Notices by charvaka (charvaka@hivemind.plus)

The time has come for Chuck #Schumer to go. His lack of resolve is going to enable Elon the #oligarch and the president that he purchased complete their takeover of the federal government. We need to let every #Democratic senator know that they should vote against this #Republican bill that cedes the powers of Congress to the executive branch.

#USPolitics #USPol

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/13/us/trump-tariff-government-news#government-shutdown-senate-democrats

Major tragedy occurs in America on #Trump's watch. Trump turns to racism and misogyny using "DEI" as code. When asked, he admits that he has no evidence, just his bigotry that he labels "common sense."

Corporate Media parrot his statements without mentioning what is actually going on. #CorporateMedia is legitimizing racism, misogyny, xenophobia and other forms of bigotry in their ratings-obsessed coverage of this regime. #Corporate #Media works for the #oligarchs and furthers #oligarchy.

The American people are not stupid, they know that #oligarchy has broken our political system. However, #oligarch owned #CorporateMedia has been very effective at distracting the people from this core problem. As you can see here, the difference between parties is not the main story, but #NYTimes can’t resist presenting the information along partisan lines.

88% of us think that our political system is broken. 59% of us think it has been broken for decades. Let’s put that in context.

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The biggest winner in this #election has been #oligarchy. #Oligarchs came out openly against #democracy and used every trick in the book to divide the American people against one another so they can rule us more directly than they have ever done in the modern era. They control #CorporateMedia and they will now strengthen their control in DC.

We have been on the road to oligarchy for a long time, and 11/5/24 will be as big a milestone on it as 1/21/10 when the Citizens United ruling was issued.

@w7voa Awesome. As an Indian American, I am glad the feds indicted this Indian #oligarch.

Now do our own #oligarchs. Let’s start with Elon for campaign finance violations as a federal contractor.

Is #Speaker Johnson changing the rules about which #bathrooms to use for storing classified documents, too?

#USPol #USPolitics #Congress

@vor @mekkaokereke Thank you for sharing your experience. You may see yourself as just an average person, but you are an inspiration for me.

@WarnerCrocker How does wannabe-Hitler get the “Hitler’s generals” he wants? By appointing MAGA yes-men to senior posts in the military.

Republicans in Congress will do nothing to stop this. I really hope the military leadership has ways to fight back against politicization of the military.

If you are listening to cable news pundits today, watch this first. The pundits talking about the election tonight are more clueless than you and me.

I am going to go to sleep now and see where PA, MI and WI stand in the morning.

#Election2024 #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Lyi-k8IPeWPoDxck&v=XLiagIdA84c

Brett Favre stole over a million dollars from the #TANF program aka food stamps. He got $5 million of TANF funds diverted to pay for a volleyball court at the college where his daughter was on the team. He still owes the state $700,000.

There was a time when getting caught stealing from the poor meant political candidates wouldn't be seen on stage with you. Not any more, thanks to #Trump who is eagerly campaign with this actual example of human #garbage.

#shameless

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/02/05/brett-favre-still-owes-mississippi-over-700000-in-misspent-welfare-money-auditor-alleges/

How did we get here? The actual economic platform of #WeirdGOP is:
- make us all pay 10-20% extra for imported goods (i.e. food, energy, clothing, cars, electronics)
- use that money to give huge tax cuts to billionaire #oligarchs

The oligarchs fund this platform because they get billions in benefits for a few millions in political donations to #Trump. But millions of Americans who stand to lose still vote for #WeirdDonOLD. Hatred is a potent drug.

#USElection #VoteBlue #Harris2024

“Sometimes, it’s just the guns!” - Tim Walz

I really, really needed to hear that in a national debate.

#GunControl #GunViolence #JDVance #Project2025 #VPDebate #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #USPol #USPolitics #TimWalz

#WeirdDonOLD and Netanyahu have aligned incentives on this. #Trump wants no ceasefire because he thinks that helps depress #Harris2024 turnout and help him win and dodge criminal prosecution. Netanyahu wants no ceasefire because he wants to stay in power to dodge criminal prosecution.

Two alleged criminals colluding to keep a genocidal war effort going. Both alleged criminals care more about themselves than about their countries.

#FreePalestine

https://mstdn.social/@tristansnell/113189637707718494

This the #WeirdGOP of today. This man is the #GOP's nominee for governor of North Carolina. A few years ago, the nominated Roy Moore for Senate and #WeirdDonOLD supported him even after Mitch McConnell ask that pedophile to drop out. Now it will be curious to see what they both do.

How does a man like this become lieutenant governor of a state?

#Nazi #fascism #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

Privilege is when you can get away with things that others would get in trouble for doing.

I know #DeportElonMusk is trending, but a more reasonable and even-handed sanction would be revoking the #oligarch's security clearance. As a naturalized citizen, I don't want a potential fascist government to be able to deport me based on my social media posts. Security clearance OTOH is not a right, and it can be revoked based on Leon Smuk's conduct.

#ElonMusk

https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C_9ug8CxxgG

@keithedwards To be fair to her, she did win the 2016 election for Putin. It's all a matter of perspective.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261

Rupert #Murdoch's broadsheet rag has this opinion piece by Karl Rove. Things are not going well for #WeirdDonOLD when he has lost #KarlRove and #WSJ.

A few fun quotes:
- "train wreck for him, far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined."
- "he let his emotions get the better of him"
- "did a terrible job at his most important task"
- "his false statements far outnumbered hers by my count"
- "there’s no putting lipstick on this pig"

#Harris2024

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-catastrophic-debate-for-trump-2024-presidential-election-d2e5aa7f

Musk destroyed over $30 billion in shareholder value during his 2 year ownership of Xitter — that is, about 2/3rds of the price he paid for it, with a focus on efficiency and firing essential teams that kept revenue coming. You want that kind of value destruction in America? Then vote for #WeirdDonOLD!

https://journa.host/@pbump/113086978105188529

In 1996 #Australia experienced a mass #shooting. The shooter killed 35 people and wounded 28 others. The next year, in 1997, Australia ran a program to collect all the #guns out there and destroy them. This is a video showing what they did to the guns.

The last time America had at least 35 people shot and killed in one spree was in 2017 at the Las Vegas shooting when 61 lives were snuffed out at the altar of gun rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29sQx87S2GA

#MassShooting #GunViolence #GunControl

@dangillmor

Imagine you are a journalist in Berlin in 1932. A bar you liked to hang out with your journalist friends in was taken over by a rich Nazi-sympathizer 2 years ago. Then the bar became a Nazi hangout. You still go there daily to hangout with your journalist buddies, trying to ignore the loud SA brownshirts all around. You don't like them, but you won't change bars because all your friends are there.

That's what our journalists are doing now.