Our owners and their paid managers in the Courts, in the Congress, and both major parties have reached the point where rhetorical defense is no longer relevant.
We’ve reached the “So what if I did? Want to cry about it?” stage of this collapse.
You see it everywhere. Corporations used to do damage control after mass layoffs, now they literally insult the employees on the way out the door and brag about their cruelty on the money shows.
The small sect of our society that are in the country club no longer fear consequences, and for good reason, as they’ve captured any governmental bodies that would earnestly seek or inflict them. And if that fails, they still have legions of deluded, self-hating peasants ready to protect their own oppressors out of the sunk cost fallacy.
There is some delicious irony in 100+ Thomas clerks signing an opinion that ignores the actual issue, reaches a pre-determined conclusion based on their preexisting support for the guy, and gives no logical or objective reason why you should agree.
It’s not ironic. These actions are exactly why they got the job of clerk in the first place. They are responsible for holding up the appearance of propriety so people have faith in the rule of law. The whole court should be holding him to some kind of account.
MAGA cultists attempting terrorist attacks is the least of our worries. They have already demonstrated their abject incompetence in armed combat.
More worrying is what will happen if Trump wins the election. He has a pretty good chance of doing so, because the election is rigged in his favor. He only barely lost in 2020, it’s a miracle that he did, and relying on repeated miracles is a very poor survival strategy…
Let’s get it the fuck over with then. This thing where they just keep throwing a giant fit and threatening a civil war needs to end, and they’ve been extraordinarily clear that they won’t let it end peacefully unless we let them dismantle our democracy and that’s not an option.
I don’t think any of the gravy seals have it in them to actually take on the government. Soon as they see their buddies torn in half by a 50cal it’s going to blow the fight right out of them. Sure, sure, it’s all “I’ll die for my country!” but you put a gun to their head and say, “America needs your life now”, not one in ten will have the courage of their conviction.
I used to doom-scroll to see what bullshit embarrassment Trump was going to put our country through on any given day. Now I’m doom scroll hoping to read his obituary.
If he wins despite the massive “election interference” he faces, he is fully justified in unleashing the vengeance that is so prominent a part of his 2024 message. If he seems to lose … it’s clearly grounds for whatever extra-constitutional redress he and his supporters choose.
This was all true before she opened her mouth. He's been laying the foundation for that for 3 years. He continues to, despite his indictments for doing so.
It's probably an unpopular opinion but I'm going to say it anyway. Trump needs brought to justice and this country needs a "come to jesus moment." As shitty as it sounds, I don't see a way forward WITHOUT violence. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He just managed to push things harder and faster than those before. Something is going to come to a head, and it's not going to be pretty, but I don't think we as a country can truly heal until that happens.
Consider that my $0.02 after drinking on a Friday night, lol.
Agreed. And if they try to pull a J6 in 2025, they're going to find out what the government does to insurrectionists when they don't have an idiot in the whitehouse putting their thumb on the scale.
We hope. There are a frightening number of Trump supporters still in positions in our government that could end up backing a second insurrection. Look at all (literally all) of the Secret Service messages from on or about January-6. Oh wait, you can't because every single agent erased their phones and the servers on which those messages were stored. An that was after they were told to retain those messages. How many people still in positions of power would, either discretely or overtly, support a second insurrection?
Well it's a good strategy for them. Look at all the middle eastern countries that have had their governments undermined and destroyed through US military might. Who fills the power vacuum in those countries now? Religious zealots.
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