It should be no shock that it’s happening. They literally published their plan and are following it exactly. The only thing that’s surprising people, I think, is that Trump’s 1st admin was fouled up by his incompetence; now he’s so old and senile that he’s just signing everything in front of him.
But I refuse to play into a “blindsided” narrative. We’ve been SCREAMING for YEARS that they ever got a second term chance to learn from their first term mistakes, it’s lights out for America — and we got called delusional hysterics.
Trump’s 1st cabinet was career professionals. 2nd is all cronies.
Alright. I agree. But you are not screaming at me. At least, I hope to hell you’re not, because you are not describing me and if you did that in person, I’d have a problem with it.
oh no I’m angrily agreeing with you (“angrily” = 100% anti-nazi anger).
i’ve said it in person. I have so many receipts from pre-election chats where I said what would happen if we lost and was told I’m stupid, it can’t get worse than Biden, both parties are the same.
Yeah. that’s true. I think a lot of people got so used to Trump not following through on his promises and being backstopped by (for example) a secretary of defense who was a general, not a drunk fox news host, as well as a bunch of idiots — but now some very smart Nazis are pulling the strings.
I've been reading Hitler's First Hundred Days (good book so far) and I assumed that if things got very bad it'd take longer than that given our institutional inertia.
I really didn't think we'd be where we are now before my kids' spring break.
the difference this time is that last time, there wasn’t a published, multi-hundred-page project 2025 day 1 gameplan (they didn’t have a plan at all, they didn’t expect to win) — and this time, trump is too old and senile for his narcissism to affect decisions.
last time, ironically, the daily whims of Trump prevented the worst of the evil from sticking. this time he’s too washed to have any control.
last time, trump watching fox news was running 98% of his policy; now, trump watching fox news is our only defense against far worse anti-american actors.
I almost can’t believe I’m saying this, but imo what the Project 2025 (russian asset) engineers want is beyond even Murdoch or Dick Cheney’s views.
The difference between project 2025 and Murdoch / Cheney is that they both still believed in America. They would NEVER defund the DOD or give up power.
I had the tempo right but some of the substance wrong. My biggest miss was that I didn't foresee Musk playing such a significant role, particularly in the early days. But with Project 2025 and their purge lists, I thought they were going to hit the ground running.
The most you could say going into this term is that the guardrails will be off, and it could be bad in unexpected ways. I didn’t know everything he’d do. And I expected to be surprised by how bad it would be.
some of the stuff I thought less likely hasn't happened, so far as we know, and I really hope it never does. it has become likelier since I said it though.
Same. I posted this the day of the inauguration worrying about elections and healthcare. I did not have "should I be concerned that federal agents might ship me to a Salvadorian prison without a hearing" on my bingo card.
I know I've lost friends and supporters by what I've said and done the past couple of months. Honestly, my biggest concern at this point is not having said or done enough. Look the fuck around.
I just want to be able to live in a free and fair society where all humans are created equal and are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights, and are actually treated like it thanks
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Trump’s 1st cabinet was career professionals. 2nd is all cronies.
i’ve said it in person. I have so many receipts from pre-election chats where I said what would happen if we lost and was told I’m stupid, it can’t get worse than Biden, both parties are the same.
and now it might be too late.
I really didn't think we'd be where we are now before my kids' spring break.
Just noting it's worse than I expected faster than I expected.
he has no idea what he’s signing.
last time, trump watching fox news was running 98% of his policy; now, trump watching fox news is our only defense against far worse anti-american actors.
The difference between project 2025 and Murdoch / Cheney is that they both still believed in America. They would NEVER defund the DOD or give up power.
And people who have been dealing with discrimination, abuse of power, and oppression in violation of the law all their lives are not surprised.
This is only new to people who haven't experienced it.
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