Sometimes I am struck quite forcefully by how Trump’s greatest weapon is us: our collective ignorance, indifference, laziness, quickness to anger, willingness to cede reason to a strongman, willingness to believe the worst of the Other. We are his terrible swift sword. - ThreadSky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Sometimes I am struck quite forcefully by how Trump’s greatest weapon is us: our collective ignorance, indifference, laziness, quickness to anger, willingness to cede reason to a strongman, willingness to believe the worst of the Other. We are his terrible swift sword.

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for 35 years. You gotta trust Donald Trump in the White House ... it's broken. Let him fix it ... Let Donald Trump fix the American economy."

Comments

curulogic.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s fixed us real good.

rlush.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Unfortunately you’re all finding out what the world has seen for years. Americans are ignorant and arrogant and you reap what you sow.

oeishik.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's why at this time we must show unity. Find common ground instead of look for differences. The time is now to take Donald's power away. https://youtu.be/8LRobl2l8ZI

swimman79.bsky.social•1 day ago

And I am struck by how those of us that were like "this dude is FUCKED UP and EVIL, this will not end well" from like day 1 were dismissed as overreactive shrills all along.

mfvandaele.bsky.social•1 day ago

The world economy is tanking and KKKaroline is basically giving "thoughts and prayers" 🙄

chooface.bsky.social•1 day ago

conold added 7.2 trillion to deficit with tax cuts to the wealthiest, his current 3-month occupation of the white house has already cost taxpayers ~$30 million for WEEKLY golf trips -
and the "stable genius" has BANKRUPTED a fukkin' CASINO.

yeah- he knows what he's doing . . . MY ASS

#groceries

embeebalm.bsky.social•1 day ago

No thanks! He’s an idiot who won’t take advice.

arlenetrebbefowler.bsky.social•1 day ago

The cruelty he exudes washes over his minions like a disease.

dbelisle61.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lutnick is a lugnut.

dbelisle61.bsky.social•1 day ago

The US economy is not broken. It was on the cover of the Economist as "the envy of the world."

nomadicbelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mr. Hat,
Is this list accurate-of law firms complying in advance with Trump? Prepped by G-town law students h/t @heidilifeldman.bsky.social
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J_bcoMqt46L05As7GN4ZqH4j6XKeI-Dm4ytJPRFtrwo/htmlview#gid=287708862

bankrobba.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same thoughts, the amount of ignorance in our country is staggering and worrisome.

yourgracefan25.bsky.social•1 day ago

Markets biggest losses since 2020. Remind me again who the president was? #TheOpposition

hkfinan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, he’s used all the well-intended parts of our constitution and norms against us and not enough ppl have objected to that.

barely-sane.bsky.social•1 day ago

These guys know how to sell. When lying, lie big. Over and over, emphatically. Talk over the interviewer. Bing, bang, boom.
Sickening but effective.

mike.thinkersec.com•1 day ago

That plus Trump's commitment to constantly creating controversies, so that you forget the illegal and immoral and idiotic stuff he did last week because there's so much new material this week.

manhasnoname.bsky.social•1 day ago

The middle of the country is closer to the 19th century than the 21st.

Spent half my life in each. Coastal folks really don’t understand the scope.

meronym6.bsky.social•1 day ago

A nation of ferocious freedom lovers would have jailed/hanged his orange ass already.

mypapermoon.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've been talking about stuff for 35 years too. Talking is not doing. We let him do this. We should know better. If you voted for him, this is what you get.

nhl88.bsky.social•1 day ago

We should go ahead and just replace E Pluribus Unum with “Well who the fuck are you? You think you’re better than me?” since that’s who we are at our core

sunnyjim.bsky.social•1 day ago

He wields his weapon like a samurai, slicing through enemies and logic

therealnighe.bsky.social•1 day ago

This has Kramer 2008 mad money vibes.

simone717.bsky.social•1 day ago

No. He bankrupts everything and lies.

michexposures.bsky.social•1 day ago

What is Nutlick prattling on about now?

nobodyowens1.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Let Donald Trump fix it?"

