I also think that there's a lot of people who aren't fighting back because they don't want to leave their comfort zone and they are just barely stable enough and don't want to ruin that.
Honestly, I think it’s extortion. I think that’s how they do everything you know like blackmail, but extortion threat of being exposed for some little thing that is really bad like lying to get into law school or something or taking a gift.
But before they turned in Anne Frank they would have been generous donors to many causes seeking to protect her.
It's a very revealing time - depressingly so.
That’s because you are male. As women we have been waiting for the “good men” to stand up against the bad men who are murdering, stealing, r@ping, and just plain narcissistic, all bc of BRO code. It’s so pathetic. You can see the proof everywhere.
I live in Queens NY
Driving though Long Island I didn’t know how many morons lived there. Like not your normal moron… like not be ashamed you kiss your sister dumb. Was an eye opener for me when I realized this.
The idea of America was always better than the reality. (I grew up in the segregated South.) I was projecting that other Americans wanted us to be a free-speech-loving, multicultural country with a government of checks and balances to protect the advances I thought we were making. Wrong!
This country was founded by rich white men who didn't want to pay taxes. Here, we are 249 years later, with rich white men who don't want to pay taxes bringing about the collapse.
Funny in a way, but it fucking sucks having to live in it.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised by this. I so wanted the Founding Fathers to be the mythical creatures we learned about in school. Turns out not so much.
You know how they say if you stand up first, it's easier for others to stand up with you? They lie. The best I get is "Thanks for saying that. We were all thinking it." much later.
If a man thinks little more of women than them being his property, women were second class to those men to begin with.
For instance, I could never purchase a prostitute, not because of the money, but because it seemed cold and emotionally lacking. Something about love that attracts me.
You watch too many movies, mate. Most people are too exhausted, skint or - and here’s a thing - see where bravery gets them. You stick a leader or a system up there worth fighting for, they will. Now? You’re asking people to rise up for a slightly less shit version of now. No wonder they say no ta.
It’s sad, I know.
“We’re getting ready to jackrabbit our hind legs into the belly of this predator much bigger than us, with its much bigger jaws, and it's much bigger talons, and much, much bigger guns” https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/cold-open?r=fd4u4
The whole war was bs, i thought I’d never get emotional again about politics when they voted him in a second term.
That’s not to say there were not ‘bad guys’ out there. But iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
And it goes much further back than that: US history is a catechism of rapacious territorial expansion, bully-boy tactics against weaker countries, rampant greed and economic opportunism, all mixed in with a portion of hypocrisy, wrapped in a flag.
Democracy is a story they tell to keep you docile.
Yeah, but unwanted babies are going to become scarce if abortions aren't illegal...
Remember, people. Jesus' Magic Daddy loves embryos much more than the good women that carry them...
Don't abort America's errr. I mean "God's" future "Christian Soldiers". They're impressionable!
Trump is a Rorshach's test of a person character, ya know, the ink blot test. Anyone who looks at him and sees anything other than a vile human being fails the test. Sadly, that is most of my family.
My father, my four brothers and my mother have known since the mid-80s just what a piece of shit Donald Trump is. I had the misfortune of having some co-opting events with him when I worked for Harrah’s Casinos. He’s a waste of a breathing human; let’s stop that.
Thank you. That's where I am too. I know many like minded people who refuse to get involved, pulling a "not my job." Thanks for sitting on the sidelines while we try to save our country. We need everyone!!!
I highly recommend watching A French Village - fictional tv series that depicts, over several years, how residents of an occupied village respond to Nazi presence. I learned a lot about the complicated reasons for choosing resistance over collaboration. And cowardice is just part of it.
In the political world you have been inside of something you should never have been inside of at some point in your life and trump has the betamax copy
GOP SINCE NIXON- COVERUP ALL MISDEEDS N LIES-so we won’t get CAUGHT AGAIN, today even if caught NO JUSTICE = COWARD 6 SCOTUS N ACCOMPLICES 🖕🏽🤡💩🐘🦧🐏🐑🇷🇺planted operatives!!
I just don't think this is viable for the US. Now if you can convince people to stop paying their healthcare bills, you might have something. I really do think we can do that together. Make them garnish our wages. Make them crash our credit. We can buy what we need with our cold hard cash.
Nice people care more about fitting in and being liked than right/wrong.
There is a reason why the people that fought the Nazis were basically assholes- they had a moral core and did not care what society thought.
Everyone here, including OP, should ask themselves—are you speaking up IRL? Are you taking at least one real action against authoritarianism? Before calling out others, make sure you're tending your own garden first. And be kinder to yourself in the process.
Every single one of those cowards is financially incentivised to go along with it. Not one of them belong to any of the affected demographics. It's easy cowardice.
Those going publicly against the administration, those with a lot to lose, they are the best of the best, and will not be forgotten.
