The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
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It’s hard for him to have control of the details of legislation beyond Exec Orders, because they take time, legal understanding and nuance. Which he has zero interest in.
He wants to have free reign to run his mouth on tv, or post on his socials, but to your point has zero interest in serving as an elected official.
I suspect until disaster comes knocking on the door of his supporters and enablers, with no relief, they'll remain steadfast in support.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f?r=fggeg&utm_medium=ios
doesn’t matter. He’s removed all stops .
I wish CA the very best. My heart breaks for them all the way in NC :(
Gavin Newsome did not sell out. Mark did not sell out.
Problem is I'm not sure it applies here. I don't know who is really in charge these these days. Trump has been bought by people even worse than him.
Magat Mike J6ohnson- we need more (white) babies to staff the work force
The defense sector and their lobbyists are one of the most powerful in politics. They give the most to the sedition caucus.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/the-defense-industry-is-the-biggest-supporter-of-the-sedition-caucus/
Let's not forget what old lady Dan Patrick (lt gov of TX) said about letting covid19 rip on old ppl - that covid was doing the state a favor economically by getting rid of them.🤬
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
Small sampling
Privatize and Profit.
Greedy
Oligarch
Predators
When Ma & Pa MAGA is swindled into voting for an early death instead of the price of eggs.
It.
Is.
The.
Largest.
Cult.
Of.
All.
Time.
Seasonal flu cases in 48 states & increasing.
Source dated Jan 15 2025
https://www.today.com/health/cold-flu/flu-season-2025-rcna186909
They’re sick fuQs
What we need for the average American that is going take the brunt of this are resources to fight when attacked. We need legal teams ready to fight in place across the nation.
Ukraine should name a lovely village in eastern Ukraine after him that is in the line of fire so he feels the need to protect it.
He did it twice and then they stopped recording.
He needs to have leverage or a "hostage" to give the bare minimum, then act like he's this great deal maker.
It's what he was impeached for.
I've yet to see them pushing back against this.
Trump does not want to govern. He wants to get “even” (revenge) with humanity because of his failures.
He ain’t afraid of no dolt.
He knows how these people work because he has billions, too.
It is just hard to hear it in this manner.
https://bsky.app/profile/anniecovington.bsky.social/post/3lglmj7yzpk2u
Add in the prince of apartheid and they have it all in hand.
In order to stop Trump, you have to stop the architects.
Trump doesn't have a clue what is in them, other than what he is told.
He is the figurehead, kinda like a King.
THAT is what Cuban is trying to get across here.
Are you effing kidding? I’m reading/learning, discussing, speaking, calling, emailing, looking for answers, marching, donating, supporting. Actions speak louder than words but I will still voice my opinion. Why attack me? Feel better?
The courts will be able to stop some abuses, maybe. There will be a lot of infighting for power, some of the players have different agendas, none that are good for us!
DO HOT OBEY! RESIST!
This Netflix documentary is enlightening. They are patient.
It’s all prohect 2025. Russell vought cares, Vance cares. Christo fascism is endgame.
Target key democratic pillars: free speech, due process, public referendum, and states’ rights.
Same with the FBI. So he has the military & the closest thing we have to “State Police.”
Drain the parliamentary swamp. “Drain the swamp” should sound familiar to damned near everyone. It comes directly from Hitler, long before anyone knew his designs on exterminating Jews. Both ran on this slogan.
It’s a choice
He’s literally the same team, just talking up like he isn’t. He’s filthy rich and that’s who runs the country now. All he has to do is kiss a ring and he loses nothing.
Newsom lined up the funds to fight it out in court if ‘the boss’ wants to play.
Sometimes the Delta Smelt is just bait.
You are not paying attention. He has no clue how FEMA operates, doesn’t care it’s vital to public safety, and will head all these agencies to end them. He’s not kidding around. Stop being naive.
Then this
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5104133-rep-andy-ogles-proposes-trump-third-term-amendment/
and his band of merry morons are doing a good job of tearing the house down.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/donald-trump-inspectors-general-firing-00200611
Unless you're so impatient that Prime next-day delivery (by underpaid contractors) is cheaper than a modicum of patience.
Under the pretense of arresting “Illegal Criminal Immigrants”, POC understand DJT wants to round them up to give Red Meat to his base & credence to start a Race War‼️
#WakeUp
Let's be real. Most of us can't go live almost anywhere in the world at anytime we choose and notice little change to our lives for the undertaking.
He uses his business acumen to guide him. I on the other hand,use emotion and hysteria. Neither works when dealing w/a cult.
Instead of doomsaying and hand wringing (which is exactly what put trump in office)... Hang that shit up and to what needs to be done for 4 years.
Sing that orange bitch to sleep.