What has Trump ever fixed? Everything he touches crumbles. His track record as president and as a businessman is abysmally. Anyone who has ever heard him speak knows he's an ignorant fool

donnadaniel.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only good thing he did was COVID vaccines and he rejects those (for others)

coolxenu.bsky.social•1 day ago

FFS, he had zero to do with that. The orange filth has zero redeeming qualities and has never done anything that benefits someone other than himself and his wealthy political owners.

/true fact

#America

morrisnormal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump invented the vaccine like how I invented the Playstation 2

steelabjur.bsky.social•1 day ago

He literally just dumped money into big pharma who was already racing to create a COVID vaccine because they wanted the money they'd get for creating it. All it was for them was a free payday.

aseriouscanadian.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those that cared, saw the devastating potential of another MAGA presidency and were dismissed by the media that had the power to inform/warn the masses.

solvseus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Narrator: but you do not, in fact, have to trust the nepobaby who bankrupted casinos.

aposthumousmemoir.bsky.social•1 day ago

By "us" you're including that schmuck Schumer, right?

timharbert.bsky.social•1 day ago

we know 47s history. he is going to bankrupt us all and default on US debt.

dougwar40k.bsky.social•1 day ago

"The president is not 'explosively incontinent'; he has simply 'loosed the fateful lightning'. Now please make room for the janitorial crew. This press conference is over."

webrant.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fascism's core is cognitive authoritarianism. Also known as the "strict father model", it relies on a continuum of abuse which diminishes the normal human societal building traits of empathy and compassion. Allowing for their minority control.

https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3llwb243pl22m

soozeq.bsky.social•1 day ago

So true.

Will this wake us up?

Will the GOP-controlled Congress choose US over billionaire donors?

policyjosh.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

tarhoosier.bsky.social•1 day ago

don’t gotta do no such thing

bluefrommagioh.bsky.social•1 day ago

he's been talking for 35 years about a concept of a plan.
it took him about 3 minutes to prepare this disastrous plan.

satanlaughing.com•16 hours ago

This is all on us... We left the borders open. We smiled at a $2T deficit. We did this, we are the disease, he is the symptom...

wkcxu39.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Good diagnosis. Not that you're actually a disease, but just in the metaphorical sense that you said it

wkcxu39.bsky.social•14 hours ago

But, based on that diagnosis, I think you might not be the problem necessarily.

wkcxu39.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The problem is the left just doing TDS and crying about the far right nazis and just trying to force as reality that they're far left madness wasn't that, instead of worrying about their own party kind of like how the right did with Trump and MAGA.

wkcxu39.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Not that MAGA isn't the same way about the left, but they at the same time are the same way about the old right that they are taking over

wkcxu39.bsky.social•14 hours ago

You can cry Nazi and Hitler all you want and try to pretend we are the crazy radicals, but when you allow your party to be such crazy radicals how is that going to work?

wkcxu39.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Especially when we are radical nationalists and y'all are radical globalists. When one is just using TDS and abortion, the other can pretty easily use nationalism to appeal (especially after 4 years of globalist government)

wcgrumpystump.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have tried to ignore him ever since Robin Leach tried to make his brand seem appealing. He was an idjit in the eighties and has only gotten worse with dementia and spray coatings

bayareajim.bsky.social•1 day ago

The man ran a casino into the ground, declared bankruptcy 6 times, and has had his business convicted of tax fraud. Yes...let's go with THAT guy.

oltmannd.bsky.social•1 day ago

The guy who took paid money for a money losing Eastern Airline Shuttle, renamed it, put in gold bathroom fixtures...changed nothing else...

And bankrupted it short order.

