Resistance

All of this is conventional wisdom, because it describes what has always been necessary for regime change. So I can't say it's everything we need to know, but I can say that we're seeing some of it now in this country as MAGA begins to crumble.

The main point is to keep pushing.

What it will take to topple Iran’s regime

Truth Social posts aren’t going to make it happen.

Matthew Gould has served as a British ambassador to Israel and deputy ambassador to Iran.

The tragedy of the Iranian people is captured in three remarks this year by President Donald Trump. On Jan. 13, in a week when thousands of protesters were killed, he posted on Truth Social, “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” He promised that “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.”

In the early hours of Feb. 28, as America and Israel launched their attacks on Iran, he encouraged them again in a televised address, “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be, probably, your only chance for generations.”

On Sept. 1, he posted again on Truth Social, this time more plaintively. “When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?”

The Iranian regime, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at its heart, are ruthlessly determined to remain in power. They have repeatedly defied expectations with their success in doing so. And this year has seen them survive two major events that many observers had predicted would bring them down.

The protests that started in December 2025 were the most serious the regime has faced. They began not with middle-class students but with a strike by the shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. Protests followed in all 31 of Iran’s provinces. A European diplomat reported well over a million protesters on the streets of the capital n Jan. 8. The regime responded brutally and decisively, with at least 3,000 protesters confirmed dead, and credible estimates as high as 30,000. Mass protests alone turned out not to be enough.

Then, on Feb. 28, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike. He had been supreme leader for more than 36 years and president for the eight years before that. If a change in leadership were to bring about regime change, this should have been the moment. He had no nominated successor, his son Mojtaba (who was eventually appointed to the post) was badly injured in the same strikes, and for a brief period the country was ruled by an ad hoc triumvirate. Yet once again, the regime proved itself resilient. Power passed to a more hard-line next generation.

So what would it take to topple the regime? Five factors will be key — and none will be easy to achieve.

First, the Iranian people, despite being repeatedly traumatized by violence, will need to take to the streets again. They will need to rebuild the coalition that formed at start of the year, crossing class and region.

The most likely cause of their united protests would be economic hardship — which Iranians blame as much on their own government as on the United States. Inflation is at its highest level since World War II, more than 1 in 5 young people are unemployed, the price of fuel has gone up and there is not enough fuel to go around. A bad winter could push more people onto the streets.

Second, they would need to remain on the streets beyond the inevitable crackdown and internet blackout. The regime will be threatened only if the protests persevere.

So the third requirement will be infrastructure that lets citizens organize even without the internet. During the January protests, when the regime tried to impose a complete digital blackout, Starlink activated free access for Iranian accounts and the Trump administration smuggled thousands of terminals into the country. But the regime responded fast — jamming Starlink’s GPS signal in Tehran with technology probably supplied by Russia or China and hunting down dishes on the ground — cutting connectivity by up to 80 percent. The U.S.-supplied circumvention systems that might have helped protesters had been mostly cut off when the Trump administration shut down foreign aid a year earlier.

Next and perhaps most important of all, the security forces need to wobble. Revolutions succeed when militaries are uncertain. In 1979, the shah of Iran’s army, having fired on protesters for months, finally stood aside. In 2024, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army didn’t so much defect as evaporate. But so far, despite optimistic predictions, the Iranian military has stayed largely intact. The IRGC and its paramilitary Basij force have remained loyal, tied to the status quo by ideology and economic self-interest.

Finally, the regime itself needs to crumble, which it will if mid-tier officials decide that the old order is finished. This will not happen until they see a future for themselves on the other side. Total isolation gives them no reason to jump ship.

With these conditions met, protests might have a chance, and the regime might finally give way. Without them, no amount of aerial bombardment or White House encouragement will be enough.

If and when that day comes, it will be important that the United States and others are not banking on a smooth or easy transition to a new government. Just as likely will be a period of chaos, a vacuum in leadership and the emboldening of separatist groups at Iran’s periphery, from Kurds in the northwest to the Baluch in the southeast.

