The USA: The Trump Years 2.0

octophone said:

disgusting people

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Lucille said:

And they wonder why no other country is importing its food!

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It's because we're being mean to them, nothing to do with the fact it has to be washed in bleach

The way they get hysterical about flouride in water but are happy to pump a swimming pool into a chicken

Gosh I can’t imagine which country is going to be difficult about a peace deal

Maybe the one that invaded another country?

Had to check this was real but it is apparently. The office White House social media channels being run like an alt right influencer

I've never been one to switch off from engaging with the news even when it's at its most doom-laden, but I'm finding myself increasingly distressed by these daily narratives of ICE repeatedly and tyrannically overstepping their boundaries and I've struggled to really articulate why. I think it's hard enough to exist in a society where you know a significant percentage of the population doesn't want you there purely because of your melanin levels, but for a government to then legitimise your status as an 'undesirable'? And let's be real: this isn't about political views or criminal records, this is an openly-racist administration that's following the fascist playbook to the letter, and far too many seem to be too complacent about it. The amount of times I've had American friends express their hatred for this regime and its actions, but who can respond with only confusion and uncomfortable silence when I ask what they're doing about it. I appreciate that individual actions can feel futile atm, and the scale of this batshit lunacy is difficult for all of us to keep up with (tariffs! no tariffs! Peace for Ukraine! Fuck Ukraine! Give us Greenland! etc.), but I worry that in the midst of all the chaos, we're losing sight of the human beings that are being casually persecuted to the point of normalcy now. Which is exactly where they'd want us to be. The banality of evil in motion all over again. The fact that the official White House account feels like it can openly espouse such toxic, dehumanising language in the post above speaks volumes. I think Mahmoud Khalil's latest words said it best:



A democracy for some... is no democracy at all... I hope it will shake you into acting before it's too late.

On a more positive note, it's heartening to see people mobilising in huge numbers today. That needs to continue. And if the UK really does roll out the red carpet for Trump come September trust that I'll be booking a flight back to get out on those streets. I hope there'll be many more doing the same. I'm furious at my own failure to use my voice for anything more concrete atm.

Oh I hope the UK goes all Avengers Assemble when Trump arrives and makes it a visit he will never forget. We can’t less this trip go unnoticed.

And yes the ICE footage of armed men dragging people out of window-shattered cars is horrifying. We’re not even in the Handmaids Tale prequel anymore; season 1 has truly begun.

Such a lovely Christian message for Easter

Vance has the look of a drag king.

A homely looking gal with a stuck-on beard

Where did the couch fucker thing come from with Vance?

octophone said:

Where did the couch fucker thing come from with Vance?

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Someone tweeted out a fake passage from his book about fucking a couch and everyone just ran with it

Excellent. Thank you. I hope it really annoys him.

Annoyingly he appears to have somewhat thicker skin than Trump and Musk. Well that's what the sofa said anyway.

That guy Droobiee who uses the marshmallows to portray everyone references it all the time, even if he's not in the skit: in the one with Bezos and Katy Perry, he says "you were in space for 11 fucking minutes, JD lasts longer on the couch".

It's what the pontiff would have wanted

omg