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we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

Perfect representation of this electorate…

49.9% Everyone gets a Puppy
50.1% Diarrhea Forever

This November 2023 meme predates both the election and the current explosive diarrhea outbreaks. Original by Keith Edwards on Threads, with the caption "Every @nytimes poll feels like this."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

America has a death wish. It’s rooted in confederate, Lost-Cause, Civil War “dreams” that have been turbo-charged since the election of Obama, by their STUPID CULTURE WAR. I AM SO OVER IT!!!

The Democratic Values that unite us... individual freedoms like justice & liberty, privacy & property protections that ensure our basic right to PURSUE HAPPINESS...
These are OUR RIGHTS. Rights that have been hijacked by thin-skinned, billionaire elites, who live in isolation with undiagnosed mommy-daddy issues.
They have cultivated their own personal, extremist ideologies to make themselves into
"Gods." They want to rule over everything & everyone. Our allegiance isn't for sale.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

Two major failures of this era: 1. Cannibal-capitalist, corporate-monopolies and their SELF-REGULATION.🫣🤤 2. "When you're a STAR, they LET you do it." -trump

If they don't like the truth, they just shut their eyes & ears. They bully their peers into submitting to their singular version of one true reality!
It's the professional insanity of a personality cult, based on brainwashing & ego worship.
"When you're a STAR, they LET you do it."
-trump

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

gop = GANGSTERS with loyalty pledges, committing back alley MUGGINGS.

America's economy is trapped by the interests of CPAC public/private sectors. These
"partnerships" make hollow promises to self-regulate, as they actively POLLUTE our environment & CORRUPT our economy, faster than ever before.
The real-life consequences of their ignorance & incompetence have been EXPOSED. The gop does not govern FOR THE PEOPLE. They prioritize greed & money. They hoard & exploit our natural resources to create personal wealth.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

The economic tragedy of our lives is “showing.” Voters had 100% belief in unfounded CPAC “conservative” LIES. Generations of us were groomed to be MARKS for their SCAMS. “SpaceX May Have Surpassed Tesla as Wall Street’s Worst Capital Misallocation Ever” -Chris Katje l.smartnews.com/p-86gi0Vyh/o...

'Biggest Misallocation'

Noble, who previously ran the Fidelity Overseas Fund, said he has watched every disaster since being Lynch's auto analyst in 1981.

"I am telling you this is one of the great wealth transfers of my lifetime packed into a fancy narrative."

The investor emphasized SpaceX's lack of profits and its limited initial float, which helped fuel demand from investors drawn to the company's well-known name.

When it comes to hype, Noble can't help but compare SpaceX to another Elon-Musk led com-pany, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA).

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

An example of “CONSERVATIVE” GOP CPAC-DEREGULATED “CANNIBAL” CAPITALISM Just one CAUSE & EFFECT of DEREGULATION: Dad notices strong smell coming from daughter’s toy. Then he finds out she has been playing with something that ’causes acute leukaemia’ - Sadik Hossain l.smartnews.com/p-86y8KRbi/m...

Lab tests carried out by Trading Standards on seized samples reportedly identified the presence of several volatile organic compounds, including ethyl benzene, styrene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and o-xylene. The council said these substances are associated with the petrol-like smell that parents had reported, and that the levels detected raised significant safety concerns.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 27d

Too much WINNING. Tr*mp was right about ONE thing: we’re sick of him “winning” over Americans LOSING 'Another Shitty Situation': Trump Attack on CDC Monitoring Blamed in 'Explosive Diarrhea' Outbreak - Brad Reed …for its response to the outbreak of cyclosporiasis… l.smartnews.com/p-86AEPTWg/R...

Brad Woodhouse, president of Protect Our Care, pointed to the CDC decision to stop monitoring the cyclospora parasite as an example of the Trump administration putting Americans "in another shitty situation after laying waste to our public health infrastructure and gutting emergency preparedness."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 28d

1980s were the “beginning of the end” for today’s generations. In every sector of life. “Conservatives” bombed & murdered doctors in the name of LIFE (abortion). The 80s culture war, rooted in the old slavers evangelical religion, led us directly to the 2020 insurrection. It didn’t have to BE🤬

In the late 1980s, the rich began to change.
Soaring financial markets ushered in a new group of Wall Streeters, corporate raiders and tech pioneers. The number of billionaires jumped from 13 in 1982 to 67 in 1989. By 2000, with the bull market in full swing, the trickle turned into a tidal wave, and the population of millionaires more than tripled to eight million people- greater than the population of Sweden or Austria.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 28d

Folks… it’s obvious now to all. The billionaire owners of the corporate monopolies that feed our BABIES and LOVED ONES are murderers and thieves.

The lawsuit hinges on a laboratory report that tested two boxes of Driscoll's strawberries and
found that the produce "contained residues of 12 different pesticides at levels prohibited in the European Union, Taiwan, Chile, Korea & Russia."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 29d

Everybody do what they can, PLEASE!

It's all so maddening.
* The lying, conning & gaslighting that tr~mp & the GOP are doing...
* Aided/abetted by the billionaires controlling Fox News...
* Plus a few other (corporate & social) media platforms...

