I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
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aug 26, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
The same evil regime occupation that who waged brutal war on our Capitol and DC Police and desecrated the Capitol of the United States of America on January 6th,2021.
aug 26, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view
I like it, but disagree at a couple points. 1) voting down the wall st bailout is a bad example of “nihilism”; the I-banks that caused the recession took calculated extreme risks expecting us to pay: private gain, public loss. That’s the bailout, and its neg impact (+decade of QE) on humans can’t…
aug 25, 2025, 10:37 pm • 3 0 • view
be overstated. It was a clear sign that both parties would shackle the public with lifelong liabilities and reduced QOL to all but guarantee corporate profits. 2) I’m skeptical that Congress and SCOTUS acquiescing is “rolling over” more than it is them getting exactly what they want. This admin…
aug 25, 2025, 10:42 pm • 3 0 • view
is enacting the post-CRA GOP ideal- National sales tax, arbitrary rule, ethnic/cultural/religious homogeneity, corruption/fraud/theft, malicious govt, etc, and we should keep this in mind when tomorrow’s Republicans try to tell us they just went along out of fear, mass hysteria, or other BS. imho
aug 25, 2025, 10:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you, this is remarkable work, I would not have read it if not for your featuring it. 🙏
aug 25, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Prochainement sur nos écrans.
aug 26, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Good luck, America. Now you are doing to yourself what you did to many many others. And you are on your own. Good luck!
aug 26, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump looks weak senile and demented. Same old story
aug 25, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
No. Sorry. It’s just not. Did you read the article?
aug 25, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesn't look weak to me. He sure as hell is senile and demented. But regrettably, still comes across strong and wrong. 🤷♀️
aug 25, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a must read article. Hard to take, but necessary to understand. Thanks @marisakabas.bsky.social for sharing this and @vermontgmg.bsky.social for writing it
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Well written; touché ‼️ I am going to write a response to this — to highlight something’s unspoken— post it on my page.
aug 27, 2025, 10:00 am • 0 0 • view
I love how someone called the new White House gold aesthetic as "Saddamcore".
aug 28, 2025, 2:38 pm • 396 88 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
This is absolutely a chefs kiss of a phrase
aug 28, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 0 • view
shein-stroessner
aug 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
nobody thinks of saddam hussein when they imagine a golden toilet, this is AmericaCore
aug 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 10:42 pm • 5 0 • view
Was coming here to post that too
aug 28, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Saddam had real gold
aug 28, 2025, 6:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Hussein and Gaddafi also had gold adorned palaces. Didn’t help them much in the end. Trump’s fate awaits him too.
aug 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 18 1 • view
big advocate of the "Gaddafi Goodbye"
aug 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 7 0 • view
Boxcutter to the asshole?
aug 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
but Donnie Demento is doomed to die on the toilet.
aug 28, 2025, 3:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I think the best fate for him is that he chokes on a Chicken Nugget surrounded by witnesses too incompetent or indifferent to save him. No martyrdom, just humiliation. So, of all the deadly sins, I vote for gluttony.
aug 28, 2025, 3:49 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 12 2 • view
So grimly on point.
aug 25, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Apart from a few details I KNEW all this (being alive and sentient) and yet it is crucial to have the current disaster spelled out in so many words in order to look it in the eye. Painful and necessary reading. Thank you.
aug 25, 2025, 10:51 pm • 20 0 • view
Thanks for passing that on.
aug 25, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s so smart, listening to his writing makes me smarter. And reading YOUR work also makes me smarter.
aug 25, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I would like for Mr Graff to be wrong in his assessment. I think he is not. Damn! Bad times.
aug 25, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Spot on article. I would have liked it to offer some strategies for fighting back, though.
aug 25, 2025, 11:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Tips? No, this guy galloped it into fascism.
aug 26, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Clear and simple description of the arrival of the end of American democracy. It’s only a matter of time now until the US is isolated internationally from other democracies, a pariah failed state.
aug 26, 2025, 6:30 am • 1 0 • view
Brilliant text. But one thing I don’t buy is this lamewashing of the GOP, Congress or Supreme Court, denying them agency. Alluding they’re just giving in to Trump. They are not. They want this. Have wanted it for decades. Trump just turned out to be the perfect vehicle.
aug 25, 2025, 11:27 pm • 37 5 • view
'Word came over the weekend that the president is now drawing up plans and explicitly threatening domestic political opponents...exercising emergency powers in a moment where the only emergency is his own abuse of power"
aug 25, 2025, 10:17 pm • 44 1 • view
FACTS: “this military takeover and federal occupation is being done to the city’s residents — and not on their behalf”
aug 25, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
“Civilians who try lawfully to exercise their right to document the abuses of the regime are themselves arrested and charged with felonies through trumped-up charges teeming with official lies.”
aug 25, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
"Today, August 25, 2025, is that morning. Something is materially different in our country this week than last. Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go?" I had to look up "diktat".
aug 26, 2025, 4:33 am • 1 0 • view
i just can’t get over the Temu makeover of the oval office; all the fake gold shit LOOKS LIKE CHEAP TACKY SHIT
aug 25, 2025, 11:54 pm • 9 0 • view
Plunges is more like it.
aug 26, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Well… I’m depressed now
aug 25, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is not doing this alone. One crazy man cannot pull this off without help. It takes a village.
aug 25, 2025, 11:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Congress and SCOTUS have paved the way for the felon to be the dictator that he is. May they all burn in hell.
aug 26, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Tipping into fascism? More like running headlong toward it like the kids in Miss Gandy's classroom running toward Alex Lily's house.
aug 25, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Running off the cliff counts as going over the cliff.
aug 26, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view