More useful than further online exhortations from the president would be if he ordered the creation of a comprehensive plan that can stand ready for the moment it is needed, providing immediate security, humanitarian and reconstruction support. Only then would the message “help is on its way” matter, and the Iranian people could start to build the future that they deserve.

Where's The Line, MAGA?

Lucas Bean

"One people, one country, one leader."

"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!"

So simple, a child can understand.

JoJo

A Warning

We'll know more about what the dog-ass Republicans are plotting as we approach November, and Trump gets more panicky.

And of course I'd like to be able to formulate some kind of plan to counter what these assholes are fixin' to pull, but all I can think of is the old bullshit about "expect the unexpected", and be as ready as possible to do something as the circumstances require.

If I hear that somebody has a better idea than "Fuck, IDK - just be ready to do something", I'll let ya'll know.

If we survive this one (and I'm still pretty sure we will), we have to understand that we got here because we didn't stomp the fuck out them last time.

The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

--Michael Luttig

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all.

Here’s how.

Donald Trump instigated a war against America’s democracy on January 6, 2021. He and his Republican allies would have crippled America’s democracy that day had his own vice president not refused to be party to the gravest constitutional offense a president can commit—the refusal to relinquish and peacefully transfer the power of the presidency to his duly elected successor.

Today, almost six years later, Donald Trump and his Republican congressional allies are even more determined to prosecute the president’s war against American democracy to its catastrophic end than they were on January 6, 2021.

That catastrophic end could well come on January 3, 2027, when Trump and his Republican congressional allies wage the final battle in Trump’s determined war to corrupt America’s democracy and deliver a lasting political victory over the Democrats for his MAGA Republican Party.

Trump and his Republican allies have been preparing for this final battle since January 6, 2021. For the past six years, they have embarrassed themselves and the U.S. with their preposterous, win-at-any-cost denial that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and their deceitful slander of America’s democracy. Since his return to the White House, Trump’s every unconstitutional act in his effort to seize control over the midterm elections—each hailed by his prostrate Republican Congress—has been toward the end of ensuring that Republicans retain a majority in the 120th Congress.

Trump told talk show host Dan Bogino on February 2, “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting.’... The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.’” The Republicans have dutifully fallen in line.

Before Donald Trump arrived, it was the Republicans who professed to stand for the Constitution, principle, truth, honesty, integrity—even honor. Republicans were the proud party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. It was our party that could be expected to put country before party when the time came, as when Barry Goldwater and other party elders told Richard Nixon in 1974 that it was time to resign the presidency. That was then. None of this is true of today’s Republican Party and this Republican Congress. So enthralled with the forty-seventh president are today’s House Republicans that they long ago abandoned everything the Republican Party has stood for since its founders first met in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854.

Today’s congressional Republicans took a blood oath six years ago not just to put their party before their country, but to put Donald Trump before their country. And so it is that only weeks before the midterm elections, House Republicans have already sworn their allegiance to Donald Trump and doomed the U.S. to another January 6 next January 3.

So unalterably subjugated to Trump is today’s Republican House that even a decisive victory for Democrats and a resounding repudiation of Trump and the MAGA Republicans at the polls in November will not guarantee that a Democratic majority-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress on January 3.

All year long, Trump has been dragooning House Speaker Mike Johnson and the congressional Republicans into prejudging as fraudulent the upcoming November elections of the presumed Democratic majority, as he himself has already prejudged those elections. His dragooning appears to have worked. House Republicans are now poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress.

Over the past year and a half since his return to the White House, Trump has exploited every conceivable unlawful means possible to rig the midterm elections in favor of the Republicans, and the federal courts have struck down as unconstitutional every one of these unlawful attempts. He will try every unlawful means over the remaining weeks to ensure that Republicans handily win the midterm elections in November. Those of us who oppose his illegality will look to the courts, but the federal courts will be institutionally incapable of checking his final unlawful rampage.

