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Linda Lee Sand's avatar

"Animal Farm ends with the pigs and humans indistinguishable from each other..." "Quiet, Piggy!" says the sitting president. Ooof.

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Linda Aldrich's avatar

And while you are abandoning X might as well block the steers person👆

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Seconded

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JMcKay's avatar

Mike you need to abandon X -

it is a cesspool that is set up to minimize your information

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Stephen Strum, MD, FACP's avatar

Mike, you obviously are not a conspiracy theorist, but rather someone who has critically assessed the harsh reality of the situation in the US during the "error" (sic) of Trump. Trump violates and deviate from so many aspects of life that involves:

Humility, Benevolence*, Altruism, and Magnanimity

and has replaced the above with Ego, Envy, Avarice and Ambition. A comprehensive description of King Donald is presented below.

“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul-all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair.

Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't, but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel.

It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul-it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.” Oliver Kornetzke, 9/3/25

Some of you, and I can guess at least one, will find fault with the above. Our Founding Fathers were prophetic and warned us about sorts like DJT.

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have always been the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans, it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people." — James Madison, personal notes from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, June 29, 1787

⇢ wait & see if we do not have Trump declaring war on Venezuela

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases." — John Adams

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour."— John Adams

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy, yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty." —John Adams

"We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people." — John Adams

"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people." — John Adams

"When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone." — John Adams

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." — John Adams

"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." — John Adams

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many." — John Adams

The equation 2+2=4 is presented as simple, self-obvious truth.

I would add this equation:

c[i1 + i2] + p(CM) x p[Am + Av + R]= level of Totalitarianism under Trump

c= citizenry; i1 = ignorance; i2 = indifference; p = POTUS; Am = ambition; AV = avarice; R = revenge factor.

I think Adams was right in his grasp of the nature of political life. Can this Nation find its way back?

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Seldon Crisis Log's avatar

Dude, why on earth are you still on Xchan? There’s no reason to stay, as you’ve discovered Elon suppresses anyone with political views he opposes. Before I left my tweets were getting zero engagement, yet before Musk I would occasionally get up to 1000 likes. It’s a rigged game. Engaging there only legitimizes Musk’s fascist bs.

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Steersman's avatar

🙄 Yadda, yadda, yadda.

You might note that it was Trump's EO on "Restoring Biological Truth to Government" which explicitly -- and resoundingly, from the White House, no less -- championed a "2+2=4", supposedly your guiding principle, in asserting that "women are adult human females", in denying the [Democrat] Party's insistence, with thumbscrews, that "2+2=5", that "trans women are women".

WH: (d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/

No way on gawd's green earth that any transwoman-- compound word like "crayfish" which ain't -- is EVER going to produce any of those "large reproductive cells". If there's no ova coming off the end of the (re)production line then, ergo, not a female. Q.E.D. Case closed, with prejudice.

That is NOT just a matter of "self-identification", a barking-mad "principle" that's the substance of Trump's quite justified insistence that government documents like passports reflect "sex at birth", not a fantasy, not part of a "paraphilia" of mostly male transvestites:

NYTimes: New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans; The Trump administration has said that the U.S. passports of transgender people must now reflect the sex on their original birth certificate, reversing a decades-old policy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/transgender-passports-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E8.KODF.GBVBR8X0A1ky&smid=url-share

Or maybe you "think" that "THE New York Times" is just part of "The Matrix!!11!!", something cut from whole cloth by Trump's Ministry of Truth? 🙄

Whatever failings Trump might have in other venues -- and the [SCOTUS] jury is still out on several of them -- I kinda think -- on no small amount of evidence, on some quite "brutish" brute facts -- that they're small potatoes beside that case.

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