i had a dream that is really sticking with me. in my dream, reality was breaking down. I was a bridesmaid at my friend J-law's wedding and we had just gotten to the reception and started circulating and having fun, when reality shifted (as It does) and we went to a new reality where the bride had died in an accident as a child. The truly broken part was that we all still remembered both realities; the one we had just experienced with a happy occasion and a beautiful ceremony and all of us dressed up in this incredible gorgeous venue with fairy lights and tulle and champagne and a live quartet playing, and the one where our friend had never had a chance to grow up and meet most of us, fall in love, etc. the groom was absolutely griefstricken and just absolutely gutted...it was so terrible. I tried to console him by saying at least we had one last beautiful perfect day with her, and nothing could take that away from him....but now that I'm awake, that was probably a pretty terrible thing to say.

And then I was at an airport with Thax, that halfway through trying to find our gate, I guess reality shifted and I suddenly remembered the layout because I'd travelled frequently through this place before (very 70's colors, decor, fonts for gate numbers and names of airlines, etc.) , so I was taking us to the gate we needed, but then reality shifted again as we got to the 'gate' and instead of a gate it was like a garden path that led out to a field near a body of water, and the 'airplane' technology had been replaced by something that I didn't know, like sort of an organic helicopter bubble thing? so there was no more need for airports and runways and so travel nexuses were just these nice garden paths where you'd follow the path to the designated circle and wait for your bubble copter creature to pick you up.  So wierd.

In my dream, these shifts were happening more and more often and most people  were able to remember both the reality we'd just shifted from and the reality we were currently occupying. It was a real brain melter.

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Today is new moon in Aries and a bunch of planets doing stuff....supposedly this means new beginnings and fresh starts and lot of energy to get shit done.

I have allergies and headache and tiredness. The Aries new moon is supposed to be a time when y ou clarify what you really want and get after it, but I can't honestly think of anything I 'really want' or even who I 'really am'  or 'really want to be'. Let alone what I'd be willing to do in order to get there. I'm just tired and done.

I do kind of wish I knew any local activist groups to get involved with; I wish I could go to the Dilley detention center with a huge group of people and scream the place down, like the fucking walls of Jericho.  But I don't know anyone. Texas, especially Austin of all fucking places, has seemed relatively complacent to the presence of ICE and the crackdown on unhoused people and all of these terrible things you'd think a hippy blue liberal town would be against. But..nope. I don't really see or hear anything about it. Then again I know social media is skewed and suppressed and censored. And I know that the real news is, too. I have no idea how to find my people or be involved. :/  I call my shithead senators. I vote. I bitch on my bluesky and my facebook. very useful, me.

Current Mood: lethargic

September 11. A terrible day. I remember the shock and confusion, not knowing why it happened or who was behind the attacks. I also remember the amazing spirit of the people. The communities coming together to help and mourn and comfort one another. The outpouring of love from people around the world who felt compassion and empathy, who shared our sorrow and lent a hand.

There are more good people in the world than there are evil ones. We have so much in common with one another.

Then, as today, we did not have leadership that was intelligent, experienced, or capable enough to meet the moment with grace, spirit, and kindness. We have leadership that wants us fearful, angry and divided against one another.

I remember September 11 as a day we stood united with all the good people and all the love and goodwill and caring of the planet focused on the city of New York and the people of the United States, and I want the world we could have had if our leaders had risen to the moment and built something good with all that love. We still can.

The Oligarch, billionaires, robber barons, the wealthy and evil and powerful among us, tell us that Empathy is a Sin, that kindness and compassion are despicable, weakness, errors to be rooted out.

I've heard that shit before--from narcissistic abusers who have no capacity for empathy or kindness or full human emotions. I didn't believe them, and I don't believe it now, coming from the wealthy and powerful rulers of the earth.

Empathy and kindness and compassion for one another will save us and heal us and make a better world for everyone *except* the narcissistic abusers. Terrorists. Evildoers, as Dub the Shrub would say.