Trump punctuated his expressed intent to interfere in the midterm elections eight weeks ago in a national prime-time address on “election integrity,” accusing the Democrats and the Chinese in particular of threatening the free and fair elections in November. In that address, he claimed without evidence or support (as usual) that the 2026 midterm elections were being threatened by noncitizen voting, weaknesses in voter registration systems, foreign interference, and vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems.

The concocted address was universally panned as purely partisan, devoid of evidence and support, and anticipatory of his forthcoming claim in November that the Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives only because of fraud in their respective elections.

Everyone knows that the greatest threat to the upcoming midterm elections is not the Democrats or the Chinese, noncitizen voting, or electronic voting machines, but the president of the United States and his servile Republican Congress.

Every member of Congress takes a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution, an oath that obligates them to honor the will of the American electorate. It is a sacred imperative that the Congress of the United States must defend our constitutional right to choose our representatives to Congress against all enemies, domestic as well as foreign, who would deny us this fundamental right.

There was a time not long ago when virtually every member of Congress could be expected to commit to the peaceful transfer of congressional power in advance of an election, just as every president could be expected to commit to the peaceful transfer of presidential power. But those times came to an abrupt end upon Donald Trump’s arrival in January 2017. In a damning indictment of the president and today’s congressional Republicans, it would be hard to find even one congressional Republican with the integrity, sense of duty to country, honor, and courage to put America above the Republican Party, let alone above Donald Trump.

Yet America’s only hope for saving its democracy and avoiding another crippling constitutional crisis on January 3 is for the House Republicans to decide that they are not going to betray their oaths and their country one last time for Donald Trump, and telegraph to Trump and Mike Johnson that any unconstitutional plan they might be contriving to deny Democratic members-elect their rightful seats in the 120th Congress would be dead on arrival January 3.

If there are any such Republicans in the Congress today, they should announce well before November 3 that they will not be party to Trump’s and Johnson’s attempt to steal the midterm elections from the American people.

In fact, the House members of both political parties should stand united before November 3 and affirm to the American people that in the United States of America, government derives its just powers from the consent of “We the People”—the governed. They should campaign in the fall on any refusal by their political opponents to affirm the same. Their political opponents should in turn campaign on House members’ refusal to affirm that they will not be complicit in any attempt to steal the midterm elections.

Standing united before the midterm elections against any attempt by Trump and Johnson to overturn those elections would go a long way toward restoring Americans’ lost trust in their Congress and their government. It would send a powerful message to Trump and Johnson that Americans will never again be forced by their own government to endure another January 6.

While it is small solace, Americans are not entirely at the mercy of this Republican Congress to suddenly decide to honor its oath to the Constitution and the American people. It will be the Supreme Court, not Trump, Johnson, or even the House of Representatives, that will have the final word as to who will be seated in the 120th Congress of the United States.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 of the Constitution provides that “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members.” Under Clause 1, the House of Representatives is the “judge” of its “elections” and “returns.” But the House’s power is not plenary. The Constitution constrains how the House can exercise its power to refuse to seat members-elect. Indeed, in 1969, in Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ensured that the House constitutionally exercised its power to “judge the qualifications” of members-elect when it ordered the seating of New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who had won reelection in 1966 despite a House vote to refuse to seat him. Just as the court intervened then, so also will the Supreme Court ensure that the House exercises its power to “judge” its “elections” and “returns” within the limits imposed by the Constitution. At least we hope it will, but can we be sure with this court?

Whether the House constitutionally exercises its power not to seat members-elect will ultimately be determined by the federal courts and the Supreme Court—not by a majority vote of the House of Representatives.

