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Thank you OP for introducing me to my new musical obsession, this band is so completely and totally my jam I'm almost a little annoyed nobody told me about them sooner, but a fifty year old punk band with a ton of excellent albums about surviving in a world run by Thatchers/George Ws/etc. is exactly what I needed right now

I think Kash Patel is using the FBI to dig up "dirt" on Democrats. And not even bad stuff: he is just actively investigating all of Trump's perceived enemies to see what charges might stick in court, even if they are made up. Schiff owns multiple houses, so why not try to spin that into something bad?

Basically, look up every bad thing that Republicans accused Biden of doing in Jim Jordan's "Weaponization of Government" committee, and Republicans are doing that right now.

Relevant podcast (with transcript) about a recent bullshit supreme court decision allowing DOGE goons unlimited access to social security data

Peter: ... because of this decision, your private info is functionally within the control of the White House, right? Which is something that wasn't true before. Access to enough information that you can imagine not just is there potential for, like, mass surveillance here outside of the scope of, like, the NSA and the FBI but, like, political retribution, right? They have, like, a roadmap for whatever authoritarian shit they want to do. It's just like it greases the wheels for authoritarianism in so many different conceivable ways that it's hard to list them off. But I mean, the basic bottom line here is the Supreme Court just handed Donald Trump a list of every single person in the country, how much money they've ever made, where they've lived, some of their medical histories.

Josie: Mm-hmm. Their connections, their family members, their former roommates, their educational history.

Peter: Their social networks to some degree.

Josie: Mm-hmm.

Peter: Who have you lived with? Who have they lived with, right? It's wild to think about what could be done by the administration if they really wanted to put this data to, you know, quote-unquote "good use."

Josie: I feel like the scariest part is almost the bank account information. It's like you don't—like, this is just basically pretext to cut you off from any kind of source of money you have. It's just—it just essentially, like, gives them power to ruin your life like that very easily, very efficiently.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250717123238/https://www.fivefourpod.com/episodes/the-doge-cases/

But if you're being peer pressured into it is it on purpose?

I'm sure that we can trust that the white house will keep working behind the scenes for these workers and get them better conditions after taking away any abilities they have to do that for themselves /s

Man, remember when people were saying that unironically a few years ago?

Yeah, and the only reason we were in that position to begin with was because of the Clintons' nepotistic bullshit. This country's gotten screwed hard by the arrogance of our ruling class.

Emphasis should be on that "if," because it's entirely possible the Trump administration is just making shit up and hoping they can bully small town cops who have fewer resources (and probably have been sloppy on their paperwork for years)

Also, Cosette Shachnow (the attorney here who attempted to hide her identity) left it on her LinkedIn that she works for ICE. We can't always count on them to be that stupid, but critical thinking really doesn't come naturally to Nazis.

Dems need to help Americans directly

The way they fell all over themselves to kill stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment as quickly as possible in 2021 was super telling, there's a lot of Dems that fear empowering working class people more than anything so they're constantly trying to route government money through state agencies or nonprofits or businesses to make sure "responsible" people get to set conditions on things poor people need to survive

Steelmaking is essential.

If that's the case we should nationalize it and quit giving taxpayer money to these billion dollars leeches

it was a good investment by the Biden administration.

No, it was naked corruption in the face of rising fascism that moderate Dems were too busy giving kickbacks to their friends to effectively prevent

The idea of SCOTUS being any kind of impartial arbiter of justice has been made into a complete joke because of bullshit like this and too many other incidents for me to count. Whenever we get the corrupt bastards off that court they are going to have to overturn so much garbage from the past 20 years or so.

All of this, plus I hope they enjoy retirements of either being fugitives from justice or stuck in prison cells

Has she apologized for supporting Harris in the past? Condemned Israel's genocide against the Palestinians?

She might be the best option in this race, but there have been way too many times in the past twenty years where a progressive who blew up overnight and scored an "upset" win turned out to just be another establishment shill all along.

Or he could pull some truly inhumane and unconditional stunt to deflect attention from his inability to get trade deals, or his inability to get stop Russia's war on Ukraine, or from how FEMA bungled the Texas floods on his watch or etc., or he might do something truly inhumane just because he's Donald Trump and he wants to

Pro-ICE Dems like Elisa Slotkin will do their damndest to make sure it doesn't if we let them

I am 100% against giving Republicans political sovereignty and adjacent territory.

We don't need to be changing the minds of xenophobic fucks but we do need to take their political power. Red state governments can and will cause problems for you no matter where you live.

That would just multiply the amount of inflammatory incidents we would start by fifty

You really don't think it's relevant to this story that the president who said he wanted to fund the police in his first state of the union address signed a law that allowed these Republicans to waste federal money on stupid cop bullshit? It's basically guaranteed that if any staffers inside his administration had tried to stop this county or anyone else from wasting this money on stupid cop bullshit they would've been fired on the spot because Biden thought "funding the police" was a political winner.

Stop whining about the past and work for a better future.

This is basically what Greg Abbott and all the Republicans have been saying about this with their "finger pointing is for losers" bullshit, and they're wrong too. Until more people understand our past and understand that there are a lot of shitty Democratic party members who make the damage the Republican party is able to inflict on all of us worse who need to be removed from political influence our future is fucked.

Same, I think we just got ratio'd

“Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you,” the president said

For real, he is such a weakling, even when he's throwing his little hissy fit here he's reflexively couching it in the "I'm just being 'honest' with you so you're not allowed to get mad at me for being a dick" thing

Also, "bad person," he talks like a five year old

I for one am shocked that Joe "fund the police" Biden signed a law that allowed for federal money to be wasted on cop bullshit! Gosh, if only someone has told us there were better ways to protect public safety. Like maybe some protesters or activists somewhere could have said something? I'm sure we would have listened to them and taken them seriously, and we definitely would not have tear gassed them and beat them and shot them with rubber bullets and etc.

Me, bitter? Nooo /s