By his logic

Nobody here is using that shit.

Logic that is.

This is meant to do what it always did, rile up stupid hicks against a manufactured enemy and provide leverage for politicians who want to succeed on the backs of a fearful mob of hicks.

Actual secrets are kept secret from people who have any chance of exposing secrets. There is no real such thing as overriding authority in matters of national security and technology that could turn wars. They keep that shit wrapped up until a situation gets so dire that there’s nothing left to lose.

Add to that, the commercialization of military tech, so that there are likely 100 different tech companies with huge secret programs and technology being tested who have no idea what each of the others are doing, and sure as shit won’t share anything “under oath” with congress or anyone else.

The “aliens” narrative has been a very convenient narrative for them too, just like how Q-anon was built as a misdirection from the actual child-sex cabal because nobody is going to take the claims seriously when they sound like the deranged ravings of conspiracy nuts.

The idea that we can have a “document reveal” or testimony that leads to actual conclusive anything is as absurd as the idea that we can have a document leak about Epstein that leads to anyone in power facing criminal charges.

Susan Collins has two modes:

Empowering nazi fascists proudly.

Frowning and wagging her finger while empowering nazi fascists (proudly.)

That’s half of USAID’s budget.

Cutting USAID is by far the most heinous and evil thing Trump has done in his entire time invading our space, and it gets maybe the least attention. The death-toll is already in the hundreds of thousands, maybe already over a million souls. The immediate consequence of a performative decision that cost us next to nothing compared to other spending.

Hundreds of thousands of children, of families, grandmothers and brothers and sisters, people’s wives and husbands and newborn babies. All just people just trying to survive a harsh world, cut off from medicine and nutrition and safe water and dying slowly in their family homes, tents or streets.

We are never going to see more than maybe a Frontline documentary on how horrific this act was, but the fact that we have a world that allows for one person who can just sign a squiggle on paper and watch millions of people die for fun should have us on the streets with high explosive devices.

a plurality did vote for this after he was convicted of crimes and they saw what he did in the first go around.

A lot of the exit polling suggested that most Trump voters who switched from supporting Obama and Sanders, really had no idea what was going on with Trump, his family, their legal accusations and literally everything else we all know.

They did not actually remember anything about the first round, because so very much of the USA is vast, vast swaths of millions of people working 7 days a week to afford having children in a suburban people-hatchery, and we have a capital system that has been given full, unrestricted access to our brains, eroding our attention-spans and desire to feel engaged with anything for more than 20 seconds.

This is what we’re fighting, not just an angry mass of armed racist goblins, but a vast pandemic of apathy and boredom with literally everything. A banal army of shrugging masses who do not make critical judgements, because what has critical thought done for us? What does anything matter? Just look at what’s in front of you and cast your vote based on how you feel at the moment. This is the prevailing attitude, whether explicit or buried under layers of rationalization.

For the frothing Crockett stans rushing in to defend the candidate that the GOP and establishment Dems are obviously not scared of, Colbert has had Crockett on at least three times. You can watch the interviews on Youtube.

From here you can contort and backflip if it “counts” but then you’re just going to bat for Trump’s cronies. This “rule” has never been enforced on or upheld by late-night talk shows who are not journalists and can do whatever they want.

I have nothing against Crockett, but between her zionist tendencies and lack of much substance past being sassy, I believe Talarico can do the most harm to the Trump administration, and so does the Trump administration. We don’t win with sass, we win with convincing a lot of back-country hicks that they can have safe, comforting, Christian democratic leadership without fearing being placed in reeducation camps. Despite most of them needing reeducation camps.

This is why everyone is scared of Talarico, he can do a lot to flip Texans and maybe the state broadly, as well as go a long way to purge Israel ties to Senate. (As far as I’m aware Crockett nor Talarico have taken AIPAC or related organizational funding, but at least on Crockett’s part it hasn’t been for lack of trying. They’re likely holding back until she’s seated in Senate.)

Do you really think you’re going to get an intern position working between Trump’s FCC chairman and Trump’s CBS owner? Because honestly you might.

I didn’t have “Lemmy .ml user goes to bat for zionist democrat candidate” on my bingo card for today, but here we are.

Along with a host of other foreign and domestic donors paying our representatives to represent corporations and investment bankers and the like.

The only people Newsom appeals to are neo-liberals ashamed that Trump won’t keep up appearances and isn’t keeping his criminal imperialism masked in the liberal pageantry that we’ve done for decades or centuries in the US.

He is courting the right, he made a day to celebrate Ronald Fucking Reagan, jesus christ how loud of a dog-whistle do you all need.

Tankies are just roleplay kids, they hate everyone who isn’t roleplaying also. Newsom is an actual threat to democracy wrapped in a too-wide smile and promises of a “return to normal.” He would be more dangerous than Trump and he would do his damage behind a facade of national cooperation and stability while empowering the lunatics like Thiel and Musk.

Because that’s not enough, they are a resource, if we don’t tap that resource, the other side does… as they are doing now.

I’m saying it’s not an “abstract group of people” I am talking about the currency that shapes nations, the force behind the declarations and policies and intentions.

That power comes from only a small number of sources, the top two are violence or money.