Current Mood: calm

Best hopes, sadly:

1) he is old, unhealthy, stupid, and lazy. He will want to play golf and have events where he is surrounded by cheering crowds. He does not want to do any work. He just wants praise, money, and attention. He just wants to indulge all of his vile habits, whatever they may be, without limit or censure. (Think Jabba the Hutt on his party barge. I mean, yeah some people die for his amusement but it's not an organized systematic thing. Just the passing whims of a cruel and stupid creature.) Narcissist abusers do not understand or respect limits of any kind, his habits will advance the pace of natural age and he may not have 4 years left in him.

2) he is surrounded by incompetent, greedy assholes who will be backstabbing each other to try and get on top of the dog pile and get him to rubber stamp THEIR version of fascism. He enjoys pitting his underlings against each other and creating drama. Hopefully with enough infighting, little will be actually done. Lots of backstabbing, lots of 'trusted advisors' failing purity tests and being ousted, lots of chaos. Maybe not as much chaos as first term--he has Project 2025 opportunists backing him this time and they may be able to enforce some discipline.. Hope not, because that means more people dying sooner, BUT. it's possible.

3) his successor/VP is a creepy, awkward wierdo. He does not have the charisma or crowd pull that El Stinko Naranja Pendejo does. He may be a more disciplined fanatic christofascist, but he doesn't have the personal qualities to hold the regime together. And I can't think of any other right wing crazy who has the kind of celebrity power/charisma/draw that El Stinko does, so he's got no successor.

I'm not saying it's not going to be bad, but the faster we can run this evil bullshit thru the "kristallnacht to self-offing in a bunker" chain of events the better for the rest of humanity.

The 4th reich lasted 12 years. The American civil war lasted 4.

OTOH, you have Putin's kleptocrat oligarchy holding steady since 1999 and Iran's theocracy has been in power since 1979.

It's sad that America's fascist phase will probably only be curbed by the infighting between the Oligarchs and the Theocrats disagreeing on who to persecute first and worst and how to run the concentration camps/prison work farms.

The religious fanatics want everyone not like them DEAD, period, the end. These are the people pushing for End of Days and Jesus to come back and take them to Heaven. They are happy to burn it all down. See: Dominionist. also: Emmanetize the Eschaton.

The Oligarch/Billionaires know they need slaves to pick the crops and fix the machines and create more wealth for themselves. They might not want to end the world as badly or as soon as the religious wackos do. Or, let me say, ending the world is not their end goal, but they don't really care as long as they're rich and own everything.

Here in TX, I remember the 'bidness Republicans' used to run things. It was dishonest and crappy--good ol boy network, open bribery, etc. but some of the worst right-wing impulses could be curbed by the possibility that the state would lose business and lose money if they caved to the worst of the hard right christian extremist bullshit.

BUT I think the last 'bidness' governor in TX was Rick Perry and the last sane TX Speaker was Joe Straus and we've gone downhill towards the Bible-and-wife beaters since then. They don't care if persecuting people will lose them the Big Sports Ball Event or Big Tech Headquarters or Big Manufacturing Plant. So...TX is slowly failing as a 'bidness' state and I think that is a good indicator of the way Amerikkka will go as well, if the religious wing of the party gains the most influence over El Stinko.

It is sad and scary that the honest only best hope I have in this moment is that the bad guys will eat each other alive before they can hurt the rest of us too much.

But I trust there will be plenty of suffering and death to go round before it's all done.

But, hey. Don't cry at home, cry at work and get paid to cry!

Current Mood: pessimistic

2024 election is in the bag.

Here in TX, we are stuck with Rafael "Turd" Cruz for another term; I still believe with all my heart that Rolando Pablos, the Sec of State at the time, fixed the 2018 race for him, or else Beto would have won. That sorry ass cockroach left office shortly after the 2018 elections and now he's running for mayor of San Antonio.

And Donald Fucking Trump is our next president. Goddamn it so much. How the FUCK people watched that shambling, shitting, mumbling, ranting, hateful, stupid racist fuckhead wander weakly all over America, not knowing where he was, simulating oral sex on an invisible microphone and thought "now there's a leader!"--I mean, WHAT THE FUCK. Oh, and did I mention? He's a convicted rapist, a convicted felon, and there are credible allegations he's also a pedophile. What a shitshow.

