Why don’t we just wait and see if even these idiots want that in a few years? It’s been a couple of weeks and it’s already starting to look like most of the polling locations will be covered in rubble by 2028.

I understand there’s a hierarchy and all, but the henchmen aren’t off the hook is my point.

As ever, the enemies aren’t our more deluded fellow poors, or the well bribed middle managers in Congress.

That uh, that all depends. When they become brownshirts for this fucking clown turd they are our enemies. When they start inflicting violence upon innocent people they certainly are our enemies.

Is that what the “you can’t download your shit anymore” is really reaching at?

The point is that this guy is the asshole at your job talking shit all day about how nobody else is working when they’re never fucking working. That’s what the story is pointing at.

I can – and do – hate the guy for other reasons, but he’s a fucking goldbricker pretending that nobody else is doing their job.

Muerte al rey

Viva la Revolucion

First sitting president to ever waste his time going to the fucking super bowl.

He’s going to Daytona or whatever too. The guy is a complete goldbrick.

Because the speculative “economy” necessarily grows faster than the actual economy.

This country is full of fucking idiots.

I didn’t save it but it asked when I’d consider resubscribing and I answered something like when Bezos changes his whole worldview, stopped cozying up to fascists, made his newspaper a nonprofit, and stopped forcing his employees to pee in bottles…so never.

I finally got a different credit card to use outside of my Amazon Prime card because all that did was encourage me to have a prime subscription and buy shit on amazon…so “I’m doing my part” I guess.

I also canceled Prime and wrote something that would crack up whomever read it (presuming anyone actually reads those things).

I think citizen’s united. The spirit was dead probably before I was born, but legalizing corruption made the full death inevitable.

I don’t remember a flu causing massive shutdowns throughout the country, empty downtowns, bank runs, empty store shelves, rampant price gouging, large bailouts for industry, an entire program setup to enrich the already rich by raiding the treasury, a massive grifter program for “small business”, large scale free vaccination programs, etc etc etc.

You’re not reading my posts and then claiming I’m skimming yours. The US hasn’t seen the type of large scale unrest you’re predicting here in a hundred years, and this dude’s approval ratings are up, not down.

Everything seems to indicate that people will indeed continue to tolerate things getting worse, and that they will continue to blame the unfortunate for their own misfortune.

I had a meeting with a young person who had to have the concept of a directory structure explained to them for a half hour…and they’re in charge of designing a file browser. 🤦‍♂️

I don’t think the exercise was even successful.

Like it or not, for most people, covid was a minor inconvenience. For most people it did amount to a flu.

I think your COVID denialist is showing a bit. The impact of the virus itself isn’t what I was writing about. They were running large amounts of con job and swindle programs and engaging in what would best be described as crisis capitalism. That’s what I’m talking about. If you seriously think the red states – the very same red states that voted a guy back in that had run the cupboards bare and sold off whatever wasn’t nailed down, used the pandemic to pitch beans to the public, and then tried to stay in office by throwing a coup – are going to ever come around to acknowledge that they were swindled by this loser and turn on him en masse, I’m not sure what to tell you.

But I don’t think that will be possible, because it really seems like there’s no way all of these piss poor executive orders won’t have very tangible repercussions on the working class.

I think that’s where the rubber hits the road in this country. I don’t think any mass movement against Trump will start up until there are large repercussions that are clearly linked to his actions. But unfortunately, the bar has been raised over the years as well because the rich people are mostly for the pain he’s inflicting and the country is organized and run by the rich.

It’s starting to look like COVID was the test run the right-wingers on social media were worried about, but as per usual they viewed it through the wrong lens. COVID taught the rich that allowing mass disease, pain, disaster, wealth transfer, and death in the country will not make it more community-oriented and compassionate and will not result in any political repercussions for those exacerbating the problems. COVID was a test run for just how much suffering the people of this country were willing to tolerate without getting unruly (which apparently we as a country have a much bigger appetite than I would have guessed), and the lasting narrative of COVID isn’t that the Republicans did too little, it’s that we shouldn’t have bothered doing as much as we did to help those suffering.

It’s difficult to see how there will be even a splintering in this coalition before it’s way too late to do anything about it.

I don’t know why the country and its leaders didn’t see that getting him out of office in 2021 relatively easily was a miracle and we’re not likely to be blessed twice. I think we have a long, and difficult road ahead of us to ever align this country even slightly in the interests of its people.

America has no principals therefore any movement peters out without any resolution.

I think this is very true. However, I don’t think it’s wholly unique to the US. Canada’s idea of being a “mosaic” is also based upon multi-culturalism and I don’t think that the entirety of the country holds that as a principle either.

America has no identity outside of money.

This is also a true statement. We used to hold other values until every organization that trumpeted them also turned toward the all-mighty dollar (including – and in a lot of ways led by – religion).

Democrats keep trying to play by the rules long after Republicans have flipped the game board and thrown the pieces around the room.

Trump’s fault

With the help of newsrooms like yours, NBC.