this is awful and cowardly but one thing it does suggest is that when people do finally turn on Trump it will be all at once whatever the dam break moment is, if we actually get there, it will be an absolute torrent - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 4 days ago

this is awful and cowardly but one thing it does suggest is that when people do finally turn on Trump it will be all at once

whatever the dam break moment is, if we actually get there, it will be an absolute torrent

Reposted from Josh Marshall

Remarkable. A whole article that might be titled how all us super powerful people turned out to be Donald Trump bitches www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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expatriot.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes, surely this time will be the time. Not like all those other times.

x92.bsky.social•4 days ago

thinking of bugs life all of the sudden~

scottburton.me•3 days ago

They are waiting for ordinary citizens to go under the tanks first

blooshky.bsky.social•3 days ago

From your mouth to Their ear.

walterwrona.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is something I've come to understand about MAGAts in general. They will NEVER give him up until things get real ugly. To break the fever things have to get bad. Real bad. We are going to have to endure some real pre WW2 shit before things can get better.

fynnbytez.bsky.social•3 days ago

That thought gets me out of bed Micah. Humanity overall sucks, but like maybe if I keep the hope that we won't always suck it'll be good. So thanks for articulating it

snoutmaster.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've always thought that as soon as Dems get tooled up its over for Republicans, and they radicalize more and more every day. Big part of republican self image is, they have a monopoly on nongovernmental use of force but their militias won't be able to intimidate people with nothing left to lose.

snoutmaster.bsky.social•4 days ago

That and, pissing off the legacy capitalists, every international ally just about, a bunch of feds, a bunch of military, tech workers who aren't San Fran freaks, economists, and now chunks of their own base... Even with drones idk if Trump and his Dark Enlightenment have the Mandate of Heaven.

snoutmaster.bsky.social•4 days ago

Their plan to start World War III, Civil War II, and Great Depression II all at once to break people like a horse because some techno-monarchists told them it'll work is a uh, bold move. Stay frosty, assume they're as dangerous as they are dumb.

pvn2099.bsky.social•4 days ago

Over the past couple of days the stock market lost as much value as the GDPs of Germany and Japan combined. What will it take for their balls to drop?

mpinga.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’ll eventually up his demands to something there is no way they could afford to give.

aboleyn.bsky.social•4 days ago

They are all cowards, and none of them are going to do it until more Trump voters turn on him. They will wait until enough of the general public stands up and then they will crawl out of their hidey holes and whisper their criticisms.

gloomygus.bsky.social•4 days ago

Conservative family members are suddenly a lot more receptive to me talking shit about Trump and republicans. I'm openly calling the Trump people criminals and fascists and it's not provoking them like it would have in the past.

acunaandrew.bsky.social•4 days ago

No, they don’t get to do that. Throw it back in their faces

chuckysumner.bsky.social•3 days ago

incompetusrex.bsky.social•4 days ago

I seriously think one real famous rich guy calling Trump the dumbest motherfucker he ever met on live tv could crack open the dam.

donwood.bsky.social•4 days ago

It makes me think for the first time that Trump may eventually end up in jail when it breaks. A large and powerful group of peop and organizations will believe doing so will allow them to pretend they were against him all along.

mbs77.bsky.social•4 days ago

God I hope so because right now there are people convincing themselves that actually having money or basic needs met is . . . not good?

carlpavlock.bsky.social•4 days ago

One of the lessons of the Asch Conformity Study is that just one additional person going against the group makes it far easier for someone to do it

fredstart.bsky.social•3 days ago

an absolute torrent - no cap

randallsd.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's basically the end of Glass Onion. Just need one person to have the chutzpah to punch the jackass in the guts and force the spineless rats to realize they need to flee the sinking ship.

robtomshany.bsky.social•4 days ago

Seems likely. I just hope we don’t wash the country out with the tyrant.

gilrandir.bsky.social•4 days ago

The trust thermocline hasn't been breached yet, but... hopefully soon...

https://every.to/p/breaching-the-trust-thermocline-is-the-biggest-hidden-risk-in-business

uofagrad97.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m counting on greed to save us because empathy is apparently way too much to ask.

tawmussohhh.bsky.social•4 days ago

eltopo71.com•3 days ago

Governing by terror. What a good look that is...

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•4 days ago

Eventually I'm hoping someone does the math and decides the benefit of being the first who gets the glory is worth the risk

fruvous73.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's already happened. Ben Shapiro has turned against him.

