Can you point out, Steve is that people should have optimism. They should know that, you know, the the reaction against what is happening is stronger than the administration and what they're doing. And it's really important to have days like that where people see each other face to face, not on substack, not on on social media, and are reminded about the power of the network that has formed to oppose what's going on.
Yeah, now there's a lot of joy. I was out in Iowa City for a football game and did the note things protests out there, and uh, it was great. People inflatable dinosaur costumes and bear costumes and you know, marching a lot of American flags, all of it, all of it peaceful, and you know, reinforces three things that are of supreme importance for people to to to get one.
There are more of us than there are of them, right, I will say that again, there are there are more of us than there are of them, and and do not be afraid of them. They can't shove all of us into an iceman. And then just the way you said it about the joy, it's such a contrast and I don't I don't know how else to say this. Except to express it in my native uh colloquial Patois
of central New Jersey. But whether it's Pam Bondi or Christineo, or the thug Tom Holman, or the wack job sector chief Den Baveno or Cash patl or Caln Levitt, they are a collection of the most miserable motherfuckers that I have ever seen, snarl sneering, nasty, deranged, fucking vicious for no reason, no paw. And you got there's twenty seven or twenty eight year old child married to a senior citizen every day, every day along with the Speaker of
the House, defaming half the country. Fuck you, all right, every one of you? All right, that we're on American we're traders, were this or that? The abuse of power these people, the pointing of the weapons at American citizens by Trump's secret police, all right, it was it was a national day of go fuck yourself. And I don't mean that in the way that it's used by Maga the rattlesnake and is in iconic American aw and it's
on some of the earliest flegs. Don't tread on me that you're sending the army to Chicago and threatening San Francisco, and after scores of millions March release of video of the president as a demented king flying a plane dumping shit on half the country. But how dare these people, how dare they desecrating these offices, these institutions that belonged
to us, belongs to us? And what this weekend was about was a natural dose of Penicellan against Cynesis, against insanity, and against these sneering assholes who got a lick of power incompletely totally, absolutely lost their minds with it.
Well, so what do we make of this video? This is a classic Trump thing where you do something that is so distasteful, so unlike any elect what any elected official, let alone the president of the United States would do a new low, as I think some people in the comments are pointing to it, and yet in some ways totally predictable and unsurprising, because he has total contempt for anyone who opposes him and doesn't care that he's actually the president of every American and pays doesn't even pay
lip service to the idea that he represents everyone. Even Nixon, even presidents that hated their enemies, never would have governed the way that he does for just his base, for just the Americans that actually support him, and hold total contempt for everyone else. And so on the one hand, you see the MAGA defenders, who will obviously defend anything he does, say, oh, it's just a joke, this is just funny. He's you know, literally shit posting. This is
you know, why can't y'all take a joke. On the other hand, again, just to go back to the test I always apply to these things, is what if this
were happening in another country? What if you saw, given what's happened since January in this other country, and then you read in the paper that the leader who's already taking troops from donor states willing to supply them, and sending them into the cities of states where the leadership doesn't want them, who's militarizing city, who's threatening to impose the Insurrection Act, on and on and on, totally destroyed the independence of the Justice Department, and weaponized federal agencies
against companies and media organizations that criticize him, kicked the reporters out of the Pentagon, snatching people off the street and sending them to gulags. That whole litany of things shutting down the government and using it as a excuse to purge the workforce and do things that are illegal
during previous government shutdowns. And then you saw that the largest protests in American history, according to one estimate by forgetting our colleague on subjects strength in numbers, largest protests in American history, political protests, the asterisk there's Earth Day. The Earth Day protests might have been bigger, but not explicitly political. And then you see that the leader of that country, his response was to post a video of him in a fighter jet dumping shit on his own people.
If this were happening elsewhere, we would be talking about whether we should intervene. We would be talking about how our State Department should be going to the UN or you know, making sure that there were international election monitors in the next election. We would have warnings about traveling to that country. The level of alarm if this were another country and we were watching it would be, you know, at eleven. And yet I have seen zero condemnation of
this from a single Republican elected a FA. And then of course Jade Vance does something just as disgusting on Blue Sky. So we're living in this bizarre world of where the president and the vice presidents have taken on the tactics of what started in twenty sixteen with the most atrocious people on the internet, and when these people
are all now elected and running the government. But ten years ago, when we were watching this come from the right to this kind of ship posting right where everything was sort of ironic, it was just sort of right wing irony.
We were all.
Sort of mystified, disgusted by it. These same people have now accepted that as the norm and are running the country as you know, late teens right wing ship posters.
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