I have diversified assets, virtually no debt, buy very little, am very frugal, and have a tiny bill footprint. So in other words, a consumer that capitalism hates. Good luck to all of you, the 97%, that aren’t the same position. You need to dramatically shrink your lifestyle spending and eliminate debt. Cut up your credit cards, stop buying stuff. Hunker down. We’re about to experience the Great Depression 2.0, which the regime is fomenting.
I think your fears are justified, your analysis sound.
The only positive. Perhaps 'the people with money' will take him out sooner rather than later. Just at the point they think he's destroyed enough, given them enough control, and not quite destroyed what they value and need.
Although, put that way, is it a positive for everyone else?
I couldn't agree more with you. I've been saying the same thing since inauguration. I wholeheartedly believe there won't be an election at the Federal level in 2028, I'm doubtful that there will be midterms in 26. Given the damage done in this short period of time the country will be unrecognizable in 2 years. Probably less.
I believe that any attempt to prevent elections next year or in 2028 will result in an unimaginable shitstorm of violence directed at any and all things Republican.
I disagree that people with money will stop Trump: they will produce away from his whims as much as possible. Especially IT services, which you can move from a data center in California to Ireland with extreme ease compared to moving a foundry.
My fear, as a European, is that, like all dictators in history, he will ride the internal dissent to start wars.
You know what was good about Don't Look Up? The ending when the whole planet disintegrated. All the fools, the politicians, the media elites, the dumb celebrities, all of them floated out in space, and for once all was well and quiet.
The second ending was even a better piece of the cake when the elites who paid to leave landed on a planet where bronterocs found them as a tasty meal.
Humans are the problem on this planet, not the solution. We have to destroy ourselves or the planet will do it for us. And what a great ending it would be to be finished with all this hellish toil and suffering we go through on this hellscape we find ourselves on.
A planet which once nourished us and now poisons us with all this toxic bile that is put out for our consumption day after grueling day.
If we cannot get it together and solve these massive problems, then it's really time to see the end of us, as we've turned this once great planet into a toxic shithole that no alien from other worlds would ever want to visit, much less help us with our problems.
Humanity is the problem on earth, and humans are by and large a toxic group if there ever was one.
Exactly. President for life. So much is de facto now. Americans need to move faster and harder. Canada and here in Australia both having elections that are already subject to the evil winds from Trump/project 2025/oligarchs/Putin.
“Like pigs on a conveyor belt in a slaughterhouse.” I could REALLY do without this comparison ! For Christ sake I’m depressed enough. Inhumane treatment of animals. Are humans good for anything? I really wonder. No worries, humans, and of course all other life, will be sniffed out come 2100 due to the accelerated climate catastrophe.
I think the plan, according to the Dark Maga and techno bros is to install a CEO/Dictatorship kind of think and never do elections again. Trump will be named King and Musk the CEO, Curtis Yarvin will be The High Priest and Peter Thiel The Lord of the Rings, and if poor people complain too much they will be imprisoned in a virtual jail. The libertarians of Silicon Valley will hoard all the money and build walls around their perfect AI cities so the rest of us can burn in hell.
At least it’s a relief that it’s already game over and I don’t have to do anything anymore. My own TLDR about this article could be summed up as: It’s too late. We’re hosed now no matter what. I’d rather have something focus on actions, solutions, not just listing all the ways things are bad and hopeless. What’s the point of that?
@Molly J do you want a solution? Good: look for example on Amazon Prime "The Man in the High Castle": there is no switch to end Trump. There are targeted sabotage actions to slow down and hinder a regime until it implodes. In practice it is a war of attrition. You need an organization of people who know how the government works, what the weak points are and how to block it. Problems: at least 1/3 of the people want Trump, they want deportations, they want gratuitous wickedness on others; most of them are in the armed forces. In Italy we solved it with a civil war in support of the Allies.
You need MAGBA = Make America Great Britain Again!
The POTUS swears allegiance to King Charles III, and the US enters the Commonwealth, thus becoming true brother to Canada. Make this happen in 2026 so that the whole "independence" experiment is nicely rounded to 250 years.
Every time I say there won’t be an election in 2028 - or that we are witnessing the end of our nation I’m told I’m being an alarmist.
I was told in 2016 I was, too. But everything I’ve called out so far - has indeed happened. And is continuing to happen. And I keep saying I told you so.
