I’d love to agree but no way. Until his own party starts, en masse, to openly and defiantly turn on him, nothing will change.
If that time ever comes, which I don’t think will, we should show no love to the gop that does turn on him too because they enabled him and got us here.
Yeahhh, that’s never going to happen. But we make up the majority in the major cities that are centers of government power. We have the power, we just have to realize it
I don't think "safe" is even an option, for any of us. I prefer: Take care of each other, with special concern for those who are even more vulnerable than you are.
Nonviolent resistance will accomplish nothing and threaten Trump not at all. He WANTS us to be too scared to try anything serious, it’s why they fearmonger about Antifa and the 2020 protests in Portland so much.
Is there some billionaires’ bunkers the rest of the world can climb into while we watch our reality TV star/felon leader destroy stuff over the next four years and beyond?
I think you’ll need to join the fight instead. Though it would be nice to know where the centers are for the resistance so we can start gathering more permanently and defensively
So ashamed of what half of this country voted for. The uneducated half. I think I need to wear my Harris Walz shirt again. I’ll get beat up for holding onto democracy.
I think we should all be very concerned about how many educated people voted for this. It is not a small number. 56% of ass.deg, 45% bach.deg, 38% masters or higher.
Characterization of Trump supporters as the stupids makes the real problem invisible. Fascists are always guided by intelligencia.
Excellent point. If they would have read Project 2025, maybe they wouldn’t have voted for Trump. It boils down to the fact that most Americans don’t think a woman can do the job.
I think the fact Trump kept denying intent to pursue project 2025 also didn't help. Yes anyone with any iota of common sense knows Trump is a liar, but I think some people were broadly like "we've seen Trump Term 1 crazy" and didn't think he'd go as far as Proj 2025 implied
I agree, but it's hard to know what we're buckling up for. Will Trump voters turn on him enough to allow GOP congresspersons to impeach him? Will this cause protests that will lead to Trump turning the military on citizens and martial law? What are we preparing for exactly?
We buckle up firmly for the roller-coaster and terrifying uncertainty. If we knew what was going to happen, it wouldn't be as terrifying. (That uncertainty also means there's room for action and moral choices; nothing is pre-ordained.)
Trump condemning Ukraine to Putin without help from the US is a defining moment of the 21st century. Either we do nothing & let Putin/Musk/ Trump, the Axis of Evil rule the world-or we rise up now, while we still can, without being arrested, or we’re their forever serfs. Who’s going to organize ?
Today is a prelude. Jobs numbers come out a week from today and poll numbers are nosediving. The mainstream/legacy news outfits they keep booting out of events will go harder on them and intlernational media is gonna SAVAGE them about this meeting.
This has to backfire in trump's face. It has to. It was an abhorrent attack on another President trying to save his country, the worst case of intimidation and bullying on display in the Oval Office. Today, Trump proved he is a russian asset. Who will have the stomach to tolerate that?
Sorry. I’m not seeing it. When the fascist Republicans come out against Trump and stop acquiescing to his every whim, then and only then will the wheels start falling off. Right now, it’s wishful thinking.
I hope by ‘wheels falling off’ you mean that the our allies are learning to go forward without the US. We are not to be trusted, and I don’t blame any country that doesn’t trust us.
I need to see the wheels falling off in this country.
That's not what she means. The "wheels" here are the political norms that Trump is turning into paste each and every day. You don't scream at a head of a sovereign nation, whom you invited to visit—while the press is there—no less and accuse him of starting WWIII if he doesn't give in to Putin.
I 100% agree with that but I’m talking about the wheels need to fall off in this country. If the wheels don’t fall off in this country, we truly are a fucked nation; we’re only semi fucked right now.
Without us? They are going to go over us. Chasing off our decades-long and geopolitically close allies? Going to love relying on China/Russia/Saudis. Just the dumbest shitheads on the planet.
Go forward without us, go over us, whatever you want to call it. Our allies must realize that Trump is not a reliable partner (I’m sure they realize that) and they need to keep that in mind with any decisions they make that may have involved us in the past.
Maybe Carville was right (about the collapse). not staying quiet about it. Today was a major crumbling of the US that will be felt for generations. The fall is going to be insane.
Fair, i was referring to a rather specific practice the French Revolution became famous for but since the dumb BS moderation AI already told me off today i tried to keep it a bit vague.
I'm afraid at this point we can guess who would be the victors and who the victims. And revolutions tend to eat their own tails before long; the French certainly did, and so did 1917.
We can all feel it right? The real "calm before the storm" kind of vibe? I can't help but feel like something has to give, it's all going to go tits up all at once.
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If that time ever comes, which I don’t think will, we should show no love to the gop that does turn on him too because they enabled him and got us here.
Seriously, I wouldn’t help us.
Characterization of Trump supporters as the stupids makes the real problem invisible. Fascists are always guided by intelligencia.
It will get ugly fast, and DT needs a scapegoat.
His betrayal of US national interests is going to require him to accelerate his purge of the DOD and military leadership.
I need to see the wheels falling off in this country.
Once something does, we're well and truly in the unknown. The Cool Zone.
The longer it takes to get there the more it will need to resemble the French Revolution i’ll admit, but still. You can do it peeps. Rooting for you.