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  1. This is #brilliant (from Democratic Socialists of America USA)

    “I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally #toxic and depraved he is.

    “I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

    “If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy.

    “If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in #humiliation and #conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.

    “If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, #bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy.

    “If wh*** #grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If #warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If #empathy feels like weakness and #dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.

    “If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them.

    “That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

    “It was never really about him. It was about the #Validation. The #absolution. The #permission. He didn’t invent the #resentment he amplified it. He didn’t create the #cruelty he #normalized it. He gave millions the #intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest #impulses echoed back at rally volume.”

    dsausa.org/

  2. This is #brilliant (from Democratic Socialists of America USA)

    “I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally #toxic and depraved he is.

    “I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

    “If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy.

    “If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in #humiliation and #conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.

    “If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, #bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy.

    “If wh*** #grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If #warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If #empathy feels like weakness and #dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.

    “If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them.

    “That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

    “It was never really about him. It was about the #Validation. The #absolution. The #permission. He didn’t invent the #resentment he amplified it. He didn’t create the #cruelty he #normalized it. He gave millions the #intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest #impulses echoed back at rally volume.”

    dsausa.org/

  3. Why are the US #Democrats so absolutely #useless?

    "Oh, we might skip the State of the Union address to show our displeasure with the administration."

    Are you #morons? That would be a gift to Dear Leader and his #lickspittle #Congress. The #SOTU would be Mango Mussolini speaking to a friendly crowd, all happy, applauding, not a contrary expression to be seen. He'll be happy, smiling, at his most congenial as he basks in the warm glow. You do not do this.

    What you do is attend. Every #Democratic #house member and #senator. Every staffer and guest that they're entitled to bring. Everyone. You put them all in their assigned places.

    And then, when Trump gets up to speak, every single one of them simply turns away from the dictator. Turn their back to him, and *stay* that way for the whole speech. The #optics are great; the cameras show half the crowd with their backs to him, in obvious #protest. The #tyrant has to look at it all through his speech. He's angry. He's spiteful. He puts on a display for the ages, goes off-script, airing every #grievance his Swiss-cheese mind can dredge up. His body language is hostile. #Media coverage shows the event for what it actually is: a #vengeful, #lawless #authoritarian trying to verbally browbeat the legislative branch into submission.

    #DNC, I'm available for consulting if you'd like.

    #USPol #DearLeader #dictator #StateOfTheUnion #MangoMussolini #Trump

  4. The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

    More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

    #festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

  5. The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

    More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

    #festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

  6. The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

    More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

    #festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

  7. The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

    More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

    #festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

  8. The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

    More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

    #festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

  9. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest.
     
    [ὅταν λίαν ἀγανακτῇς ἢ καὶ δυσπαθῇς, ἀκαριαῖος ὁ ἀνθρώπειος βίος καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον πάντες ἐξετάθημεν.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8183…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #anger #annoyance #brevity #death #frustration #grievance #impatience #indignance #life #lifeisshort #loseyourtemper #mortality #passageoftime #provocation #resentment #upset #vexation #worry

  10. What makes Trump unusual, is the synthesis of Berlusconi's #shamelessness, Andrew Jackson's #grievance (election fraud obsession), Napoleon III's institutional #vandalism (in the name of "people against system"), Longian #clientelism, Chavista #polarization, George Wallace-style cultural #backlash, P.T. Barnum's #hoax culture, Caligula's murderous #arbitrariness, Nero's #narcissism, and Mussolini's corporate strongman aesthetics. Compound into a single organism sustained by #X and #FoxNews

  11. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. A grievance can almost serve as a substitute for hope; it not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 166 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17825/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #complaint #grievance #hope #hopelessness #purpose #resentment

  12. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    We derive a certain satisfaction from being sinned against. It is not only that a grievance adds content to our lives, but also that it makes less monstrous the flame of malice which like a vigil light flickers in the dimness of our souls.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 120 (1955)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/78121/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #indignation #complaint #grievance #justification #perspective #selfrighteousness #victim #victimization

  13. Tuning in to #gbnews to watch coverage of #kneecap #glasto25 set. Treated to a gloriously comic display of wobbly lower lips and snowflakery as guests provide a safe space for each other's delicate and bruised feelings. At the core of their political #grievance appears to be that free speech is good but not when the speech is so naughty and hurty that it makes them want to cry.

    #snowflakes #SafeSpaces #WokeRight #FreeSpeech

  14. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Old dorgs nuss their grudges, but yung pupps fight and then frolik.
     
