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Indeed.
One sometimes wonders how the voters turn a blind eye to the obvious.
Which Lake?
The Economy is worsening monthly. They've completely fucked the debt. Our scientific edifice is ablaze, and they've mangled education. We're hated as never before as we starve the present and willfully fuel a climate nightmare. Equality of all sorts is shrinking. How much hatred must be sated?
Bad enough he's fucking up the economy and our future to pay back those petro companies who donated to him. Understand that it is fitting in the greater #Regression. Anti-science, anti-data, and fueling all the levels of me-first inequality.
The message to any part of government, particularly the scientific segments, is "Shut Up and Lie for Donnie Dictator, or get fired" As RFKjr sets us up for a pandemic (or a biological weapon, BTW), and the BLS loses their leader for putting out actual facts, Trump nukes the EPA for honesty.
Where the fuck is the action? We never get anything *but* prayers and more shooters.
President Donald Trump threw a grenade Friday into September government funding negotiations on Capitol Hill, declaring the unilateral power to cancel billions of dollars in foreign aid..." Totally unconstitutional. Why should Congress even bother if the power of the purse is ignored?
Totally a traitor. She was literally there to halt the legal proceedings and the transfer of power. She's being given these undeserved honors as a message to the Regressives. He's telling them that Trump IS the country, forget what anyone else says.
I am totally down with this. I've been doing a lot of reading about him and I'm eminently impressed.
Absolutely! Just like his moves into Blue areas with less crime, this is all about control.
Absolutely! Just like his moves into Blue areas with less crime, this is all about control.
"I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health. "
Well, eventually Regression and Progressivism stop dancing and collide. This administration is anti-science and Regressive. And therefor, anti-democracy, anti-Constitutional, and anti-equality.
RFK jr strikes again, as the Regressives go full anti-science. Anti-education, anti-equality, anti-democracy, and anti-Constitution.
Just when you think the Trump Junta can't get more evil.
Red States benefitted more from Biden's Infrastructure Bill. Meanwhile, Mr. Regressive Pedophile attacks Blue States.
"But since the D.C. National Guard is technically not federalized, but controlled by the president, that would be a workaround around this issue."
Just in case anyone wanted Madison's view on Orange Hitler's ICE and the moves into DC...
Not totally!
"They hearken back to a rosy, non-existent time when their viewpoints and behavior were, at least from their perspective, considered normal or more mainstream."
Another green light turns, another pedal pushed and a fracturing of the protracted present pushed into the future. Move ever closer, my dear end. #poetry
Well, it's kind of hard to hear them through the gaitors and masks.
Remember, regressives hate change and long for a past that never really was.
Oh yes, the good old days where the national guard was about solving problems to our security, as opposed to now, where it's about causing them.
Oh yes, the good old days where the national guard was about solving problems to our security, as opposed to now, where it's about causing them.
Normally, you can tell the difference between Capitalism and Corporatism in how a government understands the importance of competition. This melding into Corporatocracy is beyond that. BTW, this isn't just the government owning production, this is Corporations becoming the government.
Normally, you can tell the difference between Capitalism and Corporatism in how a government understands the importance of competition. This melding into Corporatocracy is beyond that. BTW, this isn't just the government owning production, this is Corporations becoming the government.
DAILY Clapback - Reporter asks Gavin Newsome about his Trollery of Trump. His response - is media needs to examine their double standards - being silent abt TrainWreck of Trump Communications while holding everyone else to high/normal standards! youtube.com/shorts/t15da...
Trump? Selfish, short-term gain vs. Long-term national interest? The Biggest Regressive narcissist on the planet who's already seceded from the Constitution some 2 dozen times? We're going to spend decades recovering from him...if we are lucky.
FEMA is a hot button, since he bitched about it. Like Epstein, anything that can bite him in the ass is in trouble.
We're supporting a genocidal, child-killing regime in Israel, that is targeting journalists, Denmark's caught us trying to influence Greenland, Ukraine's a disaster, Trump's trying to take over the only agency keeping our economy afloat... But hey...Cracker Barrel Logo stays Old School.
