Since we really can't do anything else today, get some good rest and plan to start fresh in the a.m. In the meantime, here's a take on this week from Andy Borowitz:
the more they make us suffer, the stronger we get as a whole. we come together more, and we learn how to weather the storm. meanwhile they stay stagnant. we have power in numbers. our empathy and creativity is our greatest strength. they will see.
I'm sobbing. I can't believe this. My family is going to suffer so deeply. My dad works two jobs, my mom works a job, and we STILL can't FUCKING AFFORD RENT AND HEALTHCARE. This is madness.
We're supposed to be happy to "contribute" by marching in a straight line into the hoppers to be converted into biofuel, by the thousands, according to that chinless wanker Yarvin, whose masturbatory fantasies of Monarchic Autocracy fuel this brigade of madmen that is running our government.
Well I choose differently. I quote Trumbo's potent final lines from his powerful novel JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, since we at present seem as ineffectual as the multiplegic narrator of that magnificent tome:
"Make no mistake of it, we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility and security, in decency, in peace. You plan the wars, you masters of men, plan the wars and point the way and WE will point the gun."
I feel this. I think it’s very likely my husband will loose his job due to Medicare cuts and he already doesn’t have paid healthcare. My job hours could get cut back too. I don’t know how we’ll make ends meet for our girls. And some of us have chronic health issues already.
Im so very sorry. Its sadly an authoritarian tactic for maintaining control. You know who wont go out and protest the government? People who are sick and hungry and just trying to survive. It’s one of the ways putin, xi and Kim jung Un keep control of their people. But if the Ukrainians and Georgians beat back an authoritarian government so can we.
Charity, please take strength in all the support you have out here. I know it isn't money, but it will help. Dry your tears and join your nearest Indivisible group. They just might have a few solutions.
In the meantime, these Republicans should be made to read OUT LOUD on the floors of their respective venues, the terrified comments below. MAKE THEM REMEMBER!
Oh, and if you don't mind having some privacy invaded, put your story on your local media. Spread it far and wide. It could be "anonymous." Rub your GOP electeds' noses in it.
The big ugly bill will hurt the most vulnerable Americans. My partner lost her DEI civil service job because of the fascists. Now we may lose our healthcare too. My colleagues and I will do everything we can to resist from within the government. We are gathering evidence of the many crimes committed by the Orange felon’s minions: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/dei-public-servant-fired
Well now let's not be unfair & wish that Loomer falls into a giant hamburger processor at her next visit to tour the kitchens at Alligator Auschwitz & gets ground into a bloody mass of lunch meat, corrupted by her cheap off-the-rack dress fabric, rendering said meat inedible, because that's just being cruel.
She's a disgusting human being. Using human being lightly. They all are. However, when MAGA'S are losing their loved ones, friends, neighbors, etc., maybe they'll realize how ignorant all of this was and their support for it disgusting.
It's suggested that we refuse to use their ugly nickname. Call it either "Alligator Auschwitz" or just "Florida Concentration Camp." The retired Jews from NY ought to appreciate that.
There's some line about sympathy serving you well when your back's against the wall & the firing squad is taking aim... sympathy's fine, but we need solidarity & ACTION.
I’m sorry, I saw this and don’t know who to credit this phrase…”Our Country tears of thee, poor land of misery of thee I scream! Lands where the flowers died, land of wicked pride, from every mountain side, let freedom grieve. 😢
Fuck Maga!! Fuck trump!
And F*** Republican cowards!
Evil party evil President
YES I agree
This makes me so sick and sad. What a monumentally bad day.
Since we really can't do anything else today, get some good rest and plan to start fresh in the a.m. In the meantime, here's a take on this week from Andy Borowitz:
<https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/god-formally-notifies-mike-johnson>
Absolutely!
the more they make us suffer, the stronger we get as a whole. we come together more, and we learn how to weather the storm. meanwhile they stay stagnant. we have power in numbers. our empathy and creativity is our greatest strength. they will see.
That’s right!!! There are WAY more of us than there are of them! Now let’s go show them just how many we are!!!!
Yes! 💪🍁🇨🇦❤️
Yes yes and yes
I needed to read this, well said
i believe this life was meant to test us.
what a beautiful gift it is to have the ability to fight back.
they want to drain us, exasperate us, make us feel powerless, but we will drain their resources first.
we were made for this moment
Love your activist user name!
With the rabid tenor of some sociopaths in the maggotsphere, better that than rope & shotguns any day.
We'll see...
I'm sobbing. I can't believe this. My family is going to suffer so deeply. My dad works two jobs, my mom works a job, and we STILL can't FUCKING AFFORD RENT AND HEALTHCARE. This is madness.
I know it doesn't help, but I'm so sorry this is happening. My heart goes out to You and your family and all those affected.
I'm so incredibly sorry. This is so severely unacceptable.
Same. Same. I'm just tired and I work so much to still be poor.
I am truly sorry.
