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George in Atlanta's avatar

The Rs were euphoric that he stuck to the script, sort of, and didn't obviously shit himself. Their expectations are subterranean, they have a crystal clear picture of the state the emperor of their party is in. Let's remind them of it daily.

Roxanne's avatar

We need the Gray Panthers to rise up again and provide human protection chains at the voting polls. I'm hoping that Social Security has a copy of my marriage certificate, I'm a widow and found out recently the minister from over 45 yrs ago didn't file our papers with the county/state and our original one was lost during one of our many moves. I'm on plain SS and I'm surprised at what it's going to cost me to get a copy of my birth certificate (which of course is my maiden name) but I'm trying to prepare for the upcoming election....even if the SAVE ACT doesn't pass the senate i'm sure it won't end there....the freak and the GOP are worried and plan on doing whatever it takes to stay in power!

Sharon Heidē Ward's avatar

Are there any regular people (not a war profiteers) who support these crimes against humanity?

Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank you for this conversation. It’s important no matter what state you live call your Secretary of State and definitely determine if you can vote please register! Go to No kings March on March 28 th! Trump bombed at his speech, and go out tomorrow and fill up your gas tank in your car. Please sign the petition and also sign, Mr. Parnas petition, we need transparency in our government! We gave Israel 8.3 billion dollars of our tax dollars. I believe in Israel 🇮🇱, it needs a new prime minister.

Ma's avatar

There’s nothing more amazing than a fat white lady with big white hair crumble in front of her man. Suzie Q is a mess. Why does she keep appearing in the orange Mussolini’s pics. She’s desperate. He wants her to downplay his macho f*k. They are dead and his little fake blonde whore will be gone soon wiles she cannot survive. Bahahahahaha. Just while I am saying. When an invisible person starts showing up, she is a goner... a bet and I’ll buy you a beer.

P J Johnston's avatar

Actually from what I saw in the news, "HE" turned the SOTU into a circus with the Hockey Team Gold Medals, Giving medals to veterans who deserved them and a slew of other things including calling Democrats that were there "crazy." That didn't sit well. He would have done better if he could hold his emotional outbursts. But he never can and now he's gotten us into a war with Iran, it's a "here we go again moment." Yes you are correct the MAGA's won't vote in the midterms so this changes the positions drastically. Even though they are trying to rig and cheat. Most of the Dems "know" that he is planning to rig things but either buying votes (bribes) or trying to break laws to tamper with elections in States is breaking the law. With the draconian stuff they want to do for the elections will hurt "their" chances to vote. Actually you have to have a marriage license as well which shows that you changed your name. I have a real ID where I had to show a marriage license, birth Certificate and one other proof of ID!

Lin Daniel's avatar

the best part of the SOTU was listening to Lincoln Square hosts' snark.

Keith Sewell's avatar

Your cornered rat analogy is perfect. Trump will do everything that he and his hench-people can conceive of - and I do mean EVERYTHING - to hang on to power. Our problem for the past decade has been in knowing, but somehow not fully accepting, that there is no bottom with Trump. As per Kristoffer Ealy's simple and honest piece yesterday, Trump has now launched the Middle East war which we've all been dreading for the past 60 years, and in which hundreds of thousands will die, for his pathetic little purpose of distraction from the Epstein files. And he will do still worse in our final lead up to the midterms. If our remaining congressional, senate and judicial Dems whose corruption is not yet total are not by now fully awake and focussed on gaming out Trump's options, right up to the false flag biowarfare one featured in 'V For Vendetta', and preparing their countermoves, then our democracy is indeed finished.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Anything? Would he slaughter hundreds or thousands of American citizens to assert his god-like authority? Say he did, say the military obeyed his orders. It would then be on us to stop him. Which we would not do. We became so fat and decadent, we will not participate in anything “political”. After voting him in and allowing him to take office, of course.

Terry Westby's avatar

Just as desperate as trump are the project 2025/christian nationalist folks turning his head. They might never have gotten this far without him and are driven in their religious fervor to bring about the end of times and rapture. And then we have the associated tech folks who don't seem to mind a little nuclear Armageddon. And then all the hangers on that are too far into their bet that they could come out with something if they just hang on a little longer.

I think this is going to take an effin lot more than the democratic leadership has to give.

Marci Lait's avatar

Crazy but true.

Terry Westby's avatar

How many maga folks have proper ID?

Protect the Vote's avatar

CNPP And Far Right Attach To Culture Issues

The CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) has made no secret that they want to become identified with culture issues Take the most recent government release of RFK’s video of him and Kid Rock doing a sauna work out putting their hypermasculinity message on full display(https://bit.ly/3P9wREF) Or Hegseth pumping iron with the military perpetuating the anti woke propaganda implying that there’s no room for weak men Attaching ripped bodies with the CNPP targets young men who would join the military or their movement

It’s part of the Republican Nazi propaganda playbook of the current regime As a Guardian article(https://bit.ly/49qifHt) discusses the far right uses seemingly innocent cooking videos or music to engender following the ideology of extremism of the CNPP Even using AI to generated material can be expanded to get out the message to various societal interest groups such as tradwives

So the short answer as to why culture issues are used as propaganda campaign ploys is “because it sells” The Fox propaganda network uses Fox Sports which creates a following of NFL football as an entry point in order to bring the audience along to engage them on far right agenda items

But these issues are just propaganda to distract us from realizing they are picking our pockets, gutting our schools, destroying our healthcare while they give tax breaks for their billionaire donors, pardon the wealthy for convicted crimes and raise taxes on all the rest of us

The real fight is not right vs left, it’s top vs bottom

Karen's avatar

Trump doesn’t care what he says or does that he’s got people in his back pocket who are going to rig every election from now on so that’s why he doesn’t care he’s gonna stay in power and do whatever the fuck he wants

Viet Nam Vet's avatar

"The country has to awaken every now and then to the fact that the people are responsible for the government they get. And when they elect a man to the presidency who doesn't take care of the job, they've got nobody to blame but themselves. "

Harry Truman #33