The way we had is already over and past. There's no return path to what was. We do not want to return to the way of life that brought US here anyway. What we can do is make a new and better way, free of the latent defects that led to our ruin.
Government is bent on destroying US. Reporters are not going to save us. Social media is not going to save us. Your Substack is not the solution.
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The way we had is already over and past. There's no return path to what was. We do not want to return to the way of life that brought US here anyway. What we can do is make a new and better way, free of the latent defects that led to our ruin.
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
I wonder if @democrats.org realize the power to build support and renew our democracy is in rousing themselves to defend US.
NYT presents this as some sort of fascinating evolution in governance, and you appear to share their view. It's not, of course. It's classic gangster authoritarianism of the same kind we were never supposed to forget. Now, like then, NYT let Democracy and Liberty down.
"Overhaul." You've become a stain on history that will remind people of what might have been, and how it was lost to US. Your time is coming, too, one way or another.
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.” — Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
I grew up watching Justice League heroes fighting for truth, justice, fairness. It was called The American Way and I believed it. The only thing we need to go back to is making it truer than it ever was.
The supposed leaders of our most lauded, well-endowed institutions are all but entirely missing in action. When the time came, most have shown they can't walk their high-minded talk. Decorated names and powerful titles have become exercises in branding to market stories of freedoms long sold off.
Maybe people took the wrong message from what you did to your kid.
I love Monterey!
Many comments calling BS on your silly hypothetical. I'll make another one directly to the point: Are you stupid, or what? Aside from the completely asinine speculation you're indulging in, when has the Defiler ever responded constructively and kept his promises? You're not helping, Billbro.
It's come to this.
Words never mattered more.
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The rot she is part of runs deep and wide. The disease doesn't favor party as much as power, privilege. and money.
People like @amyklobuchar.com and @repangiecraig.bsky.social don't get it, either. They're in for a very rude awakening.
Don't be ridiculous. You're practically a billbro yourself. Stop confusing respect for your money and television celebrity with respect for courage or intellect. It's obvious to me, and should be to everyone else, your money and fame give you the courage of a drunkard. Without it, what ya got?
Not much time left to get this straight while there is still a chance to prevent catastrophe.
The answer is absolutely none. You posing it as a question that warrants debate is either stupid or an attempt to get attention. Either way it propagates doubt where none exists. So, the brief attention from me you received ends with me "unfollowing" you.
It bears repeating: There is not safety in keeping your head down. It couldn't be more urgent for all people who say they value democracy to get that crucial point.
Try 10 generations.
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Sadly, too few read it or paid heed long ago.
Yeah, lots of people who should know better missed it. One must ask just what the hell the pundits and journalists have been thinking on our road to ruin? Clinging to cherished beliefs and faulty assumptions despite overwhelming evidence is a symptom of self delusion.
Intentionally starving people is bad. That's not a debatable opinion. Standing by watching some people intentionally starve others is just as bad. That's not a debatable opinion, either.
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He's the definition of a one-man crime wave, and anyone with a clear head and honest heart knows he's as guilty of the crimes in scope hear as any of them. The judiciary is showing the alarming signs of SCOTUS-like rot in more of these cases each week. The seeds were planted long ago.
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Normalizing and creed washing. Really disappointed to see Penrose on that list with several bad people with warped philosophies.
Wolves in the fold.
Surely not *the brightest, but I don't need people blinded by their privilege and proximity to power to recognize what has been understood by me and other communities for a long time. I engage with many people who'd agree the only "revelation" here is the neoliberal intelligentsia may get it now.
It seems to have required an inordinate amount of time for you to arrive at the conclusion many have known for a long while. Is it because A) your observation process is slow and skewed? B) your analysis is slow and shallow? C) your assumptions and models were biased? Or, D) all of the above?
How do you spell 'sycophant'? M A G A
It is so much more than tax cuts that contuing to frame it so is becoming irresponsible.
That's because he didn't make a stand then and there and shine intense light onto the GOP betrayal. But he found it in himself to ridicule tRump in their annual gala in which the elite celebrate their, um, contributions to society, thereby tempering The Defiler's lust for retribution.
Imagine being the leader of one of these countries, giving all you have to keep your people safe and secure, preventing the world from falling into an age of tech-fueled savagery and climate chaos, and having to stand there listening to and smelling this monster's $h!t.
60 Minutes Australia ran a well-reported 20 minute segment on Trump & Epstein yesterday. But it’s been pulled from the internet. It would be a pity if this link to the report went viral archive.org/details/60-m...
Woodward is on the list. The reason it's suppressed and people like that meekly accept it is because the in crowd was all in on it.
Imagine thinking this is grestness.
Of all the creepy techbros, this dude has always been the creepiest. Not the most dangerous, though he poses plenty of that, too. Their not going to simply abandon their vision just because people will eventually get the stakes here and start challenging them.
Always.
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I snorted! Priceless.
Personally, I'd like to see the delegation ignore 47 explicitly and talk directly to his seconds, maybe Rubio as point. They need to make it crystal clear the $h!tb@g will be irrelevant sooner than later, and they will be holding it fir a long time.
Let me know when you're done being incredulous.
It's obvious that tRump is a failure at being a gangster, too.
There are so many of them, it will take a handful of generations to dilute their impact. If we have the chance to.
No, they do not. My Senator @amyklobuchar.com doesn't. My Rep @repangiecraig.bsky.social, who wants to be my Senator doesn't get it. My other Senator, @smith.senate.gov gets it but under weights the threat. They seem to have forgotten they pledged their very lives for my vote.
