If the maximalism of this first week is the product of hubris, that means it’s much more likely that Trump will overreach, and probably sooner rather than later. It’s hard to know exactly what that looks like, but you can imagine a series of litigation and legislative defeats — or a genuine crisis created by his focus on retaliation and power grabs at the expense of governance — spiraling out of Trump’s control
spiraling out of Trump’s control
So? It won’t do anything to damage him. It’s all of us who will be left hurting when it spins out of control. Even if it’s out of his control, he won’t take responsibility, and his followers will deny it’s his responsibility, too. Even insulting his followers intelligence seems pointless because they revel in being dumbfucks and having it annoy you.
The media is already plying out there “We gotta be hopeful in the face of this” canard while placing hope on the wrong things entirely. We do gotta be hopeful, but not in the dumbfuck ways the media that failed us and helped get us here think.
Companies feed on our doubt and self-loathing. That’s literately how they sell products to us. That doesn’t mean we should give in and accept our fate.
Yep, and that’s why I put all my hope in the local Mutual Aid Groups and other community organizations.
If You Can Keep It is funded by Protect Democracy a non-profit that has been fruitlessly pursuing legal matters against Trump for years. It’s a bunch of “we can beat him with the law!” which is painfully not true at this point and people are fucking suffering god damn it, we’d already waited most of our lives for a government that gave a damn about us, and now we’re facing one that wants to actively hurt us. We can’t count on those legal systems anymore and if we want real hope, we need to begin making parallel systems that don’t rely on these old, broken, co-opted systems.
It’s not giving up to realize that the US Constitution failed at what it set out to do and Trump is the final nail in the coffin. We let this guy get away with stealing mountains of state secrets just because he wanted to wave them around and seem impressive to other people. The ship of handling this legally has sailed, we are in fascisms legalism stage. Trump’s fucking master move is lawfaring people til they give up, and now he has the weight of the US government behind him once again to do so.
He has absolute power and nothing sticks to him. He’s fine and he’ll be fine.
Give it 6 months before idiots realize how badly they fucked up. And, frankly, I couldn’t give a flying shit if those idiots pay with their lives.
probably sooner rather than later
Trump overreached the moment Musk made the nazi salute and the people there cheered out loudly, instead of at least being surprised. He is in need of stopping everything and doing damage control since then.
Of course, he has been fully focused on doing more damage ever since, instead of damage control.
