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I just came from filling the gas tank on my vehicle and a guy was saying that we'd better get our tanks filled before the prices skyrocket. Another guy said "That damned fool in the Whotr House ain't gonna make it any better." And a young woman said "Fuck him!". And yesterday I had to take my daughter to a couple of appointments and we decided to stop at a local convenience store to get a couple of slices of pizza. I was waiting for her to get a pop and there was a guy talking on his phone saying that "He's illegally invading Iran. I don't like trump." He then looked at me and said. "Sorry but that's how I feel." I told him he didn't have to apologize to me because I felt the same way. I'm telling you, people out here in the heartland are getting pissed off. And I think if the repukes try to steal the next elections there will be an uprising like we've never seen in our lives.
CentralMass
(16,925 posts)snot
(11,684 posts)which is mostly public radio including the BBC, have time after time failed to call politicians to strict account for their destruction of the public weal in numerous areas, especially including the regulation of Wall St. & other commercial activity, health care, and these endless, thuggish interventions into other countries' governance.
It's helped pave the way for Trump's predations.
MW67
(141 posts)But I don't think they have many buyers, most people don't trust them anymore, for good reason, I think the next Democrat President should act on that to vastly restructure regulations and laws pertaining to Corporate mass media, something along the lines of, if you deliberately use the airwaves to knowingly sell disinformation and falsehoods as legitimate news journalism, your licence are pulled
markie
(23,981 posts)I still can't wrap my head around the few trump signs I see out there... I can't figure out what is wrong with the people who still support his madness... driving to work today I saw more than what I'd like (north of Baltimore) gas is up 40 cents
Wednesdays
(22,332 posts)You misspelled Whore House.
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,831 posts)surfered
(12,876 posts)Then it went to $2.62. Today it was $2.99.
ToxMarz
(2,878 posts)That's when they really take notice. It's going there, ours was $2.57 the day after he went to war, yesterday I saw it was $2.89.
MichMan
(17,024 posts)ToxMarz
(2,878 posts)Am I missing something?
Jack Valentino
(4,851 posts)ironically, it WAS a little below that locally, just before Trump started his Epstein files war!
live love laugh
(16,320 posts)An uprising on the internet no doubt 🙄
SheltieLover
(79,523 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,417 posts)SheltieLover
(79,523 posts)aeromanKC
(3,875 posts)It's also Congress. Even our House. (We're looking at you Fetterman. Your next primary can't come soon enough!!)
Emile
(41,845 posts)to me today in Walmart. He says I see your cap that you were in the Navy. He goes on about being in the navy too, and his tour in Vietnam. I told him a little about my navy history too. Then out of the clear blue he says, what do I think of that draft dodger starting a war in Iran. My wife standing next to me pipes up and tells this stranger that we hate that SOB. We stood there talking about bone spurs, etc etc for around 30 minutes. This actually happened today in RED INDIANA.
BigmanPigman
(54,980 posts)I made 2 sided earrings in 2016 and have worn only them from 2016-2020 and 2024-now. I couldn't wear them during Covid since the mask's straps got tangled in my earrings.
On one side is a picture of tRump behind bars in jail and the other side is a red circle with a slash through TRUMP. I use them as a personal, informal poll. People love them and take pictures of them. About 2 weeks ago I got 5 compliments within 15 minutes of wearing them while doing errands. People at my local stores know me through my earrings. One day last weak I felt like a cold was starting and wore my Covid mask and left the earrings at home. I was asked twice where my earrings were.
I made tiny tRump pins that are Russian nesting dolls with crazy eyes on an image of his ranting orange face and yellow hair. Sometimes if someone compliments my earrings I give them a pin to "spread the word".
Scrivener7
(59,235 posts)wearing it and wonder why people are being so nice to me.
On one walk from the supermarket to my car on a rainy day last week, a man gave me a thumbs up and a woman asked if I wanted her to walk me to my car with her umbrella!
BigmanPigman
(54,980 posts)Doesn't it make you feel good and empowered?! Sometimes it's the little things that make a difference.
Sogo
(7,148 posts)nt
Cha
(318,348 posts)Kauai. 'Course it's always Normally higher but it Went UP!
And, apparently PEDO Traitor is just getting started.
TY for your OP!
mountain grammy
(28,931 posts)And yet here we are
blue-wave
(4,880 posts)my father, a great depression-era baby, once told me. He said in the 1932 election in his neighborhood every house had a Roosevelt sign except for one. They had a Hoover sign. Needless to say, the family in this one house was outcast by everyone in the neighborhood.
I sense the same thing happening again. The MSM media speculates that the democrats will likely take the house in congress. The senate, they say, is much closer. I don't believe it for a microsecond. People are fed up and tired of the lies. The lies about war, the lies about Epstein, the lies about inflation, the lies about unemployment and the list goes on. This all in just under a year and a half. They are saying "enough is enough!"
Top it off with what ICE is doing and people are livid. I watched a recent clip of a republican senator from North Carolina ripping Noem a new one for the gross misconduct and unconstitutional actions against American citizens by ICE. The fury is growing and even huge in some minds on the republican side. This midterm election, if there is no interference allowed, will be monumental for the Democratic Party.
summer_in_TX
(4,114 posts)He demanded Kristi Noem resign for incompetence. And he''s Republican through and through, wants criminal undocumented folks deported at a much faster rate than she's doing. He's very pro law enforcement, he said, but that is why it ws so important that those who shot Pretti and Good must be held to account and that the orders being given must be lawful orders.
He said he'd read her book last week. He was disgusted with her taking a 14-month old puppy hunting and then shooting him when he got excited and did the wrong thing. Plus then killing a goat. And then acting like doing those was some kind of sign of leadership.
blue-wave
(4,880 posts)He was also furious over the lack of FEMA response in Western North Carolina. MAGA screwed their own people by, shall I say, "playing the fiddle as Rome burned."
flashman13
(2,294 posts)Callie1979
(1,268 posts)A former coworker who unfriended me on FB posts 10+ times a day about how trump is bringing peace to the world & all other such bullshit
Hes 60. I told a friend " How crazy is he gonna be when he's 70??"
KentuckyWoman
(7,388 posts)The MAGA faithful within 100 miles of Vance's hometown are practically dancing about the prospect of nuking the whole middle east off the planet.
I've given up a few activities that are attended by a few of his mouth breathing idiot supporters.
lostincalifornia
(5,298 posts)Jim__
(15,169 posts)I believe the only thing that will stop this is the American people taking some action to stop it.