I'm going to point something out here, and it's related to a comment I've made here earlier. So many people in this country don't understand how dollar dominance makes the USA standard of living possible.
Economic warfare. Economic warfare eventually proceeds to the real thing, which is why global cooperation, led by the free trade policies of the USA, has been instrumental in keeping a general global peace. (Yes, there are conflicts everywhere all the time - read your history books).
Major power conflicts have been contained.
So few people understand the dangers here. What is functionally happening is Trump is threating economic ruin on anyone who dares oppose his tariffs and create a new currency to compete against the dollar in international trade.
This will lead to war. Sooner or later, one way or another.
I will do what I can to resist the efforts of the Agent Orange cavalcade of sewer clowns that our government is heading for. However, self care will include re-watching X-Files since I’ll need something to take my mind off the coming apocalypse. I really miss that show.
Gaetz was hated by his colleagues because he was an asshole to them, not because he was a predator.
I expect the Senate will confirm all of the nominees... except maybe Gabbard whom Trump will replace with someone crazier like Kari Lake who will sail through the confirmation process.
Dem leaders are concerned, just like a common Susan Collins.
Seriously, it's clear that Dem leaders are hoping that by appeasing trump, that he will leave them alone, just like Hitler didn't invade Poland in 1939 when Chamberlain appeased him in 1938. Oh, wait....
Why should I support such cowards? If anyone can give good reasons to support them, please do, but from what I'm seeing and hearing from them, they ain't fighting, they have surrendered. A retreat I can understand, to regroup to fight another day, but to surrender to trump, who is also a coward, does not make sense to me.
Yeah, I was unhappy before the election, but kept my mouth shut, because fascism is bad. Harris/Walz went on the offensive for a week or two and I was excited. Then it was the same old, same old white flag waving, chasing the billionaire vote and trying to appeal to the "good republicans" (who all work at MSNBC incidentally) while alienating the base. No one is going to support Democrats when they are constantly apologizing for being Democrats. The message was weak and the lack of conviction was clear. It's even more clear now.
“The New York Times called him ‘bombastic’ although they may have been confusing him with Shaggy. The more accurate term is henchman.”
Thank you Stephen, protector and defender of the honour of Gen X.
The worst, most galling, thing for me is that holding the powerful to account became ‘partisan justice’. That this was tolerated as an argument by ‘serious people’ demonstrated how our press was unwilling or unable to deal with the dishonesty dished up by Trump.
That the question of a partisan Supreme Court defying ‘equal before law’ was not even raised. That ruling should have cost them their law degrees. The court cannot function as one arm of the Republican Party and do its job, it needed to have its credibility challenged.
The fact that the public is eagerly cheering on the prosecution of those who tried to hold power to account, to keep justice firmly in the hands of the rich and laws as only troubling the poor. (Racial dynamics, I’m sure helped white voters to shoot themselves in the dick like this.) It just - it just hurts.
To calm my nerves pre - election, I took to reading about industrial accidents. Most are caused by complacent workers taking risks believing there was an absolute fail safe they could fall back on if it went tits up.
The fail safe this election was the supposed sanity of the American voter. And like the folks of Chornobyl finding out that yes reactors can blow up, or Deepwater Horizon finding the ‘blind shear ram’ did not blindly shear’ we discovered our fail safe had a flat battery when we needed it the most.
But it should never have come down to there being just one barrier between us and the brink. VP Harris was running an election campaign while all democracies safety lights were blinking red.
Also, I never thought of reading about industrial accidents as a nerve-calming method.😳 I resorted to watching movies like The Big Lebowski and Office Space and resuming my Covid-era habit of day drinking.
One of the most puzzling turnarounds during my lifetime is that the FBI in the 60s was the scourge of the country, and now during the 21st century, I’ve found myself defending the agency on more than a few occasions. What a world, what a world.
