Everything turned out pretty great after the 20s ended. Right?
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We really are in the Gilded Age.
Oh no! Did they slam him?? 🥺
Yzma: it's no concern of mine if your family has....what was it?
Peasant: uh...food
Yzma: pah, you should have thought of that before you became peasants
The theme of the party is appropriate given the circumstances, I don't think the attendees will understand it, but it is clearly significant
Oh thank goodness...oh wait...you meant metaphorical slamming...again...
That'll show him!
Susan Collins thinks he's learned his lesson for sure this time.
Mr Trump? Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are in the line, they would like to share some advice...
“If we are given the appropriate legal direction by the Court, it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding, just like I did with Military and Law Enforcement Pay,” Trump added.
So he admits that he knows how because he's done it for other services.
Trump said he wanted the courts to “clarify” how he can legally fund the program “as soon as possible” and blamed Democrats for the funding lapse.
Straight outta the neoliberal playbook...
"All powerful" until the people want them to do something they want, then all of a sudden the pretend to be completely powerless and claim they want to do something but just can't.
The only reason maga ignores trump doing it, is neoliberal normalizing it.
Don't make politics tribal, in a political environment where both sides are corrupt, the more corrupt side will always win. So we have to keep our own house clean, and that means progressives and not neoliberals.
He's such a philistine. Literally no taste. Gawd. Did you see the Lincoln bathroom renovation. ?
Another thing he ruined.
Lord Jezus. Strike down this white devil. He has abysmal taste.
I bet he sees a canvas print with glue-on rhinestones and thinks "the most beautiful painting that's ever been done.".
The gifts. And the ballroom.
Sorry to be so hetero-normative, but what kind of man is this?
Look, my ability to detect irony has physically atrophied in the Trump era, so this question is genuine: Are they trying to incite violent revolution against the billionaire class?
Because you just can't make up shit as bad as the way these fuck operate.
Yes! They are desperate for a civil war. The longer they go without it, the more support they lose, and the more the different factions on the right begin to splinter.
They want a civil war, or rather a cultural war between civilians, to detract from a class war. They want the civilians to be fighting among themselves (i.e. left vs right), rather than uniting against ruthless billionaires and grifters in the government. Having a civil war would also make some of their false claims become "true", e.g. that cities are "war zones" and that they "need" to utilize the Insurrection Act and put the military everywhere without any remaining legal obstructions. I mean they still do it partially already, which is bad enough, but when a civil war would actually exist (like they claim), then they could also claim that what they were lying about the whole time is actually "true" (just not at all the way they said it to be, but the end result would be kind of the same: war zones inside cities) and they'd be legally allowed to be even more oppressive than they are already. It would increase their power overall. It would lead to a guaranteed dictatorship. Dictators love using "emergencies" to grab full, unrestricted power. So it's best to never aid them while they try to construct an emergency where there is none. That exposes their lies better.
I don't think they care. They've been insulated so long they think it'll never happen to them.
I am once again wondering when the brave and free american people will stand up to this corruption in a meaningful way
they're getting indicted by the state for their political positions
I'm convinced Trump is trying with the way he speaks about random stuff, and way too on the nose. But he knows what he can't say, or who he can't speak against without getting another ear shot at. There's no way he can possibly be this dumb...... Can he?
I think if they really want to give all the hoi polloi the finger, they need to speed up the ballroom completion, then throw King Louis XVI themed parties about every week. All while yanking things like ACA and SNAP....
No wonder the Confederate base are so angry all the time - the amount of effort it must take to sustain the cognitive dissonance between watching the pedo-in-chief flip virtually all of America the bird, partying like Gatsby while people are getting ready to starve, and also believing at the same time that he's for "The Forgotten Man", must cause a lot of pain.
Those people are willing to put up with anything, just to get their hate and resentment validated.
What do you mean everything is fine just listen to faux news, oh it's not fine? Well faux news says it's the democrats fault, oh trump is spending money, faux news says it's money taken from immigrants drug money
"I'm not sure I'll make it into heaven."
Gee I wonder why.
Something something the swamp....
Trump slammed for...
One does not "slam" a king.
I gave up on blaming this shit on Trump over a year ago ....
.... it's all on America at this point for putting up with this shit.
What are we supposed to be doing?
It’s always “you should do something!”
What?
…oh you’re right I guess I wouldn’t want to get shot first either 🥺
It seems like the second amendment is not needed anyway! Imagine that!
And yet, risking getting shot may be exactly what winds up happening, or rather, may be what needs to happen even if no one wants to do it. But it also can't just be one person, can't make change with just one Luigi. Whole neighborhoods and communities have to organize, and it's simply not happening on a mass scale.
Then again, even if that happens, the public still needs the military on their side. Because if it gets to the point Trump thinks he can call down missiles on American cities, the military needs to tell him to fuck off. Citizens won't be able to defend against that or drones.
Organize with your local groups. Political activism, mutual aid, any kind of community support.
I gave up on blaming America a long time ago...
... it's all on the EU for putting up with this shit.
Humans are designed to exist in tribes of about 200 people. Those 200 are your people, and folks beyond that are merely theoretical. So if you are a billionaire, and only hang with the other billionaires, you can't actually believe that the other 8 billion people in the world matter.
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