I would also blame the part of the electorate that never took or listened in Civics class, history, the educators who decided to stop teaching it, FaceBook, X, Threads, Tik Tok, and all those other places I don’t know about that promote anything for a buck, and the masses that do not have critical thinking skills.
Have been saying since 2016 - the enemy is more often than not in the mirror... NPR, NYT, PBS, X, getting news and views from comedians, getting lazy and phat.
And just to dot i-s cross t-s, look in the mirror again when one, trigger happy, jumps up after seeing bombed out terrorist cells, and rushes to pour more slime on brave Jewish people's just fight for democracy, survival and against a brutal, genocidal enemy. Did you read enough, did you think enough, did you dare to disagree?
Do the same before trying with shaking hands to type a venomous reply. Wipe the screen if you nevertheless do. 😉
Justin-this is one of my favorites from you! Damn well said! Young people had a right to protest about Gaza but to allow a Fascist-convicted FELON-rapist in instead!!!
Good job. Now they can learn how very very little trump will care about anyone getting killed or terrorised…because they’re not people who can kiss his orange criminal ass!
They allowed a Racist psychopath in rather than having an eloquent, powerful, intelligent woman in. And as for the press…arrests should have been made! Trump threatened specific people while OUT ON BAIL. It was heartwarming to see him cuffed snd hauled off…oh, wait a minute..no…nothing was done. As always.
We DO NOT HAVE TO COMPLY, SUPPORT or SIT THIS OUT. We will form a coalition with sane states and hopefully succeed in shutting them out.
We agree 1000%. Cancelled both NyT and WaPo subscriptions, don’t follow CNN, ABC, NBC etc. the first news we read in the morning is from our Substack subscriptions, The New Republican, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, Medias Touch Network, LegalAF, Texas Paul, ChasingOZ, Under the Desk News, Texas Brando. Just to name a few. I’ve been furious with legacy media for years. All they cared about was ad revenue, click bait headlines, and placating the billionaire class and not “offending” T or his enablers.
It’s going to be a fight for years to come, not just 2 or 4. I see T and Congress dismantling the Constitution, doing away with elections. He said last week, “I should never have left office.” Who’s going to stop him? The SS, military? John Flynn will be back in the WH. The Scrotum6, Twatter/Musk, Bezos, Suckerberg, have given him cart blanche to do whatever he wants.
We will not go back. We need to know how to move forward, fight, and win. Maybe if enough ppl suffer, starve, and die these next 2-4 yrs, and we can still vote, they’ll truly vote for democracy and not just cheap eggs and gas ($3.05/gal here in Hamilton, MT today).
The vast majority of the trump voters will get exactly what they asked for. By the time they realize it it will be too late. As for the latino men that voted for him? They don't get a pass because of being "lied to". Fuck that. They have access to all the same information we do...it's more likely they're just sexist.
Thank you. He’s white passing and has a white collar job so he’s unlikely to get swept up but I hate that this something we even need to worry about now.
Access is not the same as exposure. As I said, we live in a different media ecosystem. Do you listen to Fox News or a far right talk show? Didn't think so, neither to I, they are dreadful.
When I was young I read 4 newspapers a day. Today I read the London Guardian, and I've found Substack. Cable news is dead to me. You have a bunch of pontificating and lots of repeated crap. They love to hear themselves. BTW, I'm 74 years old, protested the Vietnam war, fought for women's rights and built a not for profit to benefit PLWA's. Remember, back in the olden days when no one would provide care? I marched on the White House and threw pigs blood on the lawn. Reagan wouldn't say the word AIDS. I know how to fight for peace and justice. Just give me the right information. Let's go
Bernie can kiss my ass after all the shit from the last, what, 10 years? 2024: You should probably vote for democrats, but Gaza, but “working people “ But But But…don’t ever want to see him again along with all the Bernie Bros.
