mollrat
@mollrat.bsky.social
Lover of democracy and of fun silly things like musicals
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Trump showed that they can win without having go give ground on anything. That the hands of the clock can in fact be forced backwards.
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Trump showed that they can win without having go give ground on anything. That the hands of the clock can in fact be forced backwards.
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Trump is viewed as a messianic figure for the right because it very much appeared that they would have to make peace with losing on every single social issue.
Leftists think that no leftward progress has been made in the past few decades so they're blind to how APOCALYPTIC the last few decades have been for the right.
This is why leftist analysis of the right fails. They attribute everything to "economic anxiety" instead of bigots seeing their world end.
This is why leftist analysis of the right fails. They attribute everything to "economic anxiety" instead of bigots seeing their world end.
This is the crux of the bargain white ppl made voting for trump & the gop. "Rid us of brown ppl & make white ppl the majority again & we will sacrifice our jobs, savings, homes, and even children." They 💯 factored in those losses & decided it was worth it. That's why nothing else he does matters
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Trump is viewed as a messianic figure for the right because it very much appeared that they would have to make peace with losing on every single social issue.
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The end of Jim Crow. Roe v. Wade. Same-sex marriage. Obama. Young leftists see these things as normal and don't realize there are people who remember a world before it.
If you're an older leftist you've lived through the revolution. If you're an older rightist, you've lived through the apocalypse.
If you're an older leftist you've lived through the revolution. If you're an older rightist, you've lived through the apocalypse.
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The end of Jim Crow. Roe v. Wade. Same-sex marriage. Obama. Young leftists see these things as normal and don't realize there are people who remember a world before it.
If you're an older leftist you've lived through the revolution. If you're an older rightist, you've lived through the apocalypse.
If you're an older leftist you've lived through the revolution. If you're an older rightist, you've lived through the apocalypse.
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Leftists think that no leftward progress has been made in the past few decades so they're blind to how APOCALYPTIC the last few decades have been for the right.
This is why leftist analysis of the right fails. They attribute everything to "economic anxiety" instead of bigots seeing their world end.
This is why leftist analysis of the right fails. They attribute everything to "economic anxiety" instead of bigots seeing their world end.
This is the crux of the bargain white ppl made voting for trump & the gop. "Rid us of brown ppl & make white ppl the majority again & we will sacrifice our jobs, savings, homes, and even children." They 💯 factored in those losses & decided it was worth it. That's why nothing else he does matters
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Leftists think that no leftward progress has been made in the past few decades so they're blind to how APOCALYPTIC the last few decades have been for the right.
This is why leftist analysis of the right fails. They attribute everything to "economic anxiety" instead of bigots seeing their world end.
This is why leftist analysis of the right fails. They attribute everything to "economic anxiety" instead of bigots seeing their world end.
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i'm wondering when the bigger dissident right-wing guys are going to feel brave enough to start advocating against interracial relationships on main
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i'm wondering when the bigger dissident right-wing guys are going to feel brave enough to start advocating against interracial relationships on main
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
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Our immigration policy is now based on what Stephen Miller assumes are the inherent racial qualities of each group: Chinese people and Asians are untrustworthy and suspicious; Latinos are criminals and drug smugglers; black people are stupid and lazy; white people are hard-working and virtuous.
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Our immigration policy is now based on what Stephen Miller assumes are the inherent racial qualities of each group: Chinese people and Asians are untrustworthy and suspicious; Latinos are criminals and drug smugglers; black people are stupid and lazy; white people are hard-working and virtuous.
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maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood
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which i think is what trips many "it's not fascism!!" commentators up. they are trying, but they have not succeeded. i think it is bad enough that they are trying. that alone is worth fighting.
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
which i think is what trips many "it's not fascism!!" commentators up. they are trying, but they have not succeeded. i think it is bad enough that they are trying. that alone is worth fighting.
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anyways. we see this on full display in Trump II, at least in attempt. the aesthetics are undeniable. equally undeniable is their failure at mass mobilization at anything like the scale of the third reich. they are trying, but they have not yet succeeded.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
anyways. we see this on full display in Trump II, at least in attempt. the aesthetics are undeniable. equally undeniable is their failure at mass mobilization at anything like the scale of the third reich. they are trying, but they have not yet succeeded.
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this is not an aesthetic accident, but core to the whole project. fascism is an attempt to update atavistic forms--visions of societies as biopolitical communities competing for scarce resources in a zero-sum world--with the essentials of modern power: technology and mass mobilization
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
this is not an aesthetic accident, but core to the whole project. fascism is an attempt to update atavistic forms--visions of societies as biopolitical communities competing for scarce resources in a zero-sum world--with the essentials of modern power: technology and mass mobilization
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How to do a facism:
Step 1: Fire most of the competent people.
Step 2: Alienate your own military by making them do stupid stuff and having them take the blame for it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Become God-Emperor of Mankind
Step 1: Fire most of the competent people.
Step 2: Alienate your own military by making them do stupid stuff and having them take the blame for it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Become God-Emperor of Mankind
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
How to do a facism:
Step 1: Fire most of the competent people.
Step 2: Alienate your own military by making them do stupid stuff and having them take the blame for it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Become God-Emperor of Mankind
Step 1: Fire most of the competent people.
