One thing that isn't being talked about much in this moment is how Trump has:

[lana@beige.party]

One thing that isn't being talked about much in this moment is how Trump has:

- shut down the US Government, meaning no paychecks for nonessential personnel
- ordered national guard troops from California and Texas to invade Illinois

This orange asshole is actually trying to get people to do a fascism for free.

[steve@social.coop]

@Lana I'm listening to Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast (highly recommended!). One of the big takeaways is that you really need to pay your soldiers.

But... we all know that Trump has a long history of not paying people.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@Steve @Lana And indeed they are going to find that out on Nov. 1

[steve@social.coop]

@Remittancegirl @Lana We should keep a running tally of the portions of Trump's base that he has betrayed...

- farmers
- small businesses
- medium businesses
- sincere Christians
- people who took the Epstein issue seriously
- and soon, the National Guard

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

Nah, he's delivering on the key promise he made to them:

Racism.

@Steve @Remittancegirl @Lana

[steve@social.coop]

@JessTheUnstill @Remittancegirl @Lana Yes, that is the inescapable conclusion. It seems to me that we have an opportunity to expose the corrupt, corrosive, and ultimately self-defeating nature of racism. Trump's base thinks it can scapegoat half the population, which is like thinking you can pee in just one end of the pool.

[suneauken@mastodon.world]

@Steve @JessTheUnstill @Remittancegirl @Lana

Their protest against Black Lives Matter was never a protest for white people. Their actions show that they don't really care for white people either. The point was always to ensure that black lives didn't matter. It was all racism all the way through.