Trump’s officials are quietly concerned about his “blatant criminal behavior.” What took them so long?
It is time to stop examining the chaos and time to do something about it.
I have a source inside the Trump regime who feels, in their own words, “a little disillusioned.” This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,” but is now concerned about the “blatant criminal behavior” of Donald Trump. Really? His last administration didn’t show you that? Well, OK.
This source first approached me by saying, “I can provide you bonafides to show you I’m serious.” That impressed me because I didn’t think many people inside the Trump regime knew what bonafides were, let alone how to be serious.
This source’s concerns about Trump are indeed legitimate, and deserve to be heard. “Not all of us are buying everything he says,” this person told me. “We understand the problem, but we see no solution. You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy. Congress can’t be trusted and the judiciary so far hasn’t been able to stop him.”
I get how this happens. Everyone is all on board when it’s all talk or they’re Monday morning quarterbacking, but when they’re involved and they’re acting then it’s real to them. What had been hyperbolic spiraling and chaos from a distance with plausiblity of intents is now watching a man actively break the law as they assist.
That’s not to excuse it. They did and do harm. But this is the second time he’s been president and this keeps happening and he churns through people like this.
The only thing Stephen Miller deserves is an unmarked grave somewhere dogs go to the bathroom.
Nah, don’t do that last part.
he has a face of someone who likes getting pissed on.
Meanwhile, with a compromised press and Trump ignoring any judicial ruling he dislikes, the Democrats are still no help. They’re nearly as crazy as Trump if they think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be a viable presidential candidate. No matter what they think of her policies, very few Republicans who despise Trump would vote for her. “I wouldn’t,” my White House source told me. “I’m not crazy. The far left is as bad as the far right, and they’re the reason I voted for Trump.” There are plenty of moderate Democrats who agree.
Imagine thinking AOC is far left. Ok now imagine thinking that kind of far left is just as bad as the far right.
Like for example, informing people of their constitutional rights, advocating for things like accessible Healthcare and protections for workers is every but as bad as shipping people off without due process to El Salvador prison where they’ll die, grabbed by a militarized and masked police force that snatches people off the street, or from their homes or school.
Somehow it’s the fault of the democrats who won’t accept moderate Republicans. But also there are plenty of moderate democrats that agree that the far left is just as bad.
Well it’s amazing that insiders are finally able to suspect something is wrong, but they are still so gripped by cult doctrine they can’t make any progress.
People are still trying to push this nonsense that democratic candidates need to appeal to the objectively dumbest people in this country in order to be a viable candidate. Its ridiculous. Red voters are only ever going to vote red. They always have and they always will. Left leaning people in this country outnumber right leaning people by a wide margin (because reality has a left leaning bias). The issue is that dem individuals often just don’t vote when a candidate is put forward who is cowtowing to the right. The right still votes right and the left doesn’t vote. Then we get what we have now. If dems put forward a politician that progressive voters actually want they’ll have a much better chance. And AOC is probably a more well liked dem politician right now (among the left) than anyone else except maybe Bernie. But he’s probably too old at this point. So AOC makes the most sense right now to me and probably anyone else with a brain.
Feels like this might be the time for a coalition to run as “the freedom party” and basically run on the platform of Bernie but use completely different language. There have been studies showing that most gop voters agree with dem policies when they’re not presented using the buzzwords they’ve been brain washed to immediately reject (eg ACA vs Obamacare).
All the low info idiots voting against their own interests would hear policies they like, and they can jerk off to the word “freedom”.
I would take a “Weekend at Bernies” Bernie Sanders over literally any moderate DINO the DNC will push on us. I don’t care if he’s 99 and on a ventilator, put that man in office so we can finally join the rest of the civilized world with universal healthcare.
Two extremely qualified women both were defeated by the worst candidate in our countries history.
I love AOC and her policies, but this country has proven it’ll vote for literally the worst encapsulation of boomer greed than vote for a capable and competent woman. Twice.
The Democrats are morons if they pick a woman to run next time. Simple as that.
Let AOC kick Schumer out and take his senate seat. She would be much more effective there.