Please don’t say that. I understand the feeling of wanting to run away, go to sleep, hide. Go ahead and hide from viewing the orange man’s installation, but while warm and under the quilted covers, realize your own worth and treasure it. Let this temporary thought pass, we need you. Others need you. Your own self needs you.💙💜💛
I believe Americans & Others are just beginning to wake up. For 40 years we have taken the crap dished out by various Billionaires & we have adapted. However the recent shooting of a CEO changed everything. Not that it was a good thing but it set the battle lines. Most Americans are UNITED in opposition to the FRAUD imposed on them by so called Health Care Insurance systems. It keeps them enslaved in corporations & confines their lives. It ROBS them of their hard earned Capital when they get sick. It is theft. It is a kind of TAXATION without REPRESENTATION. And it is a kind of Social Murder. Billionaires get rich over the dead bodies & cruel suffering inflicted on the American people. Such a system robs Americans of a glowing future. The first shot in a second American Revolution has been fired. Change is coming. Live to see it.
"Do I blame Hispanic men for giving into their racism and machismo bullshit? Yeah. But they were lied to."
Yeah, but the lies were obvious and the "I'm not one of *those* Hispanics, the ones Trump was talking about." view many seem to hold (per exit interviews) is blindingly stupid.
I don't really want to see anyone subjected to Republican's brutal immigration policies and deportations. But I won't be able to avoid feeling a certain amount of "You were warned, idiots!" when they are.
If a rethug president resided over this economy the press would be pissing themselves with excitement to get the president's face carved into Mt. Rushmore.
Mainstream media may have its golden goose, but I bet its goose is cooked!
I excerpted this quote (with attribution to you) from your post for my newsletter to local Democrats. "Find other outlets. The New Republic. Mother Jones. ProPublica. Media outlets based outside of the United States. As many Substacks as you’re comfortable with."
I believe we and the Republicans exist in an entirely different media ecosystem. Ours is educated, analytical, non-manipulative: theirs isn't and hasn't been for decades, ever since Rush Limbaugh started. We don't consume their content because it elicits the gag reflex. They don't consume our content because it's too literate and "boring" for them.
I'm in the "pissed off and want to see every Trumper in pain" kind of mood. Not conducive to actual action, and it will mellow, but daaaamn.
The hard thing for all of us to figure out is, where is the electorate? We are in an historic party realignment phase. The party that figures out what the realignment will look like first has the best chance of winning long term.
Philly Inquirer is owned by the Lenfest Institute which is a non-profit. Actual journalism. Repeatedly published articles trashing Trump. Why not try a digital subscription?
love your stuff buddy. Keep up the fight! Fuck all those motherfuckers you mentioned and then some. I hope Project 2025 grabs everyone of those cocksuckers by the balls, especially Matt Taibi and the rest of those fake-ass alt left pussies/opportunists, and squeezes them hard, maybe even into their own special "Enemy of the People Concentration Camp." Welcome to the No Longer United States of Dumbfuckistan.
“All that glitters is not gold” Sometimes it’s just cheap metal painted to look like it. This is what the fuckwits among us voted for. When that metal turns gangrenous green, will that change or will they just double down. Stay tuned.
I would also blame the part of the electorate that never took or listened in Civics class, history, the educators who decided to stop teaching it, FaceBook, X, Threads, Tik Tok, and all those other places I don’t know about that promote anything for a buck, and the masses that do not have critical thinking skills.
Exactly why Republicans want civics removed from the school curriculum.
And critical thinking skills.
one correction, most teachers have been forced to teach a very limited curriculum not their choice
I’m sure teachers don’t have a lot of say about what is taught. I used the term “educators” very loosely.
Oh please. Let us stop making excuses for poor education. Books can be assigned
Have been saying since 2016 - the enemy is more often than not in the mirror... NPR, NYT, PBS, X, getting news and views from comedians, getting lazy and phat.
Welcome to another iteration of "roaring 20th".
