A majority of Americans are seriously underreacting to what is happening in this country.

America has normalized secret police and internal terror operations, the construction of concentration camps, the destruction of the federal government and the de facto dissolving of Congress and it has done so without missing a beat. Coming back from where we are today will take decades.

I do think people are underestimating the possibility that the House just doesn’t sit.

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"The law is unbreakable magic" has done so much goddamn harm.

I really wish people would stop saying "but that's illegal!" about ANYTHING the Trump Regime does. When are you going to get it? Right now, the law is whatever the people who control the guys with the guns SAY it is. That's the reality of a dictatorship.

Don't act too superior to Trump. After all, all of America failed the dementia test.

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Unbelievable. As in, literally, not credible.

time to put away the halloween decorations

People in KY seem to like their Dem Governor and he's not throwing everyone under the bus. Why aren't the very serious people flocking to him to ask what his secret is?

Reminder that Hitler never changed the Weimar constitution he just dissolved Weimar congress and ruled from the executive branch and through decree(executive order)

These are just parts of a much larger stated goal for the republicans and their fascist world building. The government is being closed indefinitely the rights goals are being enacted and their goals include the end of the federal government forever. These are the opening salvos of that destruction.

Ending snap forever? That is clearly laid out as a goal of project 2025 and heritage they have enacted that goal and succeeded. Snap and ebt are de facto over and done with. The fascist were not lying when they said the goal was to end the ability for people to rely on government for anything.

This is expressly laid out as part of project 2025 and the fascists long term goal of shuttering government and letting it die on the vine while pocketing the money and reordering government around just one person. Trump.

Americans are not understanding that the republicans, not all but many of them, have stated at differing times that their goal is the end of the house and senate as coequal branches to the executive branch. We are seeing a uniparty state built around the executive.

People need to realize that the republicans have effectively dissolved Congress that Trump May very well never step in to turn it back on. The republicans who back Trump at a high level have been saying that is their goal for decades.

it's happening again

Shijimini Daichan, an aspirational clam, is a mascot for Otomo Town, Fukuoka Prefecture.

1. Trump grows even more unpopular. 2. ??? 3. The country is saved. What is 2? Can someone flesh it out for me? The whole point of rigging this system is that you're insulated from public opinion!

All these articles -- "Trump's hold grows shaky, "Trump is losing it," "People are turning on Trump" -- I guess I just want to ask all of them, so what? What happens next? What is the concrete mechanism whereby backlash is expressed? Who has power to do something about it, and what, exactly?

Exhausted and disheartened by these continuous "uh oh the Republicans might possibly become Nazis in the future ☝️🤓" takes as if we didn't all live through Trump's blood-and-soil presidential campaign and the last 9 months of overt and escalating fascist governance.

OK.

Would you care for a fresh cat in this trying time?

The Constitution means nothing if everyone only enforces the parts they like when it suits them. And that's happening. That's where we are. So, stop citing the Constitution as if it's a magic shield to stop Trump from seeking a third term. He's going to do it, and someone will have to stop him.

Venezuela being Americas Poland and the historic echos we are seeing should be a moment for people to focus on what the hard realities are in this moment. America is going to war without a Congress,while the dictator disappears people at home and solidifies the apparatus to kill those in opposition

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King of the couch. 👑 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

By god that's Norman Osborn's music

What’s shocking is how bored the average American is about it.

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I think Houston might actually have outdone NYC in terms of creativity in its puppy Halloween costume contest.

Happy Halloween!

Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism… And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas… America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.

Fascist, expansionist, led by a lunatic and armed to the teeth, the US has quickly become the biggest threat to the world. 1938 Germany with nukes.

Happy Halloween!

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🎃 The Great Pumpkin, 1966.

Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing. I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier. Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.

they noshed the squash

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A wide-eyed dairy cow named Arthur is the mascot of Kagamiishi Town, Fukushima.

Hibagon is the mascot for the town of Saijo in Shobara City and is based on an ape-like cryptid spotted in the mountains there in the 70s.

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this is not a man who will ever run anywhere but the top of the ballot

he’s not going to do any of this the whole point of a third term is “fuck you the constitution is invalid I’m the king of America” he’s not here to play cutesy games where he runs as VP and Vance resigns or whatever if his pet Supreme Court goes along, legality has nothing to do with it

Fuck off, Fuck off again, Keep fucking off, and when you run out of places to fuck off to, GO FUCK YOURSELF!