"[President] Eisenhower’s concern was that the [US] war machine would effectively become sentient." – Stephen Semler on the military industrial complex and corporate interests behind global wars. Watch episode 1 of Business of War ➡️ youtu.be/cVYTb85_dZw
So strong! 🤪
Yes, he certainly did "become" complacent. Harvard will do that to the best of us, as will cosplaying as celebrity royalty in a tux with all the pretty, elite people a few times a year. It's when you yuck it up provoking a monster surrounded by fancy friends, only to run off, things go so wrong.
Look at those dumplings. Lotta fat schlubs feeling big and powerful now are going to learn a harsh lesson about toughness sooner than later.
Hilarious, definitely.
Treasonous, in that he's providing aid and comfort to an avowed enemy committed to our ruin. He's doing it in plain sight. We're never going back to what was and @democrats.org better get that straight if we're going to have the chance to make up for all we've already lost.
Trump has entered into a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. But tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. And we must not submit.
The dude is all Harvard Man. People really don't want to admit it.
Because you are that increasingly rare authentically good guy.
By the way... It's of a piece with the assertion that it's racist to acknowledge racism and seek to neutralize it in our policies, processes, and practices. Mouse nuts Markywe'en Melon been on that kick for a lomg time ...
You are mistaken, about many things. Remember that's the guy who provoked a monster and yucked it up surrounded by all the pretty people of influence at their gala celebration of themselves. Then he ran off to the sunset and kept his mouth shut for 8 long years. Par for the Harvard Man course.
And people with his power and influence must shed the shackles of established conventions and rules of a process that is irreparably broken. This is not a game. It's not a policy or economic debate. This is a fight for our lives. @democrats.org are not awake, actually. Take too long, will never.
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Perhaps in the grand galactic scheme of things we are simply locusts. We're definitely not who we like to think we are.
Genuinely funny.
Man, he must have tiny balls.
That's it. Sums it up quite well.
Are you familiar with the scene when Scarface says that?
I hear you. I'm out of tolerance for the "Lefties provoked us into proving how rotten we really are," junk he was pushing, pun intended. #4Lights Attacks on our individual character and patriotism from the Right have far outweighed for far longer than anything from the Left, who really are meek.
It's time to go all in with it now. NGL, though, Libre Office is awful.
Tom can't handle anyone pushing back on his bs! Someone should ask him if he remembers Ed Meese or Al Haig as well as he recalls Bork. And many more we all experienced through those years...
You're ridiculous. First asinine option I've read from you, though I'm not a regular consumer. I certainly won't overlook such foolishness again.
May I suggest Warren Zevon's Lawyers, Guns, and Money for dessert?
@flvillager.bsky.social RESIST! Be the real American that Trump hates
So much compliance in advance, and during the show some folks think that's all this is.
There are more Ru$$i@n immigrants that are not interested in being assimilated into US Democracy than people realize. It's a very serious problem that is obscured by all our preoccupations and distractions. Americans are incredibly unobservant as a body politick due to conceit and obsessions.
Get a load of those Idaho spuds.
Tom Llamas can yammer all he wants about growing up in a @nbcnews.com family. Thia night, the NBC News family showed that Labubus are more important than their fellow journalists and genocide. They think You do, too. Show them how wrong they are.
Sadly, yes. There's a fairly large population of cultural cowards and emotional weaklings on this platform. Imagine being such a sensitive flower to complain about some straight talk while the world crumbles around them.
Things worse than good people want to imagine. Please have a word with your counterpart and D reps about their pathetic silence as our country is being destroyed.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of" money over all things.
It's clear you don't understand the stakes. We're all on our way to marginalization, and it's accelerating. In a fair world where principled people work out compromises among differences, your position is "correct." But this is very far from that. The bad guys don't respect you or your principles.
You know what will hurt marginalized communities? The end of democracy. And the end means the end of Democrats. Climb down off that high horse.
Please pay attention.
McKinsey cracker.
Another wolf in the fold. When will people stop mistaking them for puppies when they're young and starting up?
Institutions are only as strong and as good as the people who sustain them. Institutional decay is just rotting people.
@democrats.org really, really struggle with limit analysis. They appear incapable of reasoning it out. That's what privilege does when taken for grantrled.
Tech is a drug and most of the town is sky high.
Those bone heads likely thought "median" was "medium" misspelled.
That's why I switched to a Samsung phone a long time ago. I've toured factories around Shanghai. I've seen the fencing and "dorms." We have to change from within to replace our insatiable hunger for shiny objects with respect and love for people.
If you don't know what TESCREAL means, you need to get up to speed PDQ. Using the technocrat's platforms is like shooting yourself in the face, and leaving your constituents to fend for themselves. If your team isn't up to it, ask fir help. Many are ready and willing.
Substack is now controlled by technocrats like Andreesen.
Sorry to tell you this is how a lot of "business people" think. It drives the techbros. First time I heard it was in the context of an ethically fraught decision related to product risks.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."
Incredible. So much we have yet to learn about our world and all within it.
I liken it to having your own Iago.
Not one "rich" person in history hasn't not cared about losing money. I mean, duh. They all care a helluva lot, and hate losing money. By definition. Every one of them, and this creep more than any. Maybe his worshippers will finally understand how stupid he thinks they really are.
You're still lying.
Thump thump, right? That's what a US Congressman named his bill to allow US citizens to drive over US protesters who do this kind of thing, but in the interest of democratic resilience.
Monochrome maidens in waiting for his personal inspection.