I’m actually surprised things are happening so fast. We’re only 10 months in and it took Trump a few weeks to start his rampage. Even in this short amount of time he’s done enough damage to force him to block the release of economic data that has been standard fare for decades. In another 10 months the downturn is going to be so widespread and apparent that even the Republican propaganda machine and Trump’s pathological lying won’t be able to cover it up.

Democrats better not mess this up and we do mean it this time.

Is that a joke? Of course they’ll fuck it up.

Trump has fired 300,000+ federal workers, shut the entire federal government down for 40 days, dramatically increased prices for most everything by imposing his tariffs, caused a catastrophic collapse of farm and other exports, and allowed huge increases in heathcare insurance premiums.

We’re heading for a serious and deep recession and the economic data that Trump’s hiding shows that.

Even Maga notice it when food prices go way up, when they lose health insurance, and when they lose their jobs. We’ll eventually reach a tipping point where the sadistic pleasure Maga morons gets from hurting others isn’t worth the pain they’re experiencing themselves. I hope its soon.

There is no way you can lay off 300,000+ federal workers, shut the entire federal government down for 40 days, dramatically increase prices by imposing tariffs, shut down food and other exports by pissing off the buying countries, and allow huge increases in heathcare insurance premiums without causing a recession or worse. Trump and his ilk know it too which is why any economic data they do release will be altered by Trump loyalists, facts be damned.

A Republican I spoke to was fully convinced that living in a state with more land per capita should make each person’s vote worth more, while those living in a densely populated state should expect their votes to be worth less. He thought it was perfectly reasonable for someone moving from California to Wyoming to have the value of their vote increase by almost 4x. He balked when asked if the value of a Wyoming vote should decrease by 75% when the voter moved to California.

I can only imagine the impassioned whining if the situation were reversed and biased for liberals.

For all their histrionics about personal freedoms (only for themselves of course), a big chunk of Republicans are just looking for daddy to take care of them. Life is easier when you don’t to make decisions and you have zero responsibility for your own mistakes. That felony conviction is no problem because daddy will forgive (and pardon) you.

Add to that the fact that nothing gets Republicans more aroused than taking freedoms away from people they don’t like and making them suffer, and authoritarianism seems ideal. Trump and his ilk are perfect reflections of their sadistic MAGA base.

A significant majority of the GQP base and has already chosen full blown authoritarian fascism.

Dumb downed? They’ve taken a simple error and made it into something that does scare users. The “Repair application?” was far more alarming to my visiting friend than a “No Internet connection” would have been. It is astounding that any company would put out such complete shit.

What kind of idiots create a program that says, “Outlook failed to load. Repair application?” when the only problem is the wifi is disconnected?