Please be aware that HR 9495, a bill that would give Trump the power to shut down nonprofits for "supporting terrorism", is scheduled for a markup in the House today and will probably come to the floor this week. Fifty-two Democrats voted for this horrific legislation, which would affect independent news outlets, thereby allowing corporate media to triumph over their opposition and rule supreme. No wonder the WaPo and the Times are busily kissing Trump's ass. The Senate may or may not vote for this bill, and I hope Biden would get his head out of his ass long enough to veto it, but come January and a Republican-controlled Congress, the bill is very likely to become law. Call your rep and demand that they vote no, both now and in the future, or dissent will be silenced. This is a throwback to the Attorney General's List of the 1950s; if you don't know about that, look it up.
Here come the Quislings. We're about to find out that many of our so-called " leaders" intend to save their own sorry asses and throw us to the wolves.
Exactly. My Norwegian family survived Hitler...well, most of them did. The horror show happened fast in Norway. My uncle was a student at the University of Oslo and sent to Buchenwald. He survived and lived to be 102. I am grateful he does not have to see what is happening in the United States. I am a dual citizen of Canada and the US, making a plan to return to Canada.
You are one of the lucky ones. I have been checking out several countries with an eye to emigrating and have been told by all that I do not qualify - too old and too poor. I have nowhere to go and no hope left.
Linda, remain here with your friends & public services. As a business prof, I find solace in my church & my students. You must have supporters. Just a suggestion.
We all dream of escape from Nazism. FLEM is a bonafide Nazi. (First Lady Elon Musk). What a crack head. The circus has begun and the douche bag is not even in office yet....While we dream of our new home in the Caribbean, free from extreme stupidity, I wait for the day he drops dead.
That's great, if you can do it. BUT...if you are in your 70s, and rely on Social Security, it becomes impossible. And the LAST thing you want is to be 1000s of miles away from any family or friends when this new administration manages to kill that Social Security, leaving you penniless in a foreign land.
Biden will not do it. He's too busy making nice to Trump, the man he called a fascist just a month or so ago. A big thank you to Biden and Garland for landing us where we are.
Nixon & Reagan had their butts kicked for bad performance. Trump will as well I expect, and be labeled one of the great failures of American politics. Of course, many people will be hurt.
Our turn is coming and Elon has already set his sights on Trudeau. Russia has been supporting Temu Trump for awhile and so is the Falun Gong group behind The Epoch Times, which has ties to Steve Bannon.
Anita, there are battles to fight. I suggest you work on your Representative & Senator, both at Federal & State level, if possible. I worked in California pollitics for 20 years & know public pressure can work. I learned a lot working for Reagan.
I don't have a Senator or Representative. We have MP's and MLA's. Our election will be coming up soon, and we can use some help, especially for anyone considering a move to Canada. Canadians have been trying to fight back against the MAGA movement for 9 years. Now we have to fight it here.
Miley, like myself, attended Princeton on a scholarship. He graduated through our ROTC program as an Army officer. I dropped out of ROTC after my first year because I wanted to do sports. Trump appointed him, but Miley said he was bound by the Constitution and laws derived from it.
As I have written elsewhere, Milley & I were scholarship students at Princeton, where he was Army ROTC & I was Air Force ROTC. (In WWII my father was an Air Force combat doctor based in Peterborough, England, occasionally flying as nose gunner on his unit's B-17's over industrial Germany, flying almost daily. No wonder these young men and some women were called "Our Greatest Generation".) We have a similar conflict with Evil today with Donald T, all in the name of riches and notoriety in my opinion.
The stupidity & immorality of these clowns is amazing. Many of them will be jailed or shot (by outraged citizens), and they soon will be known as Trump's scum, I suspect.
My "people" were from Skalat, Poland. A town now in Western Ukraine, not to far from the current border to Poland. Before WWII, Skalat had a thriving Jewish community. Poland fell so quickly that most of my "relatives" could not get out. By the end of the war, the Jewish population was zero! Trump controls the Executive Branch, The Judicial Branch and if his radical, Maga people are confirmed he will control the DOJ, The Dept of Defense, The Intelligence Community and Mass immigration;xx ALL our right will be gone, and we'll be doomed! Lets hope some GOP Senators grow a pair of balls! xx -look up 1953 mass immigration
My dad was from Boryslav, Poland. That town is now in the Ukraine. He lost many relatives in the oil fields and in the ovens. Came to the US in or around 1937 not speaking a word of English, only Yiddish. My mom was from Berlin. Her parents were gassed at the camp Chelmno. Grateful my parents aren’t alive to relive history.
I am married to a Pole from the Western part of the country, but returned to the States 3 years ago to deal with Agent Orange cancer from my time in Vietnam as a Marine Corps junior artillery officer. The Nowacka's are afraid Trump will encourage Putin to attack west on into Poland.
If Gaetz becomes the AG, I predict he will have every Democratic member of Congress arrested for "treason", and we will be confronted with a new Reichstag.
I may not be the sharpest crayon in the box. I’ve lived 81 years. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. so I got a good “streetwise” education. I also managed to eek out a Masters in History. Perhaps it’s my heritage, but I’ve always been fascinated by the rise of Hitler and how quickly The National Socialist German Workers' Party destroyed any democracy within the German government. The rise of Trump and Maga is frightening when you compare it with Germany in 1933! ‘Nuf said!
Fuck the Democratic "leadership". They are getting ready to sell us all down the river. If we survive what's coming, the party needs to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
They all need to grow some balls and fight for the people who elected them and our democracy. We can’t win by rolling over. I sure as hell hope there’s an uprising coming.
I’m going to have to tap out of following politics in order to live longer. I’m so disgusted and angry. I know we all are and I’m just repeating myself and what most of us have been saying but damn if it doesn’t feel good to vent.
Into the garden I go this morning and when I’m done I’m going to reward myself with a couple of cocktails and be grateful for the part of life I can control.
The D party definitely needs to get rid of Schumer in any leadership role, he’s not cut out for it. The really elders need to step aside & let the younger leaders step forward.
In Nazi Germany it was called "working toward the Fuhrer". Guess we'll soon find out who has a spine and who doesn't. Interestingly, one Republican voted against the bill: Thomas Massie, of all people.
No haven’t had that issue but the commenter’s names are squished up so that I can’t read some of them. Also I used to be able to tap toward the end of a longer comment & it would expand without me having to exactly hit the blue part; now unless I exactly hit the blue line, it just collapses the whole comment!! ?? I think it’s the app
That’s alarming; sometimes this site does strange things that make me think “they’re watching… and trying to nip “unapproved comments” (ie, anything critical of Das Fuhrer)
It had been my understanding that the Democrats wanted to use this bill to stop nonprofits from supporting humanitarian aid to Palestinians. They believe the propaganda claiming that UNRWA is staffed by Hamas, thanks to Netanyahu and his speech before Congress.