Because nothing says, "Let's solve the Problem" like attacking the messenger. Just ask the BLS.
You can think as far ahead as you want. Regressivism will eventually collide. The purer the Regression, the more certain they will contest any other form of authority. And they aren't smart enough to understand they must join with other Progressive forces to retain any independence.
Trump and Musk managed to expose the personal data of most of the country. If any normal person fucked up this completely, they'd be in jail and sued.
Ah, Junta-speak. Sickening. I'm sure they are actually handing him fake polling numbers, which is why he keeps talking about them.
The "at large" senators maintains the original purpose of the Connecticut Compromise, while adding in some ability for democratic override.
Something we can all agree on.
"Trump’s job approval rating has settled at 40%, held up by near-unanimous Republican support that is offsetting a near-total absence of Democratic support and weak support from independents." Sadly...the Republicans seem to be a completely regressive lost cause.
1. Add ten "At Large" senators voted in nationally. 2. Dump the PAA act of 1929 and bring the house up to 1650 members. 3. Set up nonpartisan boards to create even numerical districts and remove Gerrymandering. 4. 15 year term limits for SCOTUS and strict and retroactive anti-bribery clause.
It is at least one of the contingency plans. Vance of Teneo is certainly well-groomed, but they are certainly looking for other voices.
Frum, dammit.
Of course, if Trump was even trying... at all... to pretend this was about crime, he'd send a contingent to St. Louis, or Birmingham, or one of the red state cities with real crime. But it's not.
Narrator Voice... "But the Trump Junta had no intention of listening to the courts, especially with the newly funded ICE and an armed National Guard set to invade Blue States" Yes, kids, that's where we are.
Listening to David from talking about Trump's strategic incoherence... A perfect term. A serious or halfway logical president understands that are aligned with Ukraine joining NATO and a strong European alliance.
Totally. You've been part of a lot of these conversations. This has been a push of ours since February. Business as usual will get the US ended.
It's been a combination of disbelief And fairy dust. Wishing. The Democrats should have had a shadow administration in place in February, because for most of us, there was no doubt where we were going. That being said, the backs are stiffening.
Unconditional surrender is not a negotiated peace.
Really? You mean, exactly as predicted?
I certainly give the Post enough grief for their recent avoidance of fact, so seeing this really nice front page article that both tells it like it is and shows the near-term changes gets kudos.
It serves the dual purpose of traffic+ exposing how idiotic Trump sounds.
Don't let Trump and his Regressives silence the victims. Not for an instant.
Too much luck I think
And the best day of the world. out of all the billions of people on this planet, it's still a toss-up whose death would do the most good for the most amount of people, Trump or Putin.
I get it. Our early Americans were wildly disparate in opinion, and this experiment in Representative Democracy has been a process, and remains one. But it has been a process of Progressivism. And that's still he fight to have.
To the last few morons who somehow don't understand that this influx of troops into only Blue Cities with already dropping crime rates has nothing to do with stopping illegal activity... Only criminals fear and destroy evidence.
Morning breakfast making....
Not owning the language, and letting the regressives own The dialogue, is actually part of the problem.
Yes, the D party needed a Shadow Administration 6 months ago, duh. The only thing they've managed so far is a united attack on Mamdani. But as someone who sells stuff, I've gotten 2-4 price increases per manufacturer since April.
It would actually reduce the contribution, mid-term, by removing the profit motive.
First thing in this piece is going to Nationalized healthcare system, as it actually saves money and removes that huge burden from small and mid sized companies.
Absolutely. Lucky find.
Ah, the idiocy of it all.
here?
I've read enough of your stuff to know that you understand well and dislike the taking of stock options/rewards and using them to borrow against. But an unrealized cap gains tax based on current value for SRs as income solves a lot of it.
Companies should NOT be allowed to manipulate the value of their own stocks through buybacks.
To a large degree, yes. But you also have to inject competition, remove lobbying, and reduce inequality.
Similar idea in here.