Step 2: Alienate your own military by making them do stupid stuff and having them take the blame for it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Become God-Emperor of Mankind
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oh, i think he’s fucking toast now
(alt text for the screenshot of @lkrozen.bsky.social’s post at the other site:)
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
oh, i think he’s fucking toast now
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
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How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
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The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.
it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.
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Cardiac MRIs, definitely a thing you order when the patient is perfectly healthy and you are absolutely /not/ worried about, say, diagnosing the source of a cardioembolic stroke.
*LEAVITT SAYS HER TEAM IS RELEASING TRUMP MRI RESULTS
*LEAVITT: TRUMP MRI WAS PREVENTATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
*LEAVITT: TRUMP'S CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM SHOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH
*LEAVITT: TRUMP ABDOMINAL IMAGING PERFECTLY NORMAL
*LEAVITT: EVERYTHING EVALUATED IS FUNCTIONING W/ NORMAL LIMITS
*LEAVITT: TRUMP MRI WAS PREVENTATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
*LEAVITT: TRUMP'S CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM SHOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH
*LEAVITT: TRUMP ABDOMINAL IMAGING PERFECTLY NORMAL
*LEAVITT: EVERYTHING EVALUATED IS FUNCTIONING W/ NORMAL LIMITS
December 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Cardiac MRIs, definitely a thing you order when the patient is perfectly healthy and you are absolutely /not/ worried about, say, diagnosing the source of a cardioembolic stroke.
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My inlaws are pretty Trumpy, and my wife's grandpa lives on a steady diet of fox news pumped directly into his hearing aid (he's 87 and can barely walk or eat)
There's this generation of white old people who are hanging on by spite, and I don't think the GOP has a plan for when they're gone
There's this generation of white old people who are hanging on by spite, and I don't think the GOP has a plan for when they're gone
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My inlaws are pretty Trumpy, and my wife's grandpa lives on a steady diet of fox news pumped directly into his hearing aid (he's 87 and can barely walk or eat)
There's this generation of white old people who are hanging on by spite, and I don't think the GOP has a plan for when they're gone
There's this generation of white old people who are hanging on by spite, and I don't think the GOP has a plan for when they're gone
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One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
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Today we’re talking a bit about something we will work on if we meet our funding goal. We’ve been planning The Reconstruction Papers most of the year and our difficulty getting it off the ground as we are now was part of the motive for the fundraiser. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today we’re talking a bit about something we will work on if we meet our funding goal. We’ve been planning The Reconstruction Papers most of the year and our difficulty getting it off the ground as we are now was part of the motive for the fundraiser. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
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“The Reconstruction Papers is an extension of our eight-year-long mission to provide the intellectual foundation for a liberal future, rather than wallowing in memories of a liberal past.” www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
A Preview of a Project We'll Pursue if Fully Funded
Investing in a positive vision for a liberal future, rather than remaining in a defensive crouch on behalf of a liberal past.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“The Reconstruction Papers is an extension of our eight-year-long mission to provide the intellectual foundation for a liberal future, rather than wallowing in memories of a liberal past.” www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
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so there just isn't as much need for these paranoid excavations of "evil amongst us," the evil has just made itself highly obvious, they have flags and slogans and a political party in charge of a country. woke 2 is about power: how do we gain it back and what do we do with it after.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
so there just isn't as much need for these paranoid excavations of "evil amongst us," the evil has just made itself highly obvious, they have flags and slogans and a political party in charge of a country. woke 2 is about power: how do we gain it back and what do we do with it after.
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Woke 2 is distinctively an ideology of Trump II, when we no longer need to go looking for some hidden enemy, no longer need to work to uncover the infiltrators and the enemies hiding their power level
the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there
the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Woke 2 is distinctively an ideology of Trump II, when we no longer need to go looking for some hidden enemy, no longer need to work to uncover the infiltrators and the enemies hiding their power level
the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there
the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there
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here's my take on Woke 2. the thing about Woke 1 is that it's born from the end of history era, when it was important to re-discover forms of oppression that had been denied or hidden. but this led to a [clears throat] hermeneutics of suscpicion, and ultimately paranoia and internecine factionalism
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
here's my take on Woke 2. the thing about Woke 1 is that it's born from the end of history era, when it was important to re-discover forms of oppression that had been denied or hidden. but this led to a [clears throat] hermeneutics of suscpicion, and ultimately paranoia and internecine factionalism
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If we’re going to make post-Trump constitutional changes, I’d prefer something like this - drawing a bright line under certain executive limitations that were presumed to exist before Trump, separating the DOJ further from the president, limiting pardons, and killing unitary executive theory dead
I wrote my anti-Trump constitutional amendment. Honestly, a fun exercise
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If we’re going to make post-Trump constitutional changes, I’d prefer something like this - drawing a bright line under certain executive limitations that were presumed to exist before Trump, separating the DOJ further from the president, limiting pardons, and killing unitary executive theory dead
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they're currently bedwetting over TN7. in what world should people be scared of these guys
Just once I want these idiot doomers to explain how the federal government can nationally cancel elections that they themselves dont run and they have basically no control over at the state level.
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
they're currently bedwetting over TN7. in what world should people be scared of these guys