Goddamn it people.

See ya in the camps, I guess.

It is too much to hope that he'll croak before next year; both his parents, despite looking like The Living Dead, his mom was 88 and his dad was a demented 93 when he finally passed....

Rubber meets the road, I really can't see myself going to Belize without my husband or family.. so here I am. As a white middle aged infertile woman in a heterosexual marriage, I probably will survive :/ I kinda don't want to. I feel pretty fucking done.

Current Mood: numb

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Project 2025 - The Advisory Board List

Full list with hyperlinks and additional information on each organization.

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This list is a direct copy and paste from the Advisory Board section from “Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise Project 2025.”. On the document the organizations in the advisory board are listed by alphabetical order with no additional information.

I’ve added hyperlinks to each organization’s website as well as some background information including any notable board members, founding members or staff - especially anyone who worked in the Trump administration.

I’ve also grouped the organizations by type.

Although this entire document is only available for paid subscribers I removed the paywall for the first section. I want as many people as possible to know about the most extremist groups aligned with Project 2025.

Thank you for your support.

The Project 2025 Advisory Board

The Heritage Foundation
- The Heritage Foundation’s mission is to formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. (from website)
- The organization is considered one of the most influential conservative think tanks in the world.
- Founded in 1973 originally to promote a pro-business agenda.
- Originally created as a conservative response to the Brookings Institution.
- “Mandate for Leadership” - Reagan Administration
  - Much like Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership,” was meant as a blueprint for the newly elected Reagan Administration to help guide them on policy issues.
  - About 60% of the recommendations suggested in “Mandate for Leadership” were adopted by the Reagan Administration in its first year. Reagan loved it so much he had copies printed for all of his cabinet members.
  - The Heritage Foundation also had tremendous influence over helping the Reagan administration fill positions in his new administration. This is another similarity with “Project 2025” as one of its goals is to fill government positions with prescreened ideologically radical conservatives.
- “Index of Leading Cultural Indicators” written by William Bennett in 1994
  - This publication was the Heritage Foundation’s first major entry into the culture wars.
  - The Index tackled subjects such as crime, divorce, children born out of marriage, teenage suicides, and drug use along with other social indicators.
- “Index of Economic Freedom” - published in 1995
  - Wall Street Journal began partnership with Heritage as co-manager and co-editor of Index of Economic Freedom as an annual publication in 1997.
- Scandal in 2013 - Jackson Richwine - co-author of Heritage Foundation report on the costs of amnesty for migrants
  - Richwine was scrutinized for his Harvard University PhD thesis, authored four years prior, where he argued that Latino and Black people had lower I.Q.’s and were intellectually inferior to white people.
  - He’d also made comments at the American Enterprise Institute in 2008 that were similar to the conclusions he’d made in his doctoral thesis.
  - Richwine resigned due to the controversy.
- Trump’s candidacy - 2015
  - Originally the Heritage Foundation did not support Trump for president.
  - The organization only supported Trump after he won the nomination.
- Trump’s presidency - 2017
  - Just like as they had with Reagan and other Republican presidents the Heritage Foundation had great influence over helping the Trump administration fill various positions in his administration.
  - Some of the several hundred people who received jobs in the Trump administration who were included in a database the Heritage Foundation cultivated were:
    - Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Jeff Sessions
- Post - Trump presidency
  - Several Trump Administration officials and staff member take positions at the Heritage Foundation.
    - Ken Cuccinelli, Mark Morgan, Chad Wolf (Cuccinelli and Wolf left in 2021)
    - Mike Pence also went to work for Heritage
  - Ukraine War
    - May 2022 the organization reversed its support for Ukraine
    - March 2023 - Heritage established a cooperative relationship with Danube Institute in Hungary.
- The Big Lie
  - The president of the Heritage Foundation has publicly said he doesn’t think Biden won the 2020 election.
  - The organization has promoted false claims of widespread voter fraud.
- Project 2025
  - A collection of proposals to radically change the executive branch of the U.S. government.
  - The organization is recruiting thousands of staffers for every branch of government.
  - Some of the policy proposals in Project 2025 include the following:
    - Boosting fossil fuels while slashing environmental regulations
    - Dismantling the Inflation Reduction Act
    - Shutting down the Department of Energy loan programs office
    - Taking partisan control of the DOJ, FBI and Dept. of Commerce, the FCC, and the FTC.
    - Dismantling the Dept. of Homeland Security and the Department of Education
    - The National Institute of Health (NIH) would be shaped by conservative principles.
    - Cut Medicaid and Medicare
    - Outlaw abortion
    - Eliminate coverage of emergency contraception under the ACA
    - Enforce the Comstock Act - this would criminalize the sending or receiving of abortion medication through the U.S. Mail.
    - Outlaw pornography
    - Infuse Christianity into the U.S. government
    - Remove legal protections against discrimination claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
    - Terminate DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs as well as affirmative action.
    - Prosecute “anti-white” racism.
    - Enact draconian anti-immigration laws including mass deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants.
    - Engage the Insurrection Act of 1807 which would allow the military to participate in domestic policing and assist in the capture of undocumented immigrants.
    - Increase the use of capital punishment
    - (This is just a partial list)