WOULD FAIL

if voters could just:
* use some common sense
* show a little interest in politics
* Google a few things every now & then

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 29d

Combover-Caligula remaking DC in HIS image, FOR SURE!!! -failed to adhere to mandatory contracting protocols -squandered funds renovating a bathroom (he disliked color) -awarding no-bid contracts. -$8 million contract to a company lacking expertise for the job l.smartnews.com/p-85Z6dalq/F...

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· 29d

Deprogram MAGA’s Trump Derangement Syndrome… People “who look at the words & deeds of DT and cannot see them for what they are. On any given day, his conduct exhibits the very antithesis of what Scripture-or anyone with the most basic sense of decency-calls virtue." l.smartnews.com/p-85OyJOX6/g...

"There is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it's not what you think," wrote Corey Nathan, who was born Jewish and subsequently converted to Christianity, in an editorial for a conservative publication called The Dispatch.
Instead of using it to describe people who criticize Trump, Nathan argued that it refers to people "who look upon the words and actions of Donald Trump and cannot see them for what they are. On any given day, his conduct exhibits the very antithesis of what Scripture-or anyone with the most basic sense of decency-calls virtue."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 10

FAFO in real life. It’s very sad. But we warned people for a decade. l.smartnews.com/p-84OJam52/H...

The editorial board highlighted how the U.S. has lost around 75,000 manufacturing jobs since
Trump took office in January 2025, over a third of which were in motor vehicle and auto part production.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 10

I’m sick of “conservative” ideology enacting rules for everyone except themselves. A billionaire is a king in this era. They shouldn’t be allowed to exist. l.smartnews.com/p-84WndBuM/a...

Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Thom Hartmann

It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 10

@moderation.bsky.app You assaulting free speech too? RUDE? I unblocked and read the “RUDE posts”. They are normal conversation!!!! How many times do you block posts & accounts for RUDENESS? What a joke! Go ahead, block all my posts… I will just leave, I need less stupid tech in my life.

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we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 9

How is this winning? Asking for a friend, her name is America. l.smartnews.com/p-83xFtOog/v...

On Monday, in the wake of a disastrous jobs report released late last week, economic analyst and former treasury official Steve Rattner noted that a key economic indicator has plunged so low that it has erased "the entire post-pandemic recovery."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 9

Trumpism reaches ‘end stage’ after president delivers ‘one final humiliation’: analysis Alexander Willis l.smartnews.com/p-83Rhuvhm/w...

"It's how it all began, right? That was literally day one of the Trump administration, when people were saying, maybe this guy will be different," Shephard said. "And you're just like, nope. It's just going to be an even dumber and worse version of what we thought. And now it's crowd sizes all the way down now."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 9

OMG. Read this and share it with everyone. The extreme hoarding of wealth and public resources for personal aggrandizement is destroying communities. Rot and corruption have replaced economic and personal growth. apple.news/AT8lNGeOHRQ2...

This concentration of capital is anathema to a thriving democracy. If money is power, Musk is now 5,208,333 times as powerful as the average American household, and he has used that power to deprive children in foreign countries of life-saving medication and scientific laboratories of much-needed financing. In general, hyper-wealth gives the hyper-wealthy outsize sway over the country's laws, regulations, elections, tax code, and courts - perverting policy outcomes, destroying social trust, destabilizing the polity's sense of itself, increasing polarization, and ultimately destabilizing the political system too. "The more unequal income distribution is in a democracy, the more at risk it is of electing a power-aggrandizing and norm-shredding head of government," the political scientists Eli Rau and Susan Stokes have found. And inequality isn't great for the economy, either. It erodes human capital. It slows growth.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 8

You mean to tell me… they still don’t get it? l.smartnews.com/p-83QgBmqQ/u...

They voted for a man who descended an escalator in 2015 and called brown-skinned Mexicans rapists, who described non-white immigrants as "vermin" who were "poisoning the blood of our country." Language historians of fascism noted at the time was lifted almost verbatim from Mein Kampf.

They voted for him again in 2024 knowing exactly who he was, knowing what he'd promised to do, knowing that Stephen Miller had spent two years describing on podcast after podcast a deportation operation that would, in Miller's own words, require building "very large staging facilities" and deploying the military against the civilian population.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 7

Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years - by 200,000 additional deaths. USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 7

Ignorant. Disastrous. PURE EVIL. The Decimation of USAID. Lawrence O’Donnell’s “The Last Word” His report on USAID & DOGE with Samantha Power, a former USAID administrator.

According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter, which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts, until it stopped operations in February 2026 - an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 5

Here it is! I found the “radicals” that the corrupt, corporate gop has been fighting against, with all their might, for decades…

Strip away the scare word and what's left is far more truly and anciently American than frighten-ing: a country where a person who works forty hours a week, no matter how complicated or how humble that work might be, can afford a home and a car, take the family on a vacation every year, put the kids through school and college, see a doctor without going bankrupt, and retire with dignity.

