The whole notion of 'Murica borders on being a religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

Boy howdy when I found this the first time I was in high school. What an eye opener! It explained so much of what I experienced in school and the beliefs my peers carried.

It looks like this article first popped up in 2006, that tracks, I first read it before 2011 and after 2007.

Bubba probably called Trump, “Good Piggy.” when he finished.

This an image that is now seared in my brain and everyone must suffer.

I am fully expecting an attack on sovereign Venezuelan territory. Maybe not this week or next but rump is flagging, his dementia is catching up, it’s obvious and the people behind big boy rump are nervous. Classical political thinking in the US is that you cannot attack a war time president. They’ve been attacking random fishing boats and killing people and causing international problems. But we know that Venezuela is no real that to our country. Like fighting them would suck but it hurts them more than us unless a global power joins in.

So someone orders a strike inside of Venezuela. It’s a direct provocation and Venezuela has to make a show of defending itself. rump and friends say this is a declaration of war, scramble the birds, America is under attack! Or some bullshit but it’s just the US army invading a poorer nation with a small military where the general populace doesn’t want us there and never wanted us there.

Suddenly rump is a wartime Pres with all the social and political cover that provides. It allows the crackdown in American cities because now protestors aren’t just dancing in costumes. They are dancing in costumes protesting a country at war… Clearly that’s too far and we need to crush these Venezuelan funded terrorists… Or whatever the headline from our gov will be.

I dunno, we’re so cooked. Anyone know groups in other countries that’ll help trans people move out of the US?

Yes. Yes they are, we have many reports of them hauling off citizens, tourists, and especially legal residents.

It’s actually the reason people are upset. Obama deported way more than trump but he used courts to do it and you know what, no spectacle! It was methodical and systematic and sometimes I’m sure it was cruel and shocking but they followed a well documented legal procedure which gave people some guidance on the process.

rump and his administration on the other hand don’t give a fuck. Chaos and cruelty are the point. The rules and proceedings that we have built up are out the window because they give people too much warning. They allow people too much understanding of the process. There is not enough fear involved if they follow procedure. They like fear and people being afraid of them. It’s part of why the inflatable costumes piss them off so much. Protestors being ridiculous and silly juxtaposed with ICE treating inflatable frogs and unicorns as a violent threat. It makes ice look small, weak, jumpy, and most of all, in the wrong.

But yes they are hauling off tourists and legal residents to answer your question. They then revoke whatever visa they’re on including revoke permanent residence without due process… It’s what we in the business call really fucking awful.

You can have proof that you live here, have lived here for 20 years, legally although you might have arrived without documentation. You have a spouse, children, maybe even put together money for a house. And then ICE shows up to at you claiming that a DUI you received 18 years ago is justification for removal from the country and your family and your life. Oh and we’re shipping you back to the country where you’re on a hit list.

It’s just cruel for the sake of cruelty.

Or, alternatively, getting gunned down in classrooms!

Recovery from General is kind of rough but I think it’s the only thing that my insurance would cover too. I had all the work in my mouth done at once under general for 8 hours. The follow-up 4 hour procedure was done under IV sedation where they give you fentanyl.

That stuff is a miracle. It feels easy on the body, like I woke up and could semi function after a couple hours instead of two or three days later from the GA. I didn’t feel or remember anything. And while I was nervous because in my previous experience I really like opioids, there is no lingering wish to go to the dentist for more really expensive drugs. Heck, I don’t remember any of it.

Yes, we currently have something similar although it’s less comprehensive. That’s what the article is about.

Keep an eye on the Seattle election. If the progressive wins the race there will be a lot of gearing up for a huge influx of people. The people are expected either way but the progressive want to do something to house them and the conservatives want it all to be a surprise.

My family is interested in going international however.

¿Porque no los dos?

Definitely correct. My brain does not want to interpret 50501 as making anything being maybe a zip code. That’s my bad.

Definitely correct. My brain does not want to interpret 50501 as making anything being maybe a zip code. That’s my bad.

Definitely correct. My brain does not want to interpret 50501 as making anything being maybe a zip code. That’s my bad.

I read the comment above as, “Our anti-Nazis are baby stuff compared to during Hitler’s rise. They legally organized in Germany and still failed. One day a week protests aren’t going to cut it. We need to shut down cities all week, all month, all year until the Nazis in our government are removed.”

But hey perspectives I guess.

EDIT: You know what everyone is right. I had to Google it after waking up. I struggle so much with recognizing 50501 as literally anything other than a string of numbers. But the 50501 movement is definitely anti-nazis. And now I read the comment differently. My sentiment still stands but the other person’s is more questionable in my brain now.

Edit 2: Our Nazis are baby stuff compared to Hitler shit. --> anti-Nazis are baby stuff compared to during Hitler’s rise.

I would not be surprised, but it would be disappointing. I want to believe people are smarter than voting against their own interests. But I’ve been proven wrong in that so many times I don’t have any faith.

The other person is definitely callous but like this is the obvious result of a Trump presidency.

Cruelty is the goal for Trump and his administration.

If we care about everything bad that will or might happen we’re going shut down and give up. We only have so much bandwidth for terrible stuff.

I would say, yes. However that is foreign policy. That doesn’t make it better in any regards just easier to stomach. Biden supporting Israel could be some bigger game that I’m not seeing, doubtful, or pull us into a war that we don’t want to be in defending a genocidal country… Much more likely. But it doesn’t affect my day to day.

Trump and the Republicans supporting isolationist policies affect my day to day. It makes getting clothing and appliances more expensive. Cars become more expensive if we need to buy one again. Medicine produced overseas becomes more expensive.

It also lets traditional adversaries of the beliefs I hold, such as self determination and governance, run rampant. To clarify, I’m thinking Ukraine war in particular there. But also the Republicans support Israel unfailingly and it’s fucked up there too. In both cases people who want to govern themselves are not being allowed to do so by the force of a larger neighbor.

So both sides suck for foreign policy, but one sucks worse and the one that sucks worse is also throwing everything into chaos domestically. Our family is well off enough we can likely weather the storm, pay off or mortgage if we have to, etc. But even we are looking at the future with concern and trepidation. We just upgraded a computer we were going to wait another year or two to upgrade because who knows what it will cost to upgrade it in the future. We are looking at our clothes and making sure we’re good there and generally preparing to spend less. It’s a frightening position to be in because I moved into the middle class during Biden. And this upcoming economic uncertainty is really shaking me in a way I never could have expected. I’m the past I never would have been able to plan ahead for expenses… Now I can and suddenly I’m finding that we will need to be more careful in what we buy and spend on. It’s a wild feeling and I know I’m not alone in feeling it. The movement of money is going to slow under Trump. That is going to have ripple on effects long after his term is over.

I got to rambling a bit but I hope this helps answer your question.