I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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Even on here people will pipe up with "but you have to admit crime is a real problem!" and you absolutely do not, but everyone here is brainwashed into permanent cowardice about it
aug 17, 2025, 4:01 am • 1,145 95 • view
But if you don't go along with calling them Freedom Fries and relinquishing all your rights to Big Brother, then Osama Bin Laden wins! Oh wait, wrong decade.
aug 18, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
That also presupposes that this does anything to address crime or that there aren’t more effective, cheaper, legal ways to address crime. A social worker and some funding can do more than throwing away someone’s tent while they remain unhoused or tossing someone in a cell for a misdemeanor.
aug 17, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Crime is at historic lows in many of the areas Trump claims are horrible. The only thing horrible in this areas, to Trump anyway, are that there are people of color living in them, possibly speaking languages other than English.
aug 17, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
The biggest crime spree is located in The White House followed closely by the Capitol and the Supreme Court.
aug 17, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
We have out of control billionaire pedophiles and I'm all about calling the coked up special forces in to do war crimes on them
aug 17, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes agree . people are falling for the propaganda lies that are giving the fascist power to take control. If they take total control it will be by American consent
aug 17, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view
By "here," the second time, I meant "in America"
aug 17, 2025, 4:02 am • 397 9 • view
Yeah I wish political leaders would be more vocal about it but the reason they aren't is because they know they'll be accused of being soft on crime and their own supporters will believe it
aug 17, 2025, 4:04 am • 455 21 • view
we built a society that requires crime to justify its continued existence. once we admit that crime isn't (and hasn't been) ubiquitous nor even rising, a lot of shit starts to unravel.
aug 17, 2025, 4:12 am • 19 0 • view
If you are a member of Congress your primary job is fundraising and as an electorate we have largely validated this view of the role
aug 17, 2025, 4:44 am • 406 22 • view
You're getting closer to the root of the issue when you mention fundraising, because who has disproportionate funds to give? Rich people, and "out-of-control crime" narratives serve rich people's interests by distracting us from the harms caused by their hoarding of resources and power.
aug 17, 2025, 7:03 am • 13 2 • view
Fundraising primary job?
aug 17, 2025, 9:27 am • 2 1 • view
I joked my last job was making PowerPoint slides as that’s what I did with a lot of my time - wasn’t in my job description but it’s what I did with a lot of my time. So I think he means they spend most their time fundraising.
aug 17, 2025, 11:46 am • 1 0 • view
Fundraising is the main job of a member of Congress. Everything else they do is a side hustle.
aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
This is absolutely broken. No damm wonder criminals are in gov't, under an even bigger criminal! Criminals deal well in this type of atmosphere, hence why the democrats do not do as well in this category. This is the definition of corruption and insanity!
aug 17, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup. It's stunning how much time and focus is on money and not on governing. Harris' campaign had a warchest of just over a billion dollars for the last election and they overspent and are in debt. www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-...
aug 17, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The democrats fundraising was done to fight fascism. They spent more than they raised to fight against super paks. Democrats had many many small donations opposite of the conartist criminals of tyranny. Not a fair analogy.
aug 17, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I was merely pointing the the amount of money involved. I wasn't scrutinizing or criticizing their motives. 😊 There is just way too much money involved in American politics.
aug 18, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
I’ve heard them admit it. They say they’re sworn in in the day they start fundraising for their next election. That’s the system. That’s why it’s broken and nothing will truly change until it’s fixed.
aug 17, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
or if you prefer a video discussion of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylom...
aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
From the outside of the USA, it’s noticeable that every single political event is measured by the amount of dollars raised rather than the policies and their effects. Totally corrupt and corruptible.
aug 17, 2025, 5:00 am • 275 21 • view
That problem would be solved if our elections had a 90 day active cycle instead of merging one election fundraising cycle right into the next one. But that would involve Congress doing something about it, and with the present state of MAGA control, hell would freeze over first.
aug 17, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
This level of money corruption is not an act of god. It's caused by racists, in response to the legacy of Martin Luther King. Immediately afterwards, white Americans elected Nixon and the money corruption surged with Watergate. Nixon created the modern Republican Supreme Court majority.
aug 21, 2025, 7:43 am • 2 0 • view
The Supreme Court Republican majority has constantly escalated money corruption in US politics. And here we are.
aug 21, 2025, 7:43 am • 2 0 • view
The Citizens United SCOTUS Ruling in 2010 was the nail in the coffin for the United States 😔
aug 17, 2025, 9:59 am • 18 1 • view
100%
aug 17, 2025, 12:15 pm • 2 0 • view
What I’ve always hated is how nobody has put together that perhaps the media that reports on all of this is not a neutral player when it comes to campaign finance because so, so much of it goes to purchasing advertising or other media space from the same outlets reporting on the fundraising.
aug 17, 2025, 11:59 am • 8 1 • view
Oh look Harris raised x many millions [that she will be handing to the owner of this media company in order to run advertisements] isn’t that great? It’s all that matters [because it’s all that contributes to my profit and/or power]
aug 17, 2025, 11:59 am • 7 1 • view
Only those outside can see this
aug 17, 2025, 5:16 am • 22 0 • view
What a stupid take
aug 17, 2025, 9:24 am • 4 0 • view
Why would you assume only non-Americans see the corruption? Robert Reich wrote a book on it called “The System: Who rigged it & How to fix it”. We know. It seems there’s an assumption by non-Americans that we are a bunch of lazy inbred fat slobs who can’t be bothered to advocate for ourselves. You
aug 17, 2025, 8:58 am • 8 0 • view
…are wrong, & when the most powerful billionaires in the world come for YOUR country, we will not assume you were asking for it due to being (fill in the insult). We won’t do that to you. Because we understand how power & propaganda works bc we are living it.
aug 17, 2025, 9:00 am • 8 0 • view
No, all Americans know this too. It’s wrong, but SCOTUS said it was how things should be done with their ruling on Citizens United. We have been trying to get them to overturn that decision ever since. It has corrupted every level of governance.
aug 17, 2025, 10:01 am • 5 0 • view
People see it, many of them are corrupt. They don’t care.
aug 17, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Wrong. Hence the non stop bitching about things like Citizens United. Do you even know what that is without looking it up?
