I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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Name one idea(logy) or religion that did not get corrupted by this life-style called "civilization".
I also think ppl think the Very Bad stuff happens all at once and not slowly over time.
It’s gonna get really real.
It was transgenic mice.
Respect. 🫶
There is no reason we should have to work so hard. Did our ancestors? Maybe some…those that were serfs or slaves…but before that?
We certainly have enough food and resources as a society…so…why…? Hmmmm…. 🧐
But a lot of Maga are seen in expensive vehicles, sending $$$ to Trump or purchasing all his crap and cons...
So these people are actually INVESTED in this...
The reason social networks like Twitter and TikTok are captured is because they make mutual education accessible to busy people.
I do the work. I dont doomscroll. Its a significant amount of time. The only reason I have the time is my good fortune in business.
An increase in groceries and common goods is something we're already used to at this point.
I don't know what our docile as fuck citizenry's tipping point is but, it's not the criminal levels of corruption in effect.
But, what are we to do? @chrislhayes.bsky.social
You want us to boycott our one Walmart that is our food in our area? Storm the capital, die in the streets marching, go to jail? While millionaires can moan, report on our losses, but lose and do nothing?
Some light reading for you
As soon as riots break out, yall are going to throw us under the bus and pretend like we're the bad guys for raising heck since the Republicans and yall in the media are bending over backwards to not get on Trump's bad side.
https://bsky.app/profile/joocifer.bsky.social/post/3lgdirswnf22p
Trump's just waiting for a protest to get out of hand so he can declare a state of emergency, invoke martial law, & suspend elections.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250204131222/https://devpost.com/software/ballotproof-vision
Never let the media say they can’t take on a president:
https://bsky.app/profile/dawningawake.bsky.social/post/3liuitqoqwc2q
JFK and LBJ were liberals for chrissakes. 😁
I don't watch daytime.
Jones ❤️💙
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/rashida-jones-msnbc-rebecca-kutler/
The OWNER of MSNBC is Comcast. The fascists are attacking Comcast. Comcast is trying to spin off MSNBC.
Don't blame MSNBC. If it dies, freedom dies. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-brian-roberts-msnbc-lineup-1236145334/
Biden admitted it.
Nobody asked him how he plans to enforce MAKING people buy things
They just report it as if it isn’t the dumbest nonsense anyone has ever uttered
they give utterly horrible people a platform of information and lie under the guise of equal access
You people are so out of touch,thinking everyone work 9-5 Monday to Friday.
Early January, my own financial advisor was happy Trump was elected, "he'll be good for the markets", but I told him of Trump's plans to destroy the economy and rip out social services and he was shocked but mostly "wait and see".
I chatted about a week ago and he was more awake but this was before the markets started tanking. I wonder what he thinks now.
I don't think Trump can undo his damage to investment optimism. I expect many companies to shift locations elsewhere over the next year or so, or at least halt investment in US operations.
On the side, I'm coding automated trading of Nasdaq futures on the Chicago (CME) exchange. 1/2
Still tweaking and testing, difficult these days, fingers crossed. 2/2
A "government salary" for a regular Civil Service employee is pittance compared to elected officials, which is tiny pennies compared to CEOs and corporate executives who aren't accountable to the entire country.
MSM IS NOT COVERING TRUMP'S ACTIONS.
It seems they will only understand when a "pause" in SSI and MEDICARE benefits affects them.
I hear so many people in Europe, Canada, Mexico
just totally flummoxed, wondering why the hell there aren’t millions of us in the streets every day .
Also, one of these days they are gonna turn the military on the people. Many will probably die protesting. The risks to protest like that are very high,. It is just a question of when and where it will be that it happens.
I’m elderly and in poor health, so I absolutely cannot do it—I’m making calls & writing letters.
But when I was young & in good health, I considered it my JOB to go out & march for things that mattered.
The majority still voted for him. We don't count in elections all the people who don't vote. That isn't how the system works.
Even if you do go march, between Google his supporter hiding video of protest and the media not
People throughout the world are shocked—and pissed—at how little resistance this regime is getting.
Protests in Berlin are 10
times what we have.
This is the level of intensity the situation merits.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2VBQsL8/
I’m just thinking back on the 60s and the way the rest of the world took inspiration from us.
Up until Bush v Gore I still had the sense that we were admired for the way we made things happen.
