A good guy with a gun approached a woman who was shoved down by a bad guy with a gun to try & help her up & the bad guy fucking killed him for it

Of course they are. I can't comprehend that this is a surprise to anyone - they obviously intend to control all elections. Everything they've done was entirely forseeable. And could have been prevented. The trick now is to stop being surprised and start preventing, if there's even any way to now.

He prevented a war with Greenland! He ended it just in time! That would be the 9th! He prevented WW3! He got it for free! He saved NATO! He saved France and Canada! They owe him! He un-warred so well that everybody owes him! Like nobody has ever seen, they love and owe him so so much!

(He folded. )

Sorry! Didn't at all intend to imply that you were fond of Vance. I was just remembering all of the powerful people behind the scenes who have been setting this up for a very long time, and trying to remember that Trump's demise won't reverse the momentum. And of course agree with you.

You want Vance? Really? This thing isn't gonna end with Trump. It's just getting started.

Yup. It strikes me that his immeasurable stupidity might be our best hope.

I'll bet the farm that it's simply the longstanding deal that was already in place, which allows the US to place and expand military installations in Greenland. He'll pretend he forced an unprecedented capitulation, that he 'got Greenland' for free, yada yada, and the insane beat goes on.

Just watched Season 2 of The Night Manager - that's its theme. Excellent and extremely chilling.

Prior to the recent escalation in threats, both Greenland and Denmark had consistently indicated a willingness to accommodate an increased U.S. military presence. He'll pretend they they capitulated but I suspect he'll fold back to the already-in-place arrangement after stock market plunge/pushback.

'Pressure' now suffers from attention deficit disorder. That's why chaos and overwhelm are useful to rising fascists. Just keep the people and the press and everyone else in perpetual vertiginous spin while you slam each item in the 2025 Project straight home. www.project2025.observer/en

I'm already well past WTAF. They're doing it everywhere, 24/7, hours of videos capturing and publishing it. Plus what happens in the dark away from cellphones .Trump's thug army, his terrorist gangs, his 'official' gestapo. Every fascist needs street-power. And they have a massive quota to meet.

""Of what?" said the chauffeur incredulously. "Why, of all them crazy people who liked to lynch us."

Yeah, but Ithis is very 1st world issue. We resent having our pleasant lives disrupted by having to think about the rapid descent of our country towards authoritarian hell. By the time we get through the real-comprehension to the contemplating-action stage it's too late. But I hate it too.

On some days I'm really down with humans just killing each other clear off the planet and leaving the next phase to cows.

Every woman knows that man. Those facial expressions. Visceral recoil. Gut repulsion. It's the gaslighting face.

Boomers too. Just remembered that Jefferson airplane song: Crazy Miranda
Lives on propaganda
She believes anything she reads
It could be one side or the other
Free Press or Time Life covers
Follows newsprint anywhere it leads
But still she can't seem to read and nobody
Knows nobody knows...

And it will survive beyond him. Is the thing. We say 'Trump' as if he weren't merely the convenient clown along the way to fulfilling it's agenda. The chaos/poer vacuum maker. The next one will be calm, smooth, articulate, reassuring, The media and an alarming number of voters will fall for it.

Yeah. I'll be like trying to make soup and suddenly an inner voice cries "What are you doing making soup at a moment like this??" And I just stand there, feeling the careening of everything. I wish I thought that protests, or votes, or anything in reach would stop it. I don't. I think we crash.