This is how the crisis would unfold. The precursor of the crisis will come sometime before noon on January 3, when Speaker Johnson removes current House Clerk Kevin McCumber and replaces him with a person loyal to Johnson and House Republicans who they know will refuse to list on the statutory roll of representatives-elect to the 120th Congress any Democrat-elect whom Johnson and the Republicans direct him or her not to list. Under Rule II, Clause 1 of the Rules of the House, the Speaker of the House has the unilateral power to remove the incumbent clerk, and then the power under Title 2 U.S.C. § 5501(a) to replace him temporarily with whomever he wishes until the House elects a successor. McCumber is a Republican appointed by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He is widely respected for his integrity and faithful adherence to the Constitution and is reputed to be unwilling to carry out orders he considers to be unconstitutional.

The first moment of constitutional crisis will come when, sometime before the 120th Congress has been gaveled into session, the loyal temporary clerk refuses to list Democrat representatives-elect on the clerk’s roll of representatives-elect that determines who may participate in organizing the new Congress. At that moment, interested members-elect and others will be forced to seek a writ of mandamus—a court order to a government official instructing him or her to perform a mandatory duty—from the federal court to the temporary clerk, ordering him or her to list on the clerk’s roll all members-elect who have been certified by the states as having been elected from their districts to the new Congress.

Members-elect will argue that the clerk has a ministerial duty under 2 U.S.C. § 26 to list all representatives-elect whose properly filed state certifications show that they were “regularly elected in accordance with the laws of his state or of the United States.” Because the clerk has no authority to omit any duly certified representative-elect, even if a representative-elect’s election is contested, the clerk unquestionably has a ministerial duty under law to list all duly certified representatives-elect. But this begs the question whether a court will issue the writ of mandamus to the acting clerk.

At first blush, a court will be reluctant to order the clerk to list all duly certified representatives-elect because of an instinctive belief that such an order would interfere with the constitutional process of the House to judge its own elections and returns. The wise and learned judge, however, will understand that rather than interfering with the House process, issuance of the writ will actually enable the House process to proceed to completion without judicial interference. Were that wise and learned judge to issue the writ, his or her order would immediately be appealed to the Court of Appeals, and from that court to the Supreme Court, while the country and the world wait in suspense.

The next moment of constitutional crisis will come if and when, after appeals, the court finally issues the writ of mandamus, and the clerk refuses to obey the court’s order to list the Democratic representatives-elect. At that point, it is possible there will be no further federal court involvement until such time as the 120th Congress officially convenes and votes not to seat representatives-elect. Then, that vote by the 120th Congress will be immediately reviewable by the federal courts, up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States.

Judicial review of the House’s decision not to seat Democratic representatives-elect in the 120th Congress would take weeks, if not months, during which time the United States would be in the throes of a paralyzing constitutional crisis, helplessly vulnerable to all the world’s evil, as it would have been in January 2021 had Mike Pence not thwarted Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

It is not difficult to imagine the many possibilities, some of the most critical being entirely realistic. It would be the ideal moment for China to move against Taiwan, by way of military blockade, attack, or even invasion. It would be the perfect moment for Vladimir Putin to complete his conquest of Ukraine, and perhaps even to move militarily against Estonia. Every passing day could bring a deepening economic crisis, worsened by our angry allies around the world who would welcome the opportunity to requite Donald Trump for his belittling mockery of their countries and presidents. Without the Congress, the United States would be powerless to respond to any of these crises.

The House has historically claimed that its decision not to seat a member-elect because of fraud or irregularities in the elections is unreviewable by the federal courts. But its decision is reviewable. The Constitution unquestionably requires the House to seat a member-elect who was validly elected in a free and fair election. The Article 1, Section 5 power of the House to be the judge of its elections and returns does not give the House the power to deny a seat in the Congress of the United States to a candidate elected by the American people in a free and fair election on the mere assertion, pretextual or otherwise, by a simple majority of the House that the candidate’s election was tainted by fraud.

Thus, on and after January 3, if congressional Republicans were to determine that a Democratic member-elect was elected because of fraudulent voting and refuse to seat him or her, that determination would be scrutinized by the federal courts, up to and including the Supreme Court.