I’ve always looked up to President Biden. His compassion, no doubt based on his upbringing and his life experiences, and kindness has always been admirable. That said, I was rather disappointed seeing President Biden be nice to the 🍊💩. I was hoping he would say “you are a despicable excuse for a human being who worked to overthrow a free and fair election and lead an insurrection but I believe in the Constitution and will follow it come Jan 20, you lowlife motherfucker!”
I've been on a total news blackout since election night, but I still learned that he called Cheeto Jesus and then met with him. The night I heard he called him was the moment I decided I'm done with Democrats forever. They are spineless, gutless, and sniveling. I too have always admired Joe. I live in Delaware, so I "know" him better and in a different way than those in other states. His son, Beau, was our AG, and was going to be our Governor. When he died, it was as if a member of my own family had died. For Joe to be so civil to that shitstain is something I may never get over.
Who knows? I think it's because the bill purports to be aimed at Palestinian-supporting groups. Otherwise it just seems like sheer cowardice.
Also, just to make your day complete, Trump is threatening to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his mass deportations. A national emergency could, of course, be extended indefinitely. Coupled with his threat to adjourn Congress, which he would find a way to make permanent, we are facing a true dictatorship with no end in sight. There will be no more elections. Welcome to the Fourth Reich, or as I read somewhere today, the new Axis of Evil along with Russia, Hungary, China and North Korea. Can nuclear war be far away?
I wouldn't count on your passport to save yourself as if it gets that bad, they may revoke them. Get a MAGA hat and they may leave you alone. I'm being facetious.
I did not vote for Schiff as Senator. I voted for Katie Porter. Most of the Jews in Congress voted alongside the R’s and I want to know why they fucking did that!!
There are rats every where. 🐀the fucken ship isn’t even in port yet and 🐀the dirty rat 🐁bastards are jumping off the fucken boat ! Just the nature of 🐀the beast (pols) or a good part of the scumbag cowards ! 🤬
Well, they recruited the North Korean cannon fodder so they can go for awhile. I would love to move to Europe but the Russian aggression has people over there concerned. IDK, I live in Cali. Maybe we will succeed.
But ah um well they have ah the North Koreans even though they’re chronically malnourished and most are unable to do more than drag their weapons behind them they’re giving it the old college try 😁 it’s the language barrier thingy like with the Tower of Babel. Makes me wonder though how many Russians they’ve killed by mistake. Or their bread. Or tree bark, etc …
They did send over 200 missiles at Ukraine yesterday. They may be using North Korean soldiers on the front, but they will keep going as long as they have Iranian missiles available to them.
I’ve been on this side of Ukraine’s defensive action towards being invaded and bombed into 3rd world status, by a Russian mook dictator since the beginning of this war! It’s finally time for Russian citizens to stop being so damned afraid to end Putins regime by any means necessary! We will find the same necessity for ending Trump permanently as well!
Did you see where the two MSNBC Morning Joe hosts had a private meeting at Mira Lardo with t***p since they want to know how to cover him in the press. Really? How about just tell the fucking truth…novel idea huh.
What are the Democrats thinking? Do they have PTSD from the election? That could encompass everything from ACLU to the SPCA to groups that aren't organized groups like BLM and Antifa. I hope someone gave them a wake-up call.
Heck it could support a womanʻs group I belong to, AAUW, because it supports womenʻs freedom of choice. Iʻll bet Trumpʻs lackeys will target Planned Parenthood.
My rep is (thank the PowersThatBe!) a staunch Progressive. She sent out emails this morning promising to Fight Like Hell! to protect our freedoms and democracy. Katherine Clark has been our relentless defender since before tRumPutin entered politics, so I know I can count on her. And Senator Liz Warren!
My rep is Steny Hoyer and is a hypocritical old fool. When I called his office, I got some mealy-mouthed little idiot who bleated that he didn't know why Hoyer voted for the bill. His ears are probably still ringing.
Thanks Linda, I’ve been far too focused, on far too many projects lately and hadn’t paid attention to 9495… everyone here should be on the horn, demanding a no vote, or else!!
Good for you. Keep an eye on this legislation; if it doesn't get through Congress this session, the fascists will try again in January. I hope the ACLU or someone is ready to take it to court.
This bill is so obviously a play for getting rid of liberal organizations. Obvious! How can these Democrats vote for such a fascist move?? We definitely do not have a liberal political party any more. Only two parties, toadying up to a dictatorship takeover.
Bravo, Keep up the good work. We desperately need to win this one or all progressive nonprofits, including independent media, will lose their tax-exempt status and go under. This is a life-and-death issue.
I like the fact that Musk declared McKenzie Scott's big donations to non-profits helping women, POC, anyone who isn't a white male, that they're destroying society. Her response: she doubled down.
Speaking of the president junior, he made a statement before the election that him and that orange pea brain thing want to purposely trash the economy because people need to suffer. And to think people voted for this fuckery although it was mentioned that this didn't get reported widespread. No shit. The heartless bastard king of no philanthropy could make a hell of a difference on a positive note but like the demented turd he owns, it's all about hurting and not helping. We're all in this shitshow together and I'm trying like hell to stay a bit positive.
Fucking media screwed America by coddling the new fascist movement and all its shitty figureheads. Musk, Thiel are immigrants too, but they're white and rich. Conservative hatred of immigrants is limited to POC.
Donny is dumber than a bag of hammers, has the emotional development of an abandoned puppy, and he will fill his administration with equally dumb, incompetent people. Forgive me for lack of attribution and bad memory, but someone this community respects wrote that Trump's picks, policies and weird-ass notions can be beat - in statehouses, courts, in public opinion and even occasionally in Congress. Robert Hubbell updated the election results in his piece today. There was no red wave. There is no Trump mandate. His cabinet picks are already going south. One of his tantrums will probably, eventually result in President Vance, but that little dipshit does not control the cult. For the sake of your health, I recommend consuming less news. Don't pay attention to every twist and turn. If something really important occurs, you'll know about it. Life goes on, my friends. Stay lively.
He hates the same people they hate and is now in a position to cause harm and damage on an enormous scale. They absolutely love it - that is, until it hits them.
In 2014, I had a retiring coworker tell me he would have retired earlier if Obama hadn't crashed the economy in 2008. I tried to tell him Obama wasn't president in 2008, but I was unable to convince him!
Our people are not educated. Many cannot read. We as a population consume ourselves with brainless pastimes. No knowledge of history. No realization of what millions of people have endured.
