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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.

Marjorie Taylor Green declared yesterday, with maps of southeastern US as props, that Democrats are capable of controlling the weather and that they used this power to wreak havoc and destruction on the red state havens of their enemies.

I must thank her for erasing the last tiny vestiges of belief I clung to in the gravitas of responsible leadership. I’m not naive but I desperately wanted to believe that being close to the highest levels of power in our democracy would inspire some level of seriousness and sense of duty.

No. The only person stupider than MTG is me.

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Up early to make sure I experience all the satisfaction of the day after.
The day after Kamala Harris handed that shit talking bridge-troll the one part of his body that isn't the color of dried apricot.

"I have a concept of a plan," resonates so much with me and let's be real, everyone, because well,...guilty as charged.
But I can own that I procrastinate and that my personal failings are often the source of my anxiety and lack of focus and direction. The Republican candidate lacks the ability for any such self-reflection and therefore also has only "a concept of a man."
Which concept is severely broken.

Would someone in Texas law-enforcement please invite Ken Paxton to an extended stay away from other humans? He seems to be pleading for it.

Again with the chemtrails? RFK Jr. is supplying more toxic brain destroying pollutants than any number of poison jets ever could.

Wondering if anyone is home at the indieweb.social Mastodon instance. Been waiting over a week for account approval. One way or another.

Well done Joe Biden. #dncspeech