These people have no underlying vision for the country. They don't care about the future of the country or the world; they're in politics for themselves. I can only hope that, in their heedlessness, they don't hopelessly trash the economy and destroy my financial stability. As for the American dream, working towards a just and decent world, that's gone.
Take it from this angle Dems. Trump is allowing this unelected billionaire, soon to be trillionaire, to take over the government. Run with this. Superbowl ads, you name it. Awaken the public to the bigger picture vs. trying to explain what usaid is. Bring up treasury and our governmental data systems. Then bring up the fact, with images of course, of Elon in Germany with their pro-nazi party.
- Musk would be universally recognized as a Nazi who doesn't aspire to become the new fuehrer but who sees himself as Fuhrer.
- Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers would have arrested and detained the 19-24 y/o "engineers" who unlawfully entered USAID (and elsewhere) and commandeered federal cyber assets.
- Marco Rubio, a degreed lawyer, would be disbarred simply for unlawfully changing the status of USAID without regard for the Foreign Assistance Act following his appointment as Secretary of State.
- The FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the DoJ would have reclassified the Heritage Foundation as an agent of Hungary, Russia, North Korea, and the PRC.
Yet, all of this is fine now since 49% of those who voted on 5 November 2024 returned an Oath-Breaking SoB, a person dedicated to the eradication of our Constitution, to the office of Chief Executive.
This is all fine and dandy, but respectfully Bill, where's the beef?
If Musk indeed represents a vulnerability, *HOW* can we exploit that vulnerability?
For example, where are the lawsuits filed against any extra-legal actions taken by Special Govt Employee Musk? Who has standing to file lawsuits to halt breaching USG payment systems, or the closure of statutorily established USAID without Congress revoking that statute?
As batshit as the Gaza proposal sounds, maybe this is a case where the Trumpian bluster could shake things up for some positive action. An alternative to Hamas running Gaza is essential. The Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians have stayed on the sidelines. They have to know that any prospect of a US takeover of Gaza with troops on the ground will further destabilize an unstable region. So...maybe this is just the kind of crazy they need to hear to motivate some commitment of their own troops, dollars, and strategy to set up a civil authority in Gaza. Maybe. Or am I just putting lipstick on a pig here?
Do pollsters ever take the time to ask what it is that 46% approved of? Is it the price of eggs, theatrically staged deportations starring Dr. Phil, or threatening allies and punching ourselves in the face with tariffs? I would like to learn how much the respondents to this survey know about the world around them and where they get their information. That at least might help the rest of us figure out how to engage these people in something with a greater resemblance of reality than what they may be picking up from Fox, Facebook and X.
There needs to be more public exposure of Musk's dependence on the CCP, due to his massive business interests in China, and of the secret conversations he's been having with Putin.
This man is not working for the betterment of the US and his ties to hostile foreign powers need the disinfectant of sunlight.
PS: Destroying USAID is a huge gift to Russia and China!
So…young people and others who protested the Biden Gaza position will be cool with the US becoming the colonizers under Trump’s Gaza fantasy? Hmm…protestors start your occupations and marches or is it “whatever”.
Although there has been extensive coverage of Trump's rantings about Gaza [which could imply starting a third U.S. war, in addition to Panama and Denmark], there are still a number of questions that the media should be asking Trump including:
Is the U.S. one of the humanitarian and charitable countries that would take in Gaza residents?
Does Trump have any idea of how his “proposal” sounds to Arab countries, to say nothing of the rest of the world?
How would he “govern” a place like Gaza where American troops would be welcomed with bullets and bombs?
Does he intend to only send DEI, Woke and Trans soldiers to occupy Gaza?
Does he expect Hamas to pay for the American occupation?
Might he offer Gaza to Ukraine in exchange for the land he will force it to give up to Russia?
Are there any Republicans who would tell him that he is @#$%! ?
I can see Hamas and other groups laying low and going underground to regroup and rearm and bide their time until Gaza is full of beachfront resorts chock full of tourists. Nice fat targets! Never underestimate the patience of a guerrilla force.
