[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

immigration raids = pogroms

[-] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

Bullshit.

The thing that five day workweeks won't fund is obscene pay packages for executives.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago

The problem is that the corporations have no incentive to not pay the extortion money.

If Paramount had, as anyone with any integrity at all would have, told Trump to go fuck himself, the Toddler-in-chief would thrown everything he could get his tiny little hands on at them, and they would've ended up paying far more than $16 million trying to fend it off. So instead, they just cut President Shitbag a check, and now he'll (supposedly) rubber stamp the merger they want.

The responsibility for bringing that loathsome bag of pus to justice falls on someone else - the other two branches of the government. And they're cowardly, complicit and corrupt.

The Supreme Court doesn't even bother pretending to be upholding the law or the Constitution any more. The conservative majority is wholly owned by the same autocratic scumbags who are backing Trump, and they self-evidently see themselves as having one and only one mission - to give that reeking piece of shit whatever he wants no matter what sort of illogic and lies they have to use.

And in Congress, the Republicans are lining up to suck the rapist's deformed dick in the hope of getting to play a role in the oligarchy to come, and the Democrats are entirely focused on destroying the leftists in their midst so that they can continue gorging themselves on conservative soft money in exchange for doing nothing.

So the profoundly mentally ill and brazenly criminal piece of shit who's stinking up the Oval Office is free to do whatever the hell he wants because every single person who might be able to do something about it is one or another sort of piece of shit themselves, with the only minor distinction being whether they're corporate pieces of shit or judicial pieces of shit or congressionsl pieces of shit.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

That was when it kicked off in earnest.

I still think that if there's one single person who deserves more of the blame than anyone else for Trump becoming president in the first place, it's Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

But they can't focus on big tech after all the robber barons lined up to pay protection money to Trump.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Even against the staggeringly grotesque day-to-day reality of Trump's corruption and malfeasance, this urge he apparently has to try to come to the rescue of foreign politicians rightly facing consequences for their own corruption and malfeasance really stands out.

It sounds glib, but it really does appear thst he simply, genuinely believes that corrupt sacks of shit have to stick together, and he's trying to do his part (and, no doubt, end up owed a favor).

[-] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unfortunately, the establishment Dems have the desires of the voters in one hand and they're weighing that against hundreds of millions of dollars in soft money in the other, and so far the money has an uninterrupted win streak.

And Gilibrand has already clearly signaled which side she favors.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Those are just stock standard price support tariffs - solely meant to increase the sane prices for foreign products so that the obscenely overpriced American ones can compete.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago

Trump in charge of voting system changes is sort of like Larry Nassar in charge of sports medicine for teenage girls.

[-] [email protected] 88 points 3 days ago

Right - a guy who's known to have visited Epstein's island is denying the conspiracy theories about his oh-so-convenient death.

That has all the credibility of a four-year-old with chocolate on his fingers and crumbs on his face saying "Cookies? What cookies?"

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Unfortunately, facts count for nothing now, since Trump is a delusional narcissist whose only reality is inside his own mind, and he's surrounded himself with angrily frightened sycophants who just want to be told that reality is something other than what all the people they hate and fear say it is.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

Government of the people, by the idiots, for the psychopaths.

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It's a bit dated since it was written in the wake of Kerry's defeat rather than Harris's, but that aside, it's discouragingly (or cynically amusingly) relevant, and could just as easily have been written today.

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I've made no secret of the fact that I think that Biden is and always has been (including in 2020) a weak candidate, and that now is not the time to gamble on a weak candidate, especially after the debate just made him appear that much weaker.

But it just struck me that in the unique and bizarre situation in which we find ourselves - running against a brazen criminal with a stated goal of being a dictator fronting for a group of christofascists who already have a playbook for destroying American democracy - Biden has a built-in advantage as the incumbent.

I don't mean the advantage that incumbents are generally presumed to have (he notably does not have that), but a much simpler and more immediate one.

It's disturbingly likely that if/when Trump loses, his christofascist coattail-riders and his legions of angry, hateful and generally heavily-armed chucklefucks are going to literally go to war. They could well end up making Jan. 6 look like the peaceful protest they insist it was, at least in comparison to the violence and bloodshed they'll potentially unleash should their fuhrer lose.

And at that point, it's going to be much better to not have to deal with a transfer of power - to have a president already in place with a full set of aides and well-established communication channels, and to keep that president in office for as long as it takes to withstand the fascists.

As I said, that just struck me, and I haven't fully analyzed it, but I think it has some merit.

And never in my life did I think that things might reach the point, at least in my lifetime, at which I'd be considering the best strategy to combat an impending bloody fascist coup in the US...

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