That guy?

dagies.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wisdom

scoundrel2.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯

thisuserisdumb.bsky.social•1 day ago

It appears the Trump White House is being run by some very unserious people who just seem to be winging it. This is how the rest of the world views the US right now:

dcslider.bsky.social•1 day ago

booond.bsky.social•1 day ago

I want to punch my laptop. Why is he on CNN and why hasn't she slapped his face for every lie?

rocketsfriends.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/rocketsfriends.bsky.social/post/3llwb57rcxc2a

karpouzisporo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah.

Sigh

jfkliev.bsky.social•1 day ago

How are Cantor Fitzgerald clients feeling about this

kingedawg.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's American competitiveness. If Trump understands anything, it's that if you can get Americans to compete for something, you can get them to do anything. Millions of trump voters are about to get fucked and still all they can think is "we won"

deetm2632.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let’s repeat : He Has Filled Bankruptcy 6 Times

bill88.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes we should trust him because of his wildly successful businesses…WAFJoke!

wme1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are you sure his name is Lutnick, not Lunatic? I mean, that would explain a lot.

andrewctenor.bsky.social•1 day ago

Terrible, at any rate

gmaterry.bsky.social•1 day ago

👿🎪is getting crazier 🤪

lastangryclown.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I’ve been talking about RB Angle for 35 years. Doesn’t mean the Titans should start me at QB.

williamthecat.bsky.social•1 day ago

The World did not put Donald Trump in the white house.

williamthecat.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is what happens when you minimize the extreme complexity of global trade structures and tell people that we should " just use common sense" .

werefucked.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am not surprised.

Try being a woman anywhere in the world.

Women are the footstools of our tribes.

swmseattle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Terrible slow, rusty and dull sword.

loisjh5353.bsky.social•1 day ago

This lugnut is the secretary of commerce and he wants us to blindly believe in a man who busts unions, repeatedly gone bankrupt and stiffs his employees and contractors to get ahead to “fix” this

laurentguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lutnick misunderstands American values if he thinks we are about to follow some sort of demented cult figure.

old-tired.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lutnick is a speecial kind of stupid.

havlentia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Global or American? Pick one Howard, we'll be at war soon.

bigballbaron.bsky.social•1 day ago

This sword is dull and double edged homeslice. We need a hero!

penny4it.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a joke.

baztales.bsky.social•1 day ago

This isn't cynicism. In the 1800s, it may have been fair to call religion the opiate of the masses, but whether the modern equivalent is the internet, mass entertainment, or any other distraction, the fact of the matter is we are benumbed.

We should be rioting in the streets, and we are not.

zeeroth.bsky.social•1 day ago

I skimmed That Other Place today and saw the following cluelessness:

"relax, the market will adjust"
"buy the dip!"
"finally! this'll be great for Made in America"

And of course: "cry harder, libs 😂"

Ignorance is too kind a word...

lawzag.bsky.social•1 day ago

Our chief weapon is collective ignorance... collective ignorance and indifference... Our two weapons are collective ignorance and indifference... and laziness.... Our three weapons no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as indifference... I'll come in again.

gravelismylife.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have you got all the stuffing up one end?

billjacoby1.bsky.social•1 day ago

She must be made of stronger stuff

dribrats.bsky.social•1 day ago

by the time we get to the nice red uniforms, we will no longer be able to afford them

pjsadie.bsky.social•1 day ago

😂 👏👏👏

theboxenking.bsky.social•1 day ago

"...and an almost fanatical devotion to the president..."

jacksonharris.bsky.social•1 day ago

I didn't expect an American self-immolation

novavogon.bsky.social•1 day ago

drmattyg.com•1 day ago

And nice red ties

behan.bsky.social•1 day ago

I read this in Michael Palin's voice.

shonanchris.bsky.social•1 day ago

You and me both !

jeann3z.bsky.social•1 day ago

No one would expect it

bedigger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nooooobody expects the white male inquisition.

plannedtheride.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lutnick's gonna trust him until trump stabs HIM in the back.
I, on the other hand, have no reason to trust trump and no one's going to make me.

rodriguez-fella.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is crazy.

