meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
These two guys don't look so thrilled.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
... and the people he works for.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why her statement acknowledging that crime has fallen in DC was a very big mistake. How many more years will it take for Democrats to learn how to play politics in this Trump era. Now she looks like a fool. If Trump speaks about you like this, you're probably doing the wrong thing.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is unimaginable cruelty. The fact that the so called Christians support him is even more depressing. Shame on them all.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
These people, unlike Trump, are younger and they're likely to be here many more years after this shit show is over. They should never have peace for the rest of their miserable lives.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This both-sides bullshit is the reason why the media have lost credibility. Why should she release her mortgage document? Even if she does that, will it stop Trump from illegally trying to remove her? They want to play both sides even when the other side is lawless and disingenuous.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Senators used to be very powerful but these guys have turned themselves into weaklings because they're scared of losing their positions if they criticize Trump.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
One more reason why he should never be allowed to unilaterally set tariffs. That's the only tool he has. His ego was hurt, so he wants to punish Americans who will pay higher prices for imports from India.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
These are really crazy people. This person is a Congress member.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll take dangerous diplomatic embarrassment any day over this shit show.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
How many kids does he have?
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
None of these guys deserve to have peace for the rest of their miserable lives. That they're doing this while fully covering their faces is a disgrace to the rule of law and transparency.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice. She's acknowledging that her actions so far has been to make her boss and his racist followers feel comfortable. The only mistake she's making is thinking that they're the majority.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
No, it rests on the MAGA supreme court. This will all be their fault since they've allowed the dictator get away with everything he wants so far.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Same people who want to erase the history of slavery are also actively promoting the traitors who fought to divide the country because they wanted to keep millions of African Americans as slaves. We see their hypocrisy and racism.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
What does quietly extended it mean? Trump revokes Harris Secret Service Details
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no civil unrest anywhere in the country that warrants deployment of military who are not trained for police duty. This is a power grab. He wants to do it because it makes him feel powerful and in control. This is what authoritarians do.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
You give me hope that someday Texas will turn blue and Republicans will never taste presidency again when that happens. They know this, and that's why they're doing everything they can to prevent that from happening, but it will.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll say it one more time. FIFA and IOC should look for other countries to host the World Cup and Olympics while there's still time. USA will not successfully host those two events. Many athletes, their families and fans will be denied visas. Many who are able to come here will be arrested by ICE.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
I still believe that Trump will not anoint Vance as his successor.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Wtf are we doing here??? Republicans will blame everything but guns which are the main tools that are used to carry out these senseless killings.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
He will attack Venezuela.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
We will laugh at him again and again and again. He will never get the kind of spectacle he desires because the United States is not China or North Korea.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Makes me sick to my stomach. White supremacy has won again. She was killed while breaking the law but her family gets $5 million & then she will now get a full military funeral. The US military is compromised. Trump has been rewriting the history of the disgraceful event that we witnessed.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
What a coward. Shame on him.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is fully on Bill Cassidy and the Republican senators that confirmed RFK. They know that he's a crazy and unstable person that should never be given the huge responsibility of managing the health of Americans but they were too scared to oppose Trump. Shame on them all.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
America is dying a slow death before our eyes.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately the financial community has also fallen to the Trump mass psychosis. They know what he's doing is bad for them and the country but they're foolishly hoping that he doesn't do it. He will fire Powell and within a few days they'll move on. Markets will drop and then recover.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This country won't be where we are right now if we had listened to the women.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
When Trey Gowdy starts to get it. I have a tiny hope.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is corrupt to the core. He could do that because he's sleeping with the inept boss whose only qualification is brutally killing her dog, hoping that she will extend same brutality to immigrants. This is the most stupid time to be alive.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope some people somewhere are taking notes and drawing up proposals on how to implement a system where fascism should be tackled and how to prevent it from rising ever again because the next despot is also taking notes on how to be more successful when they win power in the future.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
And then set up a new system that will prevent this from happening again. He tried all of this the first time and wasn't held accountable which is why he was able to come back and do it again. This time, his success rate is high. If we're lucky to get out of this, we won't be lucky next time.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social)
It takes just one bad leader to destroy a system that has been working for hundreds of years. I hope that when this era eventually passes, the American people will have the courage to hold everyone of those who enabled this and took part in it accountable.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
