“Don’t block the road if you don’t want police to intentionally run you over with their cars?” Or is it “Don’t try to run people over with cars if you don’t want them to murder you?”

“People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil,” the Texas Republican told NewsNation. "And until we do that, I guess we’re going to have it this way. And the people that are staying in their homes or doing the right thing need to be protected.”

Motherfucker is your ass really trying to give people a stay at home order?

They’re doing it because murdering wine moms is the MAGA wet dream

Well if you can’t make them your mother-wives what else are you supposed to do? View them as autonomous individuals?

They really have no clue. I think it’s at least partially a consequence of the bizarre American tradition where wealthy people are given additional benefits for no reason other than the hope they’ll be more likely to spend more money over the long run. Like when people are offered a discount, reimbursement, or fees waived entirely for traveling or attending an event just because they also own a business or nonprofit.

I get that nobody wants to spend money if they don’t have to, but I get that because most people have a finite amount of money available and actually have to make ends meet each month. So it’s a bit irritating when you have all these weird random day to day transactions where financial aid seems to be offered only to the people who need it the least.

I can’t really blame people for taking it when it’s offered, but it definitely seems to add to this inability to comprehend the reality of finances for most people. Not to mention the very smug idea that when they take advantage of these discounts, they view it as no different than plebs clipping coupons. That then leads to this belief that being so money savvy is what makes them deserving of the luxuries they allow themselves vs. the idea that if you see a poor person eating anything other than gruel and wearing an off brand potato sack, that single luxury you witnessed them indulging in, is not something they worked to deserve. It’s just frivolous spending and an example of the reason poor people always stay poor.

Once they’re already at that level of removed from the reality of just living day to day for most people, it’s probably not that hard to just kind of brush aside the fact that somebody making the same amount of money you were making 30-50 years ago, is going to have much higher cost of living.

When somebody points out $2k/child you just shuffle back step to, well if one parent is staying home, they should be taking all that extra free time to be clipping more coupons. And if that’s not enough, maybe they can grow their own vegetables in a garden. If that’s not enough, maybe take up pickling and canning as a fun family hobby to help you all survive the winter.

And if that’s not enough maybe the kids can find jobs and labor after school. It might be good for them, and teach them the value of a dollar. If that’s not enough maybe they can labor during the day too. Do they really even need to go to school at all, when we’re banking on them joining the army the day they turn 18? They owe it to us for the $36,000 we invested in each of them.

Everybody knows the best chance at making a relationship work when you’re having problems is

A. Involving people who don’t know either of you to tell you what you should be doing to make it work, based on what sounds like (bootcamp) a standardized and identical plan for all couples that attend

B. Throwing a baby into the mix. Not because either of you want to or because you’re even in a position to afford to (or even prepared for everything else unrelated to finances that’s required to raise a child), but once again because strangers who know neither of you, are telling you that it’s what you need to do.

I can see why they pay themselves the big bucks.

I’m speaking as a guy, so my perspective isn’t the most relevant

It’s absolutely relevant when it comes to speaking out against this bullshit. They came to power because they relied on people believing them when they claimed to hold the “moral majority” in a cultural war boiled down to in-grouping and “us vs. them.” The way we will defeat them is by remembering who we really are and who they really are.

As of now, they hold the power of military, they hold the majority of the money, but there has never been anything moral about them, and they have never held the majority. They’re just really good at being manipulative little shit stains, liars, cheaters, and con artists.

This is and should be a great way to turn off literally anyone who realizes who these people really are, who they always have been, and what they really mean when they talk about “making America great”

If you’re interested in how modern day Russia came to be modern day Russia (far right “Christian” Nationalism and a “free market” that entirely consists of state protected monopolies owned by Oligarchs) you might be interested in what members of the Heritage Foundation were doing in Moscow right around the time the Soviet Union collapsed: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/22863824

Tldr: The phrase “it’s a feature, not a bug” has been the disgusting truth about everything these people have been involved in since day 1.

argues that “climate change alarmism” demoralizes young people and dissuades them from having children.

Heritage casts the declining birth rate as a larger problem for the country that points to a more existential loss of national character, what the group calls “a profound cultural malaise in which a growing share of adults feel that they should not or cannot, and therefore do not, form families.”

Motherfuckers, please allow me to explain something to you as a cis white Christian woman who has been “dissuaded” from having more children:

“Climate change alarmism” is not to blame for fewer people buying homes and starting a family (sidenote: although, to be clear you are also almost entirely to blame for climate change thanks to your policies inserting the oil industry and other corporations directly into U.S. government. So if you give yourself credit where credit is due, maybe we can call this a half truth).

Over half a century of brilliant policies created by the Heritage Foundation (established in the early 70s as a direct fucking response to fears on the right following the civil rights movement) are to blame for absolutely destroying standard of living in the United States. Since re-invading the White House in 2025, you have somehow taken a broken system which never fully recovered from the assault of your first “intervention” that began on day 1 of Reagan’s administration over 40 fucking years ago, and made it so much fucking worse in just one year!