g-rod555.bsky.social•1 day ago

LMFAO

mourningdovetail.bsky.social•1 day ago

Edward Bernays must be so proud. I'm hoping he has his own special little place in hell.
https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

danielbd.bsky.social•1 day ago

The mix of a public with no clue what’s going on and politics will to make stuff up is quite potent.
“It used to be ‘Global Warming’ but now it’s ‘Climate Change’ because it’s cold outside.
Huhuhuh clearly a conspiracy.”

kapwen.bsky.social•1 day ago

In our particular democracy, we lack a sense of civic engagement and community. We don't see that when everyone succeeds, we're all the better for it, and our government is set up to encourage that. In a two party system, it's too easy to just be against each other.

karenmonroy.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the people will continue on this path until they can admit what Trump is. A mentally unstable fascist who is as dumb as a box of rocks

nanocyborgasm.bsky.social•1 day ago

People who lack critical thinking skills should not be allowed to make vital decisions. I hope that technology emerges that would allow a test to screen out people who lack critical thinking faculties. Otherwise, demagogues will forever control us.

beefinbee.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

tempvsfvgit76.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is a symptom of America.

caryopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pass it on.
https://handsoff2025.com/

kenwhite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Heading to one in Pasadena.

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👏😘👍 We can put ONE MILLION AMERICANS on our streets this Saturday!

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caryopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Excellent, thanks! I will share on Friday.

mr-clyde.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m going. Let’s all get going!

caryopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

👏😘👍 We can put ONE MILLION AMERICANS on our streets this Saturday!

mr-clyde.bsky.social•1 day ago

I count as ten just by myself. 😉

caryopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's the idea! Drag everyone you know with you. They will be uplifted and remember Hands Off 2025 for the rest of their lives.

cybermagex.bsky.social•1 day ago

I never went to any sort of protest in my life, and now this one (in Carson City, for me) on Saturday will be the second in 2 months.

caryopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

YAY! 👏😘👍 We can put ONE MILLION AMERICANS on our streets this Saturday!

misterhill2.bsky.social•1 day ago

...a friend and former colleague is speaking at the SLC one. Thank you for sharing 🥂

caryopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

👏😘💪

misterhill2.bsky.social•1 day ago

...love that C Booker quote in your bio, BTW. Cheers

readingwarrior.bsky.social•1 day ago

He acted this way during his first term: my generals, etc. That should have been a RED flag. Unfortunately, not enough of us were paying attention. Are you tired of winning yet?

rialian.bsky.social•1 day ago

By "Fix", he means "Neuter".

krystolla.bsky.social•1 day ago

We thought he meant ‘fix’ like you fix a car.
They thought he meant ‘fix’ like you fix a horse race.
Turns out the only thing he can do is ‘fix’ like putting us all a fix.

slindquist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ain’t that the truth.

cjohnt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He *successfully bankrupted every casino he owned."

*correction inserted

misterhill2.bsky.social•1 day ago

..."we are his terrible swift sword." I like that ⚡

readingwarrior.bsky.social•1 day ago

You can't fix stupid.

readingwarrior.bsky.social•1 day ago

Really? Every new venture he had undertaken has failed.

addledmongoose.bsky.social•1 day ago

I genuinely wonder if there’s a finite population size that a democracy can actually work for. Like, after a certain population point, far too many people are ignorant for effective democracy.

kkdithereens.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was thinking yesterday if there is a form of governance thats Stupid Proof. Like, the average voter is just not up to the task. Im educated and do my best and even I have to guess on a few props/measures. Idk how we fix it without having an elite few make all the decisions (they suck too)

addledmongoose.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wonder that, too. I don't think any kind of authoritarian government is right, of course, but that saying, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" has some merit. Democracy works when the populace is educated and vigilant. The minute it ends, so does democracy.

jeffreypschultz.bsky.social•1 day ago

While the internet has brought many benefits, giving bullhorns to absolutely everyone in a celebrity-addicted society is turning out not to be so great for sustaining a constitutional republic.

coolxenu.bsky.social•1 day ago

When your society produces broken, insane people....

