NEW TRUMP "PROMISES":
1. A new national University w/free tuition.
2. Ten new “freedom cities”.
3. A new countrywide missile defense system.
4. Manned missions to Mars.
5. Completion of the southern border wall.
6. Cut the overall federal budget by 33%.
Oh, and Mike Huckabee will achieve peace in the Middle East.
If you believe he'll keep even one of these promises in the next four years, I have a NFT of a bridge I can sell you.
Trump is appointing Mike Huckabee ambassador to Israel.
This feels simultaneously like the punchline of a really funny joke that I want to laugh my ass off at, and a nightmare that I can't wake up from.
#kakistocracy #politics
"After the Rain", by Duke Pearson, from his album "Sweet Honey Bee".
#cosomusic #cosojazz #partisanfavorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjrqqz1MWic
When fascists come to power, the first thing they attack are national and international institutions: political parties, labor unions, churches. Anything which could be the basis of a broad-based opposition to the régime is dissolved or co-opted.
If you want to resist, you cannot abandon these institutions. They have to be protected. Once they're gone, the fascists can wipe up the smaller groups piecemeal and at their leisure. They won't be much fussed about knitting circles.
An H5N1 influenza pandemic under someone like TFG (read: horrifically mismanaged) would be catastrophic. And probably the end of their regime.
H5N1 is *extremely* lethal - with a recorded human fatality rate of over 50%.
You can't afford to mismanage a pathogen that lethal the way COVID was mismanaged; that's the kind of mistake that wipes out entire towns, destroys any semblance of order, & topples nations.
There are rapidly increasing warning signs that an H5N1 pandemic may be on its way.
President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead his Department of Homeland Security, sources say. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html
Stories like this make me ashamed to call myself an American. #politics
https://www.rawstory.com/nazi-flags-michigan/
BREAKING: Trump is expected to pick Marco Rubio to be the next Secretary of State. All White House visitors will be required to wipe their feet on the Secretary before entering the building. #politics
What our friends and relatives who scoff at us don't understand is that we haven't just lost an election.
We've lost our future.
I hope you remember that future: The one where people of all forms of gender expression, all colors, all nationalities, all religions, could meet as equals without having to kneel to another; where our method was peace, and our aim was the fulfilment of every human being according to their scope and talents;
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@AmericanPartisan trump could never stand a black fella being remembered in us history for having done amazing things for his country. trump & his administration will erase from the history books anything great that black & brown folks did for america - & obama is his first stop.
BREAKING: Trump isn't waiting until Day One of his presidency to be a dictator. #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/11/trump-senate-administration-hearings
Barack Obama is right to be concerned about his legacy. Donald Trump has made it clear through his words and actions that he will not be happy until he has erased every good thing Obama has ever done for America. #politics
https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-is-nervous-about-his-legacy-after-trump-victory-biographer-says
How long will Susie Wiles last as Trump's White House Chief of Staff? I give her 10 Scaramuccis at the most. #politics
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/susie-wiles-white-house-trump-rcna179320
4 ways Trump’s massive deportation plans may hurt your finances.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/business/deportation-immigration-trump-cost-americans
Totally normal administration #politics
DOJ employees can be fired if they show resistance to Trump's orders.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/11/congress/mark-paoletta-justice-department-lawyers-00188772
A two-hour audio and video slide show, with minute-by-minute description, of one of the greatest live concerts ever: #PinkFloyd at Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 28, 1975. #cosomusic #partisanfavorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMCSJvX1T_0&t=1597s
Retired 45-year IT professional watching America circle the drain. I was on Twitter for 12 yrs. (@bill_auclair) before Musk co-opted it.