man I'm sorry I'm trying to keep a lid on this particular observation bc we all know it and it's not helpful but we are so fucked - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

tomtomorrow.bsky.social • 103 days ago

man I'm sorry I'm trying to keep a lid on this particular observation bc we all know it and it's not helpful but

we are so fucked

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rebeccafachner.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yeah it’s really bad. Hopefully someone can talk him out of this 25% tariff idea

rebeccaore.bsky.social•103 days ago

Your US food prices are high than British food prices.

jaygold.bsky.social•103 days ago

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well-expressed

russ741.bsky.social•103 days ago

We've gotta show up for each other anyways; we're all we've got.

wolfenred.bsky.social•103 days ago

Companies are going to prepare as if it (tariffs, and whatever else) will happen.

pjmadison.bsky.social•103 days ago

This is what the electorate wants, so whatever.

badmystic.bsky.social•103 days ago

Indeed...

3hairymutts.bsky.social•103 days ago

I keep thinking the same thing

doughtywench.bsky.social•103 days ago

Trying to move abroad, but I keep hitting roadblocks. Hard to get insurance, and FBI can't read my fingerprints for the background check. 20 years of knitting have rendered my fingertips as smooth as my earlobes.

joshdobbin.bsky.social•103 days ago

It's gonna get so bad so quick

zogren.bsky.social•103 days ago

Only if we let it... his policies have to get carried out by people in this country and while half the population may claim to support him, most do not support any specific policy. Resistance wont be hard if we all stop acting scared and defeatist

joshdobbin.bsky.social•103 days ago

I'm not "scared," so much as clear-eyed about what power they're gonna wield & abuse. I'd GLADLY do something that would put me in jail forever if it had a reasonable chance of changing the course of the world. I don't want to "resist" when we need to *defeat.*

joshdobbin.bsky.social•103 days ago

But that said, they're gonna be rolling out militarized agents they *make* legal and dragging people out of their homes, shortly after assuming power. Families are gonna be broken up. I'm past sadness or outrage. It's a cold, ugly anger from here on out.

zogren.bsky.social•103 days ago

They will try but they wont have any more people to do that for them than usual and if localities resist because they are over-reaching it will be easier to stop then than usual as well

arkenor.bsky.social•103 days ago

Speak your truth. The thing that ticks me off at the moment is all the people demanding that everyone share their precise level of anxiety at that moment, even though everyone has different life experiences, psychology, and risk.

mep.bsky.social•103 days ago

Bracing for impact.

isthisrob.bsky.social•103 days ago

Nasty, brutish and short incoming.

gingerbarber.bsky.social•103 days ago

Only if we sit down and take it.

mattmiller.bsky.social•103 days ago

is it bad that i'm hanging my hopes on us being fucked so fast and hard that the backlash avoids longer term fucking

zigzaggin.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yeah, this is the horrible thought I cling to often while fully acknowledging it's horribleness.

tomtomorrow.bsky.social•103 days ago

and not in the fun way

dlitt.bsky.social•103 days ago

Without a kiss, if you will.

jw862000.bsky.social•103 days ago

Tom, if you want to talk to someone, let me know. Not a stalker, I promise. Just a guy who feels it too.

jw862000.bsky.social•103 days ago

Of course we are... in the short run. Of course, in the long run, we're all dead, so there's that.

fakedispatch.bsky.social•103 days ago

Good news is that we are all fucked together. Usually people get screwed alone.

baphometta.bsky.social•103 days ago

Sure, but now we get to find out *how* fucked! Could be jackboots in the streets and red-hatted gestapo on our doorsteps by June, could just be four years of narcissistic shitbags squabbling ove power while the economy goes in the toilet and disease runs rampant, can't wait to see what we get!

baphometta.bsky.social•103 days ago

And let's not forget the Wild Card: Emperor Jesus Trump could easily drop dead at any moment, too 🎉

spacely.bsky.social•103 days ago

What might have been... Maybe the emperor will pay another visit at a more favorable juncture.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-starship-crash-19870994.php

blaketopia.bsky.social•103 days ago

Samsies.

dudesomewhere.bsky.social•103 days ago

I'm planning to keep completely blitzed. WFH rocks! :

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michaelcrawford.com•103 days ago

Yeah it's ... not great.

rhymeswithjello.bsky.social•103 days ago

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journeyamerican.bsky.social•103 days ago

You are right.

attorney-di.bsky.social•103 days ago

I did NOT give consent for that!

vladadog.bsky.social•103 days ago

A constant reminder taped to my desk

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tomtomorrow.bsky.social•103 days ago

updated that one this week!

vladadog.bsky.social•103 days ago

“Looking forward to it” seems like the very wrong thing to say. But this hand basket just keeps on going…

raptorizedira.bsky.social•103 days ago

I have posted this far too many times in the last month:

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brianpace.bsky.social•103 days ago

Tom, you're great, and it's natural to feel that way about now if your noggin is screwed on correctly. However, the uncertainty of tomorrow is just as true when good things happen as it is when bad things happen today. Keep the faith, baby. https://apnews.com/article/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-indictment-0d62fe0a7399483aee48cf3c845560ea

neilpolowin.bsky.social•103 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/neilpolowin.bsky.social/post/3lbq7mrqnak2b

countverbula.bsky.social•103 days ago

So, so, so very.

dkimmel.bsky.social•103 days ago

The next two years are going to be a horrorshow, no question. But the pendulum will swing back as the MAGAts overreach -- as they're already doing -- and the results can't be ignored by even the low information voters.

rebeccaore.bsky.social•103 days ago

And Mexico is so not fucked. Highly recommend subscribing to MexFiles. The US is occupying half of Mexico and and should allow the people in Occupied Mexico to have better power, better leadership, and less anti-intellectualism and more respect for the arts.