Most Americans still don’t realize what we’ve done: The copper wiring has been ripped out of the walls and sold. The load-bearing institutions have been fully destroyed, international trust in the US (including its people) has been permanently lost. It won’t be coming back. We did it to ourselves.
35% of this country would *vote* to bring back chattel slavery if they could.
Then shut it down. We don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Jim Lokay@jimlokay.com · 2d agoWaPo reports Kennedy Center may close by Tuesday and faces bankruptcy if Trump's name is not added to the center. "Trump is unlikely to provide “fundamental oversight” of that project or lead a financial rescue without “appropriate recognition” of his role." GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4cLnDHP
We’re all prisoners of no-information swing voters who vote based entirely on vibes and contradictory beliefs and it’s legitimately maddening.
It’s wild to consider how many things in this country are just continuing based on inertia while the government and all laws have been torn out like copper wire and sold for parts.
We can knock down the ballroom and the arch, scrape his name off every surface, but his real lasting legacies will be impossible to wipe away: Activating millions of Nazis, setting the precedent for a fascist government, and ending all trust in the US. Those things will last forever.
“Cheat like hell” is an explicit call to commit voter fraud, to block and steal ballots, to intimidate voters, and to refuse to count and certify votes. That is what the regime demands, and they’re going to do it.
Reuters@reuters.com · 4d agoPresident Trump led his Republican Party in a mock pledge during their political convention in Dallas on September 10, telling them to ‘cheat like hell’ and vote whether they're ‘registered or not’ in November's midterm elections. reut.rs/3TkYP2V
The voters broke the country permanently and awoke evil forces that will never go away.
Keir Giles@keirgiles.bsky.social · 2w ago𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 (𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆) - Too many people still hope they can wait out Trumpism for things to return to 'normal'. But the world is past that even if Trump departs after his second term. This isn't just a blip, and instead of hope we need adaptation for survival. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Polls have proven to be notoriously inaccurate and Americans have proven they can’t be trusted to vote wisely. There is zero chance Republicans lose the Senate.
Can Democrats Win Back the Senate? Why Their Chances Are Improving.
Republicans still have some clear advantages on the map, but President Trump’s unpopularity has opened the door for an outcome that once seemed far-fetched.
nytimes.com
Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
washingtonpost.com
When the Republican high clerics sign on to the regime’s seizure of elections, the immediate response must be secession declarations by blue states and a dissolution of the country. Nothing less will do.
DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow Trump’s USPS action on mail-in ballots to proceed ahead of midterm elections
The appeal came shortly before a federal judge was set to decide whether to issue an injunction blocking requirements dictating how mail-in ballots are sent.
nbcnews.com
One third of Americans—fully 100 million adults—are avowed Nazis. Until we find a solution for that, things are only going to get worse.
It’s sad that even if Democrats do manage to take the House, all that’s going to mean is two years of constant government shutdowns and the regime ignoring subpoenas and laughing about it while the country continues to collapse.
They’re stealing the election and everyone with power is just going to let them if not actively aid in the effort.
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · 2w agoMy latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order
The president’s addiction to crazed AI slop depicting wars that he could easily launch but hasn’t and other delusional lunacy is vastly more dangerous than the media wants to suggest.
If the citizens of any other country saw this level of blatant corruption, election rigging, and abject cruelty, they would have had a color revolution to remove the regime a long time ago. Americans, forever complacent, can’t be bothered because they simply don’t care enough.
I think it’s really underestimated that a lot of Republican secretaries of state are simply going to refuse to certify Democratic House and Senate winners in November and the Supreme Court is going to let them do it.
They killed the Voting Rights Act less than four months ago and the Confederacy immediately began reinstalling Jim Crow and hardly anyone talks about it anymore.
Even after It Happens, the fight for American democracy and sanity will not be over. The next leader of the Republican Party will be worse, somehow. And the Roberts Court isn’t giving up power unless we take it from them.
Everyone wants to pretend authoritarianism is some threat just over the horizon, in the middle distance but still preventable. It’s not. It’s already here. America is an authoritarian country that lacks free and fair elections and the rule of law. It happened here.
The US’ former allies have firmly learned the lesson of 2024: America cannot and should not be trusted under any circumstances. That lesson will far outlast this regime, the trust that once existed is permanently broken.
South Korea president calls for military independence in wake of Trump call to cut joint drills
Lee Jae Myung reiterates desire for full command back in Seoul’s hands after Donald Trump cuts joint exercises, citing warm ties with Kim Jong-un
theguardian.com
I think a lot of people haven’t confronted the likelihood of the possibility that when Trump faces losing power (whether it’s due to a health crisis or simply the end of his term that not even another attempted coup can stop), he’s far more likely to simply nuke the world than to leave quietly.
The constant endless navalgazing and hyperdefensive dissection on this website about the website itself is exhausting. Screams insecurity. Make it stop.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · last mo.It's none of my business whether the website I post on is growing, shrinking, staying the same. I am yelling at the sky and whoever wants to gawk at me is welcome
I, for one, find it hilarious that Trump has raised over half a billion dollars in campaign funds and he’s not going to spend a single red cent of it to help his own party in the midterms, he’s just going to keep that bag.
We’re learning a lot lately about how inaccurate polls are. Everyone seems to think Jon Ossoff and Roy Cooper have those Senate seats in the bag, but polls and voters cannot be trusted, particularly in the Confederacy. Republicans should be considered favored in both.
