Gravitar Profundus
gravitarprofundus.bsky.social
Gravitar Profundus
@gravitarprofundus.bsky.social
Co-Host: Endgame: America. Writer: Truthout, Buzzflash. Contributor: ProgressiveBlendRadio: The More Me Show; Trumpled Underfoot. Lawyer, Historian, Bloviator, Abu El Banat

"I don't want to belong to a club that would have ME as a member."
- Groucho Marx
The last admin may have left the US with a weak immune system, but the current one is close to having us go septic.
February 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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They're eating the checks!

They're eating the balances!
February 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Did elon acquire the nuclear codes yet?
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
So musk is essentially commandeering the financial apparatus of the country while we watch him do it.
February 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There is too much cooperating going on among too many people who have the ability and resources to directly resist what is already going profoundly wrong with this new administration. Shock and awe moving fast. How do we recover and get ahead of it?
January 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Call in ICE raids to trump supporters. ICE WHITEY!!!
#Iwillnotcomply #ICEWHITEY
January 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
They're trying to turn us into Stalinist Russia.
#Iwillnotcomply
January 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I will not comply
January 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Biden should do a Reagan-style immigrant amnesty at 10:30 EST tomorrow morning.
January 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
trump supporters don't think as you do about people and policy. Imagine the mindset of Americans in about 1875 or so. Robber barons were taking over, imperialism was a new idea in the US, Reconstruction was about to officially transition into the Jim Crow era. Know who you're actually dealing with.
January 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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January 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Jimmy Carter was right about everything.
December 30, 2024 at 5:06 AM
December 21, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Elon Musk is a dogebag. He should be declared a national threat and immediately deported. All contracts canceled.

WAKE UP JOEY LET'S DO THIS!!!
December 20, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Where's Joey?
December 20, 2024 at 2:54 AM
When admins change from one party to the next, the exiting party gets their last budget. Then the incoming party gets to blame the former folks if anything goes wrong but take credit if it goes right. trump has already commandeered this process so he's now responsible for anything that goes wrong.
December 19, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Let them eat
"He has now openly owned the Government Shutdown.
It and its consequences for the American people, its safety, its security, its health, the economy... are all now 100% the problem of the Republican Party.
This is what the Republicans want."
The knives are out and I am here for it. MAGA Republican cannibalism is my absolute favorite, let them eat their own. Looks like Chip Roy won't tow the line so he will be primaried, couldn't happen to a better person. Republicans in disarray!!
December 19, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Summation: if democrats want to be an opposition party, then act like it immediately. If dems sit and wait to see, then the beast outruns you from the get-go. So get going.
What I take away from this is less that Murphy is demanding Dems change tack now, but that they be clear-eyed during the actual fight. Also, the observation that the DOGE clownery, absent tyrannical moves like impoundment, will be anything but clownery is really astute.
Important from Sen Chris Murphy: He says Dems are not functioning as an effective opposition to Trump's accelerating authoritarianism right now, and that this is dangerously complacent.

I pushed him on this, and we had a long exchange. In these four screen caps:

newrepublic.com/article/1895...
December 19, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The reason America is messed up is because its people have no idea who they are and no idea how to figure it out. This is also the most interesting and exasperating thing about the place. 1/2
December 18, 2024 at 3:59 AM
I prefer to call myself a liberal. I do so because I begin my approach to politics and policy as I do in most things: that the concerns of people come first. Business matters. But people come first. Obviously this statement demands expansion, but this is a start...
December 14, 2024 at 11:16 PM
What exactly are "laminated eyebrows"? Does it relate in any way to the joke George Carlin made decades ago about "getting [his] testicles laminated"?
December 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM