Vance will be worse because he’s much smarter, younger and more devout.
I prefer candidates with fewer felonies and who are less likely to shred the Constitution. Count me in for peaceful, righteous protest. I’m sure there’ll be many reasons to march in the coming months. But count me out on breaking shit and lawlessness.
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Vance will be worse because he’s much smarter, younger and more devout.
M4ALL was called the “public option” at the time and it was killed by Dem senators from the insurance states (NE & CT) and the entire Republican caucus. Full stop.
Zero beltway reporters and publications have the courage to report truth. All of their reporters would be banned from the White House and all other government buildings and administrators. Without access, their ad sales collapse.
Ceasing to use those words will not fix a broken society. A broken society must hit rock bottom - breadlines, bankruptcies and foreclosures - before any serious hope of self reflection and change can start to take shape.
I think we’re a broken society that’s immune to facts, reason and compassion. I wasn’t shocked by the outcome of the election. I was saddened. It only confirmed my observation that we’ve descended into 1930s Germany minus the gas chambers and crematoriums. So yes, I believe the swing state results.
Totally agree… “unbelievable”.
I predict that CA's effort and every Dem effort to offset red state gerrymandering will die in court delays. Fascism gonna win and it's gonna suck until red state residents experience the totality of shit the Trump's economy will rain down upon them. Sorry to be a downer, but this is where we are. 😢
Much rather be woke with empathy than asleep with racism... but maybe that's just me.
Later in that same interview Witkoff could not confirm if Putin’s fingers were crossed behind his back. When pressed on this issue, Witkoff admitted that “crossed fingers or toes could potentially cause problems with codifying any peace deal…”
There’s nothing more dangerous than an American armed with righteous rage, determination and a foot long Subway sandwich.
None of these guys are federal agents. They’re a group of fat racist fucks hired by this criminal administration to brutalize brown people. Full stop.
Encouraging, but still not nearly enough of a negative swing away from Trump and Trumpism by angry white voters. They still loudly support jack-booted brutality against poor and immigrant communities as well as blow-torching the government.
These are all bad takes. A broken society is unable to make rational decisions. The Dems and/or their messaging aren’t the problems - society is. The fact that Trump’s numbers are above the 30s means that folks are good with burning it down. No way to message against that.
This was probably the most wide ranging, comprehensive and “man-bro” intelligent interview of “Tay” that I’ve seen. She just gained thousands of fans in a demographic that she had probably written off. Nice work Ms. Swift.
Or it's blood and brain matter from the fireman that got his head blown apart.
If Biden/Harris had brutally cracked down on brown people at Home Depot, they would have won in a walk. Your chart perfectly illustrates the inability of a fearful, broken society to think clearly, see facts and use reason when going to vote.
Blaming Dems or Harris for failing to properly craft a message to a broken, vengeful society is a really bad take. Trump imploded on live TV about ppl eating pets and he still got more votes than he did his last two elections. Our problems transcend politics. Pain is the only way we get out of this.
It’s all a cover for their blatant racism. Just as our ancestors believed that Blacks were inferior beings designed by God for slavery, the replacement narrative is POC can’t help but crime and do violence so we must dislike and brutally control them. It’s all a cover.
We’re still in the early days of their game-winning end zone dance. It will be years or maybe never that the cultist will admit their mistakes and/or their bigotry. As for the Trump-adjacent or Trump-curious. They deserve what’s coming because they knew better but couldn’t help themselves.
"Entitled"... hmmm...
If Lincoln, Nebraska is entering the conversation… my hope for us is looking up… even if it’s in a blue dot county.
Painful but necessary. Logic, compassion and reason are not working right now. Hot stove therapy is the only way out.
Larger turnout may not yield the results you hope for. We’re a broken society right now. If more people showed up in November, Trump would have won by a larger margin. The sooner Dems and libs embrace our current state of dysfunction, the sooner they can start properly messaging to it.
BREAKING: Newly appointed DC Circuit Attorney Jeanine Pirro quickly appoints long-time colleague as her first staff member.
Nah, don’t tear it down. Make it DC’s largest soup kitchen.
I put this together during the Covid-19 shut down. I wanted to make something that would inspire us to get through it together and to thank the First Responders. It sucks that Cuomo turned out to be a POS… but the music track is epic! youtu.be/fxAIwC3hul8?...
Our society is broken. Bigotry trumps fact, compassion and reasoned thinking every time. Bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are the only way to shake our country loose from the cult.
We are a broken society. We were given a choice between reasonable, fact-based policy or ignorance and brute force solutions and we chose the latter. In our current state, the Stephen Millers of the world will win in a walk on the national stage. Our problems aren’t political, they’re moral.
That dream will be a night terror worse than the nightmare we’re currently experiencing. What will come next will make us yearn for bygone days of Trump’s idiocy. Sure, the tariffs will probably go away, but the fascism and authoritarianism will go into overdrive.
