trump’s promises

[jfish26]

kids and seniors

sigh…

And cancer patients. And vets:



I fully expect the next step to many/most of these things will be for the supreme leader to walk back his own policies, and cast himself as savior for his magnanimity.

Do you have some sort of crystal ball or have you just seen this kabuki show before?

I wish I could say this level of foresight requires much brainpower beyond that needed to learn object permanence.

[Overlander]

Leave it to Mich to find the silver lining in folks suffering, dying, being made homeless and jobless.

[pdub]

A relative of mine works for a local hospital which is in danger of shutting down next week unless federal funds are cleared.

These are all specific instances of people affected in my life.
It's a complete shit show out there and its been just over a week.

[KUTradition]

Trump moves to fire members of EEOC, NLRB boards, breaking with precedent

The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee large swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, an extraordinary break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans control over boards that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions...

[pdub]

This is following Project 2025 to a tee.
I thought they said they wouldn’t do that and didn’t know anything about it.

[jfish26]

This is following Project 2025 to a tee.
I thought they said they wouldn’t do that and didn’t know anything about it.

Only a matter of time before - in fact, I'm certain I could find an example without much effort at all of this having happened already - these cretins will find one of the 2024 Q2/Q3 "You guys, Trump is totally gonna do Project 2025" stories in the NYT or WaPo or something, and present it as evidence that MAGA voters knew all along that this is what they were voting for.

Never you fucking mind that these same cretins were the ones calling those same stories "conspiracy theories" etc.

(And you can go ahead and rinse and repeat that pattern, but put it in the microwave for 20 uninterrupted minutes, with the "You guys, Trump is totally gonna do fascism" stories. We're all old enough to remember when these cretins ran for their fainting couches and accused the Dems of "irresponsible rhetoric" when it was suggested that the orange guy was maybe just a little Adolf-curious.)

[pdub]

Elon’s lackeys infiltrating via take over.
Setting up a new email server to pretend to be civil servants.

How is this not bigger news?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/5d0XcjpMBN

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-l ... ng-stalin/

[jfish26]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

[KUTradition]

States lose access to Medicaid payment portal amid Trump federal aid freeze

[pdub]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

Or some realization and backbone from Republican members of Congress and important voices in media.

[jfish26]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

Or some realization and backbone from Republican members of Congress and important voices in media.

I guess I think all of it goes hand-in-hand. The requirement seems to be that people wake up to the water being at about 209.8 degrees.

[KUTradition]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

Or some realization and backbone from Republican members of Congress and important voices in media.

sorry to be so pessimistic, but i think those ships have sailed

[twocoach]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it...

"...Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet..."

Sorry, big They Might be Giants fan here and it whistled through my head instantly.

[twocoach]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

Or some realization and backbone from Republican members of Congress and important voices in media.

There are no Republicans with a backbone remaining. They have all been driven out of the party by MAGA and replaced with spineless, sniveling, lying sycophants.

[pdub]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

Or some realization and backbone from Republican members of Congress and important voices in media.

sorry to be so pessimistic, but i think those ships have sailed

Well, i'm hoping that fish's reference to the boiling point would bring out a bit of courage.

[KUTradition]

Or some realization and backbone from Republican members of Congress and important voices in media.

sorry to be so pessimistic, but i think those ships have sailed

Well, i'm hoping that fish's reference to the boiling point would bring out a bit of courage.

let’s hope, then, that we aren’t frogs…

[twocoach]

Whoops, just reposted that second link. My bad.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but whether we have a democracy or dictatorship in two years may well depend on enough people having the maturity to recognize and admit they were tricked.

It will just come down to math. If after two years, Trump's obliteration of our nation has hurt enough MAGA supporters financially, they will leave him. Trump doesn't give a fuck about any of his supporters now that he cannot run for reelection. That's why this time around has been such a blowtorch. We're all going to have to feel pain because of their ignorance and selfish hope that they can get something for nothing, like they feel like minorities and women have been getting under Dems.

Selfish people only act on selfish motivations. They do not give a shit about anyone else or our nation as a whole.

[jfish26]

One of the most profound challenges we're facing, in terms of meeting the moment, is essentially that MAGA has convinced ~half the country that trifles like "the Constitution" and "the rule of law" are partisan issues.

And that standing up for them is to take a political side.

This is of course an inversion; standing up for the Constitution and the rule of law is only taking a political side in that one of our two political sides has, for the first time in at least 8-9 generations, taken a stand openly opposed to those things.

And it should not, in the zoomed-out sense, be all that surprising that the 14th Amendment - adopted and made part of the Constitution as a response to what happened 8-9 generations ago - is at the top of that breakaway side's list of targets.

[KUTradition]

mccarthy -> cohn -> trump

quite the through line

[twocoach]

One of the most profound challenges we're facing, in terms of meeting the moment, is essentially that MAGA has convinced ~half the country that trifles like "the Constitution" and "the rule of law" are partisan issues.

And that standing up for them is to take a political side.

This is of course an inversion; standing up for the Constitution and the rule of law is only taking a political side in that one of our two political sides has, for the first time in at least 8-9 generations, taken a stand openly opposed to those things.

And it should not, in the zoomed-out sense, be all that surprising that the 14th Amendment - adopted and made part of the Constitution as a response to what happened 8-9 generations ago - is at the top of that breakaway side's list of targets.

The problem being that MAGA has also convinced themselves that they are the group most true to the Constitution, all the while using as toilet paper to wipe Donald Trump's ass with.

Ultimately, it shouldn't be a surprise. When the Constitution was created, only wealthy white men mattered in this country. Blacks and women were merely support staff. Since then, it has been amended to try to be a better representation of "ALL men are created equal" and now those wealthy white men aren't very happy with those changes.