And just to dot i-s cross t-s, look in the mirror again when one, trigger happy, jumps up after seeing bombed out terrorist cells, and rushes to pour more slime on brave Jewish people's just fight for democracy, survival and against a brutal, genocidal enemy. Did you read enough, did you think enough, did you dare to disagree?
Do the same before trying with shaking hands to type a venomous reply. Wipe the screen if you nevertheless do. 😉
Justin-this is one of my favorites from you! Damn well said! Young people had a right to protest about Gaza but to allow a Fascist-convicted FELON-rapist in instead!!!
Good job. Now they can learn how very very little trump will care about anyone getting killed or terrorised…because they’re not people who can kiss his orange criminal ass!
They allowed a Racist psychopath in rather than having an eloquent, powerful, intelligent woman in. And as for the press…arrests should have been made! Trump threatened specific people while OUT ON BAIL. It was heartwarming to see him cuffed snd hauled off…oh, wait a minute..no…nothing was done. As always.
We DO NOT HAVE TO COMPLY, SUPPORT or SIT THIS OUT. We will form a coalition with sane states and hopefully succeed in shutting them out.
Your footnote is a rogues gallery of the worst fucking people on the "left"
Fuck all of them sideways.
Bibi is going to make the rubble bounce, and Trump will send him the bombs to bounce that rubble.
Watch for the plans for a Trump/Kushner resort in Gaza.
Totally agree. However my biggest fuck offs go to those who didn’t vote or voted 3rd party.
Misogyny, racism, ignorance and greed won on Tuesday. Now we all suffer.
We agree 1000%. Cancelled both NyT and WaPo subscriptions, don’t follow CNN, ABC, NBC etc. the first news we read in the morning is from our Substack subscriptions, The New Republican, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, Medias Touch Network, LegalAF, Texas Paul, ChasingOZ, Under the Desk News, Texas Brando. Just to name a few. I’ve been furious with legacy media for years. All they cared about was ad revenue, click bait headlines, and placating the billionaire class and not “offending” T or his enablers.
It’s going to be a fight for years to come, not just 2 or 4. I see T and Congress dismantling the Constitution, doing away with elections. He said last week, “I should never have left office.” Who’s going to stop him? The SS, military? John Flynn will be back in the WH. The Scrotum6, Twatter/Musk, Bezos, Suckerberg, have given him cart blanche to do whatever he wants.
We will not go back. We need to know how to move forward, fight, and win. Maybe if enough ppl suffer, starve, and die these next 2-4 yrs, and we can still vote, they’ll truly vote for democracy and not just cheap eggs and gas ($3.05/gal here in Hamilton, MT today).
The vast majority of the trump voters will get exactly what they asked for. By the time they realize it it will be too late. As for the latino men that voted for him? They don't get a pass because of being "lied to". Fuck that. They have access to all the same information we do...it's more likely they're just sexist.
"The vast majority of the trump voters will get exactly what they asked for. By the time they realize it it will be too late."
And when it happens, they'll blame immigrants and the Democrats.
Hispanic men are catholic and ABORTION BAD. I say this as someone partnered with a Hispanic man (a good, blue one) and this is what he says.
The bizarre thing about that is it's the Catholic Church that says abortion is bad. Christ never talked about or condemned it.
I hope he's not in danger of the upcoming fascist wrath *fingers crossed*
Thank you. He’s white passing and has a white collar job so he’s unlikely to get swept up but I hate that this something we even need to worry about now.
Access is not the same as exposure. As I said, we live in a different media ecosystem. Do you listen to Fox News or a far right talk show? Didn't think so, neither to I, they are dreadful.
When I was young I read 4 newspapers a day. Today I read the London Guardian, and I've found Substack. Cable news is dead to me. You have a bunch of pontificating and lots of repeated crap. They love to hear themselves. BTW, I'm 74 years old, protested the Vietnam war, fought for women's rights and built a not for profit to benefit PLWA's. Remember, back in the olden days when no one would provide care? I marched on the White House and threw pigs blood on the lawn. Reagan wouldn't say the word AIDS. I know how to fight for peace and justice. Just give me the right information. Let's go
I’m scared to death. I’ve given up. I’m scared for my brother, an Iraq War Veteran who committed the only crime of being married to a man.
