#Politics and Government

[in4newz]

Based.

I'm glad somebody in government is saying it explicitly without mincing words.

Abolish the Republican Party.

[arrowmoose]

Please Read.

So I went to Atlanta (Georgia’s capital) today for a school field trip. We met the governor, got a tour of the capitol building…cool. One thing we did was sit in during some Chamber hearings, which was basically the House of Representatives of Georgia approving or denying certain bills that came through.

One of these bills was House Bill 267.

This bill dictates many things about transgender rights, all negative. From trans girls in sports, to bathroom and locker room designations, all the way to trans hate crimes and even to funeral services. It was only supposed to be about trans females in sports. We didn’t sit in for the entire hearing, but it was live streamed on the Georgia House of Representative’s website, like all hearings are. I took the screenshot above from the livestream.

Bill 267 was passed in the state of Georgia, even after many Speakers came up and argued against it. It was only an hour long debate.

One thing I learned about the House from this experience is that 95% of the House Members don’t pay attention. The amount of times I heard sodas clicking open, chuckles and chatter; the amount of times I saw people leisurely browsing their phones or laptops as if they’re not completely fucking over innocent and guiltless people. Some of the Speakers who stood up there to give their piece even said things like, “I know you all aren’t paying attention, but—”.

I’m so tired. I’m just so tired.

People need to stop and think. People need empathy and compassion. People need to educate before they make these sort of critical decisions for people they don’t even know anything about.

I’m so tired.

There’s more little details I could say about this experience, like how the Speaker for this bill fumbled through questions about intersex people and how one of my classmates had to look up many words (‘2-Spirit’, ‘queer’, etc.), but ultimately I just want to leave with these points.

Please, please listen to your state’s Chamber hearings. I’m sure you can find them on their respected websites. Please, stay educated and well-informed about these things. They know people don’t listen, and so this is how they’re able to pass things like these unnoticed until it’s too late.

But most importantly, please don’t stop fighting. This has become a war of attrition, and I don’t know about you all, but I’m stubborn as fuck. I intend to win this war.

[affairsmastery]

US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, with reciprocal tariffs targeting countries taxing US goods. “If they charge us, we charge them,” Trump declared, without naming specific nations.

Canada, the top steel and aluminum supplier to the US, vowed to defend its industries, while Australia’s PM pledged to protect national interests. This move follows Trump’s earlier threats against Canada, Mexico, and China, signaling a deepening global trade rift

[brazilspill]

Latinos: What's going on at the US border is comparable to Holocaust concentration camps.

White people: You're being melodramatic and lose the argument because you brought up Hitler, haha.

Some Jewish (!) people on this hellsite: You're being melodramatic and are cheapening the struggles of Jewish people by crying wolf. Shame on you.

Concentration camp experts: The US is running concentration camps at the border. Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz.

More concentration camp experts: “This is not just a debate over semantics. How we categorize what is happening on the Southern border has everything to do with how the public and lawmakers will respond.“

A Holocaust survivor: “It feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin,” Mr Jacobs, who said he sees a “direct parallel” between 2018 America and the nascent days of Nazi Germany, said.

News agencies: ICE agents have been separating parents and kids by telling them they’re going to “take a shower” and come back.

Trump: Quotes Mussolini.

Trump: Calls Latinos an “infestation”, a term employed by Goebbels ahead of the Final Solution.

Conservatives: *say that Latinos are "full of filth" and should be gunned down.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: “One of the film Der ewige Jude’s most notorious sequences compares Jews to rats that carry contagion, flood the continent, and devour precious resources.”

 International NGOs: Dehumanizing speech is one of the precursors to genocide.

Dehumanization involves redefining the targets of prejudice and violence by making them seem less human (that is, less civilized or less sentient) than other people.  The classic strategy for this is to use terms like “animals” and “vermin.”  Referring to people as “illegals” is also dehumanizing. You’ll see dehumanization at work in most large-scale atrocities or genocides committed by governments, armies, or terrorists. […]

[ilovewomen--8]

[silencedogood1969]

You stood beneath a stolen flag,

a coward’s grin behind your mask,

breaking glass like you broke your oath,

spilling blood, spilling truth, spilling both.