“The king has no clothes” survival coping
mechanism.
But do tell, what exactly did rump tell Newsome to do? Inject disinfectant?
So far he's frozen:
1) Foreign Aid
2) Medical Research, and
3) Infrastructure projects.
Now it's 'pay to play.' Your project/research won't get funding unless he likes you or you give him something.
Totally transactional grift.
https://www.wizzense.com/post/project-2025-an-antithesis
The soldier's lean is common for stiff attention. You see it a lot around bases.
This is kleptocracy. Every single choice he makes is somehow tied to making money while in office.
☑️ Panama Canal (taxes)
I need to renew my passport. Is there even going to be anyone left to process it?
That’s in the hands of his little Johnson, who ineffectively leads a co-equal branch of government from the House chamber and is now America’s MOST obsequious and sycophantic lapdog in Trump’s arsenal.
And we are supposed to keep our cockpit sterile or ya got TDS..
And then he wants to skim off the top, as rulers do.
200+ EOs and counting are done by the Heritage Foundation, Project 25 cabal and CEOs that will all benefit from them. Not to mention the influence of foreign actors/nations.
The people who actually own him don't want him operating any of the rides, but he's an incredibly good distraction who draws a lot of attention
He lacks the capacity to think of others.
For example, let's take the EO to pardon the J6 insurrectionists. Instead of taking the time to go through everything as it should have, he said f-it.
they knew as long as they feed his ego, which they have no problem doing, they could do *whatever they want*
he is now as he has ever been - a real life zaphod beeblebrox, only without an ounce of his cool 😎
At the time, I always thought, what a dumbass.
The coldness of his team is paralyzing to progress.
Not all of us are stupid and blind to him and his cronies
Their actions speak louder than anything they may have said in the past
They want a one party nation. They don’t hide it anymore
You’re too optimistic about them
(AND demented).
The best we can do with this is to encourage them to fight over his influence publicly. That's when they'll expose each other's secrets and play their hands.
Also, we really need to talk about Evangelicals
But how to deal with raging hate, which is often triggered by his talks? Especially, scapegoating people disregarding cause-and-effect relationships.
👀 should be on OMB & the staff just below the head of agencies. Those folks will implement the most dangerous and impactful policies, rules & funding changes.
Because it's coming.
Jesus. At this rate it could be tomorrow.
How may Democrats counter post-truth populism?
The man was inaugurated on Monday.
Today (Saturday) he had a rally in Las Vegas.
The only thing that surprises me about this is that he wasn't playing golf.
I still feel like this is not real. I now know how people feel after a traumatic experience where they walk around dazed and confused.
The best resistance against the oligarchs is to stop enriching them by terminating their contracts. On the other hand, apart from that, Prime Video films are really more and more rubbish!
#BoycottPrimeVideo #BoycottAmazon
Be the one. Come together
Live for Ourselves.
My project is to make Ourselves stronger.
*New Dreams
*New Life
*New Happiness
:(
There are countries all of the world with proven methods in development and schooling and we are(as a country) voting in a Great Value Hitler.
Breastfeeding should be a national priority (reduces breast cancer by a whopping 40%) and babies would have the best chance of BRAIN development.
Anyway:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/opinion/donald-trump-musk-altman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r04.6v1I.kLai3fXZVEiL&smid=url-share
B) he just put an unqualified addict in charge of military
C) he is about to experience the consequences
D) buckle up
Trump's first response saw him state: "Well, I don't know."
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-response-reporter-pardoning-police-officer-assaulter-614177-20250122
I will continue to do my best to inform as well 😎
REPUGS are dismantling WE THE PEOPLE for WE THE BILLIONAIRES!
I wouldn't call on @noelcasler.bsky.social to get them started though. He's taken enough shit from Trump. 😂
In any case, we both agree that “never have” is incorrect
But for quite a while their MO has been say government doesn’t wort and, when elected, be a self-fulfilling prophesy :(
The confirmation of Hegseth is a case in point.
#nokarisma
As for “strategy” it has to be simple enough to be restated in 1 minute so there is 1 minute left to explore options.
This is why he repeats the same phrases incessantly!
They cannot rid themselves of him b/c if he was nuts, stupid, criminal, unwell etc. ... his opponents were right all along.
They'll continue this charade and let him play.
Using government records Greg Palast's team knows exactly how many likely Dem voters were suppressed, even their names. It's in the millions. VP Harris would have won.
If the Dems can't fight, we need a new party.
https://youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?si=UN8KwSR-6eUXVwM3
"The Republicans would never steal an election, so we shouldn't challenge them, ever. I can't believe they would ever take away people's right to vote."
Did you watch the concrete information in the video, from the BBC reporter who's done DOJ projects?
