ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

John Stoehr thinks that if we expect Trump voters to turn against him even when his attack on the economy affects them directly, we misunderstand what they're about. The media want us to imagine they vote for him because of "the price of eggs" and "the economy," but that's not the case:

"Trump supporters are going to trust him no matter how incoherent, no matter how dumb. Indeed, the dumber and more incoherent, the more they trust."

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs
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https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-tariffs-2671680129/

Gonna be an asshole here:

Anyone who voted for Trump and his merry band of fascist assholes, and now says “I didn’t know!”, is either a complete idiot, or a liar.

He fucking told y’all what he was gonna do. The Republican plan to help him literally destroy our country as we know it was publicly released last summer. Nearly all serving Repubs in Congress have openly supported all of this for the last few years. This is EXACTLY what people voted for. If they didn’t know, it’s because they knew.

I’m honestly quite pissed off that I pay all this money in taxes only for the US government to try very hard to destroy my livelihood, my retirement savings and that of my neighbors.

I feel like a Karen. I want to talk to the manager. I want my money back. People need to be fired.

So I saw Wicked, Part I.

Anyone else like it?

It was so woke. And it was about democracy and fascism.

(Or maybe if you spend e enough time thinking about democracy and fascism, everything is about democracy and fascism. Or maybe everything IS about democracy and fascism )

I don't think there are any spoilers, but if you didn't see it, none of this will make sense.

The theme is that you can either be popular, or you can be good. . .

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This is going to be the experience of lots of MAGA people who fail to realize how much their livelihood depends on imported products.
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

Me in Montclair. #HandsOff2025

I reckon spotting an echidna is the Australian equivalent of finding a 4-leaf clover. Down our paddock yesterday. Such cool creatures. #Echidna #RockleighSA

To everyone who went out today to protest — strong work! You got NBC and CNN to finally cover it, and they are now listing the attendance as “millions”. Fuck yeah.

@Rhababerbarbar --

Comic by https://linktr.ee/Tragicgirlsco

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIisTheft

Biden had an alliance with Europe and waged a war against Putin.

Trump has a friendship with Putin and is waging a trade war against Europe.

Read this. Spread it. Our nation does this in our name to a tourist--and much, much worse to immigrants without power or protection.
"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled & sent to an immigration detention centre"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?CMP=share_btn_url

It's time to stop calling this the Trump economic plan. It's the entire Republican party economic plan.

Again, I didn’t go to Wharton, but this Dow chart over the past few days looks kinda weird - almost as if some total idiot had suddenly sabotaged the economy…

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

As long as I live, I will never understand why they would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.

The only way I want to "tailor" #Microsoft's #AI assistant is to keep it the fuck away from me. https://flipboard.com/@bloomberg/profiles-g8i4v6ktz/-/a-mCxOsV1hTOaUHGzaZ4mpZA%3Aa%3A3195391-%2F0

What I find most astonishing is not the stupidity, cupidity and malevolence of Trump's tariffs but the incompetence of those who thought that they could just make a table for him with a pitifully stupid AI generated algorithm.

#USpol #Tariffs #AI

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now down 10% since inauguration day, less than three months ago.

With the stock market plunging, Trump is golfing today.

Four years of faux outrage over the Biden economy, and Trump is manufacturing a recession, possibly a depression, while right-wing media and the GOP fall in line. FOX News removed the stock ticker from the screen for the first time in 28 years. The hypocrisy is infuriating.

“Doubling down” by leaders in response to challenges/ questions is a bad sign. Always.