Frylock

I'll take a moment to appreciate how accurate Leo's predictions were in his October 25th blog entry, and how most of this came to pass in not even 80 days of Trump being in office. I mean sure most of it was obvious to anyone who pays attention, but I didn't expect all of this to occur at such a rapid clip. These are some of the things Leo had predicted in that blog post (with my comments in parenthesis): Expect war (Not yet, but feels like it's coming soon) violence (same as above) abuse of power at unprecedented scale (yes) loss of many freedoms (yes, getting there) Federal ban on abortion (feels imminent) white supremacy (yes) Christian theocracy (yes) criminals in the White House (yes) fraud (yes) corporate exploitation (yes) gutting of all good regulations (yes) a generation-long destruction of the Supreme Court (yes) erosion of the legal system (yes) concentration camps for migrants (yes) abuse of all types of minorities (yes) gross incompetence and mismanagement (yes) poisoning of the food and water supply (yes) pardoning of elite criminals (yes) stock market collapse (yes) crypto market collapse (yes) and perhaps the end of democracy and elections (TBD but looking very likely)

In most cases, yes. In the case of the most richest man in the world who doesn't have many redeeming qualities outside of his wealth, I would argue no.

It's laughable - LAUGHABLE - that anyone, especially the oligarchs, tech bros, and cryptoscammers, thought that Trump's "policies" would be beneficial to them. We're only 3 months into this thing, still have a long ways to go. How much worse can it get before Trump and his cronies are dragged out into the streets?

The issue is how this is being implemented. It takes longterm planning and commitment, not just a quick signing of the pen and expecting manufacturing jobs and plants to magically spring up overnight. There's ways to ease into it, but this approach is basically just setting the forest on fire without a proper plan of reforestation.

Trump himself doesn't really frighten me, he feels like a figurehead. It's what happens after he bites the dust. Maybe the Republican party will be fractured enough so that their power declines. But more than likely, they'll rally around another despot and continue toward the path that we've been heading down.

If you love him so much, why don't you marry him?

Just a token right wing buffoon. Nothing spiritual about him.

Is there any way out of this, or are we doomed to continue down this path?

Just like circumcision, it's an antiquated, vestigial social practice that is not relevant to the modern age.

I should know better than to have hope in the uneducated, lizard brained electorate, but the only thing we can hope for now is that the non-radicalized swing voters pull their heads out of their asses and rightfully condemn the Republican party. Russia has been an authoritarian country forever, basically. The US has been a democracy since its inception. People aren't going to like their rights, power, and money being impacted in the long run.

https://x.com/axios/status/1900216149675040801 Such efficiency!

Yes, but more importantly: r duh libz own3d yet?

So, business as usual

What would jeebus do?

What have you got against Canada? 😜 But for real, I'd join Canada's side, as an American. Hell, I'd join Mexico's side if he invaded them. This as a lifelong American patriot.