aug 17, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Your need to feel superior drowns out your distaste for fascism. Lots of people inside can see this and are suffering for it.
aug 17, 2025, 2:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Is that right.Im in the middle of it and can see it quite clearly.Thanks for playing.
aug 17, 2025, 5:53 am • 76 0 • view
Too many will never believe he truth because they work 24/7 and dont want to admit they were wrong 3 times. Hey wileven claim the economy was better from 2016 to 2020. Smh. My parents did. They left it that NOONE WAS STAYING WITH THEM THEN UNLIKE RIOR AND SINCE. I hate my family smh
aug 18, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
Me, too
aug 17, 2025, 6:40 am • 14 0 • view
That doesn’t make you inside, merely present. To be inside means being inside the industry, to be a Congress critter or bagman or US journalist or USSC Justice.
aug 17, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, no, that information is incredibly easy to find if you'd just bother to look for it.
aug 17, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Leftists in the us have been saying this for decades
aug 17, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
2 post thread in response to this: bsky.app/profile/upin...
aug 17, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Capitalism just slowly poisons democracy. Social democracy or democratic socialism is the only system that actually works long term.
aug 17, 2025, 12:59 pm • 4 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/af68...
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Why do we care what the people who elected a rapist and 34x felon falsely accuse us of?
aug 17, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
What’s truly outrageous is these liars get on their soapbox about crime happening in blue cities but they along w/MSM flat out overlook and/or purposely ignore crime in red states. Red states lead the nation in homicides, but it’s crickets from every angle. They don’t want to hurt MAGAs feelings
aug 17, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I think they are, right now, soft on crime since it appears they’re unwilling to push back at all on any of the illegal acts the president is doing
aug 17, 2025, 4:09 am • 7 2 • view
They're also soft on sex trafficking
aug 17, 2025, 5:05 am • 1 0 • view
I can't believe Congressional Republicans, who hold the majority in both chambers, are not stopping this nightmare by taking back their Congressional powers which they allowed Trump to usurp with Executive Orders and Bogus Declarations. Call your Republican Congress members, tell them to stop this.
aug 17, 2025, 5:40 am • 3 0 • view
it’s genuinely fucked how crime is perceived in general in america, it’s an individual problem where the roots are not worth investigating
aug 17, 2025, 4:05 am • 17 0 • view
*Whispers* fear of crime is just hardly repacked racism and racism is foundational to american society.
aug 17, 2025, 6:07 am • 6 0 • view
The permanent insane fear of crime is yet *another* gift that leaded gasoline gave to us. Crime really was quite bad in the 80s/early 90s including being the "golden age of serial killers". That hyper fear just kept getting passed on even as the actual crime abates.
aug 17, 2025, 4:16 am • 14 0 • view
Millions of us in the US have never/would never vote for this incompetent, cruel criminal. That said, I can understand others being critical of our country. We suffer under a dictatorship now. Democracy is but a memory.
aug 18, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 8:37 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed.
aug 17, 2025, 5:15 am • 0 0 • view
The crime that is a real problem here is corporate and governmental. And we just let it get re-elected into the presidency with zero checks or balances due to the last time we did that.
aug 17, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
I do not understand the instinct to claim the actual harm of innocent people is not a problem. At any level, at any percentage. In any place. You’re right that the President’s response is stupid. But you’re wrong that it’s not a problem. Harming the innocent is always a problem.
aug 17, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
While many may not be pushing back, at least one court martial is already going to happen for a soldier who refused to follow the illegal orders. I wrote this and also my senators and congressperson. Millions oppose this. www.threads.com/@davidaugust...
aug 17, 2025, 4:04 am • 6 1 • view
If it were about crime they would have attacked the majority Republican cities with higher rates of crime per capita. It's about getting control of elections, threatening populations. Can you imagine for one second if say Obama had invaded Florida under the pretense of crime?
aug 17, 2025, 3:35 pm • 3 1 • view
Tell me about it. I'm working on getting active in my local government, and the NIMBYs showing up to pearl clutch about our homeless folks, addicts, and the kids who tag on fences kept devolving into histrionics that seemed to weary even the police present at at the City Council meeting.
aug 17, 2025, 12:15 pm • 2 0 • view
You go wander around DC at night
aug 17, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Only thing I'll admit is the cops have guns and like to kill people with them. They also love to beat people, and my kids need me to be able to work.
aug 17, 2025, 4:03 am • 5 1 • view
I remember when crime was a huge problem. There were subway stations where one did not get off the train if one knew what was good for them. Anyone who is frightened of cities today is soft and weak.
aug 17, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
crime IS a problem, which is why it's illegal to do it
aug 17, 2025, 4:35 pm • 19 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Realization that crime in any given city is a real problem by the people there isn’t indicative of “brainwashing”, I’d say the reality check should be on the guy on his laptop in small town Delaware telling those of us seeing violence with our own eyes that we’re wrong.
aug 17, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
but you are wrong. and racist
aug 17, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
First off I just stated that seeing crime first hand is more valid than believing someone who isn’t seeing it and claiming it doesn’t exist. To say that’s wrong is absurd. Secondly I talked about crime which you for some reason related to race? Yeah, there’s a racist here… check your mirror.
aug 18, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
you haven't seen crime first hand
aug 18, 2025, 6:35 am • 1 0 • view
I’ve worked in downtown Seattle for 30 years. I see crimes committed every single day, violent crimes at least weekly. As long as we’re making blanket statements, You are a racist who applied race to the idea of crime in your last reply, and you’re a fool who speaks without thinking.
aug 18, 2025, 9:10 am • 0 0 • view
Crime in the US *is* a real problem… but personally, if I were in charge, I would have tried funding education, banning guns, improving material conditions, and making it less impossible to become gainfully employed as a felon before I tried martial law. But then again, what do I know?
aug 17, 2025, 8:54 am • 7 1 • view
Exactly!! We should not say it’s not a problem at all. We should say it is a lingering problem and propose policies to ameliorate it! Just because something is lower by a few percent does not mean it isn’t an issue still!
aug 17, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Only nation with frequent mass shootings: crime Is Not A Problem Here
aug 17, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah how about the crime of issuing fake emergencies to send in thugs and military to cities run by the opposition party?
