard to have basic decency with people who are committed absolutely to demonizing you. And who use attempts at decency as opportunities for abuse and establishing dominance.
Fuck him. Trump is a master of stochastic terrorism. He filled his followers with lies about election fraud and got them to riot in a coup attempt that injured and maimed over a hundred cops. He has inspired many violent incidents by MAGA extremists with his hateful, fact-free pronouncements.
yet another in a series of fanciful, false fantasies about Japan.
#trumpknew
Charlie Kirk was David Duke lite.
#Trumpknew
It always stuns me to see the degree to which these people have been brainwashed into irrevocably believing things that are completely fictional. If you ask a MAGA to write ten “facts” about Democrats, it’s guaranteed 8 of them will be absolutely false.
“Should Dems tone down their rhetoric?” Um, the President shared a meme of him invading Chicago with military helicopters and renamed the Department of the Defense to the Department of War. And that’s just this week.
So says the stochastic terrorism master (and pedo protector) who spread lies about election fraud to provoke thousands to riot in a coup attempt that injured and maimed over a hundred police officers. Says the guy who joked about Paul Pelosi getting his skull fractured by a Trump supporter.
So says the stochastic terrorism master who spread lies about election fraud to provoke thousands to riot at the capital in a coup attempt that injured and maimed over a hundred police officers. Says the guy who joked about Paul Pelosi getting his skull fractured by a Trump supporter.
I just listened to PBS News Hour coverage. If you didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was, you’d get the impression he was just an innovative, feisty advocate of free speech willing to debate even those opposed to free speech. #charliekirk #PBS
For years, we’ve been trying to warn people that Trump, allied with Putin, would let him take over Ukraine, then venture on into Poland, and we were called alarmists. We also warned that implementing Project 25 was Trump’s actual goal. Still think we’re alarmists?
#resist #charliekirk
The president isn’t trying to help.
You almost never find dropped coins in Japan. In the U.S., I used to collect about 15 dollars a year from dropped pennies. With my salary soon to take a forced retirement hit, I wish I had this option to earn extra $, but I’d need to move back to the U.S. #japan #pennies
#charliekirk #resist
Projection. The MAGA movement has been at war with American democracy for years. Resisters have also been trying to warn people for years and have been called alarmists and crazies. It’s only now that some mainstream Democrats are waking up and seeing this fascist takeover for what it is.
The "pedophile protecting president" is better, because it's 100% factually true based on public-facing evidence.
Kid 1: What's that on your foot? Kid 2: A shoe. Kid 1: Bless you! HA HA HA Adult 1: Why do you eschew the salad dressing? Adult 2: Eschew? Adult 1: Gesundheit. (quiet chuckle) The kid's version is funnier!
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Post-retirement, I’ve decided to stop being a square from Delaware. I’m going cover my walls with groovy Peter Max posters, wear love beads and flowers and get hip, daddy-O! Far out! #postretirement #lovebeads
MAGA: They’re completely different!!!!!
They wouldn’t say they were sorry.
I’ve been reading about ruminant animals that eat their cud. I feel a little left out that I can’t. I’ve seldom seen a creature more at peace than a cow chewing thoughtfully on a soft ball of partially digested matter. #Iwant2chewmycud #ruminanglide
Did anyone really expect anything else?
Fascism, in a word.
Maybe it’s time for blue states to break away from this continuing horror. #softsecession
I didn’t even realize this was a thing until I saw it today. Nate Silver et al must be having a hard time finding a post-fascist-takeover niche.
He wasn’t an informant. It’s just more distracting BS. The only reason for his not releasing these records, with his name unredacted, is to conceal wrongdoing. Probably his.
They don’t need to be.
The other morning, pre-typhoon.
Like no one’s ever seen before, very very very
🤬
This is truly an immeasurable disaster. It will create unnecessary suffering and death not just in the U.S. but around the world. People who don’t understand science have no business in positions of authority over processes involving science.
Truly psychotic claim.
I was walking by the Katsura river today and came across a hidden alcove brimming with koi.
It’s sad to note that none of the people who should promote and actuate this proposal will do so. They’d rather watch the country burn to the ground.
If more Republicans voted by mail than Democrats, Trump would be promoting voting by mail instead of trying to ban it.
Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.
Any Kennedy death count is also a Trump death count.
On the lighter side of the news, I just now misread a headline—CASCADING HARMS—as CASCADING HAMS.
Keeping DC safe from discarded candy wrappers.
Police state.
Even on Taylor Swift he tacos. Is there anything on which he would not taco?
Upon seeing Trump yesterday in the Oval Office with all that gold crap behind him, it occurred to me that the reason the lunatic bronzes his face is to make it look “gold.” Seriously. #resist #bronzer #Trump
Sweet! Congratulations!
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Too bad people weren’t actively trying to stop it years ago. Trump and the MAGAs have been telegraphing clearly what they are for many years. For many of us, everything that is happening now was entirely expected.
“We have a president who wants to operate outside the law.” We need to move on from inching toward saying what has been true since he took office again. He’s a dictator. Now what can people DO about it?
FINALLY someone in power saying the truth directly. Too late?
This is 100% correct.
Pritzker’s knock-out speech finally, at long last, stated in plain language what the MAGA movement has been aiming for these past eight years. The kind of speech that should have been given by many more in power a lot earlier. It’s might well be too late.
This should be the number 1 story in the country now.
Everyone knows it’s not normal or right. The question is what can people do about it?
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
Gas?
An idea:
Who’s your favorite resister? 1. Nicole Collier 2. Gavin Newsom 3. Sandwich Guy 4. ? #resist #nicolecollier #newsom #sandwichguy
What is wrong with this guy? His policies will kill people.
Ankles is again priming his gullible followers to believe the elections (these in 2026 and 2028) are “rigged” against him (unless he or Republicans win). The odds that he will use this nonsense about VBM to declare a national emergency are high.
Trying to steal yet another election. Why don’t they just run on their merits and let the people fairly decide?
Well, Ukraine was the one who invaded Russia first, under false pretenses, and committed war crimes, including rape and child kidnapping. Oh, wait. It was the other way around.
Of course he is. 2028 too.