How so? The same way that the Substack comment sections have become dumpster fires? Bulwark comment sections have become completely unhinged lately. So many of us in this community are learning nothing from 2024. The #Resistance is terrible at politics and all they do is alienate constituency after constituency with their moral smugness and their refusal to acknowledge that the Dems governed badly, especially at the state and local level, during the last 4 years. All they do is gaslight, deflect, and defend the indefensible - about the economy/inflation, about crime, about the border, about wokeness/DEI - it's as if their brains have been rotted by MSNBC just like how MAGAs have their brains rotted by Fox and all the "alternative media". The Bulwark subscriber base is almost entirely #Resistance, and it shows in how people here have been responding to this moment. Seething contempt for wide swathes of American voters who previously voted Democrat and now vote Republican may be warranted, but it's also not constructive or helpful. There's a reason why people who previously voted Democrat overlook everything that Trump has done and somehow decide the Dems are now the worse party! The Dems have to put together a winning coalition, and all they seem to do is drive voters away even more. I'm disappointed at how so many of the people who have been the earliest and most correct in terms of assessing how dangerous the MAGA movement is have been the worst at combatting it, while it's ironically those who, while not supporting Trump, "normalize" or "bothsides" everything who are far more likely to be connected to the voters and put together a winning strategy.
I thought most of them left the community after the Bulwark staff steadfastly called for Biden to step aside, which was somehow controversial in this community. We've become like the DNC - a community full of people who are unserious about winning and more focused on moral outrage than strategy.
I don't think any of us here look either at Reddit or at any sub-reddit. If you are referring to the comments here, in response to Morning Shots, the answer is that the commentary here is no worse than that seen in any of the newspapers of record, the WSJ, WAPO and the NYT.
HE DID NOT WIN A MAJORITY.
He received 49.8% of the popular vote. That means 50.2% -- a majority -- voted AGAINST him.
Jared Golden and other Dems need to STOP feeding this "he won a majority" narrative. It is false. Most Americans did not want him.
Oh, now the Bulwark is against ethnic cleansing in Gaza?
So we go from “why aren’t Dems doing anything” to “resistance right now won’t work!” Bill, you ping pong on ideas constantly
These people have no underlying vision for the country. They don't care about the future of the country or the world; they're in politics for themselves. I can only hope that, in their heedlessness, they don't hopelessly trash the economy and destroy my financial stability. As for the American dream, working towards a just and decent world, that's gone.
“not this unelected, weirdo billionaire”
Take it from this angle Dems. Trump is allowing this unelected billionaire, soon to be trillionaire, to take over the government. Run with this. Superbowl ads, you name it. Awaken the public to the bigger picture vs. trying to explain what usaid is. Bring up treasury and our governmental data systems. Then bring up the fact, with images of course, of Elon in Germany with their pro-nazi party.
I wish I felt like Musk would be Trump's undoing - I don't think Trump cares of is paying enough attention to what's going on.
Prior to January 20, 2025:
- Musk would be universally recognized as a Nazi who doesn't aspire to become the new fuehrer but who sees himself as Fuhrer.
- Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers would have arrested and detained the 19-24 y/o "engineers" who unlawfully entered USAID (and elsewhere) and commandeered federal cyber assets.
- Marco Rubio, a degreed lawyer, would be disbarred simply for unlawfully changing the status of USAID without regard for the Foreign Assistance Act following his appointment as Secretary of State.
- The FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the DoJ would have reclassified the Heritage Foundation as an agent of Hungary, Russia, North Korea, and the PRC.
Yet, all of this is fine now since 49% of those who voted on 5 November 2024 returned an Oath-Breaking SoB, a person dedicated to the eradication of our Constitution, to the office of Chief Executive.
This is all fine and dandy, but respectfully Bill, where's the beef?
If Musk indeed represents a vulnerability, *HOW* can we exploit that vulnerability?
For example, where are the lawsuits filed against any extra-legal actions taken by Special Govt Employee Musk? Who has standing to file lawsuits to halt breaching USG payment systems, or the closure of statutorily established USAID without Congress revoking that statute?
As batshit as the Gaza proposal sounds, maybe this is a case where the Trumpian bluster could shake things up for some positive action. An alternative to Hamas running Gaza is essential. The Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians have stayed on the sidelines. They have to know that any prospect of a US takeover of Gaza with troops on the ground will further destabilize an unstable region. So...maybe this is just the kind of crazy they need to hear to motivate some commitment of their own troops, dollars, and strategy to set up a civil authority in Gaza. Maybe. Or am I just putting lipstick on a pig here?