It will never be a nonjusticiable political question whether the United States House of Representatives by simple majority vote can refuse to seat a member elected to Congress by the American people in a free and fair election on the pretextual and unsupported assertion that the member-elect’s election was tainted by fraud. Such is the very opposite of a nonjusticiable political question committed to the House of Representatives. For in the decision of this question lies the answer to perhaps the most fundamental question under the Constitution: Is the United States of America a democracy, in which “We the People” elect our representatives to the Congress and to the presidency, or is it not?

I don’t intend to be overly sanguine about this Supreme Court. This is the court that shattered the one constitutional truth in the U.S. since 1789 that “no man is above the law” and placed Donald Trump of all presidents above the law in Trump v. United States. This is the court that betrayed the Constitution by refusing even to decide whether Trump was disqualified from the presidency under the Fourteenth Amendment because of his insurrection against the Constitution, which he clearly was. This is also the court that has cynically authorized Trump’s lawlessness for the past two years through its aptly named “shadow docket,” without so much as briefing, argument, or written opinion.

But surely by now this court must understand what it has wrought for the U.S. and the Constitution, and is aghast as we all are, even if it is not penitent. Surely, surely, it will understand the signal moment in American constitutional history that would be presented, and this time understand its supreme obligation to the nation.

Between now and November 3, congressional Republicans would do well to ponder one last time the fate of their Republican Party were the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a fraudulent determination by the 120th Republican Congress not to seat Democratic members-elect who would give the Democrats majority control of the House.

Two hundred and fifty years into the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world, the Republican Party would finally meet the fate to which it has been destined since January 6, 2021, and cement its place in history as the most corrupt political party ever to emerge in the United States of America for its second attempt in six years to defy the will of the American people on Election Day.

If we Americans are to save our democracy from the forty-seventh president and his MAGA Republican Party, we must disenthrall ourselves from our political bondage to Donald Trump and MAGA, as Abraham Lincoln urged the nation in 1863 to disenthrall itself from its bondage to the ruinous political dogmas of its time. “We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country,” the sixteenth president admonished. The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its political and moral enslavement to Donald Trump and separate itself from the MAGA political party cult.

The writing is already on the wall, Republicans.

Voice From The Past

There's a lot of these clip pieces from creators, cataloging the "remorse" of Trump voters, and the "I-Told-Ya-So" responses. It's become fashionable to throw all of MAGA's shit right back in their faces, and as gloaty and distasteful as it may seem, I think it's a necessary exercise.

But while I do actually feel a little sorry for people who get hornswoggled the way the Trumpsters did, at the same time, I'm finding it harder and harder not to enjoy the pile-on.

It's not a difficult concept, MAGA - the boot you're licking will eventually kick your ass.

And again:

The only way we get ourselves out from under this madness is by stomping on MAGA until there's nothing left but a greasy spot on the rug.

It took 80 years for the Nazi-adjacent bigoted power-mad assholes to make their comeback. 

It's time to suit up and get in the fuckin' game.

We tried to warn them. Lots of people tried to warn them.

Revisiting a piece in The Hill from July, 2024:

What is Project 2025, Heritage Foundation’s outline of conservative priorities?

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has garnered national attention in recent weeks for its right-wing policy proposals that Democrats have now launched efforts against.

Project 2025 outlines a series of policies and initiatives conservatives hope to put forward in a new administration. It has been a rallying point for Democrats, who say that the outline represents an extreme conservative agenda if Republicans win back the White House in November.

Here’s what to know about Project 2025:

What is the project?

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is a 900-page “governing agenda” that details conservative priorities should a Republican win the White House in November.

The project’s website said it includes the work and insights from more than 400 scholars and policy experts.

It’s divided into five sections and 30 chapters. The five sections are titled “Taking the Reins of Government,” “The Common Defense,” “The General Welfare,” “The Economy” and “Independent Regulatory Agencies.”

What are some of the policy proposals?

The mandate includes reshaping the powers of the executive branch, gutting small government agencies and removing diversity, equity and inclusion language from federal government.

