Stoking fear and placing blame. Typical tactics of a tyrant.
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Stoking fear and placing blame. Typical tactics of a tyrant.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to his victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." —Karis Nemik, Andor, S1, E12
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to his victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
Why not just the Golden Rule? Wouldn’t “Treat others as you would want to be treated” cover the concern over moral decline and not tread on the separation of church and state? www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/t...
Be careful what you worship. Worship money and things and you will never have enough. Worship power and you will always need more. Worship your own intellect and you will end up feeling like a fraud. Worship your own beauty and you will always feel ugly.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
I particularly like the “Facilitate is an active verb” line 🥊
A poetic wake-up call from judge Wilkinson, a Regan appointee and one of the most traditionally conservative judges in the nation. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Trump says the war in Ukraine would not have happened if he was president. How’s he going to explain China’s invasion of Taiwan? www.yahoo.com/news/china-f...
Trump wants Harvard to apologize yet he has never apologized for having dinner with a holocaust denier and he also recently nominated a US Attorney for DC that praised a dude that sported a Hitler mustache and said “Hitler should have finished the job” www.politico.com/news/2022/11...
Strength through unity. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
If true, DOGE, and Musk’s Starlink which is being used to traffic data from government agencies, could be a Trojan horse for Russia to gather vast amounts of sensitive US data.
Very alarming: “In the minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in…Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password” www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Did the Trump administration game out any scenarios before launching a trade war with China or did it just trust the dear leader’s gut? fortune.com/2025/04/14/c...
Trump is demonstrating his weakness once again www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/p...
Trump is burning up any shred of credibility he may have had remaining
For once I agree with Musk. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks. www.foxcarolina.com/2025/04/09/b...
Yeah, so this sentiment only lasted a few hours - Main Street will get screwed by even higher tariffs on China while Wall Street makes some quick billions from Trump swinging the markets with his course reversal on tariffs for the rest of the world. www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
I hope someone is looking at the trading activity of Trump’s inner circle who are likely profiting off knowing his next move ahead of the wider market.
Trump: the author of America’s misfortune.
Vision of what Trump is trying to achieve through tariffs. www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science...
Tacky shyster.
“For lovers of liberty, this should be quite concerning” www.huffpost.com/entry/ketanj...
Pam Bondi is Trump’s Hans Frank. Deporting people without due process has been seen before. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fr...
Middle class share of income has fallen for 50 years. Cheaper imports help maintain standards of living despite stagnant real incomes. Trump tariffs are a regressive tax and make the goods the middle class consume more expensive. All to fund tax cuts for the rich. There will be revolution.
That is so cool! I never had the players, just a few lonely weebles 😂
Anyone else play with Weebles as a kid?
He also decided to golf rather that pay his respects to the service members who died in Lithuania upon their return home. None of this is surprising though, just disappointing that the American people voted this comical villain into office.
Anyone looking into the trading activity of the Trump family? My guess is they’ve made a bundle short selling ahead of tariffying the market…
What Trump is doing is #tariffying
I don’t know what’s worse, his jammie pants or that godawful portrait in the background of him as some sort of British test cricketer.
Do we need any more reasons to replace this monstrous muppet? www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
The uprising begins.
Tyranical regimes never want an educated public. newrepublic.com/post/193015/...
The prosperity doctrine has led Christians to believe that disparity of wealth is a reflection of relative faithfulness rather than an issue they can, and should, help remedy.
Looks like if there was any “mandate” for Elon Musk, it has now gone up in flames like a SpaceX rocket.
Yeah, definitely someone with deep pockets throwing him a bone. I hope some intrepid reporter can dig into it.
Anyone else wondering how Giuliani came up with the funds to satisfy this judgement? Didnt think Attorneys or Mayors legitimately earn that much… www.reuters.com/legal/giulia...
Nailed it. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Yes, and like with the first Triumvirate, Caesar has his Crassus (the richest man in Rome), and is installing his Pompey (military leader). The first phase is consolidating power, the second will be wielding and maintaining it.
Radically conservative policies kill people.
Tip of the hat for standing up to power and telling it like it is 🎩
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
I’ve heard that in private Putin calls Trump his Chubby American Cheeseburger.
I’ve heard that in private Putin calls Trump his Chubby American Cheeseburger.
