Finrod

Jesus fucking Christ. We don't have a Trump problem. We have a voter problem. Americans are becoming the absolute worst caricature of themselves

You had every reason to say no to this, but you didn't. You cheered on ignorance and idolized bullying. I've tried to understand, compartmentalize, and love for 8 years. No more. You are not good people and you do not deserve my respect. Be better.

I know this is lame and unhelpful, but I'm trying to process things. So I need to say this somewhere.

To everyone in my family, community, & former church that voted for this: FUCK YOU

You are unprincipled, selfish, small-minded, morally bankrupt human beings that I can no longer respect.

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A guy giving public comment about the bill to make radical changes to Utah's vote by mail just said, "Why would you want to go through the trouble of casting a fraudulent ballot? Why not go big? Try an insurrection, you might get pardoned."

Bloody hell. So much for originalism.

Conservatism is dead and a psychotic zombie has replaced it.

Great job to everyone that stayed home in Nov over this. You sure showed em

We can only hope...

Yep. This is what makes Musk as illiberal as hell.

He shouldn't be anywhere near government.

irrational behavior, but it is helpful for understanding Musk's extreme views on deregulation, hyper-productivity, innovation at all costs, etc.

These books paint a clear picture of an unstable, traumatized man with an out-of-control savior complex & zero respect for norms & rules.

To anyone confused about what Elon Musk is doing with the government right now:

Read Extremely Hardcore by Zoe Schiffer. He pulled these same stunts during his Twitter takeover, and Zoe's book documents it in clear detail.

Though Walter Isaacson's Musk biography is far too apologetic for Elon's

Every piece of insane Trump/Elon news is made considerably worse by the fact that the Fed nailed a soft landing to a generational economic crisis, and it just didn't matter to the electorate. Our economy withstood covid much better than basically anyone else, and it just didn't matter.

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan’s Radio Address to the Nation on International Free Trade on November 20, 1982

This is what Republicans used to sound like. The fact that they no longer do is one reason why I’m no longer a Republican.

Ronald Reagan would be drummed out of the GOP today before he could finish this speech.

youtu.be/9Juzn2lHm4g?...

A meaningful share of the public is now indifferent at best to the virtues of dividing power among the branches and hostile at worst if doing so is likely to mean that their party will achieve fewer of its goals, writes Nick Catoggio:
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/a-little-pain/

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

🚨Trudeau announces Trump agreed to a one month pause on tariffs

Huh, so this is what the night of the long knives must've felt like.

Hell, I'm booing the national anthem at this point.

Except that this time he's also the wealthiest man in the world that already owns a key platform in information distribution.

The last 2 weeks:

Trump just launched a trade war against Canada over fentanyl. The US seized - wait for it - 43 pounds at the US-Canada border last year.

43 pounds.

Amen. Not sure how I can ever forgive my family members that chose this. It's going to absolutely fuck things up for the country.

Is any of this trickling through to R voters, yet? Are they started to understand the mistake they made?

The strength of the propaganda on that side is formidable, and I'm genuinely not sure if anything is getting through. They might still be cheering this on and that terrifies me.

No shit, Sherlock

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

Hot take: your kids are right

· Congress finally tries & Trump says, "You and what army?" as Hegseth now has total military control

· Citizens either submit to the new regime or rise up violently.

Am I being paranoid?

· The courts *might* try to stop their more egregious law breaking

· Trump pulls a Jackson & dares the courts to stop him

· Voters wake up as the FO phase hits full steam & demand that Congress does something

We're not gonna last 4 years, are we? Trying to imagine how this doesn't end in violence on the current trajectory. Here's how it plays out:

· Congress continues to rollover at every turn

· Hegseth drives out dissenters in the military

· Trump & Musk continue violating the law

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government