Feeling overwhelmed by Trump’s first week? A little piece of advice: skip the doomscrolling and go straight to the facts. This read is a great place to start.
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What I see, in the too-long arc of the rump experience, is a long descent into lawlessness and misery. And there doesn’t seem to be anything anyone can do about it right now.
1380 days til the next US election. If there is one.
He doesn’t care about the people. Soon he will stop pretending.
I find insane that all things aren't halted.
1. As soon as he said the election was rigged, and that Husk helped in Pennsylvania.
2. New evidence showing that it actually was.
Or did I misgender the president now, since we're all female, apparently?
Folks, filter through the noise. Pause and take a breath. Do your research and you will find a lot of what Trump and his fellow GOPs are doing is nothing more than a publicity stunt to hype up the viewers and demoralize the rest. Stay focused and informed.
We all need to become experts at skimming through the reports of his constant chaos and key on the truly dangerous malfeasance that’s coming…
and then be in the streets en masse.
Would love to see more posts like this that show a way out of the chaos which the republicans are sowing in order to cement their control and destroy democracy.
Would love to see people posting where, how, and who we can donate time, or money to in order to push back against the oligarchy.
This is all assuming he and the Republicans follow the rules as written. Who will stop them if they decide to be dictators? No one seems to stop him nor punish him. He keeps getting to do whatever he wants with no repercussions.
Chaos and overwhelm to cause confusion and distraction. I'm sure the msm will continuously take the bait and chase the stick that Trmpy throws, but other outlets will tell the truths. @meidastouch.com @bullwark.bsky.social and pretty much anything @maddow.msnbc.com does are fact based
This article explains exactly how I have felt. Every administration comes into office with a robust and energized agenda but it is extremely difficult to accomplish every item in said agenda. Even with the majority in the house and Senate. It's good to be informed but we can't panic. Let it play out
Mr Takei
I’ve only recently been made aware about your time in the internment camps and cannot begin to imagine what you think about the current situation in America
And the supposed independent media has be bought up or co-opted by the Orange Shitstain billionaire puppet-masters. And the remaining free media has gone silent, probably out of fear. There is no real news to be had.
It's helpful to have "buckets" for sorting through the sheer volume of assaults on morale and intelligence. It will help preserve sanity and prioritize how/where to focus and act.
It's like watching a runaway train without an engineer headed right towards us. Trump's power needs to be reigned in. Shouldn't the citizens of this country have the right to feel safe and secure??
"Seen in this light, tariffs are another kind of power play to force corporate America to bend to Trump’s will. As deployed by Trump, the tariffs and exemptions from them undermine the rule of law by creating a pay-to-play incentive system for big corporations."
I've been fed up with trumpaloompa since 2016, and I'm not even in the US, he's like those people who go to that taco bell place over there and just explode their diarrhoea all over the toilet walls, just an absolutely disgusting mess...
Mass deportations. Greenland. Panama. Gulf of Trump. Just a bunch of DEAD CATS he's throwing on the table so we won't notice the stink of his REAL agenda. HINT: Elon saluted the quiet part out LOUD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy
He is Gish Galloping the country with his BS. 51st State, greenland, panama canal, school nurse performing sex changes on children -- all distraction from his not accomplishing anything to lower our egg and gas prices
Thanks! I keep watching escapist TV (like "Escape to the Country") to get away from the sideshow, but it's helpful to have an alternative way to view the cascade of "OMG, can he DO that...?" events in the news. Your post was appreciated, as always!
God his wife is there with her hat - she is being forced to be at his side constantly now & she HATES him & did not sign up for this - she signed up to be galivanting around NYC with her son
I also recommend the Meidas Touch Network. They're not backed by billionaires, and get more views then Fox News. They're annoying the 🍊💩 Always a good thing. We are the #MeidasMighty
DISASTER RELIEF ? FK u ! YER ALL DISASTERS...ALWAYS BEGGING FOR MONEY THAT ME AND ELON COULD USE FOR BETTER SCAMS TO MAKE MORE MONEY FER OURSELVES...DID YA BUY MY BIT COIN ? YA SHOUD HAVE !
