Here is what I don’t get: Sometimes, Republican congress members emit a glimmer of humanity or morality or conscience. Trump promises to primary them and they get back in line. The fear of losing reelection is strong in them. So how come they are not even the slightest bit afraid of what you just said - that they are dooming their careers for a spectacularly unpopular agenda. Is it that they believe their constituents want this - despite the polls? Is it possible people who voted for Trump are pleased by their choice and if so, why? Or is it that they’re more afraid of Dear Leader being disappointed than they are of betraying their constituents and constitution?
Steady drip drip drip of his plans to kill the impoverished and the working poor. Why won't they just say it out loud. They hate poor people and hope they die (starvation/illness/hopelessness)
What a great president. what a great regime. they can't even spend the money they have in a lifetime. Fuckers.
I swear I'm not writing this hoping you'll showcase it in one of your newsletters. Haha wink wink.
I found you, don't ask me how, and I loved the name. It was eye-catching, and I fancy the occasional F-bomb, especially since all this drama deserves it.
We need this kind of news with the hysteria and epic shitshow we're living in.
THEN I SAW YOU HAVE A PODCAST. That sold me 100% to upgrade to paid. Playback speed on 1.5 beats these old bird's peepers trying to focus on words and numbers. Keep the fvckery going. Thank you!
Wait. Did you think I wrote .5? Sometimes, I play it 2.0, but if there are a lot of stats like today's, I slow it down to 1.5. now when I listen to anything at normal 1.0, it sounds really slow to me.
Weren’t there a whole bunch of Republican types all in a lather about Hunter Biden (“world’s greatest monster”—TFN) allegedly trying to make a deal for some of them Ukraine natural (gas) deposits? Maybe all that was about perceived competition for said deposits? Oh, and I don’t like cherries—sorry! As usual, excellent reporting by you.
YES! a good surprise this morning. My social security check was posted into my account! I am calling this a surprise because i am convinced at some point it may not. That thought lurks in the back of my mind constantly. My generally optimistic self continues to work for democracy. I make my phone calls each morning. Today the Freedom Writers meet to write postcards for Susan Crawford. Joins us! Postcardstovoters.org Never surrender, never give up!
I got you but I’m also aware the Republicans are taking action to increase levels of voter suppression, such as coordinated challenges of state voter rolls.
I love your coverage BUT at the end, I wish your recurring links would be to those who are actually organizing local stuff - indivisible (and its usvsmusk events at Tesla dealerships) and 50501 onreddit. Those of us who do not usually inhabit the dens of social media are finding it hard to locate our more-or-less local events BEFORE they happen. If we are fortunate enough to have any sort of local newspaper we MAY find out about them the day after.
And please do more to make the huge difference between million and BILLION visible - using M and B as shorthand really doesn’t help. Maybe revert to using 1,000 million instead? Or something more clever.
I know I've mistyped "million" instead of "billion" but I don't think I ever use M and B, do I? And, yes, I too aspire to have the direct links for resources, but tbh I couldn't find direct links when I first heard about them and my moth-ish attention then flitted elsewhere... but I will try to be better.
You don’t but maybe you should. If you can misread two very similar words that mean very different things, have some pity on those whose work doesn’t involve paying attention to M and B and T words and whose imaginations are staggered by appreciating the magnitude differences among them.
And as long as we need both crowds and courts to counter the T/M megaphone, it is crucial that folks like you with big subscriber and follower numbers get the basic organizing info out to those who are here TRYING to find where to physically go to do what we can do on the crowd side of the pushback.
Fucking evil
My day is not complete until I’ve read TFN.
Aw, thank you!
Here is what I don’t get: Sometimes, Republican congress members emit a glimmer of humanity or morality or conscience. Trump promises to primary them and they get back in line. The fear of losing reelection is strong in them. So how come they are not even the slightest bit afraid of what you just said - that they are dooming their careers for a spectacularly unpopular agenda. Is it that they believe their constituents want this - despite the polls? Is it possible people who voted for Trump are pleased by their choice and if so, why? Or is it that they’re more afraid of Dear Leader being disappointed than they are of betraying their constituents and constitution?
