He’ll find out very soon that it isn’t working. It was barely possible in the first place. Because he came up with the idea, like the whole stupidity about the Big Ugly … er, Beautiful Bill, that’s going to kill some people in this country. Yes, he got his tax cuts, but the rest of it? Cutting way, way back on Medicare for a start. It will cause the closure of rural hospitals. There’s a big one right there. How about the bullsh*t with the taxes for the rest of us? Yeah, no. Not worth it, a sop to quiet the screams of people as they pass away. The list goes on, but we digress. From AlterNet:
Intelligencer writer Ross Barkan reports Trump “is going to lose the war on free speech” in a pattern reminiscent of Democrats’ overreach on police reform, but worse. “This all amounts to what one could call the ‘woke’ right; a resurgent regime that is stifling free discourse and justifying it through the same logic that social-justice activists and certain Democratic politicians employed in the 2010s and early 2020s,” Barkan wrote. The similarity here is the absence of organic, nationwide support.
What do you want to bet that they would be horrified if they ever read Ross’s article? They would be. They would deny this loudly and often, but it’s the best way to describe it. Unfortunately for them, it’s not going to work. Support is a big, big word. There’s nothing that’s going to fly without support. They may have started this, but it’s not going to go anywhere. What this needs simply isn’t there. Let us be grateful for that.
Barkas said another issue with the greater public and MAGA’s emerging war on free speech is that the greater public is, well, greater. “What those in MAGA-land will learn, as enough time passes, is that they cannot engineer full cultural control. They cannot force millions of people to suddenly pretend to think Kirk is a fallen martyr who should never be critiqued again. They cannot convince college students, through brute pressure on gutless administrations, to salute the Israeli flag and cheer Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal incursions into Gaza.”
And no again. It’s time for “Kirk was a martyr for the cause” to fade away. He loved conspiracy theories. They keep forgetting he called for the Epstein files, and Trump does NOT want to do that. This is just for a start. The other part in the above paragraph? Oh yes. Netanyahu *is* committing genocide on the Palestinian people.
That’s incredibly obvious, and he has to gloat about it all the time in private. How can anyone support him? Trump doesn’t *want* to, supposedly, but he’s committed now. That’s yet another problem that is on Trump’s head and no one else’s. He took it public. He attacked Iran to destroy Hamas. (Spoiler: it very obviously didn’t do a damn thing except piss off Iran.) Those are just the first two.
George W. Bush’s ability to forcibly suppress antiwar dissidents at the onset of the Iraq invasion came courtesy of the September 11 attacks, which gave him an approval rating north of 90 percent. “Trump has no comparable emergency to gesture toward, and Republicans, utterly subservient to his whims, are glad to dispense with the illusion they ever cared about free speech,” said Barkan. “It’s remarkable to witness how fast conservatives have abandoned any pretense of caring about the First Amendment after years of decrying illiberalism on the left.”
But the Trump administration can’t even “begin to claim a mandate for its menacing actions,” Barkan said. A MAGA regime will run the country for at least three more years, he said, but even if it manages to control the levers of government, it will never have organic support from the culture again. “It has been exposed for what it is composed of: sniveling would-be commissars longing for a dystopia they will never, no matter how hard they try, be able to build,” said Barkan. “They can’t trick young people into backing the Israeli government or treating Kirk like Martin Luther King Jr. They can’t make all media into MAGA propagandists. Their wrath, if unnerving, is ultimately pathetic.”
Indeed. If you don’t succeed, try, try again, but why? Repeated efforts will face the same dismal energy as the first one. Are they expecting a miracle because Trump is on a ‘Kirk is a martyr” kick? It’s still not going to help. It’s not a good look for him or MAGA. Why waste the time? Oh, because they can? That’s just about the only reason we can see. MAGA should save their energy, but you know what? It’s on them to do so. We can kick back, watch, and laugh. Pitiful.
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Hey you fat orange bloated rotting maggot…you’ve grifted 3 BILLION so far this year, and we’re just getting started. Go ahead and starve the peasants and blindly brag about your wealth. Instead of let them eat cake, which ignited a firestorm in France, let us be robbed to the point of let us eat cat. Next time it won’t be an ‘innocent’,(no one who supports evil is innocent), bystander…kill enough children and someone will make it their life’s mission to get justice and their pound of flesh. I know I would if you killed my children. No threat/lie on earth would buy you or YOUR FAMILY safety. Keep on.
“you think you are so classless, clever and free…you still look like phucking peasants to me”…John Lennon. Nailed it John.
By the way humpty dumpty…a sorority cult/whore running the DOJ, and a cross-eyed serial liar running the FBI are piss poor defenses…just saying. Keep on fat man. Knock on the Devil’s door long enough and HE WILL ANSWER. TIC PHUCKING TOC.