Organization led by former Trump Admin. officials who promote Christian Nationalism

Center for Renewing America
- Our mission is to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending that flow from its people, institutions, and history, where individuals’ enjoyment of freedom is predicated on just laws and healthy communities. (from website)
- I honestly couldn’t tell what this organization did except hire former Trump staffers and cabinet members. It was formed in 2021.
- Founded by Russ Vought former Trump Admin. Director of the Office of Management and Budget
  - Staff members former Trump Admin. - Ken Cuccinelli, Adam Candeub, Rachel Cauley, Jeff Clark, Ashlea Frazier, Paige Hauser, Dan Kowalski, Micah Meadowcroft, Mark Paoletta, Kingsley Wilson
  - Steve Friend, staff member, FBI Whistleblower who claimed FBI manipulated evidence from Jan. 6th investigation.

so many friends lost parents this year
so many decent celebrites passed.
also Dianne Feinstein and warcrime whatsisname Kissinger, so that's OK
2023 is looking to take the record in number of mass shootings
And the TX GOP goes on...chickenshit cowards had the chance to rid us of criminal scumfuck adulterer crosseyed cake stealer Ken Paxton and they wussed out. Now Paxton is apparently taking out his ire on a woman pregnant with a fatally deformed fetus.

This is how Ken Paxton gets off. Not just a plain old boring rape fantasy, but the heartbroken crying mother, the forced birth, the forced birth of dead or dying babies, and dead or dying mothers as a result of it. That what gets him off. Pure Sociopathic Evil. And there are lots of rank and file Republicans who also get off on the idea of forcing women to have sex, forcing them to give birth--anything involved with making women suffer and cry and bleed and die. That is the ultimate GOP sex fantasy: to rape women--body, mind, and soul. To own their sex, their tears, their bodies, their babies, their lives and their deaths.

Take note: this woman being an apparently solidly middle class (at least) pretty white woman DID NOT save her from the GOP evil. No matter how safe you think you are, no matter how you may rationalize that only 'those people' are being punished, only 'those people' are being harmed (and even if in your opinion, it's the right people being punished and harmed by the Right)....you aren't safe. You and people you love are being harmed, or will be.

And there is one party who will get off on it and laugh in your face... and women still vote for them.

I dreamed that I started sorting through each room of the house, deciding what to take with me to Belize. In my dream, I started in January and was going to do one room a month until the election when I was going to leave the country. And Aunt L. was selling christmas ornaments in a weird building that was going Condo. she said as soon as the ornaments were sold she was going to close her shop that was on the ground floor of the condo. And then I was with my friend Bad Pat in some Asian country where you had to hire a prostitute/guide to get you through everything because there was no way to find your way through on your own. The prostitute was very confused that neither I nor Pat wanted to do anything but have her take us where we needed to go. It was like this ...marketplace, but also like a maze with all of these wooden panels and secret passages. Wierd.

