it's so funny how most americans are like "oh yeah things aren't great in DC but they'll sort it out" while people i know who've lived through state collapses, however partial, are like "oh you guys are about to go through some stuff, you know"
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True bruh Same sentiment. bsky.app/profile/thin...
aug 25, 2025, 10:12 pm • 3 1 • view
We have gotten very soft in the United States. And very stupid. We actually elected a soulless criminal – twice. And yep, we're paying for it, with plenty more to come.
aug 25, 2025, 11:55 pm • 9 0 • view
:C
aug 25, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't know anyone who not seriously concerned about what is going on.
aug 26, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Still remember being in the hospital in an intestinal emergency right after January 6. Black and brown and/or immigrant staffers were freaking TF out reading the news. As NYT was running shit like "what they wore to the insurrection."
aug 25, 2025, 9:30 pm • 22 1 • view
In 2022 at a conference I attended, one of the experts was completely convinced there would be political violence in the US by 2030. Everyone laughed awkwardly. I think about that a lot.
aug 25, 2025, 8:51 pm • 91 4 • view
And, before anyone assumes I was grimly nodding with impressive foresight, I was definitely in the ‘awkward laughing’ contingent.
aug 25, 2025, 8:55 pm • 31 0 • view
I regularly think about how far we’ve been dragged into the dark, and how quickly. I still have hope, but the hour is very late… 😬
aug 25, 2025, 10:30 pm • 12 0 • view
The amount of times DC type thinkfluencers missed stuff over the last decade is very disappointing at best
aug 25, 2025, 9:41 pm • 10 0 • view
Most people I know agree with the latter, it’s just that we don’t know what it is we’re going to actually go through.
aug 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I assume that's part of why states collapse
aug 25, 2025, 8:47 pm • 11 0 • view
"As the name suggests, 'The year of six Presidents', was not exactly a stable period in American history." -The future's Mike Duncan
aug 25, 2025, 8:53 pm • 118 9 • view
“The impeachments will continue until we reach someone who will do what we say” - god willing, congressional democrats in ‘27
aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 58 0 • view
I don't know what will happen, but I am pretty confident in saying that impeachment is a dead letter. We'll see armed conflict well before we see either a 2/3 Dem Senate or 15-17 Senators joining Dems to impeach.
aug 25, 2025, 9:15 pm • 45 1 • view
I do think if Trump tries to prevent Congress from being seated, a Dem majority in both the House and Senate could get to some pretty interesting places assuming they abolish the filibuster
aug 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 6 0 • view
I really appreciated A.R. Moxon’s take on this topic. And for me, some of my greatest complaints against Dems in Congress is their attitude that they can’t be bothered to try to do anything because it’s not guaranteed to work. www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-...
aug 25, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
i mean, if there's literal violence in the streets, senators might reconsider
aug 25, 2025, 9:19 pm • 30 0 • view
Nah, they don’t get off the couch
aug 25, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe? But J6 didn't faze them.
aug 25, 2025, 9:20 pm • 12 0 • view
I mean it did faze some (but not enough) of them, and terrible as it is to say I imagine either a higher overall death toll or the mob actually getting their hands on a member of congress or Pence probably would’ve moved enough to convict
aug 25, 2025, 9:38 pm • 10 0 • view
We were seconds away from Mitt Romney getting kidnapped or killed, and I think that might have been enough to convict
aug 26, 2025, 12:05 am • 6 0 • view
i think they'll take their bets on the "law and order" side.
aug 25, 2025, 9:35 pm • 19 0 • view
With actual riots in the streets you can very quickly enter a situation where you have a quorum with far less than the entire body, but that is purely hypothetical.
aug 26, 2025, 12:55 am • 4 0 • view
i believe you are sadly correct. this is ALL heading for the rifle closet, if you ask me. what the 🇺🇸 really needs right now is a 2 wk general strike where EVERYONE is in the streets, the way the 🇫🇷 are when they don't like a government policy or position. so far, not nearly enough people doing it.🎯
aug 25, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Well see here's the funny part. That's part of the preparation for being able to go and live through state collapses and regime changes and what not. Humans are surprisingly adept at adapting to new norms.
aug 26, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Of course, it doesn't help that for many, MANY Americans, Washington DC might as well be some far off fucking country.
aug 26, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
Neat!
aug 25, 2025, 8:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Living in DC and being in the situation I am, I'm pretty sanguine about it. Life will go on- the vast majority of people will come out on the other side, and we'll rebuild and start anew. All we can do for now, individually, is be there for one another and make choices about what's in front of us.
aug 25, 2025, 11:59 pm • 7 0 • view
It’s all fun and games until the bank runs start, then the shit has long hit the fan but the shit keeps coming. You’re just left wondering how much shit is there?
aug 26, 2025, 2:18 am • 9 1 • view
My gmother, had a trunk full of marks in 1922 in East Prussia. She would trade say a 1 trillion mark note for a loaf of bread, or the worthless million mark notes that preceded the trillion as kindling for the wood stove. No exagerration. That's how I how bad it can get. Just sharing....
aug 26, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah I think more recently about the bank runs in Greece. But absolutely. Also here in the US. I’m in the south, I’ve seen and had at points confederate currency. Worth a smidge now, but after the war barely the paper it was printed on.
aug 26, 2025, 10:44 pm • 3 0 • view
We really need to be wary of crypto & Trump trying to control the Fed. Those people know what they're doing and why. They aren't capricious old tyrant wannabes.
aug 26, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely. Even one of my most conservative pals agrees with that, he’s at the tear it down and start over phase.
aug 26, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Certain things do need to either be shored up and changed or torn down. At the least this administration has people wanting to understand basic things about govt. Apathy has been w/ us as long as I can remember and that's way back when "America " was supposedly "great" .
aug 26, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I am not looking forward to what is about to happen. Maybe if I get really lucky it doesn't involve attending a lot of funerals.
aug 26, 2025, 9:43 am • 2 0 • view
*nods in ex-Soviet*
aug 25, 2025, 8:45 pm • 21 0 • view
who will be our yakov smirnoff?
aug 25, 2025, 8:48 pm • 4 0 • view
You guys really think we will have an election? Elections in ruZZia are not elections, they are random number generators where putin picks his "opposition" and always wins. bsky.app/profile/marc...
aug 25, 2025, 11:45 pm • 5 1 • view
Oh boy I sure do love living in interesting times!
aug 25, 2025, 9:52 pm • 5 0 • view
What are you counting as a "partial" state collapse?
aug 26, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe if the central government loses control of the countryside and only has control of the urban areas, something like that might be a partial collapse
aug 26, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
Who/what is going to sort it out and through what mechanism are my questions, and I don't see an answer. It's going to take a sustained mass movement to undo the fuckery going on now and the window of time to act is closing.
aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Armed revolt. That's what it will take. Now you know.
aug 26, 2025, 6:15 am • 0 0 • view
The easiest offramp is a certain growing clump of clotted blood cells somewhere deep in Trump's sapheous vein.
aug 25, 2025, 9:19 pm • 6 0 • view