OMG I CANNOTTTTTTTTTTT STANDDDDDDDD JEFFRIES. OR SCHUMER OR ANYONE ELSE THERE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM. For the 100th time I agree with you 100%, about that and about 'weird' being focused grouped into oblivion, DUMB, and Newsom, fkd with the podcasts but the trolling is fab. Jeffries is really bad.
Gavin Newsom will run in 2028, and he will win as long as he keeps people engaged with issues that will bring them to the polls. That was the Democrats' mistake in 2024 - as much as LGBTQ, reproductive and minority rights are important, they did not get people off their couches, and that's why Trump won.
Inflation, the price of groceries, the cost of rent, health care, utilities, education, and all the stuff we use every day... this is the stuff that motivates people to kick out a bad government. Living in fear is another one that's growing in importance every day. Amazingly, immigration might be added to this list because of the fascism behind Trump's horrific actions. Democrats, remind people that freedom is never a given and must be protected.
Doubtless been noted already, but 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘑𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 is quite simple really: He was handpicked by the “moderate” (read: Vichy corporate/billionaire fellating) leadership of the Democratic party to carry on their very impotent—no, that’s not a typo—“working for the American people” (read: continue fellating corporations and billionaires).
Truth is, urban policing is tough stuff. Here in LA, the popo locals were only too happy to have an extra 3-5 thou heavily armed bodies on the deck helping. Since having troops on hand is not a bad thing for the local police AND THEIR UNIONS, all the local pols know they are walking into a ELECTORAL trap if they put their toes up to or over the edge on this. Using the troops may be unpopular with some of the civilians (and remember this is really only impacting the brown side of town, a lot of folks who don't or can't vote) but the pols need to be convinced that will turn into a wave of blue voters. Otherwise they are going to play it milquetoast. If you want to say they have no guts, I'm not disagreeing.
The Dems will not save us. It is up to us and always has been. They will follow us.
I am seeing calls to have armed protests and I have to wonder if that’s what is required. How can you both say this is a real threat and asymmetrically disarm blue states simultaneously? It does not track.
Governor Pritzker should repeal their idiotic gun laws and encourage the people to show up in strength when Trump launches his invasion from Washington. IMHO.
Treat all federal troops with the respect they give their bosses, the American people. You cannot do that from a position of weakness
Treason in the same way that America's independence from England was treason? Theoretically yes but its still liberation from tyranny at this point. That being said I agree that a shooting war would be a suicide mission. We're not in a position to resist on that scale and dynamic.
I was thinking that Trump would not hesitate to execute anyone who advocated or encouraged rebellion.
Egypt overthrew its tyrant by protesting and most importantly, by millions of people walking off their jobs. It paralyzed the economy. That would be the most effective means to shut down a government.
Yep. That feels like a more productive path to me too. When the contempt from the majority can’t be denied its just not worth it for those in power. They would never have a day without fearing for their lives
However, thousands of Egyptians were killed by police, and they were mostly peaceful people at the protests. In 2013 another protest occurred, a 3 day sit-in where it ended with police slaughtering about 1,000 people. Unrest of any kind can, and does, bring violence.
Economic protests, work strikes, would crash the stock market and crater Trump's popularity among the oligarchs. Trump loves money more than anything.
I GET the sentiment, but no. No way to win a shooting war with the US military, it would be a suicide mission and would 'justify' sending more troops in.
The only thing that can stop this is public sentiment, and it is VERY much against these occupations.
Not that that will work either, but starting an armed resistance is doomed to fail
Exactly, you just have to make things sufficiently difficult for them to get them to back down. You may send me to my grave but I’ll cripple you so hard you’ll WISH you were dead
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One of the best explanations I've read about MAGA.
"As Golec de Zavala (2020) describes, collective narcissism emerges when a group sees itself as exceptional but under siege. MAGA doesn’t want an honest retelling of the past, it wants a curated myth that proves America has always been right, and that they, as its defenders, are righteous. This sense of victimized exceptionalism feeds directly into why they perceive criticism of the past as an existential threat to the present.
Cognitive Armor, Why MAGA Can’t Let Go
This loyalty is not accidental. It is scaffolded by a mix of psychological traits and media reinforcement. Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), and collective narcissism work in concert. RWA creates a desire for strong leaders and rigid social order. SDO creates comfort with inequality as long as the hierarchy benefits them. And collective narcissism transforms Trump from a politician into a totem of cultural survival.
In Understanding Peace and Conflict through Social Identity Theory, McKeown et al. (2016) explore how identity threats can entrench group loyalty. To the MAGA base, any criticism of Trump is not a political disagreement, it is a personal attack. Trump embodies their sense of justice, power, and cultural primacy. His humiliation is their humiliation. His success, their vindication. As a result, they engage in motivated reasoning, reversing the direction of logic so the conclusion always supports their loyalty, and any fact that contradicts it is viewed as propaganda.