Here's where I'm at with American political fuckery:

The Jan 6/election stealing/insurrection/mess was not meant to succeed. It was meant as a 'trial balloon' to get the American people used to such violence and chaos. T--p's rhetoric regarding rigged and stolen elections is not meant to convince sane people of anything, but it's meant to numb everyone to such rhetoric; we are all sick of it and we don't want to hear it any more, from him or anyone else.

There are enough Red state scumbags in the pocket of dictator wannabe orange man that the 2024 election will actually be fraudulent and will actually be stolen, to put orange dictator in the white house. When people are legitimately protesting and furious about being disenfranchised, THIS time law enforcement and National Guard and military will be in place to deliver beatings and killings to the protestors.

Then martial law will be declared and the blue cities and blue states will be 'pacified'....ie: beatings, killings, and imprisonments of 'wokes' 'communists' 'marxists' --ie, you and me and anyone else left of literal effing orange hitler.

T--p has said what he plans to do and he will do it. Military has been weakened by Tuberville's ongoing recalcitrance. Law Enforcement is already pretty much racist bigoted n-zis ready to kill people. Judicial system has been weakened, first by T--ps appointment of various incompetent suck-ups, and then by the DOJ and other institutions mishandling & non-punishment of T---p's and his administration's crimes.

So...yeah, brain says GO. Fucking GO. And I don't want to be caught flat footed in November so ... yeah. I can't and won't convince my husband that this is a real danger. I don't know what to do about that. Give him the house and hit the road, I guess. :( I've already told him if Trump wins in November 2024, I'm out.

Assault
Bribery
Corruption
Donald
Espionage
Fraud
Grifter
Hateful
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January 6
Khashoggi
Liar
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Trump
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quick little tinfoil hat moment and then I have to go make supper: This is what I'm afraid of for tomorrow's FL court appearance by the former potus.

if the GOP was smart and strategic and not completely bugnuts, off the rails, spineless, and clueless, here's how I fear they'd play tomorrow:

Stage a big Jan 6 type crazy to-do at the FL courthouse where DJT is going to be arraigned. ("now hiring crisis actors!! $88 an hour!") Big dustup, lots of noise. Maybe DJT is KIA or just wounded or maybe just disappears in all the chaos and confusion (maybe cuddled back to the ample but rotting teat of Mother Russia).  Some of the wackiest of the wackadoo domestic terrorist individuals/orgs get taken off the board. They were useful idiots for a while but the GOP is getting its house in order now. The REAL stormtroopers are ready to go.(the ones with badges and titles and military training who've been there all along) 

DeSatan "is forced to" send in the national guard to get things settled.  He comes out looking like a big damn hero. Maybe singlehandedly saves a small blonde girl from certain death or something.GOP talks him up, plays it up, parades him around*, puts $zillions$$ into his campaign war chest. Everyone is awed and amazed at how he  "put politics aside" and rose to the occasion. From Meatball to Hero Sub!   Gee gosh darn whillikers, he just seems so goshdarn presidential.  (not a high bar anymore, really)  Think  Rudy Giuliani "Americas Mayor" after 9/11 type stuff. EVERYONE is gonna love him, all of the sudden.  Maybe even  you.

*You probably won't hear him speak too often; he's still got all the charisma and charm of a greasy cold meatball, but you'll see a lot of ads with him walking around or standing around looking heroic, with Action Movie strong man voiceover stuff about flags and patriotism and heroes and 'times call for men like this,' dialing wayyyyy back on the anti-woke  hateful messages and just doing patriotic platitudes about coming together for the sake of the nation, footage of waving flags, crying eagles, jets flying, sunsets, amber waves of grain, saluting soldiers, all that stuff that fills the patriotic heart with national pride, swelling orchestral grandiose music, you get the picture.

DeSatan wins 2024 because the Dems don't want to run anyone but Sleepy Joe (because he's giving corporate Amerikkka everything it's ever wanted and just making weak kitten noises towards things like healthcare, infrastructure, housing, debt relief, the environment, minimum wage, etc.) and the aforementioned FL insurrection/crisis/uprising that DeSatan handled so heroically & made everyone love him.

Then we get the 4th Reich right here in good old USA, to thunderous applause and the waving of made-in-China American Flags. Off to the camps with the commies and the Mexicans and the blacks and the queers and the wokes and the undesirables. Maybe even you.

