It’s time to check back in, liberals—Trump 2.0 will be far, far worse
It’s time to check back in, liberals—Trump 2.0 will be far, far worse
Most people I know—even me, to an extent—have been avoiding it. Well, we don’t have that luxury anymore.
Summary
It’s time to reengage with politics as Trump prepares to take office again.
Unlike 2017, Trump now has a more compliant establishment, streamlined strategies, and influential allies like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos.
Concerns include his administration’s potential for sweeping authoritarian measures, such as Project 2025, and media normalization of his actions.
Vigilance is necessary to counter efforts to dismantle democratic institutions.
What is the actual news here beyond "hey people, cower in fear!"?
This idiotic coverage is how Trump controls the media. Say something worthwhile or shut up.
(not you, OP, you are a good and valuable person, the news corp putting out this shit)
I can absolutely get behind the stance here of "We need to volunteer and help dems win the next one, then work in different directions from there" but I admit it's all just been so draining.
Say something worthwhile or shut up.
OK. Get out there and disable the propaganda outlets.
the idiotic condescension in this premise: "It’s time to reengage with politics as Trump prepares to take office again."
get fucked. liberals never disengaged, a lot of us puked in disgust after the election but disengaged?
where are the fucking MILLIONS of 'unengaged voters' that shrugged and said "eh it won't be so bad either way" and stayed home?
those are the fucks I'm upset with.
The maggots knew what they wanted and voted for it. I despise them, but at least they stood up for their values.
We know. We've always known.
Biden was 78 years old when he started his presidency. Trump is 78 year old now. We shouldn't be worried by what Trump is going to do. He is like Regan at the end of his presidency: so out of it that everyone around him just did whatever they felt like they can get away with. We should be worried about his advisors and people actually signing the bills.
I wager there's a drunk president with his finger over the button incident by age 80. if he isnt dead. (in this case its dementia not drunk)
He is mentally cooked, and the stress of actually having to do the job he's been yapping about for 4 years in his advanged age, will accelerate the dementia.
Trump is so clueless and lazy that he probably doesn't experience job-related stress. Just rage and narcissistic injury.
I’m just waiting for the Free Palestine folks to show us the way. I am ready to see some real radical action, amirite?
Fucking wild to me that, even when abandoning Palestine didn’t work and the post mortem showed it definitely hurt Harris’ turnout, libs are still doubling down on it and kicking the people affected by it in the face.
But hey, maybe “shut up the
rich people’s yacht fundeconomy is fine” will resonate more in 2028.Libs really aren’t doubling down on it. The people who have infiltrated the libs to keep the focus on smashing the democrats are focusing on it, as a distraction, so the United States crumbles and dies.
Basically, the “woke” have been tricked into eating themselves, which is what we all though would happen to the right wing… but it turns out they are more strategic than we thought.
When a topic is obviously at best zero sum ( trump's position on Palestine will not improve thier lives/survival), it's baffling that people aren't ready to address crowning Mr anti abortion, anti immigrant, territorial annexer, foreign authoritarian appeaser, felon.
People clearly said "meh the raids won't come for me", and never functionally cared about Palestine at all. It was performative. They will have zero advocacy lane with trump, where as Harris was minimal, but existing.
No one gets to protest trump's inauguration or actions if they didn't take the functional steps to avoid him. if they did, see you there.
Palestine is less than 1% of an issue
You think that's what decided the election you're delusional
remember how Antifa was treated by the trump administration?
they'll straight up open fire this time.
I am sure they have all the answers. They sure had the answers for everyone during the election.
Yeah... I get the point but like, man, there's a reason we feel helpless out here. I'll probably still hear about political stuff through sheer osmosis, but what can I do to affect presidential actions other than vote?
The only things within my power are local, mutual aid type stuff, which is important, but has no effect on what Trump et al can or cannot get away with at a federal level.
I dunno. Maybe I'm just overly pessimistic.
You're not. This is the way. Work local. We got off track and forgot this and spent way too much time worried about national and internation politics that are a function of systems, not individuals. You gotta build your systems locally through individuals.
LFG
I hate to state things in such stark terms, but at this point our only choices are to take orders, or to take over. And that starts locally. Get out there and connect. Otherwise they'll pick us off one by one.
Nah, I've been having the same 6 arguments online for like 8 months, starting to think nobody in this land is worth saving.
Politics and politicians will not help you anymore. You will need to [email protected], in whatever ways large or small you are able to. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Be prepared.
The best way to "resist" is to build parallel systems through Mutual Aid. If we cannot rely on the systems and institutions we traditionally relied on, then it's up to us to build new, parallel systems from the ground up.
That works far better than political resistance. We need to give up on direct resistance and start building the alternatives of the future
Why waste energy "fighting" when we could be spending our energy "building?"
And what do you do if the Trump government starts attacking people?
Up in Canada, some of us are now being forced to have serious discussions about the nonzero chance that America becomes hostile to us. When the world is already more or less entering a global conflict stage thanks to Russia, Making jokes about "acquiring" countries like us, Denmark's Greenland, Panama Canal, etc. is all about as funny as a heart attack.
Too bad libs checked out during the election, just coasting on genocide.
The rich are getting their way and their newspapers are going to spin it. There will be theatre about Dems and Republicans fighting it out (read the working class and poor getting screwed by both sides) but it's really just the rich re-tightening their grip.
This is about corporate greed, teleworkers endangering the landowners real estate value, keeping affordable healthcare tied to employment, removing health and safety regulation in the workplace, land and sea, and wrestling the few remaining government services out of the public hand and into private hands.
Vigilance is necessary to counter efforts to dismantle democratic institutions.
No, action was necessary. Democrats preferred keeping the fucking filibuster instead.
Nah, bruh. I’ll take care of my own and contribute to NPR, local schools, local libraries, shop locally (fuck bezos). That’s about all I have to give. Idiots brought this on themselves and I can’t give a fuck about them.
Since 2015 I've been yelling at the clouds in warning but people have this keen knack for hallucinating their versions of reality and being willfully ignorant. Even, and especially, in times like these.
Below is a series of screenshots of a conversation from j6. I watched on pbs, knowing what would happen, telling people what would happen, yet still watching it happen and still people chose to be blind.
I knew this person for 40 years.
I do not speak to them anymore.
rip USA
Your friend may be crazy, I don't know, but it seems pretty clear to me that he was not interested in having the discussion you forced on him. Discussion is a generous term too. You were link spamming and steamrolling them at every opportunity. People don't enjoy being spoken to that way.
It’s time to reengage with politics
This is what pisses me off about some liberals. These dorks disengaged from politics and look where it got them.
Maybe this time when they reengage with politics they don't go back to brunch as soon as Bad Guy is out of office.
Nah.