What a horrific thing that keeps happening again & again. Parents should not be scared of dropping their kids in school with the fear that one crazy guy can go there & slaughter them. This doesn't happen in a normal society.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller is working on the executive order as we speak. Now this will be a big problem for them. They need juries of regular folks to convict their enemies and it seems those juries are not buying the BS.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, it's a revolution against the constitutional order of the United States. All these guys will walk back these embarrassing statements in a few years when Trumpism is defeated.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is where it will eventually end up whether in 2026 or 2028 when Vance or whoever he supports loses. At that time, he would have a firm grip on all arms of the government. United States democracy experiment is in a coma. It may die very very soon.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social)
Here we go.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Congratulations to everyone who empowered this corrupt wannabe dictator. Hope you all can sleep well.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Other countries are learning from America's mistake. Prosecute insurrectionists to the full extent of the law. Don't give them an avenue to rise again else they'll come back with vengeance and destroy the country.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
He thinks he's a king as affirmed by the Supreme Court when they agreed that he could order the military to assassinate a political opponent and it would be within his executive power.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
They were carefully selected for this same reason. He needed losers who worship him and who will not question whatever he says and he got them. What an absolute disgrace.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
What makes me very angry with all these is that this guy is a felon. He is a criminal that has been convicted of a crime. He doesn't get to lecture us on crime and pretend to care about law when he has been caught breaking the laws.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm so sick of these people.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Grown ass adults debasing themselves in order to look good before an immature man child. Their children should be ashamed.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
The Nobel committee will laugh out loud when they see this. How is this happening ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Are we still in America? This shit go so bad so quickly and it seems to have become the norm.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is disgraceful. They killed one of your workers in cold blood while working for you and you decided to frame it this way. Wtf does Israel have on the west and their organizations? They've killed more than 200 journalists and you still haven't seen this for what it is.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Just imagine what the Republicans will do if AOC said this.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think majority care since they haven't seen any significant changes in their lives yet. They will start paying attention when we're 99% into fascism when it's already late.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
How can Republicans win any election without racism and fearmongering about crime? That's their brand.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social)
This is Trumpism.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is how he sees everything. He's just gonna do it and wait for anyone to attempt to stop him. He thinks he's a king and this has been obvious from the start. Americans voted for an anti democracy wannabe dictator and we all bear the consequences.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
What does darkest Africa mean?
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly. Trump has shown future Republican president how to use power. That's the most consequential thing he has done. He has successfully pushed the limits on presidential power and the country seems to remain as one so, the next Republican president will just continue from there.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
What a racist idiot. I can't even listen to him for three seconds. Zero charisma, zero character. It's unimaginable how this guy was given so much power to influence the government policies. I hope a day of accountability arrives soon enough for him.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
They will never learn. Fastnews is one reason why we are where we are.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
He just hates black people, especially women. We hate you too.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
The president using a fake criminal referral from his henchmen to remove a member of the board of governors before the expiration of her tenure in order to fill that position with a sycophant should rattle the market but it's Trump. He's the dictator of the US and everyone will move on.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social)
Here's a military veteran who was arrested today for publicly burning the American flag. Fascism has already arrived in America, if you don't see it yet, I can't help you. Copied from @jollygoodginger.bsky.social
Dems are apparently "looking for a platform" when the answer is right there: Stop running away from thing that actually help people. Food, housing, healthcare, no genocides, everyone's rights and bodily autonomy protected, a livable world, and all of those things viciously, deftly defended, always.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
He doesn't know that. He thought he was complimenting him. What an idiot. 🤣🤣🤣
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
The press should begin to treat him as an enemy of the United States who is determined to destroy the country. You continue to enable him by cuddling him. He's an emperor of the country in his mind.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣🤣🤣🤣
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Is he trolling him? Looks like trolling to me cos only Trump will believe that having a Trump tower in North Korea is a good idea.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Make this man the DNC chairperson or whatever they call it and let him talk freely. Democrats needs to go on the offensive & ditch their conformance to norms that have already been destroyed by the GOP. If they want to win, they need to let people know how they're opposing this authoritarian guy.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, this is how every Democrat should be making fun of him. Go on the offensive, attack him, ridicule him, make him get mad, make him cry, hurt his feelings. These current Democratic leaders are not up to the task.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Now that the Republicans have shown that we could have a president with unrestrained power to achieve their policy goals, I hope the next Democratic president will start from where Trump stops to ram through policies that help real people. If they can do it, Democrats should also be able to do it.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Are the free speech warriors on the right willing to denounce this or nah? An American president unilaterally saying that any expression of freedom that goes contrary to his opinion will land you in jail should scare everyone. We all need to wake up. This guy is an authoritarian.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
