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[Covie @covie_93]

Kristi Noem has actually killed more animals than any Haitian migrant in Springfield,Ohio.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Trump names Jeffrey Dahmer to head up the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

MAGA celebrates and says, “he has experience with food.”

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Why not cut out the middlewoman and just name Putin as director of national intelligence?

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.

We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.

It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.

It's an insidious power that has been hiding in the shadows for some time...and when the stakes were at their highest in this election, it fully revealed itself.

The American Oligarchy.

They control our Supreme Court, much of Congress, and the flow of information to the masses via legacy, mainstream and social media.

They decide the national conversation, how to keep us at each other's throats while they continue to amass wealth and power completely unchecked.

They put their thumbs on the scale of justice and poured billions into this election. They chose Trump because he was desperate and would capitulate to their demands. They chose a running mate to replace him in case he became too unhinged to control.

Consider how many disqualifying facts about Trump never saw the light of day...or didn't get the attention they deserved...or got drowned out by propaganda. They took a mentally spent buffoon and presented him as a hero to the masses.

Despite Biden successfully steering us out of a global recession and strengthening our economy, they maintained the national tone about the price of groceries being too high. Despite Trump's obvious mental decline, their media outlets remained reticent to press the issue.

We struggle to unite as a nation because they're too good at keeping us divided. We are drowning in disinformation because they control all of it.

They have successfully created imaginary villains for us to fight...each other.

It seems like we are a democracy careening towards fascism, when the reality is they're using the specter of fascism to keep us on edge while they turn America into a compliant oligarchy.

Whether you are a democrat, republican, independent or MAGA, we have a common foe.

Some of us just don't know it yet.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Whatever the sickest, most vile, most debased and darkest hell you can imagine Trump and his blind followers will do for the next four years is NOTHING compared to the horrors that are coming our way.

[A case of the So Sads @NidhCthon]

@Hippie_Investor @musharbash_b @Alexand3rTheMeh If the rule that you follow led you to this, of what use was the rule?

[Jake Gold @BotsonBob]

@digby56 Executive Order freezing grocery prices a year ago.

[NolaTiger91 @NolaTiger91]

@digby56 These are things he should have done in 2021:
1-Should have declared war on Wall Street and their role in artificially inflating rents snd housing prices
2-Demanded the DOJ investigate price fixing and gouging in ag, grocers, oil etc
3-Passed a massive affordable housing plan

[pizza what @thesmellofpizza]

@digby56 He should have been on tv yelling at republicans about it and acting crazy. He could have given money to Kroger in exchange for lowering prices. If we knew it was the emergency people seemed to think it was we could’ve mire loudly shown them that we’re on it

[Matthew of Philadelphia @Miltime8]

@digby56 Be *seen* to have been fighting it. And name the enemy. Ain’t hard

[C @Councilman303]

@digby56 prosecute price gouging companies. 6-8% inflation would have been understandable but 12-15% is exploitation of covid for profit

[Thimbles @Thimble27968308]

@digby56 He should have defined the fight by attacking the price gougers earlier.
He was far too late in doing that.
He let the fed fight inflation on his government's behalf, forcing people to struggle with both high interest rates and high prices.

[John Philip Freeman @johnpfreem]

@digby56 Write a check for $200 WITH HIS NAME ON IT and mail it to every stupid person in America.
Which is a lot of check evidently .

[Mike O @MikeOandY]

@digby56 Maybe focus, at the very early instances, on price gouging at the grocery stores.
Pursue a series of initiatives that would have been obvious to everyone affected by it.
I think he did a great job on the things he did.
But I read books and stuff, and don't watch Fox.

[Toby Shandy @tobyshandyy]

@digby56 Talk constantly about how great his numbers are constantly and but empathize with voters saying they're still feeling the high numbers and then redirect all blame to a cast of already hated villains (billionaires)? Would be a start...

[Betsy Cazden @Betsy_Cazden]

@digby56 My supermarket did a massive thousands-of-items price cut right after Harris announced they would go after price-gougers. Coincidence, or not? That's one move that might have been tried say two years ago.

Housing costs are THE big one, and almost impossible to fix quickly.

[Rational Pear @PearRational]

@digby56 called it greedflation and blamed the corporations, over and over again. instead, his dumbass talked to super bowl audiences about shrinkflation like he was fucking 60 minutes’ andy rooney. or seinfeld. stories need villains. Rs always have one. Dems never do.

[leaving @blujay4534]

@digby56 @eclecticbrotha Have a White House summit with owners of companies that sell groceries - make a loud splash about it - and bring prices down at the register

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

I think there should be an effort by liberals to compile stories like this.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

After last night, I have taken a long look and made a decision:

I’m doubling down. We will protect our democracy, and never give up.

NEVER