Summary
It’s time to reengage with politics as Trump prepares to take office again.
Unlike 2017, Trump now has a more compliant establishment, streamlined strategies, and influential allies like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos.
Concerns include his administration’s potential for sweeping authoritarian measures, such as Project 2025, and media normalization of his actions.
Vigilance is necessary to counter efforts to dismantle democratic institutions.
the idiotic condescension in this premise: “It’s time to reengage with politics as Trump prepares to take office again.”
get fucked. liberals never disengaged, a lot of us puked in disgust after the election but disengaged?
where are the fucking MILLIONS of ‘unengaged voters’ that shrugged and said “eh it won’t be so bad either way” and stayed home?
those are the fucks I’m upset with.
The maggots knew what they wanted and voted for it. I despise them, but at least they stood up for their values.
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Yeah, I’m in the same spot. I’m just glad I don’t have children so they’d be subjected to what’s coming.
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Ditto
I’m just waiting for the Free Palestine folks to show us the way. I am ready to see some real radical action, amirite?
remember how Antifa was treated by the trump administration?
they’ll straight up open fire this time.
I am sure they have all the answers. They sure had the answers for everyone during the election.
The answer was pushing for a ceasefire. Both sides accepted the agreement that had been on the table since May. All it took was a little bit of pressure from the US to get Israel to sign it, something Biden refused to do, and Harris refused to break with Biden on this.
Trump did what he could while running to relieve that pressure. He just stopped reliving it. I don’t understand this blindness.
Nah, I’ve been having the same 6 arguments online for like 8 months, starting to think nobody in this land is worth saving.
Biden was 78 years old when he started his presidency. Trump is 78 year old now. We shouldn’t be worried by what Trump is going to do. He is like Regan at the end of his presidency: so out of it that everyone around him just did whatever they felt like they can get away with. We should be worried about his advisors and people actually signing the bills.
I wager there’s a drunk president with his finger over the button incident by age 80. if he isnt dead. (in this case its dementia not drunk)
He is mentally cooked, and the stress of actually having to do the job he’s been yapping about for 4 years in his advanged age, will accelerate the dementia.
Trump is so clueless and lazy that he probably doesn’t experience job-related stress. Just rage and narcissistic injury.
Nah, bruh. I’ll take care of my own and contribute to NPR, local schools, local libraries, shop locally (fuck bezos). That’s about all I have to give. Idiots brought this on themselves and I can’t give a fuck about them.
Vigilance is necessary to counter efforts to dismantle democratic institutions.
No, action was necessary. Democrats preferred keeping the fucking filibuster instead.
The rich are getting their way and their newspapers are going to spin it. There will be theatre about Dems and Republicans fighting it out (read the working class and poor getting screwed by both sides) but it’s really just the rich re-tightening their grip.
This is about corporate greed, teleworkers endangering the landowners real estate value, keeping affordable healthcare tied to employment, removing health and safety regulation in the workplace, land and sea, and wrestling the few remaining government services out of the public hand and into private hands.
Since 2015 I’ve been yelling at the clouds in warning but people have this keen knack for hallucinating their versions of reality and being willfully ignorant. Even, and especially, in times like these.
Below is a series of screenshots of a conversation from j6. I watched on pbs, knowing what would happen, telling people what would happen, yet still watching it happen and still people chose to be blind.
I knew this person for 40 years.
I do not speak to them anymore.
rip USA
Your friend may be crazy, I don’t know, but it seems pretty clear to me that he was not interested in having the discussion you forced on him. Discussion is a generous term too. You were link spamming and steamrolling them at every opportunity. People don’t enjoy being spoken to that way.
How dare he try to inform his friend of the largest terrorist attack on our capital since the civil war…
Oh people dont enjoy being spoke to shut the fuck up. When democracy is being attacked put your fucking ego aside and grow up.
Fucking Disney kids I swear
You’re welcome to your own interpretation of things. I’m no J6 sympathizer but I found OP to come off preachy and very condescending. If that’s how you want people to view you then feel free to emulate this approach but I can promise you it’s not an effective way to educate people. I don’t think that’s really the goal of communicating in this fashion though. That’s just the rationalization certain types of people use to justify being a dick to others they view as beneath them in some way. You can be right and a dick at the same time as evidenced by your response to me here. There’s nothing wrong with what you said from a logical perspective but you intentionally framed it the same way an asshole would. Whether or not being an asshole was your primary intent is largely irrelevant at that point.
Yeah, what we need is more tone-policing. That’ll stop the fascists.
Being rude to your friends and family is not going to stop the fascists either. Communication style matters. If you don’t know that to be true then it’s guaranteed you’re not good at it.
The exchange I posted was pretty typical of the information we shared. Nothing out of the ordinary for us.
They were once one of my best friends.
So, it was all the things, all the time.
We would talk about everything. All the crazy ideas. All the debates and meandering philosophizing.
She used to be … someone else.
We grew up together. Made music, art, protested the machine Seattle style. Then, she went all libertarian. Rugged individual and all that. With the inheritance that paid for her house. And the YouTube algorithms ate her alive. And her open mind refused anything new that wasn’t Jordan or Rorgan or Harris.
That exchange wasn’t the end of our friendship.
It just got worse.
And 4 years after that I decided I can’t talk to someone who can’t be spoke with anymore and whose thoughts were essentially an echo of the tube.
It’s time to reengage with politics
This is what pisses me off about some liberals. These dorks disengaged from politics and look where it got them.
Maybe this time when they reengage with politics they don’t go back to brunch as soon as Bad Guy is out of office.