These same people would vote for Trump again if given the chance for a redo. We are a broken society.
If so, what comes next will be worse. Unless there’s a blue tsunami in the midterms, we’re all taking a hard trip back to 1930s Germany or a Jim Crow(ish) south.
76M voters chose this. If given a chance for a redo tomorrow, they would chose it again. We are a broken society fueled by white grievance. Bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are the only way past this moment. Reasoned logic and compassion are losing ideals right now.
The only way to cure a broken society is to allow itself to break into oblivion. If people wanted policies rooted in facts, law and decency, they could have voted for that. The choice was clear. The Dems have no message to counter white folks desire for cruelty.
Cool. I admire your hope that we’re redeemable right now. I look at the Nov 5, 2024 data - post convictions, post live TV meltdown (eating cats and dogs) which show (checks notes) that Trump got more votes than he ever did before against a sane, rational, compassionate and much younger candidate.
I would bet one-years salary and an all expense paid 2 week Mediterranean cruise on the Ritz Carlton yacht that Trump would win the election again tomorrow and get more white votes than last time. This is how broken societies function.
There’s no way to effectively fight something that an overwhelming majority of Americans approve of. I totally agree that Dems lack fighting skills. But no amount of fight training/skills will make me able to beat a Silverback Gorilla. We have a societal problem, not a political one.
The cult will find a way.
The only way Dems will get better approval is to embrace Trumpism. Full Stop. 76M ppl voted for this and would do it again tomorrow. We are a broken society and the only way to change/end it is for Trumpism’s brutal cruelty to become widespread, effecting everyone in the red counties/states equally.
The sad fact of all this will be the realization/acceptance that we are a broken society. 76M ppl voted for all of this and would do it again tomorrow. The only way this is going to change/end is for the brutal cruelty to become widespread, effecting everyone in the red counties/states equally.
He doesn’t have to. TX voters have approved of this behavior year-after-year.
Trump would still win the white woman vote if the election where held tomorrow. These polls are just as meaningless as they were last November. We’re a broken society and the only hope to break the Trump fever is with bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures.
He knows it doesn’t matter any more. We’re a broken society. 76M ppl voted to destroy our institutions and cruelly deport non-whites on live TV.
It's not just Republicans. It's a vast bi-partisan swath of the electorate. Our last election proved this to be true in laser- focused, full color IMAX clarity. We are a broken society seeking stories that make us feel good rather than truths that would guide us to self-reflection and change.
We toss our hair... toss-toss...
Rule 1 of a broken society: say one thing to pollsters, but vote 180 degrees the opposite in the booth. They will take huge cuts in gvnmt services as long as they can watch people they don't like being punished on TV. Sure, they will complain about the cuts, but they will vote for the cruelty.
Dentists across our country are applauding. If this were to actually happen across their product line, there isn’t enough locally grown sugar to fill the demand. It will have to be imported and the price of a Coke and a smile is gonna skyrocket.
I did.
@therickwilson.bsky.social @thebulwark.com Dems should introduce the "Justice For Trump" bill that calls for the release of all Epstein documents, flight logs, call logs, etc, - ALL materials that could corroborate Trump's assertion of innocence and therefore clear POTUS of any Epstein wrongdoings.
He’s actually a perfect casting choice for a job that now requires a gristle-faced goon who projects cold cruelty and complete indifference to human suffering.
That would be great, but a reporter’s access is more important than the stories they break. Republicans will cut off a reporter’s access without a second thought and without access, reporters have no value to the publication they work for.
No one is responsible for us becoming a broken society but ourselves. A majority of Americans willingly, willfully found a way to get comfortable with fascism, authoritarianism and bigotry. We can’t completely blame the messengers for answering a demand from the market.
💯!! We're still in the very early moments of the FAFO tour. No matter where you live, this tour is coming to your town and the songs will all suck ass.
This happens because D's believe in a free press and don't threaten reporter access for bad press. Reps will shun a reporter in two seconds thus putting that reporter's job in jeopardy. You hear this in every news conference. If it's D's, it's confrontational - if R's, it's deferential.
Bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are the only ways to break America’s MAGA fixation.
Never underestimate the willingness of stupid people to believe in lies. The better the lies make them feel, the more they are likely to believe and repeat them. We are a broken society.
For your listening pleasure, I shall now perform Brahms FAFO Sonata in A Minor.
Maybe God is using Republicans in this way to show us that voting Republican is a bad idea.
He would still win if the election were held this coming Tuesday. He may also get more votes than last time. There’s no way to accurately poll a broken society to see how they will vote. Bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are the only things that will defeat Trumpism.
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His ONLY possible defense is to leave them up in hopes that it will sway ICE to return her back home. No doubt they doomed themselves by supporting Trump and Trumpism. Zero sympathy for them from me.