Here’s America. Brainless video games junk movies junk TV comics / tv comics violent no message content vapid. Vapid all over. Junk food diet.
Our people have no idea of what can and will happen to them.
I hear you. There's the right wing noise machine and the sanewashing of the legacy press, but don't people see and hear?? He's on the TV machine constantly. How do they miss what's so obvious to the rest of us? Color me mystified.
What's not to love? An inarticulate imbecile with a dead ferret on his head, false teeth which slip all the time, the physique of a sumo wrestler, suits straight off the rack from the oversize department at Wally World, his brandname cologne - Eau de Cesspool, shoe lifts so high they make him lean forward constantly... I tell you, he is the pinnacle of (toxic) masculinity.
I just concluded a back & forth with a Trump male on a YouTube comment section, into which he had inserted himself rudely. His command of written English was 4th grade, his ability to think likewise. Very clear to me how the degrading of education has turned the masses compliant, stupid and mean.
In tRump world they will only use the court rulings which agree with them. They will simply ignore the ones where the courts rule against them. The Courts have no real power if the Admin refuses to acknowledge their rulings.
Corporate media is part of the fraud; it’s because of them that there was never enough attention given to the important issues such as his orchestration of the insurrection, the 88 felony charges and 34 felony convictions. They should have supported the removal of felon 45 from the ballot.
MSM got him elected, again. As did the billionaire oligarchs. Corporate media demands women and democrats will be held to a 'higher level.' The media is baked in misogyny. Fucking media rape apologists. They can go down in flames. They're corporate greedy whores. They treat the public like idiots.
Apathy is a problem. Palestinian was a big one for Gen Z. As I was told. I think some are on overload and just didn't care. The thing is, Republicans do not cross over and vote democratic. Even knowing what is coming, they were less than 5%. Democratic voters jumped ship. For a variety of ignorant reasons.
You did not see the record numbers of enthusiastic participants volunteering for Kamala and the record numbers of people attending her rallies vs the fact that people were walking out of Trump rallies and he could not fill half of his few venues. Nothing adds up in this result.
Totally against all constitutional scholars and judge luttig who is a former federal judge who is also Republican. Constitution is very clear; anyone who is involved with an insurrection or gives aid and comfort to an insurrectionist is disqualified from running for election of any public office. Even after that decision, he continued to give aid and comfort to the convicted insurrectionists which should have prompted additional appeals for removing him from the ballot.
Before 1990, McD fries were cooked in beef tallow, which may be why they used to be thought to be the best fries. But some people thought cooking them in pure animal fat had health concerns of its own.
And they are sprayed with dextrose to give them a uniform color when cooked, which is a bigger health concern in my opinion than the seed oil deep-frying.
They won't be eating that shit. It's just an exercise in trolling. They will be dining on the finest filet and caviar. On the other hand, it's Trump's plane so who knows?
Add Joe Scarborough and Mika to your list of suck-ups! They were at the roach-infested hotel this weekend apparently. Gee….I wonder why? money, money, money….When the hell will we get a relief from all these idiots?!😡
I have never cared for Scarborough, so I don't watch hime very often but I have a friend who used to LOVE Morning Joe and I think she is going to be very upset.
Shouldn't be surprised. When Mark Meadows was in the House Scarboro had him on regularly . Called him a "commonsense conservative". That's when I stopped watching
Re: that photo of “Donny’s Confederacy of Sewer Clowns chowing down on Mickey D’s” — sorry/not sorry that the first thing I thought was, Where’s a plane crash when you really need one?
How I despise that man - just utterly despise him. Every morning when i wake up i wonder what fresh hell he will foist upon us today -whether it is juvenile name-calling, or whining about something (is he never satisfied?) he is always, all the time, front and centre when I read the paper or watch the news. He is either complaining about something or proving that he knows nothing about the business of governing. Is it blasphemy to say that sometimes in a democracy the majority can be wrong?
You know Trump is a rapist because he keeps forcing himself not just on women, but on all of us. It seemed, by contrast, that Biden could go days without doing anything especially noteworthy. Now, of course, the press will feel obliged to report on Trump's every bleat and fart.
Someone else said this first - the whole thing about multiple ballot boxes being set on fire sure went quiet after The Tangerine Terrorist's win, huh?
Can you imagine the screaming if that had happened in a red area instead of a blue one? Yet MTG, the walking moldy potato, is screeching about 36 votes.
Ol' Spork Toes is feeling a bit out of it these days...she has to insert herself into a controversy somewhere or she feels irrelevant. Oh wait--she is irrelevant.
Avoiding MTG news is critical to my mental health. Turd doesn't seem to be giving her any space -- no meetings or calls. And her BFF Gaetz being tapped for AG must feel like a slap in her maga face. 🥳😱
They were able to find and count all but 20 that were outstanding about a week ago. It was a pretty minor thing by one dummy who got caught immediately.
If life is so unfair for these whiny little dictators, perhaps they’d like to trade places with some of the people who are living the dream right now. There are plenty of people to choose from. Women, non-Christians, gay or trans people, immigrants (legal or undocumented), the middle class, sick people, single moms, federal civil servants, anyone who has ever spoken out against Trump or Musk…Fuck them! And fuck everyone who’s allowing this to happen!
I'm one of them. If I lose Social Security I'll be homeless. I've been fighting for social justice for almost 60 years and I'm terrified. I don't think I will survive what's coming.
Yes, it’s terrifying and infuriating for people who paid into the system their entire working lives, and could now get stripped of the benefits they counted on.
And speaking of Musk, is anyone planning to stay on that crappy app of his? I signed up for BlueSky and am slowly phasing out of not-Twitter. I just don’t trust that site anymore. It’s being run by the second most vindictive megalomaniac, who’s now working side-by-side with the MOST vindictive megalomaniac.He has access to all of our anti-Trump posts, as well as our personal data. Am I being paranoid?
Slowly? Why not abruptly, like dropping a very hot potato. It's addictive, social media. Even here, one tends to doomscroll. You get a better quality of feed, but the nausea remains, if somewhat diminished.
I don’t know! I guess I hoped it wouldn’t be so bad. But it’s so much worse than I could have imagined! And now that, for all intents and purposes, he’s running the country, it’s really scary.
I deleted everything when Elon bought Twitter. Using X/Twitter makes money for Elon via advertising, in addition to handing a vindictive rich weirdo your personal info. Additionally, engaging with MAGA blue check accounts makes them money. Elon is also now using all X/Twitter content to train his Grok AI. Unless you actively want to hand Elon and MAGAs money, you shouldn’t use X/Twitter.
I already thought about him having all our posts, but they are out in the blogosphere or whatever you call this. I never signed up for Xitter or Faceborg, and just don't know what good social media would be to me. If the Orange Menace wants me, I am sure he can get someone to find me.
