It is getting very difficult to maintain a positive attitude about the future of a country when so many people are willing to take such gross advantage of our honest attempts to provide help to people in need. It becomes doubly difficult when those responsible for protecting us are also complicit. Yes, I am talking about Mr. Trump and his whole cabal of hypocritical thiefs and liars!
Notice the death hierarchy embedded in how we discuss war.
Coverage typically leads with American casualties, then mentions civilian deaths as context. Whose deaths count as tragedy vs. acceptable cost reveals whose lives the system treats as mattering.
As I wrote in “What Societies Are Actually For”: Systems that treat like cases alike are justice systems. Systems that don’t are enforcement mechanisms. When children’s deaths are mentioned after soldiers’—we’re revealing hierarchy, not discussing morality.
Civilization’s moral basis—preventing the stronger from exploiting the weaker—collapses when: the stronger defines whose deaths deserve grief, institutions stop constraining power, Congress can’t check war-making, international law only applies to losers, and moral appeals exist without enforcement.
The direct line from coup attempt to Venezuela to Iran is operational doctrine. Each violation normalizes the next.
The gap: Appealing to “our sacred duty to stop this” requires functional institutions. Congress, courts, international law didn’t stop Venezuela. Didn’t stop Iran. Won’t stop what’s next.
The fabric frayed because people tasked with maintaining it chose not to when tested.
We’re past appeal. We’re just watching theater—the little games people play while pretending mechanisms still function.
Governor Walz had the perfect retort in yesterday’s sham hearings: “There are no Somalis in the Epstein files.” Watch for it on protest signs March 28 in Minnesota.
What is it with this unhinged, irrational obsession the regime/junta has about Minnesota? Oh, that's right: the state has been the punching bag simply for voting for another presidential candidate in the last 3 elections involving the sociopathic fascist lunatic. Of course, it's all about HIM, right? Even so, other states have voted that way as well.
Maybe it goes back to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 by a Minneapolis policeman that sparked an international Black Lives Matter movement that exploded during his last putrid year in office.
Or, it could be that one of his most vocal critic is Somali immigrant and Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar who represents Minneapolis and its suburbs. Calling Somali immigrants "garbage" last December is the epitome of the bigotry Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia we have had to suffer from Drumpf.
Now, they're appointing JD "Mascara" Vance (or whatever he is calling himself today) to lead the war on fraud. We are all too familiar with the Medicaid fraud scandal in MN but investigations started in 2018 and 64 people have been convicted of their crimes. The blood in the water for the mad king is that 85% to 98% are Somalis. We can all agree that those who were involved in this heist should be held accountable but withholding $259m in Medicaid reimbursements to the state is, as Paul points out, is like punishing all for the sins of the few.
Waste! Fraud! Abuse! Noem is a CABINET SECRETARY with 3 private jets. 🤷🏽♂️ What fuels Republicans’ naked hypocrisy? White supremacy. They hate that black and brown people have access to government services they think are meant only for them.
For anyone who needs a (non-exhaustive) list of Trump’s career of fraud: Trump University, Foundation, SoHo condo/hotel project, Network, Mortgage, Ocean Club Panama, Taj Majal, Atlantic City casinos, civil case against Trump Org.
What goes through a Republicans mind, I wonder, when the President tells the Nation in a sleepy, nasal tone that fraud prevention will balance our budget, i.e. "it'll go very quickly" , when they know how utterly false and ridiculous such a statement is.
Or does he want to have JDFraud look at fraud in military procurement, land or extraction leases, selling of Federal assets and awarding Federal contracts? Ha, maybe POTUS is onto something.
Fraud? Look no further than T…p and his cohorts in this government. An investigation into how he has lined his pockets with untold wealth and promoted the huge divide in wealth in this country is a story for the ages. And Vance? Nothing there could convince me that he’s merely pencil pushing for a 11 pm spot on Fox News.
Just when I think this administration can’t get any dumber, they don’t disappoint. The whole DOGE was a colossal disaster and everyone knows exactly where the fraud exists-Trump, his family and his oligarch cronies… if that’s JD Vance or whatever his latest name’s platform for 2028, it’s a gift to the Dems.
