This period feels like we know a hurricane is coming. We know it's going to be catastrophic and kill a lot of people. We have months to do something. And the consensus is there's nothing that can be done. Especially cancelling any holiday plans.
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It's not that nothing at all can ever be done.
But there are big limits to what you can do once the voters have voted fascist criminal insurrectionist into power.
For next election, easier thing to do is to counteract the propaganda lies that get them elected.
I had someone tell me today “they’re taking a break from politics”. Someone on Social Security and Medicare. With children and grandchildren who have benefitted from the ACA. With a SIL who is a federal employee.
Just like when I took my kids to see the first Sonic in the theater in 2020, I'm telling my family to enjoy these last days of normal for a while. Last normal Thanksgiving, last normal Christmas, last normal New Years. Strengthen those bonds and memories now. We will need them in what's to come.
The Project 2025 goons at Heritage and The Federalist Society have taken the rails off of our institutions that existed in 2020.
They are high on their own supply & forgot Trump isn't some next genius but rather the ex-host of The Celebrity Apprentice who wants The Hamburglar as head of the DOJ.
Post Jan 2020 we have a few months, tops, until President Chaos impacts not just the most vulnerable, but even Americans who thought they were not going to be impacted.
Then, the tiniest pushback from his former lickspittles creates new enemies and schisms. And getting things done gets hard.
For me, it feels more like I know the hurricane is coming but don't have a car or money to evacuate (flee the country), so I'm just hunkering down as best I can.
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And some would rightly be considered treasonous.
But there are big limits to what you can do once the voters have voted fascist criminal insurrectionist into power.
For next election, easier thing to do is to counteract the propaganda lies that get them elected.
https://upine.medium.com/time-to-solve-our-propaganda-problems-like-the-military-does-e97eda71ba7b
They are high on their own supply & forgot Trump isn't some next genius but rather the ex-host of The Celebrity Apprentice who wants The Hamburglar as head of the DOJ.
Then, the tiniest pushback from his former lickspittles creates new enemies and schisms. And getting things done gets hard.