One of the central priorities outlined in Project 2025 includes reimplementing Schedule F, which would reclassify thousands of workers so that they could be subject to swifter firing. The Associated Press noted that this could affect up to 50,000 federal workers.

Then-President Trump rolled out an executive order regarding Schedule F in 2020, but President Biden revoked it after he took office. His administration introduced a new rule earlier this year that would make it more difficult for Trump to fire federal workers if he is reelected.

The handbook also rails against abortion, demanding that the federal government cut funding for abortions in some of its programs and that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reverse its approval of abortion pills, such as mifepristone.

The foreword states that the next president must “make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors.” The foreword said this starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation, gender identity, diversity, equity and inclusion “out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”

It also calls for deleting the terms gender, gender equality, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights and “any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights.”

What are proponents of the handbook saying?

More than 50 organizations served on the advisory board for the outline, including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Young America’s Foundation and the National Center for Public Policy Research.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) pressed one of the co-authors of the handbook, Jonathan Berry, last month about the contents of the proposals. Berry doubled down on his stances, saying that he would support reimplementing Schedule F.

The leader of Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, said Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity would help lead to a “second American Revolution,” which he said would “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

The end of the handbook also includes some praise for the project from politicians, including Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

“The next conservative president must dismantle the administrative state and return power back to the states and the American people. This publication is a blueprint to do just that,” he said.

How have Democrats responded?

Biden’s campaign and Democrats have seized on Project 2025 to take aim at Trump, who has backed some ideas put forward in the outline.

Ahead of last week’s debate with Trump, Biden’s campaign projected a QR code around Atlanta that led people to a campaign page titled “Project 2025.” It references the Heritage Foundation’s playbook and warns that Trump would take away reproductive rights nationwide and use the presidency for revenge against personal enemies.

Democrats also launched an effort last month to counter Project 2025.

“Americans don’t understand just how far down the road to a dystopic, right-wing theocracy we are right now,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), who is leading the campaign. “And that, for me at least, is the priority: making sure people know it, and making sure we’re ready to confront it.”

Other critics of Project 2025 have labeled the effort as “authoritarian” and “un-American.”

They Knew

Hey, MAGA - don't try to tell me you didn't know any of this shit was going to happen if you voted for Trump.

"Trade wars are good, and easy to win"

--Donald Trump, March 2, 2018

"I'll end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours."

--Donald Trump, Waco TX, March 25, 2023

(this one's 597 days overdue now BTW)

And my fave:

He told you - and the rest of the world - what he was going to do, and everybody but you heard it? Everybody but you knew he's a lying liar who lies about everything?

Blow it out your ass, MAGA

Lucas Bean

Lucas Bean Redux

I may have put this one up before. No matter - it bears repeating.

The Fear

Maybe it's their kink - they get off on being scared and scaring each other.

Or maybe they're just a buncha whiny-butt pussies.

Or maybe they've decided to emulate their "leaders" and help propagate the nonsense - proximity to power and all that shit.

Any way it shakes out, it's really fuckin' annoying.

Anna Connelly

Lucas Bean

The Shit We're Fighting

MAGA is basically sound and fury signifying nothing, but these assholes are forceful, they have media reach, and they speak with the supreme confidence of people who get paid large piles of money to fool the rubes on the regular.

Trump was so far ahead in the 2020 Election, that Democrats had to literally shut down the count, some even stopped in the middle of the day for no reason at all, and they had to cheat on top of already cheating in order for Biden to clear the margin of victory.

Every vote that… pic.twitter.com/xgVBq2rbUi

— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) July 26, 2026

Community Note:

Counting never stopped. Michigan's Secretary of State confirmed counting ran continuously from 7 a.m. The Wisconsin vote spike came when Milwaukee reported all mail-in ballots at once around 3:30 a.m. — a long-predicted outcome that also included Trump votes.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/04/facebook-posts/battleground-states-did-not-stop-counting-votes-el/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-ignores-facts-claim-improper-vote-dumps-n1249987

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/nov/04/fact-checking-avalanche-wisconsin-election-misinfo

Turning Worms

Look at the people who were always yelling about "Don't believe the government."

