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_Robert_ wrote:
They real plan is to privatize social security/medicare and get that money into the stock market. So first they have to screw it up and then they will get away with it. America is dumber than a box of hammers.

Hopefully, dumb as they are, it will become undeniable that the food shortages, restaurant closures, increasing rents, and…[Read more]

They real plan is to privatize social security/medicare and get that money into the stock market. So first they have to screw it up and then they will get away with it. America is dumber than a box of hammers.

Fuck around and find out, as they say. And the GOP will find out, I predict, in the midterms and in the next presidential election.

Immigrant workers are already going back into the woodwork rather than risk deportation, and the Republican dream of taking everyone off entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid and forcing them to accept the vacant…[Read more]

Idiocracy.

Excerpts from Heather Cox Richardson’s substack post, Nov 1, 2024:

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

Trump’s comments to right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson last night at an event in Glendale, Arizona, about former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), coming as they have after the extraordinary racism and sexism of Trump’s Sunday event at New York Cit…

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This PBS-Amanpour video is almost 18 minutes, but this guy gave me insight into how politically motivated violence has been happening on a predictable arc.

These weren’t mentioned in the video, but IMO perhaps 1) they’re on the same historic arc that Bannon foresaw and has been leading; 2) this is how anti-woke pushback has gotten so much fuel…[Read more]

Just Exactly How Many Scandals Can the GOP Fit Into One Week

About 6-1/2 minutes, if you skip the 3-1/4 minute ad in the middle.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
He thinks he is a patriot but will kill for his God. LOL. Get down and give me 2 push-ups soldier.

Simon Paynton wrote:
There are always going to be hot-headed nutters.  A certain person whips them up.  You’re right, it’s not patriotic at all.

My first thought when he said the military won’t fight patriots, while…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
I guess that sounds childish, but sometimes, exasperated words fail me.

LOL, I’m laughing for real, because I must have spent ten minutes rewording my post because it sounded so childish! I wanted to make fun of those guys soooo badly.

There’s surely some kind of us-vs-them instinct that kicks in, especially when a cult-like…[Read more]

There are always going to be hot-headed nutters.  A certain person whips them up.  You’re right, it’s not patriotic at all.  People are focused on just one or two things instead of the big picture.  I find that some of the Kamala-objecting Democrats are doing the same thing: objecting to some single issue, without caring that Donald Trump … wel…[Read more]

We have plenty of firearms.

If there is a revolution I am sure that some of the 180,000 active duty marine corps will be able to handle them. Once it is declared a national emergency or an insurgency they will get out of bed (both of which are exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act). Then they can go back for their breakfast.

He thinks he is a…[Read more]

I guess that sounds childish, but sometimes, exasperated words fail me.

I know four people who support Trump, and they’re all exceptionally intelligent and nice.  So, I don’t get why they don’t smell him a mile off.  He’s a master manipulator.

PopeBeanie wrote:
(Hey buddy, stump rhymes with Trump!)

I guess they’re so stupid that they don’t know they’re stupid, and that Trump is stupid, and that Trump is a liar, a cheat and a fraud.

If Trump loses, maybe it’s because “the election was stolen”. And they have guns.

It’s only about 1-1/2 minutes long, where I jump into it.

(Hey buddy, stump rhymes with Trump!)

Hmm, WSJ posted this on YT on July 13, before I started this thread. It’s 11-1/2 minutes long: Project 2025: The Radical Conservative Plan to Reshape America Under Trump

I wish to understand how cults and extreme movements manifest. I see more anger and hate in social media than ever before. I’m seeing people say, with confidence, authoritarianism would be better than the current “permissive society that’s ruining America”. The threat to democracy is real, wrapped in an American flag, and carried by Christian…[Read more]

It would be great if Hunter S. Thompson was still around do write a few ‘gonzo journalism’ articles on Trump. The fear and loathing has since spread out from Las Vegas.

I jump in a bit, leaving 4-1/4 minutes to watch:

(He shook his head when he said “I’m not Christian”. It sounded intentional to me, but maybe he’s just stirring the pot, in the moment, to get more headlines?)

OK, I’ll expand this topic beyond SCOTUS. It can also be about neo-GOP, 2024 election, and Project 2025. (It’s a fricken conspiracy.)

10 minutes of Thom Harmann on JD Vance vs (childless cat lady) Kamala Harris.