manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
"Is that fair?" What a stupid question! Of course it's fair! The media is still making Dems defend what the GOP does without question
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
"Is that fair?" What a stupid question! Of course it's fair! The media is still making Dems defend what the GOP does without question
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
My fear is ICE morphing into ECE (Emigration & Customs Enforcement).
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I think you meant Kremlin, not White House.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Putin wants to control the Arctic and Trump's his puppet, hence the threats on Canada and Greenland. It really is that simple.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
When a fascist says they'll have an "answer" to something complicated on a particular timetable, you can bet that's when they plan to implement some form of oppression against the very people they claim to "helping."
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Throw a sandwich at this guy and you're DEFINITELY getting away.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
This is how you know it's effective. Keep pulling that string, Gavin!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
There's nothing worse than existential fear.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
It's because they're fascists and we're not. They respect power and power alone. The man wielding power matters little. They'll grovel at his feet to get a piece of that power to smite their enemies. To them, it's a means to an end and not a contradiction.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, IDK, seems more likely they'd be more on edge and trigger-happy.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't think that's the law in California.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Let him go to Moscow. We'll lock the door and pretend we're not at home.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no logic to it.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Do we even have federal laws for those things? What does a FBI/DHS traffic ticket look like?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear God, No.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't stand Ohio. I'll take Michigan any day of the week.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Intelligence and creativity are direct threats to fascist power. That's why they ALWAYS go after the intelligentsia first.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Except for giving our enemy a foothold in North America.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Leningrad?!? WTF?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
It's EXACTY what Hitler did.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd hardly call an election won by massive voters disenfranchisement "free and fair."
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember when impoundment was illegal? Those were good times...
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
It's always projection with these Nazis. Violence is the only thing that fascists understand.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
The word "generate" is doing so much heavy lifting that it broke its back.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
See how long it's taken to get an acknowledgement of this basic fact? It's a game to them. They spew out fresh gaslighting daily and we're still swatting at lies from months ago. The only way to fix this is to challenge them immediately but that would require an adversarial press.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if they teach about Neville Chamberlain at Harvard because they certainly didn't learn the lesson about appeasement.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does he still remember that girl's name and age (and where she worked) after all these years?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Is it cringey when people put their books up in no discernible order? If so, you might might want to avoid my bookcases.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
They probably both have the same kompromat on Trump but I think Putin has the penultimate dirt: Trump doing deals with Russia.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
They didn't learn from the Las Vegas Loop, did they?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
He didn't *feel* safe? Well MAGA has a phrase for that: Fuck your feelings, Charlie!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Right, she's not "Pro-Gaza," she's "Anti-Israel."
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I think any caliber is "high power" when the cartridge is as big as it is for an AR-15. Splitting hairs really.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
"Windmills" is such a 3rd grade word. Like, what are they milling? They're called wind turbines, numbnuts!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
As much as I hate 'em, they do have a point about filming police encounters.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
They don't pay shit Donald. They just lose out on selling us shit because WE HAVE NO MONEY TO PAY THE TAX YOU JUST IMPOSED! And that shit WE were going to buy from THEM? WE were going to use it to make better shit and sell it back to THEM at a profit! FFS!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
That moment won't come before they all are bankrupt or consumed by fascism.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
That's assuming the press is playing an adversarial role. I fear they're playing for the same team now.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Heads I'm right, tails you're wrong is just how fascists roll except when it's tails, you get sent to reeducation camps until you say tails is actually heads.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I struggle to come up with a comparable tyrant.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
You can leave out "science agencies" and it still holds.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) reposted
Gift link because you should read the whole thing: share.inquirer.com/LWaSgK
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm on Team Discomfort.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
My point is we do not have a good *civil* response to fascism. History has shown that they only respond to force once they've taken over. The best *civil* answer is to never give them legitimacy in first place but we're well past that point.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Did I say that? No I did not.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
No, it's proof that fascists are fascists. They're "winning" every engagement because they don't play by the rules and just TAKE what they want.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I like to wait to see if they're using a robodialer.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
The depths this guy plumbs... He's deeper than the Mariana Trench when it comes to dignity.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure he's just waiting for the "time and place of [his] choosing" to respond.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
It was God's Will™️ for that bullet to go through that supporters skull before missing Trump? IDK, that doesn't sound miraculous to me.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
They're certainly embracing that anti-Christ vibe in Trump. Say, what happens to his followers in Revelations?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
They're kinda screwed when it comes to a timeline since the NWS has one and they don't.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
You know you're on the right track when they get offended. Keep pulling that string!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Or just call him what he is: an eugenicist.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
He's quite doughy.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
"...that will turn into a war. So it's kinda warlite."
