Trump enraged that McConnell won't 'protect' him from Russia investigations: NYT

[knoxblox]

@MikeTheBard

Russia isn’t going to bring him down. He could personally rape, murder, and eat a baby live on FOX News and 25% of the country would still stand behind him with another 15% mumbling something about broadcast standards.

The ONLY thing that’s going to work is if the economy crashes badly enough that the red states literally start starving, while the Democrats keep hammering into the public that the Republicans control all three branches of government and can do literally anything they want. What we need is for the GOP to eliminate food stamps and Medicaid completely while making a big show of how much it will “save the budget”. THAT will do it.

And hopefully, by then we will have enough actual progressives infiltrating the Democratic party that once they’re swept in, they don’t just stand around with their thumbs up their asses while the country burns.

My belief is that they’ll still blame Obama, the immigrants, etc.
You can’t expect people who can’t think critically in everyday situations to suddenly be blessed with reason in times of severe crisis.

[Wanderfound]

The Democratic Party is dead and buried, anyway. The street left have given up on them.

[anon61221983]

@knoxblox

In case anybody gave a damn anymore.

[ficuswhisperer]

Someone needs to remind 45 that Congress doesn’t actually work for him. It’s not in their job description to protect the president and it’s no accident that they are empowered to remove the president from office.

[KatjaKat]

His entire life he has been given exactly what he wants by throwing tantrums and behaving badly. Why is anyone expecting him to stop now?

[sosumi]

@euansmith

I’d go one further, and put them all together on an island and televise it…

Televised. Hmm, that could clinch the deal.

[marence]

@MikeTheBard

He could personally rape, murder, and eat a baby live on FOX News and 25% of the country would still stand behind him with another 15% mumbling something about broadcast standards.

And don’t forget another large percentage who would be immediately outraged, take to social media, find out they have to actually do something to object to this, and sit back down. America is good at apathy.

[LurkingGrue]

@marence

America is good at apathy.

[alahmnat]

@MikeTheBard

What we need is for the GOP to eliminate food stamps and Medicaid completely while making a big show of how much it will “save the budget”. THAT will do it.

I’m really, really getting tired of people arguing that it really does need to get shit-awful for millions of people – many of whom are not complicit in this shit-show – so that Democrats can win an election. Stop. Rooting. For. The. Worst.

[aluchko]

@MikeTheBard

The ONLY thing that’s going to work is if the economy crashes badly enough that the red states literally start starving, while the Democrats keep hammering into the public that the Republicans control all three branches of government and can do literally anything they want. What we need is for the GOP to eliminate food stamps and Medicaid completely while making a big show of how much it will “save the budget”. THAT will do it.

What’s your objective? To help your country or to rule over the rubble?

The worst thing I can say about the GOP under Obama is they chose the latter.

[MikeTheBard]

@alahmnat

I’m really, really getting tired of people arguing that it really does need to get shit-awful for millions of people – many of whom are not complicit in this shit-show – so that Democrats can win an election. Stop. Rooting. For. The. Worst.

@aluchko

What’s your objective? To help your country or to rule over the rubble?

What I would really like is for everyone to just listen to reason, work together, and recognize that we are entering a post-scarcity world where we can pretty much create a Star Trek style utopia if only we decide to actually do it.

Realistically, I understand that we are the type of species which drafts a global declaration of human rights, but not until after we’ve had a holocaust.

And I understand that there are people who will inherently listen to reason, people who will be swayed by emotion, people who will accept the opinion of whomever establishes dominance, people who will never change their mind, and people who will only accept the truth when it is blatantly, undeniably, immediately affecting them personally.

For fuck’s sake, over a third of our country thinks Trump is doing a good job as president.

In the long term, we must obviously make a priority of raising a generation of rational, compassionate, well adjusted people. The problem is that we as a species need to survive long enough to do that- And as long as we continue to allow people to operate in a mode of constant denial, I don’t see that happening.

Basically, it boils down to the Trolley Problem. I believe the moral cost of watching the five people run over is greater than the moral cost of actually killing the one- And between our impending economic collapse and our already starting ecological collapse, I genuinely fear that our entire civilization will end if we don’t affect immediate and drastic change.

[Wanderfound]

@MikeTheBard

Realistically, I understand that we are the type of species which drafts a global declaration of human rights, but not until after we’ve had a holocaust.

And I understand that there are people who will inherently listen to reason, people who will be swayed by emotion, people who will accept the opinion of whomever establishes dominance, people who will never change their mind, and people who will only accept the truth when it is blatantly, undeniably, immediately affecting them personally.

For fuck’s sake, over a third of our country thinks Trump is doing a good job as president.

https://twitter.com/wernertwertzog/status/900382564787122177

@MikeTheBard

In the long term, we must obviously make a priority of raising a generation of rational, compassionate, well adjusted people. The problem is that we as a species need to survive long enough to do that- And as long as we continue to allow people to operate in a mode of constant denial, I don’t see that happening.

Basically, it boils down to the Trolley Problem. I believe the moral cost of watching the five people run over is greater than the moral cost of actually killing the one- And between our impending economic collapse and our already starting ecological collapse, I genuinely fear that our entire civilization will end if we don’t affect immediate and drastic change.

I still think it can be saved if enough people wake up in time.

The working class and PoC communities are already in it, but they can’t do it without help from the non-fascist half of the white middle class. Or as one of the street protesters put it:

[aluchko]

@MikeTheBard

What I would really like is for everyone to just listen to reason, work together, and recognize that we are entering a post-scarcity world where we can pretty much create a Star Trek style utopia if only we decide to actually do it.

Realistically, I understand that we are the type of species which drafts a global declaration of human rights, but not until after we’ve had a holocaust.

If so then wishing ill others is a bad way to start. If you want to end with peace, goodwill, and cooperation then that’s where you need to start.

People like to say the ends justify the means, instead the means usually become the ends.

@MikeTheBard

Basically, it boils down to the Trolley Problem. I believe the moral cost of watching the five people run over is greater than the moral cost of actually killing the one- And between our impending economic collapse and our already starting ecological collapse, I genuinely fear that our entire civilization will end if we don’t affect immediate and drastic change.

This problem is this creates a precedent for pushing people into trains, you might be smart enough to only push when someone is inescapably trapped on the track, but others who follow your lead won’t be. The practical result of pushing the fat man is a lot more people hit by trains.