What have I become?
neonchaos
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neonchaos@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•‘Scared s--tless’: Republicans brace for Trump’s primetime speechEnglish
11·3 months agoAnd their first order of business will be to cancel the mid-terms to “save money” and “safeguard against voter fraud”. Then when the lawsuits come, he’ll slip Roberts another $20 and get the court to say that Prez can do that because the Constitution doesn’t explicitly say the words, “POTUS cannot cancel elections”.
That or he’s going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.
There seems to be a trend of three with these things. Graham, McConnell, and… I’m sure there’s a bookmaker somewhere that is taking action in who the final name is. I know I have my list of hopefuls
It’s a holiday to venerate an ideal steeped in words like “Freedom”, “Self-Determination”, and “Exceptionalism” but is really just commemorating when a bunch of white male landholding slave owners decided they hated being taxed enough to go kill tax collectors and sold the public on the idea with propaganda. The entire system they put in place has built in mechanisms to ensure that true democracy is impossible (and was never really the point) and that the monied interests continue to exert outsized influence over policies and laws that benefit and enrich them.
And also a day when it’s guaranteed that at least a measurable percentage of people will wake up tomorrow unable to count to ten on their remaining fingers.
neonchaos@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump threatens to ‘take back’ DC if democratic socialist is elected as mayorEnglish
6·4 months agoThat’s the House chamber, not even the speaker’s office, just the House of Representatives
neonchaos@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump threatens to ‘take back’ DC if democratic socialist is elected as mayorEnglish
17·4 months ago“So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.” - Abraham Erskine (as played by Stanley Tucci)



Marvel’s Spider-man. Aside from being Peter Parker, I’m kind okay-ish