WatDabney @ WatDabney @sopuli.xyz

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Seriously - how is it that the American people are being railroaded into autocracy by such a cringey, pathetic bunch of simps and losers?

"Oh, whoops! Tee hee - ignore that one!"

It's somehow extra disillusioning to watch the US not just being systematically destroyed, but being systematically destroyed by petulant losers, cringe poseurs and blithering nincompoops.

I've been waiting for this particular bit of brazen hypocrisy.

By ignoring precedent in order to issue rulings clearly intended to establish precedents, the wholly corrupt and compromised SC effectively guaranteed that sooner or later, they'd have to do this.

Outside of the warped context of a corrupt and compromised court, it's actually very simple:

Either precedent matters, in which case their Roe ruling, their gratuity ruling, their immunity ruling and a number of others are self-evidently flawed, or precedent doesn't matter, in which case no other court has any duty to consider anything the SC does.

One or the other.

I don't think Trump plans that far ahead either, but that's sort of beside the point, since he does have the right self-preservation instincts to arrive at the same basic conclusion, and for the same basic reasons.

And beyond that, yeah...

As intended.

Trump didn't pardon all those people as just, or even primarily, a PR move. He pardoned them so they could fight on his behalf again, and secure in the knowledge that he'll be there to protect them from any potential consequences (and so that others would come forward to fight on his behalf, emboldened by the same assurance of immunity from consequences).

They're going to be his brownshirts.

I've never understood how or why this is an issue.

Shortly after Spez's petulant AMA, I ran across a link for Lemmy. org. It looked interesting, so I followed it. I poked around a bit, and it still looked interesting, so I picked an instance and created an account. I played with it a bit, then I went back and found a different instance that looked interesting and created an account there too. And I just kept reading and posting, just like I'd done on Reddit (and half a dozen different sites before that). Some instances came and went and I lost some accounts and created others and eventually settled into a few that I like best, and just read and posted and didn't leave. The end.

But it seems that every time I turn around, someone's going on about the hardships of moving to a different site and all the difficulties to be overcome and yadda yadda yadda, and I just don't get it. At all.

Graham in particular.

As far as I can see, he has no principles or ideas of his own. When they need a sound bite, whoever owns him (or maybe just whoever's renting him this week) swaps his gimp suit for a three piece suit and takes the ball-gag out of his mouth, then trundles him out in front of the cameras to deliver a canned statement.

I'm willing to bet that the "problem" with FEMA is that, due to its vital role in dealing with emergencies, it has particularly stringent safeguards in place to prevent it becoming a partisan tool. And since Trump's stated goal is to turn the entirety of the federal government into a partisan tool, it has to go.

Read, play video games, watch movies and anime. Oh, and post on forums.

Actually, thinking about it, there's one thing that's sort of the backgound to all of those things, and could be said to actually be my main activity in the winter, and that's providing a lap for my cat. The rest of those are things that I also do.

I sure as hell hope I'm not the only one who thinks that the alternative explanation is even worse than the original.

How can his criminal administration carry out the criminal acts they intend to carry out with a bunch of watchdogs watching them?

Just like the subprime mortgage/Wall Street bailouts scam.

Since it aligns with the interests of the oligarchy in at least two different ways - the promotion of narrow religious orthodoxy to foster subservience and homogeneity, and the "privatization" of public services to funnel more wealth into fewer private hands (and particularly to create more sources for bribes and kickbacks for officials) - I'd say the only real question one might have about this ruling is the purely academic one of what particular specious arguments the corrupt majority will use to colorably justify inevitably ruling in favor of killing church/state separation.

Yes.

The dirty little secret of the DNC is that they don't even really care about winning elections. They only want to keep the soft money flowing, and that requires never actually enacting any progressive policies, and if that means that they alienate voters and lose elections, that's fine by them.

In fact, they sort of prefer to lose. If they win, then they're stuck having to go through all sorts of bizarre contortions to somehow manage to continue to fail to do the things they promise their supporters they intend to do and they're the ones stuck with the blame when the policies they enact on the behalf of the donor class inevitably make things worse for everyone else. Bit if they lose, they don't have to actually do anything, and they get to fundraise on the need to stop the Republicans.

private Senate Democratic luncheon

And that pretty neatly sums up the whole problem right there.

All they can think to do us sit around and talk to each other, alternately lamenting the fact that the hicks in flyover country can't seem to understand that they know what's best for them and wondering what's wrong with their "messaging "

Or an assembly line worker.

Or, quite possibly, it just struck me - a fruit picker or meat packer or motel maid or any of the other jobs that have traditionally been filled by undocumented immigrants.

Wow....

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that before, but that could well be why Trump is seemingly unconcerned about the economic impact of deporting the millions of people who have traditionally held the shitty, underpaid jobs nobody else will take - because the plan is to replace them with the new generation of private prison slaves...

Probably the weirdest part of the decline and fall of the US is that it's being brought about by a 78 year old toddler and a 53 year old teenager.

And more to the point, nobody is going to stop him.

Those who would stop him can't and those who could stop him won't.

And many, many more are going to follow, as Americans learn that they're no longer free to criticize those in power.

And the day will actually come when the notion of someone just being fired for criticizing those in power will seem quaint, since it will then be far more likely that they'll disappear - sucked up into the ever-hungry maw of the corporate police state slave system.

Ah ...

I've been wondering what Trump gave the Chinese in exchange for that cringeworthy credit as the supposed savior of TikTok.