Yes, indeed. And such a great book title "Easy Cowardice". Thankful for the Brave & Fearless Ones. I want to be numbered with them should the time come!Thankful for this platform and all the Solidarity Here. I'd have gone quite mad these past months without 🩵🦋 Thankful to @jay.bsky.team 💙🩵💙
Then you haven't been paying attention, nor have you ever spent time working in a large Corporate environment.
Skyscrapers are filled from top to bottom with cowards & frauds.
I don't disagree that there aren't disaffected people. But there are lots of us doing things. I don't know if the rest of the world can see it. There's protests everyday. Calls to congress. I have a sign my front door to alert the neighborhood that shit is crazy. Congress could end this. 🤷
Don't say "It's already too late". You don't know that for sure. And even if you did, how can we muster that last bit of courage with THAT thought in our heads?
If you want to start making a change, help immigrants DIRECTLY I desperately need help for survival. I cannot survive without. Please if you have any means to support
I include Black women when I say Black people…but I get your point…white women have had their share of marginalization under white supremacy culture, while also benefiting greatly.
You’ll always have white privilege though; we’re on the same page to a certain extent but don’t tell a Black woman you haven’t benefited from being a white woman. I agree that our definition of ‘greatly’ differs-you may not see it as ‘greatly’ but from the lens of a Black woman, you have.
And I have history on my side. You don’t have to get defensive - I know life as an elderly white woman in America isn’t what it’s cracked up to be; again I’m an historian. But going back & forth with a Black woman doesn’t help you bc our lived experiences are totally different.
53% of white women voted for Trump meaning they are fine with this including being second class citizens long as minorities and other "undesirables" are lower or kicked out.
It's amazing isn't it? So many people and institutions
folding to the intimidation and bullying. I had a naive assumption that there were guard rails in place within organisations. That the policies and governing principles would be of some protection. They turned out to be the thinnest veneer.
THIS. I've been saying this to my family since drumpf 1.0. Cowardice is such a disgusting character trait and it's so disappointing to find so many ppl afflicted with it.
I mean. It's all of us. We're willing accomplices to all of this unless we do everything in our power to prevent it. But the consequences for doing so are way too much to stomach.
I'm ready whenever you are! I'm hoping for a civil war. I'm hoping there's so much pain that people will actually get mad enough to take a stand and do something.
Hero of the year so far is Luigi
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die
Let me know when it's time to go. I'm ready! Over it
Majority are driven by selfishness. We have long ago abandoned the spirit of communalism. This society is a consumer society. We are not only devouring the capitalist goods. We are also living their greed.
I thought people would stand up for our country and call out the illegal behaviors but GOP proved me wrong during Trump 1.0. Now? They double-down in their race to please the Felon-in-Chief.
Kinda outstanding, isn't it. All those big assholes roaming the high school halls bragging how they are going to 'fuck things up!' turned out to actually be a bunch of groveling little weenies.
Most people are only brave when other choices have exhausted themselves. When the cost of doing nothing is no longer available to them.
When people have choices, most look away from trouble happening to others like a contagious disease they might catch.
To stick one's neck out for others is rare.
Watch how many people will tell punch-down jokes and how many others laugh at that or don’t openly reject it and you will see clearly how many cowards you are surrounded by.
Look, here's what we do. Continue the boycott. Continue the protests. Continue to call your reps. Continue town halls. Do it until there is a critical mass of anger and the tide turns. Tend to your responsibilities. Most can't do more, and it's not the time for that just now. Stick together.
I’m going to continue to call my representatives but it feels so pointless when Schumer is that guy and he decided to screw us all. At least Mannion seems to try.
Believing in our own myths probably made Americans too complacent. I think MANY are now realizing that the "guardrails" of our Democracy were far too flimsy. BUT: I think our courage is on the rise now & all it took was a couple of fucking lunatics destroying our democracy to push us to the edge.
That’s it exactly. I’m not sure anyone really realizes the depth of the programming we’re subjected to. For example, the media is not reporting ANY of the rallies or protests or even townhalls happening.
Everytime I read about another institution caving to anti-equality that trump never mentioned, I'm struck by how many institutions wanted an excuse to return to bigotry!
Because he literally does it on a show every week on CNN…speaking truth to power AND making us laugh, and in that, informing millions of viewers on what’s happening…I’d say that’s pretty powerful protest.
Have you seen how much Trump hates CNN? Everyone is at risk of being disappeared, honey, Trump is a vengeance king who thinks he’s on a mob reality show and idolizes Putin FFS. Protesting is important. So is speaking truth to power on a tv show.
Well, good for you. In my view, every bit of resistance counts, esp if it’s on a cable news channel and can reach more people. And protestors don’t shame other protestors (esp when that protestor has millions more viewers than you, so is spreading the message much farther than your car sign 😉).
Protesting every weekend at my local Federal Building, working for low wages in a NPO serving needy elders, and calling my reps and sens every day, pretty much.
