An actual list of the "problems everyone hopes they never have" category of our various problems is pretty long right now, and many of them are more personal than I want to share.
Shit's not the worst it's ever been for us currently, but financially it's closer than my wife realizes it is (because she's got enough to deal with right now), and (gestures around at everything Trump related) I'm figuring several of our problems are going to get worse before they get better.
I've got long and medium term plans to sort most of it out, but like all such plans they depend on the short term stuff going at least more or less as I hope, and on the complete collapse of US society not actually happening.
Glib sounding yet serious response in meme-form because this really is how it's looking so far in my mid-late 50s:
OP sounds like a nice person for posting such a thread, and I hope you are doing well sir or madam. 🙂
When they do, I'll come back to acknowledge I was wrong. In the meantime, I'm not holding my breath. 4 years of that was enough.
You’re missing the point.
No, you are missing mine.
My point is that nothing that happened with Trump over the course of four years that gives me ANY confidence regarding how the system will work now. (see 34 felonies case)
Your "well okay, Trump is above the law, but the folks below him might not be" is not the confidence builder you seem to think it is. When folks start going to jail (and staying there) I'll share your enthusiasm.
Edit: And it doesn't count if they are going to jail after we've reached the "rebuilding our nation from rubble" stage.
Justice Juan Merchan followed through on a promise made one week ago to give Trump a sentence of unconditional discharge, which includes neither jail time nor any other restriction that might impede Trump after his inauguration on Jan. 20.
THIS is what we're all screaming at you while you ask if we ever took a civics class.
TRUMP IS ABOVE THE LAW and he was above the law before he even took office this time around.
We're all handwaving away your assurances because they are all about things that CAN happen in a world where people are following the rules and things work like they should. A world that no longer exists.
Judges can arrest anyone attempting to enforce these fake proclamations that are illegal.
Judges can seize assets from private banks.
Judges can put anyone in jail that refuses to comply, and Trump can’t pardon them.
Like the judges who couldhave locked him up before the election?
I don't think you are hearing what I'm saying. My faith in our institutions is done. Kaput. I will happily eat a serving of crow if needed, but that's gonna have to be a good sales pitch because if our institutions worked we wouldn't be where we are today. We couldn't stop Trump when he had zero executive power and was not the president.
Oh I completely agree with you. Most of these headlines are taking tiny little bumps or 3 twitter users complaining, and blowing it up into what we all want to hear right now.
I have zero anecdotal evidence that any of the magas in my sphere have any regrets whatsoever.
That sounds like a great way to go, but if the past four years have taught me anything it's that I shouldn't expect much of anything in the way of lasting consequences or impediments for Republicans from our courts.
Yep. Anyone who wants can check old.badplace.com/r/conservative and still see nearly unanimous support for everything he's doing.
I assume everyone knows what to replace badplace with.
They are my canary. When a few of them start to notice they've been had (and frankly I'm skeptical they will do so until someone they love is headed to a camp) I'll believe there's any substantive remorse among Trump voters.
“That little girl is afraid to leave!” Bejarana called from the stage. “She spoke up and now she doesn’t want to suffer the consequences.”
What a fucking piece of shit.
Edited to add - there aren't supposed to beany consequences for speaking up. That's part of what we supposedly all value about our nation you fucking poseurs wrapped in your US flag and preamble to the constitution prints!
The issue with lifelong politicians isn’t just their mental capacity but their lifelong detachment from reality as they live in a privileged bubble.
The point of my net worth comment is that it's part of her privileged bubble, and is one factor encouraging Bernie to be less out of touch.
I also think Bernie still gives a shit about the common person, and I don't think Pelosi can remember any details of how the common person lives, based on many of her recent actions, including but not limited tothis.
Ultimately my point is that citing Bernie is not (IMO) a reasonable rebuttal to the quoted bit at the top of this comment, and is very specifically not an apples to apples rebuttal of the Pelosi situation, even if he weren't also a singular example.
And that's great, but this is the question you asked:
How would selling your car hurt you?
So it's the question I answered.
it could be difficult to sell the Nazi-mobile but personally i’d rather sell than be seen in anything related to Nazis.
How wonderful for you that you would make a different decision than that other person who is not you and has entirely different circumstances in their life.
An actual list of the "problems everyone hopes they never have" category of our various problems is pretty long right now, and many of them are more personal than I want to share.
Shit's not the worst it's ever been for us currently, but financially it's closer than my wife realizes it is (because she's got enough to deal with right now), and (gestures around at everything Trump related) I'm figuring several of our problems are going to get worse before they get better.
I've got long and medium term plans to sort most of it out, but like all such plans they depend on the short term stuff going at least more or less as I hope, and on the complete collapse of US society not actually happening.
Glib sounding yet serious response in meme-form because this really is how it's looking so far in my mid-late 50s:
OP sounds like a nice person for posting such a thread, and I hope you are doing well sir or madam. 🙂