#America

morrisnormal.bsky.social•1 day ago

It didn't have to be this way. But both parties have been defunding education for decades now and so obviously a stupid population would be the result

joellevinyc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Litnick is not us!

jtadetroit.bsky.social•1 day ago

We’re paying the price for years of “our collective ignorance, indifference, laziness, quickness to anger”

oldcrone.bsky.social•1 day ago

He really is a complete asshat....and boot licker and just general dummy. He completely blows apart the myth that 'rich guys are smarter than the rest of us'....

saienx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah right. Isn't the core of project 2025 to destroy the economy and restart it from scratch?.

kenoticism.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Crash the market, and those still rich enough afterward, buy up at bargain prices.
Then they own more, and have stronger monopolies...
The rest of us pay for it with the losses in our mutual fund based 401k's.

elosaurus.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am so sick of men loudly talking over women.

kenwhite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Actually Elizabeth that’s called toxic masculinity. You see the explanation is 1/67

dreamweasel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sure the GOP will have perfectly reasonable explanations for the economic blowback: ⬇️
https://bsky.app/profile/dreamweasel.bsky.social/post/3llw5kfuxno2z

maryaskew.bsky.social•1 day ago

I needed the laugh. Thanks.

lofifofum.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Steel is not strong. Flesh is stronger."

-Thulsa Doom, shortly before illustrating his point by casually ordering one of his followers to jump to their death, which they do immediately and without question

sophiaflorence.bsky.social•1 day ago

"You gotta trust the big dumbass that deliberately ignored a virus killing people and doesn't believe in due process and hires Nazis "accidentally" and may or may not have banged Laura fucking Loomer,"

sophiaflorence.bsky.social•1 day ago

I feel like "banged" isn't the right word. "Plowed" feels accurate. Don't know why.

coolxenu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plowed implies an adequate manhood. Perhaps tapped?

jim85716.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPogo-We-Have-Met-Enemy%2Fdp%2F0671212605&psig=AOvVaw1EudWiYKdFmBCbS_gJLPIL&ust=1743782008013000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCPCfqa-cvIwDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAS

yankeewitch.bsky.social•1 day ago

just what I was thinking.

xavkoenig.bsky.social•1 day ago

How does anyone listen to Lutnick without awareness of Trump's track record of failure as a businessman? And we're being told this wanton devastation to global trade will magically manifest into some golden new era of wealth WITH ZERO EXPLANATION? This is a farce.

jdanielstirk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don't blame yourself, and don't blame me or your other readers. We are not those things, but we certainly live amongst others who are. Sure, we have elected some pretty weak-kneed dems, but they have elected sick weirdo Rs, despite the warnings we gave them. I am at a loss how to break thru the BS

dbrevi.bsky.social•1 day ago

👇👇👇👇👇

penguins18.bsky.social•1 day ago

Eh. No.

jbhighland.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is so true! When does it change?

rajani.bsky.social•1 day ago

So I guess they're communists now advocating for a centrally planned economy 🤷‍♀️

kalliopeo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Its the monorail episode of the Simpsons on an eternal, hellish loop.

jeremypress.bsky.social•1 day ago

Spoiled, rich people suck, and he’s learned to exploit that on a pretty unprecedented world historical scale.

ray-pugwalker.bsky.social•1 day ago

‘Trust Donald Trump’ are perhaps the 3 most stupid words I have ever heard.

neptune681.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯

robertborland.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

julianimperatorus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Excellent post.

valoriedyck.bsky.social•1 day ago

@CNN This Lutnick.....are you just taking anyone from trump's orbit and letting them loose with no fact-checks?

He and Scott Jennings feel like fingers down the throat.

curmudgeon67.bsky.social•1 day ago

They've managed to make the stupidest, worst informed people politically active while also convincing many others that politics is meaningless and they are powerless to change it. Even if they could, there's no difference between which corrupt lying self-serving politician wins.