This is why even when Trump is caught lying, indicted, or contradicting past statements, the base rushes to protect him. Their defense isn’t rational, it’s existential. And that existentialism is rooted in fear: fear of change, of equality, of perceived loss. That fear becomes the fuel that binds them emotionally to the narrative, no matter how contradictory or unsupported.
Why Defending Trump Feels Like Morality
When Trump passes an order demanding that museums stop displaying systemic racism as historical fact, the MAGA base doesn’t see it as censorship. They see it as moral clarity. This is how authoritarianism disguises itself. It doesn't arrive wearing jackboots, it comes cloaked in the language of virtue.
As described in Democratic Resilience (2021), when democracy weakens, political actors often appeal to moral panic to consolidate power. Trump’s framing of exhibits like “The Shape of Power” at the Smithsonian as anti-American is not based on historical critique, it’s a strategy to recast inclusion as subversion.
Moreover, the rhetoric of “protecting children” and “restoring sanity” taps into moral foundations like purity and loyalty—core values in conservative psychology as outlined in Moral Foundations Theory. By reframing pluralism as moral decay, MAGA supporters see erasure of complexity not as ignorance, but as virtue. In this light, authoritarian control is seen as a correction of a moral imbalance, not as oppression."
Precisely. Since 2016, we've always been the ones asked to reach across the aisle, never the other way around. And, for all of their tunnel vision and FOX News-ing, MAGA is well aware of that fact. That's at least partly why they behave like atrociously spoiled brats. It seems, from their perspective, this is the only time that "elitist" people like us have given them a thought. They don't seem to be able to acknowledge that our voting has also always had them in mind as well - it's better for everyone when a Dem is in office, but they've been told voting for Democrats is equal to, or worse than, being a traitor to your country. So, nearly a decade later, here we all are.
In 2013, my 13 y-o nephew was talking to me about the Grand Replacement Theory (I'm not sure if that's what it was called back then). My hand to my mother, I asked him if he felt personally besieged by the fact that soon white people - white males, specifically - will be the minorities. He said he didn't understand my question. I then asked, do you think it will affect your everyday life, or is it just the concept that's troubling to you? He said he didn't know. So I asked, do you realize your mother is a minority, that you're half Latino, too? He looked abashed, then called me weird. (His father got FOX-brained a few years before, right around the same time that my sister stopped being a SAHM. Unfortunately, he infected my youngest nephew, too, and my sister was a devout Democrat. 😡)
"The states that did not sign the open letter from 44 attorneys general to AI chatbot companies are Montana, Kansas, Alabama, Texas, Oregon, Maryland, Michigan, and the District of Columbia."
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
Jeffries was more pathetic than a Schumer stern memo
No newsom fan but I will give it to him that he gets how to handle bullies - give them a taste of their own medicine. They hate that
OMG I CANNOTTTTTTTTTTT STANDDDDDDDD JEFFRIES. OR SCHUMER OR ANYONE ELSE THERE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM. For the 100th time I agree with you 100%, about that and about 'weird' being focused grouped into oblivion, DUMB, and Newsom, fkd with the podcasts but the trolling is fab. Jeffries is really bad.
Priorities. How do they work?
Gavin Newsom will run in 2028, and he will win as long as he keeps people engaged with issues that will bring them to the polls. That was the Democrats' mistake in 2024 - as much as LGBTQ, reproductive and minority rights are important, they did not get people off their couches, and that's why Trump won.
Inflation, the price of groceries, the cost of rent, health care, utilities, education, and all the stuff we use every day... this is the stuff that motivates people to kick out a bad government. Living in fear is another one that's growing in importance every day. Amazingly, immigration might be added to this list because of the fascism behind Trump's horrific actions. Democrats, remind people that freedom is never a given and must be protected.
Doubtless been noted already, but 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘑𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 is quite simple really: He was handpicked by the “moderate” (read: Vichy corporate/billionaire fellating) leadership of the Democratic party to carry on their very impotent—no, that’s not a typo—“working for the American people” (read: continue fellating corporations and billionaires).
"Please do not fill the comments or our inboxes with angry denunciations of Newsom’s problematic positions in other areas"
damn right...He totally gets a pass for the nonce. Because NONE of it matters if we don't fight fire with fire
Exactly. One of the problems with Democrats is that they tend to be purists. Newsom is rising to the occasion and doing a damn fine job.