Steady drip drip drip of his plans to kill the impoverished and the working poor. Why won't they just say it out loud. They hate poor people and hope they die (starvation/illness/hopelessness)
What a great president. what a great regime. they can't even spend the money they have in a lifetime. Fuckers.
I swear I'm not writing this hoping you'll showcase it in one of your newsletters. Haha wink wink.
I found you, don't ask me how, and I loved the name. It was eye-catching, and I fancy the occasional F-bomb, especially since all this drama deserves it.
We need this kind of news with the hysteria and epic shitshow we're living in.
THEN I SAW YOU HAVE A PODCAST. That sold me 100% to upgrade to paid. Playback speed on 1.5 beats these old bird's peepers trying to focus on words and numbers. Keep the fvckery going. Thank you!
Wow, thanks, Linda! I have to ask, though, does 1.5 playback speed mean I'm speaking too slowly...?
Wait. Did you think I wrote .5? Sometimes, I play it 2.0, but if there are a lot of stats like today's, I slow it down to 1.5. now when I listen to anything at normal 1.0, it sounds really slow to me.
Oh, you slow it down! I thought you meant you played it at 1.5x normal speed. Should I slow down...?
No I speed it up. Normal is 1 and I put it at 1.5. Sorry to have made this more confusing. Haha
Weren’t there a whole bunch of Republican types all in a lather about Hunter Biden (“world’s greatest monster”—TFN) allegedly trying to make a deal for some of them Ukraine natural (gas) deposits? Maybe all that was about perceived competition for said deposits? Oh, and I don’t like cherries—sorry! As usual, excellent reporting by you.
Thanks, Brian!
Time for the pitchforks! Resistance is needed, whatever you can do, do it!
Ooh I love the thought that Zelenskyy is playing xillion dimensional chess re minerals deposits
YES! a good surprise this morning. My social security check was posted into my account! I am calling this a surprise because i am convinced at some point it may not. That thought lurks in the back of my mind constantly. My generally optimistic self continues to work for democracy. I make my phone calls each morning. Today the Freedom Writers meet to write postcards for Susan Crawford. Joins us! Postcardstovoters.org Never surrender, never give up!
I’m like without words. I’m so hoping we have actual free elections in future. I’m keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
We just had a free election and this ultraclown won it. What we need is a party that offers meaningful alternatives.
I got you but I’m also aware the Republicans are taking action to increase levels of voter suppression, such as coordinated challenges of state voter rolls.
Yeah, and I'm not saying we should forget the Electoral College and the Senate, both hugely anti-democratic.
Thaocnk Ymfaou!
So now he and Musk classify the elderly and the disabled as “useless eaters.”
I've been waiting for that to start.
Trump is fucking everyone over! 🤦♀️😤🤬😖☹️😡🤮🤷♀️
I love that you plug CWCW, Jonathan!!! Ty for all you do! 💙
I love your coverage BUT at the end, I wish your recurring links would be to those who are actually organizing local stuff - indivisible (and its usvsmusk events at Tesla dealerships) and 50501 onreddit. Those of us who do not usually inhabit the dens of social media are finding it hard to locate our more-or-less local events BEFORE they happen. If we are fortunate enough to have any sort of local newspaper we MAY find out about them the day after.
And please do more to make the huge difference between million and BILLION visible - using M and B as shorthand really doesn’t help. Maybe revert to using 1,000 million instead? Or something more clever.
I know I've mistyped "million" instead of "billion" but I don't think I ever use M and B, do I? And, yes, I too aspire to have the direct links for resources, but tbh I couldn't find direct links when I first heard about them and my moth-ish attention then flitted elsewhere... but I will try to be better.
You don’t but maybe you should. If you can misread two very similar words that mean very different things, have some pity on those whose work doesn’t involve paying attention to M and B and T words and whose imaginations are staggered by appreciating the magnitude differences among them.
And as long as we need both crowds and courts to counter the T/M megaphone, it is crucial that folks like you with big subscriber and follower numbers get the basic organizing info out to those who are here TRYING to find where to physically go to do what we can do on the crowd side of the pushback.
FAFO