That worst candidate didn’t win by a landslide either time, so I don’t think it’s fair to say America will never vote for a woman. Lots of Americans did vote for a woman. According to CNN: “More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history.”
People forget that aside from the email bullshit, it was widely reported that Clinton received something like 26 million dollars for speaking engagements, behind closed doors to bankers and American robber barons. Some parts of her speeches were leaked, but she never released any transcripts. I think that fueled voter apathy and “both sides the same” feeling for a lot of people, including two-income families struggling to make ends meet.
You think if a man had done the same, no-one except Bernie Sanders would care?
As for the second strong capable woman, I voted for her, despite her seeming support for the ongoing genocide. I’m not convinced that election was legit.
Clinton won the popular vote, and Harris lost because of her last minute hard-right turn alienated everyone.
You have to blame media for its part in it.
Social media played a heavy hand in artificially inflating trump with its complete and blatant refusal step in and curtail any of the deluge of manufactured bullshit, fake AI controlled accounts, troll farm posts, blatant misinformation, etc, etc, etc.
broadcast media as well, for being so thirsty for ratings and another trump presidency they basically sanewashed every thing he did, when they could bother reporting on it at all, because they knew if he got elected it’d be 4 more years of people desperately turning in every day to see what fresh horrors trump was unleashing, which would drive ratings and revenues to the stratosphere.
We need someone who looks like John Fetterman and thinks like AOC.
…2 mildly qualified women. Certainly not extremely
A former senator and secretary of state counts as extremely qualified by most standards
What is extremely qualified for that job by your standards? Like, name a person.
Bernie Sanders. AOC would make a good vice president for him, and after 8 years make a run of her own.
He didn’t save the world the first time (despite promising he would drain the swamp within days) so why would anyone think he would do it the second time?
I know. But they love him. Kamala didn’t inspire enough people to vote Dem which didn’t help.
The fact that Donald got any votes when up against his diametric opposite, says more about voters. Don’t tell me “Kamala didn’t inspire” when you’re talking about actual good people doing good things led by a learned former prosecutor vs bad people doing bad things following a multiple felony racist who failed at even being a scumbag used-house dealer and casino lowlife.
I feel the pope couldn’t run against whatever scumbag the GOP puts up and get more than half the votes.
Without “liberty and justice for all,” quite simply there is no “one nation” anymore anyway.
If she’d inspired enough people she’d have won. Trump is exciting. Vile, but exciting. People that vote for him like that.
America has no heart and shares maybe two neurons, then. Jeeeeeesus, lol.
Stupidity and brainwashing
Once this Orange turd is done there won’t be another republican government elected for a long long time.
I hope your optimism can become reality.
But we thought Trump’s blatant corruption and criminality the first time would be more than enough to keep the Republicans out of power for a few decades…
Once the orange turd is done there will only be Republican government and no more elections
Nah, the idiots learned nothing. They will vote in line until they die
Someone has got to start talking about “inclusion” instead of division
because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,”
No, woke culture unites the country. That’s the fucking point. “Woke” means you accept that everyone is different and you agree to tolerate and respect those differences. Your insistence on hating people you view as different is what divides us.
The “I” in DEI is literally “Inclusion”. Nothing more divisive than inclusion, surely.
Gotta love how “divisive” is always a dog whistle for “how dare you do anything that would question our authoritarianism.”
- Diversity: No, no, no! We can’t have that. Obscenely wealthy, white, male, cis, hetero, neurotypical, Christian nationalist, Republicans only. Diversity means giving others a voice, and letting them have a voice means we lose power… unacceptable.
- Equity: Absolutely not. Neoliberalism demands that anything someone does or create belongs to their corporate liege-lords. You will rent and subscribe to everything you need to survive. You will own NOTHING. Even your taxes will be funneled to the wealthy so that you will get nothing in return. No equity. You are serfs. We OWN you.
- Inclusion: If you aren’t an obscenely wealthy, white, male, cis, hetero, neurotypical, Christian nationalist Republican who has the desire and means to cheat, steal, and destroy so that the club can amass even more wealth and power, then you shall not be included. You can still white knight for that behavior, we like that, encourage it even, but you still will never be included. It’s a small club, and you ain’t in it.