aug 17, 2025, 6:41 am • 5 1 • view
The worst crime in the U.S. is in its government. Trump is stupid, yes, but his whisperers know the difference between total crime and per capita crime and it’s the cities in red states that have highest per capita crime but he doesn’t have his Depends in a was of Little Rock or Memphis.
aug 17, 2025, 6:39 am • 1 0 • view
Nobody wants to be the one to trigger them firing on them. And I get that. But then you'd expect at least some national guard to go awol. Refuse. But nope...
aug 17, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
There are much better ways of combating crime, this does nothing at all except terrorizing the people of DC and the US, which is the total point. His real reason for this, besides harassing Dems and POC is to deflect from the real issue EPSTEIN, and how Ukraine.
aug 17, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
There is crime. Recall the idiom "the fish rots from the head down" meaning that if there is corruption or decay in an organization, it often starts with its leadership.
aug 17, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t have anything to do with crime. They plan and strategize. J6 was a last resort to Navarro’s Green Bay sweep fake electors scheme to keep trump in office. I don’t think he plans on leaving!
aug 17, 2025, 11:59 pm • 2 1 • view
Its criminal. It’s because the DOJ, FBI and republicans in congress are all scared to tell him no. He even has the Supreme Court in his pocket. This crushes my soul.
aug 17, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Olympus has fallen
aug 17, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, it is the country where flag waving is seen as normal
aug 17, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Gleefully scrolling through replies to this post trying to find people to fight with. I should get hobbies.
aug 17, 2025, 4:49 am • 66 0 • view
Bluesky is a lot cooler than Twitter
aug 17, 2025, 5:00 am • 2 0 • view
I've been surprised, people haven't really been annoying about this tonight!
aug 17, 2025, 4:50 am • 38 0 • view
What surprises me is that so many Americans, including representatives in Congress, don't see that this - Trump's actions: ICE disappearing people, making seemingly arbitrary arrests; National Guard in the streets - is what a police state looks like.
aug 17, 2025, 7:15 am • 34 1 • view
Exactly. VOTE.
aug 17, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Honestly, I think we're past the point of fixing things by voting. Republicans overwhelmingly support everything Trump is doing. 20% of people polled are "unsure" if they support what he's doing in DC. I don't know how you vote away stupid.
aug 17, 2025, 12:35 pm • 20 0 • view
One of my senators keeps basically responding that he thinks everything Trump is doing is great, and he has zero plans to try to stop any of it. And the other one is Fetterman.
aug 17, 2025, 4:56 pm • 11 0 • view
Don't worry, Chuck Schumer will give a mildly perturbed speech about Trump. That'll do the trick.
aug 17, 2025, 6:13 pm • 7 0 • view
What do you think another strongly worded letter? Thanks. VOTE
aug 17, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Schumer makes anything sound like a cocktail party disagreement
aug 22, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Here is our chance. VOTE.
aug 22, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
As they say “necessary but not sufficient”
aug 22, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
My condolences.
aug 17, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
And I agree that is tough. To change stupid, but I think they voted.
aug 17, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, sure, Dems will probably flip the House and maybe get a slim majority in the Senate. But we won't get the supermajority we need to actually do something. I'll still vote, if we even have elections.
aug 18, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
I voted. And I'll vote again. But I'm not very optimistic about it. Most elected Democrats have failed to show any real leadership in the past 7 months, and the same people going on about the "Biden genocide" are still going on about it nearly a year after the election.
aug 18, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
As of now, it is all we have. I believe if the people that would not, could not and did not vote because they did not like either candidate know they have to decide. Democracy hangs in the balance. VOTE.
aug 17, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I am so traumatized by now all I can think of is how to escape-
aug 19, 2025, 4:26 am • 1 0 • view
I'm pissed AF
aug 17, 2025, 6:09 am • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/af68...
aug 17, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
my inner debate pervert comes out a lot lately
aug 17, 2025, 4:52 am • 11 0 • view
burning off that excess norepinephrine
aug 17, 2025, 4:56 am • 9 0 • view
if I don't vent this spleen I will simply implode
aug 17, 2025, 5:17 am • 7 0 • view
Gavin Newsom needs to fire the commander of the national guard in California. He followed unlawful orders and can now be relieved of duty.
aug 17, 2025, 6:10 am • 2 0 • view
I've got some f****** fight. This veteran believes something can be done. The governor of Blue States at least can demote or fire the commanders of the national guard. That needs to begin immediately.
aug 17, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
If they were going after crime, the White House would be Ground Zero. Instead our NG troops are standing around a few feet apart, intimidating any tourists stupid enough to go to DC in August. A few fascists-in-training are arresting ppl for 'broken tail lights', the rest are bored and useless.
aug 18, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Now that he has his own praetorian guard , Americans should be afraid . How long before another Kent State happens , or worst . He is acting like the Shah of America , putting himself above all laws . Oh and let's not forget Epstein died in jail while Trump was president .
aug 17, 2025, 11:47 am • 8 1 • view
A repeat of that Neal Young song? These fucks know better than this shit. What’s the endgame? We kill our own now? I truly wish this was a bad movie or a nightmare, but this is real!!!
aug 17, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
What’s the endgame? Are the NG going to use deadly force against us? WTF?
aug 17, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t see the logic in letting a criminal even be in charge of “fighting crime.”
aug 17, 2025, 7:37 am • 3 1 • view
I think so too!
aug 17, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, today I read that The CDC Health Workers are turning their anger towards RFK Jr and Trump after the shooting. Plus I read that people are favoring The Democrats in control of Congress, the big beautiful bill is not favored by many people. Example: Trump orders The Smithsonian to align with him
aug 17, 2025, 1:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Crime is a real problem. Case in point: DONALD J TRUMP
aug 17, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Crabs in a Bucket...
aug 17, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
it's what he has been doing non-stop so far: create a fictional 'emergency' which allows them to bypass all sorts of laws and regulations. southern border emergency, northern border emergency, drug cartel emergency, energy emergency, china emergency (opioids), import emergency (tariffs)
aug 17, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
and most recently a Brazilian emergency to allow extra tariffs because he doesn't like what is happening to his buddy, Bolsonaro.
