Dump Term 2, 1.01: Sleep Now in the Fire

[Handyman]

Rebecca Kennison (@rrkennison.bsky.social)

The USAID IG issues a report critical of Trump and — boom! — he’s immediately fired. Because that’s all this President knows how to do: debase, dismiss, destroy. Same song, 47th verse. A little bit louder, a little bit worse...

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[Handyman]

Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins.bsky.social)

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."...

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Totally normal...

 

[rufus]

Bless his heart for not knowing that former Canadians will only count as 3/5ths of a person.

If they're allowed voting rights at all.

 

[rufus]

Rebecca Kennison (@rrkennison.bsky.social)

The USAID IG issues a report critical of Trump and — boom! — he’s immediately fired. Because that’s all this President knows how to do: debase, dismiss, destroy. Same song, 47th verse. A little bit louder, a little bit worse...

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Which is what will happen to anyone in the military who dares to defy Dear Leader.

 

[Handyman]

Which is what will happen to anyone in the military who dares to defy Dear Leader.

Yup. That is why the idea of "the people will rise up to fight" is laughable...by the time the people care enough to fight the military will have purged all dissidents and will be at the whim of Trump.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Yup. That is why the idea of "the people will rise up to fight" is laughable...by the time the people care enough to fight the military will have purged all dissidents and will be at the whim of Trump.

Where your line of thought fails is that a military coup is not going to be stopped by firing a general. It will just... happen.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

My god, I wish the stairs had done their job

So sick of McConnell now trying to do the less damaging thing and voting no when he, perhaps more than anyone else, was the main architect and facilitator of the new regime

 

[Handyman]

Where your line of thought fails is that a military coup is not going to be stopped by firing a general. It will just... happen.

Where your line of thought fails is you think the military will have a reason to. The grunts follow orders and the orders will be given by people loyal to Trump.

Even if we are to assume some of the military thinks for itself (it doesnt) anyone who defies orders (even legally) will be fired or worse branded as a traitor and locked up/executed. Military Police will be like ICE...arrest first and (maybe) ask questions later...only in the case of the military there is no one watching the watchers.

There is nothing new under the sun dx...Trump is following a literal paint by numbers fascist overthrow. The second dissent rears its ugly head he either cuts it off or uses some faux attack to start a war. If the military didnt coup over Vietnam or Iraq it wont now.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Oh diaper Donnie says Biden inflation is up?

Sounds like if it’s the presidents fault, it’s trumpflation. Again

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Oh and he wants interest rates lowered to go “hand in hand” with tariffs

I’m so sick of living amongst people who are so goddamn stupid

 

[French Rage]

Oh and he wants interest rates lowered to go “hand in hand” with tariffs

I’m so sick of living amongst people who are so goddamn stupid

I like it. We do two things that raise prices in hopes they they, like, cancel each other out and actually lower prices or something. That should work.

 

[Handyman]

I like it. We do two things that raise prices in hopes they they, like, cancel each other out and actually lower prices or something. That should work.

Makes sense to me...I mean I learned in 4th grade math that a negative times a negative is a positive!!

 

[psych]

Hey Ukraine, it’s unrealistic that you’re going to get your land back from Russia. Radical acceptance, komrades. Better than weapons will ever be.

 

[psych]

I think Trump and Mike Johnson’s real “little secret” is their plan to empower Trump to make recess appointments without Senate approval. I’m sure Susan Collins will be concerned when Gaetz becomes AG without her approval- but hey, if Trump succeeds in this endeavor, at least she can argue to Maine voters in 2026 that she didn’t vote for Gaetz or RFK. I can think of at least one poster who will buy that.

How short-sighted and misguided this prediction was. Didn’t even need to utilize recess appts. to appoint the most unqualified sacks of sh*t on the planet to run this country.

 

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[Slap Shot]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

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[French Rage]

I'm trying to figure out which is dumber, claiming non-de-duplicated databases enables fraud or claiming the government does not use SQL.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

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Love this comment:

The Soviet Union had two newspapers: правда (Pravda - meaning “The Truth”) and известия (Izvestia - meaning “The News”). It was conventional wisdom that there was no news in “The Truth” and no truth in “The News.”

 

[rufus]

Where your line of thought fails is that a military coup is not going to be stopped by firing a general. It will just... happen.

How about after firing 100 generals, and then 500 colonels, and 1000 majors?

 

[aparch]

If they're allowed voting rights at all.

Chip Roy has proposed national voters rights where you're only allowed to vote if your name matches your birth certificate.

Good luck to every:
- Transgender person
- Married woman
- Divorced woman
- Adopted children
- Women who have changed their name for protection
- Men who have changed their name for protection
- Anyone who has ever had a legal name change for whatever reason