They have taken the saying, “the only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday” and flipped it on its head. Joyfully and with pride pandering to the worst among us.
Choosing a cabinet because of, rather than in spite of, serious psychopathology, is guaranteed to yield mayhem.
Any sane President would not even consider candidates with this degree of craziness, even if they were otherwise qualified.
Trump's team possesses neither qualifications nor sanity.
Vance is a lot less of a threat. Everyone hates his guts and no one respects him. He'll be a warm body who gets to be blamed for all of Trump's stupid decisions.
Best of all, he doesn't have a cult, which means Republicans will be a lot less likely to protect him.
I agree in many ways.
He’s not capable of riding Trump’s MAGA cult of personality into actually winning an election. I’m sure many of them dislike him as much as we do. So if he ascended late term it would be short-lived.
But he’s a zealot in ways that Trump is not, especially his buy in to the…
..billionaire tech bros’ vision of a techno feudal society arising from the ashes of democracy. I don’t buy his Christian schtick for a second.
On the other hand he has so far come off as pathetic and ineffectual, so his legacy will indeed likely be as Trump’s fall guy, like you said
It is really phenomenal how much your entire political system actually just sucks. Really, in most other democratic countries, you'd have him in the bin by now.
Liz Truss was Prime Minister for such a short period of time, she didn't even change her shirt:
Yep! They are slow walking it down. So we future peasants get used to our loss of freedoms every step along the way. Leading to the death of our quality of life and any chance for us to ever again prosper in the USA.
What the US🇺🇸 needs is a modern day #revolution & everyone against the Trump regime should withhold their federal taxes from their pay checks, until they are forced out of office. Talk to your HR/payroll dept to not automatically deduct federal taxes from your pay check, you can submit them yourself
The one thing we know for certain about each day since 1984 Dem Women have out registered, voted & volunteered more than DemBoys but y'all tell us all about if from behind the internets. Signed Gray Antifas from outside in reality where bigbro sends dogs & gestapopo
I was trying to do the math… 1 day has felt like a year, next day is worse than prior, so Day1 squared, carry the 1, multiply 365 by 4, then factor N as undetermined terms, then… Mother of God
We were curious (like slow train wreck spectating curious) what it would be like to have a thin-skinned racist narcissistic criminal for a president. It’s going exactly like we’ve imagined it.
One day of every working person to not work.. no one buys anything.. no one gets on their phone.. let’s all shut down and show them what a true blackout 2025 is
I long for the days back when I was in high school that I had no idea who the Secretary of State was because they weren’t trying to help overthrow our democracy
For those of you who has never been to a protest, the time to start participating in demonstrations is NOW. There is no other way. Phone calls to Congresspersons isn't going to cut it. Posting on bluesky isn't going to cut it. June 14th, NO KINGS rallies will be nationwide. PROTEST, or acquiecse.
Trump had his bit coin corruption banquet tonight. Re-upping this piece I wrote last week giving a broad overview of the blatant Trump corruption. Please consider free subscribing to support my night job. 😆
Man in the High Castle might be next on my list since I’ve already watched all of those, except for The Last of Us, which I can only take in small doses.
I watched it starting in 2016 when it first came out (my son suggested it) right after the Trump 1 election win. It was well-done and very dark. The later seasons weren't so good, I heard b/c they didn't have the same show runner. I've lived through dictatorships, so I know dark. I see dark now.
True, Ron. If you were paying attention, you knew things were going to be bad. However, it’s unimaginable how far we have fallen as a nation. It’s embarrassing ,but far more than that, it’s dangerous. We have become a violent, unsafe, unhealthy and poorer nation ruled by a uncontrolled dictator.
I lived under far less stress during the Reagan administration, when we were always under a nuclear threat. Now, I'm like, just drop a goddamn bomb and end this...
shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
This is why I’m struggling every day with hbp. I honestly don’t think I’ll make it through 4 years of this. Worrying over Nixon did the same to my Dad. He died in Feb 1974 at age 49.
Or survive not only these 3 1/2 yrs. But beyond as the aftermath of what has already been done will be hard to reverse i.e. Civil Servant firings esp when all long-term experts are gone & no one was there to train/learn in order to take over those positions, so there'd be no gaps which will happen.
So important to take care of our mental health right now. Find joy and hope wherever you can. Four yrs of this is going to feel like a lifetime of abuse and neglect.
Sadly, you are absolutely correct.😞
Every morning I wake up with a bit of hope, make my coffee, and read the news. All hope is dashed. Then at lunchtime, dinnertime, and bedtime. Bad news multiple times per day. Even the bit of good news we get, which is usually judges trying to stop them, is over.😡
Think of this as a game. These are all challenges to be overcome. We have to be clever and above all, persistent. The anxiety is good for goading us into action. After that it saps your energy. Be creative. Join others for encouragement and to know your not alone.
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"Every day worse than before" their motto.
Or something.
Any sane President would not even consider candidates with this degree of craziness, even if they were otherwise qualified.
Trump's team possesses neither qualifications nor sanity.
Best of all, he doesn't have a cult, which means Republicans will be a lot less likely to protect him.
He’s not capable of riding Trump’s MAGA cult of personality into actually winning an election. I’m sure many of them dislike him as much as we do. So if he ascended late term it would be short-lived.
But he’s a zealot in ways that Trump is not, especially his buy in to the…
On the other hand he has so far come off as pathetic and ineffectual, so his legacy will indeed likely be as Trump’s fall guy, like you said
Peter Thiel's vision is DARK. Way worse that Trump's concentration camp America.
Soon there will be an access-pass vending machine at the White House gate that will accept $100 and €500 bills and crypto.
" The cycle will go from bad to worse. Then repeat itself"
Liz Truss was Prime Minister for such a short period of time, she didn't even change her shirt:
I feel sorry for the younger gens.
But, they won’t know what they missed. 🤷♂️
FINALLY changing at finish line?
Good job America. Fuck you MAGA.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mdavis19881/p/the-absolutely-staggering-corruption?r=19b2o&utm_medium=ios
Are all escapist right now.
Gotta take breaks for sanity
shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
Surreal. Can't keep up with the crazy. 👀🤡💩
Every morning I wake up with a bit of hope, make my coffee, and read the news. All hope is dashed. Then at lunchtime, dinnertime, and bedtime. Bad news multiple times per day. Even the bit of good news we get, which is usually judges trying to stop them, is over.😡