Truth is, urban policing is tough stuff. Here in LA, the popo locals were only too happy to have an extra 3-5 thou heavily armed bodies on the deck helping. Since having troops on hand is not a bad thing for the local police AND THEIR UNIONS, all the local pols know they are walking into a ELECTORAL trap if they put their toes up to or over the edge on this. Using the troops may be unpopular with some of the civilians (and remember this is really only impacting the brown side of town, a lot of folks who don't or can't vote) but the pols need to be convinced that will turn into a wave of blue voters. Otherwise they are going to play it milquetoast. If you want to say they have no guts, I'm not disagreeing.
I really don't get it. Trump is never leaving. The Republicans are never giving up power. The democrats on office have nothing to lose.
You could be right. We can't even be sure we'll have midterms. If that's the case, I think we'll see a civil war.
Could well happen
Andressen and Horowitz: "Dark Enlightenment" libertarian tech-bros of the Peter Thiel school of "Tech-Bros Should Rule America" school.
𝗮𝟭𝟲𝘇 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 $𝟭.𝟰𝟵𝗠 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/a16z-spends-1-49m-in-washington-lobbying-while-rivals-mostly-sit-out/
𝘢16𝘻’𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘝𝘊 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘴, 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘚𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 $120,000 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘵𝘰-𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘵 $500,000 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥. 𝘉𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢16𝘻’𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘝𝘊𝘈’𝘴 $1.40 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Crap.
Double crap
The Dems will not save us. It is up to us and always has been. They will follow us.
I am seeing calls to have armed protests and I have to wonder if that’s what is required. How can you both say this is a real threat and asymmetrically disarm blue states simultaneously? It does not track.
Governor Pritzker should repeal their idiotic gun laws and encourage the people to show up in strength when Trump launches his invasion from Washington. IMHO.
Treat all federal troops with the respect they give their bosses, the American people. You cannot do that from a position of weakness
Yeah, but no. No backyard militia can fight the government. And "encouraging" this is treason.
You aren’t fighting the military. Remember the Bundy’s pointing guns at feds and nothing happened.
I’m not advocating even going that far. Just showing up.
The Bundys were not facing down Donald Trump, who wanted to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs.
Treason in the same way that America's independence from England was treason? Theoretically yes but its still liberation from tyranny at this point. That being said I agree that a shooting war would be a suicide mission. We're not in a position to resist on that scale and dynamic.
I was thinking that Trump would not hesitate to execute anyone who advocated or encouraged rebellion.
Egypt overthrew its tyrant by protesting and most importantly, by millions of people walking off their jobs. It paralyzed the economy. That would be the most effective means to shut down a government.
Yep. That feels like a more productive path to me too. When the contempt from the majority can’t be denied its just not worth it for those in power. They would never have a day without fearing for their lives
However, thousands of Egyptians were killed by police, and they were mostly peaceful people at the protests. In 2013 another protest occurred, a 3 day sit-in where it ended with police slaughtering about 1,000 people. Unrest of any kind can, and does, bring violence.
Economic protests, work strikes, would crash the stock market and crater Trump's popularity among the oligarchs. Trump loves money more than anything.
I GET the sentiment, but no. No way to win a shooting war with the US military, it would be a suicide mission and would 'justify' sending more troops in.
The only thing that can stop this is public sentiment, and it is VERY much against these occupations.
Not that that will work either, but starting an armed resistance is doomed to fail
Demonstrations and Public sentiment is the way. And showing up armed is going to show you mean it.
I have to remain silent on this point. Anything that I couldn’t do I can’t ask others to do. But I have no moral objection to it at all.
Right. In a contest of military strength the combined blue states cannot be the U.S
military
But the point is they don't have to. Ukraine shows us everything we need to know on how to beat a larger, more militarily powerful foe.
Exactly, you just have to make things sufficiently difficult for them to get them to back down. You may send me to my grave but I’ll cripple you so hard you’ll WISH you were dead
Showing a potential cost. It’s one thing to get paid to kill and quite another to get paid to die.
No.
“As Department of War, we won everything, we won everything, and I think we’re going to have to go back to that.”
"Now, gimme the Nobel Peace Prize."
Has ANY reporters asked him what war he ended? I am so tired of their total complicity.
They're just props for his performances
My actual question to AI this morning
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Cry harder, you fucking nazi weirdo.
𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜, 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
OpenAI slams Musk’s lawsuit as part of his "ongoing pattern of harassment."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/elon-musk-sues-apple-openai-to-block-exclusive-iphone-chatgpt-integration/
Every AI company is burning hundreds of millions a month with no real profit plan except go bigger and then it just works!
Tech bubble 3.0. You'd think we'd learn eventually.
Arguably each tech bubble has created unimaginable wealth amid the rubble so I’d argue they did learn
Not while there's profit to be taken before the bubble bursts.
