I've been hearing of Trump's downfall and imprisonment for now well over six years.

"I hear the message loud and clear, alas, I lack the faith." "Faust: A Tragedy" (1808), Goethe

#tmcross #cohen #TrumpIsGoingToJail? https://www.salon.com/2022/10/08/michael-cohen-ny-fraud-case-will-financially-destroy--and-may-put-him-in/

After 6 years of Catholic grade school, followed by 6 years of Episcopal high school, I have no trouble believing that half of all Americans are resistant to facts and reason. They will choose blind belief, no matter how ridiculous, over reason. https://youtu.be/d6jL3Z3QJrg #tmcross

I'm guessing all those #climate deniers will soon pivot to "it's God's will".

The sad part is that they can be told the wildest poppycock. With reason and facts deactivated, they've lost the tools allowing them to make good decisions.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/dallas-flooding-is-5th-1-in-1000-year-flood-event-in-us-since-late-july/1236445 #atheism #tmcross

Christians who believe Pelosi drinks children's blood is no kookier than their other delusions, but that this permeates religious thought—and I use the word thought quite wrongly—of millions of the NAR Movement followers, is troubling. #atheism #tmcross

https://newrepublic.com/article/167499/new-apostolic-reformation-mastriano-christian

Does the US have enough trees? Huh. It definitely has enough morons.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herschel-walker-trees_n_6303baede4b00c150d638be7 #tmcross #Elections2022

Who's Gingrich again? Oh, yes. The man with the owl.
https://news.yahoo.com/gingrich-bidens-presence-weakens-dem-122255063.html #tmcross

You mean to tell me that extrajudicial killings and assassinations are not as much fun when it's not you doing the assassinating? Who would have known?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/22/russia-putin-bomb-cheerleaders-fear/ #tmcross #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine #Russia

What have people learned in 6 years, but should have known all along? Justice is a commodity to be bought & sold.

From arrest to arraignment, from bail to representation, from prison to parole: it is never about justice, only about money & race.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-d99f53f65920b6d6dce16f8b02aabd13 #tmcross

Could happen hon: Does your kid…
…offer fake lemonade vouchers?
…steal money from your purse?
…only sell limo to white people?
…forge his/her grades?
…pretend to believe in a God?
…lie about everything on principle?
…grab girls by the p****?
…diddle 2-year-olds?
#tmcross

RT @GOPChairwoman@twitter.com

How long until Democrats send the IRS ‘SWAT team’ after your kids’ lemonade stand?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1557786431082356736

Would you people pretty-please stop begging for followers? It's pathetic.

Do you go to the mall and beg strangers to love you?

Come to think of it, the latter might be a more promising enterprise. Just watch out for the rusty van with the tear-stained mattress inside.

#tmcross

I do hate to bring it up. Again:
#grammar #grammarpolice #tmcross https://t.co/48R7Ezn1l0

Tired of #Telco #Carriers advertising good #mobile #bandwidth, then delivering only a fraction; tired of the lame excuses regarding usage peaks or weak reception.

It's only greed, and with their collusion, there are no alternatives. Corrective hand of capitalism #MyAss. #tmcross

7:00 AM. First cup of coffee brewed. There's half a bottle of last night's left-over bourbon right within reach. Huh. Should I?

#Schadenfreude always perks me up:

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx15FN7C0FvnV3ZrA17rYFJCMxDtKNw_ti

Schadenfreude: "Taking pleasure in the misfortune of others." #tmcross #SundayMorning

In capitalism? Funny.

The US tanks 42nd on the press freedom index, and 25th on the democracy index. 31st on PISA is actually better than expected. Not for long, I'm sure. #tmcross #education #educationalcrisis

RT @LockUpCheeto@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LockUpCheeto/status/1555916893831274497

It's a good sign that the US no longer pretends to be a democracy. Really, no one was buying that old canard any more anyway. #tmcross

RT @jilevin@twitter.com

Here's an idea:

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1555404507852554240

Your party did the upmost to make this happen, as a solution to the threat of becoming superfluous.

Who knew that only fifty years of voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, and undermining election integrity would result in a flawed democracy? Are you not amused? #tmcross

RT @BudGothmog44@twitter.com

'We don’t live in a democracy,' says the Republican Party's top 'election integrity' expert https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/8/2/2114037/--We-don-t-live-in-a-democracy-says-the-Republican-Party-s-top-election-integrity-expert

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BudGothmog44/status/1554889656520556546

Indeed.
#tmcross

RT @DashDobrofsky@twitter.com

Multi-millionaire Mitt Romney voted against the Pact Act. I guess Mitt doesn’t think dying veterans deserve lifesaving healthcare. Mitt also voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. And Mitt is the NRA’s #1 donor-recipient. I just wanted to remind you that all Republicans are bad.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1554631410945732609

You should have done so in 1968, Steve. Now you're just another rat fleeing the ship of fools, because "the spirits you have summoned, your commands ignore". (Goethe, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice")

via Twitter>Mastodon crosspost #tmcross

RT @jilevin@twitter.com

The Republican Party has become a danger to our democracy and values.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1553960733989388288

And this just dawned on the major, after +240 years of nearly uninterrupted land-grab, for-profit, and resource wars?

If so, then only for the lack of trying.

via Twitter>Mastodon crosspost #tmcross

RT @jilevin@twitter.com

It was all about contractors raking in profits while people died.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1553944882577817601

The US has a dismal record when it comes to not allowing jackasses in the White House.

There was a time, I thought the US had hit rock-bottom with the election of the illiterate imbecile war criminal GWB. Silly me. Was I ever that young?

via Twitter>Mastodon crosspost #tmcross

RT @hax0rm0m@twitter.com

FYI : a picture of fascism 👇

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hax0rm0m/status/1553764497411686401