How 1/3 of eligible voters went 3rd party or didn’t even bother to vote is beyond me. They let this happen.
With all due respect - “they” aren’t responsible for this outcome. We all share responsibility in getting to this point, e.g. the cowardly Democratic Party did plenty of enabling (I’m not a member of any party) the past few decades. We are all connected, an American family.
If we don’t own our mistakes, our part in getting us here, we can’t change any of it because we’d be powerless victims who have to wait for a rescue (that will never happen). We are grown-ass men and women who are capable of meeting this moment.
And before people get up in arms, I’m talking about things like: not speaking up more or pressuring politicians when fascist elements were growing; being ok with a sub-poverty minimum wage; failing to pay attention to politics at the state level.
Because I did my part to try to prevent it. I donated and I phone banked and I engaged with the community. I teach my students the importance of voting. (I can’t persuade them to a party side or tell them how I vote- but since I’m openly gay and advise the Amnesty club and the Human Rights Club it’s kind of obvious).
I really wish I could show you what I see. We’re on the same side. I’m talking about expanding our view, finding the things we missed. The blame game keeps us stuck. We have to tweak our perspective to effectively fight this because what we’ve been doing hasn’t gotten us to where we want to go!
I wish I could show you what I see. The conversations I had while I was phone banking. The students whose families are in hiding because of deportations. My trans friends who are watching their very right to exist be taken from them. Me, as I watch the right of my marriage to be recognized be put on the line.
Our experiences and what we see, are obviously extremely different.
I have diversified assets, virtually no debt, buy very little, am very frugal, and have a tiny bill footprint. So in other words, a consumer that capitalism hates. Good luck to all of you, the 97%, that aren’t the same position. You need to dramatically shrink your lifestyle spending and eliminate debt. Cut up your credit cards, stop buying stuff. Hunker down. We’re about to experience the Great Depression 2.0, which the regime is fomenting.
I think your fears are justified, your analysis sound.
The only positive. Perhaps 'the people with money' will take him out sooner rather than later. Just at the point they think he's destroyed enough, given them enough control, and not quite destroyed what they value and need.
Although, put that way, is it a positive for everyone else?
I couldn't agree more with you. I've been saying the same thing since inauguration. I wholeheartedly believe there won't be an election at the Federal level in 2028, I'm doubtful that there will be midterms in 26. Given the damage done in this short period of time the country will be unrecognizable in 2 years. Probably less.
I believe that any attempt to prevent elections next year or in 2028 will result in an unimaginable shitstorm of violence directed at any and all things Republican.
I agree with you, but I'm not sure if it would be successful or not. It could easily morph into another civil war.
Economic sanctions, economic withholding by the people will help weaken their hold. Hiring even the oppressors will diminish them.
I disagree that people with money will stop Trump: they will produce away from his whims as much as possible. Especially IT services, which you can move from a data center in California to Ireland with extreme ease compared to moving a foundry.
My fear, as a European, is that, like all dictators in history, he will ride the internal dissent to start wars.
Asking for a friend… Can we swap in a better ending for this? I dont like where this story leads…
You know what was good about Don't Look Up? The ending when the whole planet disintegrated. All the fools, the politicians, the media elites, the dumb celebrities, all of them floated out in space, and for once all was well and quiet.
The second ending was even a better piece of the cake when the elites who paid to leave landed on a planet where bronterocs found them as a tasty meal.
Humans are the problem on this planet, not the solution. We have to destroy ourselves or the planet will do it for us. And what a great ending it would be to be finished with all this hellish toil and suffering we go through on this hellscape we find ourselves on.
A planet which once nourished us and now poisons us with all this toxic bile that is put out for our consumption day after grueling day.
If we cannot get it together and solve these massive problems, then it's really time to see the end of us, as we've turned this once great planet into a toxic shithole that no alien from other worlds would ever want to visit, much less help us with our problems.
Humanity is the problem on earth, and humans are by and large a toxic group if there ever was one.
Exactly. President for life. So much is de facto now. Americans need to move faster and harder. Canada and here in Australia both having elections that are already subject to the evil winds from Trump/project 2025/oligarchs/Putin.
