Standalone slop. Woohoo!

I have written off the United States myself. And I’m a former American. My personal date for the official death of the American republic is Apr 14 - the day Trump disobeyed a court for the first time.

If you think I’m being dramatic, consider this: Kilmar Abrego García is still in a concentration camp in El Salvador.

With that in mind, I’ll be pleasantly surprised if America recovers from this bout of MAGA fever, but I’m not holding my breath. Reich however, being still an American and still living in America, and still involved in trying to make Things Better™, obviously has a different outlook and is probably more hopeful than I am.

At any rate, Reich is always informative and pedagogic, and always worth a watch.

This guy is like a coffee stain om a nice shirt: once it’s there, it’s impossible to shift, and the only remedy is to change your shirt.

More puzzling to me is how those two officers can face a one-legged confused old man wielding a dull fruit knife sitting in a wheelchair in a home and douse him in bear spray, electrocute him with a taser and beat him with a collapsible baton like he was some dangerous street thug, seemingly without any hint of humanity guiding their actions.

Police are human beings too. I’ll never understand what kind of brainwashing can turn human beings, who most likely love their parents like most everybody else, into inhumane disabled grandpa beaters like those two maniacs.

Yeah, and that the very people who were on the receiving end of the Nazi hatred are doing the exact same thing to the Arabs of Palestine. They should know better too.

“Hidden”…

Don’t congresscritter read what they vote? It’s not like they’re random Joes clicking through a software EULA: it’s their job to proofread boring shit before signing it into law.

My personal opinion is that the US is lost at this point. We’ll have to wait until the end of WW3 - or, if the rest of the world is lucky, the end of the second American civil war - and the trial of the Trump henchmen - to see anything good coming out of this country again. Sadly, I’m old enough that I probably won’t be around to see that day.

I can’t believe I’m witnessing what my grandfather told me he lived through in Europe in the 30’s. I never thought I’d live to witness that myself too.

That doesn’t mean we have to pretend that we’re literally living in North Korea

Again, ask yourself if Kilmar Abrego García or any of the other Trump deportees in CECOT feel like they’re living in North Korea.

Stop thinking everybody’s experience is like yours. It’s North Korea bad in the US right now, just not for everybody yet like in North Korea. You haven’t been impacted yet: when you are, you’ll change your tune.

Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do

Tell that to Kilmar Abrego García. I bet he feel really good about the remaining 10%.

The Art of the Grift.

The stupid Republicans just committed political seppuku. It’s going to be an all-blue midterms. Trump had better prepare for the impeachment proceedings.

The son of a Swedish friend of mine lives in Utah and thinks his son is safe from the American GestapoICE because, well, he’s white and Scandinavian. I sent my friend that article. Hopefully he’ll manage to knock some sense into his son and convince him to come home before it’s too late.

He even lies about cancer stages. He just can’t help lying all the time.

Why does fucking Trump has to speak about everything everywhere all the time? Can’t poor Joe die without having a fascist monkey comment on his health?

do we actually have reason to believe he has clearly not changed?

Yes: people can change when they have some character flaw that doesn’t run too deep, or when they have bad habits that can be reformed.

My point is, being this insensitive at the age he was when he wrote this doozie clearly shows the man is profoundly sociopathic and narcisist. And I don’t believe people like that truly ever change for the better, because the flaw is hard-coded in their brain.

I might forgive a 13 year old writing something this crass. But at 19 years of age, he was plenty old enough to know better. The reason he shat on Anne Frank isn’t because he made a mistake as a kid, but because he’s a shitty self-centered person. This clearly hasn’t changed.

Well cry me a river…

I lost any and all respect for this guy when he crassly defiled the memory of Anne Frank for cheap self-promotion. Fuck Justin Bieber.

It’s probably the cost to produce them. That’s real countable money.

The Cybertruck has always been a vehicle designed by a childish mind for equally puerile customers. Now it’s also a strong indicator that you might be a bit of a Nazi if you own one.

So yeah, I don’t expect it to sell too well, as most motorists are adults who tend to dislike Nazis, or would prefer it if they didn’t have to worry constantly about their vehicle being defaced by non-Nazi adults.

You know, it’s great that MAGA finally shows some decency. But here’s the thing: fuck MAGA.