Dansite

I love my neighborhood kids. Running around, carefree. Makes me feel good to see them so joyful.

Day Nine:
If these kids don't stop screaming right outside my window, I'm going to have a new boots, wallet, and belt set that's fit for any occasion.

The distilled essence of our online experience:

"None of those squares contain motorcycles but some have parts of one motorcycle."

It took U.S. years to lose a war in Vietnam. Trump lost one in days.

Impeachment->Arrest->Firing Squad

Or we could just drag that m--f-- into the street with the rest of his gang and let the sewers take care of what's left.

Israel bombs desalinization plants. Water that is meant for civilians. The US cuts off energy to Cuba so it's citizens will suffer. The cruelty is inhumane.

No. The cruelty is profoundly human. That's it. No other creatures on this planet would behave this way.

If the US were to have elections now, the GOP would lose everything. Do you really think this administration is going to stand by and watch that happen?

What's going to happen between now and the mid-terms will be cataclysmic for the US and the entire world.

Was our constitution really this fragile? Yes.
Why has it not collapsed before now then?

Because we used to have control over our own avarice. We fought to preserve its tenets.

No longer. We have become complacent, weak, and fearful.
The constitution hasn't changed. We have. The institutions and safeguards we created only worked when we weren't so craven as to allow criminals to subvert them.

Otherwise, Elon Musk would have been dragged out of the building in cuffs, and if he managed to survive the wrath of the people, he'd be the one in Guantanamo. Trump would be losing his 3rd impeachment battle and most importantly, the politicians who were supposed to be on the side of the people would be on busses back to their home states, their heads hung in shame.

I use the term Democrat only to indicate the group of current politicians who are nominally opposed to the loss of democracy.
Democrats, show us something. Anything.

Can you justify your continued participation in our government or are you going to give everything away to preserve your own status?

I do not give a damn about your political career. I am not interested in hearing about how you can't make a difference if you are not in office.

This is the moment when you spend whatever political capital you have to fight for what is good and right. If you can't do that, then stop pretending. We won't be needing you going forward.

People on social media are encouraging each other to "fight back," but I'm wondering if we've realized how much we've already lost. Protesting in the streets is going to require much more courage and risk than it did just a week ago.

Russell Vought. Remember that name. He is orchestrating the plan to allow the US Military to respond against protesters. Trump showed in his first administration that he thinks this is fine idea, and now he believes he has permission to do it.

Like any vermin, once they're in, it's hard to get them out.

Does Trump understand when he says individual states should provide their own disaster relief and he's going to shut down FEMA, that red states have no hope of being able to afford that? They can't even afford to maintain the infrastructure they have now.

With the exception of the arts, humans having opposable thumbs surely represents the biggest waste of opportunity and potential in the universe.