Budgie was all sleepytimes.
Is going back there nao ok thx.
One of the best explanations I've read about MAGA.
"As Golec de Zavala (2020) describes, collective narcissism emerges when a group sees itself as exceptional but under siege. MAGA doesn’t want an honest retelling of the past, it wants a curated myth that proves America has always been right, and that they, as its defenders, are righteous. This sense of victimized exceptionalism feeds directly into why they perceive criticism of the past as an existential threat to the present.
Cognitive Armor, Why MAGA Can’t Let Go
This loyalty is not accidental. It is scaffolded by a mix of psychological traits and media reinforcement. Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), and collective narcissism work in concert. RWA creates a desire for strong leaders and rigid social order. SDO creates comfort with inequality as long as the hierarchy benefits them. And collective narcissism transforms Trump from a politician into a totem of cultural survival.
In Understanding Peace and Conflict through Social Identity Theory, McKeown et al. (2016) explore how identity threats can entrench group loyalty. To the MAGA base, any criticism of Trump is not a political disagreement, it is a personal attack. Trump embodies their sense of justice, power, and cultural primacy. His humiliation is their humiliation. His success, their vindication. As a result, they engage in motivated reasoning, reversing the direction of logic so the conclusion always supports their loyalty, and any fact that contradicts it is viewed as propaganda.
This is why even when Trump is caught lying, indicted, or contradicting past statements, the base rushes to protect him. Their defense isn’t rational, it’s existential. And that existentialism is rooted in fear: fear of change, of equality, of perceived loss. That fear becomes the fuel that binds them emotionally to the narrative, no matter how contradictory or unsupported.
Why Defending Trump Feels Like Morality
When Trump passes an order demanding that museums stop displaying systemic racism as historical fact, the MAGA base doesn’t see it as censorship. They see it as moral clarity. This is how authoritarianism disguises itself. It doesn't arrive wearing jackboots, it comes cloaked in the language of virtue.
As described in Democratic Resilience (2021), when democracy weakens, political actors often appeal to moral panic to consolidate power. Trump’s framing of exhibits like “The Shape of Power” at the Smithsonian as anti-American is not based on historical critique, it’s a strategy to recast inclusion as subversion.
Moreover, the rhetoric of “protecting children” and “restoring sanity” taps into moral foundations like purity and loyalty—core values in conservative psychology as outlined in Moral Foundations Theory. By reframing pluralism as moral decay, MAGA supporters see erasure of complexity not as ignorance, but as virtue. In this light, authoritarian control is seen as a correction of a moral imbalance, not as oppression."
https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/why-maga-defends-everything-trump
I recommend The Rational League here on Substack.
I'd never heard of them before.
This is probably why whenever any of their leaders are questioned, about anything, they go off about Being In Line With What Americans Want
They do not mean Americans. They mean their cult worshippers.
Everyone else can go to hell. Weirdly, the press NEVER calls that out. Never asks them to Reach Across the Aisle or Compromise, etc etc etc.
Precisely. Since 2016, we've always been the ones asked to reach across the aisle, never the other way around. And, for all of their tunnel vision and FOX News-ing, MAGA is well aware of that fact. That's at least partly why they behave like atrociously spoiled brats. It seems, from their perspective, this is the only time that "elitist" people like us have given them a thought. They don't seem to be able to acknowledge that our voting has also always had them in mind as well - it's better for everyone when a Dem is in office, but they've been told voting for Democrats is equal to, or worse than, being a traitor to your country. So, nearly a decade later, here we all are.
In 2013, my 13 y-o nephew was talking to me about the Grand Replacement Theory (I'm not sure if that's what it was called back then). My hand to my mother, I asked him if he felt personally besieged by the fact that soon white people - white males, specifically - will be the minorities. He said he didn't understand my question. I then asked, do you think it will affect your everyday life, or is it just the concept that's troubling to you? He said he didn't know. So I asked, do you realize your mother is a minority, that you're half Latino, too? He looked abashed, then called me weird. (His father got FOX-brained a few years before, right around the same time that my sister stopped being a SAHM. Unfortunately, he infected my youngest nephew, too, and my sister was a devout Democrat. 😡)
"The states that did not sign the open letter from 44 attorneys general to AI chatbot companies are Montana, Kansas, Alabama, Texas, Oregon, Maryland, Michigan, and the District of Columbia."
𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 ‘𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝘁’ 𝗜𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
https://www.404media.co/44-attorneys-general-to-ai-chatbot-companies-open-letter/
I wonder why my state of Oregon didn't sign?
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2025/02/06/oregon-open-ai-data-center-stargate.html
Oh.