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I know things were pretty fucked - I haven't been a lifelong cynic for no reason - but still, it's amazing how quickly snd completely the US has descended into screeching insanity.
And all at the hands of this demented lunatic, his psychopathic enablers and his legions of angry and stupid followers.
What a world....
And all of it because billionaires want to fuck children and not pay taxes.
— billionaires
Not even the end of Y1
That's the most astonishing part of it to me.
Reality has gone completely off the rails. Virtually every day, I read another account of blithering insanity, and painfully obviously dangerous and destructive insanity, from this administration, and then I watch as all of the official entities that are meant to check that sort of insanity just treat it as another day and another press release from another President's office.
It's like The Emperor's New Clothes, only far far worse.
And all in less than a year...
The media is highly complicity in how they sanewash the most insane shit we've ever seen
It's unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-launches-strikes-against-islamic-state-militants-northwest-nigeria-trump-says-2025-12-25/
At this point though, that's just noise.
Unfortunately, the mass media is complicit in the insanity - they've abandoned principles, integrity, honesty and accuracy in pursuit of profit and/or the owners' agenda, whichever might be deemed more important in a given organization.
That's not to say that that story is necessarily false. It's simply that if it's a spin that serves someone's agenda, as this obviously is, then it will be published somewhere, entirely regardless of whether it's true or not, so the fact that it has been published means nothing at all.
Mainstream media is just billionaire media.
And the government is just billionaire government.
The only war is class war.
Sorry for being picky, just wanted to point out this bit of redundancy:
That agenda ultimately is and always will be profit for any company even a hundredth of that size, let alone a straight up monopoly.
Other than that, no notes 10/10
The scariest part is how surprised and unprepared the rest of the world was. "Sanity will prevail!" Really? Why?
It's accelerated a lot recently, but this has been in the works for a long time, and many people were ringing alarm bells.
I'm old. My first awareness of the world of politics was the Watergate hearings, so I actually lived through most of the run-up to this.
It's certainly the case that the US has been moving more or less steadily toward plutocratic oligarchy since at least Nixon, and progress has definitely accelerated (though it really started accelerating with the Wall Street bailouts in the wake of the 2008 real estate bubble collapse and hasn't really let up since), but that's not really what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the literal insanity of Trump and his sycophants. They aren't merely corrupt tools of the plutocrats like so many past politicians - they're deranged lunatics. That's not hyperbole - it's simple fact, plainly obvious to anyone who takes a step back and honestly looks at what they do and say.
It's not that the US has accelerated toward autocracy in less than a year (though it has), because yes - that's the direction it's been headed for decades. The astonishing thing to me is that the US has effectively gone insane in less than a year.
If the US was a person, it'd be on a psych hold. And that's something I wasn't prepared for, even as cynical as I've always been.
Quickly it was not. This has been in the works since Nixon. Now it just when it's coming to a head. And it'll only get worse from here.
No, that's what
was seemingly referring to