You try opening a garbage truck door in shoe lifts and a girdle while you’re high AF wearing Depends and balancing a dead ferret on your head dressed like a ginger bread man picking up some baggage handler shifts. Sh*t aint easy, y’all. Vote Blue.
@tribelaw Maybe not in US History - but there are parallels elsewhere.
Caligula is most known for his cruelty and madness which he exhibited through the harsh taxes he levied on his citizens, the execution of senators whom he deemed untrustworthy, and other violent and excessive behaviors
@MichaelJAgain Following the Musk takeover, I was royally pissed-off and started on Tribel: Within a month I found I’d gained 7,000 followers - but the ‘edge’ of the original Twitter was missing, and I’ve hardly looked at it since. I’ve got Threads and Blue Sky - both seem a bit anodyne though.
@MichaelJAgain Musk has turned what used to be a fair forum into a weaponised MAGA echo chamber: I originally came here to see virtually instantaneous global news, and to follow US politics. Nowadays it’s a bot-ridden Trump adjunct, celebrating his blatant lies as truth.
Post-election, I’m off
@natsechobbyist I won’t be happy until he’s restricted to accompanying his lunatic ravings by playing a banjo to self-penned lyrics. (Actually I’m more than happy to write him an appropriate song - although if Lara’s efforts are indicative it wouldn’t get a lot of airplay).
@acnewsitics @Helen19544 It’s even clearer when seen from Europe (the onlooker sees most of the game): The emperor’s new clothes are now being given style points by hardened Republican fashionistas - and it’s delicious. The tipping point has been reached - and it’s all downhill for him from now on.
@arealmofwonder@LindaHu14367111 It’s only the last line that points to a location far removed from the rural Sussex of my youth - but these two short verses perfectly encapsulate the inexorable run-up to Hallow’een. Magical.
@BaddCompani@SarahDaily5 “…and I will therefore insist that all metal detectors be immediately removed from my rallies, and dispense with my bulletproof glass podium cages”
@BBCWorld Hmmm.. Telegram eh? We can be thankful that the Edgelord responsible for THIS platform refuses to have any truck with stirring up wild fascist false rumours or being partisan in ANY way.
@Ronald__H @soul_buzzard TBH - no. I’m very selective in who I follow, and many of those people wouldn’t manage to engage because they have real lives and time commitments; in turn, I haven’t always the time to get into dozens of conversations. (I’d make an exception for the amazing Allison Gill though).
@Firedogcooper@BerlinResist@fehrbehr70@maddenifico Confirmed, in respect of everyone I know here in the UK: Slack-jawed disbelief that he was ever thought suitable for the office of rat-catcher, let alone President.