I am so sick of Marjorie Greene. Does she ever shut up? Does she ever make sense? Could she please be selected for the Space Force’s first mission to Uranus?
Space Nazi and his cohorts are big mad that everyone is bailing to BlueSky to the tune of one million last week It's where the algorithms don't allow intimidation by trolls You need to check it out
Please be aware that HR 9495, a bill that would give Trump the power to shut down nonprofits for "supporting terrorism", is scheduled for a markup in the House today and will probably come to the floor this week. Fifty-two Democrats voted for this horrific legislation, which would affect independent news outlets, thereby allowing corporate media to triumph over their opposition and rule supreme. No wonder the WaPo and the Times are busily kissing Trump's ass. The Senate may or may not vote for this bill, and I hope Biden would get his head out of his ass long enough to veto it, but come January and a Republican-controlled Congress, the bill is very likely to become law. Call your rep and demand that they vote no, both now and in the future, or dissent will be silenced. This is a throwback to the Attorney General's List of the 1950s; if you don't know about that, look it up.
this is the bill 52 Democrats voted for last time it came up for a vote, so excuse me while I go scream into a pillow
Here come the Quislings. We're about to find out that many of our so-called " leaders" intend to save their own sorry asses and throw us to the wolves.
Exactly. My Norwegian family survived Hitler...well, most of them did. The horror show happened fast in Norway. My uncle was a student at the University of Oslo and sent to Buchenwald. He survived and lived to be 102. I am grateful he does not have to see what is happening in the United States. I am a dual citizen of Canada and the US, making a plan to return to Canada.
You are one of the lucky ones. I have been checking out several countries with an eye to emigrating and have been told by all that I do not qualify - too old and too poor. I have nowhere to go and no hope left.
Linda, remain here with your friends & public services. As a business prof, I find solace in my church & my students. You must have supporters. Just a suggestion.
I'll stay because I unfortunately have no choice.
We all dream of escape from Nazism. FLEM is a bonafide Nazi. (First Lady Elon Musk). What a crack head. The circus has begun and the douche bag is not even in office yet....While we dream of our new home in the Caribbean, free from extreme stupidity, I wait for the day he drops dead.
Costa Rica.... Portugal, Spain. anywhere but the united states of dumbfuckistan
That's great, if you can do it. BUT...if you are in your 70s, and rely on Social Security, it becomes impossible. And the LAST thing you want is to be 1000s of miles away from any family or friends when this new administration manages to kill that Social Security, leaving you penniless in a foreign land.
Same, stuck here.
SAME
Biden will not do it. He's too busy making nice to Trump, the man he called a fascist just a month or so ago. A big thank you to Biden and Garland for landing us where we are.
Nixon & Reagan had their butts kicked for bad performance. Trump will as well I expect, and be labeled one of the great failures of American politics. Of course, many people will be hurt.
History will not be kind. He will be 47 out of 47
Our turn is coming and Elon has already set his sights on Trudeau. Russia has been supporting Temu Trump for awhile and so is the Falun Gong group behind The Epoch Times, which has ties to Steve Bannon.
Anita, there are battles to fight. I suggest you work on your Representative & Senator, both at Federal & State level, if possible. I worked in California pollitics for 20 years & know public pressure can work. I learned a lot working for Reagan.
I don't have a Senator or Representative. We have MP's and MLA's. Our election will be coming up soon, and we can use some help, especially for anyone considering a move to Canada. Canadians have been trying to fight back against the MAGA movement for 9 years. Now we have to fight it here.
Speaking of three shirts Bannon. He is now lobbying to have General M. Milley court marshalled.
Bannon's fraud trial has now been moved from December to February. I'll bet he never goes to trial.
Miley, like myself, attended Princeton on a scholarship. He graduated through our ROTC program as an Army officer. I dropped out of ROTC after my first year because I wanted to do sports. Trump appointed him, but Miley said he was bound by the Constitution and laws derived from it.
As I have written elsewhere, Milley & I were scholarship students at Princeton, where he was Army ROTC & I was Air Force ROTC. (In WWII my father was an Air Force combat doctor based in Peterborough, England, occasionally flying as nose gunner on his unit's B-17's over industrial Germany, flying almost daily. No wonder these young men and some women were called "Our Greatest Generation".) We have a similar conflict with Evil today with Donald T, all in the name of riches and notoriety in my opinion.
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The stupidity & immorality of these clowns is amazing. Many of them will be jailed or shot (by outraged citizens), and they soon will be known as Trump's scum, I suspect.
Yes, there seems to be a conspiracy among the greedy & immoral in many places.
My "people" were from Skalat, Poland. A town now in Western Ukraine, not to far from the current border to Poland. Before WWII, Skalat had a thriving Jewish community. Poland fell so quickly that most of my "relatives" could not get out. By the end of the war, the Jewish population was zero! Trump controls the Executive Branch, The Judicial Branch and if his radical, Maga people are confirmed he will control the DOJ, The Dept of Defense, The Intelligence Community and Mass immigration;xx ALL our right will be gone, and we'll be doomed! Lets hope some GOP Senators grow a pair of balls! xx -look up 1953 mass immigration
My dad was from Boryslav, Poland. That town is now in the Ukraine. He lost many relatives in the oil fields and in the ovens. Came to the US in or around 1937 not speaking a word of English, only Yiddish. My mom was from Berlin. Her parents were gassed at the camp Chelmno. Grateful my parents aren’t alive to relive history.
I am married to a Pole from the Western part of the country, but returned to the States 3 years ago to deal with Agent Orange cancer from my time in Vietnam as a Marine Corps junior artillery officer. The Nowacka's are afraid Trump will encourage Putin to attack west on into Poland.
If Gaetz becomes the AG, I predict he will have every Democratic member of Congress arrested for "treason", and we will be confronted with a new Reichstag.
I may not be the sharpest crayon in the box. I’ve lived 81 years. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. so I got a good “streetwise” education. I also managed to eek out a Masters in History. Perhaps it’s my heritage, but I’ve always been fascinated by the rise of Hitler and how quickly The National Socialist German Workers' Party destroyed any democracy within the German government. The rise of Trump and Maga is frightening when you compare it with Germany in 1933! ‘Nuf said!
Enter the Amerikkkan Dark Age.
Gaertz is a corrupt piece of work, so he now can destroy his reputation for -ever.
Yes, there are battles to fight, Joel. That's how our ancestors gained freedom from England in 1776.
Lucky you
You're lucky.
I am a dual citizen of Germany and the US, and while I was planning to go back and forth, I will be doing more coming back then going forth.
