Notices by David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online), page 4

#USpol #economy #stocks

Representative @RepCasten wrote a smart and timely multi-post thread about what we must do and believe to have our democracy prevail, and I've put it into an easier to read article. @SeanCasten's insights are heartening and it's well worth reading:

https://davaug.medium.com/virtue-and-the-law-b96d2d2848a3

#USpol #SeanCasten #law #virtue #democracy

#USpol #meme #rfkjr #rfk #jfk #maha #hhs

#USpol #musk #evil #empathy #civilization #fool

Sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KKn6O18fKVI

The Lincoln Project’s parody of that awful trump Gaza video is… wow.

h/t @anniebergin for pointing it out to me.

#USpol #RUpol #satire #parody #VladdyDaddy #funny

We may have won the Cold War, but we seem to have lost the Cold Peace.

#USpol

Read a thread started by someone who is surprised Pathetic Pol Pot instituted tariffs on our closest friends and trading partners.

Wow, just wow.

#USpol #TrumpTariffs #economics

“We will not benefit any longer from the Peace Dividend.”

French President Macron delivered this speech to prepare the continent for war with Russia.

Heartbreaking that my nation has made this happen. It is a shame and failure that may echo through history.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jMScVkSaWF0

#Europe #France #Macron #FRpol #EUpol #USpol #russia #peace #war #security

Timeline cleanse. 🐾

Is your member of Congress hosting a town hall? If yes, great! Have a good time there.

If not, set up an empty chair town hall, and highlight their negligence.

@indivisibleteam has some ideas on how to host an empty chair town hall: https://indivisible.org/muskorus#sticky-15890

#USpol #coup

Is it a good idea for me to learn exactly where the nearest Canadian and Mexican consulates are in case one of their pilots goes down and needs directions to the nearest safe territory?

#2amThought #USpol #CNDpol #MXpol #TrumpTariffs

"While obeying orders is a cornerstone of military discipline and effectiveness, the primary obligation of service members is not to obey commands, but to obey the law. It is their duty to refuse illegal orders.

All U.S. military members have sworn an oath to protect the Constitution. This oath is not just a verbal commitment — it is a deep moral and legal obligation to the American people."

https://integ.substack.com/p/the-us-military-will-refuse-to-attack

#USpol #military #Constitution #law

Worth posting again:

#NATO #USpol #security #peace #war

Wait, the president who got impeached for extorting Ukraine and Zelenskyy tried to…*checks notes*…extort Ukraine and Zelenskyy again?

But, but, but: why would he do that when we did absolutely nothing about it last time excerpt vaguely inconvenience him?

🤦♂️

#USpol #UApol #Ukraine #UnitedStates

They dane to speak for our country in its seat of power with the cowardice a 5 year old would wince at. Never before have I seen any world leader fail so spectacularly to grasp the moment and power they posses and instead vainly bully and try to extort so clumsily. The substance and form of their actions are both made of purified reprehensible baseless anger and greed.

🧵 4/5

#USpol #UApol #Ukraine #UnitedStates #war

And that 45 and vance think Oval Office home court advantage would allow them to bluster a man into submission who for years has been working 24/7/365 to fight back the second largest military on earth. What words said in any room will make the man who stayed in his capital facing certain destruction and personal death flinch?

🧵 2/5

#USpol #UApol #Ukraine #UnitedStates #war

What children our president and vice president are to imagine their swagger alone holds any weight. What contempt they have to admonish Zelenskyy for litigating in front of the press in the Oval Office when they could, themselves, in a moment dismiss the entirety of press and staff with a simple, “we’re gonna need the room.”

🧵 3/5

#USpol #UApol #Ukraine #UnitedStates #war

Bone soul rage at their petty and foolish inept attempts to bully their way to seizing the mineral wealth of an ally. The most craven and stupid attempt at colonial extraction.

45 says he’s gambling with WW3, as if Zelenskyy hasn’t been in an existential hot war larger than any since WW2 for three years and hasn’t also been personally targeted. As if WW3 wasn’t more of a 45 issue than Zelenskyy’s. He’s in it, Zelenskyy’s facing it.

🧵 1/5

#USpol #UApol #Ukraine #UnitedStates #war

@KnittingMittens close guess. It's a Herdwick sheep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdwick