Yesterday, someone told me that if things get awful enough, Americans would take to the streets in massive protests.
Trump will revoke our right to peaceful assembly.
Do you not recall that he wanted to “shoot protestors in the legs?”
Are you unclear about how dictators work?
Black people have literally been enslaved, dehumanized, bred like cattle, built our communities up from NOTHING (multiple times) only to be brutalized, have our businesses and homes burned to the ground and property stolen by the government. WE are the most economically anxious motherfuckers up in this bitch. So miss me with the bullshit.
David Frum is the first major media personality I’ve seen who believes elections are over.
“Don’t forget, this time around he’s a lawless potus.
Now, 3 days out from Tuesday, what is surprising to me, watching the msm and commentary on the election so far, is how many people and pundits are operating under the assumption that this is “just another turn of the election cycle” and in 2 years we’ll ‘have another election’ for voters to make amends.
I don’t think so. It’s just that most people in the media-sphere don’t seem to have processed that yet. But if MAGA controls the entire government, Democrats, and even plenty of Trump-voting Republicans, are only slowly going to realize: lawless executives are not going to allow democracy-as-we’ve-known-it to dislodge their majorities without real pain. We only have to look to the (sometimes bloody) civil rights era of the 50s and 60s to see what that looks like.
This is it, folks. Americans have made their bed — made their break with democracy — and now we’re going to have to live with the consequences as best we can.”
If you think you can protest over that don’t kid yourself. Trump has no problems using the military to shut us down.
I hope he is wrong but if they have all levers of power who will stop them?
People can analyze, hypothesize, blame Dems till they are blue in the face. None of it matters.
This is the game right here.
Misinformation works. Those that believed misinformation voted Trump. Those that believed the truth voted Harris.
There is NO candidate that can change this.
Republicans have a well oiled propaganda machine that spans all media platforms and we do not.
Period.
This empty psychopath — who has created a world for himself so separated from accountability that his own fantasies and personal bigotry have become real — is about to put us on an “austerity program” that may cause some “hardship.”
Who is ok with this?
"The fact that Trump is now unlikely to ever face consequences for his crimes can be laid squarely at the feet of one man: Merrick Garland. He dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump, making it easy for him to run out the clock and escape accountability." https://t.co/bzef0pYP6Q
Democracy has been rejected.
Science has been rejected.
Education has been rejected.
Freedom of speech has been rejected.
Freedom of religion has been rejected.
Kindness to one another has been rejected.
Rational disagreement and dialogue have been rejected.
Logic has been rejected.
Loyalty has been rejected.
Love has been rejected.
we've noticed how "elitist" has become not only a pejorative brandished by the right but by commentators (like David Brooks, who uses it often) with the intention to discredit; how a term that might mean "expert" (i.e., has studied, trained, has degree) is now meant to isolate & denigrate. but if you are diagnosed with a brain tumor would it not be plausible that you would want to engage an "expert"--"elite"--neurosurgeon? (would not even David Brooks opt for the elite party here?) what is most alarming is that we are moving toward a culture in which literacy itself will be considered "elitist."