There's one guy at chiefsplanet that uses this phrase

And I think Limbaugh was recently talking exceptionalism, beacon of hope etc

A fledgling rushling was inspired to leave the safety of the nest and own libs

fly fly away, little Rushling

All these nooses keep appearing somehow...

https://www.apnews.com/e1137934681c4...source=Twitter

meanwhile in trump's america

Its amazing to see, these guys are hero's.... Just like this dude from our city, he goes out at night with enough food to feed all our homeless folks in the city centre & our city can be rough at night.. True hero's.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/g...lping-14665032

The area his wife cooks in is a scary place at night, one of our worst areas for random stabbings... True heros.

In my heart of hearts
I know there's more love left for you
But love is not enough, I've learned
To see the journey through

How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood

Finding data to ridicule trumpkins has become a very active field of research.

This article is good on its own, about how many public dollars go to Confederacy apologia, but this nugget from Trump's America:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...ort-180970731/

Just saying the quiet parts loud. Don't you need to be initiated into the Klan and give them the secret handshake before the tour guides start telling you how wonderful slavery was?

Also good to see "we're actually neutral by countering all of the liberal bias with strident right wing propaganda" has spread out from Fox News to museums.

Anyway, how do we get the fine folks from the Smithsonian Magazine over to the news beat?:

I didn't make it past the header photo for a good laugh.
Variety of expressions by the kids. White kids, black kids. Asian girl. Priceless

Trump's World: Assault charges filed after English teens bully and attack Syrian refugee teen who doesn't fight back

Surely this caused the nice natives of England to rethink the way they behave towards refugees, right?

Dammit that’s why we need to keep those damn Muslims out of our country! Those homeless people should be getting real ‘murican food!

I wish people would grow out of "might makes right." About half the world is still governed by that principle.

From suzzer's link:

Bolded seems to be ignoring the mechanisms of reinforcement that have developed around Trump, as well as how the "shared psychosis" these people live within is mostly an extension of the same one the right has been spinning up for decades. Right wing operatives and media aren't going to just let these people heal and return to the real world when they know the buttons to mash to reactivate them.

So we're still abducting kids again even though it's illegal because nothing matters anymore.

Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed

This won't stop unless the relevant agencies are completely purged. FlyWF posted a pic that the border patrol was using on their website to encourage ex-military to join up. The dude in the picture had Nazi tattoos all over him.

Gonna be lit when whatever happens to Trump (impeachment, finishes his two terms, heart attack, whatever) goes down, he leaves office, and the radical centrists and libs throw a parade about how we were this close to losing the precious system and the rule of law but it eventually triumphed and held on because of how exceptionally awesome we are. Shame about those separated kids and ignored court orders tho.

When Trump finally goes away there’s going to be a whole lot of back-patting and celebrating our system of checks and balances.

Exactly ****ing that. It should be a cardinal rule to never utter trump's name without mentioning GOP. It's Negan/Saviors. They are all Trump.


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It’s not so much Trump or even the GOP I worry about so much as all the fundamental checks and balances we learn about in school that are supposed to be so sacred are actually just a bunch of gentlemen’s agreements that can be tossed aside without consequence. You can illegally round up kids and refuse to hold votes on SCOTUS nominees —so long as your team has the Senate, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

There absolutely is something we can do about it, but we choose not to. The longer this goes on, the more we need to start looking in the mirror when we want to assign blame.

I'm not trying to be cute or anything here, I promise:

What is it that you think we can do? For big picture things like families being separated at the border and the senate not functioning correctly - what is a person who lives in like the northeastern US supposed to do? A person can only devote so much of their time to protesting, especially when there appears to be no wide-scale motivation to do so among the populace, and protesting doesn't even really seem like it does anything.

I think political violence is a legitimate tactic, and one that we're probably beyond the point of needing, but I personally am way too cowardly to do anything like that. If what you're suggesting is "be less cowardly" then, yeah, I guess you're right? But that doesn't seem like a realistic way out of this when like 99% of the country has no idea the depth of the **** show that we're in.

I guess I'm just talking myself into the fact that this country is going to just continue swirling down the toilet of the authoritarian right in perpetuity.

I think he is hinting at voting more and being more informed generally about what in fact you are voting for. So yeah good luck with that.

I don't really disagree with any of this. I don't have a plan that I think will work in this country. I don't have a way out of this mess.

What I do have is a growing certainty that we all need to own up to our share of guilt. We own this collectively as a nation. Voting for Hillary and being outraged on the internet doesn't absolve us of our responsibility for what's happening.

We're the majority. We can stop all of this anytime we want, but we don't. We're letting it happen. We enabled the Trumpening just as much as the GOP and Fox. We're a **** country and we should all be ashamed for our role in it.

I pretty much agree with all of that which is why I've gotten out and protested a couple times and volunteered a couple times, but that still leaves me ashamed I haven't done more (far, far, far, far more).

Honestly, we should all be standing at the border between the *******s with tear gas and the mothers and children. We should be standing outside the detention centers where they are being separated every day. **** our jobs, **** our comfortable lives, **** waiting two more years for the next election.

The problem is we have no critical mass. If there were even 10,000 people doing that, I'd probably go for a week or something. The other problem is that getting arrested, losing a job, etc, is counter productive for most people in terms of having the most impact in 2020 and beyond.

Which leads to, can we organize that many people to go to begin building critical mass? How many people would it take to get some news coverage? If 25 of us here tried to do that, we'd need to each bring 400 people. That seems virtually impossible at a grassroots level, and most people I know think that voting and being outraged on the Internet is enough.

I think that there are probably over a million Americans who feel the same way and would be down to go protest this, but they aren't on a mailing list or able to be reached. Ultimately maybe MoveOn or someone like that could organize it.

The other problem is that most people have politics fatigue right now after the election and will tune out for a while - even I've cut back my posting and time spent on politics for a combination of that and some stuff going on in my personal life.

And lastly, if we remember that there are at least a dozen things going on right now that demand a high level of outrage and activism, what are we to do? We can't go protest at the border, at the detention centers, at the Wisconsin state house, at Capitol Hill, at the White House, in Georgia, wherever we go for unarmed black men being shot (seems like just about anywhere), at the NRA HQ, etc, etc all at once. So basically it seems like most national organizations are trying to keep the cork in the bottle until the major stuff (threats to Mueller) and then organize national efforts.

While that may not say much for the moral character of America, it also may be the optimal strategy to surviving Trumpism...