We're supposed to be happy to "contribute" by marching in a straight line into the hoppers to be converted into biofuel, by the thousands, according to that chinless wanker Yarvin, whose masturbatory fantasies of Monarchic Autocracy fuel this brigade of madmen that is running our government.
Well I choose differently. I quote Trumbo's potent final lines from his powerful novel JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, since we at present seem as ineffectual as the multiplegic narrator of that magnificent tome:
"Make no mistake of it, we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility and security, in decency, in peace. You plan the wars, you masters of men, plan the wars and point the way and WE will point the gun."
I feel this. I think it’s very likely my husband will loose his job due to Medicare cuts and he already doesn’t have paid healthcare. My job hours could get cut back too. I don’t know how we’ll make ends meet for our girls. And some of us have chronic health issues already.
Im so very sorry. Its sadly an authoritarian tactic for maintaining control. You know who wont go out and protest the government? People who are sick and hungry and just trying to survive. It’s one of the ways putin, xi and Kim jung Un keep control of their people. But if the Ukrainians and Georgians beat back an authoritarian government so can we.
So sorry
Charity, please take strength in all the support you have out here. I know it isn't money, but it will help. Dry your tears and join your nearest Indivisible group. They just might have a few solutions.
In the meantime, these Republicans should be made to read OUT LOUD on the floors of their respective venues, the terrified comments below. MAKE THEM REMEMBER!
Oh, and if you don't mind having some privacy invaded, put your story on your local media. Spread it far and wide. It could be "anonymous." Rub your GOP electeds' noses in it.
I’m so sorry for you and your family. {{{Charity Faith}}}
Rent is obscene here in California.
The big ugly bill will hurt the most vulnerable Americans. My partner lost her DEI civil service job because of the fascists. Now we may lose our healthcare too. My colleagues and I will do everything we can to resist from within the government. We are gathering evidence of the many crimes committed by the Orange felon’s minions: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/dei-public-servant-fired
Thank you for your service to the American people.
Laura Loomer is insinuating the 65 million people of Latin descent legal/illegal be feed to alligators. Straight out genicode
She can get in line first
It's not going to be only them. They'll eventually be coming for all of us. The question is what will we do about it?
Well now let's not be unfair & wish that Loomer falls into a giant hamburger processor at her next visit to tour the kitchens at Alligator Auschwitz & gets ground into a bloody mass of lunch meat, corrupted by her cheap off-the-rack dress fabric, rendering said meat inedible, because that's just being cruel.
She's a disgusting human being. Using human being lightly. They all are. However, when MAGA'S are losing their loved ones, friends, neighbors, etc., maybe they'll realize how ignorant all of this was and their support for it disgusting.
i think this needs to be taken more seriously than people do. this is a pretty clear message. and everything those fascists said has come true so far.
it means all hispanic people.
and it means all of them are going to be dead.
this is crazy serious and should alarm every hispanic person to flee the country now.
It's suggested that we refuse to use their ugly nickname. Call it either "Alligator Auschwitz" or just "Florida Concentration Camp." The retired Jews from NY ought to appreciate that.
Let's not give these disgusting people any of our attention or outrage. They don't deserve it. They feed off of our disgust and indignation.
I’m so sad. Part of me was hopeful- silly me. This is cruel!!
This just makes me want to cry and scream and give up. I just don’t want to be here anymore.
Please don't give up. If we give up we lose everything
You know you’re right it’s just frustrating
I’ve lost all hope. I don’t know what to do anymore. Everything feels impossible.
don’t throw away your shot.
they want us to believe there is no hope, but as long as the sun rises— we will have an opportunity to rise as well.
we have seen what they are capable of, they have not seen even 1% of what we can do.
Hon....if u are disabled n really actually need Medicaid n snap to exist....this is a death sentence.
Hope is gone
I know the feeling. Did you listen to Jeffries’ closing speech? We Press On.
So the republicans that were going to vote no got bullied into passing it.
They’re pussy. Simple
women may not appreciate that particular word used as an insult.
They always fold. Every. Single. Time.
Probably bribed or threatened.
Rome is burning and the idiots are cheering
Child tax credit is meaningless to the poorest families
And there are plenty of the working poor out here.
Damn their rotten hides. May they rot in hell. Karma's a b^#÷*.
Really pissed off, but more motivated than ever to throw a wrench into the Trump machine.
Careful of who may ask you for suggestions, even here, one might suspect that they've been taking names.
In that case, I call B.S. on them! We have the numbers and we have the sympathy.
There's some line about sympathy serving you well when your back's against the wall & the firing squad is taking aim... sympathy's fine, but we need solidarity & ACTION.
". . .as the night the day."
Hamlet & eggs
this.
We, as a country, are an absolute disgrace!
Dis grace,
Dat grace,
No grace
No place
I’m sorry, I saw this and don’t know who to credit this phrase…”Our Country tears of thee, poor land of misery of thee I scream! Lands where the flowers died, land of wicked pride, from every mountain side, let freedom grieve. 😢
Creative words for demise by despicable