there are these people who are like, Trump's massive win means the bright, bold future belongs to resentment personified.
intellectuals, they fancy themselves.
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“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/some-follow-up-questions-for-elon-musk-after-he-admits-he-gets-stuff-wrong-sometimes/
would it make sense to start a crosspartisan campaign to lobby the White House to replace Musk with Bannon as head of DOGE? make a strange bedfellow of MAGA 1.0?
Excellent.
“If a judge orders an action to cease and the executive refuses, who gets to call the police? Who do the police listen to? If people don’t leave their positions, who makes them?” #AlexNorris
maybe Russia will send some economic advisors to help us out with “shock therapy”.
you wanted the world reenchanted, you said.
and so it has been, in the form of a curse.
The Trump Administration is just pathetic at negotiating. It "played tough" and won nothing much from Canada and Mexico with its tariff gambit. It negotiated against itself and conceded all leverage in its negotiations on Russia and Ukraine.
Just pathetic.
we're treating migrants so badly when many of us may need to be migrants soon.
1. Cut social services to the point people who’ve relied upon them become desperate;
2. Protests that can be characterized as disorderly, perhaps even violent, riots emerge;
3. Use the riots as pretext for a crushing response that deters future opposition of any sort.
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I'm going to be producing a lot of postal mail, I think. Very old school. Very time consuming. Our democracy in action. /fin
Trying to contact my Congresspeople. I want to write them. I mistrust their webforms. I want an e-mail address. So I phone to ask. 1/
I call Representative Anna Paulina Luna's office. Someone answers, but informs me that there is no e-mail, just the webform. Postal mail it will have to be. 2/
I try to call Senator Rick Scott's office. There's no phone number on his site, so I call his contact number listed on the official Florida delegation page of the US Senate. https://www.senate.gov/states/FL/intro.htm
Straight to voicemail, at 12:30-ish on Wednesday. 3/
On the same page, I find the phone number for my newly Senator, Ashley Moody.
Again, straight to voicemail. 4/
perhaps worse than a US withdrawal from NATO would be a US that sowed chaos from within the alliance. Europe still requires functional security arrangements.
one day a Russian prisoner is freed (Marc Fogel, great news). the next day the US Secretary of Defense concedes Ukraine’s territorial integrity and aspiration to join NATO. our transactional President sure knows how to strike a deal.
which is worse?
78.8%
consolidated fascism
(26 votes)
21.2%
chaotic collapse
(7 votes)
no one told us how entertaining the apocalypse could be.
or alternatively, the road to hell is paved with engaging content!
Newsom should announce a trip to Denmark for “exploratory talks”. https://universeodon.com/@Darkphoenix/113988599271616917