Change is coming, we just have to hang on, and reach out to nonMaga neighbors. Sorry for going deep in the rabbit hole, but I want to try to show the light in our current darkness and despair.
The country is already beginning to swing back HARD to the left. History shows that the US swings hard to the left, politically and socially, when the extreme right agenda puts enough people in poverty.
9-10% unemployment is predicted by the end of this year; the gutting of social programs that support food, child care and health care will have widespread effects by November. The health care crisis is affecting the middle class and people over 65. Affordability and the job crisis is zapping millions of Americans right between the eyes. And when the AI bubble fully crashes in the next 18-24 months, the fall out will be worse than the Dot.com crash. Changes in student loan categories are pissing off Gen Alpha and professional organizations, like nurses.
ICE atrocities are happening in Red States, too. Detention centers are being planned in small towns in Red states across the country, and they aren’t having it. I’ve been seeing active resistance to detention centers from those communities in council meetings, they are also protesting to their state and federal legislators. they are also fighting data center development. Shit is getting real for people who have never paid attention - because it’s happening to them.
Polls show R voters that formerly identified as MAGA, are beginning to identify as plain old R’s across income categories. Independents especially aren’t buying what Trump and Congress is selling. Sure, Trump and red states will do their worst voter suppression and intimidation. They’ll contest election results. But it’s not gonna take us by surprise, and most important, white people, especially independents, are favoring Dems in GENERIC races. Their opinion of Dem politicians is really low, but they like what they’re saying a lot more than what’s happening under Republican control.
When I feel hopeless, and my mental depression and physical health spirals and hurts my ability to function, I make playlists of protest and inspiration songs. I blast it thru my 300 watt speakers when I’m home, and when I run errands I crank up the volume. When I see our democracy failing and government sanctioned cruelty, it’s hard to find rays of hope. But I’m an old hippy; a former university professor so I’m a research nerd willing to dig through piles of shit to uncover the prize at the bottom. I’m a student of public health and social history, so I know humanity will make a course correction even if I don’t live to see it.
My concern is that tidays right wingers aren't like the right wingers of our youth. As much as we disagreed with them in the past, they at least tried to pass some of their worst policies through actual legislation through garnrring public support.
Today, they make no pretense they are doing anything of the sort. ICE is now nothing but an armed paramilitary wing of this administration and Trump us openly saying he will only accept election results if the midterms are "fair", meaning if a Republucan wins.
Do you think public opinion will actually matter when Trump claims the results are "crooked" and Johnson and friends refuse to certify the results pending an "investigation into fraudulent votes"? The Constitution can't protect us in the absence of enforcement of penalties for ignoring it.
Serious question, I would like to hear your analysis, I am trying hard not to be too negative but it is getting harder.
LDF is trying to get people to take the fact that 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬 (despite a federal law passed in *1996* that makes voting illegal by undocumented immigrants and no sane undocumented immigrant is going to risk a felony indictment by trying to vote illegally - WE DON'T NEED THEM, WE DON'T NEED IT, THAT IS NOT SAID ENOUGH) seriously
but people are putting their fingers in their ears and going "lalalala, I'm not trying to hear it" and REFUSING TO MAKE PLANS TO VOTE
LDF is trying to get people to take the fact that 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬 (despite a federal law passed in *1996* that makes voting illegal by undocumented immigrants and no sane undocumented immigrant is going to risk a felony indictment by trying to vote illegally - WE DON'T NEED THEM, WE DON'T NEED IT, THAT IS NOT SAID ENOUGH) seriously
but people are putting their fingers in their ears and going "lalalala, I'm not trying to hear it" and REFUSING TO MAKE PLANS TO VOTE
I guess we should be thankful that there's always someone who is incompetent or too eager to please the Dear Leader who makes these nefarious schemes unravel.
Ahh, the beauty of the English language with its various definitions. Eagle Ed taints up the DOH, I mean DOJ's revenge mission while also being a trump taint kisser extraordinaire.
A legal eagle he is not. More like a legal Sméagol
"Lucky break, Adam Schiff!" Psst! Per Presidential decree, it's spelled SCHITT!
Change is coming, we just have to hang on, and reach out to nonMaga neighbors. Sorry for going deep in the rabbit hole, but I want to try to show the light in our current darkness and despair.
The country is already beginning to swing back HARD to the left. History shows that the US swings hard to the left, politically and socially, when the extreme right agenda puts enough people in poverty.
9-10% unemployment is predicted by the end of this year; the gutting of social programs that support food, child care and health care will have widespread effects by November. The health care crisis is affecting the middle class and people over 65. Affordability and the job crisis is zapping millions of Americans right between the eyes. And when the AI bubble fully crashes in the next 18-24 months, the fall out will be worse than the Dot.com crash. Changes in student loan categories are pissing off Gen Alpha and professional organizations, like nurses.