aug 17, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Stand up...Fight back!
aug 17, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
When the president has virtually absolute, uncontrolled power, without a system of checks and balances, it is authoritarianism. When the president is a convicted felon, the country is effectively run by a mafia organized crime group.
aug 17, 2025, 9:10 am • 19 2 • view
except the mafia organizations are run by much smarter people
aug 17, 2025, 10:34 am • 1 0 • view
And have more moral scrupels
aug 17, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
true
aug 17, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Correct
aug 17, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
I am affraid that Trump will do anything to be able to declare a "national emergency" within 4 weeks. If he and his goons manage to do this you can forget about elections. They are not smart, they just read a fucking manual. 😬🥶
aug 17, 2025, 6:34 am • 6 0 • view
I agree!
aug 17, 2025, 8:34 am • 1 0 • view
Trump's treason started with: the big lie in 2020; inciting the J6 attack on the Capitol; then stealing classified documents; controlling the GOP in the House and the Senate along with everything in between - all without consequences and he's been doing it ever since.
aug 17, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
So true and sad to see. There are a lot of ignorant people out there. But so many millions of people are just going about their lives not even aware of what Trump and his minions are doing. They aren't paying attention. As prices continue to rise, maybe that will finally wake them up.
aug 17, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
“EPSTEIN FILES”
aug 17, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Very poorly on our elected Dem Congress. Ger out in the streets with the people and protest.
aug 17, 2025, 12:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of real tools for pushback at this point. What reflects badly on us is that we were stupid enough to hand so much power to an obviously increasingly fascist party so the tools that we do have are all in their control.
aug 17, 2025, 3:14 pm • 3 0 • view
As others on here have noted, the US checks and balances system is based on honor , of which the current potus and gop have none.
aug 17, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
No they don't, and we still handed them every niche of government with any power to push back.
aug 17, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
You can thank our corrupt SCOTUS for allowing this!
aug 17, 2025, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Millions have been pushing back but whatever....minimal.
aug 17, 2025, 8:28 am • 2 0 • view
How in the hell aren't Americans not ousting this rapist regime?
aug 18, 2025, 2:50 am • 1 0 • view
I’m hoping you have the magic wand to break through the fact that voters stuck us in a place where almost every part of government is run by corrupt criminals who forgot their oath, rip Up the constitution, refuse to hold the admin responsible. Except for some admirable courts holding the line.
aug 17, 2025, 6:02 am • 2 0 • view
AGREE!!! OUR POLICE AND MILITARY MUST PUSH BACK AND SAY NO - THEY KNOW THESE ARE UNNECESSARY STUNTS PULLED BY FELON TRUMP TO TAKE OUR FOCUS OFF OF HIM RAPING CHILDREN WITH EPSTEIN. NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!!
aug 17, 2025, 6:35 am • 1 0 • view
Well to be fair old son, they ain’t the brightest
aug 17, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Also funny how he is suddenly completely powerless when it comes to deploying the National Guard when there's an insurrection at the Capitol going on. And just wait until you hear about his random pardon power or how he's the lone exemption from criminal law.
aug 18, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Just because msm dont report dont mean good americans arent protesting what else we suppose to do mow them down with machine gun fire and give trump the power to start killing americans at will
aug 17, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately we have no one to stop him. The military and everyone one else follows orders.
aug 17, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s pushback on the ground. Main stream media isn’t covering it.
aug 17, 2025, 12:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Technically he is in control of this city. That's why DC is the lab rat for this oppressive BS
aug 17, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Push back from whom? People are in the streets protesting. If you mean repubcon lawmakers, what did anyone expect from the party of spineless, autocratic wannabes? The Heritage foundation, CPAC, and the whole GOP are complicit, if not active participants in the authoritarian takeover.
aug 17, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, the problem is people are not participating. Rectify this by getting on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
aug 17, 2025, 11:24 am • 2 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 7:57 am • 9 1 • view
And please add that he is targeting his enemy. If this were about crime, he would have started with Nashville TN, who, according to Google, has the highest crime rates in the US
aug 17, 2025, 1:39 pm • 8 0 • view
We need new leadership. Chuck Schumer has been in Congress since 1999. He’s too weak against the republicans.
aug 18, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a national emergency and no one’s doing anything about it. TV is so dumbed down that those silly morning shows pretend like nothing is happening and it’s all rainbows. It’s like an alternate universe. Lies are truths.
aug 18, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
... and as a corollary, whom they vote into control of multiple branches of multiple levels of government.
aug 17, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Not to mention how all this highlights how colossally the Founders and subsequent generations of political leaders fucked up. Because an awful lot turned out to hinge on "Oh, they would *never*" and "Congress won't share a political faction with the Executive."
aug 17, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
No one envisioned a psychopath enabled by a billionaire father, immune to ANY repercussions for crimes committed, then running for office and being taken seriously for unending rants of utter stupidity. The adults who voted for him deserve this, their children don't.
aug 18, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The past 6 months reflect poorly on Americans.
aug 19, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
Yes
aug 17, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Morning news: "some say it's an illegal authoritarian takeover, but others say crime is a valid concern who can know who's right"
aug 17, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think the pushback is minimal. There are public protests in DC and elsewhere, lawsuits, and proposed legislation. Also a lot of negative publicity. What else is anyone suggesting?
aug 17, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 18, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
Americans seem to think a big demonstration every few months or even years is pushback on authoritarianism. Other than a feel-good buzz for a week, it’s ineffective.
aug 18, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
What is “minimal pushback” and what is appropriate pushback? bsky.app/profile/kras...
aug 17, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 1 • view
fwiw i havent fact checked this… bsky.app/profile/tiad...
aug 17, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I totally agree. I’m really discouraged by the lack of push back from the whole nation. Where are the objective media reporters? ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC why are you not covering the protests taking place all over the USA? Your job is to report news not to kiss the ass of the Orange Clown and his goons.
aug 17, 2025, 2:18 pm • 3 0 • view
That position in the white house has waaaaay too much power!!! On top of that, breaking all the laws puts all those criminals right where they want to be! 🤬
aug 17, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
The lazy/stupid stereotype doesn’t come from nowhere.