Do pollsters ever take the time to ask what it is that 46% approved of? Is it the price of eggs, theatrically staged deportations starring Dr. Phil, or threatening allies and punching ourselves in the face with tariffs? I would like to learn how much the respondents to this survey know about the world around them and where they get their information. That at least might help the rest of us figure out how to engage these people in something with a greater resemblance of reality than what they may be picking up from Fox, Facebook and X.
There needs to be more public exposure of Musk's dependence on the CCP, due to his massive business interests in China, and of the secret conversations he's been having with Putin.
This man is not working for the betterment of the US and his ties to hostile foreign powers need the disinfectant of sunlight.
PS: Destroying USAID is a huge gift to Russia and China!
Also, using Trump’s Gaza logic, I guess Pacific Palisades will be rebuilt as Trump condos.
He'd better keep a few immigrants around to rake the forest around his condos.
So…young people and others who protested the Biden Gaza position will be cool with the US becoming the colonizers under Trump’s Gaza fantasy? Hmm…protestors start your occupations and marches or is it “whatever”.
Although there has been extensive coverage of Trump's rantings about Gaza [which could imply starting a third U.S. war, in addition to Panama and Denmark], there are still a number of questions that the media should be asking Trump including:
Is the U.S. one of the humanitarian and charitable countries that would take in Gaza residents?
Does Trump have any idea of how his “proposal” sounds to Arab countries, to say nothing of the rest of the world?
How would he “govern” a place like Gaza where American troops would be welcomed with bullets and bombs?
Does he intend to only send DEI, Woke and Trans soldiers to occupy Gaza?
Does he expect Hamas to pay for the American occupation?
Might he offer Gaza to Ukraine in exchange for the land he will force it to give up to Russia?
Are there any Republicans who would tell him that he is @#$%! ?
I can see Hamas and other groups laying low and going underground to regroup and rearm and bide their time until Gaza is full of beachfront resorts chock full of tourists. Nice fat targets! Never underestimate the patience of a guerrilla force.
Especially not those with Islamist fervor. They've been at this for more than 1000 years!
Can't begin to imagine how most of those questions would be answered, but I'm 100% positive that the last one is absolutely none!
Even if Musk et. al. were ever stopped and successfully charged and prosecuted, wouldn’t Trump just pardon them?
Random comment: has anyone noticed that the bulwark subreddit has turned into a total dumpster fire?
How so? The same way that the Substack comment sections have become dumpster fires? Bulwark comment sections have become completely unhinged lately. So many of us in this community are learning nothing from 2024. The #Resistance is terrible at politics and all they do is alienate constituency after constituency with their moral smugness and their refusal to acknowledge that the Dems governed badly, especially at the state and local level, during the last 4 years. All they do is gaslight, deflect, and defend the indefensible - about the economy/inflation, about crime, about the border, about wokeness/DEI - it's as if their brains have been rotted by MSNBC just like how MAGAs have their brains rotted by Fox and all the "alternative media". The Bulwark subscriber base is almost entirely #Resistance, and it shows in how people here have been responding to this moment. Seething contempt for wide swathes of American voters who previously voted Democrat and now vote Republican may be warranted, but it's also not constructive or helpful. There's a reason why people who previously voted Democrat overlook everything that Trump has done and somehow decide the Dems are now the worse party! The Dems have to put together a winning coalition, and all they seem to do is drive voters away even more. I'm disappointed at how so many of the people who have been the earliest and most correct in terms of assessing how dangerous the MAGA movement is have been the worst at combatting it, while it's ironically those who, while not supporting Trump, "normalize" or "bothsides" everything who are far more likely to be connected to the voters and put together a winning strategy.
I thought most of them left the community after the Bulwark staff steadfastly called for Biden to step aside, which was somehow controversial in this community. We've become like the DNC - a community full of people who are unserious about winning and more focused on moral outrage than strategy.
I don't think any of us here look either at Reddit or at any sub-reddit. If you are referring to the comments here, in response to Morning Shots, the answer is that the commentary here is no worse than that seen in any of the newspapers of record, the WSJ, WAPO and the NYT.