There's a permanent record for everybody that went to school in America. I remember it was drilled into us at a young age, that this or that could end up on our permanent record.
And if there isn't one for cops and other positions of authority there should be one. Make it a phone app.
Also this should go on their permanent record. So they are never allowed to be in any position of authority anywhere again.
I've been calling it the Roman numeral for ten site formerly known as twitter. Are people just abbreviating this to 'X' now?
The Dems put up a good fight. Biden needed to leave earlier. Harris could've had an actual answer to what she would've done differently. The reality is they were fighting a huge uphill battle. We've got an extremely ignorant and uninformed citizenry with little understanding of the functioning of government. I'm talking about Americans a proud and reactionary group of people. There was zero chance after picking Kamala that the Democratic party was going to pivot from their neo-liberal views and what movement they did was towards the center.
Now that they've lost so decisively maybe we'll see a window to move the party in a progressive direction. Personally I think the Dems need to get back to supporting labor unions. If we are going to "reindustrialize" this country because we are doing war with China then we should want strong labor organization. Get some progressives to run on policies that put people first instead of property and capital.
That would probably require getting money out of politics. In the meantime focus on continuing to improve the quality of life in blue states and blue cities. As far as the voters they didn't fail the party they failed the country. We are going to see a bunch of our fellow citizens lose more of their rights.
I don't know about you but some of us chose to get born. I remember rolling my round ass down through a warm long tube as I waited for my other half to meet up. And, I also remember waiting patiently for the right blast off, one that wasn't going to end up in or on a tummy, and swimming so hard and fast past all the other guys.
I'd still probably do it again, but it would've been nice to know more about the outside world. But back then it was all just about swimming and trying to hook up.
If it were me I'd barricade the office and declare myself a constitutional special counsel. But what do I know I just love my country.
The Majority Report with Sam Seder just had a guest on today for an interview about this very topic. The guy's name was Daniel Hunter and I found it solid.
The gist of the interview was that you can block boats that are carrying arms shipments with smaller boats and that might work for a while but the coast guard will probably fuck with you. So your best course of action is to get the dockworkers on your side and get them to not load the weapons onto the boats. I don't know how much shipping is done in Utah as I've only been once.
Women's Suffrage was fairly significant and the Civil Rights movement also used protests. Then in the 2000s people rose up against the canceling of Firefly and demanded a movie as compensation. Serenity was that movie and it was awesome and it remains amazing.
Finally, internationally one man named Gandhi used nonviolence to defeat the British empire.
I think it has to do with our ability to manage large societies. People evolved in small groups and now we are trying to manage hundreds of millions of people under the same systems. Humans are not inherently good at abstract thinking and critical thinking skills are taught not hard wired.
So we have hundreds of millions of people all living in the same capitalist neo-liberal economic system, but that might not work for all of them. Well we just let those people wander around forming tent cities. All because our culture says if you are poor or homeless then you failed, not that the system failed the individual.
I'm not an expert on small human societies, but from my understanding homeless starving people wouldn't be tolerated in a community of like 150 or so.
Oh these idiots are probably very likely going to spike crime in about a decade. It's been right around four-ish years since the abortion bans went into effect. So those unwanted children that are being force birthed will be young teens in about a decade. A bunch of poor unwanted teens living in localities that defunded all their social programs is probably not the anti crime kindling republicans think it be.
It means they aren't serious people. The Trump administration wrecked up the country with their shitty dangerous response to covid and their conservative base spent the entire time complaining and attacking healthcare workers.
Serious people propose ways to address problems and work based off of facts. Conservatives are off on witch hunts and high on identity politics.
This election was a referendum on the neo-liberal order and it lost. Trump represents populist nationalism, if the transactional nature of his first term is any indicator he's gonna sell off as much as he can to the highest bidders.
TLDR: A bunch of angry working class folks just handed the country to the billionaire oligarchs, possibly under some delusion the wealthy won't keep robbing them blind.
Dang I just bought some onions.