I subscribed right after the election. I also subscribed to WIRED. They were/are the only true US news publications out there bringing truth to the masses.
Agreed. It will reveal the real number of Americans who are fully on board with the cruelty. The number will be shocking and depressing. We’re a broken society driven by vengeance. Trumpism will keep winning politically until the bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are too much to take.
I’m NO fan of Schumer, but he made the right call in this case. Trump would have shut the things down he wanted shut down and polling would have likely shown that Dems would have taken the blame. We are a broken society. This is what broken societies do.
As long as they humiliate and abuse minorities, the Trump administration can do... whatever. He would win again if the election were held tomorrow... probably by a wider margin. We are a broken society. Dems cannot fix this problem. Bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are the only cure.
Totally agree. But the awakening will have to wait until the bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures take their toll on the MAGA red states and everyone else. Until then... it's all gonna suck ass.
Trump and Trumpism sells papers and spikes viewership. Until that changes, the media will go out of its way to prolong the time these people stay on office.
This is the R end game. Make government so onerous and crippled that everyone hates it and demands its destruction. It’s been their plot for decades so that big corps can run free of Federal regulations. Big corps know that states don’t have the $$ to fight them.
76M voted for it. That’s why. We will all be experiencing the FAFO phase of their anger at egg prices. We are a broken society.
He would still win if the election were held again tomorrow. We are a broken society.
The only way this gets resolved with 76M voters is when housing construction/repair and food production are brought to a grinding halt.
Breadlines, bankruptcies and foreclosures throughout red states are the only life events that will break us of this scourge.
The amount of sympathy I have for Latinos who voted for Trump can easily fit into a thimble with room left over for a Greyhound bus.
At 43% he’d still win again if the election were tomorrow. Bankruptcies, breadlines and foreclosures are the only way to break the racism and Trump cult fever.
Republicans have been wanting to do this long before Trump came along. Now they have 76M voters saying okay to it. I will have ZERO sympathy for any Trump voter who’s adversely effected by Rep policies.
… yet…
We're a broken society - no longer basing decisions on facts, science or policy. The voters who went Trump wanted to feel good about being cruel to people they didn't like and the ones who didn't vote at all simply decided to tune out reality. Those two groups are probably 60%+ of the electorate.
That's the whole point.
Iran knows if Trump becomes unpopular, MAGA will lose control of the government. Their best bet is to do everything they can to increase Trump's poll numbers so that MAGA will win future elections and then, through their zealotry and incompetence, destroy our system of government from within.
A thousand people held up signs at RNC reading "Mass Deportations Now". That this deplorable shit is happening should not come as a shock. 76M voters were/are fully on-board with it. We are a broken society incabable and uninterested in discerning fact from fiction or hate from law enforcement.
It's not the messaging. It's the audience. A broken society isn't interested in truth or facts - it wants scapegoats. It wants retribution against the people they don't like regardless of innocence or guilt. Only a broken society choses Trump over an accomplished, law abiding and moral person.
Yes, a majority of Americans“want” these things but rarely vote for the people who will enact it. White people almost always end up voting for protection from the “other” and will sacrifice almost everything for the “feeling” of being “protected”. Bread lines are the only way to break this cycle.
The German people didn’t turn against Hitler until many of their major cities were fire bombed by the allies. In our case, it may take bread lines in red states to achieve the same thing.
He would still win if the election were held tomorrow because we’re a broken society. These polls are meaningless. That he’s not in the low 30s is a damning indictment of our morality.
A fair share of Dem voters put these asshats in power and another fair share helped out by not showing up at the polls. Fuck these takes that the party has a problem when it’s abundantly clear that we are a broken society incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction or good from evil.
Really?? I have to cheer-on Tucker Fucking Carlson for putting heat on these assholes??!! REALLY?? I hate myself for liking this. I’m gonna hammer-shot all my bourbon this week… including the really good stuff.
They wouldn't bee here without an audience yearning to be told comforting lies about white power and christian nationalism being under threat from godless leftists hell-bent on giving everyone affordable healthcare and equal rights. Our society is broken. No party can fix it, they can only feed it.
I have no problem believing that a broken society can swarm together in mass protest and elect an immoral leader at the same time. This dichotomy is what makes us broken. Trump would win again if the election were held again today. His approval numbers are still too high.
These are the spineless Dems David Hogg was targeting and he was 💯
None of that would have mattered last year. We are a broken society full of anger, blood lust mixed with a denial of reality.
The only hope for any of that to have the smallest chance of happening will require bread lines in red states as well as a full financial meltdown.
This is right out of Andor S2 ep8 and it’s on the path to end in almost the exact same way.
All of their social media posts will live on in eternity. In 10 years the kids and grandkids will find these posts made by their MAGA elders and ask many pointed and embarrassing questions.
While I strongly suspected it prior to November, the election only solidified my belief that we are a broken country.