Current Mood: worried

I think it's 'interesting' that right wing politicians feel the need to force children to say the Pledge of Allegiance every day.

Why? What is this country doing to deserve that loyalty? What is the US doing to serve and care for those children? You don't want to feed them. You don't want them to have healthcare. You don't care if they have anywhere decent to live. You don't care if they have clean water and air. You aren't doing anything to ensure that they'll have safe infrastructure and liveable wages when they grow to adulthood and enter the workforce. You don't want them to have books or education. You don't want them to have bodily autonomy if they identify as female, you don't want them to be safe from gun violence in that same school where they're making their pledge to a flag which stands for NOTHING if the GOP continues to have its way. Why should they pledge allegiance to a flag or a country that is LITERALLY killing them? And I'm not even going to get into how many Republican politicians have been caught committing pedophilia, child sex trafficking, child porn on their computers, etc. All they want kids in this country for, apparently, is to be able to freely rape and/or murder them. Here in TX, kids in the CPS/foster system are raped, abused, and trafficked. WITHIN state funded care facilities AND by the people they're fostered to, and Gov Abbott has done absolutely fuckall about it.

Piss off with that nonsense unless you are willing to commit to making this country a worthwhile place for children. Forcing school children to 'pledge' to a country and 'love' a country that demonstrably DOES NOT love them...is child abuse. Period.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OIthEI84AwY

Current Mood: infuriated

“You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

im·peach

/imˈpēCH/

how to pronounce impeach

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verb

1.(especially in the US) charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.
2.call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice)."there is no basis to Searle's motion to impeach the verdict"

from Google:

What does impeachment mean in simple terms?

If a federal official commits a crime or otherwise acts improperly, the House of Representatives may impeach—formally charge—that official. If the official subsequently is convicted in a Senate impeachment trial, he is removed from office.

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Robert Hunter Biden is *not* an elected official of any sort. Therefore, he cannot be ‘impeached’

If he has committed a crime, he should be arrested and charged and given due process of law, as any US Citizen is entitled to.

Educate yourself. This is embarrassing.

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Trump is practicing what is called “Stochastic Terrorism"—a rhetorical device whereby he is inciting his followers to commit unspecified atrocities on his behalf. He gets out of being held accountable because he has an ‘out’ —he just said ‘bad things’ would happen, he didn’t tell them exactly what to do.

On January 6, He said “Mike Pence disappointed us, Mike Pence betrayed all true Americans,” and his followers interpreted that as “hang Mike Pence”….and since he didn’t specifically tell them to kill Mike Pence he can shrug and say he was just expressing his feelings, not telling anyone to do anything bad to good old Mikey.

For whatever reason, there is no law enforcement agency in this nation or in the world (NATO, the Hague) that is willing to call it what it is and take action.

I wonder if there were sane and decent people in Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, or present day Kim’s Korea, Putin’s Russia, or Xi’s China who, like me, saw what was happening in their nation and felt powerless to stop the rising tide of bloody authoritarianism.

There are some low level foot soldiers of the Jan 6 coup attempt who have seen consequences, but no one who was organizing, funding, or promulgating the insurrection has been touched by law enforcement. All they learned from that attempt was how to do it better next time.

The best hope we have is that people who followed and believed in Trump either died of Covid or are finally maybe seeing that there is no sane and decent future under the leadership of such a petty, stupid, morally and financially bankrupt person. Or perhaps the folks who got put in jail for Jan 6 and have received no help or pardon from Trump will decide to sit the next one out.

On the other hand, there are likely more fascists in law enforcement and the military than we care to recognize or admit. If Trump calls for violence again upon his arrest, if those people stay loyal we may be in for a second civil war. If people smarter than Trump manage to take the reins of the monstrous hateful beast Trump has created with the MAGAts and Q-nuts, we may be in for a bad time. The best most of us sane and decent folk can hope for is that they turn on each other and ruin the movement from within before they get their shit together enough to create a theocratic authoritarian regime on the ruins of what used to be the USA.

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What do you think of Mark Meadows telling Fox & Friends that Donald Trump is "the only president who actually went after a terrorist and took him out"?