We can't allow our respect for democratic standards to be used against us for fear of appearance.
This is the party ready to kill 4 Billion people at 3 degrees of warming to satisfy their donors greed. Are you kidding?
I think you misunderstand me
Watch the video.
The Democratic Party needs to be pressured online in the strongest possible way.
If Harris won, it’s new to her. She even admitted defeat, gracefully. Nothing was stolen.
That’s naive of you, though, to say that.
They were going for the optics of the high road, so as to not be accused of sounding like trump since 2016. Never did I even remotely infer that she claimed election fraud. They didn’t want US to, either. Or we’d sound like them.
way stronger than Milton was.
With more teeth in front (tornados).
if MerLego is swiped of the planet ... well. There it goes.
It's about the other people who will pay the price for his idiotic beeing.
It's from government records and has been checked by outside sources.
If we hit 3 degrees of warming there's 4 Billion dead. So you fucking figure it out with fangs and claws out.
Mega church BUSINESSES are after OUR TAX DOLLARS to fund their charter schools
Abortion?, Nope ..
Bob Jones U was going to lose TAX EXEMPT STATUS ..
why??
Would not integrate the campus
Always in the background- systemic racism
Cuz they’re so ethical???
All being planned for decades…
Always figured there’d still be checks & balance
And some rule of law
dt is good at conning- nothing else. He's a useful idiot
Just my guess.
That was *help dt received & how dt "won"
It's also the (only) way JDV wins any election
Vance was always the chosen one for the 10 year plan.
Dems have 2 yrs to figure out how Musk *helped* dt to get in beyond the bought & paid for place of power in the admin-If they are to take back the House & Senate-as they must.
They want to tear down the very system that allowed them to be stupid through being free...Instead of using that freedom to grow they use it to damage and destroy all that gave them what they have today.
They have no vision...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kicked-elon-out-wiles/
Seems we prefer sitting on in our butts watching tv and drinking beer. Disgraceful.
Reagan was said to have watched three hours of TV every night.
But those of you who have been watching, who is really running things?
all he cares about is power and control
Without them, it quickly shakes itself apart.
The goal of a Schedule F reclass is to push those people out. Now, even if agencies get funded, they will fail to operate.
They are determined to privatize the public sector to enrich a few while bilking millions
rich people honestly do not care.
they won't say that part.
took me almost 70 years to just accept that.
and move on.
and Damn them ALL to Hell, btw...
✌️💙
yes the evil ones do seem more as they are the ones getting attention atm
✌️💙
[someone’ll ask what `they` should do — don't use it as a roadblock and hire someone Smart to figure it out. 😇]
these things are true.
✌️💙
Stop worshipping billionaires who will never care about you or ever oppose fascism.
The planning + Trump's team behind the scenes have executed really well in these first few days compared to '16 in my estimation.** They seem to have a much better handle on how to wield power this time around.
Now can they wrangle those slim majorities in H & S?
It's good to dream.
He's despicable.
https://bsky.app/profile/asfried.bsky.social/post/3lgl2c4zc462l
Lamenting on social media alone isn't going to get the job done. We need to provide the counter narrative. We need to paint the picture.
10,000 more
SBC banned female pastors ..
There are so many coordinated attacks on every level
& the heads who could counter what they’ve witnessed?
Silent till it was (and is) too late
Clearly, we can't just assume that people will "get it" and then follow up by acting (voting) upon it.
We need to be pushed.
Republicans are trying to take over the country and turn it inside out. More than that, they're fully prepared to harm us in the process. We're going to have to get our hands dirty, I'm afraid, to survive.
He approached with civility & kid gloves
Such a … miss
They both just nibbled at the edges of their full power to change the nation for the better and to codify those changes.
Obama even left an open Supreme Court seat for Trump to fill.
We either don't know how or have the will to fight.
They all thought it was inappropriate to change their approach
When they go low???
We run them over !!!!
Building the counter narrative is going to require something to affect peoples daily lives, like inflation spiking to 8%. Americans were more outraged over TikTok than Trump's corruption.
Guess what they broadcasted - 24/7
Meanwhile
Pelosi and Schumer have $$ fundraisers & DNC heads ‘decide’ that Tim Ryan & Frisch CO were not able to win…
Need to have total change DNC
meanwhile
- the democrats in congress are useless. we have zero leadership
and im afraid to see who they will appoint for the DNC
You need someone willing to back a democratic counter to the right wing media machine, a Musk or Murdoch on the left, willing to risk billions for what is right.
There’s no such animal on the left. The process to become a billionaire means shedding the sense of what’s right and wrong.
And ADL dead silent
Even now, ADL makes excuses for Musk nazi salute
He's a much fatter, less handsome, and way dumber Caligula.
Be afraid.