aug 17, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Americans?The system with the help of foreign aid! Our laws do not allow him(Presidents).But somehow they got enough billionaire traitors to rig and buy the oval office! It can and will happen elsewhere if Americans don’t clean house and take back their country! I would start fearing for the world!
aug 17, 2025, 7:46 am • 8 0 • view
I lost faith in many of my countrymen who have proven themselves at best, complicit in Trump's fascism
aug 17, 2025, 2:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Firmly think this is the inevitable outcome of a country that abandoned both reconstruction & desegregation
aug 17, 2025, 3:34 pm • 8 0 • view
I think it reflects badly on the US Troops also.
aug 17, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
Given that they have spent years defending gun ownership in case of a tyrannical government and because it's in their constitution, then, they have a tyrannical government which ignores the constitution.
aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Than again he’s making up the whole « fentanyl is pouring over the boarder from Canada » in order to fuck us so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
aug 17, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Is it the Ppl or the spineless MAGA GOP Congress. In 2026, there m/b consequences.
aug 17, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, the media failed us long ago
aug 17, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
People who run for office, win, take their oaths of office but ,are unprepared or unwilling to defend their jurisdiction against aggression are COWARDS .
aug 17, 2025, 7:11 am • 2 0 • view
Lol yeah Not ur finest moments
aug 17, 2025, 5:05 am • 0 0 • view
To put the fascism mildly, yes
aug 17, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s barely made a ripple in international news.
aug 17, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
Even among the left, when you bring out the hardcore fascism comparison, it's common to be kinda scoffed at or disregarded. People never wanna see it until it's too late. A *lot* of people have also been successfully propagandized into believing that protesting in any actually effective way is bad.
aug 17, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Ask Kristi Noem She knows the know to be spend thrift & even the ability to overspend Best perk of job Become a R valued uppity Republican & then Blame the liberal media for taking her style of governance out of context
aug 17, 2025, 6:22 am • 0 0 • view
A big thanks to all those TV local news managing editors who bit on the baitless hook of "shoplifting crime wave" three years ago.
aug 17, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 0 • view
…at the very least.
aug 17, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
Not everyone can recognize a slow coup, nor do they know how to tackle it. Because this country has never had one before. Nor a criminal as president. All at once, his attacks have been dismantling the countries institutions, weakening it from within, in order to implode it. Not everyone sees it yet
aug 17, 2025, 9:31 am • 3 0 • view
The Blue states need to unite and repel all at once. Letting Trump's minions take out one legislature at a time is folly.
aug 17, 2025, 2:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Just heard...Ohio is now sending their National Guard to DC.
aug 17, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Why the fuck are they doing that????
aug 17, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Following orders...
aug 17, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
👍
aug 17, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep
aug 17, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
It looks bad now, but we are slow to rile. When it starts, it won't be over until the cancer is cut the fuck out of this country. Remember, these MAGA fucks are a small minority of ignorant thugs. Where do they think they're going to hide?
aug 17, 2025, 6:49 am • 0 0 • view
and the media specifically😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
aug 17, 2025, 9:57 am • 1 0 • view
This take Down has been accepted and confirmed by Americans. How weak and pitiful Is that. Yeah for those who are accepting the right to come and do what they want take what they please you deserve anything coming to you traitors
aug 17, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 3:18 pm • 4 0 • view
This is partly a media problem. If more ppl understood that this is what is going on, more ppl wd push back. Even mainstream media sanewash T & carry a lot of his propaganda. upine.medium.com/why-mainstre...
aug 17, 2025, 6:08 pm • 3 1 • view
And most media are Right Wing, full of blatant--not just subtle--pretty lies about T & ugly lies about Dems. 40% of households get Sinclair TV alone. And most don't even know it's national Sinclair or know it's RWng biased. They think it's just their local station upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...
aug 17, 2025, 6:10 pm • 3 1 • view
aug 17, 2025, 6:28 am • 2 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 10:25 am • 1 0 • view
Brainwashing is effective.
aug 17, 2025, 9:20 am • 14 0 • view
Propaganda without pushback wins psychological wars.
aug 17, 2025, 9:22 am • 18 2 • view
SURE DOES and that’s about 99% of the time.
aug 17, 2025, 9:25 am • 6 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 5 0 • view
We're careening into a situation where only armed insurrection will be the eventual outcome. I wonder if 1859 USA was like this? With telegraphs instead of TikTok?
aug 18, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 18, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 1 • view
Agreed
aug 17, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Protests bring attention to grievances, they do not succeed in overcoming. Everyone is protesting, and nothing is changing. carnegieendowment.org
aug 17, 2025, 6:08 am • 0 1 • view
Yeah it turns out the yanks are weak as mush.
aug 17, 2025, 5:34 am • 1 0 • view
It’s end times for America.
aug 17, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
Folks, let's all get on the same page. Once Trump rejected the Constitution, he is no longer a president, he is an Occupier. The Executive is a construct of the Constitution. This clarity is important, the Court of Koch cannot give an occupier immunity.
aug 17, 2025, 1:25 pm • 6 3 • view
For what it's worth, we've had protests every day in our Colorado town for months ranging from a few to many people. The Feds are basically trying to starve CO into submission by cutting funds and the response is sort of like, we're on our own now.
aug 17, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 1 • view
America celebrates holocaust denial every Thanksgiving
aug 17, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
He had to de-natzify it.
aug 17, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
...to put it mildly.
aug 17, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re not wrong.
aug 17, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
We need some limitations on the office of the presidency. From MC at the Kennedy center, to king of DC, to commander of the US military. Something needs to go. PS a pox on every Republican in office, Congress and Supreme Court, for not being a guard rail.
aug 17, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
The militarization and forever wars started with Bush, when a blatant lie was invented to invade Iraq, and has continued systematically ever since. 25 years of transforming the system? It takes years for a country to grow the kind of population that has only the military as a way out to a job.
aug 17, 2025, 1:40 pm • 3 0 • view
He want’s chaos in return. They aren’t giving it to him.
aug 17, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The military will be required to secure elections next
aug 17, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view
Let’s continue to resist in every possible way!
aug 18, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a powder keg and something is going to blow soon!