Fuck the Democratic "leadership". They are getting ready to sell us all down the river. If we survive what's coming, the party needs to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
They all need to grow some balls and fight for the people who elected them and our democracy. We can’t win by rolling over. I sure as hell hope there’s an uprising coming.
I’m going to have to tap out of following politics in order to live longer. I’m so disgusted and angry. I know we all are and I’m just repeating myself and what most of us have been saying but damn if it doesn’t feel good to vent.
Into the garden I go this morning and when I’m done I’m going to reward myself with a couple of cocktails and be grateful for the part of life I can control.
Stay well everyone.
RESIST 💪🏼🫶🏼
Agreed.
Agreed.
The D party definitely needs to get rid of Schumer in any leadership role, he’s not cut out for it. The really elders need to step aside & let the younger leaders step forward.
And Jeffries is NOT a wartime Consigliore.
I hope you are not right, Linda.
In Nazi Germany it was called "working toward the Fuhrer". Guess we'll soon find out who has a spine and who doesn't. Interestingly, one Republican voted against the bill: Thomas Massie, of all people.
Lead by a tyrannical, traitorous orange connard Charles… democracy is dead, that much should be perfectly clear to “we the serfs”!!
🎼 Serfin ' USA by The Bleach Boy
Outstanding, Kristy!
😂😂😂
Boys?
A collaboration with Cruel & the Gang
Why are comments being cut off in mid sentence? Is it the site? Anyone else having this issue?
No haven’t had that issue but the commenter’s names are squished up so that I can’t read some of them. Also I used to be able to tap toward the end of a longer comment & it would expand without me having to exactly hit the blue part; now unless I exactly hit the blue line, it just collapses the whole comment!! ?? I think it’s the app
That’s alarming; sometimes this site does strange things that make me think “they’re watching… and trying to nip “unapproved comments” (ie, anything critical of Das Fuhrer)
Not yet, Karen.
Haven't had any issues with a laptop - but I don't use the phone for this.
It had been my understanding that the Democrats wanted to use this bill to stop nonprofits from supporting humanitarian aid to Palestinians. They believe the propaganda claiming that UNRWA is staffed by Hamas, thanks to Netanyahu and his speech before Congress.
Figures
Fucken A Charlie ….a rat is a fucken 🐀rat no matter where he nests !🐀 All they want is a free meal and a no heavy lifting job !
Not me! Fight to the death
No shit.
Whores, all of them, and not even honest whores.
Especially the legacy media.
I’ve always looked up to President Biden. His compassion, no doubt based on his upbringing and his life experiences, and kindness has always been admirable. That said, I was rather disappointed seeing President Biden be nice to the 🍊💩. I was hoping he would say “you are a despicable excuse for a human being who worked to overthrow a free and fair election and lead an insurrection but I believe in the Constitution and will follow it come Jan 20, you lowlife motherfucker!”
I've been on a total news blackout since election night, but I still learned that he called Cheeto Jesus and then met with him. The night I heard he called him was the moment I decided I'm done with Democrats forever. They are spineless, gutless, and sniveling. I too have always admired Joe. I live in Delaware, so I "know" him better and in a different way than those in other states. His son, Beau, was our AG, and was going to be our Governor. When he died, it was as if a member of my own family had died. For Joe to be so civil to that shitstain is something I may never get over.
* continuation of previous comment: 20th you lowlife motherfucker!”
The neofeudalism is damn insane, and the unctuous derps eat it up with a spoon Linda!
And they're just getting started. Look for the entire Democratic Party to grovel and capitulate.
I’ve always looked up to President B
Including such supposed civil liberties stalwarts as Adam Schiff. Anticipatory obedience begins to roll.
Are all these people and their families being threatened? WTF
Yes. Moskowitz is one of their targets. It’s pretty hard to not back down when your children’s lives are at stake.
Who knows? I think it's because the bill purports to be aimed at Palestinian-supporting groups. Otherwise it just seems like sheer cowardice.
Also, just to make your day complete, Trump is threatening to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his mass deportations. A national emergency could, of course, be extended indefinitely. Coupled with his threat to adjourn Congress, which he would find a way to make permanent, we are facing a true dictatorship with no end in sight. There will be no more elections. Welcome to the Fourth Reich, or as I read somewhere today, the new Axis of Evil along with Russia, Hungary, China and North Korea. Can nuclear war be far away?
Living as close as I do to about a gazillion US military personnel, at least I figure that I’ll be vaporised quickly.
Get your passports updated, the apocryphal end of democracy is near, this isn’t a Cassandra story people, this is reality!!
I just renewed my passport. The photo is so awful that I truly do look like a refugee.
I wouldn't count on your passport to save yourself as if it gets that bad, they may revoke them. Get a MAGA hat and they may leave you alone. I'm being facetious.
Yeah, lets act like children and spread fear. I hope you're enjoying yourself. You're quite annoying, in truth.
I thought I had blocked you. I'll try again, so I don't have to run across your pro-trumpian comments.
Is Marycat2021 a Trumper? I got that impression from her sneering comment.
Sorry that you find reality to be annoying. Read some history.
What the fuck?
Adam what are you doing????
That tells us that he must be terrified—and that terrifies me. He's probably near the top of Trump's vengeance and retribution list. It's long one.
He's about to become a Senator. He is a coward.
I did not vote for Schiff as Senator. I voted for Katie Porter. Most of the Jews in Congress voted alongside the R’s and I want to know why they fucking did that!!
Probably pressure from AIPAC. The House Dems are blind and are going to cut their own throats and ours.
I'm very disappointed in him. Stunned, really, by his support of this dastardly bill.
Disgusted, not stunned. I am disgusted.
There are rats every where. 🐀the fucken ship isn’t even in port yet and 🐀the dirty rat 🐁bastards are jumping off the fucken boat ! Just the nature of 🐀the beast (pols) or a good part of the scumbag cowards ! 🤬
https://youtube.com/shorts/tGMs8LKCNY0?si=EX_XXUJ946HoqhmV
In a stoke of luck for the good guys, Biden just approved the use of our long-range missiles in Ukraine for attacks deep inside Russia.
Thanks for finally growing a pair Biden, Russia hasn’t the manpower to continue their assault on Ukraine finally!!
But N Korea sent a shitload of the bravest , skinny malnourished fellas with stomach worms to fight for Putin. 🙄
North Korean soldiers = cannon fodder.
Supposedly the NK's are free to roam the Russian internet and are looking at porn instead of fighting, they are just a bunch of jackoffs.
Well, they recruited the North Korean cannon fodder so they can go for awhile. I would love to move to Europe but the Russian aggression has people over there concerned. IDK, I live in Cali. Maybe we will succeed.
