@mcfate This is no longer about governance, it's about greedy men with an insatiable lust for absolute power. If anyone thinks this second Trump administration will give a fig for the plight of the common man, their MAGA hat has cut off blood flow to their brain.
@TrueBloodNet I'm sure the Feds will try under the Trump administration. As much as Republicans make a big hoorah about "states' rights", that won't stop them trying to crush any and all opposition to their authoritarian dictatorship. I'm just hoping the courts will slow this down until sane government returns (hopefully) in four years.
Gavin Newsom is working to "Trump-proof" California against a second Trump presidency. Every blue state governor should be doing this.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/newsom-special-sessioncalifornia-trump/3670288/
The road to Gilead. Alas, some people will just go along for the sake of their own security, greed and/or need for power. The rest of us need to resist as best we can.
Elon Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html
@DavidSalo Anyone waiting for Trump to behave like an actual president (or human being, for that matter) will be waiting a very long time.
@YouInMyEye A MONUMENT TO SELF-ABUSE: America's iconic leaders are looking at a second Trump presidency and saying "thank you sir, may I have another?"
#politics
Guessing that:
1. Drumph doesn’t make it to 2028
2. Vance is way more incompetent
3. Unless GOP changes senate rules, they will never have 2/3 majority
4. Dead sisters/wives/daughters, raise in suicides by LGTBQ+, inflation/recession/depression? will at some point be issues
5. History tells us that this shit never ends well
“Like voters of all stripes who were frustrated with inflation, Latino voters in pre-election polls kept listing the economy as the top concern and believed Trump to be better on that issue.” MSNBC
Everything else about Biden’s economy was exceptional. Jobs creation historic, GDP growth larger than Trump, wage growth larger, stock market growth larger than Trumps, and our portion of the World’s inflation problem kept low.
So the expectation is Trump will do America even better. Sure. 🤔
@Senua Hope for the best, but expect the worst.
@Ryanmurphy Way to alienate half of the people on the planet, Leon.
We actually live in a world where nobody really has any authority over any other person or their decisions.
We can take actions and react, and other people can, too.
We can choose to believe in rules or laws, or we can flout them.
Someone can _force_ another person into a position or mislead them or threaten them.
But it's actually a free-for-all.
We _can_ however, _agree_ and promise to behave a certain way towards one another, and then _keep that promise_.
Learn to use your free will.
Retired 45-year IT professional watching America circle the drain. I was on Twitter for 12 yrs. (@bill_auclair) before Musk co-opted it.