Notices by SouprMatt (mls14@social.vivaldi.net)

@ErickaSimone Today I saw 2 articles. One quoted Trump in 2024 saying he would use the military to round up immigrants. The other was Harris in 2024 warning people that Trump would use the military on Americans.

They BOTH told everybody what was gonna happen! 🤦

@touaregtweet Trump and the MAGA crowd don’t care about soldiers. All their “support the troops” bluster is performative.

They are trying to cut 80,000 jobs at the VA, and eliminate help for victims of burn pits.

They truly do not give a 💩 about our women and men in uniform. This mistreatment of the CA National Guard is yet another example.

@TonyStark The signs LITERALLY said “Mass Deportation.”

I spotted a MAGA supporter on Fedi yesterday and engaged with him. Within 2-3 posts about VA budget cuts, he posted “white people need to take the country back.”

If you talk to MAGA voters, it usually only takes a few minutes before they expose that… yes, they ARE deplorable.

@me_valentijn @heidilifeldman It seems to me you’ve missed the point of this thread a bit.

Playing the blame game with Democrats is self-defeating. Money in politics is impossible to change in the short term. What CAN be done is voting against the GOP, in every single election.

And a corollary: If one wants the Democratic Party to align more with one’s values, one must vote. Because any politician is going to listen more to those who voted than those who didn’t vote at all.

It was malicious actors who convinced people that Harris was responsible for the situation in Israel, and told them the response was to not vote. Such behavior benefitted Trump and Netanyahu. We CANNOT allow such influence campaigns to work again.

@me_valentijn @heidilifeldman Voting Democrat is not enough, but it is necessary, even if you don’t like the Democrat of the month.

And if you believe that Harris was pro-genocide, you were affected by the targeted disinformation meant to suppress your vote. Trump is going to literally remove every single Palestinian from Gaza. Do you REALLY believe Harris would do the same? We all know the answer to that.

#Fediverse tip of the day: You don’t need to block anybody.

Just ask them to give one example to prove the point they are arguing, and they will block you, saving you the trouble. #Lazy

Bonus reverse tip: If you have no clue what you’re talking about and somebody asks you to back your statements up, you can block them instead! #Lazier

@benroyce @xenotar MAGA: “Yes an American Pope WHEE!!!”

5 minutes later MAGA: “Oh, he actually believes in the teaching of Jesus? He sucks.”

@benroyce @bebadefabo @mmalc @dragonsidedd AOC is the future. Bernie is the past.

At least AOC might be able to bring people together. Bernie loses in the primary, then acts bitter and reluctantly pretends to support the nominee... and his supporters sense that and stay home. Haven't we had enough of that already?

And at his age, he is DEFINITELY not the future.

@benroyce @bebadefabo @mmalc @dragonsidedd I am glad he is passing the torch. I hope AOC doesn't make the same mistakes he did.

So glad people voted for 47 supposedly to lower the price of eggs. They’re now so expensive that people are painting potatoes for Easter.

@TonyStark Trump absolutely hated the CHIPS act for two reasons. 1. Biden did it. 2. It worked.

So of course he wanted to nuke it. Same thing with Obamacare. He’s a very petty little man.

Ron DeSantis will subject 14-year-old children to working all night!

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@hfinyow @GottaLaff Oh, Canada. It must be nice to live in a country with real reporters!

I may have missed it, but I don’t recall a single reporter asking Trump if he worked with Netanyahu to delay the Gaza ceasefire until after the US elections… which he almost CERTAINLY did.

@aral Hmm, I don’t think you understand what a “fact” is. That is clearly just an opinion.

@GottaLaff For decades, Republicans have claimed they need to lower taxes to “help small businesses.” It’s their reason for every single handout to billionaires.

Now they are PROVING they never, ever, EVER gave a 💩 about small businesses.

@kims Good lord. That entire piece with Healy and Stephens mansplaining to an actual professor as if they know infinitely more than her. She is amazing. I loved this quote:

Cottom: I’m both a professor and someone who has studied higher education as a system. There are two things that overlap my professional experience and my expertise. One is how much we insist upon conflating a handful of elite colleges with all of “higher education,” when the vast majority of institutions are not particularly rich, elite or prestigious. The other is how much the beneficiaries of the small, powerful set of prestigious colleges and universities enjoy bashing the institutions they pay an arm and a leg to be affiliated with.

@GottaLaff LOL it was only a week ago that John Roberts warned about the EXTERNAL threats to judicial independence. Maybe he should have checked inside the building first…?

@GottaLaff Wow so they CAN get plea deals approved when they want to! Who could have guessed? Thank goodness for @emptywheel for exposing this 🐂💩 in real time when it was happening. If anybody wants to know why Hunter’s pardon was absolutely justified (and then some) please read her brilliant analyses.

@StillIRise1963 Pam Bondi, the nominee for Attorney General, gets $115K per MONTH from Qatar as a part-time lobbyist. PART TIME. You can be certain the rich will be able to buy their way out of any crime they commit if she’s in charge.

@persagen Racism and misogyny… not just for old white men anymore. Young white men, you can benefit from this cruelty as well!

Racism is taught behavior. And the MAKKKA parents have done a great job passing it along to the next generation of Nazis.