It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
One of T****'s nominees for Director Homeland Security said over the weekend that we can avoid "Family Separation" when we #deport "illegals" with citizen family members by simply deporting the entire family.

This will require ignoring the #14thAmendment.

And THEN… once they do that & get away with it… they'll just start ignoring EVERY inconvenient Constitutional Amendment and get away with it b/c you'll no longer be able to #impeach or even INVESTIGATE a sitting president. #Fascism

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

This kind of pisses me off a little, because there were a shit ton of us to didn't fail to see all this.

And, as much as I respect him, Timothy Snyder is still on X

How does he fail to see that feeding the Musk fascist machine with his content is giving it the veneer of sane discourse?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MugsysRapSheet Thank you for these valuable comments.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Reagan broke American journalism by getting the Fairness Doctrine repealed. The current administration is the beneficiary, not the causal agent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@phaedral Thank you. A good historical reminder.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Remittancegirl Thanks for making those good points. I myself made the choice to exit Twitter the day Musk took it over, and I have to say, I remain disappointed in the many people I respect who choose to remain there and feed the Musk fascist machine.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

It just strikes me as kind of hypocritical.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Mastopoet @chiraag Thank you. Yes, I know very well what neoliberalism is and what it stands for, and I have long been highly critical of the neoliberal project.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Pettet50 I'm still looking at the 74,000,000 figure and at Trump winning the popular vote and don't intend to take my eyes off these facts.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Remittancegirl I do find it disappointing.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Voline @inthehands Sorry, but when people choose to descend to the level of personal insult and hateful taunts here, I stop engaging them and I mute them. Hope you'll understand.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Me too.

There are quite a few of them. And I admire their writing and their ideas, but there remaining on X and contributing to the content generated on the platform kind of jars with their critiques of a lot of things.

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
HERE'S ANOTHER (disturbing) THOUGHT:

If a sitting Potus can't be #impeached for ANY reason (including violating the #Constitution), what's to stop #OrangeHitler from dumping #Vance (before Vance "25th's" him) and appoint NON-citizen #Musk to the Vice Presidency?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MugsysRapSheet With no guardrails, above all at the level of the Supreme Court, I think all kinds of heinous things are now possible.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Remittancegirl I agree.

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
I am seriously considering thinking up ways to have myself deported.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MugsysRapSheet I can totally understand.

[mastopoet@h-net.social]

@wdlindsy @chiraag
fine, as long as you understand that it is not a democratic or labour label, it is what is today more of a far right Tory or GOP position.
Even as the Clinton/Obama Blair/Corbyn eras moved closer to the center

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Mastopoet @chiraag Thanks for providing me with that lecture. I fear you're telling me things I've long known.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
I do NOT deserve this! I reject this blanket statement.