Just more evidence that the GOP and their media mouthpiece is nothing but lies and propaganda.

Obama took out Bin Laden. But for whatever reason no republican seems to remember that.

Donald Trump by himself is not dangerous—he is a fat, weak, sick old man who has to use two hands to hold a water bottle and can’t get up and down the stairs without a great deal of difficulty. He can barely string two sentences together without getting sweaty and out of breath.

The fact that there are evil scummy people like Mark Meadows, GOP senators and congresspeople, and the entire staff of Fox News and countless throngs of foul and filthy white trash militias & MAGAts who echo and support Trump’s hateful madness is what makes Trump dangerous.

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Trump said there would be big problems like never before if he were indicted, that (his) people would not sit still. Curious what trump supporters think he is suggesting by such a statement. What would his people do exactly?

My answer:

Trump is practicing what is called “Stochastic Terrorism (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stochastic-terrorism)” —a rhetorical device whereby he is inciting his followers to commit unspecified atrocities on his behalf. He gets out of being held accountable because he has an ‘out’ —he just said ‘bad things’ would happen, he didn’t tell them exactly what to do. He said “Mike Pence disappointed us, Mike Pence betrayed all true Americans,” and his followers interpreted that as “hang Mike Pence”….and since he didn’t specifically tell them to kill Mike Pence he can shrug and say he was just expressing his feelings, not telling anyone to do anything bad to good old Mikey. Hell, Mikey isn't even mad about it! He still loves Big Daddy Don!

For whatever reason, there is no law enforcement agency in this nation or in the world (NATO, the Hague) that is willing to call it what it is and take action. I wonder if there were sane and decent people in Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, or present day Kim’s Korea, Putin’s Russia, or Xi’s China who, like me, saw what was happening in their nation and felt powerless to stop the rising tide of bloody authoritarianism.
There are some low level foot soldiers of the Jan 6 coup attempt who have seen consequences, but no one who was organizing, funding, or promulgating the insurrection has been touched by law enforcement. All they learned from that attempt was how to do it better next time.

The best hope we have is that people who followed and believed in Trump either died of Covid or are finally maybe seeing that there is no sane and decent future under the leadership of such a petty, stupid, morally and financially bankrupt person. Or perhaps the folks who got put in jail for Jan 6 and have received no help or pardon from Trump will decide to sit the next one out.

On the other hand, there are likely more fascists in law enforcement and the military than we care to recognize or admit. If Trump calls for violence again upon his arrest, if enough of those people are loyal to Trump, we may be in for a second civil war. If people smarter than Trump manage to take the reins of the monstrous hateful beast Trump has created with the MAGAts and Q-nuts, we may be in for a bad time. The best most of us sane and decent folk can hope for is that they turn on each other and ruin the movement from within before they get their shit together enough to create a theocratic authoritarian regime on the ruins of what used to be the USA.

How do I tell my daughter that her family is not welcome at our Christmas dinner this year since they aren't voting Republican?

You just say it as you’ve said it here. “You are not welcome for Christmas because you are not voting Republican”

Then you should probably pray about it some and read your bible to see what Jesus said about love and forgiveness and kindness to all people. If Jesus could forgive sinners, heal lepers, and minister to prostitutes and beggars, perhaps you can find something in his example to soften your heart towards your family.

Politicians come and go. Family is forever. Politicians will not come to your house for holidays. Politicians will not give you grandchildren (unless it’s Herschel Walker, I guess). Politicians will not comfort you in your old age or provide for your comfort. (In fact, Republicans are trying very hard to remove federal old age benefits and federal health coverage for retired people…why are you voting for them, again?)

Your grudge against your own flesh and blood seems petty, mean spirited, un-christian, and short-sighted. I urge you to reconsider. The holidays are a time for family and love, sharing your blessings with people you care about. Perhaps you can ask that the family not discuss politics at your gathering, and that might be a good compromise.

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Why are Trump voters portrayed as backward idiots by the other side? How can such narrative be credible for half a country?

