No, trump is the fire. And everyone who normalises and excuses him are the dog.

And then they convince themselves it was their perseverence and gumption that resulted in all their success, which enables them to look down on anyone who isn’t successful, because clearly they just lack perseverence and gumption.

Not as stupid as the people who continue to support and vote for him.

When somebody says the 2A crowd I think it’s pretty unambiguous who they’re talking about, it’s certainly not anyone on the left.

I won’t be physically participating in any resistance because I left the US almost 10 years ago and I’m never going back. But if I can help remotely, even if it’s just adding to the chorus of voices begging Americans to wake the fuck up, then I will. What’s your excuse for being a keyboard warrior?

In a shocking turnaround that nobody could have predicted, the 2A crowd are the tyrants! 🤯

Trump realising that doge was trump-level bullshit is my favourite leopards eating faces story ever.

It’s pretty intuitive from the saying. It’s the carrot OR the stick, not the carrot ON the stick. The carrot is the reward for doing the thing, the stick is the punishment for not doing it. Just google it.

Yeah, republicans would hate to be accused of discrimination.

I definitely see this a lot. Any time someone complains about the unaffordability of life you get a swarm of people prying into their personal details desperately trying to figure out how that person’s situation is their own fault.

Sounds like what you’re looking for is socialism, friend. It’s still a scary word to many, many people, but mostly because they don’t really understand what it means. But more and more people every day are finally realizing that capitalism is fucking almost all of us and needs to be stopped. Keep talking and educating, others AND yourself. It’s going to take a while (possibly longer than we have as a society) to turn this behemoth, but it will only happen once enough people are on board.

Never forget. Never forgive.

I always say, I’ve literally never seen anyone get upset over hearing merry christmas, but I’ve witnessed plenty of people lose their shit over hearing happy holidays.

If you’re going to link an article that requires a subscription or login, you should at least provide a summary.

There have always been Nazis in America, even during WW2. Listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast “ultra” to hear about how close they came to a takeover of the US way back then. They never went away, they just went low profile for a while.