What hope can we salvage? Not much. Except that, like a kidney stone, this too shall pass.
*Anti-Musk: The social media site picking up a lot of X refugees in Australia
Elon Musk deletes tweet with unfounded theory about Pelosi attack
BREAKING NEWS: VLADIMIR PUTIN WINS WHITE HOUSE
Taliban congratulate Americans for 'not handing leadership of their great country to a woman'
Note: Trump has still not called Biden to congratulate him on his victory 1,463 days ago.
Musk’s Twitter reminds me of that old Soviet joke, “Sometimes the past is rewritten so fast that you don’t know what will happen yesterday”.
As B Webb of the Guardian observes: 'Exchanging brutalism for another is not what Havel and his kind have in mind nor do such prescriptions fit the democratic habit of the Czechoslovak temperament, formed long before communism's arrival to power.
Time in history to decimate x account
Democrats: Billionaires should pay their fair share. Billionaires: We'll buy the entire country before we pay a dollar more in taxes.
“F* It, Let’s Give Fascism a Go!” America Says
Monopoly on Truth “They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" proved a more effective message than "Let me help you buy your first house."
There's a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO HOLD, BUT ONCE YOU BREAK IT, THEN IT'S SOLD. You can say the same about democracy.
Opinion | A doomsday media reaction following Donald Trump’s presidential victory
After winning a second term, Trump now seems emboldened to continue his assault on the media
Donald Trump won because he offered a majority of Americans what they wanted: anger and drama,
writes in The Atlantic Daily. But those who expect that Trump will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised.
South Carolina prof decries GOP as party of the ‘uneducated’ who hold America ‘hostage.’
One Day closer for President VANCE … You should very much consider Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to be co-Presidents of the United States.
America Did This to Itself And now we all must suffer through it.
Shame on the Elon enablers Disconnect
The Machiavellis of the Market: Entrepreneurs Against Democracy LPE Project
You could not make this up … I gather we all deserve Trump and Musk in our lives …
Rolling Stone rips into Donald Trump and his victory: “Donald Trump- the twice impeached former president, Jan. 6 coup leader, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, and man who mismanaged the 2020 economic implosion and coronavirus disaster that killed more than 1 million people in this country, has convinced American voters to give him another term in the White House. After a campaign marked by nativism, open bigotry, and aspiring authoritarianism, Trump triumphed over Vice President Kamala Harris, despite being denounced by several of those who worked most closely with him in his first term as a ‘fascist’. The 45th president will become the 47th in late January. Trump’s win demonstrates that the most powerful people in the country are indeed above the law. An elderly, foul-mouthed, racist game-show host can try, in broad daylight, while the TV cameras are fixed on him, to execute a coup d’état in our nation’s capital, people can die from it, and in a few shorts years be rewarded with the full-throated support of his political party, and now the keys to the White House. No matter what policies Trump does or doesn’t manage to shove through when he takes office in January, there is no doubt that he and his new Justice Department are going to shut down the federal cases against him. He will get away with it all, and his enemies will have to choke on that for the rest of their careers and lives. And that will just be the beginning.”
Opinion | Press freedom groups share grim warnings about a second Donald Trump administration
The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and Freedom of the Press Foundation have all raised concerns about the next 4 years