LaffyVia Marc Elias from his newsletter…
What to expect from #Trump:
JonChevreau 🇨🇦@GottaLaff Wake me in 2029 (if then)
Ev Delen@JonChevreau @GottaLaff
That's what they want, because if no one fights them then you won't recognize anything when you wake up in 2029.
That's what they want, because if no one fights them then you won't recognize anything when you wake up in 2029.
Paul SchoeHear, hear.
Only together can we ensure that Democracy and Truth will not only survive but eventually thrive.
In the next 20 months, Trump will give many reasons for people to switch their votes to the Democrats.
And for those who stayed at home, he will show how important their vote would have been.
The USA can survive 20 months until the next elections. Perseverance, attention to local needs, and local organisation will pay off.
Wiley Miller@Wileymiller I never agreed with that though. THEY elected him, THEY deserve him, we don’t.
@GottaLaff
It's still our government and now we are all going to suffer from it...unless you're a billionaire...because voters didn't turn out to prevent it, despite all dire warnings of what will happen. The sin of omission.
It's still our government and now we are all going to suffer from it...unless you're a billionaire...because voters didn't turn out to prevent it, despite all dire warnings of what will happen. The sin of omission.
@Wileymiller Right. My point is we didn’t DESERVE it. THEY do.
I agree with that. THEY elected him so THEY get to suffer the consequences. Unfortunately, so do the rest of us who tried to warn them.
Never has the saying, "elections have consequences", been so clear and dire.
@Wileymiller Exactly
Michael Slade@Wileymiller @GottaLaff Sadly, WE failed to persuade them of the dangers.
@michaelslade You can't persuade cult members. @Wileymiller
DirtFarmer WithARealJob@GottaLaff @Wileymiller
I totally get that the Democrats are a mediocre alternative at best, I get the non voter, I get the 3rd party voter, but how do we have so many people vote for a man so stupid, he isn't even fluent in his native tongue?
I totally get that the Democrats are a mediocre alternative at best, I get the non voter, I get the 3rd party voter, but how do we have so many people vote for a man so stupid, he isn't even fluent in his native tongue?
Grassroots Joe@iamtheseedman @GottaLaff @Wileymiller
For a critical uninformed slice of the electorate, we failed to cut through the decades of dog-whistles and scapegoating with a compelling alternative story of who is responsible for the transfer of $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
That story exists, we all need to learn it and tell a version of it at every opportunity.
Grassroots Joe (@[email protected])
You can learn more about the race-class narrative at: - https://race-class-academy.com/ - https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/15/2074409/-All-about-winning-elections-Latino-white-and-Black-voters-respond-best-to-one-type-of-messaging - https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Race_Class_Narrative_Handout_C3_June%206.pdf Find resources at: - https://www.wemakethefuture.us/resources Videos at: - https://www.youtube.com/@wemakethefuture7680/videos and https://www.amplify-freedom.com/ And please make time to read & use messaging guidance at https://www.wemakethefutureaction.us/resources-documents/we-make-the-future-messaging-guide and https://bit.ly/FreedomOverFascism. And listen to Season 3 of https://wordstowinby-pod.com/ too!
@iamtheseedman @GottaLaff @Wileymiller
We, and Democrats, are responsible for what we didn't get done.
MAGA Republicans are 100% responsible for their lies, the dog-whistles and scapegoating, but we have zero control over that.
We have complete control of what we ourselves do or don't do and influence over what Democrats writ large do.
I'd very much like to see us exercise that control and influence to do much better moving forward and will continue working to make that happen.
Grandpa Don@Wileymiller @GottaLaff
The question is will any of those who voted for him wake up to whst they should have known all along, and if they do, will it be sufficient numbers to form a real resistance?
I think the first possible, but the second, if it happens, will be a replay of Syria's 50 year nightmare. Or Iran's current one. Key is control of military. Purported "checks and balances" are no more. A countercoup is our only hope to avoid the above, and THAT is fraught with similar risk.
The question is will any of those who voted for him wake up to whst they should have known all along, and if they do, will it be sufficient numbers to form a real resistance?
I think the first possible, but the second, if it happens, will be a replay of Syria's 50 year nightmare. Or Iran's current one. Key is control of military. Purported "checks and balances" are no more. A countercoup is our only hope to avoid the above, and THAT is fraught with similar risk.
@dbc3
This is a cult. Cult members don't turn on their cult leader. Some may wake up enough to leave the cult, but they do so quietly, being embarrassed they fell for the bullshit.
Reay@GottaLaff @Wileymiller And there will absolutely be those who voted for him who will come to regret doing so — the likes of that lady in his first term whose illegal alien husband was deported and she was explaining that she thought Trump meant OTHER illegal aliens, which was why she voted for him — but yes, to your point, meanwhile, everyone who didn’t vote him has to deal with him, too.