aug 17, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
And you guys have guns!
aug 17, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Failed state
aug 17, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
What should the residents of DC do in this case?
aug 17, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
General strike is a good place to start
aug 17, 2025, 12:22 pm • 2 1 • view
Someone needs to organize it
aug 17, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool, there are 47 people on the senate and 212 in the house who keep telling us there is nothing they can do, yet still accept a paycheck every week... THEY can use their platform and organize it and prove they're worthy of keeping their jobs.
aug 17, 2025, 12:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump has amassed troops in our nation's capital and this is starting to look like civil war.
aug 17, 2025, 6:07 am • 1 0 • view
Yoy mean like, electing Trump twice does?
aug 17, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
it helps to realize we're livestock that's been beaten down for decades and we're standing up now across more demographics more consistently united than ever before all over the world
aug 17, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Too many boiling frogs think it’s not going to impact their little consumerist lives.
aug 17, 2025, 12:23 pm • 3 0 • view
BEHIND IT ALL FOLKS is the EXISTENCE & RELEASE of the EPSTEIN/TRUMPER FILES, REPORTS, LISTS, VIDEOS, PHOTOS of that 'CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING' RING!!! IT WILL BE MIND-BLOWING just who knew & who was involved EVEN if JUST ONCE!!!
aug 17, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s not going away 🤬
aug 17, 2025, 7:56 am • 0 0 • view
It may be time to accept that the country we thought we once lived was actually filled racist, homophobic, morons the whole time.
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 pm • 4 1 • view
The Blues have day old Subs to throw , they are bound to be scared .
aug 17, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 12:48 pm • 3 0 • view
It looks like we’re too afraid to do anything. Where other countries mass in millions and take back their country. We gasp and say look what he did now. That’s bad. Back to mowing the lawn. Personally I thought Americans citizens would stand up and fight. Protest are fine but they don’t remove him!
aug 17, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
The same thing was being said about Germany during the rise of the third Reich....
aug 17, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree.
aug 17, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Red America. You won't see ' blue' states cooperating.
aug 19, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
Yes totally agree, the world waits on for the American people to do something about a President that shouldn't be there.
aug 17, 2025, 9:26 am • 2 1 • view
Excuse me, but the streets are packed, edge to edge with protesters. WT Hell else CAN we do, when GOP packs the courts, holds a majority in Congress and corrupts the news so even YOU don’t see it???
aug 18, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view
Ian is a master of understatement.
aug 17, 2025, 6:18 am • 0 0 • view
Have to agree. Like what’s it going to take till the people say no more, no mas, done with this
aug 17, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Actually DC has been having huge protests.
aug 17, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
Funny, you should mention that. I was thinking exactly the same thing this morning. Thanks for echoing my concern.
aug 17, 2025, 8:16 am • 0 0 • view
Well the fact he was able to gain power at all in the first place, really should have been a clue what a shithole country this is!
aug 18, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
Yea well let’s see him come to Illinois and see how it turns out for them. It’s not going to be good for trump in the end
aug 17, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
You bet it does!
aug 17, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
Biggest understatement I’ve heard in weeks
aug 17, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. Release the Epstein files.
aug 17, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s simply causing a distraction. Less talk about Epstein when the press and Fox are focused on this bullshit.
aug 17, 2025, 7:42 am • 0 0 • view
The truth is that Americans, in general, hate that this is happening in DC, just like we hated it when they did it to L.A. The people are protesting against it. Please direct your criticism towards those who are actually causing this and those in power who are allowing it.
aug 17, 2025, 10:19 am • 7 1 • view
Thank you!! I am sick/disabled with limited energy and resources. I have called, written, boycotted, protested repeatedly. I’m not sure what else to do. So, I’m watching/looking for pressure points and clarity on how to be most effective with what little I have. What frustrates me most…
aug 17, 2025, 10:40 am • 11 0 • view
…is if we knew how to stop him/them, we would have done it already! With all of the sniping from within and outside of the nation, I wonder if any of the vocal critics actually know how to do it themselves. And if they do, then for the love of God and man, by all means show us how, or just do it!💞
aug 17, 2025, 10:40 am • 8 0 • view
Could you help spread the word? It's time for a GENERAL STRIKE to halt the gears of injustice and overthrow the white nationalist patriarchy. We need ~10.3M more signed strike cards to reach effectiveness. Working in the US? 📢 Sign yours today! 📢 generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
aug 17, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 1 • view
If even HALF the truckers in the US would refuse to deliver goods/restock the shelves, the result would be a mass recall event. Trouble is, everyone is so broke that striking for even a week is a difficult thing to ask.
aug 18, 2025, 2:45 pm • 3 0 • view
I get it entirely.👍🏼💞
aug 18, 2025, 9:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Are you kidding?!? I most DEFINITELY will share this!! Thank you so much for the opportunity, and for all of your hard work!!!!💞👍🏼💞
aug 17, 2025, 9:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 1 • view
Very well put Ian. 100% correct. Add to that the USSA is basically bank rolling a genocide and is hampering an allies effort to defend itself from Russia….considering the noise around Epstein, which is absolutely warranted, it’s pretty much crickets on the other 2 most pressing issues…f’d up country
aug 17, 2025, 6:32 am • 0 0 • view
But, isn’t that always the story of war, demonizing the other to mobilize hatred? The complacency with war in America is the harbinger of complacency with bringing home war against our citizens.🤷
aug 17, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 10:28 am • 1 0 • view
DC is pushing back. In the streets with signs and bullhorns. Telling orangeade to F-off.
aug 17, 2025, 9:08 am • 2 0 • view
Agreed
aug 17, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
You mean how everyone is a self-absorbed fat ass?
aug 17, 2025, 8:13 am • 0 0 • view
Yes. Where’s the much-vaunted well-regulated militia when you need it?
aug 17, 2025, 9:42 am • 1 0 • view
I mean there is pushback in certain areas/states, the media just stopped covering it and social media accs that cover it on TikTok etc. Are being censored. The lack of push back from government officials is the real issue.
aug 17, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
ABSOLUTELY. He owns the GOP, the courts and the media.
