"There is, unfortunately, no law of nature that says democracy can’t be brought down & wars can’t be started by a bunch of clowns if they have enough support from people, parties, & institutions who enable them. It’s all just a farce – until the goons & buffoons are in power. That’s where we are."
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What happened??
https://mortenjonassen.dk/maps/greenland-vs-africa-size-comparison
1) He thinks Greenland is much larger than it is because of the Mercator projection
2) He doesn’t know that Greenland is ice and Iceland is green
Also correct: FOLLOW THE MONEY
Cunts.
The word exists for a reason.
Let it breathe.
(He would want Mexico except he has demonized Mexicans)
Fed right into MAGA’s hands.
Arm up, stock up, stand up.
It is a good feeling,to be able to, take immediate action.
“Waltz told Breitbart News Thursday that he hopes to oust career intelligence officials from the FBI, CIA, and NSA, among other agencies, from the NSC.”
The generational knowledge, the international networks…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appointee-unhinged-plan-purging-211836712.html
Hard to consider undertaking when 75M people chose THIS.
That was a brilliant analysis, and well written to boot. While it may be dangerous to write him off as a clown, it's also essential to make him believe that we think he is a clown. He hates that. And what other choice do we have? Earnest op-eds? Those only embolden him.
Humor and sarcasm (not Trumpian mockery) can act as the germs of destruction. Bluesky can be the lab where they are propagated, and the Petri dish where we test their destructive power.
Trump and Musk would hate that.
Perhaps the tactics explored by these screenwriters might inspire resistance to Trump? After all, what could be more alien to our democratic ideals than a gleeful malevolent egoistical crook?
How about highly toxic,evil and dangerous?
https://www.audible.com/pd/B08N5K47PW/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-220475&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_220475_rh_us
"The conservative Christian parties smoothed Hitler's path to power. Ten years later Germany was a hotbed of robbers & rapists who waged war against all of Europe...
https://www.audible.com/pd/B08N5K47PW/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-220475&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_220475_rh_us
He promised to bring down the price of eggs, and now he says he can't.
He threatens to take over these countries. Are these not empty threats to draw attention to himself?
He will soon say he can't again.
I'm also not seeing why the playbook would be any different this time. Obviously we can't ignore Trump, but the media needs to remember that most of his tweets even as president were total bullshit.
Democracy isn't over quite yet, despite these misguided inferences to the contrary.
The older I get, the more that feeling has just deepened.
There is an inherent fault built into the system.
One person one vote is easily hacked. 1/3 of people are imbeciles. 1/3 are able to read and write. 1/3 are intelligent. About 8% of smart folks are sociopaths.
Advantage Sociopaths. They’ll eventually rule any democracy.
They deflect ANY scrutiny of TFG with whataboutisms.
They are also bored with legal and legislative processes and want to, "Just get shit done", leading to idiotic and immoral plans like building "the Wall".
There's no reasoning with them.
But lots of magas think rich people must be smarter than everyone, so if you do what they suggest, you'll be rich(er) too.
Fuck trump
https://bsky.app/profile/anneapplebaum.bsky.social/post/3lfiavch3e22j
Now let's not answer any phones for a month and pull our ambassador while booting theirs out
Banana Republics are usually lead by clowns.
The immediate concern is his unofficial army (cf Jan 6) get drunk watching "Canadian Bacon" and decide to march north to take Toronto, pronto.
1. Sanctions against them means sanctions against all of the EU.
2. If he wants to place more troops on Greenland, all he has to do is ask. Already several agreements since 1951, that gives the US permission.
plans to pull out of NATO at some point in his second term, so that’s why he wants US ownership of it. If he pulls out of NATO, he loses American access to the base there (unless the US has Greenland as a US possession).
The same minerals can be found on Greenland 🇬🇱.
China wants to “hog” the world market if EV batteries…
I’m just a bit tired of the “illusions of grandeur” and “ability” tRump is spouting. Especially since he seems to have no clue about facts.
Nuclear. Codes. Not…
That pillar is getting put to the test.
Pass #nationalpopularvote at the state level. We can’t waste another 24 years. https://NationalPopularVote.com