Trump/MAGA/DOGE eliminated USAID food deliveries and by now thousands of people have died from starvation, so it should be no surprise that Trump/GOP will starve American citizens, too. Stalin would be proud. Highly predictable since Everything Trump Touches Dies.
I missed yesterday so busy. Today I had the time to hear this; so worth it Everything you point out about POTASS and MAGA is true Another nonsense letter from my MAGA GOP rep Bost in response to asking why taRump is allowed to destroy the East Wing. All I had to do was listen to Rick Wilson, “ETTD” Glad I went to the reopened Grand Powell Symphony Hall for while not uplifting was SLSO concert of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem Op. 66” with choirs and Children’s Chorus and amazing vocalists It’s a Call for peace from a war veteran who lost an arm..Magnificent. PS Love my new 5 concert series seats in Orchestra left!
I'm a 20th century fan and I have yet to dig into Britten, though he does strike me as the most interesting English composer of his day. Don't get me wrong; there are charming post-Romantic English composers, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughn Williams, but they weren't really striding across the mantle of the new century like, say, my main man Roger Sessions ;)
Sessions dedicated the Adagio of his Second Symphony to FDR, who died in the middle of its composition (there's a great dissonant brass blare out of nowhere to register it). Funereal atmospherics can yield tremendous aesthetic profundity, which is why I need to listen to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
Trumps heart is encased in steel. He disassociates, an empty vessel lacking a soul. I am not surprised, but at the same time it is alarming to see it in the photograph.
So true, but isn’t it even worse than what you say? Isn’t it likely that Trump doesn’t care and actually wants to hurt people he views as weak and taking from stronger more worthy people like himself and his donors? Don’t his big donors think the same way? This is a cruel movement and philosophy that extends beyond this one evil man. We the decent and empathetic people must prevail over all of it and all of them. We can and we will. We have the numbers, and the moral weight is on our side.
Rick-As a former supporter of Rubio (in his prior incarnation), I identify with your journey and choice to follow the sometimes lonely road of a true American patriot
I came of political age in the early 70s and I've always associated the Republicans with the self-reliance party. And that's great; we need a self-reliance party just as we also need a pro-social party to balance it out (some dead German guys with fire hazard beards would call this a dialectic ;). But the neoliberalism that my conservative friends were so enthusiastic about two generations ago is coming home to roost with a vengeance. Self-reliance is less possible today.
Now the Rick Wilson who in '16 spat fire at Bernie and his bros sounds like Bernie Sanders.
If we can see a SNAP recipient as a deserving working class person instead of as the proverbial welfare queen, that is a significant movement of the Overton window.
Expect Rick's fulsome endorsement of UBI as the AI-pocalypse approaches.
SNAP TACO FTW !!! And all eight fucking billion dollars of the November allotment, too ;) And not rejiggered and recalculated formulate to reduce amounts, the judge just called their fucking bluff and made them use the money for all of it that they admitted they had.
As y'all know, I'm a recently retired old fart who lives in a HUD-subsidized senior building and who of course has SNAP because nobody would want to know how much my SS check is :(
I think it was the Josh Hawley / MTG contingent who must've broken through on how bad a SNAP cut would be to red staters. You can push off thinking about health insurance but you can't push off eating.
What does it say about the Republican Congress and Senate??? Why do they continue to back this madman? This felon has crumbled to the lowest point of empathy against every single American, regardless of whether they were Democrats...or magas..starving children. My gosh!! .I do hope that these elections just held will boost the morale of all Democrats. We must do what we can and keep working to save all our people...Do not give up!!! We can do it...Everyone counts!!
But imagine Trump after a nuclear weapon goes off in the Miami area. What would be his reaction? Nothing about the loss of human and other life from the blast. But he'd be on the phone immediately checking on the survival of his southern palace (Mar-A-Lago) and he'd be on his fat knees praying to some false deity that his golf courses were not only untouched but still up and running.
Queen Bee Trump isn't concerned about what's happening out there in 'drone world'. He's got his golden toilet and brags about owning the 'throne room'. To be honest, to him, everyone but him is a drone. So you're the richest guy in the world, eh? You're just a drone to Donald. Absolutely no different than the oligarchs who did something Vlad didn't like. The only people Trump cares for at all are those who are busy cleansing and polishing his private areas. Bannon, Miller, a handful of others. And if something besets them and they get taken down, he'll forget who they were in a flash and another will step into their place. They think Trump is the path to their dreams, but he's using them, letting them bring in the drone foot soldiers who will cheer for the 'great man' and throw money at him, all while turning a blind eye to his corruption and sickness.
So let the elected Trump enablers run on their record. Tie it in to the actual results of Trump policy and make sure their voters know that it wasn't the Democrats who brought the increase in suffering to them, but it was their representatives who knelt before their liege lord and hailed his greatness while their own duchies suffered. Let them try to run on 'law and order', and then nail them for every time Trump has broken the law in his pursuit of power and money, and how so many of his pardons are for those guilty of corruption. They are responsible for him thinking he's a king and his word is the only law. Make sure their voters know it.
The only real people to him are him and him and him.
Trump/MAGA/DOGE eliminated USAID food deliveries and by now thousands of people have died from starvation, so it should be no surprise that Trump/GOP will starve American citizens, too. Stalin would be proud. Highly predictable since Everything Trump Touches Dies.
You know what I think y'all might need right now on this news light Saturday afternoon?
