While awe is often associated with positive feelings like wonder and inspiration, it can also be triggered by frightening, overwhelming, or even terrifying experiences leading to a sense of dread. While "Negative awe" can be humbling, it is not the same as a positive awe experience
I would argue that there isn’t a shock - Trump never hid his agenda. It is awe-ful … perhaps more awful than folks may have imagined, but that’s who Trump and MAGA are. Sad and scary.
Drill Baby Drill: Shale oil producers need the crude oil price to be above $65 to continue to produce and explore. After Liberation day, crude prices crashed to $55 and are now hovering just below $60. All part of the plan? The economy is going down on all fronts.
It’s seems more like schlock and blah to me. Just more of the same with the overripe gourd at the head and his crucifixed press secretary spewing out lie after lie. It’s so embarrassing and not that shocking really.
Yes. But also maybe a projectile puke and poop party to see who runs, who joins in, and what sticks. Truly a disgusting state of the nation. We know who will have to clean up.
I don’t think the US military would execute as poorly as the Trump regime has so far. This is a lot bluster followed by crying when no one internationally plays along…
it certainly is, but we can deal with this onslaught of chaos and corruption. They want us to feel overwhelmed and complacent. Let's stick together, we got each other's backs, & move forward
and fight
Former Pres Biden & Merrick Garland
need to PUBLICLY hear / read every day:
"THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE for their weakness, & lack of protecting America / Constitution!"
They also need to hear it everyday from current elected democrats:
Credit where credit is due to the excellent and long gone 1980s/1990s comedic ~ social commentary magazine “SPY” who whenever mentioned him dubbed Trump the “short fingered vulgarian Donald Trump”
Evidently he HATED it.
Make sure you don't get sucked up into their lies and bullshit terror tactics...don't pay attention to them. Live your life, go about your day. Because 9 out of 10 times what they are doing will have no bearing on your life. Prices, yes. ICE, yes. Making things hard, yes. But don't freak out!
Musk is moving the Communications Department of the Social Security Administration to Twitter! People will get public announcements and press releases through Twitter.
And we just find this out today!
That unelected billionaire is going to take over Social Security!
It's been SHOCK and AWE for the past 12 weeks and DO NOT have an opposition party strong enough to fight back.
We have DONOR class Democrats who speaking out on causes that affect their special interests BUT not condemning egregious UNCONSTITUTIONAL acts. We will lose the country to extremists!
You are all way too easily shocked. And less and less people are excusing it and have patience with you.
If you don't do something soon , general strike for instance, I personally will avoid buying US stuff even when you have a blue president again
I like plain speaking. They called it shock and awe when they planned to do this, borrowing it from the military. In reality, that’s marketing speak for violence and abuse. They are violently abusing us, and they get high on their power to continue abusing us.
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. We have done this repeatedly to other nations. It's a brillant book, and you don't have to read the entire book to get the gist, and the context.
It’s also economic shock therapy, which has longstanding economic effects on the people while the rich get richer. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social discussed this issue not long ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)
And you’re just figuring this out? It’s more than shock and awe, it’s a coup, it’s fascism, it’s so many more things than shock, and there’s no awe. It’s fucking awful.
But I'm not shocked and definitely not in awe. His first term showed his hand in this card game.
Change the rules and don't tell him. Make him sit in front of a mirror. Everyone will see he is holding a 2 and a 3. And it's a Blackjack table.
What’s going on right now in US is insider trading and fraud. Pretimed tariff announcements &scheduled postponements to manipulate the stock market and other investments so that people in the middle class lose a fortune &the wealthy make billions buying the dips &selling off just before the crashes.
Why do people keep needing to call reality something different? It’s a fascist take over of America for fuck sake and it’s irresponsible to call it anything else 😑
Feel like it’s more like a torture movie, except instead of stranded couples on a dark highway, it stars starving children, impoverished families, orphans, the sick, elderly, …
You are really late on that saying. Actually is called: B.O.H.I.C.A. -"Bend Over Here It Comes Again". Some people bent over in his first term. Now, they are all getting BOHICA, BABY. You voted for this, take it and don't cry. #BOHICA
I believe these fools will regret this stupidity, Americans get used to shit very fast, including a Revolutionary war, if the GOP continues unanswered, they’ll get a war. No exceptions🇺🇸⚖️. Too many for too long have violated the Oath without consequences. That’s about to change GOP, Prepare for 2nd A
We basically have no government. If they can't stop all this crap and Musk, what good are they? They get paid a lot because they have to be prepared to defend us. It's too late. They propped up Joe instead. And enlisted all the stars 🌟. SOS
Yes. What I am having a hard time with is that people should have known that it was coming. Everybody was like oh he won't do that. Guess how that turned out
We're shocked all right. Awestruck ? Not so much. In fact I'm starting to feel a lot like an Iraqi who's gone a month with no electricity which has been turned off by goons who communicate in an inane incomprehensible babble.
