There are going to be so many verses of the updated “First they came for…” poem when this is all done.

This was a much more enjoyable article to read than many these days. They even managed to skewer Adams.

I did grit my teeth at the absolutely sitcom-level evil authoritarian language from Nancy Mace though. Get better writers you fucking clown! This is the kind of line people write into obvious satire. Did you ask them next whether he was “a great president or the greatest president?”

The hearing took a turn when Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina demanded mayors answer inflammatory yes-or-no questions, including whether they “hated President Trump more than they loved their country”.

I only learned what that meant from Mike Myers on SNL last week lol!

Thanks, I’ll check it out, though it’s going to take more than motivational books to pull the US out of the current nosedive…

Excellent point!

Does EVERY axis in life have to be fucked up at the same time?

Can we have one thing that is just doing ok?

Government - fucked.

Education - fucked.

Healthcare - fucked.

Environment - fucked.

Societal and Social Cohesion - fucked.

Wealth Inequality - fucked.

Personal Technological Autonomy - fucked, and under continuous attack.

Technological Enshittification - Running like gangbusters. So really - fucked.

Damn, someone give me some kind of ladder to climb out of this pit of despair.

Mine started the moment I heard they cancelled their DEI initiatives, and it almost began when they caved to the bigots about Pride month 2 Junes ago.

Let’s make their stock trend look like Tesla’s now does!

It’s really feeling like this won’t end softly - it’s unlikely some random centrist dem wins in 2028 and everyone says “Fair match, sport”. Either America as we knew it dies or there’s going to be a radical revolution.

This is more and more what I’m thinking is coming too. I literally hope I’m making fun of myself years from now because we somehow avert that outcome and I start to forget how close it felt. But yeah, I think so too.

Or like the sort of thing a hostile foreign government might really want to have happen to the US…

Good thing we have agent Krasnov at the helm.

how low do we have to go before everyone wakes up and sees this orange shitstain for what he is?

I don’t think anyone capable of seeing it doesn’t already see it. We have to make it through these four years as a nation and somehow move forward despite them all.

If congress somehow gets Trump removed via impeachment or similar means (I know the chances are near zero) I fully expect magas to be shooting people in the streets a day later, or a much more violent Jan 6 style event.

Yep!