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  • "I didn’t vote for the lady who wouldn’t commit to stopping Israel (but I knew wouldn’t shred the economy)

    even though the alternative was a man very openly supportive of Israel and is now actively deporting pro-Palestine protesters and providing Israel all the weapons it needs

    'Cuz obviously both parties are the same"

    Quite frankly, I have no respect for anyone who took this position. Whether influenced by propaganda or… whatever… I honestly don’t know how you can say you didn’t see what a threat Trump would be (not you personally), especially in retrospect.

    I’m again going to push back and say that a massive propaganda campaign, similar to 2016, is what won them the election. Crypto dumped $146 million into he election. Elon personally put something like $250 million in, AND did the “raffles” to get people to vote (not raffles, it was a lie, admitted in court)… AND he openly used Twitter to influence the election. Zuck is in with the same guys that Musk is – Thiel, etc (I say “in” loosely for Musk) and if you don’t think they also used FB you’re a fool.

    But propaganda isn’t an excuse, because it requires some lack of not intentionally trying to expose yourself to new & different sources of news, but more importantly, different perspectives. And a complete detachment or ignorance from Trump’s first presidency.

    MAGA was always a traitor party.






  • You’re acting like these billionaires are all a monolith that are all going to act the exact same way.

    That is a mistake, and one that will cost you, as underestimating people in previous conflicts, revolutions, etc, have before.

    They are not all knowing. They are not all powerful. They, too, make mistakes and believe lies.

    Of course it’s not their final plan. We don’t even know what phase 2 of project 2025 is.

    But everything they’ve openly said about project 2025 has pretty much come true… and all very consistently seems to be working toward this goal of Balkanizing the US. It might not happen during Trump’s presidency. The tech bros plan for longer than 4 years

    But the tech bros don’t care about EVERY billionaire. They’re not all in the circle. This isn’t the rich guy circle. This is the dark enlightenment tech bro circle.

    Does it make WAY more sense than the rest of the billionaires just aren’t 100% informed about what’s going on and are trying to hedge their OWN bets?

    Again, I agree we don’t have the full story. But you are putting almost superhuman levels of intelligence on these billionaires… when it’s just not true





  • Stop pretending that people who hoard more money & power than entire countries and have to abuse countless workers to get there have the same level of rational thought as you and me.

    It’s like the idea of being a king. When you can, at will, throw folks in jail… it messes you up. It changes how you view the world and your role in it.

    Then remember that it’s not like these guys all just went “I’m a billionaire. That’s it. I won. I’m done”

    They kept chasing money and kept growing. They kept chasing power. You realize that some of them are thinking about more than just being an influential billionaire, right?

    Once again — some of them want their own cities. Look up “freedom cities.” Trump has stated, in a 2-3 minute camera clip, that he would like to auction off federal land to billionaires for them to run their own cities. It is unsaid but implied that they would get to make the laws there.

    It’s literally what Peter Thiel has been trying to accomplish for the rich & wealthy for decades.

    “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel

    The only thing these right wingers mean when they say freedom is the freedom for rich people to screw the rest of us even more.

    Power. And. Money. Corrupt. You know the saying. It’s not a meme, buddy. We have thousands of years of history to show us how often rich & powerful go looney

    Hint: it’s most of the time


  • Billionaires are not our allies. And some of them are genuinely stupid enough to have thought they could contain what was going on that it was just gonna be more tax cuts for them. They, like the public, didn’t all actually believe it would be true. They are not inherently smarter or more immune to propaganda than we are.

    They just have more access to information - if they don’t surround themselves with people that are only yes men and such.

    Other billionaires are betting on the collapse, and are willing to take less monetary power, to have more literal power if they can create their own city states. Literally what they’re hoping for.

    They are short sighted, stupid, arrogant, heartless… and, many, traitors.

    Some need to be made an example of.

    But we accept those who ask for forgiveness. I’m not saying to actually forgive them. Or to re-establish normal lives with them. Other people can do that work.

    But they do have to have SOME kind of off-ramp, or you might as well be making the same arguments that MAGA are when they claim “liberalism is a mental illness and should be jailed.”




  • Yeap. That was the plan. JD Vance is on camera saying Trump should have his Andrew Jackson moment and tell them to go ahead and try to enforce their ruling.

    I’d post the clip if I could, it says too large. 😴

    This is literally the moment where a dictator rises. This is THE make it or break it moment. If the Supreme Court does not appoint marshals to enforce its ruling - if it does not enforce it is a co-equal branch, as mandated by the Constitution,

    then the Executive is free to do what it wants with no consequences. The Executive is immune even to Supreme Court rulings.

    Even if you somehow believe that the 2026 and 2028 elections will still matter by then (IF WE MAKE IT THERE, VOTE ANYWAY MOFO), just imagine the damage a president that is no longer equal to the Supreme Court & Congress can do. The Constitution is quite literally broken at that point - if you can make the argument that the previous executive immunity ruling didn’t break it in the first place.

    Anyone got betting odds on the SC actually trying to enforce the ruling?.. just trying some humor cause… boys, gals, otherwise… no matter what ultimately happens as the outcome to all this, all roads are dark from here.