mstod21.bsky.social
Pro-democracy American not ready to give up.
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It's also worth saying Trump is carrying out Putin's orders to destroy the US domestically and internationally. Trump doesn't care about polls, Congress, the Courts, or if the Dems take over the Congress in '26. This is a coup. It's happening.
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Trump is carrying out Putin's orders to destroy the US domestically and internationally. Trump doesn't care about polls, Congress, the Courts, or if the Dems take over the Congress in '26. This is a coup. NATO Article 5 needs to be invoked. We need our allies' help. It's happening.
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Trump is simply carrying out orders from Putin. He doesn't care about polls, Congress, the Courts, or if the Dems take over the Congress in '26. Time for massive protests tell the world that we are under attack. NATO's Article 5 should be triggered and our allies try to help us get our country back.
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Trump is simply carrying out orders from Putin. He doesn't care about polls, Congress, the Courts, or if the Dems take over the Congress in '26. Time for massive protests tell the world that we are under attack. NATO's Article 5 should be triggered and our allies try to help us get our country back.
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The biggest problem is the fear. Trump knows this. The more he scares people the easier. But, like Joe McCarthy, Trump will majorly overreach. The pro-democ coalition must be ready for this moment - money and strategy to take back the narrative. The flailing has to stop now. Planning must begin!
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Instead of these litigious answers on cable news… isn’t time for the Democrats (and the democrats) to hold massive rallies across the nation? Seems that Trump and the GOP has created a major opening for the pro-democracy coalition to seize the narrative. Where are they?
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Isn’t it time for the Democrats (and the democrats) to hold massive rallies across the nation? Seems that Trump and the GOP has created a major opening for the pro-democracy coalition to seize the narrative. Where are they?
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In this new world, masculinity and lawlessness are inextricably tied together. In other words - self indulgence at the expense of others lives (look up Jesse James). How about redefining masculinity as standing up for what’s right?
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What this is about is Trump grifting his own supporters. Whether it’s this, or the next hundred grifts Trump will try.
Yes, all these people will lose their money to the Conman-in-Chief. But he will (successfully) blame “the elite” or Adam Schiff for making it worthless. There is no policing this.
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Would this be the graveyard where our democracy is being buried?
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Face it: the Trump-obsessed media (MSNBC / CNN about the ill-fated Jack Smith investigations; Fox about how manly and smart Trump is) would never have covered Biden promoting a bridge he helped build. Yes, this is how democracies die.
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And the CCP doesn’t need fancy surveillance software to secretly log embarrassing behavior. It’s happening right out in the open!
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These demonstrations of how the human soul can be so easily corrupted are getting to be a bit much. When do the better angels of our nature take back the helm of the ship?
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Seems more pubescent than midlife. He’s changing his hair a lot and acting out.
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Put that together with the GOP becoming the anti-vax party and we may have a new GOP-owned strategy: “The War on Children”
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People should study what Musk did to Twitter and understand that he just doesn’t give a damn. In his demented mind, our country and the people in it are all just play things and curiosities. As Kamala might say, he’s not as serious man, but the consequences of him in charge are deadly serious.
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Trump is probably directing them to eat their notes.
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He loves being dialed in to rich people. But Elon and Vivek are probably laughing at this wanna-be bro.
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And the media is enamored by the wealth-equals-power narrative. And he is good friends with Putin. What could go wrong? (Except Trump will get jealous very quickly and the try to undermine Musk.)
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“A moral degenerate who's unfit for public responsibility.” Makes me think of someone else. Hmm.
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So Musk is quickly turning into a Batman villain. Imagine if the Joker had the Twitter / X platform and billions of dollars. That’s what is happening right now. We need Commissioner
Gordon.
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Sounds like a great candidate for Trump Attorney General.
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What’s also nice is to if they indict her or at least haul her in front of some congressional committee, she gets to tell the J6 story all over again to a huge audience brought in by the cowering media.
