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trump loves this, sitting on his throne while politicians (and business people and organizations) beg for help (or for him not to hurt them) while he gets to say "and what will you do for me in return?" or "I'm going to do you this favor. Some day I might also need a favor, you understand"

I have to say, I'm a little bit surprised, but I guess I shouldn't be. I figured he'd gleefully screw over the blue states while continuing to help the red states, but obviously once he got into office he doesn't need them any more. Which just goes to show they've got serious plans to make sure there won't be any more free and fair elections.

(edit) I live in a red state, so all I can do is hope we don't have any major disasters. At least our state's finances have improved under our Democratic governor, but her term is only until the end of next year, when I'm sure a repub will replace her (we alternate our governors between repubs who screw everything up, and dems who painstakingly get us out of the mess over the objections of the repub-controlled legislature, just in time for voters to forget how bad the last repub gov was and vote in another one. rinse and repeat).

My god what a pathetic situation. trump and his freezing FEMA funds is only part of the problem--their own governor doesn't give enough of a shit to do a damn thing about it; he's a magat of course. There's another article linked in the sidebar about him:

Governor Patrick Morrisey held a press conference today to look back on his first 100 days in office. Morrisey says he has made some “meaningful accomplishments” these last 100 days including the passing of 12 out of the 14 bills that he asked the legislature to consider this past session.

Those bills include banning cell phones in public schools, banning certain food dyes, ending state wide DEI programs, lessening regulations for data centers, creating “single-sex spaces” and more.

The topic of flooding was absent from the governor’s address today. The focus of the event was a retrospective of his time in office thus far and the disastrous flooding that killed three people and triggered major disaster declarations in six counties went unmentioned.

Trump supporter who didn't vote in the election wants sympathy for also being too lazy/apathetic to bother to vote for him. That actually puts her half a rung higher on my sympathy scale than trump opponents who could have voted for Harris to stop him but didn't.

Atallah is planning to leave for Lebanon in a few days, and he is not sure what will happen when he tries to return.

*raises one eyebrow* How strong a mental block can people have, that even after this experience returning from Canada, he's "not sure what will happen" when he returns from Lebanon?

I said he thought it, not that he said it. https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/putin-thought-he-could-take-ukraine-in-three-days-leaked-emails-reveal/news-story/bf4de32af600b8b653069cdc34c174c8

The researcher, Erica Chenoweth says:

It’s a rule, not a law: Viewing it as a law (rather than a rule of thumb or tendency, for instance) would imply that all that is needed is 3.5% peak participation and a campaign will always win. It also implies that if movements don’t achieve that threshold, they cannot succeed. Neither of these implications is necessarily true. Most nonviolent campaigns have succeeded with fewer than 3.5% peak popular participation.

See Chenowith's website for more info.

Yes they will and BTW protests aren't the only thing people are and will be doing. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Yes. Read the author's entire website for inspiration and education. She has lots of papers and books out there.

“modern” dictators like Putin and Kim seem well-informed.

Putin thought he would take Ukraine in 3 days.

God, I'm sick of these concern trolls trying to dissuade the people from taking action in Every. Single. Thread about protests. You're wrong, go away if you have nothing positive to contribute. We're just getting started.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

~~Dry~~ Don't cry, clown lady. Your retirement savings may be gone, but at least prices will skyrocket.

edit: dry cry? what happened, brain?