It's SECEDE, my darling, we have already succeeded, so much that the fail states are subsidized by California.
( I've lived hete for 60 + years, I never have or will call it " Cali ".
No true resident of California EVER refers to it as 'Cali'. You're not alone in this.
They now have North Korean troops fighting for Putin
But ah um well they have ah the North Koreans even though they’re chronically malnourished and most are unable to do more than drag their weapons behind them they’re giving it the old college try 😁 it’s the language barrier thingy like with the Tower of Babel. Makes me wonder though how many Russians they’ve killed by mistake. Or their bread. Or tree bark, etc …
They did send over 200 missiles at Ukraine yesterday. They may be using North Korean soldiers on the front, but they will keep going as long as they have Iranian missiles available to them.
To quote our beloved Jeff, what the actual fuck??
I’ve been on this side of Ukraine’s defensive action towards being invaded and bombed into 3rd world status, by a Russian mook dictator since the beginning of this war! It’s finally time for Russian citizens to stop being so damned afraid to end Putins regime by any means necessary! We will find the same necessity for ending Trump permanently as well!
Will we? I seriously doubt it! Putin has been in power for 22 years
Did you see where the two MSNBC Morning Joe hosts had a private meeting at Mira Lardo with t***p since they want to know how to cover him in the press. Really? How about just tell the fucking truth…novel idea huh.
They just lost what viewers they had left.
Groveling suck-ups. No spine.
WTA shitfuckery is this?! (to borrow from Mr. Tiedrich)
Which MSNBC ‘journalists’ need input on how to cover Mcshitzinpantz?! Geezus
Truth is bad for ratings Vickie!
That’s why I don’t watch TV news. I don’t get why anyone does
What are the Democrats thinking? Do they have PTSD from the election? That could encompass everything from ACLU to the SPCA to groups that aren't organized groups like BLM and Antifa. I hope someone gave them a wake-up call.
Heck it could support a womanʻs group I belong to, AAUW, because it supports womenʻs freedom of choice. Iʻll bet Trumpʻs lackeys will target Planned Parenthood.
PP, among many others. We can also kiss Public Broadcasting goodbye.
Trump is a well known ignoble poltroon, FUX SNOOZE follows lockstep!
They're cowards. They need their constituents to blast them loudly and clearly. Any shred of respect I still had for the Democratic Party is gone.
I have PTSD from the last drumpf term for god's sake.
Omg
Please get everyone you can to call their reps and help stop this dreadful bill, at least for now.
My rep is (thank the PowersThatBe!) a staunch Progressive. She sent out emails this morning promising to Fight Like Hell! to protect our freedoms and democracy. Katherine Clark has been our relentless defender since before tRumPutin entered politics, so I know I can count on her. And Senator Liz Warren!
My rep is Steny Hoyer and is a hypocritical old fool. When I called his office, I got some mealy-mouthed little idiot who bleated that he didn't know why Hoyer voted for the bill. His ears are probably still ringing.
Good on you Linda!
I also called a bunch of other Dems just to register my anger, even though I am not their constituent.
My senators are both Dems but I don't trust either of them to do the right thing.
Excellent Paula!!
Done Linda, as well as telling everyone i know to get on the horn ASAP, or kiss a ton of excellent news sources fuckity bye!
Thank you so much.
Thanks Linda, I’ve been far too focused, on far too many projects lately and hadn’t paid attention to 9495… everyone here should be on the horn, demanding a no vote, or else!!
See the correlation between AIPAC and those democrats who voted for it.
Yes.
Done! Emailed my representatives! Thank you for posting this. Onward!
Good for you. Keep an eye on this legislation; if it doesn't get through Congress this session, the fascists will try again in January. I hope the ACLU or someone is ready to take it to court.
I called Melanie Stansbury, my House Representative
Good work.
This bill is so obviously a play for getting rid of liberal organizations. Obvious! How can these Democrats vote for such a fascist move?? We definitely do not have a liberal political party any more. Only two parties, toadying up to a dictatorship takeover.
I signed a petition against the bill. Unfortunately my current rep is a Republican but we flipped the seat so I can call the new one.
Bravo, Keep up the good work. We desperately need to win this one or all progressive nonprofits, including independent media, will lose their tax-exempt status and go under. This is a life-and-death issue.
I like the fact that Musk declared McKenzie Scott's big donations to non-profits helping women, POC, anyone who isn't a white male, that they're destroying society. Her response: she doubled down.
Speaking of the president junior, he made a statement before the election that him and that orange pea brain thing want to purposely trash the economy because people need to suffer. And to think people voted for this fuckery although it was mentioned that this didn't get reported widespread. No shit. The heartless bastard king of no philanthropy could make a hell of a difference on a positive note but like the demented turd he owns, it's all about hurting and not helping. We're all in this shitshow together and I'm trying like hell to stay a bit positive.
Fucking media screwed America by coddling the new fascist movement and all its shitty figureheads. Musk, Thiel are immigrants too, but they're white and rich. Conservative hatred of immigrants is limited to POC.
Of course
Impossible
I wish she would buy WaPo and turn it into a public non-profit.
Donny is dumber than a bag of hammers, has the emotional development of an abandoned puppy, and he will fill his administration with equally dumb, incompetent people. Forgive me for lack of attribution and bad memory, but someone this community respects wrote that Trump's picks, policies and weird-ass notions can be beat - in statehouses, courts, in public opinion and even occasionally in Congress. Robert Hubbell updated the election results in his piece today. There was no red wave. There is no Trump mandate. His cabinet picks are already going south. One of his tantrums will probably, eventually result in President Vance, but that little dipshit does not control the cult. For the sake of your health, I recommend consuming less news. Don't pay attention to every twist and turn. If something really important occurs, you'll know about it. Life goes on, my friends. Stay lively.
Every day I ask myself what his fans are seeing that I am not. He has not even *one* redeeming feature, yet here we are…
He hates the same people they hate and is now in a position to cause harm and damage on an enormous scale. They absolutely love it - that is, until it hits them.
When it hits them they will blame Biden. No cognitive dissonance there, none at all.
In 2014, I had a retiring coworker tell me he would have retired earlier if Obama hadn't crashed the economy in 2008. I tried to tell him Obama wasn't president in 2008, but I was unable to convince him!
Can’t fix ignorance or stupidity.
Exactly. They are a lost cause of cult mentality.
Ask any Germans and Polish person who was alive in the 1930’s
Our people are not educated. Many cannot read. We as a population consume ourselves with brainless pastimes. No knowledge of history. No realization of what millions of people have endured.
Here’s America. Brainless video games junk movies junk TV comics / tv comics violent no message content vapid. Vapid all over. Junk food diet.
Our people have no idea of what can and will happen to them.