aug 17, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
We are Trumplandians now . America died on 11/5/24. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
aug 17, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly the same actions of the German people when Hitler was taking control of Germany.
aug 18, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
I think the thing that’s really under my skin is the years I worked on our police service area to get better coordination from the feds with MPD and how Capitol police, Secret Service and national park police wouldn’t call in or show up. It just took a dictator to make coordination a thing.
aug 17, 2025, 5:32 am • 1 0 • view
In near south east, all of these groups over lapped and refused to work with MPD. Side note, there is nothing for teens to do in DC or PG county. The rec centers close early, bowling alleys don’t allow them, there’s no teen place to hang out.
aug 17, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
So it often feels like we make criminals so we can punish them. That’s not scary crime, that’s society choosing punishment over people. The spare the rod and spoil the child folks are winning here, on the worst possible scale.
aug 17, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
We always criminalize social problems
aug 17, 2025, 6:46 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, but there is good push back. The problem is his spaghetti on the walls—so much atrocious in so many places. It’s an exhausting whack a mole. They are only destroying—the easy part—while we are busy with useful life-affirming jobs PLUS keeping up with his A to Z & trying to fix his breakage.
aug 17, 2025, 7:37 am • 4 2 • view
We’re painfully aware of the ongoing nightmare and the cowardice of our press and politicians
aug 17, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Catch-22: Any pushback on the spot by civilians being menaced by gov forces gets played up as violence justifying gov forces using violence. This is going to end up with troops killing civilians, and at this point, I'm not sure even that will get people's attention.
aug 17, 2025, 5:31 am • 23 4 • view
This right here. It is so infuriating. But there is pushback happening. Not enough, no, but also what's happening is not getting much coverage.
aug 18, 2025, 1:18 am • 0 0 • view
"This is going to end up with troops killing civilians." This part is obvious. It's just a matter of when, how many, and how long does it go on?
aug 17, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you. Thank you.
aug 17, 2025, 5:11 am • 2 0 • view
There were demonstrations around the country but mainstream media don’t want to upset their dear leader.
aug 17, 2025, 1:14 pm • 8 0 • view
yes, rather
aug 17, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Pah. You think we're at all worried about how we look? We elected Donald Trump president. Twice. *Twice*
aug 17, 2025, 4:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh no, there is pushback. People are out there protesting this shit & in their faces every day. The media isn't reporting on it but American are capturing what's happening & sharing.
aug 17, 2025, 5:23 am • 16 0 • view
I blocked the inane post. Just a shit poster
aug 17, 2025, 6:45 am • 1 0 • view
No one wants to rock the sinking ship.
aug 17, 2025, 5:53 am • 1 0 • view
Republicans have the power and give it to Trump. They should be pushing back but refuse. The rest of us are protesting, taking them to court, pushing against ICE, etc. Blame Republicans and pressure them hard to turn. Any other suggestions would be great to hear.
aug 17, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re so weak !
aug 17, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It reflects on the growing certainty that Democrats are just the good cop side of the swindle. They’re bought & paid for just as badly as the Republicans and aren’t going to do jack shit to save us. We have to do it ourselves.
aug 17, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh ... really....wow....who knew ...?
aug 17, 2025, 11:16 am • 1 0 • view
Clearly your constitution is terrible and ill-conceived and you're going to need to put in the work to replace it with one that offers better protection against this sort of thing and drastically limits the power of any one person, even (especially) in emergency situations.
aug 17, 2025, 5:15 pm • 5 1 • view
I said this too in 2016 in Trump's first presidency that the Constitution is twat paper because it relies on the honor system. We were always told in school it had "checks and balances" to prevent tyranny. But now we see like all things in America, it's just another lie. It protects us from nothing
aug 17, 2025, 5:30 pm • 6 0 • view
Well said
aug 17, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Ya think?
aug 17, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
It screams of failure in all our institutions.
aug 17, 2025, 6:20 am • 1 0 • view
I don't watch cable or network news, so I'm not sure how much coverage they're giving protests, etc. But, I often watch Democracy Now via YT and recently was surprised at how much pushback really is happening. Maybe it's just not hitting mainstream news. DC people are showing up.
aug 17, 2025, 5:18 am • 41 0 • view
I noticed they are still protesting Tesla in some areas. It's probably time to shift those people to protesting what's happening in DC currently.
aug 17, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It definitely is not hitting mainstream
aug 17, 2025, 6:44 am • 14 0 • view
Too much Right-Wing owned media is running interreference. This isn't new. It is history repeating itself. This was the Daily Mail in 1934. In Britain.
aug 17, 2025, 4:41 pm • 7 1 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
They don’t give a holy fuck! amerika is long fucking gone and the people remaining have chosen a life of servitude to an orange fucking dictator. World, you are best to Ignore the fuck out of this shithole nation now.
aug 18, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
You know the second you post this, people will jump up to scream "but you have to admit crime is OUT-OF-CONTROLLLL!" Not it’s not. “Crime” at the working civilian level is very under control.
aug 17, 2025, 10:50 am • 1 0 • view
Now once you move up the social hierarchy far enough, you’ll seen an insurrectionist, child rapist with more felonies than 30 Crips combined doing all sorts of wild shit.
aug 17, 2025, 10:50 am • 2 0 • view
Especially when so many 2A fans scream about just this sort of thing, then when it’s happening right in front of them they say, “no, that’s not what we meant. We will only stand tall when it’s brown people coming for us.” They really “just love guns”. Sorry about all the kids that die (~3,600/year)
aug 17, 2025, 2:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Why are we not having national strikes during the work week?
aug 17, 2025, 10:13 am • 5 0 • view
General strikes happen with broad union support, and republicans have done all they can to beat down unions here.
aug 17, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I think you're assuming "America" (as a whole) disapproves, when the fact is despite their "Don't tread on me" hypocrisy, half of "America" agrees with what's happening....until it happens in their hometown.
aug 17, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 5 0 • view
Pick up a gun, get to work.
aug 17, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a tell that the right-wing was going on, for years, about how Clinton, Obama and Biden were going to invade red states under a flimsy pretext and the the Right just goes and does it.