Maybe we should just have a rule like no billionaires or generational wealth will be recognized for doing something good with all that extra money they have but that might backfire and eliminate the bare minimum number of people that actually contribute something positive with the wealth they’ve accumulated but could never actually use it all in their lifetime even if they tried.

Maybe that was the plan the whole time? He figured nobody would care if she had to give it to him?

Honestly I don’t give a fuck if he takes it from her. I’m just angry we’re living in this stupid fucking timeline.

So this quietly happened a few days ago, but so did a lot of other shit, and totally missed it.

Just happened to stumble across it because I was reading about the Inslaw/PROMIS scandal and the former FBI agent (who was also working for the KGB and died in federal prison a few years ago) who claimed to have given a copy of the software (which was allegedly used to spy on other countries) to his KGB handlers.

He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal and were run by the same NKVD officer, Victor Cherkashin.[4] Hanssen also revealed a multimillion-dollar eavesdropping tunnel built by the FBI under the Soviet Embassy. After Ames’s arrest in 1994, some of these intelligence breaches remained unsolved, and the search for another spy continued. The FBI paid $7 million to a KGB agent to obtain a file on an anonymous mole, whom the FBI later identified as Hanssen through fingerprint and voice analysis.

Anyway happened to be looking into Ames out of curiosity and saw he died a few days ago.

I had never heard of it until recently, but the software that was allegedly used to spy on governments in other countries back in the 80s, (PROMIS), is really interesting to me, because it was advertised as an automation/easy button for court and police data, that was allegedly sold as even having the potential to someday predict crime before it even happened…

It’s kinda weird we don’t talk about that more. Seems kinda relevant in 2026 🤷‍♀️

Oh, it’s easy, they’re psychotic predators who have no empathy.

That’s why it’s so easy for them to lie, and it’s why they were selected by the billionaires who hired them to hammer in the final nail in democracy’s coffin. They feel no guilt. There’s nothing going on behind their vacant eyes except how do I make the people that pay me the real money, (not the tax payer dollars that pay their six figure salaries, that’s pocket change by comparison.) happy.

The author of Friendly Fascism predicted this and tried to warn us over 40 years ago, but nobody really paid attention.

No, this is what they’ve always looked like. We promise.

Maybe I’ve read dumber headlines at some point, but at this moment, I feel like shit, the world feels like shit, I still haven’t had any coffee, and I had scrolled past the headlines below before even coming across this one on APs front page.

I didn’t even really consciously put the absolute ridiculousness of ALL of these things happening at once together until afterwards, but I guess on some level I intuitively knew because I immediately groaned in disgust and said out loud “this is the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever had to read.”

Just a an accurate descriptor/nickname to honor the illiterate fascist feddies murdering keeping Americans safe

The facade is broken. The goal of the Trump administration is to tear down the last scraps of democracy standing in their way. He’s escalating and we are so close to an all out war, but there’s also a reason this entire thing has been dragged out for as long as it has. There’s a reason he hasn’t just sent the military and Palantir drones into cities (yet). He needs at least some corporate support to survive and corporations still need people to continue to buy their shit. This is literally why he is starting a war in Venezuela, and taking over the Venezuelan state run oil company that until now was collecting 61% of Chevron’s profits.

He has tanked the economy, and he is hemorrhaging support like he slashed his own wrists in a warm bathtub. For a civil war to break out, one “side” of the country turning on the other is kind of a necessity. Right now, there is no “side” for Americans to really fight. There’s just Trump and his illiterate group of SS soldiers who are losing more and more support from his base by the day. Encouraging people to help him out by officially kicking off the “civil war” for him and attacking the fucking military police, is giving him exactly what he wants, and is about as shitty and transparent as encouraging somebody to go ahead and leave their finger prints on the gun you know will be used to frame them.

Come rain, or shine, hail, sleet, or snow, fascist feddy is always at the ready to be everywhere you don’t need or want them to be.

No constitutional right will ever go unviolated and wild gangs of unarmed women and children will no longer roam freely through their own neighborhoods terrorizing the streets of America.

As long as team fedduccini foreskin is on the job, occupying cities, keeping America safe, and making America great again by murdering civilians and holding Americans in psychological captivity (or possibly even in physical captiity if you look at them the wrong way) Americans can rest easy.

This is America. Everything is tax free if you’re wealthy enough.

You get all kinds of breaks on taxes, interest, random fees, and other costs as a reward for already having money. Because why would you give a break to somebody who actually needs it?

If there’s any chance you could conceivably use a tax break or extra income to potentially improve your standard of living, these fascist try to convince you it would be taking away your dignity to not pick you up by your ankles, turn your pockets inside out, and shake you until they’ve made sure they’ve gotten every fucking penny.

