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I like the Woody Guthrie line from his song Lindbergh about the American fascist collaborators in the 40s:
And I'm gonna tell you workers,
'fore you cash in your checks
They say "America First," but they mean "America Next!"
In Washington, Washington...
Same Guthrie that wrote a couple song lyrics about Trump's father's properties and the racial divide that was there.
From his 1955 song, Old Man Trump:
I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family projectBeach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
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Complete hypothetical, stay with me, but if Trump was a Russian asset what would he be doing differently? 🤔
The only thing I can think of is to be less obvious about it.
A properly trained russian agent wouldn't be so blatantly corrupt, surely.
Then again he's a damned imbecile so he's doing the best he can with the 5 brain cells he's got.
You get what you pay for. I have a feeling Trump is doing it for free.
When youre a “star” they let you do it
Simply a Traitor; Asset of Russia
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I don’t know how many times I need to spell it out Americans:
Line item #2
You need to deal with your worthless president hellbent on destroying the planet.
How. Tell us how to fight back against one of the most highly militarized police forces in the world and the most powerful army in the world? How are normal middle class Americans supposed to fight back against that? I mean I love the fantasy of fighting back, but tell me exactly how to do it. You tell me that and I'll start doing it.
I'd be willing to bet a decade from now we'll know that Trump probably cheated in the election and Republicans stole it. If there wasn't vote manipulation I'd be extremely surprised, knowing what we know about this administration and the people running it. How are we supposed to fight back against a system this fucking rigged?
It's really fucking easy to sit back in your armchair and call us dumb or lazy for not doing anything about this. I'm sure a lot of us would love to do something about it, so why don't you tell us how.
Especially when most people have some variation of, "I am going to work myself to death now for a comfortable later" burned into their head from generation after generation of parents.
The, "No Kings" protests basically accomplished nothing beyond a, "neat statistic", in my opinion.
Most people are tuned out, my worksite has 1000+ people at it, no one is talking about this stuff, ever. I am a bit, most people do not care, do not want to risk doing something or have shit going on in their personal lives that take priority.
Anyone critical should do themselves a favor and watch the 1961 film, "Judgment at Nuremberg". The USA judges' servants, when asked if they knew about concentration camps initially denied it. Then, seconds later (paraphrasing), "Even if we did, we are but little people, what could we do?".
P.S. Down voting doesn't change stated reality, sorry.
Thank you! I go to the protests, donate to the causes. We really are fucking helpless and it sucks.
It's a shitty feeling to know that you're doing everything you can and still have to watch our country speed run to authoritarian.
Well, there's the extreme end of things that moderators don't like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one's life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.
There's also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you're closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)
Then there's safer stuff like protests. There's the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won't fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).
Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.
You could run for office, but that's slow and expensive.
There's probably other stuff, too, but I'm running out of steam here.
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I have been saying for years he is going to donate Alaska to Russia...and now this.
I should not be, but I am entirely astonished right now, lol.
Not donate, that would mean it's for a cause... Putin has said for a long time now he considers Alaska Russian property and wants it back. So Trump will just give it to him as if it was loaned from Russia.
This is also why Trump wants Canada and Greenland, he needs to find a way to balance things so it looks like a win for him... "We gave Alaska back to Russia, but won Greenland and Canada for the greatest usa, best deal ever!"
I would not be surprised in the slightest if he invades Greenland by next year.
At the very least he needs to find distractions to keep the American people drowning in chaos while the country slips even further in misery.
Yeah, I agree with everything you said.
What a fucking nightmare.
Offer the country you’re spending billions against in a proxy war resources that will likely find their way, directly or indirectly, used against the US’s financial expenditures in the war.
No wonder this idiot bankrupted a casino.
Four casinos.
Shocker! No, not in the least.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
The republican traitor filth must be humbled.
Trump is a bully, and what do bullies do when they enter the big kid playground ? they submit to the bigger bully.
How much “fury” has it sparked? Are the republicans furious enough to impeach him? I’ll wait. checks watch
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We can’t supply weapons to the country getting attacked anymore, but we’ll give up our natural resources to the country that started the war? Trump is a bitch.
*Little Bitch. You're welcome.
So that's what he meant about a "big betrayal" to take the story away from Epstein.
Big enough of a disaster to distract from the Epstein files?
Woke up today to a headline that we are getting a stimulus check. Turns out it's just for Alaska. I keep saying if he does something good we have to acknowledge it but it just keeps not happening
It's not a stimulus check from the federal government. It is an annual check for Alaskan residents handed out since the oil started to flow through the pipelines up there.
The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a permanent investment fund established in 1976, and managed by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation corporation. It was created by an amendment to the state constitution. The idea was to put 25% of oil revenues into the fund to preserve it for future generation who would no longer have oil revenue to rely on. The original investment was about three quarters of a million dollars, the fund is now worth nearly $90 billion.
The stimulus check Is the Permanent Fund Dividend check given out every year based on the funds performance. Every year, anyone who has lived in the state for a full year and plans to stay indefinitely is eligible for a stimulus check.
It all sounds surprisingly socialist, for such a red state, and it's a big bonus for people struggling to get by up there. Pity everyone in the nation doesn't get a dividend check from big oil companies.
The TSA is letting us keep our shoes on now (or at least they announced that they would).
That's the only good thing I can think of.
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But the war ended on day one of his presidency, right? At least, that’s what he kept promising, and we all know he keeps his word.
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Pretty sure every alaskan ever would be against this
I hope the 54.54% that voted Trump realizes very overtly that they voted for this, and I hope the 41.41% that voted Harris never lets them forget.
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Trump would give him his wife and daughters if Putin wanted.
Headline is a bit misleading:
There has been no confirmation that such a proposal is on the table, and Newsweek has contacted the White House and the office of Alaska's governor for comment. The Telegraph cited a White House statement that it did not comment "on deliberative conversations that may or may not be happening."
I loathe Trump and won't be surprised if he does in fact offer this, but he hasn't actually proposed it to Putin yet.
"do you think he likes me" guess who said this about who
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