Bullshit. “Woke culture” is also filled with evangelism, moralizing, and authoritarian assertion. You guys just want different people beaten with sticks by the pigs.
DEI and “woke culture” made me feel seen as a person with a disability and a facial paralysis. 100 years ago I would have been an orphan and hidden away. Not long before that I would have been “sacrificed” as an evil baby.
Did corporations cash in on that? Yes they did because that’s all corporations are supposed to do is make money and bleed the consumer.
If you are anti-woke and anti-DEI then you’re really saying you want to include everyone who looks like you and relegate those who don’t to obscurity either by way of deportation, exile, slavery, or death. It’s exactly like what every country perpetuating genocide has done in history.
What is your solution to my problem of again not feeling like I can go out in public because of this administration’s policies. What about to the LGBTQIA people who are afraid that their marriage will be nulled or are also afraid to go out in public?
Are you ok with fixing people different from you back to isolation, declining mental health, and attempts to take their life because of getting rid of DEI?
I live my life, look out for my neighbors, don’t litter, and don’t talk to cops. You’re all naive enough to think your opinion holds value 20 feet outside your radius.
🎶 Everything I don’t like is woke propaganda 🎶
Bullshit. Makes up an argument based solely on my feelings and not remotely in any fact
Let’s see you debate that
Experience. You all want police enforcing your sense of morality. All about freedom until your feelings get hurt.
“Woke” is literally just not being a piece of shit. Everyone who whines about it is self-reporting.
The median American seems to disagree with this assertion based on recent election results.
Which could be because they read at a 6th grade level.
But, regardless, scolding and ostracization and negative reinforcement are not effective ways to educate children. They seemingly are also not effective ways to educate adults who possess the intelligence of children
No, you just get 100% of your political knowledhe from the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
All Woke means is “Live and Let Live.” What is the problem with some people choosing different paths for their lives? You go your way, they go theirs. As long as you don’t mess with their journey, nobody will mess with yours. See how that works?
Enforced by police batons
Woke means “I noticed that society and it’s systems treat certain groups of people much worse than others. We should fix that.”
Which, yeah, means “live it and let live” but in a way that implies a call to action, lest you be a willing participant in oppression.
It looks like you get your definition of the word from Fox News, that’s not news, just thought you should know, carry on
Social accountability (meaning being called out on social media, being fired from a job, or being boycotted) for unapologetically spewing hate speech or sexual harassment and whatever else “wokism” is against… is not the same as inflicting violence on people. Your failure to understand the difference between accountability and violent authoritarianism says a lot about your character.
Social accountability (meaning being called out on social media, being fired from a job, or being boycotted)
These are not effective means of achieving social progress because they result in incredible reactionary counter movements. As is evidenced by the success of Trump/Republicans/Fox weaponizing woke as an attack.
The median American hates scolds and prudes (despite, hypocritically, largely being a scold and prude themselves.)
If the goal is to achieve social progress through popular support and democracy, then these tactics of scolding and ostracization are counter productive. Other methods must be used
If the goal is to achieve social progress through more revolutionary means, then Lenin offers a roadmap. But American liberals are still seemingly opposed to that.
In any event, it seems clear given our current political realities that the “woke” tactics of the past decade have been a tremendous counter productive failure that has contributed to our present fascist regime. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences; the consequences of 2010s social justice online scolding is the Trump regime and the collapse of American liberal democracy
The problem with Lenin’s failed roadmap (and Marx’s, for that matter) was that neither considered the intrinsic corruption and selfishness of humanity. The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but a kind of democratic power where a minority of wealthy capitalists can’t simply use their wealth and power to supersede the will of the people. Hence why neoliberal capitalists are so happy to misuse the term “tyranny of the majority” in regards to direct democracy. Instead, following communist revolutions, a new ruling class emerged, composed of selfish, self-centered bandits. Not “The People” writ large, but a small controlling class of party members. That was never supposed to happen, and even Lenin tried to warn of this in his final days. There was also the matter of international isolation… where powerful, wealthy imperialist countries cut them off as a risk to their own rulers authority.
