Exactly.
Someone just asked me "but is political gain (vs Trump) worth seismic political risk?"
Allowing Trump to function as a lawless dictator without any pushback from Congress IS the seismic political risk here.
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Exactly.
Someone just asked me "but is political gain (vs Trump) worth seismic political risk?"
Allowing Trump to function as a lawless dictator without any pushback from Congress IS the seismic political risk here.
the cause of war is preparation for war
09.11.2025 21:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems arenβt just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.
More people are waking up to this and thatβs hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
Every accusation is a confession.
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09.11.2025 13:48 β π 5195 π 1337 π¬ 109 π 54ICE is completely out of control
09.11.2025 00:32 β π 3112 π 1675 π¬ 360 π 185Happy birthday to Susan Tedeschi.
09.11.2025 13:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tom Fogarty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was born on this date in 1941.
09.11.2025 13:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary was born on this date in 1936.
09.11.2025 13:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Democratic Party leaders like the Clintons, who have scorned Mamdani, have heaped praise on Dick Cheney. And they wonder why they poll worse than Trumpβ¦" -- Jeffrey St. Clair
08.11.2025 21:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wyoming (population of fewer than 600k people) has just as many Senators as California (population of close to 40 million people). That seems like quite a lot of influence.
08.11.2025 19:54 β π 466 π 86 π¬ 22 π 2Let's have a little class solidarity around here.
08.11.2025 17:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There is no such thing as "middle class." There are two classes: working class and capitalists. If you work for a paycheck, you're working class, no matter how big that paycheck is.
08.11.2025 16:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Rickie Lee Jones.
08.11.2025 14:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Bonnie Raitt.
08.11.2025 14:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Al Hirt was born on this date in 1922.
07.11.2025 13:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Johnny Rivers.
07.11.2025 13:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Joni Mitchell.
07.11.2025 13:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Since Standard Time is now the minority of the year, I suggest a change in names. What we currently call Daylight Saving Time should now be called Standard Time. What's now Standard Time would be called Daylight Wasting Time.
06.11.2025 20:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Guy Clark was born on this date in 1941.
06.11.2025 20:57 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Greg Graffin of Bad Religion.
06.11.2025 20:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Doug Sahm was born on this date in 1941
06.11.2025 20:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0John Philip Sousa, "The March King" and inventor of the sousaphone, was born on this date in 1854.
06.11.2025 20:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Ryan Adams.
05.11.2025 17:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gram Parsons was born on this date in 1946.
05.11.2025 17:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to Art Garfunkel.
05.11.2025 17:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ike Turner was born on this date in 1931.
05.11.2025 17:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Roy Rogers was born on this date in 1911.
05.11.2025 17:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Medical debt should not be a thing.
05.11.2025 17:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
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