A must listen episode. Jake Auchinloss (Rep. from Massachusetts) gives me hope that a new generation of political leadership with creative new ideas to solve America’s biggest problems is germinating … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
A spot on analysis
Topple the tyrant
I can’t believe I agree with Steve Bannon: “Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his freak experiment and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, tradition or values.” www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon...
Ukraine started it? Really? Do the Russians have dirt on Trump or is he just trying to see how far the gaslighting can go before his MAGA faithful push back? thehill.com/homenews/adm...
There’s a reason the MAGA hats are red.
You know the hate has gone too far when a Jewish man opens fire on two people he thought were Palestinians but were actually Israelis. Then one of the Israeli victims posts “death to all Arabs” online thinking the assailant was a Palestinian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is how bullies try to get their way. The AP is a global news organization and was reporting using both the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America names so as not to confuse their audiences around the world. The mainstream press need to unify in support of the AP. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...
There is hope! Danielle Sassoon may have an ultra conservative resume but at least she has the bravery and honor to stand up against blatant corruption as Bondi and her cronies continue to weaponize the DOJ and engage in blatant corruption. apnews.com/article/new-...
When you’re a chainsaw, everything looks like a branch needing to be cut.
That makes one person that loves Musk but not sure the little man has a choice.
New polling data out today on Elon Musk’s presidency.
What would you do if the government paid your neighbor to bomb the house your family lived in for generations and then wanted to force you out? Why is it different for Palestinians in Gaza?
To think, Google once had “Don’t be evil” in their corporate code of conduct.
Another signal from Trump that corruption tops the list of cultural values for his “Golden Age” for America. www.bbc.com/news/article...
WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥 #DemocracyNotDictatorship
The children are the ones that always suffer due to the poor choices of the adults in their lives.
I thought Trump was our generation’s Hitler but now thinking he may be more like Hindenburg with Musk playing Hitler. www.historyhit.com/president-pa...
Another prosperity doctrine espousing grifter appointed to a position of power. www.newsweek.com/paula-white-...
This reminds me of other tinpot dictators. Can’t wait for him to start wearing the gold braids and medals.
“What seems like reality is just volume”❤️ Time to turn up our volume.
We are sliding down a very slippery slope created by the deluge of DOGE.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍
Holy shit this cartoon.
People like Trump and Musk don’t care about individuals, they only care about completely destroying all existing structures to make way for some utopia that they believe, in their unparalleled arrogance, they are the only ones competent enough to build.
I think the single dumbest Secretary of Defense ever is Pete Hegseth.
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Surviving a Dictatorship Rule #1: Don’t get more press than your tyrannical boss. Musk, your days are numbered…
Priceless. Extensive caption options for this one…
Let’s play Jeopardy!
Such a small, small man.
Saw this dude on CNN tonight too. He might be the brave articulate messenger the Democrats need and are looking for.
The American people didn’t vote for Elon Musk in November but they sure as hell are voting for him now. Tesla down almost 10% this week. Nobody wants to drive a swasticar.
Yep, down almost 3% this morning. Could’ve made some money shorting it.
Devious, Egotistical, Incompetent? You’re Hired! Trump picks Neil Jacobs, known for "Sharpie-gate" incident, to head NOAA www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
We’re not there yet but worth thinking about. A peer-to-peer social network that has a critical mass of users. The way Bluesky grew provides some evidence that, should the need arise, people will find a way to connect to resist tyranny.
DOGE is playing a speed game of Operation and America is lighting up with rage.
DOGE is playing a speed game of Operation and America is lighting up red with rage.
The markets are voting. Tesla stock down over 6% this week and will continue to tank along with Musk’s popularity and as consensus builds that nobody wants to drive a swasticar.
This is priceless! I love this type of guerrilla warfare.
💯this is a great podcast explaining that strategy. Bannon calls it “muzzle velocity” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“Trump is governing like a king because he’s too weak to govern like a president. “ We must not believe he has the power or authority of a king and must force him to operate as a president subject to congress and the judiciary. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Donald Trump’s plan to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” has about as much chance of happening as his promise to end the war in Ukraine before he took office. When will people learn this guy is full of hot air and cheeseburgers? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
It’s like our generation’s trail of tears. No wonder he has Andrew Jackson’s portrait pride of place in the Oval Office.