That Bill Kristol is now to the left of so many Democrats is an indictment on how the Democratic party has failed and continues to fail. Even after all these power grabs and authoritarian policies of Trump, they still don't realize how much the political climate has changed. 🤦
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Brought to you with support of the United States. The hypocrisy of the US is astounding. They say they care about human rights and freedom of the press but they also support the genocide of Palestinians and killing of hundreds of journalists in Gaza.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
The United States empowered thugs who cover their faces while abducting people off the streets, gave them a budget that's far above many developed countries military budget, gave them bonuses and compensation far above what they pay teachers. They are essentially above the law.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember that he could do this because the Supreme Court allowed him to send people to third countries on short notice without even providing any reason for why they let him. They enable his worst instincts because they want a dictator.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Biggest POS to have ever become president. This will get worse because Congress and the court have not been able to stop him, they've even enabled him to carry on with these authoritarian behavior. He has done real irreparable damage to the country.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmmmm. It's Biden's fault that Putin bombed an American company even though Trump is the current president.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social)
Only those who live outside of America or those who have lived elsewhere but are currently in America know how much the country has changed. America is now an authoritarian state. It doesn't happen overnight but gradually. We are now closer to the dictatorships of Russia, North Korea, Turkey etc.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social)
The 2A people who have spent their entire lives prepping for the arrival of tyranny are on the side of the tyrant. Tells you it's not really about tyranny, it's about the freedom to impose their will on others even if thousands of people are killed everyday from gun violence. This place sucks.
It's obvious the military is not going to protect the people from Trump, so they have become the enemy of the people and against democracy.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is already a crisis and the military leadership's refusal to take a stand and declare that their men and women shouldn't be used as political pawns is a shame. So they think he will stop there? Authoritarians test limits and they push those limits of there is no resistance.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
The only problem is that Democrats are too scared of alienating the middle ground voters who are more likely to vote for the Republicans even though their policies and ideas are very popular among a very wide margin of the country.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Because they support what Israel is doing.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
If I were him, I'll be making plans to leave the country with my family. They will not stop until they destroy his life.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point I think the option he has is to take his family and move to a country where he will be given asylum because these people will not stop. Their desire to save face after their fuck up will make them destroy his life. Go seek asylum somewhere and live the rest of his life in peace.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Can they just leave this man alone? Him & his family have already been through a lot. Putting the whole weight of the US government on one person because they refuse to accept that they fucked up and just want to prove to him that they can destroy him is too much. His wife and kids are Americans.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
These clown hats have now become his regular costume. Decades from now when videos of this era is shown, people who didn't witness this stupidity will be asking how an idiot like that was able to become president. An eternal shame on the country.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is not a normal behavior
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll rather destroy him than accept that they fucked up. He didn't do anything to deserve this cruelty.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Can we now agree that America has become a full blown fascist state. If you don't see it yet, I'm sorry.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
We? Imagine if VP Harris said something like that when Trump's house was raided. Republicans in Congress would have initiated impeachment proceedings on that day.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This fool thinks he's a king. Remember that he could do this because of the capitulation of Congress, the courts and the media that has normalized his behavior. None of this is normal and we shouldn't accept it as normal.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
The man is actually worse than we feared. He's a full blown fascist. Shame on those who empowered him and still continue to look away as he destroys this country.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember that no matter how terrible things get, Trump and fox news will continue to claim the opposite and his people will believe it because they live in an alternate reality.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
This is all just sad. We could have had a responsible leader at the White House now but I guess many Americans will rather have an idiot racist criminal as president rather than a woman.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
He is planning to invade either Venezuela or Mexico.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
"Finely tuned" I bet you'll also call has fascist take over of the United States a finely tuned take over.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
These guys are too dictatorial for a democracy. They have no shame or decency. All they care about is power and how to exercise that raw power to achieve their goals. This shouldn't be happening in a democracy.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
He must be insane to even say this.
meekman.bsky.social (@meekman.bsky.social) reply parent
"Omar Fateh came here legally. Ilhan Omar came here legally. Rashida Tlaib, her parents came here legally. Zohran Mamdani came here legally" When they say they want legal immigrants only, it's a lie. He admitted right there that they only want Christians Sorry Charlie, America belongs to all of us