Trump voters would like to think they are half the country (by weight and volume, maybe!). The reality is that they are a small and shrinking minority in this country, no more than 1/3 of the nation (still too many, but what are ya gonna do?). They are a loud, obnoxious and politically active minority, which is what gives them the illusion of power and control.

However, if the sane and decent people in this country were to actually get off their butts and vote each and every election, the MAGA bunch would quickly lose even more power even more quickly. They are dying out. We are witnessing the demise of the old white, mostly male, majority and as with any dying beast, they are frightened and lashing out in every direction.

Given their treatment of others when they were the majority, they feel that others will treat them as badly as they treated minorities once they are finally firmly in the minority. And, sadly, no matter how much education and critical thinking skills are available for all, it seems there will always be about a third of any group who chooses to remain willfully ignorant, obstinate, backwards, and ridiculous.

Being loud and ignorant (and proud of your ignorance) does, unfortunately, lead to people thinking that you are a backwards idiot. Far better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove the point. On the other hand, I’m glad that these crazed racist bigoted poopnoggins have made themselves so easy to spot, so they can be avoided by sane decent citizens.

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Tiffany Trump’s parents are Donald Trump and Marla Maples.

She has the worst features of both parents and has apparently not had as much plastic surgery to correct the face and body she was born with -weak chin, narrow eyes, unfortunate nose, etc.

When you look at photos of Ivanka as a child and a young girl, you can see a resemblance between the two, and also that Ivanka has had a lot of work done on her face.

I mean, good for Tiffany for not doing all that. Hopefully she is comfortable in her own skin with her own face, unlike the botoxed facelifted mess of her mother and sister (& maybe her father too). Maybe she realizes that having a perfect exterior is not as important as having personal integrity, a loving heart, and a kind personality.

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Melania Trump has nothing to say. She was a not-very-smart, low rent 'model' call girl before Trump made her his bride. She has nothing to gain from being any kind of public figure. She did not want to be First Lady, and I don’t think she has enjoyed the spotlight during those times when she received pushback from the public about her atrocious fashion choices, her retweeting of birther lies about President Obama, her disdain for decorating the White House for the ‘f*ing christmas’. I think the only reason she did any of it at all was because she didn’t want Ivanka usurping all of the attention (and money) associated with being on the arm of the president and doing White House duties.

I think she has a great deal of contempt for the kind of lowlife bigmouth morons who follow and praise her husband and does not want to be associated with any of the tabloid trash news outlets that feature him. If anything, she’d want to be on the cover of Vogue and such, just looking pretty and wearing fantastic couture and jewels, but thanks to her gross idiot husband she doesn’t have that kind of clout, and is in fact a figure of contempt and scorn for the moneyed, intelligent high society she would have loved to be a part of.

Another theory is that she is a Russian ‘honey trap’ who was placed in Trump’s life by Putin and/or the KGB because Trump has been laundering Russian money for decades using his businesses and his colossal debts that he’s constantly finagling with Deutchebank. Like any other tool or beneficiary of the Russian crime network, it benefits her to keep a low profile and stay out of the limelight as much as possible.

To sum up: I don't give a F*** about Melania Trump or anything she might have to say. I'm sure Putin has a better use for her mouth.

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You know, it’s wierd to me how Donald Effing Trump goes on TV, or goes to one of his endless rallies,and stands up there and BRAGS about doing criminal things. Then some TV personality or member of law enforcement or some democratic politician says “hey, DJT did a crime, maybe he needs to be held accountable” and then suddenly Trump and all of his MAGA moron followers start screaming about how Trump didn’t do the crime (that he was on TV bragging about) and it’s a witch hunt and the radical commie liberals are persecuting the man. For a thing HE BRAGGED THAT HE DID!!!

It is effing insane. I don’t know what kind of brain parasite you have to have in order to believe and be proud of a man who brags on his criminal acts and then denies them in the next breath.

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What do you think about Melania and Donald Trump sleeping in separate rooms in the White House during his presidency?

Honestly the thought of either of them in their jammies or their altogethers is atrocious enough without thinking of them together. Let alone in marital relations.

So I guess I’m glad they have a loveless marriage where they do not spend any time together intimately.

They are horrible people and the less I think about them the happier I am.

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