A great read. Thank you. But D states don't have to worry about a Fort Sumter moment. Trump and his already seceded. You can't derive your power from the same source you've broken faith and oaths to. Trump is the Regressive leader, Dictator, whatever. He's not President.
A great read. Thank you. But D states don't have to worry about a Fort Sumter moment. Trump and his already seceded. You can't derive your power from the same source you've broken faith and oaths to. Trump is the Regressive leader, Dictator, whatever. He's not President.
Gallup, then Pew, and now YouGov/Economist. All showing similar numbers. Nearly identical. Including the 'Strongly Approve/Disapprove', at 23%/47%. All this as we are JUST starting to see the effects of his economic idiocy. I'd normally say there is not much lower he can go, but signs are ugly.
He's frustrated. I thought it was easy, that he'd do in one day. I cannot imagine the colossal self-indulgence of Trump voters, complaining about anyone else, with this dishonest, selfish, pedophilic buffoon as their Regressive Avatar.
Let's hope it sticks. He certainly will have a dubious place in US history.
Anti-Trump or Pro-Reality...there is perhaps a sliver of difference.
These headlines kill me. After he's attacked numerous lawyers, law firms, colleges and universities, democrats and Blue States, after half our allies have posted warnings not to travel here because of our new authoritarian regime...this raises a specter????
The Post often needs a kick in the kazoo.
Regressive, selfish idiocy.
No, just another TACO attack on an enemy.
This is where an uninformed voterbase is useful. They don't understand how corrupt this is.
Only surprising to the #Regressive Trumpsters. Tariffs slow growth (slowing hiring) and raise prices, otherwise known as inflation. They are a recipe for stagflation.
Really? That's not a question. One does not hire a Thousand checkers nor does one delay for months if a simple release would exonerate. One does not ignore all the witnesses and send a compromised co-defendant to minimum security with nothing to fear.
Really? That's not a question. One does not hire a Thousand checkers nor does one delay for months if a simple release would exonerate. One does not ignore all the witnesses and send a compromised co-defendant to minimum security with nothing to fear.
So wrong on so many levels. Already an enemy of competition, he sets the US up to interfere with Intel's market and positions. Foolish. As usual.
One always needs to look at the international context to get a handle on economic performance. In 2024, the IMF said the US was carrying the world economy upward, revised the US growth upward. In 2025, the IMF revised US growth down, saying the US will drag down the world economy. Simple.
One always needs to look at the international context to get a handle on economic performance. In 2024, the IMF said the US was carrying the world economy upward, revised the US growth upward. In 2025, the IMF revised US growth down, saying the US will drag down the world economy. Simple.
One always needs to look at the international context to get a handle on economic performance. In 2024, the IMF said the US was carrying the world economy upward, revised the US growth upward. In 2025, the IMF revised US growth down, saying the US will drag down the world economy. Simple.
One always needs to look at the international context to get a handle on economic performance. In 2024, the IMF said the US was carrying the world economy upward, revised the US growth upward. In 2025, the IMF revised US growth down, saying the US will drag down the world economy. Simple.
Dem's need to grab a core set of policies that allow for a big tent but an easy differentiation from idiotic regressivism. Of course, they needed a shadow administration 5 months ago...but no.
Our Regressive GOP states that the CBO is wrong, citing zilch and ignoring said 45 years of Reagan tax cuts, Bush Tax Cuts, and Trump tax cuts and the consistent factual and disastrous analysis of same. Fairy dust and TACOism will make Trump's economy fly THIS time.
So you're telling me that the Regressives doubled down on the same tax policies that have failed for 45 stupid years, that piled onto our debt and created massive increases in inequality. And the CBO says they are going to add more to the debt and increase inequality? No way. Shocked.
Did you tell him about the USA and every single other country? Nobody's coming here. That's going to affect bottom line a lot more than California.
A very simply, this is a chance to reclaim some of the rudder. The longer Trump is in full control, the more he can consolidate power and degrade our ability to vote.
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The first thing to do is so easy, it's just having more people use the term. They hate being properly identified. They prefer being called conservative or MAGA, ... They hate it when you expose them for standing against progress, for being the barbarous, selfish force that they are.