@reay @Wileymiller Friendly reminder: “Illegal aliens” is a slur used by Republicans. Our government (under Biden) no longer uses that phrase.
People are not illegal, acts are.
Aliens otherizes them, dehumanizes them. They’re people.
Thanks for pointing that out. "Illegal aliens", and worse, "illegals", is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. The sole purpose of this political framing is, as you pointed out, to dehumanize a group of people, mainly, people with brown skin. Repeating it only serves to legitimize it.
Mike OBrien@Wileymiller @GottaLaff @reay I remember my son telling me that we were being invaded by aliens from outer space. When I questioned him about it he said he heard it on the news
@GottaLaff @Wileymiller Thanks for the correction.
@reay @Wileymiller Thank YOU for being so receptive
NotMaddie!@GottaLaff @reay @Wileymiller
I also believe that these “illegals” include the 40% of undocumented people here who are LEGALLY awaiting asylum hearings. They are documented. They are legal. I’m scared that many of my students will stop coming to school.
I also believe that these “illegals” include the 40% of undocumented people here who are LEGALLY awaiting asylum hearings. They are documented. They are legal. I’m scared that many of my students will stop coming to school.
Dave P. ☑️@GottaLaff @reay @Wileymiller I've ALWAYS used common sense and hoped my fellow Americans would as well. How can they be "illegal aliens" if they have crossed the border (not boarder) been accounted for. Placed on a bus and shipped to NYC by hot wheels. Given housing and stipends to live on until their status could be validated or not. Where is the illegal part? It's just a name to vilify them.
Ken Walker 
@GottaLaff @reay @Wileymiller And if I have it right for most of those they include, even their presence is not an illegal act.
aswack@GottaLaff @Wileymiller
Yes! I am so tired of people saying “we deserve this.” Do the people who canvassed and phone banked deserve this? The people who stood up for democracy in ways big and small? No.
Yes! I am so tired of people saying “we deserve this.” Do the people who canvassed and phone banked deserve this? The people who stood up for democracy in ways big and small? No.
MamiyaMan 🇨🇦 🇺🇦@Wileymiller @GottaLaff And sometimes you get it good and hard.
KimberlyN 🇨🇦Marc Elias isn’t prone to hyperbole, so this snippet is terrifying.
@KimberlyN EXACTLY.
That’s why I posted it. He’s 100% credible.
yuhasz01@GottaLaff New POTUS will "flood the media zone" with executive orders day one. The America First Policy Institute (in Texas..... Maga) months ago has prepared 300 executive orders for POTUS to potentially use. They have a ready arsenal for their policy agenda....Lawfare will be critical opposition tactic...
Twotired@GottaLaff I predict that he will declare that he has pardoned himself from his (NY state) felony conviction, notwithstanding that he doesn’t have the authority to do so.
JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑@GottaLaff Trump is following in the footsteps of the nasty Central / South American dictator who famously said "For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."
I'm hoping Marc Elias and folks like him provide some names of organizations that will help federal employees who've been Schedule-F'd with free legal help (and to which we all can donate!) so they can tie up their firings in court for ages while Trump and his ilk fume. 😈
MichelleRN, Former CHPN, Ret.@GottaLaff
I subscribed to the Democracy Docket.
It works for me and I so appreciate Marc Elias and his dogged determination to safe democracy.
I subscribed to the Democracy Docket.
It works for me and I so appreciate Marc Elias and his dogged determination to safe democracy.
@MichelleRNCHPN And I appreciate his using DD as an outlet
@GottaLaff
As much as I miss JUST using the WaPost and the NYT, I know I am getting better information foraging for facts.
Foraging for Facts...sounds like a title of a book depicting dystopian times.
As much as I miss JUST using the WaPost and the NYT, I know I am getting better information foraging for facts.
Foraging for Facts...sounds like a title of a book depicting dystopian times.
@MichelleRNCHPN It does!
I just wish it could all be in one place, like a WaPo. Having to wade through so many subscriptions is driving me crazy
@GottaLaff
Exactly.
I am an unpaid subscriber to the Contrarian, Heather Cox Richardson, Steven Beschloss, Robert Reich, Greg Olear, Seth Abramson, and a few substacks for COVID information. By the time I have read/scanned everything half of my day is gone. Good thing I am retired.
Exactly.
I am an unpaid subscriber to the Contrarian, Heather Cox Richardson, Steven Beschloss, Robert Reich, Greg Olear, Seth Abramson, and a few substacks for COVID information. By the time I have read/scanned everything half of my day is gone. Good thing I am retired.
KChernecky For Democracy
CassandraVert@GottaLaff
We all have to be the person at the parade who said aloud that the emperor had no clothes. Call out lies.
We all have to be the person at the parade who said aloud that the emperor had no clothes. Call out lies.