true.

Trump is being useful.
He is giving us a detailed outline of every way in which the office of the president must be curtailed.
Assuming, of course, that we are able to crawl out from under the authoritarian jackboot under which we find ourselves.

DEFUND ICE.

If you don’t think this goes back to George Floyd, you don’t understand Miller manipulating Trump. They both know 2020 sunk Trump.

This is after harvest time so it’s intimidation towards next year.

They're looking for a showdown. I fear what lengths they might go to to terrorize Americans in an attempt to stop all resistance.

— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T21:32:34.483Z

For some reason, his perfectly appropriate funeral sent everyone on the right around the bend. The propaganda was exhausting. I remember a guy in our book club (Democrat) saying, "I knew that funeral was going to be a problem". I asked him if he'd even watched it (it was on C-SPAN) and he said no! Even he was buying into the false narrative.

His funeral was a private, religious service. What sent Republicans over the edge was a public memorial to the public man. They weren't really surprised it was political, that was just a hook the right wing noise machine could hang their faux outrage on.

As Tom Harkin told us that night, "Stand up, keep fighting. "

I did watch it and it was incredibly moving. The fact that it got twisted around like that was maddening.

I think that's what got Al Franken into politics. Where I wish he'd stayed.

I don’t think bullying him is going to work out the way they think it’s going to.

"You have arrived at your destination!"

Flashpoint

And also …

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

divide that five by 2.......

Five-year-olds might be offended by comparison--they're better behaved than The Felon.

I had an OP on this earlier today.
We are not ready for what is about to happen.

And most voted for Trump.

Between this, Trump's soybean wars, and the subsidies (aka welfare) he's giving out to try to shut them up, it's gonna be a fun conversation.

There aren't enough farmers to affect electoral politics. They vote the way most business owners do - they skew Republican. Here it is 55-45 Republican, and even in this heavily agricultural district farm owners are only a couple of percentage points of the population. They are not the reason Trump won here, not by a long shot.

🤔

That is outrageous. Nothing I said defends Republicans in any way. Shame on you for that.

Hard to say how they see this.

Farmers are a tiny, tiny percentage of the population. As Democrats we need to stop talking as though they are the critical rural bloc, or even important at all. They are not.

It is a bad look for us. It advances the right wing framing about partisan demographics. The MAGA cultists are NOT farmers, ranchers, cowboys, lumberjacks, et al. they are weak, whiny, cowardly Walter Mittys.

Can't people read? Someone else accused me of defending Republicans. WTF? I didn't say farmers aren't important, I said there aren't enough of them to affect elections, and it makes us - as Democrats - look ignorant to be harping on about farmers. It reinforces the right wing framing on the issue.

I didn't say that all! Where did I say that?

I am saying they are important. That is all.

Not you. Sorry for any confusion.

If we all stopped paying taxes and stopped buying anything but necessities, maybe we could get someone to listen?!?

the others.

Say...taxation without representation...hmm.

Nothing more.

Even the defense argument has fallen apart here. Their own armed secret police are murdering us in the streets.

We get nothing for our tax money paid.

THey just got over-ruled in childcare benefits, wasn't it?

They need to form alliances to protect their communities

"The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
~Thomas Jefferson

PS - Does that imbecile think we are a monarchy or something? Because the reason there is not one single person slamming the brakes on this shitshow is because that person does not exist and never will in our current system of government.

I know a House member whose district has plenty of them. Somehow, she has managed to get re-elected several times in a row despite that. She does take serious time to go out and talk to them.

More "like-minded" and peaceful people.