What I never hear is what we can do beyond donating, writing letters, voting, and helping to get out the vote.
We are on the verge of authoritarian fascism but all we get is the same playbook and it's reactive and playing defense. It's time we start planning for Trump's assumption of power (even as we fight it) and how we will refuse and resist each element of the 2025 plan. Even though it will mean a quiet civil war. If we don't plan now, we'll be on the back foot then, too.
Would those of you in positions of influence please start coming up with an actual, actionable and bold plan? Or tell us who is doing so? Is anyone on the left actually doing anything real?
I cringed with distaste at the thought of being at her kitchen table. Is this really a rising star in the GOP? I actually prefer MTG who seems genuinely nuts.
And of course a top Republican woman speaking from the kitchen says much about how they think of women. And why on earth would she bring up IVF? The Democrats couldn’t have scripted this better except maybe to have Santos and McConnell and Gaetz step in. On second thought she was not that bad. Jim Jordan would have been worse too.
The story that Katie Britt told about a trafficked woman was true, but it all happened in Mexico between 2004-2008. The woman testified before Congress. She didn't have a convo with Britt in Del Rio and it didn't happen in the US. I live 60 mi from the border. I knew this didn't happen in the US.
Yes Jared, I wanted bolt from that kitchen table before she started handing out the unsolicited "literature". So, she's the one that's "in touch with the American people" and not Biden or the Democrats, I see. I have nothing against born again Christians, unless they bury their head in the sand and put their support behind an obvious monster like you know who, or they're simply just God hustlers like Joel Osteen. But I love Christians like Ali Hewson and her husband Paul, also known as Bono, and all the work that they've spent their lives doing. That said, and I might've missed it, but I don't believe she stumped for Trump in her "rebuttal" at all. His name seemed to be left out of the whole thing. Hmmm, kinda stealthy. Mike Johnson had to have hand picked her for this when he wasn't busy rehearsing for his SOTU pantomime of showing disgust.
You mentioned Stepford Wives, but I think and even more on-point reference would be Witches of Eastwick. Specifically, the strait-laced woman, the town scold, who becomes fixated on the three free-spirited divorcees who are the main characters of the film. We watch her descent into obsession and madness, til she's mumbling incoherently about these brazen hussies who are leading the whole town to SIN. Then her husband (John Lithgow) kills her with a fireplace poker.
Horrifying at the time, but even more horrifying today, because so many of us have seen a family member take that slide into madness and there's nothing to be done (because I firmly disapprove of the fireplace-poker method.)
Part of it is also that we have become a visual culture. Words, content, isn't doing it anymore. People turn the voice down on their TVs and doing other things while watching the visuals. If you do not listen to mr 45 you can actually survive one of his speeches! And may be, if you do no listen to Britt but eat dinner or washing dishes. while watching her appearance may be it does the trick. I don't know. I think that was already a part of the Trump Clinton debates. People did not listen. They just watched. And what they saw was a heavy man doing gorilla like poses. People who listened knew who won on content but people who only watched?
Keep your day job, lady. Please. I know your day job is Senator, and we are all poorer for that, but we think we’d rather see you there than be forced to watch you perform. Where is the talent show hook when we need it.
The weirdest thing is that so many Americans grovel at the feet of these idiots.
That wasn’t a joke or a response, that was a call for war against reality and anybody they deem an enemy. This is going to explode.
What I never hear is what we can do beyond donating, writing letters, voting, and helping to get out the vote.
We are on the verge of authoritarian fascism but all we get is the same playbook and it's reactive and playing defense. It's time we start planning for Trump's assumption of power (even as we fight it) and how we will refuse and resist each element of the 2025 plan. Even though it will mean a quiet civil war. If we don't plan now, we'll be on the back foot then, too.
Would those of you in positions of influence please start coming up with an actual, actionable and bold plan? Or tell us who is doing so? Is anyone on the left actually doing anything real?
I cringed with distaste at the thought of being at her kitchen table. Is this really a rising star in the GOP? I actually prefer MTG who seems genuinely nuts.
And of course a top Republican woman speaking from the kitchen says much about how they think of women. And why on earth would she bring up IVF? The Democrats couldn’t have scripted this better except maybe to have Santos and McConnell and Gaetz step in. On second thought she was not that bad. Jim Jordan would have been worse too.
"The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoe-box of a room..."
I don't know why the size of the room matters, but if it does I know of a woman who was raped in a changing room at Bonwit's.
Jared, I don't know how you can keep watching these things. It's like a bad actor in a terrible political movie reading lines from a terrible script.
She got caught in a lie.
The story that Katie Britt told about a trafficked woman was true, but it all happened in Mexico between 2004-2008. The woman testified before Congress. She didn't have a convo with Britt in Del Rio and it didn't happen in the US. I live 60 mi from the border. I knew this didn't happen in the US.
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Yes Jared, I wanted bolt from that kitchen table before she started handing out the unsolicited "literature". So, she's the one that's "in touch with the American people" and not Biden or the Democrats, I see. I have nothing against born again Christians, unless they bury their head in the sand and put their support behind an obvious monster like you know who, or they're simply just God hustlers like Joel Osteen. But I love Christians like Ali Hewson and her husband Paul, also known as Bono, and all the work that they've spent their lives doing. That said, and I might've missed it, but I don't believe she stumped for Trump in her "rebuttal" at all. His name seemed to be left out of the whole thing. Hmmm, kinda stealthy. Mike Johnson had to have hand picked her for this when he wasn't busy rehearsing for his SOTU pantomime of showing disgust.
Audition tape for horror version of forthcoming Real Housewives of Tuscaloosa.
You mentioned Stepford Wives, but I think and even more on-point reference would be Witches of Eastwick. Specifically, the strait-laced woman, the town scold, who becomes fixated on the three free-spirited divorcees who are the main characters of the film. We watch her descent into obsession and madness, til she's mumbling incoherently about these brazen hussies who are leading the whole town to SIN. Then her husband (John Lithgow) kills her with a fireplace poker.
Horrifying at the time, but even more horrifying today, because so many of us have seen a family member take that slide into madness and there's nothing to be done (because I firmly disapprove of the fireplace-poker method.)
How cosplay meta universe of her.
Jared, you captured the cringe worthiness superbly!
Part of it is also that we have become a visual culture. Words, content, isn't doing it anymore. People turn the voice down on their TVs and doing other things while watching the visuals. If you do not listen to mr 45 you can actually survive one of his speeches! And may be, if you do no listen to Britt but eat dinner or washing dishes. while watching her appearance may be it does the trick. I don't know. I think that was already a part of the Trump Clinton debates. People did not listen. They just watched. And what they saw was a heavy man doing gorilla like poses. People who listened knew who won on content but people who only watched?
Keep your day job, lady. Please. I know your day job is Senator, and we are all poorer for that, but we think we’d rather see you there than be forced to watch you perform. Where is the talent show hook when we need it.