The fact that he won even in 2016 should have been all the proof you need that most people in America are not good. None of this should be surprising at this point. Horrifying, but by no means surprising.
WE ARE. Even maga is cowardly. They act tough. But they, too, are soft. None of are going to do a damn thing. At some point ppl will ask any survivors what did you do when the regime came after…and will say we say we did NOTHING
Michael, I am so disgusted that Amber lost the WHPC hosting gig. Cowards. I look forward to laughing along with the two of you each weekend. Thanks to both of you.
I was right in 2019 to think what was coming was too big to normalize. Haven’t spoke to anyone in my family since. I survived and I will die without guilt, they may not.
I don't like to hear that, but I completely understand. I'm proud of you. We got to stand up to tyranny.
I have family, I haven't spoken to since 2015. I stand up for Democratic values and principles. 🤷♂️
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Even Jesus knew that.
No asshole, you didn't think.
Bad people hide their true faces because they know how awful they are
I’m still processing that so many people I know would have turned in Anne Frank.
It’s a brutal time.
It's a very revealing time - depressingly so.
... and that money for some is
as bad a disease as alcoholism.
I guess I was too busy being jealous. I've never saw it for the sickness it can be.
Eyes wide open now.
Men always punch down.
Driving though Long Island I didn’t know how many morons lived there. Like not your normal moron… like not be ashamed you kiss your sister dumb. Was an eye opener for me when I realized this.
Under Obama and Biden you were admired
The blinders the average lib has on is HILARIOUS to us outside your sphere of nonsense.
The USA has been the fascist world police bully for the entire 20 years I've paid attention to geopolitics.
Funny in a way, but it fucking sucks having to live in it.
Rich, white dudes who didn't want to pay taxes.... and we're fine owning people. Yuck.
thats why its been so amusing watching so many white Americans freak out over the consequences of the choices they been making since 2016
no lessons were ever learned.
For instance, I could never purchase a prostitute, not because of the money, but because it seemed cold and emotionally lacking. Something about love that attracts me.
I’ve been calling it…
Temporary
American
Comfort
For years
Back in the bad place
🦋🩵🎩🔥
You were just too hopeful to admit it!! Sorry, baby!
“We’re getting ready to jackrabbit our hind legs into the belly of this predator much bigger than us, with its much bigger jaws, and it's much bigger talons, and much, much bigger guns”
https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/cold-open?r=fd4u4
That’s not to say there were not ‘bad guys’ out there. But iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
Democracy is a story they tell to keep you docile.
Remember, people. Jesus' Magic Daddy loves embryos much more than the good women that carry them...
Don't abort America's errr. I mean "God's" future "Christian Soldiers". They're impressionable!
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/03/reading-romans-on-ice-american.html
It's our "duty" to overthrow a corrupt government, but somehow also our duty to obey that government or be labeled a traitor and a terrorist.
What happened to country before party?!
✅😡
Comedians tend to have the pulse of the zeitgeist.
Honestly, you fuckers should be whoring yourselves out as speech writers. Especially to these little bitches running the senate.
Where’s the Al Franken Bat signal? If not. You’ll do. 😉
The same people that needed to hear what Amber had to say, are the cowards who refuse to hear it...
That's viable.
They seemed to know. Maybe we should start paying attention to them since their judgement remains sound?
There is a reason why the people that fought the Nazis were basically assholes- they had a moral core and did not care what society thought.
1000 watts of silence...
Those going publicly against the administration, those with a lot to lose, they are the best of the best, and will not be forgotten.
Skyscrapers are filled from top to bottom with cowards & frauds.
https://bsky.app/profile/illegalbussy.bsky.social/post/3lked6c2lyk2f
Some did, I’m sure.
Tell our girl we still look forward to seeing her on HIGNFY.
Love ya'll.
folding to the intimidation and bullying. I had a naive assumption that there were guard rails in place within organisations. That the policies and governing principles would be of some protection. They turned out to be the thinnest veneer.
This is not the “greatest Generation”. It’s the dumbest
Hero of the year so far is Luigi
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die
Let me know when it's time to go. I'm ready! Over it
When people have choices, most look away from trouble happening to others like a contagious disease they might catch.
To stick one's neck out for others is rare.
That's what I've been doing every 2 days
It would be such and easy gesture to show they give a fuck and won't let "norms" kill us all
I tell them that too
And if they don't listen then I really am done
Everytime I read about another institution caving to anti-equality that trump never mentioned, I'm struck by how many institutions wanted an excuse to return to bigotry!
Pathetic.
WE ARE. Even maga is cowardly. They act tough. But they, too, are soft. None of are going to do a damn thing. At some point ppl will ask any survivors what did you do when the regime came after…and will say we say we did NOTHING
I have family, I haven't spoken to since 2015. I stand up for Democratic values and principles. 🤷♂️
I actually don’t drink beer, it just made me think of that. I’ll shut up now.
Pbs kids?