The came W
Had we gotten up one morning to this horror it would have been so galling that we would be far more angrier and outraged.
What I'm shocked about is the ignoring of very clear, easily comprehensive warnings that were and are ignored.
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The maga grifters have figured this out. They have disaggregated and proliferated their loyal messengers. You can try to shut down Joe Rogan but there are hundreds of bro rogans that will take his place.
Prior we at least had WAPO and the NYT to balance FOX propaganda.
They’re dead.
Critical thinking is dead and people need to be told what to think. Fox is filling the gap.
Nazi Trio
***social media plan***
1) make people stop watching CNN
2) Demonize watching news (AP, NBC, CBS)
3) make people attack hakeem jefferies, adam shiff, chuck schumer, liz cheney
4) *turn democratic anger inward towards itself*
5) discredit demonize destroy civil rights
The median voter is stupid.
I’ll Find reassurance. I find myself freaking out and I am ALONE. My coworkers just going along. They do not want to hear it.
It's all the new opiate of the people. It will all be fine, right?
My spouse was totally oblivious to the marches everywhere last Friday an all week really.
Small towns and small businesses don’t have these restrictions.
They need to understand that this is thuggery, it's beneath you, it's embarrassing, and that they need to fear the people they represent more than Trump.
Go to your local town hall, your state assembly, your community centre. No one else is going to do it if you won't.
Just like African countries for the past century.
Well done America.
We need to start making their campaign donors uncomfortable too.
Musk-Putin-Trumps
***social media plan***
1) make people stop watching CNN
2) Demonize watching news (AP, NBC, CBS)
3) make people attack hakeem jefferies, adam shiff, chuck schumer, liz cheney
4) *turn democratic anger inward towards itself*
5) discredit demonize destroy civil rights
They don’t believe in facts because all they do is watch Fox News.
@schiff.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t debate and have a civil discourse.
I’m saying to be hyper aware of these
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Elon Musk robots and Russian propaganda turning our anger against one another ⚠️⚠️
EXAMPLES:
So many will check their accounts on social security day and it won't be there. You wanted a corrupt felon you got it. They forgot about that promise he gave them.
Chris, you’re NOT naive. The media’s silence lets corruption thrive! Have we really sunk so low that voters just accept it? Or are we too numb to care? DEMAND ANSWERS! Corruption isn’t normal – it’s a crisis! 👊🔥
Remember how they spent around 5 years on Hillary & Benghazi?
Or they'll talk about 1 immigrant who murders someone in Podunk, NV for 3 days.
I agree with @stephruhle.bsky.social in that I think fox are struggling with their presentation & content. It's getting more difficult for them so they are covering less & less material & more often becoming irrelevant. The maga base is stupid
Plus when the corruption is in the open, people assume it can't be criminal. Assuming no one would admit in public, so it must be legal.
Everyone likes to pretend there is no such thing, but everyone is at it.
Or at least stop whining about MAGA family members. That’s the kind of toxic virtue signaling that created this mess. Be the grownup.
They may like the current dictator *now.* That won't last.
Meanwhile our democracy is DYING & our govt is up for sale to Russian oligarchs & crypto tech bros. Fight FOR RULE OF LAW!
@indivisible.org
@5calls.org
It’s up to us. Don’t wait!
I call and call GOP MOCs. NONE called back
I bet some dems will even vote for the Budget, killing our democracy.
If WE want coverage, WE have to show up in huge numbers. AND STAY! Don't leave. Bring tents and bags. Til sanity is back.
/reading the right pundits.
Check out Pod Save America/Pod Save the World, Heather Cox Richardson, read Daily Kos articles, Reddit.
It’s all out there if you PAY ATTENTION.
Things are never bad when bad people we know are bad are voted into power.
It's only bad when "good" (follow rules and such) people are in power and let us down. Apparently.
Mainstream media is really concentrating on other stuff.
I know of a MAGA who is celebrating the low mortgage rates cause now her daughter can buy a house...
Bezos just handed him another financial gift yesterday with the Apprentice streaming — and none of the stories even probed for how much the sitting president stands to gain financially from what is clearly the latest in a long list of bribes.
Thing is though, there are all kinds of protests going on right now. Big ones. In every fucking state. Recieving near zero coverage.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Tf3mryXFYwE?si=C56yBimlnZ2ObGhz