The right has both, and they are doing everything they can to secure them before others can, and there are a LOT of forces trying to get a piece of both those pies. We could wrest a section of it with careful political messaging and coordination and establishing local communities and electing leadership that actually wants better outcomes instead of better donations. But you don’t do that without knowing exactly who you’re trying to message and what your message needs to be.

None of this is as simple as “fuck them, we’re doing our own thing” we’re all in this together, even the people you don’t like.

These people are the normal, liberal, middle-class of America and have the greatest political capital, more than any other group, because they are the breadbasket of our nation’s tax revenue and disposable-income shopping habits. Their comfort and desire to preserve that comfort is why ANY of this is happening. Yes they can be distracted by keys easily, but they’re already held by capital because again… they are comfortable.

The second strongest form of political capital is armed groups of brainless nationalists who will fight and die for their nation’s flag.

Where does progressive political capital sit on this scale? Somewhere below “unarmed protestors politely asking for civility.”

We need to understand how power works if we ever want actual change in this country, and it’s not hugboxes and performative inclusivity, it’s flags and guns and money.

The best pushback for this message is to post the entire interview between Newsom and Ben Shapiro and then tell me again who cares about people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDpBwpSqSc

No, I disagree.

Trump is creating a chaotic shitstorm, but it’s almost entirely performance and theater and mindless destruction, all focused around him and his personality.

If you get someone in there with the same agendas and intentions, but who is cunning enough to mask it under populism and pretending to care about people while signing into law bills that will allow capital to have unrestricted access to our lives, allow them to take part in our politics even more and in the open, packing the courts with corporate aligned-judges… well Liberal america will be HAPPY with this, they just don’t want to see all the violence in the street, they want stability and the image of peace, which will let someone like Newsom soak up all the adoration for “making America normal again” while signing away all of our futures in a much less openly opposable way.

Trump caused the wound, but someone like Newsom will rub the sewage into it.

he will repeal 20% of Trump’s orders and people will celebrate it. He will restore a fraction of what Trump has undone and people will celebrate his name and see him as a hero just because we’ve become accustomed to total chaos. It almost looks carefully planned. Hmmn.

A long, tireless campaign of turning all of our social discourse and social pressure into online arguments and forum exchanges has made the bulk of America’s literate people tune out of political involvement entirely, how do we think there’s any chance of a “revolution” like so many people are calling for?

The exit polling from 2024 should be making us all CRY.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trumps-2024-victory-a-more-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-voter-coalition/

We can’t get enough people on-board for “general” strikes, we can’t get average people who want the same thing to agree on basic facts about reality like if science is valid and if vaccines work, we can’t get average, literate people to even want to be around other people anymore. Dating and sex have fallen off a cliff, people are more lonely than they’ve ever been, while at the same time clinging to their discord friend groups with snarling defensiveness when you suggest that they need to socialize more. Asociality has become an identity.

We can rebuild a positive movement if we focus on our communities, our neighbors and neighborhoods and our schools and workplaces, we can get people to connect again and start working towards group goals… but it takes a kind of work that most online leftists want NOTHING to do with, which is actual work towards better outcomes that they may not see themselves, because all of this takes a long time and a lot of patience and persistence and being social and understanding emotional intelligence.

We have ZERO leadership to capitalize on momentum by people marching and protesting, this is why BLM and No Kings had the highest turnout of protestors in history but led to NOTHING.

This isn’t a matter of people being complacent, this is people waiting for a “perfect leader” who will never come.

At least the right is so dumb that they will latch onto anyone, warts and all, to be their “daddy will save us” figurehead. It’s utterly broken and deficient on every level, but it becomes actual movement and political capital.

We can’t even get liberals and progressives to agree “if it’s okay to carry the American flag” and that’s why we have lost ALL our ground and why things are going to get worse.

Let me repeat that so you and everyone really get it.

Nobody is coming. It’s going to get worse.

Ironically, passports which most non-native-born Americans already own and keep updated constantly because they often travel in and out of the country to visit family and attend events.

It’s projected this is going to hurt red states more than blue, since most midwest white-as-fuck Americans who never left their hometown and are scared of the whole world don’t have a shred of identification past their driver’s license.

Meanwhile, most immigrant families I know have their passports and copies of their birth certificates on-hand at all times.

She most likely will face prosecution if the administration collapses, and even if it doesn’t. They’ve taken such a severe beating that even if they secure some measure of power after November and onward, they will need scapegoats and people to point at as they run big media spectacle kangaroo courts.

I will take anything at this point, but I am particularly smirkful at the idea of Pammy here being railroaded in a mock trial, the justice of her facing her own brand of injustice and lies as her party stabs her in the back would be amazing

They know without a doubt this won’t make any traction and will just get booed out of the public space right now, this whole performance is hurting trans rights and equality broadly.

But I’m quite sure they know that and are doing this on purpose.

The damage done to this country by the right is incalculable and likely irreversible.

When the internet started empowering the dumbest idiots who don’t understand the world to find and support each other, we lost.

The human brain is not naturally a problem-solving tool of logic and reasoning, it has to be trained to use logic and reason, and in a world of comfort and ease like in the USA broadly, people had no incentive to learn more and be smarter other than social pressure, and that also dissolved as people found each other online and removed the pressure to step up their intellect to be accepted in broader society.

This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like “mRNA” that defy all understanding or capability for people of limited intelligence to discuss with their coworkers around the lunch table and relate their own personal experiences so they seem special and interesting.