HOW COULD ANYONE HAVE VOTED FOR RUMP. HOW?
THE MORONS WILL BE THE FIRST TO CRY.
But this is how this came to be.
😫😫😤😩😖🫣
Not accidental.
Being educated means reading and retaining correct information
I hear you. There's the right wing noise machine and the sanewashing of the legacy press, but don't people see and hear?? He's on the TV machine constantly. How do they miss what's so obvious to the rest of us? Color me mystified.
Tribal hatred and blood-lust is as much an opioid of the masses as religion. The right-wing is in it for the chemical hit.
Yes. I've been saying that rage and hatred generate adrenaline and cortisol. Trump has created an entire cult of adrenaline junkies.
Look at himself and his own family, tweakers and Adderall junkies. Hitler's army marched on methamphetamine and Adolf's ranting was another drug.
I know....I am completely mystified at Trump's appeal for certain swaths of people and nothing he does seems to even shake it.
What's not to love? An inarticulate imbecile with a dead ferret on his head, false teeth which slip all the time, the physique of a sumo wrestler, suits straight off the rack from the oversize department at Wally World, his brandname cologne - Eau de Cesspool, shoe lifts so high they make him lean forward constantly... I tell you, he is the pinnacle of (toxic) masculinity.
😆😆😆
🤮
You forgot the orange troweled-on makeup. Bigly manly.
I'm sticking with the misogynistic, bigoted, functionally illiterate group. I see them.
I just concluded a back & forth with a Trump male on a YouTube comment section, into which he had inserted himself rudely. His command of written English was 4th grade, his ability to think likewise. Very clear to me how the degrading of education has turned the masses compliant, stupid and mean.
Yep.
Like I been saying
Agree. Those are overwhelmingly the things I believe make people MAGA: racism and misogyny, even though most of them would deny it.
Like it's BAD to be chock full of hate or something. 😮💨
They're no longer denying it.
It's the license to be a bigoted asshole to people.
Please don’t be mean to abandoned puppies! They are much too cute to be compared to the Tangerine Terror. 🤣
I think it more accurate to say that his emotional development ended at two years of age.
Abandoned puppies are innocent, cuddly as sunshine, and bring joy to all. Pls do not throw a traitorous albatross around their sweet necks.
I reget the analogy.
In tRump world they will only use the court rulings which agree with them. They will simply ignore the ones where the courts rule against them. The Courts have no real power if the Admin refuses to acknowledge their rulings.
That's the problem with our system of "checks and balances". There's no way to enforce them. The idea of guardrails is just so much BS .
Yes. We R fucked.
That is exactly my strategy - avoid legacy/corporate media. I read Jeff and Joyce Vance.
Ditto Ann, I’ve stopped banging my head against a wall of invincible ignorance, we all should!!
I have shut off the news, except for Jeff and Lucien Truescott and one or two others. That's it for me.
I think we have no other choice. 😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😩🥺😫
Election was a fraud! No way in hell did the majority vote for that lunatic.
I'm with you Glenn
Harris and the Dems were diligently trying to make that case, all we hear is silence Glenn…
Especially the popular vote
Corporate media is part of the fraud; it’s because of them that there was never enough attention given to the important issues such as his orchestration of the insurrection, the 88 felony charges and 34 felony convictions. They should have supported the removal of felon 45 from the ballot.
MSM got him elected, again. As did the billionaire oligarchs. Corporate media demands women and democrats will be held to a 'higher level.' The media is baked in misogyny. Fucking media rape apologists. They can go down in flames. They're corporate greedy whores. They treat the public like idiots.
I don’t believe 8-10 million people did not show up for the most consequential election in our nations history.
Apathy is a problem. Palestinian was a big one for Gen Z. As I was told. I think some are on overload and just didn't care. The thing is, Republicans do not cross over and vote democratic. Even knowing what is coming, they were less than 5%. Democratic voters jumped ship. For a variety of ignorant reasons.
You did not see the record numbers of enthusiastic participants volunteering for Kamala and the record numbers of people attending her rallies vs the fact that people were walking out of Trump rallies and he could not fill half of his few venues. Nothing adds up in this result.
Palestine is a fad with them like Gluten- free , ( How many REALLY have Celiac disease ? )
Agreed. Travesty.
Agreed Glenn, however SCOTUS saw differently!
Totally against all constitutional scholars and judge luttig who is a former federal judge who is also Republican. Constitution is very clear; anyone who is involved with an insurrection or gives aid and comfort to an insurrectionist is disqualified from running for election of any public office. Even after that decision, he continued to give aid and comfort to the convicted insurrectionists which should have prompted additional appeals for removing him from the ballot.
About 1%. He didn't clear 50% of the vote. Mandate, my ass.
So RFK Jr the alleged health nut who wants to "make America healthy again" is eating a burger, fries and apple pie from McDonald's?
Guess they dodged the McDonalds' e-coli outbreak this week. Pity.
with french fries cooked in seed oils ... one of his current lunacy targets.
I think he's actually too brain damaged to realize how much of a hypocrite he really is...
Before 1990, McD fries were cooked in beef tallow, which may be why they used to be thought to be the best fries. But some people thought cooking them in pure animal fat had health concerns of its own.
And they are sprayed with dextrose to give them a uniform color when cooked, which is a bigger health concern in my opinion than the seed oil deep-frying.
Why not? He eats roadkill all the time, according to his kids.
He's just a nut.
They were out of bear cub.
Just a little switch from his usual diet of worm-infested, under-cooked roadkill.
They won't be eating that shit. It's just an exercise in trolling. They will be dining on the finest filet and caviar. On the other hand, it's Trump's plane so who knows?
RFK is a phony.
And scolding Trump over his diet, fuck every single one of these wastrels!
DKos readers had a LOT to say about that Mickey D's photo. Including some references to poor plane maintenance....
Add Joe Scarborough and Mika to your list of suck-ups! They were at the roach-infested hotel this weekend apparently. Gee….I wonder why? money, money, money….When the hell will we get a relief from all these idiots?!😡
As far as Joe and Mika are concerned, you’ll get instant relief by turning off the TV.
Don't watch them anymore either.
Yeah I read about that--that Joe Scarborough and Donny made friends again. I almost puked.
Colour me disgusted TL!
I have never cared for Scarborough, so I don't watch hime very often but I have a friend who used to LOVE Morning Joe and I think she is going to be very upset.
Access as well as 💵💵
Holy shit!!!! What the fuck is going on!??
Shouldn't be surprised. When Mark Meadows was in the House Scarboro had him on regularly . Called him a "commonsense conservative". That's when I stopped watching
I have only seen them.2 times and was sickened. 👎🏼
Oh c' mon, Joe's just a " simple country lawyer, for Madisonian democracy ".
