Eric Fesh ♨️

Workshopping a take that says social democracy is the pro-market ideology now because oligarchs have accumulated sufficient wealth to prevent losses from being a meaningful disciplinary tool.

I was in a personality cult for an abusive priest in a millenarian religious movement for a very long time. I understand Johnson completely. Some deeply religious men are the natural born gaslighting enablers for the abusive cult leader. This is what they do. They honestly believe they're right.

The alternative to a society with redemption is not an accountable society. Instead it is a society where the powerful simply declare themselves forgiven and the weak run to the shelter of the powerful to be granted pardon.

We have to build something better than that.

We can't let Barron anywhere near power. She'll probably take care of Junior and Eric for us.

MAGA: there wasn’t even a mishap with the artillery over I-5 you lying libtard

Marines: halted exercise after firing 6 155 mm rounds because one prematurely detonated over the highway

MAGA: DIDN’T HAPPEN NERDS

Marines: we’ve opened an investigation and believe a fuze failed

Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

This is where we need to go.

We need to reject performative irony that fuels giving up or Right Wing radicalization and move past seeing ourselves as products and brands that need curated and marketed.

The optimal solution appears to be a Deus-Ex-Machina Silver hand removing the question completely.

Sign. (small blue letters) IF I DIDN'T LOVE AMERICA (big red letters) I WOULDN'T BOTHER

Kinda did a thing yesterday...

The purpose is multi fold but the current protests are signal a different purpose than Trump I.

The purpose is to demonstrate capacity to foment a color revolution if the regime tries to maintain its grip on power illicitly.

It demonstrates the power to render the polity ungovernable.

Happy to add to her collection.

“In America, the law is king.”
-Thomas Paine

thinking about the guy running the us govt bluesky accounts. thats his friday, trying to troll people on a relatively niche social media site because they won twitter and it made them miserable. catastrophic loser energy

next time the president disappears for a few days we should all say he's jacking off, so when he resurfaces instead of saying "im not dead actually" he has to say the other thing

Look at how the Republicans are setting *everything on fire* to keep the Epstein files hidden, you know it's gotta involve like unmarked graves, not just child sex trafficking.

The longer they keep this up and harder they try, the more heinous it's gotta be

Even if the Democrats wanted to fold, the shutdown won't end before next week if Little Mikey doesn't have the balls to let votes happen.

Correction: just crossed it

I'd love to sit and watch the number scroll upwards in real time... Already near 20K.

Trump is violating the constitution and the remedy is to remove him.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

Pope Leo XIV: ‘Defeating hunger is the path to peace’ - Vatican News Pope Leo XIV visits the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome to mark World Food Day and the 80th anniversary of the ...

“Slogans do not lift people from misery. We must place the human person above profit and guarantee food security, access to resources, and sustainable rural development.” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

the “Trump has illegally seized the power of the purse from Congress” crisis has a comms problem - its a massive issue but that doesn’t fit on a slogan

Then i realized we have one direct from our founders: “no taxation without representation”

If that means some random GS-14s need to be convicted of Big Boy federal crimes so be it, these people are never again going to do the right thing otherwise

If Congress doesn't want to assert their Art I prerogatives and the exec doesn't want to enforce the law then we need a new governing document

I got to live through that. Said to a coworker at Wcom "Yeah, it's bad, but at least it's not Enron bad." NPR reported the fraud the next morning.

Post-Trump government reform is obviously going to have to include moving a bunch of agencies out of the executive, but I think it probably also needs to include the creation of a watchdog org under congress that explicitly *always* has standing for constitutional violations by the executive.

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

Pretending every huge peaceful protest is worse than January 6th while also pretending January 6th never happened.