He's massively influential in MAGA circles.

If he's turned, Fox News will be next, and then damn near every MAGA fan will turn too.

And then there will be NOTHING that can save him.

tommrsn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Everyone likes to talk about what they would have done in Nazi Germany, in fact imagine that many have fantasized about themselves as heroes against an authoritarian regime. Well, here we are...

cargoweasel.com•4 days ago

with Bush it was Katrina. but trump's had dozens of katrina-like events so whatever his Katrina will be will have to be a lot worse.

rorol.bsky.social•4 days ago

What is the fucking hold he has? I really can’t understand.

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•3 days ago

It does make me wonder if it's not just Trump and his warped charisma, but that the presidency itself conferred on him some kind of sacred, monarchical aura.

cat-befriender.bsky.social•4 days ago

"This is a travesty!"

figmentpudding.com•4 days ago

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised that such an astonishingly large number of cowards are out there in the upper echelons of society

bigbadbugsteak.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's a reason that "coward" was the greatest insult you could throw at someone for all of human history until the 1990s. This is one of the most clear examples of why.

dramaticowl.bsky.social•4 days ago

They don’t want to risk the privilege that they have

mitla96.bsky.social•4 days ago

Mussolini style?

sfmp.bsky.social•4 days ago

But remember, if they think the current round /boycotts is bad, they ain't seen nothin yet! Personally, I've cut WAY back on even staples & completely eliminated discretionary spending. Impacting the bottom line is the ONLY way to get through to these greedy grifting billionaire miscreant jerkoffs.

jos1463.bsky.social•4 days ago

hope so

repetitiveuser.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's going to be a lot of "picked on guy in the gang shooting the corpse of the leader eighty billion times" happening

steeleleets.bsky.social•3 days ago

rincewind.run•4 days ago

I am pretty sure at this point that every last (formerly) powerful person in America outside of the Trump cult knows the emperor has no clothes and they need to get their shit together and say it

dying-robot.bsky.social•4 days ago

I really don’t understand why they’re not, I do not understand the aura around this man that causes everyone to immediately capitulate to his childish outbursts

larelli.bsky.social•4 days ago

I mean at least Putin goes thru the effort of spritzing polonium about and shoving people out of windows to achieve craven obsequiousness and submission

Trump just does mean tweets and everyone kneels

dying-robot.bsky.social•4 days ago

“oh no he’s going to make up a nickname about me! time to give up all my dignity and self-respect!”

larelli.bsky.social•4 days ago

Josh Marshall coined the term dignity wraith for the dynamic

It’s ridiculous!

sixtyfps.bsky.social•4 days ago

Did you guys miss the disappearings?

mootquestion.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s a collective action problem.

mutual-a.bsky.social•4 days ago

its only been a couple months and this tariff stuff is the first thing that *really* puts american elites on blast

caveatruptur.bsky.social•4 days ago

i think there's a lot of extortion involved!

acunaandrew.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think the answer is really simple: blackmail.
Someone has dirt on all of them. I always assumed Trump. Maybe it’s Putin. Doesn’t really matter but whatever the material is it must be devastating

caveatruptur.bsky.social•4 days ago

every bit of your digital data and footprint is available: location, comms, browsing habits and app usage, finances, documents, plus now governement data like background check disclosures, health information, previous investigations and more

stork-sculpture.bsky.social•3 days ago

Especially MeToo for obvious reasons

stork-sculpture.bsky.social•3 days ago

The 2010s/early 2020s was the biggest push for civil rights since the 60s/70s. MeToo, BLM, growing wages for working-class people, trans activism, etc. This scared the living shit out of the ruling class. They were willing to pay this price to have it snuffed out

sarahkorse.bsky.social•2 days ago

I will vote for the first Democrat to stand up and say those exact words. "But he's not wearing any clothes!"

danielnorman.net•4 days ago

This may be true, but bear in mind that it’s the *last* one to disavow the emperor that wins

themilfmag.net•4 days ago

say it? they been saying it for years and just started getting quiet recently whats been missing is decisive action

maudlinmarionette.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you've ever seen a toxic person finally get ousted from their social group, that's typically how it goes.

And after spending so much energy managing him, they'll all say "we never liked the guy anyway" and they'll mean it.

But we can never let his enablers hold power or influence again.

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