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The Trump team will likely stumble over such efforts, and they’ll be too stupid (and up their own butts) to know that what they think is low-hanging fruit (indicting Liz C) will undermine their entire agenda.
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Weird to say (or even think), but Kevin McCarthy looks like a profile in courage compared to Johnson. Johnson must know that history not only remembers the vaunted leaders, but the weak-kneed collaborators - because they give up principle for self-survival. This is the very definition of a loser.
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And now (looking at you, ABC), are we to expect that the news media will give this a pass or somehow map it to the “truth” out of some sort of obedience? Pro-democracy efforts need to quickly and abundantly fund new comms platforms to counter this. Mark Cuban @mcuban and M. Bloomberg - can you fund?
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This and the ABC capitulation are the same: Transactional. No nasty coverage, you won’t lose your WH access, brdcast license, corp. footprint in China, etc. Trump has points of leverage over the corp media. Our big mistake of the last 20 yrs - letting the news media become a corporate profit center.
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You’re so 2015. We are now in the world of transactional relationships devoid of principles or values. The would-be legal analysis is a waste. We will weather this storm - but sadly without the 4th estate to provide light and vital information we need. They’re gone. We’re on our own.
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Merch idea to fund @marcelias.bsky.social : pro-democracy flashlights! Give democracy the light it needs. Darkness no more.
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George should resign from ABC to preserve his own credibility.
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The new FBI?
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Sadly the reporters for the big news organizations know their role: backup singers to Trump’s agenda. They don’t want to land on the “nasty” list and get excluded from future interviews or exchanges so they ask questions they (and he) know the answers to. It’s kind of…rigged.
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Preemptive pardons - a bad idea and sets up Trump to do exactly the same thing for his band of merry lawbreakers. The better idea is to raise an enormous legal defense fund with the best legal minds to support all of these patriots. These legal fights will dominate the news and that’s what we want.
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Preemptive pardons - a bad idea and sets up Trump to do exactly the same thing for his band of merry lawbreakers. The better idea is to raise an enormous legal defense fund with the best legal minds to support all of these patriots. These legal fights will dominate the news and that’s what we want.
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The subhead also suggests a “disastrous” election. Sure. The result. But it was close, and the House is very close. We have lots to work with, inc a broad pro-democ coalition. So let’s stop crying in our soup (and generating these narratives) and get to work. As Kamala said - hard work is good work.
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Yes - so sorry for all that you have gone through. But your suffering has lead you to this place where you are helping so many people understand how they can persevere through their own suffering. You provide a sense of hope for us all. If there is larger purpose here, this is it. Thank you.
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This is where the pro-democracy coalition has to get smart. Forget the news media. They’re done. But if there is a sustained effort across soc med platforms to bang the drums about missing money for specific needs going unmet, it will have an impact. Come on, let’s fight this intelligently!
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This isn’t shocking. Cult members continually and persistently repeat the group’s mantras in an effort not only to convince others, but themselves. It’s their verbal kool aid.
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The lack of credible info sources and young people’s reliance on social media for news would seem to be the culprit here. Broadcast news used to adhere to FCC policies around truth and info. Soc media is a silly free for all. Applying regs here would go a long way.
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The news media that grew out of WWII (Murrow, Cronkite, etc) actually witnessed the total horrific breakdown of a country (Germany) in the wake of this kind of grift and abhorrence of the truth. The current news media thinks this is all entertainment. it’s gross. They deserve to go out of business.
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When you add all of these choices up, you basically have a democratically elected coup. I wonder what happens when the military and a federal law enfmnt refuse to carry out orders? This is about to get very real. We need to get tactical about the response and not just sit on social media in shock.
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This - diminishing the influence of $ on our politics - needs to be connected to the “pro-democracy” agenda (which crossed party lines) as much as the other element. This is where the corruption starts (and needs to end).
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Humans can be easily manipulated when there are no trusted sources of information. The death of truth leads to the death of democracy. In other words, Walter Cronkite has left the building.