I’m really tired of hearing how rural Americans feel left behind or disrespected. > 25% of the population lives in rural areas, but elects half of congress represents. They have extraordinary influence over the country, which also massively subsidizes them. It’s the rest of us who are left behind.

Did he lose his businesses? Spend even a minute in jail? Pay a dollar in fines? Of course not. He faced not one consequence for anything. Is he now not only the most powerful man in the country but the most powerful president in history, completely unbound by the constitution and congress? Well yes

You sure don’t hear about “migrant crime” anymore. I was told that was a huge crisis

Every time a Democrat says something that could plausibly be construed as insulting Republican voters it is played endlessly by Corporate Media (deplorable, guns & religion, etc: you remember them decades later) Trump literally shits on Democratic voters and Corporate Media refuses to discus it

It’s going to be an interesting test case to see if an entire administration can govern for four years based entirely on vibes and (literal) shitposting. Honestly nothing else. Nothing to improve the economy, quality of life or national safety. Entirely focused on dicking around on twitter.

It's like you don't even hear about "migrant crime" anymore

This government suffers from severe loser stench. Everything they say and do is a barely veiled form of "I'm the BOSS and you have to RESPECT ME!" and nobody does. Millions of people are going outside tomorrow just to say so

Its so funny to let George Santos off the hook for multiple felonies "BUT WERE A NATION OF LAWS" is the whole pitch for why we need to deport millions of people for low level misdemeanors or civil/non criminal offenses of people just working and trying to have a life. Extremely serious country

Post a great invention

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

trump won! why do you people still exist? why do facts i dislike still get bandied about? why isn't music different? why isn't the computer different? why am i not getting laid more? why does the spanish language still exist? who said you could keep having opinions?? trump won!!

The media repeatedly told voters that the Biden administration supported open borders vs Trump who would deport criminals when the reality was it was Biden's policy to deport criminals and Trump's policy to just deport any foreigner they could regardless of danger or criminality (very unpopular!)

Friendly reminder that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native born Americans. And that undocumented immigrants partake in very few social services (education mainly for their children) despite paying taxes.

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

tip 1: degrade yourself, lower your dignity to beneath that of a rat, bow and grovel at the tailpipe of the mighty automobile and wait for them to bless you as they continue to steal every human right you foolishly thought you had

They’re overplaying their hand so bad

Really should’ve won that election folks

Bullshit. Trump and Trumpists and a disturbingly large slice of the modern Right are absolutely fine dehumanizing in far worse rhetoric an alarmingly long list of groups and individuals ideals. It’s their favorite thing to do. It gets them off. /1

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Raising any doubt whatsoever that Trump drew, wrote, and signed the letter is a good shibboleth for identifying complete sociopaths.

I'm kinda resigned to the fact that most people don't really give a shit about how millions globally will die horrible deaths directly due to Musk and Trump's decision to gut USAID - I guess it's too abstract to comprehend, or something - but it is HAPPENING, and nobody is swooping in to stop it.

-Firing members of independent agencies without cause -Invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside of wartime -Refusing to spend money allocated by Congress -Dismantling federal agencies A few examples of Trump moves the Supreme Court has allowed.

so for those keeping tally, so far today we had: SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated trump saying domestic violence is nbd trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing

The New York Times on pardoning the biggest drug dealer of all time and an accused murderer vs the NYT on pardoning a guy who filled out his application for a firearms permit incorrectly. It makes you think is all I'm saying!

JUST NOW: Donald Trump is booed by the crowd as he arrives at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the US Open men’s final

Donald Trump being booed at the US Open Men's Tennis Final (better audio version)

Even just the napalm line out of context from everything else in the movie requires an illiterate misread. "Smells like victory" is intended to be ironic - everyone in the theater in 1979 knows America lost the war Kilgore was convinced they were winning! bsky.app/profile/kyle...

They also think the point of Sicario is that it's really cool to send troops into to Mexico illegally to kill indiscriminately and that doesn't at all morally compromise you.

🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.

If you were writing a script for a movie about healthcare and needed a batshit crazy anti-vaxx character, you would have to make it less batshit crazy than RFK JR to be believable.

I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.

Department of Gwar

Trinidad isn't on the way to the United States; it's as far out of the way from Venezuela to the United States as it's possible to be. Trinidad is on the way to Trinidad, which has 50k Venezuelan refugees that the locals don't want.

People return from other countries that are *much poorer* than the US and exclaim, "god, it sucks here!" You can't walk anywhere, cars dominate every square inch, there's very little public space or community, health care is a nightmare, child care is a nightmare, public education is mediocre.

I just still can't believe Trump is the president again

It's no coincidence that falling birth rates have coincided with falling rates of people listening to the song Night Moves by Bob Seger

I love a thrill... like when you hold down backspace and it starts erasing like 10x faster fuck

I want a socks machine. I drop in raw feedstock of socks material, it prints out socks on demand for me. When I have worn socks I drop them into a hopper and the raw material is cleaned and repurposed for new socks.

Making America Healthy Again is when I have to smoke a pack of cigarettes outside CVS to get a safe and effective vaccine against a virus

That's right, the reason Germany has so many fewer mass shootings than America is because they don't have antidepressants.

He is doing and attempting explicitly authoritarian things. He wants to be a dictator. There is real damage to our government and civil society that we will have to repair. But also he is extremely unpopular and inept and there is real pushback. I suspect he will fail to consolidate but we'll see.