My point is… there is no roadmap. The American experiment failed, and for exactly the reasons founders like John Adams, George Washington, John Hamilton, et al warned about. Incidentally, the same reason Lenin’s experiment failed as Stalinism took it over… power was allowed to be concentrated into the hands of a small ruling class or singular political party. I don’t have a solution. I wish I did. There is just no way for any major movement to survive individual human ambition, greed, and selfishness. It will always be tainted and that taint will always eventually metastasize. Unless we already have a stateless, classless society where everyone shares a cultural and moral system where greed, selfishness, and preying on others for personal gain is immediately and staunched stamped out, the system cannot be sustainable… and that means there is no path to such a system at a national scale.
Such a system would need to start small and be protected from without. It would need to grow organically over multiple generations and be accepted broadly by it’s own merits. And how likely do you think that is given the realities I just discussed? The rich and powerful would never let such an experiment survive. Just look at current culture. If you don’t buy into neoliberalism aggressively and religiously, you get called “communist” and “marxist” and “woke” and any number of emotionally-loaded pejoratives.
So… no roadmap. Not yet.
Nah, that’s all fair game.
A perfect example of how terms like “woke” are indefinable.
No, it isn’t. You want something to really worry about? Communism. You should dread communism. For real. Go to bed every night praying that there isn’t a communist revolution in the US.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
(Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 1852)
Lol what the fuck is going on in these comments? Do you not know where you are? This is like the dumbest place to post such obvious bullshit about leftist ideology.
I don’t care. I’m fucking tired from an intellectual point of view with people using political terms randomly. Unless the pope starts talking about seizing the means of production, he ain’t Marxist, he ain’t communist, he’s just another fucking priest covering up for pedophiles and telling poor people to turn the other cheek. Fuck him and fuck his ilk.
Now go articulate to yourself what you think communism is and what you think is so scary about it, then maybe consider reading the source material.
Retribution is so scary about it. Unless you own the means of production or think you’re going to miss capitalism, you don’t have much to worry about.
I’m an anarchist, and guess what? We already have anarchism. My ideology just keeps winning. Stop doing capitalism, and you’re doing anarchism, even if it’s just deciding who does the dishes. Truly abandoning society isn’t pretty, and it’s scary… if you’re a giant pussy.
Stop doing capitalism, and you’re doing anarchism, even if it’s just deciding who does the dishes.
What? That’s not what anarchism is…
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“Here’s what my talking parrot thinks about this issue”. Great input, if I wanted to talk to a chatbot I’d do that. This isn’t a conversation, it’s meaningless noise regurgitated by a machine.
Correct, AI responses are garbage straight up
“We understand the problem, but we see no solution."
STOP HELPING HIM IS A GOOD START.
Evidence and report his shitty behaviour and outright criminality
You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy
And then he went to Salon ?
Don’t forget that to a Trumper, Fox News has more credibility than NYTimes. They’re pretty shit at critical thinking.
Doesn’t matter. You scum will still bend over. It’s a Cons natural position.
This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,”
Retranslation: This person says they’re on team reality TV star who hires news readers, influencers and family members to high powered positions without any qualifications because “DEI bad”. And joined the people who made ‘wokeness’ an issue to divide everyone with in the first place because they’re worried about it dividing people.
Have I understood that correctly?
They see what he’s doing as a problem. Isn’t that enough? We can deal with the other bullshit later. Let’s try to avoid full blown fascism first and death camps.
No, they don’t. The “criminality”, aka the way it’s being accomplished, is his problem. Not the effects.
This guy can take a long walk off a very short pier.
Take steps against your boss.
the Declaration includes a description of the king of England that Trump should memorize, and perhaps recognize: “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of free people.”
Lol! Does anyone honestly believe that if Trump actually read that sentence, that he would even understand what it meant? You may as well be asking a 12 year old in special ed class to read and interpret Shakespeare.
Republicans have been disillusioned for decades, but they tow the party line anyway.
God help us all.
We’re on our own.
Aliens are among us tho…
I feel like they made a wrong left turn and earth is that backwater place of the galaxy where banjos start playing …
Squeal like a Klingon.
