2024 US Election

  On 2/20/2025 at 8:11 PM, zero said:

yeah where the hell is this guy when you need him

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nah.. we need section 9. 

A sobering read on the efforts of the Trump admin to remake the civil service into a group of loyalists.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK37-LCU_X-pTOBEgHE7otbx8 (if it's paywalled I'll copy and paste)

Mean while Paul Krugman continues to expose how badly Elon the Nazi is at concealing his failures: https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/an-explosion-of-lies?r=45r25d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

A clusterfuck of truly epic proportions.

LOL.. this popped up again today... it's like a completely different universe now. 

Glad to see an elected official make an actual attempt at stopping DOGE...and succeeding

https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/america-is-being-sold-out-by-its?r=45r25d&utm_medium=ios
 

This is a very interesting hypothesis as to the point of Trump’s actions. 
grab a beer and have a read!

  On 2/22/2025 at 6:00 AM, ignatius said:

LOL.. this popped up again today... it's like a completely different universe now. 

 

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It’s almost funny how all the things Clinton said then are happening now. Almost. 

  On 2/22/2025 at 6:32 AM, ambermonk said:

Glad to see an elected official make an actual attempt at stopping DOGE...and succeeding

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this general uprising should be led by the people and not spurred on by the same old corporate regalia that brought us to this point

  On 2/22/2025 at 2:05 PM, chenGOD said:

https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/america-is-being-sold-out-by-its?r=45r25d&utm_medium=ios
 

This is a very interesting hypothesis as to the point of Trump’s actions. 
grab a beer and have a read!

This was a really good read, thank you.

  On 2/20/2025 at 8:52 PM, ignatius said:

nah.. we need section 9. 

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Nah.. we need to bring back this guy

  On 2/22/2025 at 3:23 PM, cichlisuite said:

this general uprising should be led by the people and not spurred on by the same old corporate regalia that brought us to this point

There's already a growing grassroots resistance under way. I personally attended one of many 50501 Movement protests last Monday. We received a lot more public support than I expected.

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/114051666505492625

the stupidity of the average American and the average Trump voter knows no bounds. 'i thought someone of (Trump's) business acumen* would come into the government and (cut the fat) with a fine toothed comb, not with a wrecking ball' - a Trump supporter who worked for the IRS until he was just fired

*actual lol

  On 2/24/2025 at 1:43 AM, auxien said:

the stupidity of the average American and the average Trump voter knows no bounds. 'i thought someone of (Trump's) business acumen* would come into the government and (cut the fat) with a fine toothed comb, not with a wrecking ball' - a Trump supporter who worked for the IRS until he was just fired

 

*actual lol

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i'm a child and find the way the title of the video was cropped to be funny. beavis/butthead.. "he said butt"

almost like it's straight out of some low budget fictional made-for-tv mafia movie, except this is the current version of political reality in this country: 

https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/

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Business leaders can secure a one-on-one meeting with the president at Mar-a-Lago for $5 million, according to sources with direct knowledge of the meetings. At a so-called candlelight dinner held as recently as this past Saturday, prospective Mar-a-Lago guests were asked to spend $1 million to reserve a seat, according to an invitation obtained by WIRED.

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lol

https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/114105898635824770

  14 hours ago, auxien said:

https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/114105898635824770

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  14 hours ago, auxien said:

https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/114105898635824770

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Need Quebec and Alberta to follow through with an export tax on energy. Unlikely to happen because Smith in Alberta is a treacherous snake, and Quebec is Quebec.

living outside the USA, i can only 'do my own research', so i don't know if watching what i choose from youtube content is giving me a logical explanation or if it's really an impossible task to work out what is going on and i assume that no obvious flaws to what i've watched equates to the best explanation.

however, i think that trumps narcissism has him punishing america for asking him to acknowledge and understand his flaws. in revenge, he will burn it down to take it over for himself and his family, perceived true owners. the part is gone, but i wouldn't be surprised if the country has a different name in decades to come. trumpistan, or ... the newnited states of newmerica. something like this is going on.

  14 hours ago, auxien said:

https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/114105898635824770

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I'm all for stuff like this, but it needs to go hand-in-hand with clear messaging to the public (from whom I don't know) regarding the reasoning behind it.

If regular people's livelihoods are deteriorating because of actions like this and they're only watching Fox News or OAN, shit will not change.

  5 hours ago, EdamAnchorman said:

they're only watching Fox News or OAN, shit will not change.

this is it, basically. they don't understand, don't care to understand, just want a few minutes of an 'explanation' that falls in line with what they already believe. that's easiest, gotta keep up the status quo. 'merica. don't educate, don't think. let it all break at this point is my take. but who knows what's going to happen.