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Would you like to know more?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
There'll be people thinking that right up to when they're nabbed by the gestapo or fleeing a radioactive hellscape.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
You have the constitutional right to film the government in public.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Not the Krispi Kremes! Who can resist those?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
One word: cryptocurrency. That's the paper that tiger is made of.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course nothing can convince them otherwise. They're narcissists who've been given their way their entire life.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Make him own those words! If he wants to be the poster boy for American Fascism, so be it.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
"Senator Lee, do you condone political violence?" Everyone should ask this relentlessly. He stuck his head out, now we get to see if he's an outright fascist.
Reconstructionist (@unavaleable.bsky.social) reposted
Arditi del Popolo and this symbolism goes really hard
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Trump has removed civil rights leader MLK Jr’s bust from the Oval Office. meidasnews.com/news/trump-r...
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
When we people start calling these people fascists? Because they're fascists and they're quite open about it.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
"Do you condone political violence?" should be the only thing this asshole hears from now until his resignation.
Larry Tenney (@larrytenney.bsky.social) reposted
FFS! Isn't enough that Trump & MAGA Republicans stripped cancer care away from veterans And will throw many veterans off their healthcare with cuts to Medicaid, Medicare & Addordable Care But now veterans could be refused care because they are Democrats or unmarried apple.news/AYDS-2V8pRKy...
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Totally appropriate moment to use the lingua franca of diplomacy.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Video propaganda is WAAAAAY more effective than written because it reaches the illiterate.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social)
Holy shit! Just took a look at the #NoKings map and it has EXPLODED with new protests in my area. They weren't there before.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
The same as what happened in 1968. But it's going to take another Selma, unfortunately, to break the spell.
Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) reposted
You know what's the best part about this video? This happened in California. The type of modifications you need to do to your exhaust system to roll coal like that are extremely illegal in California and will result in tens of thousands of dollars in fines. Can't get his car back until he pays them.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Dubya had a term for this: An Axis of Evil
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
How about "doing his job?"
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
They're Brownshirts.
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
lol
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Side A: 2 + 2 = 4 Side B: 2 + 2 = 22 Cillizza: Both sides have a point. The truth must be somewhere in the middle.
Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell.bsky.social) reposted
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
King George mentioned!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Yossarian whistles respectfully, "That's some catch!"
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder what they have on this guy? It's rare to find a bootlicker of this caliber.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, yeah, after his power was usurped!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
WTF for? Doing his job?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure. Don't have a valid passport but at the rate we're going, I won't have a country to come back to.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus. Rolling out the Guard for potential civil unrest from a planned protest? How about rolling out some help for the tornado victims?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Make a stop in Iowa and take me with you!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, what?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Me too. Together we stand, divided we fall.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascists NEVER, EVER apologize for anything.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
No, and that's why Dems need to put them on the spot. I'm not holding my breath...
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like they want "regime change" in California. And like Iraq and elsewhere, they mean to do it by force.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Go home NYT, you're drunk. And stay away from Kegstand Pete! He's a bad influence.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my, that quote. "Liberate" the city and state? Calling our elected officials "Socialists?" This is a fascist government trying to usurp power from a sovereign state using force. Ring ALL the bells, sound ALL the alarms!
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no! I don't get to exploit their labor anymore! Won't anyone think about me?
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
I can never forget seeing an overwhelmed hospital in Northern Italy. The sounds of ventilators, heart monitor alarms blaring, the nurse/doctor curled up crying... It was horrifying.
manifest-irony.bsky.social (@manifest-irony.bsky.social) reply parent
The self-coup already happened with the election. We're fighting the implementation of a fascist government. But you're right, the more support he sheds, the less likely he'll be successful.