It is getting very difficult to maintain a positive attitude about the future of a country when so many people are willing to take such gross advantage of our honest attempts to provide help to people in need. It becomes doubly difficult when those responsible for protecting us are also complicit. Yes, I am talking about Mr. Trump and his whole cabal of hypocritical thiefs and liars!
It’s all personal gain for them, they have made billions in the past year.
They really know how to grift.
Exactly. And for those that didn’t vote for this President, so frustrating to watch.
Notice the death hierarchy embedded in how we discuss war.
Coverage typically leads with American casualties, then mentions civilian deaths as context. Whose deaths count as tragedy vs. acceptable cost reveals whose lives the system treats as mattering.
As I wrote in “What Societies Are Actually For”: Systems that treat like cases alike are justice systems. Systems that don’t are enforcement mechanisms. When children’s deaths are mentioned after soldiers’—we’re revealing hierarchy, not discussing morality.
Civilization’s moral basis—preventing the stronger from exploiting the weaker—collapses when: the stronger defines whose deaths deserve grief, institutions stop constraining power, Congress can’t check war-making, international law only applies to losers, and moral appeals exist without enforcement.
The direct line from coup attempt to Venezuela to Iran is operational doctrine. Each violation normalizes the next.
The gap: Appealing to “our sacred duty to stop this” requires functional institutions. Congress, courts, international law didn’t stop Venezuela. Didn’t stop Iran. Won’t stop what’s next.
The fabric frayed because people tasked with maintaining it chose not to when tested.
We’re past appeal. We’re just watching theater—the little games people play while pretending mechanisms still function.
—Johan
Governor Walz had the perfect retort in yesterday’s sham hearings: “There are no Somalis in the Epstein files.” Watch for it on protest signs March 28 in Minnesota.
What is it with this unhinged, irrational obsession the regime/junta has about Minnesota? Oh, that's right: the state has been the punching bag simply for voting for another presidential candidate in the last 3 elections involving the sociopathic fascist lunatic. Of course, it's all about HIM, right? Even so, other states have voted that way as well.
Maybe it goes back to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 by a Minneapolis policeman that sparked an international Black Lives Matter movement that exploded during his last putrid year in office.
Or, it could be that one of his most vocal critic is Somali immigrant and Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar who represents Minneapolis and its suburbs. Calling Somali immigrants "garbage" last December is the epitome of the bigotry Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia we have had to suffer from Drumpf.
Now, they're appointing JD "Mascara" Vance (or whatever he is calling himself today) to lead the war on fraud. We are all too familiar with the Medicaid fraud scandal in MN but investigations started in 2018 and 64 people have been convicted of their crimes. The blood in the water for the mad king is that 85% to 98% are Somalis. We can all agree that those who were involved in this heist should be held accountable but withholding $259m in Medicaid reimbursements to the state is, as Paul points out, is like punishing all for the sins of the few.
If they’re not starting at DoD they’re not serious
Waste! Fraud! Abuse! Noem is a CABINET SECRETARY with 3 private jets. 🤷🏽♂️ What fuels Republicans’ naked hypocrisy? White supremacy. They hate that black and brown people have access to government services they think are meant only for them.
For anyone who needs a (non-exhaustive) list of Trump’s career of fraud: Trump University, Foundation, SoHo condo/hotel project, Network, Mortgage, Ocean Club Panama, Taj Majal, Atlantic City casinos, civil case against Trump Org.
What goes through a Republicans mind, I wonder, when the President tells the Nation in a sleepy, nasal tone that fraud prevention will balance our budget, i.e. "it'll go very quickly" , when they know how utterly false and ridiculous such a statement is.
Or does he want to have JDFraud look at fraud in military procurement, land or extraction leases, selling of Federal assets and awarding Federal contracts? Ha, maybe POTUS is onto something.
Fraud? Look no further than T…p and his cohorts in this government. An investigation into how he has lined his pockets with untold wealth and promoted the huge divide in wealth in this country is a story for the ages. And Vance? Nothing there could convince me that he’s merely pencil pushing for a 11 pm spot on Fox News.
Just when I think this administration can’t get any dumber, they don’t disappoint. The whole DOGE was a colossal disaster and everyone knows exactly where the fraud exists-Trump, his family and his oligarch cronies… if that’s JD Vance or whatever his latest name’s platform for 2028, it’s a gift to the Dems.