If you're not a radical by now, nothing could ever make you one. (And to be clear, I mean here "radical" by the standards of mainstream corporate media—whose blithe, cowardly, and capitulating normopathy is stifling, crippling, unyielding, and at this point extremely dangerous to the United States.)
Fucking right, Seth.
I've been calling the Republican party a domestic terrorist organization for a decade now. I'm constantly infuriated by the lack urgency or worse calls for bipartisanship. You don't work with Nazi's you defeat them utterly.
It's not the media's job to be the oppo party. That responsibility belongs to Dem leadership. If they were hair on fire screaming about fascism & major media was ignoring them,that'd be 1 thing. But that's not happening. You have to do something newsworthy to get ink. They seem unaware of that fact.
So what's left? Nothing? Cheer on the blod clots knowing Hedge Fund Vance is waiting in the wings? Is there no out at all?
What did people think "mass deportation now" meant? Stephen Miller detailed his plan for deportation flights taking off every 20 minutes and massive detainment facilities. Why the media accept "Donald Trump has absolutely no idea who the title sponsor of his convention is".
Was the Bund rally in Madison Square Garden even covered?
I don't think I ever saw coverage of that.
mostly whatever coverage there was focused on the comedian calling Puerto Rico garbage as I recall. Then Trump somehow turned it around so it was MAGA being called garbage that’s why he did his garbage truck stunt.
Feels like that was 80 years ago. 🥴
Wow. Thx for the update.
? ABC/PBS had full coverage. Is this what you mean? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HysD...
I think so. For some reason I missed that. Thanks.
And I wish I didn't feel bound to watch it, so no problem😊!
"MASS DEPORTATION NOW!" signs at the 2024 RNC. It could not have been clearer where this was all headed.
As my lifelong republican mother said, at 87, when she flipped to become a Warren democrat: “WE’RE ALL ANTIFA NOW!”
"More strongly worded letters on their way!" - Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer How do the two of these guys even go to work knowing, KNOWING that their "colleagues" are literally trying to eliminate the Democratic party entirely?
That’s a great question. They’re failing us. They’re failing America.
No they aren't failing, they HAVE FAILED. Same goes for every Senator that voted to confirm ANY of trump's picks.
So far yes. You’re 💯 right about that. But they’re the only ones who can do anything about it because if they don’t, there will never be a legit election again so there will never be another chance for them to fix their failures.
they aren't the only ones who can do anything. WE are the people.
True. But how do we stop Trump’s dismantling of America?
The blue states need to stop funding the federal government.
How so?
States cannot. There’s probably some mechanism they can put together to do it, but it doesn’t exist at the moment. Individuals, however, can stop withholding on their paycheck. Note: falsifying your W4 so that your employer does not properly withhold is a crime. But that would be how it would happen
If the millions of Americans that protested in June stage this protest, say starting in October (so you could truthfully say you planned to just pay it all at once in January), that might have some effect.
1/ an excellent analysis with one glaring flaw.... in assigning blame for the complacency toward Trump since Jan 6, you keep saying "the Democrats". But during that period, "the Democrats" were taking their marching orders from one person -- Joe Biden. And it was Biden who utterly and completely
2/ failed to meet the moment -- who instructed all of his subordinates in both the White House and DNC to treat Trump as a non-factor. And despite Trump violating all the norms for ex-Presidential behavior, it was Biden who insisted upon treating Trump as if Trump was acting with the same
3/ restraint that virtually all other former PResidents had acted. It was Biden, aided and abetted by Pelosi, Schumer, and Clyburn (acting through Jamie Harrison at the DNC) who literally handed the Presidency to Trump by annointing the demonstrably incompetent Kamala Harris to be his
4/ successor as nominee (despite her disastrous 2020 campaign where she demonstrated an inability to connect with anyone other than her most dedicated supporters.) So lets stop tip=toeing around the real problem -- it was Joe Biden who got us here. Sure, 90% of Dems followed along mindlessly with
5/ Biden's agenda (including the vast majority of 'progressives' here on BlueSky), but we need to make it clear that our LEADERS failed us, because only new leadership is going to get us out of this mess -- and most Dems still cling to the old leadership.
Second. 👍
Well, I'm totally defeated after reading that, I thought there may be some hope if we took the house and senate in 2026, anyone have any advice on how to prepare for the near and distant future other than move to a new country?