One extraordinary thing about Pritzker's speech: saying this won't last forever and justice will eventually find the perpetrators. Shouldn't have stood out so much. But did, because way too many US elites in politics, media, business, etc. are acting like it's popular and permanent. It's neither.
It feels like there's been a widespread belief that there's a one-way leftward ratchet in politics, always towards more civil rights, more social safety net, we can't go back, when in reality the ratchet has been rightward: more cops, more guns, more prisons, more cruelty, more Big Brother.
The damage will be sadly.
I think the Trump regime is so overconfident that it will stumble into a tipping point that will cause their benign supporters to defect. I don't think they can suppress the entire nation. It's simply too big, too distributed and too diverse.
Yep. Some of the root causes of where we are now is that we - our leaders, mostly Dems - refused to go after the legit crimes of previous Admins and operatives.
That is almost all of it. A convicted felon should never have eligible to run.
I mean all the way back to Ford pardoning Nixon, stopping Iran-Contra at Ollie North, letting Bush II's lies about WMD just go unanswered, etc.
The US leadership has looked corrupt and self serving for decades now to the rest of the world. All that has recently changed is that now some US citizens are starting the be treated like the US abroad has treated foreign nationals so they’re starting to wake up
Imperial boomerang theory in real life.
Permanent is a long time. And a technicality. Ten or twenty years is a lifetime and entirely possible.
Wish I could believe that
Media and businesses are *eerily silent*🤔…maybe because #corporatecollusion #inthetank #scratchmyback We know the rest…follow the money 💰
We HOPE it’s neither. Let’s face it, there is no guarantee (or, at this point, likelihood) that it ISN’T permanent or that justice will ever prevail.
Sure there is. Nothing lasts forever and all fascist movements have collapsed in on themselves. This one will too. Might not be fast, will do a lot of damage before then, and we’ll never go back to exactly how things were. But permanent this is not.
I suppose that is down to perspective. For someone my age, I don’t expect to see any collapse in my lifetime. Young people…perhaps.
Thats about the most useless statement Ive ever read. Yes, if an abusive husband eventually dies, the trapped wife is free. Thats simple passive nihilism, no different than "they wouldnt do that" or "seasons change". Except there is no guarentee for change, and in the long run, we are all dead.
Trump and Trumpism won't last forever, but the damage to your country is generational.
With climate change? Generational?
Nope… and more and more people are joining the fight… it’s going to end… but there must not be a Garland this time… there must be justice and there must be a cleaning… firing every fucking one of them and starting over.. and then prosecuting who we can.. NO compassion.. as long as it takes..
It will not last forever. It may not even last as long as we’ve feared with the way this is going. Saying that it’s a new normal is just siding with the bad guys.
I fight back against everyone who says it will last. I’m always told I’m not in reality. People want to be terrified and cower under a rock. It’s sickening. Up Dem governors fighting back!!
My biggest worry is all the quieter that will take a generation+ to fix after so much of the federal govt was gutted many of those things took immense political capital to establish (esp. labour rights stuff) and will likely require the same again now they've been decimated
I try to look at as an opportunity. The system was obviously broken because it led us here. While those things we knew are gone forever my hope is that this is a once in a century chance to make a better system that serves all Americans and closes the doors on the things that got us here.
its just a race to do that before those who seek authority for authority's sake get there first
We’ve got win the race. It’s existential. No one should be focused on a single thing other than that.
Shut up. For real. Now. It starts now. Not later.
what?
Elections, if they happen, are a year and a half off. Waiting for change is assuming its even possible at some later date.
nobody said anything about elections though?
They did.
Climate change
Making clear there is still accountability in this country is so critical. If unchecked for four years, the damage could last for decades.
A month,a year or a decade. The will of the people will break any fascism or dictator. The only legacy they will have is blood & ashes, remembered in history texts about what not to do.