aug 17, 2025, 12:14 pm • 6 1 • view
I do too
aug 17, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
It tells you your 2nd amendment is pure John Wayne fantasy…
aug 17, 2025, 11:15 am • 5 0 • view
Guys, they are always going to have some veneer of an excuse to do fascist bullshit, even if it comes to death camps. That's the nature of the beast. Wake the fuck up and recognize what we're dealing with here because it's only going to get worse.
aug 17, 2025, 6:22 am • 0 0 • view
Oh yeah? How so?
aug 17, 2025, 4:57 am • 0 0 • view
Especially the media.
aug 17, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
We have normalized his bullshit for far too long. I don't know how he ended up getting a pass on just about everything by the MSM. I often wonder if anybody else would get the same treatment by the press. He is the most undeserving of all the adulation that's heaped upon him.
aug 17, 2025, 11:58 am • 3 0 • view
Democracys everywhere need to learn from these cracks in US dem. system. No money in politics No toleration of -even the appearance of- conflict of interests Assure education and neutral information Protect voting and voting rights Assure protection - and so on. Release the EPSTEIN files now<<<
aug 17, 2025, 12:15 pm • 5 1 • view
Franklin: a republic, if you can keep it Americans:
aug 18, 2025, 12:18 pm • 3 0 • view
"I made an Oath!" some oaths were meant to be broken.
aug 17, 2025, 5:06 am • 1 0 • view
Those "checks and balances" turned out to be worthless didn't they? They need to think about creating a more robust framework of government to protect democracy, freedom and the rule of law.
aug 17, 2025, 8:26 am • 2 0 • view
They had one; after decades of careful work stacking the senior judiciary, Citizens United was able to kill it.
aug 17, 2025, 11:51 am • 1 0 • view
I don't think the majority is seeing the big picture....just like in the last election. 😞
aug 17, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Hi Ian - I don't know to which generation you belong, but I'm Gen X and - honestly, have never traveled internationally and admitted I was a US citizen. I know a LOT about Canada because that was my fallback. I think pretty much the past thirty years reflect poorly on Americans in general.
aug 17, 2025, 5:53 am • 5 0 • view
@ianboudreau.com I didn't explain that well enough. It sounds like I'm arguing with you. I'm not! You're right! It's totally true! AND - as much as I WISH I could pin it all on Trump - I don't think I can.
aug 17, 2025, 5:54 am • 0 0 • view
Also, I would like to know the name of your very wise-looking grey cat, please.
aug 17, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
Since Reagan, actually. People are dupes.
aug 17, 2025, 10:29 am • 0 0 • view
Everyone else saw it
aug 17, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
By that I mean other countries
aug 17, 2025, 6:51 am • 0 0 • view
Be as mad as you wannabe at tech titans, crypto bros & self-serving hedge fund managers. Just bear in mind that millions of Americans are treading turbulent economic waters working 1+ low paying jobs with little time to pay attention or, if they do attend, even less time to protest.
aug 17, 2025, 11:56 am • 4 0 • view
The media is derelict in their duty to inform as well as complicit.
aug 17, 2025, 5:36 am • 10 0 • view
Exactly
aug 17, 2025, 6:49 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely we ought to be tearing the White House down
aug 18, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't understand why you are posting this. I agree with the statement, but are you just pointing out that that Americans suck and haven't responded to blatant authoritarianism the way you planned?
aug 17, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
The most elegantly phrased understatement of the year.
aug 17, 2025, 5:15 am • 0 0 • view
Yup. That’s why many of us left. America, especially its ideals, are finished.
aug 17, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
VERY poorly. While this is a bit unprecedented in modern times, the lack of pushback and the level of capitulation is really quite astonishing. While there are certainly resistors, it's nothing on the scale needed to effect change.
aug 17, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
right? if this happened in Ottawa we would flood the streets with citizens and occupy the city until whoever was stupid enough to try this authoritarian power move was removed from office ✊🇨🇦
aug 17, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
France would be in the streets
aug 17, 2025, 8:02 am • 1 0 • view
Many people don’t pay close enough attention and if they haven’t been directly affected, and most haven’t, life seems normal.
aug 17, 2025, 11:40 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 8:24 am • 0 0 • view
The trick is that social media killed the regular media and now the regular media no longer reports news for its own sake (because that's not profitable anymore) now they report whatever their owners want. And their owners are buddies with Trump.
aug 17, 2025, 5:39 am • 20 3 • view
I'm open to ideas about what to do about it
aug 17, 2025, 4:07 am • 5 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 5:36 am • 1 0 • view
A general strike with what unions? My union is helping get local progressives on the ballot, I could try to help with that more
aug 17, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
U don't need no unions for a general strike.
aug 17, 2025, 6:16 am • 0 0 • view
Whatever we can. I'm not strong, big or fast, but I'm tough (gramps said so!), and I struggle each day to do something real to try to improve stuff. Share, educate, challenge bad ideas and wrong thinking, support those who can do more than me, spare a dime good cause, and exactly what you did..ask!😊
aug 17, 2025, 4:52 am • 8 0 • view
Education is the most important social good we can do
aug 17, 2025, 6:41 am • 2 0 • view
But--context is critical. The important social good -in Gaza right now.. children need other things first, like life, food, live parents & siblings, safety, before education. To a lesser extent the same applies anywhere, even here, cold, hungry, unhappy kids can't learn well. I reckon 'kindness'😊
aug 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
crime is not a BIG problem and is only made into one so we can stock our prisons with slave laborers. crime should be rehabilitative not dehumanizing. addressing this is also addressing the fascism in the US from BEFORE 2016, not JUST the fascism since, and is why no one addresses it realistically.
aug 17, 2025, 8:31 pm • 4 0 • view
But according to Trump Americans have never had it so good.
aug 17, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view
It shows they aren’t just ready for fascism - they have been living it ever since Reagan allowed FOX to poison the minds of the electorate. They don’t like it any more than a German civilian liked what was done to the jews - but they won’t do anything effective.
aug 17, 2025, 6:39 am • 1 1 • view
Agree 100%. That is what has my stomach in knots more than the buffoon himself. I've watched everything unfolding over the past decade & the sheer indifference in Americans is truly shocking. (15-Year Activist For Democracy)
aug 17, 2025, 9:43 am • 3 0 • view