ICE atrocities are happening in Red States, too. Detention centers are being planned in small towns in Red states across the country, and they aren’t having it. I’ve been seeing active resistance to detention centers from those communities in council meetings, they are also protesting to their state and federal legislators. they are also fighting data center development. Shit is getting real for people who have never paid attention - because it’s happening to them.
Polls show R voters that formerly identified as MAGA, are beginning to identify as plain old R’s across income categories. Independents especially aren’t buying what Trump and Congress is selling. Sure, Trump and red states will do their worst voter suppression and intimidation. They’ll contest election results. But it’s not gonna take us by surprise, and most important, white people, especially independents, are favoring Dems in GENERIC races. Their opinion of Dem politicians is really low, but they like what they’re saying a lot more than what’s happening under Republican control.
When I feel hopeless, and my mental depression and physical health spirals and hurts my ability to function, I make playlists of protest and inspiration songs. I blast it thru my 300 watt speakers when I’m home, and when I run errands I crank up the volume. When I see our democracy failing and government sanctioned cruelty, it’s hard to find rays of hope. But I’m an old hippy; a former university professor so I’m a research nerd willing to dig through piles of shit to uncover the prize at the bottom. I’m a student of public health and social history, so I know humanity will make a course correction even if I don’t live to see it.
My concern is that tidays right wingers aren't like the right wingers of our youth. As much as we disagreed with them in the past, they at least tried to pass some of their worst policies through actual legislation through garnrring public support.
Today, they make no pretense they are doing anything of the sort. ICE is now nothing but an armed paramilitary wing of this administration and Trump us openly saying he will only accept election results if the midterms are "fair", meaning if a Republucan wins.
Do you think public opinion will actually matter when Trump claims the results are "crooked" and Johnson and friends refuse to certify the results pending an "investigation into fraudulent votes"? The Constitution can't protect us in the absence of enforcement of penalties for ignoring it.
Serious question, I would like to hear your analysis, I am trying hard not to be too negative but it is getting harder.
thank you for this and sending a big hug
Amen, friend.
LDF is trying to get people to take the fact that 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬 (despite a federal law passed in *1996* that makes voting illegal by undocumented immigrants and no sane undocumented immigrant is going to risk a felony indictment by trying to vote illegally - WE DON'T NEED THEM, WE DON'T NEED IT, THAT IS NOT SAID ENOUGH) seriously
but people are putting their fingers in their ears and going "lalalala, I'm not trying to hear it" and REFUSING TO MAKE PLANS TO VOTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WYw-w-L1mI
I hope people -- White people in particular -- get it together
The trump administration is setting up a Slow Horses office? Maybe it will make a good TV series.
The Three Stooges meets The A Team.
They may be evil, but fortunately for us, they're also stupid.
So we are dependent on rescue form these incompetents by the fact they are incompetent? The phrase "Could be worse" doesn't really come to mind.
Incompetence is the only thing that might save us.
Not true
But *Democracy is not a spectator sport*
LDF is trying to get people to take the fact that 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬 (despite a federal law passed in *1996* that makes voting illegal by undocumented immigrants and no sane undocumented immigrant is going to risk a felony indictment by trying to vote illegally - WE DON'T NEED THEM, WE DON'T NEED IT, THAT IS NOT SAID ENOUGH) seriously
but people are putting their fingers in their ears and going "lalalala, I'm not trying to hear it" and REFUSING TO MAKE PLANS TO VOTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WYw-w-L1mI
I hope people -- White people in particular -- get it together
I guess we should be thankful that there's always someone who is incompetent or too eager to please the Dear Leader who makes these nefarious schemes unravel.
Ahh, the beauty of the English language with its various definitions. Eagle Ed taints up the DOH, I mean DOJ's revenge mission while also being a trump taint kisser extraordinaire.
“I expected to be talking in detail about the evidence that I gathered against Adam Schiff,” Bish fussed to reporters.
Dis Bish here.
According to what that JC guy (the one Squeaker Johnson is always misquoting) reportedly said, brick-and-mortar churches shouldn't be a thing.
Remember the three stooges?
All of em need to hear the clanking of prison bars closing behind them and the keys being flung into the depths of the Mariana Trench.
i'd settle for a thrown switch
One of those big knife switches, like the ones in Dr. Frankenstein's lab.
Bish, please.
I heard bish used to mean mistake in 1960s England.
Bosh.
Pish
The circle jerk of jerks a-circling, dancing to the tolling bells.
𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐺𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 2020 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝’𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑙, 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
“𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙,” 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦.
He has a gal.
She's really good with international.
i thought that was his slovakian russian asset