Yep. Things will fall apart and Trump will declare martial law.
He may get a shock when troops turn against him rather than their own people. Trump is proving without doubt that he is not 'their people'. He fucking hates America, no respect for military, and couldn't give a shit about Americans.
Congress better get their shit together before they are adjourned! It's coming quicker than they think. Once you let the bull out of the barn it's hard to put him back in the barn.
This is what the head of Project 2025 called the “Second American Revolution” as the policies in their 950 page blue print to dismantle Constitutional Democracy takes shape.
You can work on a state level to change that. States control how we vote. If your state legislature can lean left you can have laws that open up the primaries to all registered parties. Independent is a registered party.
The way they're manipulating the voting machines and stealing elections, I don't see that it matters anymore. We have to completely gut the voting system, hands off Republicunts!
I'm not shocked or awed at all. I am pissed off that we're all just watching it happen. It's time to take out the trash. I'm old, single and have health issues so either way I won't be dealing with it, but anyone who has any care for their future should be massing to take these clowns to some hole
I'm not shocked - I read P2025, I read @davetroy.com, all of this was predictable - but I will admit to being somewhat in awe of just how ignorant & apathetic so many American voters have been & continue to be, right up until their jobs, their retirement, their SS payments vanish before their eyes.
You're right. Come in hard and fast with as much shocking bullshit that the other side can't keep up with anything to mount legal defenses, effectively netting the changes they want out of bureaucratic inertia. There's one way to stop a legal takeover that no one wants to do.
*** pedophile rapist molester *** He is
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step 2 - admitting the problem
step 3 - finding solutions for said problem(s)
Easy bet that's going to be abused
More than a little terrified what's going to go down then because absolutely no-one around to stop them or even protest
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/the-show-must-go-on-even-if-it-burns-6f4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1pv7ea
broke and bleeding!!!
Thinking we were ever the good guys is exactly why we are not.
and fight
#fiftyfiftyone #5Calls https://indivisible.org #Teslatakedown #MomSky #HandsOffHerVote #SignalGate
Post USSR Russia all over again.
SMASH & GRAB
need to PUBLICLY hear / read every day:
"THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE for their weakness, & lack of protecting America / Constitution!"
They also need to hear it everyday from current elected democrats:
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@rokhanna.bsky.social
@adamschiff.com
Evidently he HATED it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/spy-vs-trump?srsltid=AfmBOorKr07xwuvrx93Q3jCnhbZFWP820BZDXcbyR7hJtU_icgzVqMiX
Musk is moving the Communications Department of the Social Security Administration to Twitter! People will get public announcements and press releases through Twitter.
And we just find this out today!
That unelected billionaire is going to take over Social Security!
They want to make sure the minority party is crippled from being able to make decisions EVER and they're doing so with help from the court system
We have DONOR class Democrats who speaking out on causes that affect their special interests BUT not condemning egregious UNCONSTITUTIONAL acts. We will lose the country to extremists!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nerd-reich-with-gil-duran/id1610914569?i=1000700273812
Who's got the bigger dick - and with Tiny Tool Trump - we're gonna get the hump
If you don't do something soon , general strike for instance, I personally will avoid buying US stuff even when you have a blue president again
Change the rules and don't tell him. Make him sit in front of a mirror. Everyone will see he is holding a 2 and a 3. And it's a Blackjack table.
Wait until they see this giant fully awakened.
They will truly be shocked and awed. They might be so stunned, they lose their heads! 🤯
Care for some Cake?
They'll push our boundaries and take a step back
Again
Again
Until our boundaries are gone
Organize locally NOW
https://www.indivisible.org
to pay for Republican tax cuts for billionaires?
Check the DEATH COUNT calculator!
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/04/11/how-many-americans-have-to-die-to-pay-for-the-republican-tax-cut-for-billionaires-check-the-death-count-calculator/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiqaFIONPQ
And the original "shock and awe" was neither.
It was neither shocking nor awe-inspiring.
It WAS terrorism.
He may get a shock when troops turn against him rather than their own people. Trump is proving without doubt that he is not 'their people'. He fucking hates America, no respect for military, and couldn't give a shit about Americans.
Imagine someone lending you a hand to get out of this.
Xi of China just offered the European Union to work together against the US
Never thought this would happen.
This is the end of America and the rise of a heinous fascist nightmare. https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-heritage-foundation-republicans-american-revolution-1920870
Our suffering is just an added bonus for them.
Who's ready for the "bloodless" war the Nazis don't want us to fight? 👋
It’s wildly successful on that front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTppq0I0ns&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour
It's PTS kids.
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~ i am #PresidentTruth 2028 sorry for tha wait dots 3 ; Musk and Trump had to rape 1st iGuess ¿ #VoteForPedro2028