A sprightly traditional Greek dance in 7/8 that hookslides from a trad arrangement into death metal ;)
Estradasphere: Mekapses Yitonisa. I love this little tune so flippin' hard ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFm8Ly1dUk
I missed yesterday so busy. Today I had the time to hear this; so worth it Everything you point out about POTASS and MAGA is true Another nonsense letter from my MAGA GOP rep Bost in response to asking why taRump is allowed to destroy the East Wing. All I had to do was listen to Rick Wilson, “ETTD” Glad I went to the reopened Grand Powell Symphony Hall for while not uplifting was SLSO concert of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem Op. 66” with choirs and Children’s Chorus and amazing vocalists It’s a Call for peace from a war veteran who lost an arm..Magnificent. PS Love my new 5 concert series seats in Orchestra left!
I'm a 20th century fan and I have yet to dig into Britten, though he does strike me as the most interesting English composer of his day. Don't get me wrong; there are charming post-Romantic English composers, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughn Williams, but they weren't really striding across the mantle of the new century like, say, my main man Roger Sessions ;)
Sessions dedicated the Adagio of his Second Symphony to FDR, who died in the middle of its composition (there's a great dissonant brass blare out of nowhere to register it). Funereal atmospherics can yield tremendous aesthetic profundity, which is why I need to listen to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
Trumps heart is encased in steel. He disassociates, an empty vessel lacking a soul. I am not surprised, but at the same time it is alarming to see it in the photograph.
Enjoy everyone.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-apocalyptic-fuck-collapse-that-none-of-us-didn-t-see-coming
Fucker Carlson and Dick Fuentes share a bromance with each other.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/fucker-carlson-dick-fuentes-have-support-and-this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
And , in case anyone missed it, my Ode to Jeff Tiedrich, who as he is to many people in this world, my often Muse.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/an-ode-to-jeff-tiedrich-because-everyone-is-entitled-to-my-opinion-of-him
Yeah but this is dementia more than his personality .
So true, but isn’t it even worse than what you say? Isn’t it likely that Trump doesn’t care and actually wants to hurt people he views as weak and taking from stronger more worthy people like himself and his donors? Don’t his big donors think the same way? This is a cruel movement and philosophy that extends beyond this one evil man. We the decent and empathetic people must prevail over all of it and all of them. We can and we will. We have the numbers, and the moral weight is on our side.
Rick-As a former supporter of Rubio (in his prior incarnation), I identify with your journey and choice to follow the sometimes lonely road of a true American patriot
I totally agree with you. He doesn't seem to have much compassion for people in general especially poor people.
I came of political age in the early 70s and I've always associated the Republicans with the self-reliance party. And that's great; we need a self-reliance party just as we also need a pro-social party to balance it out (some dead German guys with fire hazard beards would call this a dialectic ;). But the neoliberalism that my conservative friends were so enthusiastic about two generations ago is coming home to roost with a vengeance. Self-reliance is less possible today.
Now the Rick Wilson who in '16 spat fire at Bernie and his bros sounds like Bernie Sanders.
If we can see a SNAP recipient as a deserving working class person instead of as the proverbial welfare queen, that is a significant movement of the Overton window.
Expect Rick's fulsome endorsement of UBI as the AI-pocalypse approaches.
Guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_BB-gDw_Xs
SNAP TACO FTW !!! And all eight fucking billion dollars of the November allotment, too ;) And not rejiggered and recalculated formulate to reduce amounts, the judge just called their fucking bluff and made them use the money for all of it that they admitted they had.
As y'all know, I'm a recently retired old fart who lives in a HUD-subsidized senior building and who of course has SNAP because nobody would want to know how much my SS check is :(
I think it was the Josh Hawley / MTG contingent who must've broken through on how bad a SNAP cut would be to red staters. You can push off thinking about health insurance but you can't push off eating.
What does it say about the Republican Congress and Senate??? Why do they continue to back this madman? This felon has crumbled to the lowest point of empathy against every single American, regardless of whether they were Democrats...or magas..starving children. My gosh!! .I do hope that these elections just held will boost the morale of all Democrats. We must do what we can and keep working to save all our people...Do not give up!!! We can do it...Everyone counts!!
At this point I don’t think DJT on the ballot would even save them. Even his cult is falling apart.
As for the photograph. Typical indifference.
But imagine Trump after a nuclear weapon goes off in the Miami area. What would be his reaction? Nothing about the loss of human and other life from the blast. But he'd be on the phone immediately checking on the survival of his southern palace (Mar-A-Lago) and he'd be on his fat knees praying to some false deity that his golf courses were not only untouched but still up and running.
Most likely...
Queen Bee Trump isn't concerned about what's happening out there in 'drone world'. He's got his golden toilet and brags about owning the 'throne room'. To be honest, to him, everyone but him is a drone. So you're the richest guy in the world, eh? You're just a drone to Donald. Absolutely no different than the oligarchs who did something Vlad didn't like. The only people Trump cares for at all are those who are busy cleansing and polishing his private areas. Bannon, Miller, a handful of others. And if something besets them and they get taken down, he'll forget who they were in a flash and another will step into their place. They think Trump is the path to their dreams, but he's using them, letting them bring in the drone foot soldiers who will cheer for the 'great man' and throw money at him, all while turning a blind eye to his corruption and sickness.
So let the elected Trump enablers run on their record. Tie it in to the actual results of Trump policy and make sure their voters know that it wasn't the Democrats who brought the increase in suffering to them, but it was their representatives who knelt before their liege lord and hailed his greatness while their own duchies suffered. Let them try to run on 'law and order', and then nail them for every time Trump has broken the law in his pursuit of power and money, and how so many of his pardons are for those guilty of corruption. They are responsible for him thinking he's a king and his word is the only law. Make sure their voters know it.
Rich in deviousness...very poor in SOUL...
Oh, I hate him too. PTPOHG. Can’t wait
"PTPOHG". Thailand? WTF is PTPOHG?
Plan to piss on his grave.