“Like pigs on a conveyor belt in a slaughterhouse.” I could REALLY do without this comparison ! For Christ sake I’m depressed enough. Inhumane treatment of animals. Are humans good for anything? I really wonder. No worries, humans, and of course all other life, will be sniffed out come 2100 due to the accelerated climate catastrophe.
I think the plan, according to the Dark Maga and techno bros is to install a CEO/Dictatorship kind of think and never do elections again. Trump will be named King and Musk the CEO, Curtis Yarvin will be The High Priest and Peter Thiel The Lord of the Rings, and if poor people complain too much they will be imprisoned in a virtual jail. The libertarians of Silicon Valley will hoard all the money and build walls around their perfect AI cities so the rest of us can burn in hell.
At least it’s a relief that it’s already game over and I don’t have to do anything anymore. My own TLDR about this article could be summed up as: It’s too late. We’re hosed now no matter what. I’d rather have something focus on actions, solutions, not just listing all the ways things are bad and hopeless. What’s the point of that?
Couldn't agree more.
If everyone does not take action now, starting with 4/5/2025, you will never forgive yourselves.
This is not a dress rehearsal.
@Molly J do you want a solution? Good: look for example on Amazon Prime "The Man in the High Castle": there is no switch to end Trump. There are targeted sabotage actions to slow down and hinder a regime until it implodes. In practice it is a war of attrition. You need an organization of people who know how the government works, what the weak points are and how to block it. Problems: at least 1/3 of the people want Trump, they want deportations, they want gratuitous wickedness on others; most of them are in the armed forces. In Italy we solved it with a civil war in support of the Allies.
You need MAGBA = Make America Great Britain Again!
The POTUS swears allegiance to King Charles III, and the US enters the Commonwealth, thus becoming true brother to Canada. Make this happen in 2026 so that the whole "independence" experiment is nicely rounded to 250 years.
The craziest thing I heard... and I'm hoping it's a rumor but I'm too jaded to think it is...
Is that Trump asked Queen Elizabeth to become a CBE or a KBE? And Queen Elizabeth had to explain to him, "That's not how it works in your country."
If that actually happened... OMG... I'd have loved to been there for that meeting... basically trying to teach a dog how to play the piano.
And yet we came here initially to get away from kings and taxation.
Also to allow really weird "Christians", the Pilgrims, to practice their religion in peace.
From what I can find out, that was merely a rumour.
Thank you. These are the fears I’ve been experiencing. We have to stop him now.
He is suffering from dementia and his heart will give out given his diet and alleged use of uppers.
Every time I say there won’t be an election in 2028 - or that we are witnessing the end of our nation I’m told I’m being an alarmist.
I was told in 2016 I was, too. But everything I’ve called out so far - has indeed happened. And is continuing to happen. And I keep saying I told you so.
How 1/3 of eligible voters went 3rd party or didn’t even bother to vote is beyond me. They let this happen.
With all due respect - “they” aren’t responsible for this outcome. We all share responsibility in getting to this point, e.g. the cowardly Democratic Party did plenty of enabling (I’m not a member of any party) the past few decades. We are all connected, an American family.
If we don’t own our mistakes, our part in getting us here, we can’t change any of it because we’d be powerless victims who have to wait for a rescue (that will never happen). We are grown-ass men and women who are capable of meeting this moment.
And before people get up in arms, I’m talking about things like: not speaking up more or pressuring politicians when fascist elements were growing; being ok with a sub-poverty minimum wage; failing to pay attention to politics at the state level.
Because I did my part to try to prevent it. I donated and I phone banked and I engaged with the community. I teach my students the importance of voting. (I can’t persuade them to a party side or tell them how I vote- but since I’m openly gay and advise the Amnesty club and the Human Rights Club it’s kind of obvious).
So I am not responsible for this.
Thanks though.
We aren’t victims.
We are paying the price. We are stuck paying higher costs and losing our rights… so 🤷🏻♀️
I really wish I could show you what I see. We’re on the same side. I’m talking about expanding our view, finding the things we missed. The blame game keeps us stuck. We have to tweak our perspective to effectively fight this because what we’ve been doing hasn’t gotten us to where we want to go!
I wish I could show you what I see. The conversations I had while I was phone banking. The students whose families are in hiding because of deportations. My trans friends who are watching their very right to exist be taken from them. Me, as I watch the right of my marriage to be recognized be put on the line.
Our experiences and what we see, are obviously extremely different.