In nearly every special election since Trump’s election, republicans have lost even in places that should have been lay-ups. This should read as widespread rejection of the conservative project as led by Trump and the Heritage Foundation. Conservatives know it - hence the gerrymandering push.
I had not realized how downcast I was until I noted my surprise at this part of Pritzker's remarks.
We’ve been conditioned by such little accountability for wrongdoing that the idea that fascist collaborators should face consequences feels revelatory and inspiring.
I think it is of the utmost importance that Democrats say this loudly from the mountaintop - over and over. We're taking names. We know what countries are imprisoning people. There will be justice.
They are jokes. All but two federally need replacing
It will be permanent if no one is willing to do the potentially dangerous work of putting this lawlessness to an end.
Thats faith. Its nice for hope, but its not a given.
Maybe not permanent, but probably recurring, don't you think?
Worth noting that Pritzker not only treated Trump's blatant lies as lies, properly cast it as a violent threat, and denounced any state sending troops for dereliction of duty. He also managed to do all that without telling Democrats they should throw part of their coalition under the bus.
I wish politicians and others kept repeating that Trump may immune, but those carrying out his orders won’t be in 3.5 years.
Feels like Pritzker has shown more leadership than basically all of the other Dem governors and all of the Dems in Congress combined, with a disappointingly small number of exceptions.
the other democrats are beholden to the donor class. JB on the other hand is a literal embodiment donor class and can say whatever he wants
Not interested in throwing anyone under a bus, but maybe we can focus on a group that seems to get far less attention which are children being gun downed at school. Far more media attention is being paid to a super small percentage of people. You do realize we’re being played by Russia?
And what did Trump do when he saw Gov. Pritzker's uncaveated opposition? Lash out verbally, but back off the threats a little. Maybe he'll try to send troops later, but isn't right now. You can hear some clips from Pritzker's speech in this episode of the Daily Blast with @gregsargent.bsky.social.
The top of his head is rectangular as shit
This is how you handle a bully. They are cowards underneath all the bluster.
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social People that are paying attention are noticing that if you simply say NO to Trump, it stops him. Maybe not forever but it does level a glancing blow. He is like a RUMBA vacuum that keeps bouncing off the walls he runs into and turns the other way only to bounce into […]
TACO, again?
If you push back, he folds.
Yeah, turns out if you hit a bully in the mouth, they shut the fuck up. Who knew?
Always. Wake up, people.
not always. there's a real risk. still, pushing back is the right thing.
There is a real risk, certainly, but as with most bullies it seems like if you DON'T fight back, he inflicts harm. If you DO fight back, consistently, it ends up no worse than if you didn't and often ends up better.
as i said, it's still the right thing. i know what i'm talking about, i grew up fighting a violent father. i just think it's also important to be aware that the wins aren't sure, to avoid frustration when it doesn't always work.
I have to wonder if Trump is looking at the Guard deployment to DC, where he doesn't have the same constraints on what he has the guard do, there are a million Federal buildings, he can order the DC police around and they're picking up trash, mulching and looking bored at a train station...
If they DID send the guard to Chicago and a court limited them to what they had in LA (guarding federal buildings, protecting federal officers), there are like 5 big Federal buildings and no border to guard, so they'd REALLY be twiddling their thumbs here.
Sadly Trump can easily override those constraints thanks to the little known "I do what I want" loophole
It depends. They put the restrictions on them in California and they (mostly) obeyed them. It wouldn't surprise me if the same pattern happens elsewhere (district judge temporary restraining order on the whole activation without permission from the governor, stayed except for limiting their scope)
I can assure you that nothing is going to look like government waste more than two dozen bored guys standing guard at each of our 168 post offices.
#TACO 🌮
I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
ah yeah, "soft succession."
That "states can disobey the federal government" thing went really well the other time 👀
Well, when you are the 4th largest economy the rest literally cant live without because its all the ports (tariffs wont bring back manufacuring), all the tech (even if some go to Texas for now, lol), but also all the tax revenue, you even harm it, you lose.
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