I mean to each their own, but if you do believe in a God, you might also view this through the lens of most historical and religious texts being full of very similar stories. Seemingly undefeatable evil and oppressive rulers and empires, reigning supreme over large numbers of people for generations until the day they just suddenly didn’t.

For me personally, it has actually kind of rekindled and helped me better understand my own faith, and I’ve stumbled across numerous passages in the bible that almost seem to be warning about this exact scenario. False prophets, hypocrisy, and men who use their positions of power and influence to spread a false message in the name of Jesus to deceive oppressed people, keep them from resisting oppression, and gaslight them into believing their oppression is a necessary part of God’s larger plan. As if the oppressors were actually chosen by God to commit these horrific acts, and anyone who isn’t loyal to their leadership somehow also isn’t being loyal to God.

That dumbass Pete Hegseth actually recently quoted one of those warnings (Matthew 10:34) in an attempt to claim his thirst for destruction and violence is simply a manifestation of Jesus acting through him to spread his message… Except, he missed the entire point of the passage he quoted by about a million fucking miles.

When Jesus says he brings a message of the sword not one of peace, he’s using a metaphor to describe the divisiveness of the message (the sword) he preached. When you read the entire passage in context, then try to depict Jesus as a violent warrior with a sword ready to go to war, you’re literally arguing that Jesus was telling people to kill anyone that disagrees with them including their own parents… If that doesn’t sound like something Jesus would say, it’s because he definitely wasn’t trying to say that. Like many parts of the Bible and other ancient texts, it was obviously a figure of speech. He was explaining that the true message of Christianity can often be a divisive one, even for the people you consider your closest friends and family.

“The sword Jesus brings is not here military conflict, but, as vv. 35–36 show, a sharp social division which even severs the closest family ties. … Jesus speaks here, as in the preceding and following verses, more of a division in men’s personal response to him.”

When we hear this blasphemous messages this administration is spreading, like the idea of “toxic empathy,” as a justification for tearing immigrant families apart by kidnapping, detaining, and often deporting them to places they fled while seeking asylum, just to flaunt their disregard for human life. Actively protecting wealthy pedophiles and rapists from justice, while publicly celebrating the attack and invasion of smaller and weaker sovereign country to kidnap a dictator and his wife, and put them on trial in the U.S., while the administration is continuing to violate habeas corpus for millions who have been detained in immigration sweeps in the U.S. Seizure of what resources that smaller country does have simply to make some of the most wealthy American corporations even more wealthy by giving them a larger share of the huge profits they were already making, yet still refusing to provide healthcare, housing, and other basic needs to Americans citizens. Now they’re literally trying to justify the murder of a mother who made the fatal mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not bowing before the mighty army of the King when they invaded her home while welding their “absolute immunity” (not to mention the monetization of all of these fucked up messages and policies via constant exploitation of a religion they seem to care nothing about). We quite literally (not metaphorically) are all collectively witnessing how hard a pill to swallow Christianity actually is for the people who profit in his name while openly refusing to respect or follow the word of Christ.

Sorry for beating a dead horse, but these cowardly fascists hiding behind Christianity to spread their hate gets me a bit riled up. Even if you didn’t grow up from birth to 18 immersed in the often dark and hypocritical world of southern evangelical Christianity, (then come out the other side very jaded only to realize that in spite of everything they tried to brainwash you into believing, your faith was never lost, it was what was guiding you to resist the whole time), you probably still understand that Jesus would be fucking pissed and flipping tables if he caught a glimpse of One America or Fox News right now, just like anyone with a shred of decency and critical thinking skills should be.

The passage Hegseth chose to quote as “secretary of war,” is actually particularly relevant when it comes to contrasting the hypocrisy of the Christian Nationalist movement with what Jesus actually says in the same book (The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:35-40), are the 2 most important commandments to remember and follow even if you take away nothing else from the Bible (practicing empathy and loving your neighbor as a sign of your own love and respect for God and his creations).

Tldr: Hegseth quoted what he thought sounded like a badass hypermasc message of Jesus advocating war, not realizing he’s actually who Jesus was trying to warn you about in the passage.

The tools are new and scarier than ever.

The strategy definitely isn’t new. 9/11 made it easier to ignore the constitution in the name of safety and use this kind of tech to invade privacy in the U.S., but when you read about the allegations about the Inslaw and PROMIS software scandal that began in the 80s, like what Inslaw/PROMIS was supposed to accomplish (basically it was promoted as an easy button for automation of criminal and court data, allegedly it was even advertised as one day potentially being used to predict crime before it even occured), how the software was sold to other countries and then used to spy on their governments, it’s kind of hard to just ignore the similarities with modern day U.S. government software like Palantir.

It’s also kind of wild to me that despite the very long list of crazy conspiracy theories people link to Inslaw/PROMIS, nobody seems to have ever just pointed out the obvious similarities to Palantir.