Thomas Avant

Your welcome. I’m also a Chomsky and Harari fan.

Exactly! They’re fine with inverted socialism but not democratic socialism. The social safety nets mentioned are the norm in every other major democratic nation, yet they are considered “radical” here; yet, tax cuts be benefitting the top .01% aren’t considered “radical” here. It’s insanity.

Lillian Smith in Killers of the Dream:

"Those [Southerners] who read...turned away from everything that did not give them comfort...wanted to believe...this evil was not of their making. Only books that convinced them of their blamelessness for the blackness of their times were acceptable."

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Not only did they produce the worst human on the planet, they made him President. Twice!
#ByeAmerica

I stand corrected. It's usually a right-wing nut job if it occurs.

I never trust anyone who never had a pet!

👍 A love of animals is a definitive sign of integrity, decency, and empathy.

...common sense and data-driven public policy - something foreign to the U.S. government. Australia has had 0 mass shootings since enacting an assault weapons ban in 1996; Yet, the GOP argues more guns and no restrictions are the answer.

This statement is an example of how out-of-touch establishment figures such as Larry Summers are: A) Trump fired the commissioner, because he didn't bend to Trump's wishes. B) A demoralized and decimated IRS, subjected to political interference, is exactly what Vought/Trump/Project 2025ers want.

JC is part of the talented and genuine cadre of progressives the Democratic establishment won't acknowledge for party leadership, so they can continue to serve corporate masters.

She, and progressives, are exactly the intelligent, honest, and effective communicators and messengers needed to fight.

Is the fabric of American democracy durable enough to withstand an authoritarian assault on our system of governance? Thanks for reading!

Abdicating their responsibilities to the American public, the mainstream American media, Congress, and SCOTUS have folded to and autocrat. What's next?

open.substack.com/pub/tcavant/...

Never again should anyone have to be amazed at how Jim Jones got his followers to drink the poison.

🎯 #MAGACult

Exactly!

His lone qualification for the job of FBI Director under Trump, aside from his MAGA blind loyalty, is the fact that he wrote a children’s book about King Donald, in which he was the protective Wizard Kash. Welcome to contemporary American governance.

Don Trump is a delusional malignant narcissistic psychopath, career criminal, convicted felon, tax cheat, business fraudster, six-time bankrupt con-man, wannabe authoritarian and autocratic dictator, and fascist. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

…just a reminder of how absurd we’ve become.

Our system of government was not designed to withstand an amoral malignant narcissistic psychopath such as Trump and his blind capitulators, holding all levers of power. All branches are complicit. This will be the ultimate test of whether our democratic experiment can prevail or has run its course.

The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

Psychological projection: Every accusation by Trump and his minions such as Kash Patel is an admission. Career FBI professionals are being purged from the bureau and accused of political weaponization and a lack of impartiality.

The FBI As We Knew It is Gone
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

I definitely agree with you that he won't leave office peacefully. He demonstrated that in 2021 and sowed seeds of doubt in the integrity of the electoral process, with no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud. His minions will buy anything he sells.

The invasion of money in politics on both sides of the aisle has driven the interests of voters and their elected representatives further away, undermining faith and confidence in our institutions.

Fake populism created the MAGA movement. True economic populism - progressivism - will banish it.

No civilized society or functional democracy taxes its wealthiest at such low rates, suffers such inequality, and refuses to provide social safety nets that provide a decent quality of life for its citizens. It’s shameful we, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, don't demand better