They're the same people who've spent the last 10 years vehemently insisting we believe everything "their government" says.

Maybe the spell is breaking

Notes From The Fair

Been wondering how Trump manages to hang on to a 35% approval?

Wonder no more.

Wanna know how Trump got elected besides the help of Musk and Putin?

Look no further than here: ⤵️

This is how the average Trump voter actually thinks! 🚫 🧠 pic.twitter.com/bt4C5Nokhi

— Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' (@Damaan4u33) July 20, 2026

MAGA

... is an odd assortment of dopes, dildos and whiny-butt pussies.

On Mayosapien Women

MAGA Simping

MAGA rubes have taken their lesson from Trump quite efficiently - they whine about everything, but especially about how nobody respects them.

MAGA rubes are saying

they're boycotting NYC,

and they're never going there again

because of the commie mayor.

Is that Mamdani guy great or what!?!

Rich

Whatever it is the "alphas" on the right are - or think they are - they're not alphas.

A rugged individualist doesn't sit around waiting for Daddy to tell him what to think or say or do.

Dear MAGA

From one of our Canadian cousins, theofficialdawsonmckie over at Threads.

Dear MAGA,

Fuck off with the fake patriotism, the flag-wrapped tantrums, and the endless parade of red hats acting like they were personally appointed by God, Walmart, and an angry Facebook comment section.

You scream “freedom” while trying to control women’s bodies, queer people’s existence, books, classrooms, healthcare, history, elections, language, and whether somebody can wear a goddamn mask in a grocery store.

Your version of freedom is apparently just “I get to be loud, ignorant, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and never face consequences.” What a beautiful fucking little fantasy world you’ve built out of bumper stickers and lead paint.

You call everyone else snowflakes while having a full fucking emotional collapse because Target sold a rainbow shirt, a Black woman got promoted, a trans person asked to be treated like a human being, or somebody put oat milk in your coffee without saluting the Constitution first.

You do not care about children. You care about controlling women. You do not care about religion. You care about using Christianity as a weapon with a cross duct-taped to a fucking baseball bat.

You do not care about “the Constitution.” You care about whichever sentence you can drag out of it to justify being a cruel, loud, undereducated asshole in public.

You worship billionaires who would step over your fucking body to avoid paying you a living wage. You worship politicians who would not piss on you if you were on fire, unless a camera was rolling and they could turn it into a campaign ad. You call Trump a genius while he talks like a haunted rotisserie chicken with access to Wi-Fi.

Every time you say “do your research,” an actual book loses its will to live. Every time you say “common sense,” you mean whatever bullshit a guy named Dale yelled into a truck-stop microphone after three Coors Lights and a Facebook conspiracy video.

You keep calling yourselves patriots while cheering for authoritarian garbage, attacking elections when you lose, and treating democracy like a fucking vending machine that only counts if it gives you the candy bar you wanted.

That is not patriotism. That is toddler logic with firearms and a flag decal.

And the racism. The misogyny. The transphobia. The cruelty toward immigrants. The obsession with punishing anyone who does not look, pray, vote, fuck, love, or think exactly like you. You people have turned bitterness into a personality trait and ignorance into a goddamn hobby.

So no, I will not “respect your opinion” when your opinion is just cruelty wearing a flag pin.

I will not pretend your bigotry is bravery because you typed it in all caps. I will not treat your rage like intelligence because you added twelve crying-laughing emojis and misspelled “communist.”

Fuck MAGA. Fuck the cult behavior. Fuck the fake outrage.

Fuck the racist dog whistles, the misogynistic bullshit, the persecution fantasies, the fascist cosplay, and the endless whining from people who have confused being criticized with being oppressed.

You are not the silent majority. You are the loudest fucking embarrassment in the room.