softlynow

Agree with all of this, but you're speaking to middle class culture and culture is a force that policy usually cannot redirect. Policy-wise, we're here because round after round of GOP tax cuts directed primarily at the wealthy fueled dramatic asset price increases that, of course, are the real pocket-book problem for the folks who just voted for the chaos agent.

You will not believe the economic catastrophe. The best economic catastrophe. A big, long, beautiful economic catastrophe. People are saying its the finest and best economic catastrophe ever.

They’ll all bend the knee. They’re not journalists, leaders or intellectuals, they’re millionaire entertainers.

They know where this is headed. Kiss the ring now, maybe you keep your living/freedom/life. Cowardly and disgusting, but prudent if that’s who you are. Gonna see a lot more of that.

Neither is the about to be moot Constitution. Power and the will to use it make everything but sufficient power and will to resist irrelevant. The only group situated to resist are Dems. Keep pretending we aren’t completely fucked if it makes you feel better.

It’s still sending poor non-violent offenders to prison for long stretches, and doing nothing* to set them on a better path after release so it’s still working as intended. *Well, they do wring as much money out of they families through privatized phone services and commissary sales of luxuries like soap and toothbrushes, so they are learning that corporations are their masters and that trying to better themselves is likely futile, so they do get a better real world education than their crumbling public school could manage.

Yeah, NIMBY is usually just bad policy. Nearby, in the reddest part of ultra-red Montgomery county, NIMBY means roads and schools. It’s amazing watching Magnolia ISD get flooded with students while they vote down bonds to give them a place to be during the day. Fortunately I’m in CISD, and we just elected board members committed to banning books. Stupid, but I’ll know which books to get my girls. I never get to “both sides” things, so there it is.

If it comes to armed resistance, as you imply, and I’m somehow a combatant, we’re looking at a Man in the High Castle type scenario. Sure, if it comes to a real civil war / rebellion, I guess it’s possible I’m in the shit. But there will be no real rebellion. We are not those people anymore. We are fat, lazy, entitled, and awash in distraction. Maybe there will be the odd freedom fighter cells, and IRA type bombings here and there. So, no, I’m not dying along with just a few dozen others in a futile attempt to otherthrow the Trump Dynasty.

This is on point. Ridiculous frat house worthy hijinks from the Dems may be the only thing that can save us. Yeah, we’re doomed.

Correct. I keep seeing future elections, the press and "political fallout" as actual saviors from all this shit. Nope. Too many are too apathetic that even cancelling elections, or gaming them to return the results the GQP desires, is simply going to be a 2-3 day news story before the next Hawk Tuah distracts us.

I'm not a coffee drinker, and I should eat less chocolate. But shortages and/or significant price increases on both are not gonna go over well.

Meh. Just folks pre-reserving spots at a re-education camp.

How much criminal defense have you done? Did you ever ask a murderer or a kiddie rapist why he did it? Did you quickly regret doing so? I never asked, but have had a few offer their reasoning. In my experience, the answers to your questions are not going to be enlightening or helpful.

You negged my post pointing out the soon to be accelerating genocide. You quoted my response to your reaction. I guess my question to you remains. For my part, I’m coping OK. Could be better, I suppose. Apparently better than brisket, though. 24/7 rage will not brighten the coming darkness. Best to keep one’s sanity to better ride out the storm. It is hard, though, to be constantly reminded that my government will intentionally inflict so much pain on so many in coming years.

Quite a while. “No bishop, no king.”