What good would this accomplish now? I’m genuinely curious? I didn’t finish the article because it seemed pointless halfway through, so maybe the author said a reason that I missed.
We’re fucked. I have no hope. I plan to disengage as much as possible for the sake of my mental health. If I don’t, horrible depression is assured.
I mean…that’s a valid response and feeling for sure, but I don’t think you’ll be able to hide from the horrible shit coming at all of us. People need to stay informed and find ways to resist it.
I’m in the same boat. I’m about 10 years away from retirement and I don’t think any of us GenXers will make it.
I’m a millennial. I have no equity and it seems assured that I won’t have Social Security. I might still get drinking water, I’m scared about that for the zoomers.
Merrick fucking Garland?
And if you are scoffing, “Well, that will never happen …” Congratulations. You can add an attempted coup, and the worst attack on our Capitol in more than 200 years to the list of horrible things you have helped normalize the past eight years.
Get fucked, D. Earl Stephens. Biden normalized it by appointing this Grand Fuckhead. I never voted for Merrick fucking Garland so you can stop blaming me and other voters for “normalizing” anything when all we’re doing is noticing patterns and responding to them accordingly. We’ve had thirty fucking years of the national Democratic party normalizing getting absolutely reamed by the Republicans and mostly just bending over and taking it, so seriously stuff it. We didn’t normalize it, the lawmakers, judges, and executives normalized it, we’re just taking notice and aren’tquiet about it.
We are not a serious country if we are willing to casually sweep a violent attack on our Democracy witnessed by hundreds of millions of people around the world under the rug like this.
He’s right, we’re not a serious country. Prior to this, we had Salt Typhoon where Chinese hackers infiltrated all the communications government backdoors that our communications companies have made for law enforcement. Despite the literal actually happening evidence that backdoors are a bad idea, the FBI still wants backdoors into our chats. He can stop kidding himself about it, we’re currently the least serious country on the planet, especially in regards to National Security. Trump selling secrets is honestly the least of our concerns.
It’s not the justice system most of us want or deserve, but it’s the only one we have, and for once, they owe us the damn truth.
Uhm, they always owed us the damn truth Jesus Christ.
I feel like D. Earl Stephens just realized how fucked we are.
that first quote of yours pretty much encapsulates his… remarkable lack of PAYING THE FUCK ATTENTION.
People have been raising the alarm. People have been begging, praying, demanding that Trump face consequences. Garland, Biden. most the centrist DNC’s that are too scared of appearing sane. They’re all complicit, not because of their actions, but their inaction. Yes, there were challenges. yes. Cannon deserves a special place in hell. Yes, Trump has the SCROTUS on his side.
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And lets be increasingly clear about who the fuck normalized this trumpian shit-dip we’ve found ourselves in. journalists. Especially mainstream journalists. who refused to express just how fucked up the lot of this is was, sane washed his every tweet; and refused to give equal airtime to their political opponents; or held dems to task for the most quibbling little detail they could find.
Yeah, but gaza!
/s because people can’t tell
Get fucked, D. Earl Stephens
Yeah, never trust anyone whose name starts with an initial! Except for H. Jon Benjamin, of course.
You’re spot on about the rest too, btw ✊
Except for H. Jon Benjamin, of course.
I’ll remind you that he did a series of commercials for Arby’s.
I can forgive that because he’s put his money where his mouth is for a lot of progressive politics. You can find him in lots of places where right-wing shitfuckery is being deconstructed, like when he played Saddam Hussein on the BLOWBACK podcast about the horrors of the Iraq war and how it came to be. Or when he backed Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill and explained it in a series of YouTube videos.
Everyone needs a paycheck, and getting paid doesn’t invalidate the other work they do.
(Also H. Jon Benjamin and Sam Seder go way back to the Home Movies days.)
Yep, same with all the other surveillance stuff they passed over the years. Now they’re being all panicky about Trump having access to this entire surveillance apparatus, and all we can say is: we told you motherfuckers this would happen, and you voted for it anyway.
Merrick Garland accomplishing anything in a WEEK? Yeah, that’s as likely as my cats becoming alternating empresses of Greater Lithuania…
I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords
So is this the evidence or the evidence announcement for the announcement of the evidence?
Maybe its the concept of an announcement
No this is the suggestion that an announcement of evidence of an evidence announcement would get some clicks for the doofus making the suggestion
The best we can hope for is all the evidence is archived where Trump can’t get at it and we re-visit it in 2029. 2027 if we’re super lucky and the Democrats regain the House and Senate.
As if the Democrats would do a damn thing. They had four fucking years to put nails in Trump’s coffin and couldn’t do anything for fear of their corporate masters being denied the same grifts.
They couldn’t do anything because they were trusting the legal system under Merrick Garland.
Of course if they had gone with my personal preference, round up all the Trumpies and Trumpublicans under the RICO act and let them all rot, we would have had larger problems.
There needs to be some kind of middle ground which we haven’t found yet.
The best we could hope for was a DOJ that wasn’t shit on purpose.
