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Estate planning attorney, skier, bicyclist, left of center dad living in constant bewilderment.
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THIS IS A DICTATOR

Let’s be honest the gross incompetence of America’s current political leadership will result in a world wide recession, or worse. We all should prepare for a black swan event.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

Why is this even a question?

FuKKK @GOP

Said it in 2016 and will repeat it for the millionth time. Trump is a Russian owned piece of shit and has been owned by them for decades. His goal is to destroy America & this time w/o guardrails that’s exactly what he is doing.

I just want to go back to arguing with conservatives about the efficacy of tax cuts, and the failure of red states. I don’t want to argue about is a dictatorship better than a democracy.

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

The fact that you see how wrong this all is, means your faculties are intact, your mind is fully right, and your heart is working properly; you still have a soul doing what souls are supposed to do: keep you deeply human in profoundly inhumane times. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...

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Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Doubt this will happen but I will participate in the blackout.

I love this. This should be the symbol of the new rebel coalition.

Does Donald know he isn’t President? How long will it take for him to figure out he is Elon’s puppet?

Oops 😬

Will someone make this stop! When did we become such a cruel country?

Not to be an “in my day” old man…but today’s generation could never have survived as latch key kids.

Oh Donald, you’re not anything but their puppet. They’re laughing at you as you fumble fuck around playing golf and saying stupid shit on TV. They gave you billions of crypto money to shut you up. Pathetic.

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

I am embarrassed to be a Democrat and embarrassed to be an American.

And MAGAts think he won.

Americans are about to learn some economics.

The stock market will be down 3% tomorrow. It’s going to keep going in that direction for some time. Unfortunately the old adage that “you get the government you deserve” is proving itself very true.

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Are the Democrats (and/or the Republicans) going to do anything or is the American experiment over? At this rate we won’t make it until 2026.

How is this legal? Are we going straight to chaos.

Kudos to whoever figured this out

This is the most Orwellian thing I have ever seen the government do. Where is the outrage? Are we burnt out?

100%

Where are progressive leaders with a backbone. Why don’t we have an easy to understand, pro democracy statesmen. They are literally tearing democracy apart and we don’t have a leader sounding the alarm. Sometime I hate being liberal. We always get bogged down in nuance.

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

Am I the only one who is completely burnt out from this insanity? I barely made it through the first term. I don’t think I have four more years in me.

Can anyone explain to me what the function of the Democratic Party is today and how it is serving that function? Are they still around? If so, is there any evidence of that?

It is going to be a very bad day for stocks. The markets are finally factoring in the cost of having a lunatic as POTUS

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www.pbssocal.org/shows/to-the... Remember when Trump was outraged about this misuse of the 14th Amendment? Neither do I.

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...