I think I have seen a similar issue. Mine is that sometimes my firefox gets stuck in the background and I can click the icon in my dock to maximize it. Nothing happens. I have to hit the Windows key to view all my windows in that particular workspace, then click firefox to get it to the front. Sometimes it doesn’t work and I have to close out Firefox and reopen. Is that similar to what you’re seeing ?

Ask your conservative family members why Trump dropped charges on a Democrat

His own thing is still Project 2025 unfortunately.

Okay yeah I get you now.

I think you have a good point but I do think it could be sooner. If Newsom thinks Trump may cause more damage to to his state than aid (I’m thinking about lack of disaster relief, draining of reservoirs, sending military in to deal with protests, raiding schools for illegal immigrants, stifling scientific research, going after “woke” speech), what choice will he have ?

Already, schools in Massachusetts are informing school nurses not to comply with ICE if they come through. What happens when Trump says that Massachusetts is defying the law and goes after leadership there? Will Massachusetts bend?

But I think ultimately you may be right, I suppose it might depend on how antagonistic Trump is toward blue states.

Could you expound on that? I don’t think average Americans will be able to stop what’s going on because we are too busy with work, families, and entertainment. And if, by chance, we are paying attention to the news, the 24 hour cycle and social media algorithms put some new thing in front of our faces before we have the time to process what we just saw.

Do you mean states aren’t going to be that proactive, so they won’t break away?

We are living through the greatest constitutional crisis of our lifetimes – maybe since the Civil War. The US has never seen anything happen like this domestically. We are rapidly moving toward the dissolution of the US and civil war.

If the courts do not prosecute Trump and Elon Musk, which is highly likely, the assault on EVERY federal service and source of funds will continue. “Throwing it back to the states” will cause the states to contract – without confidence in any federal assistance or regulations, states will need to figure it out themselves – and if they start seeing the federal government as something they need to protect their citizens from…well, why would they remain a part of that federal government? If the US government is completely unreliable due to the massive brain, experience, and regulation drain, what reason do states have to remain a part of that? Especially when the feds want to restrict speech and expression in the way they do.

And if the courts somehow slap down Elon and Trump and they are removed? Then we’ve got violence from the J6ers and likely more.

We very well might be witnessing the end of the US, as I see it. But maybe someone can offer some counterpoints

We are in so much fucking trouble.

ALTERNATE TITLE: A new memo from the U.S. Department of Transportation indicates that it will direct more funding to states with higher birth and marriage rates.

They want it to happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

It’s all going according to plan…we are so fucked

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=Z-NPmxNVPlc79Oj5

Obviously there’s some level of objectivity journalists have to have, but this description of Elon’s Nazi salute is absolutely sane-washing and gives the reader the impression that its all a big hubub.

Laura Smith resigned from the Towamencin Township Board of Supervisors after a video in which she mimicked a gesture made by Elon Musk during a rally related to President Trump’s inauguration. During a speech, Musk held his hand to his chest and then extended his arm saying “my heart goes out to you.” Some said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute, while others said it was a harmless gesture taken out of context.

They could’ve just said

During a speech, Musk held his hand to his chest and then extended his arm, in a similar gesture to a Nazi salute

and they still would’ve been in the realm of objectivity that you describe. But instead, they downplay it all in a single sentence by saying, “Some said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute.” They won’t even bring themselves to say “Many said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute.”

All outlets have to do this sort of shimmy, sure. But we all see the direction that they shimmy, and it’s not toward the direction of truth.

lmao, assumptions. No journalist who says, “Elon did a Nazi salute twice,” is making an assumption. They are reporting the fact that he did a Nazi salute twice on TV. You could maybe argue that a journalist saying, “Elon Musk is a Nazi” would be making an assumption, based on the fact that he did a Nazi salute twice on television. And I’m sure you would argue that, because you certainly sound like a Nazi defender.

But nobody calling Elon’s Nazi salute as they see it is assuming anything. We all saw it and we all know what it was. Even if he didn’t intend for it to look like a Nazi salute, that’s what it was. Anyone trying to make it out that it wasn’t a Nazi salute, tiptoeing around language, is justifying doing the Nazi salute. You are defending the sane-washing of someone doing a Nazi salute. You think responsible reporting is normalizing the Nazi salute by dancing around the word Nazi? Well, then I, a non-journalist who is allowed to make assumptions, will assume you are a Nazi sympathizer.

Reminds me of a good essay by Umberto Eco, who lived under the Italian fascist regime

Ur-Fascism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0uTHY9OyQ

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

damn.

just this past year i watched eraserhead so i could watch elephant man so i could watch twin peaks so i could watch twin peaks fire walk with me so i could watch twin peaks the return. and now he’s dead.

damn.

guess i gotta watch blue velvet so i can watch mulholland drive.