    [Old dogs nurse their grudges, but young pups fight and then frolic.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76552/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #conflict #grievance #grudge #hardfeelings #illwill #reconciliation #resentment #resolution #venting

  15. NYT Columnist #DavidFrench: citing JDVance who says, "our people #hate the right people" -- "that's the language of #grievance & #anger. But there's a better way for men - for all of us. It's rooted in #honor, #courage, & #love." #strongertogether #belovedcommunity #lovetrumpshate bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

  16. NYT Columnist #DavidFrench: citing JDVance who says, "our people #hate the right people" -- "that's the language of #grievance & #anger. But there's a better way for men - for all of us. It's rooted in #honor, #courage, & #love." #strongertogether #belovedcommunity #lovetrumpshate bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

  17. NYT Columnist #DavidFrench: citing JDVance who says, "our people #hate the right people" -- "that's the language of #grievance & #anger. But there's a better way for men - for all of us. It's rooted in #honor, #courage, & #love." #strongertogether #belovedcommunity #lovetrumpshate bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

  18. NYT Columnist #DavidFrench: citing JDVance who says, "our people #hate the right people" -- "that's the language of #grievance & #anger. But there's a better way for men - for all of us. It's rooted in #honor, #courage, & #love." #strongertogether #belovedcommunity #lovetrumpshate bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

  19. "This is someone who is #unstable, obsessed w/ #revenge, consumed w/ #grievance & out for unchecked #power. Donald #Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people #divided & #afraid of each other," #KamalaHarris said criticizing Trump for his "#EnemyWithin" language.
    Pivoting to her promise to Americans, she pledged "to seek #CommonGround & #CommonSense solutions to make your lives better. I am not looking to score political points. I am looking to make #progress."

    #HarrisWalz2024

  20. Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism

    After 10 minutes of playing immigration “#gotcha”,
    Baier pivoted to the obvious next subject,
    airing a video clip in which Harris expressed support for transgender people in prisons.

    Immigrant hatred.

    Transphobia.

    And later, Joe Biden’s age.

    Baier was running through the Fox News greatest hits playlist.

    This was #grievance #theater, not political journalism.

    ❇️. But Harris got in her licks. She had her moments.

    Chiming in afterwards in what some saw as 🔸corporate damage control,
    Baier’s colleagues on Fox News gushed their approval.

    Martha MacCallum termed Baier’s performance “masterful”, while Dana Perino analyzed the interview as “super good”.

    I can’t imagine that too many viewers agreed.
    If they came to it expecting to learn more about Harris’s policies or get a true sense of her character, they would have been disappointed.

    That wasn’t the gameplan, and it wasn’t the result.

    But Harris accomplished something anyway.

    ⭐️Merely by sitting down with a Fox host, she made a few statements.

    ✅First, that she is unafraid and is willing to speak to all voters.
    It’s hard to imagine Donald Trump, these days, submitting to an interview with, say, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC;

    just this week, he turned away from a CNBC interview, and earlier canceled a CBS News 60 Minutes agreement.

    ✅ Second, Harris did manage to introduce a few snippets of reality to dedicated Fox viewers who probably haven’t been exposed to some of the most troubling criticisms of Trump.

    “That he’s unfit to serve. That he’s unstable. That’s he’s dangerous,” was how she characterized what millions of Americans are feeling.

    “And that people are exhausted.”

    She even was able to mention, at some length, the harsh view of the former commander-in-chief from #Mark #Milley, who served in two top military roles
    – including chair of the joint chiefs of staff
    – during the Trump administration.

    Milley has called Trump♦️ “fascist to the core”
    and has said that
    💥no one has ever been as dangerous to the United States.

  21. A book for our times: The Age of Grievance
    by #FrankBruni.

    “The twists and turns of American #politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It’s one of #grievance.

    More and more Americans are convinced that they’re losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it.

    The #Blame game has become the country’s most popular sport and #Victimhood its most fashionable garb.”

    #politicalwire
    politicalwire.com/2024/03/28/t

  22. No family in American history is as #whiny and #pathetic as the #Trumps They see #grievance at every turn, and complain about every perceived slight no matter how small and #petty. I hope all the worst things in life happen to them. If they're going to bitch and moan about everything, we might as well get our money's worth.

    mediaite.com/trump/eric-trump-

  23. Iceland Workers Continue Their Fight

    rebelnews.ie/2023/07/28/icelan

    Iceland workers are fighting back after being shorted wages they are owed. An occupation at the Talbot Street store has now entered its second month.

    #Talbot #Occupied #Occupy #exploitation #workers #missingwages #wagetheft #grievance #unionize #examiner #criminalowner

  24. @TomWellborn

    coward #donthecon
    always #projecting his #narcissistic #insecurities, #criminal aspirations and #grievance #whining onto the "them" in his 'look what they've taken' saga of been done wrong

    hard to imagine #magats can't see through the #spraytan
    #gagingagorder