Does anyone feel he is setting up a large distraction for the other things his small mind is doing? He's a charlatan, a con, a convicted felon and we don't believe a single thing he says. I fear my country is headed down the same path. ( I'm Canadian)
Heh btw I think everyone could stop referring to RFKII as a "Junior". Jr/Sr are supposedly only appropriate when the Sr is alive, after a Senior's death the Sr is I & the Jr is a II.
Besides referring to him as II/2nd makes him less "chummy"/less approachable.
RFKII recently said he isn't *really* opposed to vaccines?!?
Previously:
*measles vaccine causes autism
*polio vaccine might have “killed many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did,”
*Covid19 shot “deadliest vaccine ever” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/rfk-anti-vaxxer-trump-00199771
I have shared this with friends and I will share this with you all. Trump blasted all these EOs out with the sole intent to outrun legal action. The faster he did this the more discombobulated we became. There are outside agencies that will comb through them and already have challenged them.
I wasn’t happy about this but did the filing and considered it was info the states already have via incorporation records on file but the info doesn’t pass to the feds. Took 5 minutes to submit, but I consider it a waste of time. It’s less information than in an annual report (North Carolina).
Overwhelmed? I'm honestly questioning if I'm going to still be alive in 4 years. Especially as a Canadian, there's only so much of this I can take before I nope out of here. So thank you American citizens.
Thank you for this. I was in essence telling my oldest son this, that a lot of what Trump is doing is illegal, and that it will get challenged in court. That’s why the midterms and the next presidential election will be so important. We can only stem the tide so long through the court.
While this is true, it's natural for people to doubt the efficacy of the courts when we've watched him avoid consequences so flagrantly and for so long. Many of the norms and guardrails we expected to hold have not. I am hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
No, absolutely. I get that. I’m just saying we still have hope. I think part of what they’re doing is trying to disenfranchise people and make them wallow in despair. They want people to think the fight is already over.
Oh well! That’s what we get when 77,502,505 numbskulls voted. They’re bending the knee to you know who? U know! His ‘HIGHASS’ himself the big ORANGE FELON!
I'm definitely feeling overwhelmed, George. I actually had my first mental breakdown since starting HRT last night. Thankfully my girlfriend helped calm me down.
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1380 days til the next US election. If there is one.
He doesn’t care about the people. Soon he will stop pretending.
1. As soon as he said the election was rigged, and that Husk helped in Pennsylvania.
2. New evidence showing that it actually was.
Or did I misgender the president now, since we're all female, apparently?
and then be in the streets en masse.
HowWeLearnToBeBrave
https://youtu.be/1Psjws97FoA?si=VcblKekQsof264Wz
Would love to see people posting where, how, and who we can donate time, or money to in order to push back against the oligarchy.
The hypocrisy of the left has no limit I guess.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
My favorite number
I’ve only recently been made aware about your time in the internment camps and cannot begin to imagine what you think about the current situation in America
I honestly can't watch anything anymore
Gracias
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Harris!”
Next up, the fun little “I did that!” stickers…or maybe better yet “the Republican you voted for did that!”
How are people still supporting that alt-right platform?!?
If you are partnering with Nazis, you are also a Nazi.
As someone who has had more experience in this area, what do you recommend people do about it?
I have several ways I'm working on it, like building a safe community for authors and creatives, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
-Lawsuits against Every Single Executive Order. All details noting: current status, courts, lawyers,etc.
(e.g. Inspector Generals, Tick Tock Exten.)
- One Graph of Senate RollCalls "Y and N" listing All Cabinet Nominees.
@whitehouse.senate.gov
Democtratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse may be ready to help kill tens of thousands of Americans by voting to confirm RFK, Jr. for HHS Secretary.
He's on Bluesky. Let him know that would NOT be okay.
Besides referring to him as II/2nd makes him less "chummy"/less approachable.
RFKII recently said he isn't *really* opposed to vaccines?!?
Previously:
*measles vaccine causes autism
*polio vaccine might have “killed many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did,”
*Covid19 shot “deadliest vaccine ever”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/rfk-anti-vaxxer-trump-00199771