Oh, no! I shall be Left Behind, and somehow have to carry on without all the religious freaks and their judgement, wars, self-righteous attitude, and ridiculous demands. Whatever shall I do?
BarneyPiccolo
joined 9 months ago
That's why I said we need new leadership, and it will be imperative. You can bet your ass that the minute the Midterm is over, I'll be contacting my reps and demanding not just new leadership in both houses, but bold and AGGRESSIVE leadership.
No more weak statements in response to atrocities. I want to see the Democratic majorities aggressively on the offense every day. Turn those strongly worded letters into subpoenas and indictments. Put MAGA on the run. Make them quit their insider trading on the advice of their expensive defense attorneys. Make them wish they'd never decided to pursue their criminal careers in the political arena.
We are in unprecedented times, and we will require unprecedented solutions. We need to support candidates and leadership who will embrace that philosophy, and not just the same old business as usual that got us here.
All of that is valid, and nobody likes a two and half year timeline to get it back on track, but having America become a dystopian wasteland, or a uber-fascist nation, aren't the outcomes that anyone wants. That would be far worse than the current situation.
If we have the bloodbath in November that is expected, then that will blunt much of MAGA s efforts, and calm things down a bit. Then the Dems will have to control him over the next two years. That will take strong Dem leadership, which we haven't had in a long time. The difference is that we already have a rising progressive wing that is getting more and more aggressive, and their ranks are going to swell in November.
There will be new leadership after November, and they won't tolerate the nonsense like the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries have. Things will start to improve after November, and then we can look to 2028 for the next phase.
Except that we Americans see and answer similar comments all day, every day. We are constantly asked why we don't rise up, or we are shamed every day for not rising up.
I just explained for the millionth time that we are fighting back, but we are doing it within our system at this point, hoping we can get it done without getting too crazy.
Europeans are trying to get to throw away our best shot at getting power back, which is a bloodbath in the Midterm election in November.
How MAGA responds to that is going to guide our actions over the next two years, until we can have a Presidential election. How MAGA responds to that will guide our actions after that.
THAT is the time table. There is no reason to short circuit that without any better plan in place. Telling the American people to "do something," is the same as Trump telling the Iranian people to take their country back. How? By what mechanism? The only strategy that could be employed at this point would be a total abandonment of society, which would lead to anarchy, chaos, and violence. So how does THAT help the world?
We still have chance to get through this by using our laws and our Comstitution. It's literally our last chance, but we have to try that first, before we reach the worst case scenario.
The only reason Vance was there is because Iran insisted. Normally, we would never send the VP, but Iran rejected Trump's amateur negotiating squad, Witkoff and Kushner (they're real estate developers, not diplomats), because they wanted to deal with someone in authority. So sending Vance at their demand was already a concession on MAGA's part. They started from a position of weakness before the negotiations even started.
The Art of the Deal, my hairy ass.
That's my mom. I've spent a lot of time lately explaining what click-bait articles are, and how they have very misleading headlines, and you can't just read the headline and think you know the story.
We live in Florida, and I just showed her a headline that said that Disney was closing down the Hollywood Studios location, but they worded the headline without a "the" or "a". - "Disney closes Hollywood Studios Location." It sounds like Hollywood Studios is closing, a major development if true.
But when you read the article, it isn't "the" Hollywood Studios location that was shut down, it was "a" Hollywood Studios location that was shut down, an old tribute to animation exhibit, which is due to be replaced with an updated one. So not the entire Hollywood Studios, as the headline implied, just a small section of it.
It wasn't even a new story, the old location has been closed for years, and this replacement exhibit was announced a long time ago. So they ran a headline implying that an entire Disney theme Park was closing down, when they were just updating an exhibit, like they do every single day.
She's always telling me about a major corporate chain that is closing, because she read a misleading headline about how they are closing 10 stores, without mentioning that they are also opening 100, so it sounds like the chain is out of business. Every time we pass a Cracker Barrel, she wonders out loud when they are finally going to close down after she read that click-bait headline 3 years ago. I'm tired of explaining that one, so I just say I don't know, I hate them, so I hope it's soon.
I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject, but if my calculations are correct, that's about a month from now! EVERYBODY PANIC!!
Surprise, some Aspy Sociopathic Oligarch who has been out of touch with humanity since birth has no idea what actual humans want, and are willing to pay for.
How much will this cost? Anything to waste money on besides paying workers or taxes. What, rockets ain't good enough for you?
That's the entire MAGA world.
Okay, thanks for the correction, my math was off a little bit, but absolute panic is still called for.