As Bernie days..despair is not an option!
Bernie can kiss my ass after all the shit from the last, what, 10 years? 2024: You should probably vote for democrats, but Gaza, but “working people “ But But But…don’t ever want to see him again along with all the Bernie Bros.
Despair is an option and a luxury...and I reject it.
I honestly hope I die before the inauguration. We’re fucked.
The worst thing you can do is give up! We need every sane person possible to resist the coming nightmare from hell.
Please don’t say that. I understand the feeling of wanting to run away, go to sleep, hide. Go ahead and hide from viewing the orange man’s installation, but while warm and under the quilted covers, realize your own worth and treasure it. Let this temporary thought pass, we need you. Others need you. Your own self needs you.💙💜💛
As Tim Snyder says, “Do not obey in advance.”
I believe Americans & Others are just beginning to wake up. For 40 years we have taken the crap dished out by various Billionaires & we have adapted. However the recent shooting of a CEO changed everything. Not that it was a good thing but it set the battle lines. Most Americans are UNITED in opposition to the FRAUD imposed on them by so called Health Care Insurance systems. It keeps them enslaved in corporations & confines their lives. It ROBS them of their hard earned Capital when they get sick. It is theft. It is a kind of TAXATION without REPRESENTATION. And it is a kind of Social Murder. Billionaires get rich over the dead bodies & cruel suffering inflicted on the American people. Such a system robs Americans of a glowing future. The first shot in a second American Revolution has been fired. Change is coming. Live to see it.
I have no plan to sit back and watch that!
"Do I blame Hispanic men for giving into their racism and machismo bullshit? Yeah. But they were lied to."
Yeah, but the lies were obvious and the "I'm not one of *those* Hispanics, the ones Trump was talking about." view many seem to hold (per exit interviews) is blindingly stupid.
I don't really want to see anyone subjected to Republican's brutal immigration policies and deportations. But I won't be able to avoid feeling a certain amount of "You were warned, idiots!" when they are.
If a rethug president resided over this economy the press would be pissing themselves with excitement to get the president's face carved into Mt. Rushmore.
Mainstream media may have its golden goose, but I bet its goose is cooked!
I excerpted this quote (with attribution to you) from your post for my newsletter to local Democrats. "Find other outlets. The New Republic. Mother Jones. ProPublica. Media outlets based outside of the United States. As many Substacks as you’re comfortable with."
I believe we and the Republicans exist in an entirely different media ecosystem. Ours is educated, analytical, non-manipulative: theirs isn't and hasn't been for decades, ever since Rush Limbaugh started. We don't consume their content because it elicits the gag reflex. They don't consume our content because it's too literate and "boring" for them.
I'm in the "pissed off and want to see every Trumper in pain" kind of mood. Not conducive to actual action, and it will mellow, but daaaamn.
The hard thing for all of us to figure out is, where is the electorate? We are in an historic party realignment phase. The party that figures out what the realignment will look like first has the best chance of winning long term.
I've been raving mad about this for months!
Philly Inquirer is owned by the Lenfest Institute which is a non-profit. Actual journalism. Repeatedly published articles trashing Trump. Why not try a digital subscription?
love your stuff buddy. Keep up the fight! Fuck all those motherfuckers you mentioned and then some. I hope Project 2025 grabs everyone of those cocksuckers by the balls, especially Matt Taibi and the rest of those fake-ass alt left pussies/opportunists, and squeezes them hard, maybe even into their own special "Enemy of the People Concentration Camp." Welcome to the No Longer United States of Dumbfuckistan.
“All that glitters is not gold” Sometimes it’s just cheap metal painted to look like it. This is what the fuckwits among us voted for. When that metal turns gangrenous green, will that change or will they just double down. Stay tuned.