That's the entire "radical" program that Republi-cans, corporate Democrats, and our billionaire oligarchs are so flipped-out about.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 3

We are living through an ongoing coup. Individual freedom is being SACRIFICED to CPAC greed, personal pride, and ignorance. WAKE UP! ‘Something has gone completely wrong’: Palantir CEO Alex Karp slams OpenAI, says AI industry is "effing insane" -Mike Moore l.smartnews.com/p-82fN2kg1/B...

This follows recent criticism by the US government of firms such as Anthropic, whose Mythos 5 and Fable 5 Al models were deemed a national security risk and shut down shortly after release.

Karp went on to criticize the US government for ts reliance on Al companies in creating new technology for the military and national security.

"Are we really going to outsource the battlefield of this country to the consensus view in Silicon Valley? That is effing insane," he noted.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 3

Shocking! #BABIES are being sacrificed to a conservative #CultureWar Hiltzik: It's not just vaccines - from infancy to adolescence, Republicans are waging war on children's health -Michael Hiltzik l.smartnews.com/p-82dXeryo/K...

In the old days, before accepted medical protocols came under partisan assault, infants typically received a vitamin K shot to enhance blood-clotting capability and a few drops of an antibiotic to stave off eye infections before leaving the hospi-tal, followed by a thorough round of vaccines against life-threatening diseases.

Americans assumed that "whatever a family could afford, the country had already decided this child was worth protecting," Robert B. Shpiner, a critical care expert at UCLA medical school, wrote re-cently. "I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jul 1

So WTF we do? Democracy’s terrible secret ‘political scientist Jeffrey Winters: representative politics doesn’t restrain oligarchs, it enables them’ -MATTHEW D’ANCONA “In all ages (…) be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade.” apple.news/Aj-373xaBQOS...

The eponymous blind spot, therefore, is "our belief that democracy, as it currently stands, will give us the change we need. What we fail to see is that we live in a peculiar system that combines democracy with oligarchy: we have equal political power as voters, but our votes must contend with the unequal wealth power of oligarchs that is also built into the system."

There is a sinister ingenuity to this situation: "Extreme inequality is not just imposed on us. We participate actively in its imposition." What Winters characterises as "domination by democracy" is also, he concedes, "by far the most elegant mode of exclusion ever created".

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jun 29

'Republicans Created This Crisis on Purpose': Federal Data Shows ACA Enrollment Plunging - Jake Johnson l.smartnews.com/p-80F0QCgV/N...

"This dramatic decrease of millions of Americans losing health insurance is the result of deliberate decisions by the president and congressional leaders—it is what we feared but expected, given the end of the enhanced tax credit and other policies that make it harder to get on and stay on cov-erage," said Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group Families USA. "As a result, millions more will end up uninsured, living sicker, dying younger, and being one emergency away from financial ruin."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jun 29

Impossible to fully grasp the scale of corruption that has been unleashed on the country… it’s an illegal takeover of every federal service… it’s for tr*mp & his cronies own private enrichment. “redesign of US gov’t websites stokes surveillance fears” Jason Wilson l.smartnews.com/p-80iinOgg/l...

Analysis of the underlying source code for four of the websites found that on at least two of them, the studio installed a commercial tool called Post-Hog that closely tracks what every visitor does on the site. Another tool, apparently made in-house, sends user data to a destination that is not visible on the public internet.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jun 27

Evangelicals humiliated as Trump falls asleep on them — twice Adam Lynch “CONSERVATIVE” TRUE COLORS l.smartnews.com/p-7ZGpLf8I/1...

But now, "his hold on the group may be starting to slip, as indicated by a recent poll from Reuters showing his approval rating with evangelicals has fallen to 52 percent, she said. That's still more than half - but back in March of 2025, it was 82 percent. In other words, Trump has seen a dramatic collapse among one of his most essential support groups.

But evangelicals "don't care that Trump is an enemy of their faith," said Easley.

"All they care about is a political agenda. Trump understood this and knew that these people would sell out their faith for political power. Now that Trump no longer needs them or their votes, he doesn't have to pretend anymore and can humiliate them by sleeping as they speak."

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jun 21

The wrinkled emperor has no clothes — and even his own supporters are finally Waking up. D. Earl Stephens gop leadership: loyalty = convenience patriotism = self-idolization principle = anything that suits his need and his pleasure. Excuse me while I throw up.” l.smartnews.com/p-7WOwgS76/U...

I really like the ordering of this phrasing, to include the last line, because this writer like so many of us, has been laid low by what we have been fed in a steady stream by the human dumpster, Donald Trump, as he empties his raw sewage atop the American people, and then watches as the Republican treatment plant sanitizes it and processes it into the manure that has helped grow this dangerous Christian white supremacist cult across this roiling country.

we there yet?@seriousdreamer· Jun 19

OH MY! WHO COULD KNOW THAT WOULD HAPPEN???!!! These effing people are so effing stupid… I can’t even be surprised by their stupid decisions ANYMORE! Who is looking out for America during this rolling saga of gop/corporate destruction. 🫣🥸🤤😶‍🌫️😳😭🤬 l.smartnews.com/p-7WCgOjVm/1...