I used to watch for some good guests,
put up with the JOE SHOW, to do it, but NO MORE.
Said they wanted to understand how to cover him in the news….bullshit. Covering their own asses and pocketbooks.
By tuning them out.
Moving away from all the willfully ignorant is all I’ve got Tess!!
!!!
Re: that photo of “Donny’s Confederacy of Sewer Clowns chowing down on Mickey D’s” — sorry/not sorry that the first thing I thought was, Where’s a plane crash when you really need one?
Or an F-15 with sidewinders.
🎯🎯🎯. * * T. H. I. S. ! ! ! * *
Thanks--i just spit tea all over my keyboard. Good laugh, tho.
We all regret that “sharpshooter” missed
I still think Ann Selzer was right and that's all I'm saying today.
Peace
Agree completely, Jayme.
How I despise that man - just utterly despise him. Every morning when i wake up i wonder what fresh hell he will foist upon us today -whether it is juvenile name-calling, or whining about something (is he never satisfied?) he is always, all the time, front and centre when I read the paper or watch the news. He is either complaining about something or proving that he knows nothing about the business of governing. Is it blasphemy to say that sometimes in a democracy the majority can be wrong?
Loathesome is my favorite description lately.
It’s a fitting description to be honest.
Actually I’m not sure that the English language has a word or term to adequately describe just how horrible trump is.
Malignant narcissist psychopath works too!
I completely agree. I've searched and cannot find a word vile enough.
VILE & VULGAR !!
You know Trump is a rapist because he keeps forcing himself not just on women, but on all of us. It seemed, by contrast, that Biden could go days without doing anything especially noteworthy. Now, of course, the press will feel obliged to report on Trump's every bleat and fart.
I won’t watch or listen to him anymore…
and suggest you all do the same
Someone else said this first - the whole thing about multiple ballot boxes being set on fire sure went quiet after The Tangerine Terrorist's win, huh?
Can you imagine the screaming if that had happened in a red area instead of a blue one? Yet MTG, the walking moldy potato, is screeching about 36 votes.
Ol' Spork Toes is feeling a bit out of it these days...she has to insert herself into a controversy somewhere or she feels irrelevant. Oh wait--she is irrelevant.
Avoiding MTG news is critical to my mental health. Turd doesn't seem to be giving her any space -- no meetings or calls. And her BFF Gaetz being tapped for AG must feel like a slap in her maga face. 🥳😱
Guess she didn't suck hard enough.
Oooh, love it, arne!
ew!!!! lol
Magically disappeared as soon as he won
No job for you, MTG!
Like the soup nazi in Seinfeld…”no soup for you!”
Exactly! And what happened to the “cheating” in PA he was all-capping about before it was called?
A recount for the Casey Mccormick Senate race is suppose to start today. Fingers crossed.
He only calls it cheating when he loses. Emotionally, he's still stuck at about 6.
Appoint Marge to run the Weather Control Division of NOAA. Get her out of the House!
RFK Jr. could appoint her as head of the peach tree dishes.
They were able to find and count all but 20 that were outstanding about a week ago. It was a pretty minor thing by one dummy who got caught immediately.
There were multiple boxes set on fire in two states.
I was referring to the ones in WA and OR. A few miles apart. The same idiot was filmed at both. Drove the same car. They caught him quickly.
If life is so unfair for these whiny little dictators, perhaps they’d like to trade places with some of the people who are living the dream right now. There are plenty of people to choose from. Women, non-Christians, gay or trans people, immigrants (legal or undocumented), the middle class, sick people, single moms, federal civil servants, anyone who has ever spoken out against Trump or Musk…Fuck them! And fuck everyone who’s allowing this to happen!
I'm one of them. If I lose Social Security I'll be homeless. I've been fighting for social justice for almost 60 years and I'm terrified. I don't think I will survive what's coming.
Yes, it’s terrifying and infuriating for people who paid into the system their entire working lives, and could now get stripped of the benefits they counted on.
American Anti - fascism, it was ALL FOR NOTHING.
Me neither 🥺
Yes! How could I forget? At 65 years old, I’m one of them!
And speaking of Musk, is anyone planning to stay on that crappy app of his? I signed up for BlueSky and am slowly phasing out of not-Twitter. I just don’t trust that site anymore. It’s being run by the second most vindictive megalomaniac, who’s now working side-by-side with the MOST vindictive megalomaniac.He has access to all of our anti-Trump posts, as well as our personal data. Am I being paranoid?
No, you aren’t. I have done the same. As we used to say in the 60’s “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”
Slowly? Why not abruptly, like dropping a very hot potato. It's addictive, social media. Even here, one tends to doomscroll. You get a better quality of feed, but the nausea remains, if somewhat diminished.
And why now? Why not when he bought Twitter, like I did?
I don’t know! I guess I hoped it wouldn’t be so bad. But it’s so much worse than I could have imagined! And now that, for all intents and purposes, he’s running the country, it’s really scary.
You deactivate & then, in 30 days, all gets deleted.
I deleted everything when Elon bought Twitter. Using X/Twitter makes money for Elon via advertising, in addition to handing a vindictive rich weirdo your personal info. Additionally, engaging with MAGA blue check accounts makes them money. Elon is also now using all X/Twitter content to train his Grok AI. Unless you actively want to hand Elon and MAGAs money, you shouldn’t use X/Twitter.
I'm on BlueSky and love it.
I already thought about him having all our posts, but they are out in the blogosphere or whatever you call this. I never signed up for Xitter or Faceborg, and just don't know what good social media would be to me. If the Orange Menace wants me, I am sure he can get someone to find me.
Also Facebook is now not allowing posts they deem as political. Time to quit that too.
I was never on it. I did sign up for Bluesky but probably won't us it much.
I got off of twitter long ago
I was BANNED long ago.
Get out of Shitter. He wants to make it the domain of fascists, Nazis, and dangerous whackos, so I say let him
I am so sick of Marjorie Greene. Does she ever shut up? Does she ever make sense? Could she please be selected for the Space Force’s first mission to Uranus?
I saw her referred to as MT Goon. haha
Good one!
Like Alice the Goon, from the POPEYE cartoon.
Since she's in it for the clicks, and not for her constituents, she has to gin up some new outrage every day.
Yes. It must be taxing to do all that and never achieve anything positive!
Space Nazi and his cohorts are big mad that everyone is bailing to BlueSky to the tune of one million last week It's where the algorithms don't allow intimidation by trolls You need to check it out
Oy, gevalt.
And a half
I just get myself calmed down and make up ideas that will make things better …. And it gets worse.
Me, too! It's great! Fuck X!