I think the American people DO want a department based on retribution, Mr. Lawler...else they wouldn't have given all the leadership keys to your unreconstructed party. That's why they believed all the fanfiction your state media shoveled into them. They wanted to believe, because it will make their lives better for him to hurt Democrats (and any of the minorities they protect).
They should just remember to take their complaints to the appropriate people when the catastrophes occur, is all I'm saying.
I definitely see the Republican Party members falling in line because there's really no ideological differences among them. It's just different styles of the MAGA movement.
This hits the nail on the head--all of this--promises of retribution, promises of "going after" career civil servants--was not just revealed during the campaign, Democrats raised the alarm over these promises and ran on opposing them. Voters decided this was fine, and there's no more copium of "he didn't win the popular vote" or "people didn't think he'd actually win so they didn't bother voting". Americans went into this with eyes open.
So Republicans are probably going to approve all of these picks, with the exception of candidates who threaten their own coalition (e.g., ones who are opposed by Big Agra or Big Pharma, or who have made a lot of GOP enemies). The idea that Republicans have anything to fear from swing voters or moderates is just outdated now--Dems took their shot, and whiffed. Now we reap the whirlwind.
It's not that Dems should give up and lay down--far from it--they need to re-examine how to fight effectively if they want a chance for a comeback at the next election, and make their message as effective as possible. But any hope that Republicans will be reined in by anything short of their own intra-party interests is just naive.
It probably means Democrats need to full-throated back efforts like Chorus Media (of Brian Tyler Cohen) and do more sharing of writers like SER. Probably more deployment of the Truth Sandwich against disinformation.
I keep saying, doesn't matter what the vote totals are. Trump won, the country chose him, this is what they wanted.
I flat REFUSE to give them any benefit of the doubt. They. Wanted. Trump. And. Hated. A. Black. Woman. President.
That is it, it is no more complex than that.
I'm going to point something out here, and it's related to a comment I've made here earlier. So many people in this country don't understand how dollar dominance makes the USA standard of living possible.
They're gonna find out. https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/find-another-sucker-threatens-100-tariff-on-countries-that-resist-us-dollar/?in_brief=true
Economic warfare. Economic warfare eventually proceeds to the real thing, which is why global cooperation, led by the free trade policies of the USA, has been instrumental in keeping a general global peace. (Yes, there are conflicts everywhere all the time - read your history books).
Major power conflicts have been contained.
So few people understand the dangers here. What is functionally happening is Trump is threating economic ruin on anyone who dares oppose his tariffs and create a new currency to compete against the dollar in international trade.
This will lead to war. Sooner or later, one way or another.
I will do what I can to resist the efforts of the Agent Orange cavalcade of sewer clowns that our government is heading for. However, self care will include re-watching X-Files since I’ll need something to take my mind off the coming apocalypse. I really miss that show.
Gaetz was hated by his colleagues because he was an asshole to them, not because he was a predator.
I expect the Senate will confirm all of the nominees... except maybe Gabbard whom Trump will replace with someone crazier like Kari Lake who will sail through the confirmation process.
I just paid under $3/gallon for gas in Oregon, assuming Trump being elected is already saving me money LOL.
Dems still think this is some sort of gentlemanly game played by the rules... with the exception of some state governors who know what's coming.
Dem leaders are concerned, just like a common Susan Collins.
Seriously, it's clear that Dem leaders are hoping that by appeasing trump, that he will leave them alone, just like Hitler didn't invade Poland in 1939 when Chamberlain appeased him in 1938. Oh, wait....
Why should I support such cowards? If anyone can give good reasons to support them, please do, but from what I'm seeing and hearing from them, they ain't fighting, they have surrendered. A retreat I can understand, to regroup to fight another day, but to surrender to trump, who is also a coward, does not make sense to me.
Yeah, I was unhappy before the election, but kept my mouth shut, because fascism is bad. Harris/Walz went on the offensive for a week or two and I was excited. Then it was the same old, same old white flag waving, chasing the billionaire vote and trying to appeal to the "good republicans" (who all work at MSNBC incidentally) while alienating the base. No one is going to support Democrats when they are constantly apologizing for being Democrats. The message was weak and the lack of conviction was clear. It's even more clear now.
