That’s why billionaire owned media keeps telling Dem voters to give up on the DNC.

You know what the DNC could do that would undermine this message?

This is their after the fact justification. You are entirely correct. Anyone with functioning eyeballs and the ability to put two brain cells together knew he wasn’t going to drain any fucking swamp or be making any fucking thing better.

2016 Trump voters I will give benefit of the doubt to. If you voted Trump in 2020 you knew what you were getting, and if you voted Trump in 2024 you even had a road map.

There is nothing I want to hear from these apologetic Trump voters besides “Yes, I was some combination of racist, hateful, and ignorant, and now the entire nation is suffering for my bullshit.” There is no way they didn’t know what they were subjecting the nation to, and I will not pretend that somehow they didn’t. Don’t want a Trump voter as a friend, and wish I could boot them out of my family. I sure as hell am not going to entertain their fucking platitudes.

Trump declined to release the Epstein files because he said it would falsely incriminate innocent people. But that has left them wondering: Is Trump just the swamp?

YES, FUCKING YES. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SWAMP. And the fact that this is the moment where you are wondering this proves my point above. Everything up to now was all good.

This whole turnabout is a personal one for my friends. They didn’t like Trump because he was a Republican; they liked him because he would be a “disrupter in chief.”

TURNABOUT??!! He has been the entire person literally the entire time.

OMFG I think I have just realized. The only way out of this is if we all pretend we swallow this bullshit from bashful Trump voters, isn’t it?

Look at this shit:

They wonder: Is Trump just a showman who lied to us and deceived us this whole time?

Entirely too credible, too wide eyed. This article and articles like it are just another kind of ruse. One where we all pretend we haven’t learned something dark and horrible about 77 million of our fellow citizens, so we can throw them a bone after what they have voted in for all the rest of us. 🤮

Where do they go now? One obvious possibility is to the Democratic Party. But Democratic leaders would need to do more than act like they care about people like my friends. They need to offer a clear, transparent alternative that can successfully brand Democrats as more honest and authentic.

So the problem isn’t Trump folks, and it’s not Trump voters, either. Republicans? Nah. It’s actually Democrats. Huh.

Eli Thompson is an 18-year-old

Oh Jesus. The author thinks all this is normal.

It does not seem like the most likely of possibilities at the moment though, I must admit.

Isn’t that like the rock bottom approval number that Trump ever hits - like the same 30% or so are truly in the “he can shoot someone on 5th avenue” camp and they never waver.

I wonder what a venn diagram of that unshakable Trump 30% and this 30% look like. Not hard to imagine it’s the group that is pretty OK with anything that they think hurts brown folks.

I know I know, so was my edit. 🙂

Well, at least you finally got hmmm bop out of my head.

As long as it’s even harder for poor minorities, and no trans kids get help, two thumbs up from poor whites tho.

I hope you applied this same level of rigor to your analysis of the reports of Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs.

Edit: The rapidly applied downvote without other comment suggests to me that perhaps you did not.

thank God I am not American

And by the way, the French are the ones who know how to get shit done. We’ve probably started too late to stop the slide before it gets really bad over here.

Let me try one more time.

Do you think Angela Davis dodges this question, or do you feel she thoroughly, satisfyingly, answers it? It’s not a long clip.

Because as best as I can tell, you will again decide that you decide how those being actively harmed should respond and what is an acceptable response from those people, and again characterize her response as advocating violence, rather than recognize how such a viewpoint does nothing but empower those who seek to oppress.

Every word she speaks is in support of her summation at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HnDONDvJVE

You did an awful lot of arguing to demonstrate that you still didn’t really read it, and by read I mean digest it, nor fathom why I suggested you start there.

Because you are defensively pearl clutching about entirely different things than the most relevant bit to your arguments here, which is how ridiculous and harmful it is for those in a position of privilege to clutch their pearls about whether the protest actions of those being actively harmed and killed might not be convenient in their timing or execution.

And when you reach the point of recognizing why such pearl clutching is actively harmful to others, instead of reflexively insisting it’s not what you are doing, or insisting that it isn’t harmful, quite a lot of other things will fall in place.

Good day.

The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

USA right now: Don’t get any ideas, Trump!

Beyond words…

I’m not as in the loop these days - are some Linux pundits still trying the “maybe MS isn’t as bad as they used to be” line or have we learned again now?

You can pretend NYT has no influence on popular opinion and therefore politics, and ignore their misrepresentation of the genocide if you wish, but that doesn’t cause your argument to magically become valid.

You should do some reading. Start here.

https://letterfromjail.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail

Look, whoever gets filthy rich doing what I’m about to suggest doesn’t even have to pay me. Maybe name a street Octopus Ink Lane and I’ll know we have an understanding. That’s enough for me.

Here’s your money maker:

If there can be a city that isn’t going to allow nonwhites or queer folks, then there absofuckinglutely can be a city that doesn’t allow magas or registered Republicans.

And all but 77 million of us would love nothing more than to live in just such a city.

There you go, just remember the little folks when you are rolling around in your swimming pool full of cash.

I was the right age at the right time to have been really into peak 80s punk, but was far too oblivious to pretty much everything that made it special to appreciate it at all at the time.

I can certainly tell you what has kindled my recent interest to explore the genre, and it wasn’t because I was pissed off about pronouns and DEI. Now to click the link and see if the article tries to suggest some other reason…

😁

I think my point is kinda that the whataboutism poster I blocked might have needed a reminder that the idea that “no one cared until it was Trump” is just another pro-Trump attempt to rewrite history, and untrue on the face of it, because it has never been difficult in the age of MS dominance to find knowledgeable people expressing these concerns.

However, and going back to my original comment and my underlying frustration that I’ve entertained this whataboutism for this long, like all examples of whataboutism it’s nothing but a waste of time where we all circlejerk about how of course we all cared about it even before Trump while simultaneously failing to call out the original statement of “no one cared until Trump” as the obvious bullshit that it is, on top of being whataboutism.

So now I get to walk away smugly congratulating myself for how thoroughly I’ve exposed the whataboutism and the bullshit, meanwhile all the time you and I spent thinking about and typing this could have been spent thinking up creative methods of civil disobedience, or otherwise doing something more valuable than impotently demonstrating what an inane point was made in the first place.

So next time, I’m just stopping at Goodbye, and the downvoters can fuck themselves.

Edit - typo or two corrected.

I’m holding my breath for the pinephone to be ready for primetime. I check in on it every so often to see what the current buzz is.