This is why people have to start talking with their neighbors, family members, friends. Send mass texts to your contacts. Put up flyers in the neighborhood, paths, grocery store. You have to get out in the street and it takes each person who cares to do it.
America is gaining weight and binge-watching Netflix. We’re an arrogant trust-fund kid who believes we are the best because we have the most 💴 and the nicest lifestyle.
Me and my friends ARE the average person. We are terrified. watching our country being taken over-watching everyone bow down. No one telling us the truth. Him crashing the market. Why isn’t anyone discussing that! I am sick to my stomach.
So is the « average person » more common among republicans than democrats? Are those not paying attention more likely to be nonvoters?
What you say seems true to me but I wonder if there is data on this? Does « paying attention » to rightwing news count?
You're wrong Aaron. 54 million of us are retired living on our social security check that we paid into. We voted & lost. We're too old to fight. Hell, we can't even get to the fight. But, I guarantee you if he touches one penny of our retirement check we will burn this village down to save it.
The answer I get when I ask them how they feel about all the crazy stuff. Oh I don’t really follow the news. Which means they think everything is just fine. And will feel this way until they lose all their rights and then will act all shocked 🫣🦠
People are just educated enough to know both parties are dogshit but then they just say both are equally bad. The dems should stop taking billionaire money.
And yet people are up to date on the latest celebrity scandals to such a degree they're having all out battles over their selected side online. Meanwhile, our country's on fire! 🤦♀️🙄
And almost half of the ones that ~think~ they're paying attention these days are told by sources scummier than Fox News that what Trump & Musk are doing is a tiny fraction of what “The Big Guy” was doing, so turning the White House lawn into a car dealership is still an improvement.
NYT Opinion this am “Is the Destruction the Point?”
Folks, if y’all don’t understand by now that the grift is the point after 10 years…is everybody on bath salts????
Just last week my friend was clueless when I mentioned the price of eggs. I had to send a screen shot of a stores prices. She had no idea why they were so high Same person who asked me if Trump would run for Pres again. A year after he announced, months after his campaign started in earnest
Well half the country only watches FOX or something similar. So they never hear about the corruption, and if they have heard the get it smoothed over by the right wing spin cycle
A lot of the mainstream coverage I've seen, either when visiting my mom, or out the corner of my eye on gym TVs, is about DOGE discovering massive levels of fraud and saving billions of dollars for taxpayers.
Lenin was right when he said, first thing you do when you want to overthrow the govt is
control of the media. (At least that's what I was taught in school. Found and grow your own media first, then during the overthrow, seize all means of communication first thing.)
That’s the only way it’s going to spread. We’re a nation of simpletons and our media is now 100% in the bag for Trump. I know for a fact that no one in my family has a CLUE what is going on right now.
It hasn't hit everyone yet. If I never read the news, I would be blissfully happy right now. I am not dependent on Medicaid or Medicare, I have plenty of savings. I am paralyzed with fear only because I am watching and reading the news. Once it hits more people, they won't be able to not see it.
This. It hasn't trickled down yet. Only times I saw it happen IRL was when, a federal job posting I'd applied to was cancelled; a local taco shop was raided and one person taken; and the other day, I finally saw the price of eggs. At the cheapest local chain, mind you. A carton that used to be 99c
Whats really fucking scary are the people who do but support it. I heard a couple of guys in my office saying unironically yesterday that we're either all going to die soon or get raptured first.
I was raised to believe that Christians would just not be there one day and all of the people left behind would be very sad.
We will probably never know since it's all just made up.
It's double baffling because the rapture has zero biblical basis, it's one of those things that was ported into the theology from fictional works in the culture.
The epistles and Rev shoved tons of random mystery cult stuff into doctrine. Almost makes me think Islam had the right idea in saying Muhammad was the last prophet. They just forgot to adhere to that when someone suggested that the hadiths should be considered holy books.
I wonder if there’s a Christian analogue to Quranism, like a sect that is skeptical of authorship and rejects anything other than the Gospels or parts of the New Testament not written by one of the 12 disciples.
Eh, I can get around that. The Bible is just stories too, so adding other stories to it is no biggie. It's just always confused me how different the reaction is to the idea of God killing billions as opposed to someone like Thanos, for example.
This was one of the central conflict points in the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Church believed that the traditions, stories, and saints of the Church mattered, and the Protestants argued for “sola scriptura,” or scripture alone.
You are right and until it hits their pocket book in the form of wage decreases they will continue to be oblivious.
An increase in groceries and common goods is something we're already used to at this point.
I saw a news report from a station in Canada where they were asking Americans close to the border in BUF what they thought re: tariffs and found some people had no idea this was even happening!!!! How?!
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What you say seems true to me but I wonder if there is data on this? Does « paying attention » to rightwing news count?
Folks, if y’all don’t understand by now that the grift is the point after 10 years…is everybody on bath salts????
Yes, Trump and Musk are grifters.
However, they are also intent on utterly destroying America as well.
Lenin was right when he said, first thing you do when you want to overthrow the govt is
https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1j849xl/has_trumps_return_to_power_affected_your_small/
I don't know if they've ever determined what happens with the body once they get to heaven or not
Various portrayals show the bodies falling over or disappearing entirely, but it's really just different flavors of dead.
We will probably never know since it's all just made up.
An increase in groceries and common goods is something we're already used to at this point.