Weird because all of that didn't get elected and now everyone is in fucking survival mode now.
“The New York Times called him ‘bombastic’ although they may have been confusing him with Shaggy. The more accurate term is henchman.”
Thank you Stephen, protector and defender of the honour of Gen X.
The worst, most galling, thing for me is that holding the powerful to account became ‘partisan justice’. That this was tolerated as an argument by ‘serious people’ demonstrated how our press was unwilling or unable to deal with the dishonesty dished up by Trump.
That the question of a partisan Supreme Court defying ‘equal before law’ was not even raised. That ruling should have cost them their law degrees. The court cannot function as one arm of the Republican Party and do its job, it needed to have its credibility challenged.
The fact that the public is eagerly cheering on the prosecution of those who tried to hold power to account, to keep justice firmly in the hands of the rich and laws as only troubling the poor. (Racial dynamics, I’m sure helped white voters to shoot themselves in the dick like this.) It just - it just hurts.
To calm my nerves pre - election, I took to reading about industrial accidents. Most are caused by complacent workers taking risks believing there was an absolute fail safe they could fall back on if it went tits up.
The fail safe this election was the supposed sanity of the American voter. And like the folks of Chornobyl finding out that yes reactors can blow up, or Deepwater Horizon finding the ‘blind shear ram’ did not blindly shear’ we discovered our fail safe had a flat battery when we needed it the most.
But it should never have come down to there being just one barrier between us and the brink. VP Harris was running an election campaign while all democracies safety lights were blinking red.
Exactly. Well said.
Also, I never thought of reading about industrial accidents as a nerve-calming method.😳 I resorted to watching movies like The Big Lebowski and Office Space and resuming my Covid-era habit of day drinking.
“Our system of justice needs to be depoliticized, and unfortunately, under the Biden Administration, we have seen it weaponized, and it’s wrong.”
Tricky words, “depoliticization” and “weaponization”, as their meanings depend upon who’s deploying them.
Feel free to fuck off.
One of the most puzzling turnarounds during my lifetime is that the FBI in the 60s was the scourge of the country, and now during the 21st century, I’ve found myself defending the agency on more than a few occasions. What a world, what a world.
I think the American people DO want a department based on retribution, Mr. Lawler...else they wouldn't have given all the leadership keys to your unreconstructed party. That's why they believed all the fanfiction your state media shoveled into them. They wanted to believe, because it will make their lives better for him to hurt Democrats (and any of the minorities they protect).
They should just remember to take their complaints to the appropriate people when the catastrophes occur, is all I'm saying.
I definitely see the Republican Party members falling in line because there's really no ideological differences among them. It's just different styles of the MAGA movement.
This hits the nail on the head--all of this--promises of retribution, promises of "going after" career civil servants--was not just revealed during the campaign, Democrats raised the alarm over these promises and ran on opposing them. Voters decided this was fine, and there's no more copium of "he didn't win the popular vote" or "people didn't think he'd actually win so they didn't bother voting". Americans went into this with eyes open.
So Republicans are probably going to approve all of these picks, with the exception of candidates who threaten their own coalition (e.g., ones who are opposed by Big Agra or Big Pharma, or who have made a lot of GOP enemies). The idea that Republicans have anything to fear from swing voters or moderates is just outdated now--Dems took their shot, and whiffed. Now we reap the whirlwind.
It's not that Dems should give up and lay down--far from it--they need to re-examine how to fight effectively if they want a chance for a comeback at the next election, and make their message as effective as possible. But any hope that Republicans will be reined in by anything short of their own intra-party interests is just naive.
It probably means Democrats need to full-throated back efforts like Chorus Media (of Brian Tyler Cohen) and do more sharing of writers like SER. Probably more deployment of the Truth Sandwich against disinformation.