In between violence and protests are general strikes. Corporations and Wall Street helped make this mess; they can help clean it up or face the financial music.
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Trump yet again showing that he’s out of the loop and doesn’t know what’s going on… even with “his” “big beautiful bill.”
Given that Trump is currently bringing members of congress in for meetings to get them to vote for the bill, telling them that they should never vote for [what’s in the bill] seems like it would be nicely counterproductive. Fingers crossed this torpedoes the bill.
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Patho- has gone on quite the journey from its original meaning of suffering.
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Maybe Tramp will use a “line item veto” to delete the Medicaid cuts?
(I mean, I doubt it, since he’d want to avoid any such tarnishing of his glorious moment, but maybe…?)
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That would be interesting if he tried it, since SCOTUS has declared that unconstitutional. Of course, he doesn’t care about that, so . . . maybe I want him to try? Jesus, I really hate this timeline.
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The Art of the (One-sided) Deal!
[Narrator: There is only one side. There is no deal. He learnt no lesson.]
“The US lost 33,00 jobs in June”
But what about the tens of thousands DOGE was supposed to get rid of? /s?
They only care about the mess when it hits markets / share prices. The fascism, they can live with.
On the other hand it would afford him a grandstanding ‘I saved Medicaid - aren’t I a hero’ moment.
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In other news, 58% of US adults have no fucking idea what is happening in the country. Nor do they care. (No, that’s too harsh. ~30% or so are MAGAts and actually are happy and proud of what is happening here. The other 20-30% are ignorant, for any of a number of reasons, some legit, some willful, of just what a shitshow this country has become.)
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I think there’s a large number of people who are appalled by what this country is doing but still say things like “in the whole it’s a force for good”, “it’s still better than other places” or “I still love my country”.
They can’t let go.
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Probably true of some Germans in 1939 as well. I would still call them wither ignorant or evil. Their choice.
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We’re in a state campground for several more days.
We’ve seen one trump shrine and a couple small trump flags.
But, we’ve also seen sites blanketed with American flags, canopies that are giant flags, red white and blue carpets, flag towels, flag stickers, everything turned into a flag.
It’s not hard to figure out who they support.
A single flag could go either way but these giant look at me I’m a patriot displays always get an eye roll and head shaking as we walk by.
It stinks that a lot of people like us won’t put up a flag because we don’t want the slightest possibility of being associated with those so called patriots.
We are embarrassed by our country right now, that also stinks.
I also feel bad for the park staff having to be around those morons.
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Fucking weirdos.
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Put up an American flag and a Black Lives Matter flag.
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I hate that he uses the word touching like that, like this is the same kind of touching as molestation, grab 'em by the pussy indeed
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Us flag and I 
Mexico or Canada?
I’m not avoiding the flag. It’s my flag too after all. Make them signal hate with something else.
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