The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time,

until you tore it down, crime by fucking crime.

The floors ran red where history walked,

and democracy bled as your chants mocked.

You came as a mob, a tide of rage,

hands on riot shields, fists on the stage.

Tear gas kissed the marble halls,

while “patriots” desecrated sacred walls.

Tarrio, you fucking coward,

Rhodes, you spineless son of a bitch.

Barnett, who pissed on freedom

while democracy screamed in the ditch.

QAnon prophets in horned disguise,

Nazis and “militia” with vacant eyes.

You called it liberty, called it war,

but all you left were shattered doors.

Then the ink of the pen, the coward’s decree,

fifteen hundred pardons for your fucking heresy.

Trump stood tall on lies today,

“Unify!” he cried, while justice decayed.

The audacity of that son of a bitch,

to pardon the mob and their seditious itch.

“Merit-based justice,” he dared to say—

yet he handed treason a golden bouquet.

He spat in the face of every cop who stood,

every drop of blood spilled in those halls of wood.

He pardoned the wreckers, the rioters, the damned,

and gave democracy its final backhand.

Where were you, McConnell, when the blood dried?

Where were you, Thune, when democracy cried?

Greene, you cheered; your voice rang clear—

you gutless motherfuckers, complicit in fear.

Your silence, your nods, your partisan games,

have carved your legacy into the flames.

You are the ghosts of this dying nation,

mute accomplices to its damnation.

And to you who stayed silent, stayed home that day,

clutching your morals as the country frayed,

spare me your protests, your outrage, your blame—

this fire’s on you; you stoked the flame.

You fucking stood back, let them torch the house,

and now you want to cry about the ashes.

Don’t you dare whisper a single goddamn word—

you let others fight while the country burned.

The tear of glass, the battering ram,

the fists that struck, the shields that slammed.

The cries of fear, the clash of will,

the officers falling, the chambers still.

They stormed the gates with malice bright,

and made a coup of that January night.

Freedom fell with every cheer,

the sound of treason in the atmosphere.

And for those who fell defending the line,

we carry their memory through space and time.

But let me tell you something, loud and true:

You may pardon the guilty, but we’re coming for you.

Two years from now, we’ll clear the House;

we’ll take your seats and call you out.

We’ll vote, we’ll march, we’ll raise our fists,

we’ll break the chain of your accomplice list.

And four years from now, your reign will end,

this nightmare gone, this wound will mend.

You’ve made a coup the morning’s norm,

treason an acceptable form,

but you don’t get the final say—

we’ll take this country back one day.

Traitors, cowards, you hollowed the flag,

turned stars to scars, left stripes to sag.

You spat on the graves of those who fought,

and shredded the ideals they thought were taught.

Your pardons are nothing, your names will fade,

while the strength of the people sharpens its blade.

This isn’t your country—it never was.

It belongs to the dreamers, to the cause.

So hear this now, from sea to sea:

We are America, the land of the free.

You tore it down, but we’ll rebuild—

your names forgotten, your dreams killed.

This is the anthem of those betrayed,

a promise to history: you won’t evade.

For every flag, for every vote,

for every tear in the words we wrote.

True patriots rise, unbroken, free—

the soul of this nation will always be.

We are coming.

We are rising.

We are America.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Especially when the powerful rule

through fear and intimidation,

it is often humor, laughter, and absurdity

that can help to undermine power

and embolden dissent."

- U.N. Owen.

[dragon03138]

hey just wanted to put this out there as someone who actively studies american history (and politics in general): never, NEVER, have tariffs been beneficial to the american economy. literally never. they only further contribute to a nationalistic spirit (think america first party type shit) and increase inflation. who'd have guessed that making things cost more... actually makes things cost more. anyways fuck trump

[my-midlife-crisis]

[korpzies]

Sigma Trump

Our lord and saviour of TikTok😂

[youthchronical]

Emboldened by Trump, Serbia’s Leader Cracks Down on Activist Groups

Unable to calm student-led protests that just kept growing, Serbia’s strongman leader, Aleksandar Vucic, reached for some tried-and-tested scapegoats, unleashing his media attack dogs on foreign-financed groups that have nettled him for years. But what started as a familiar ritual of intimidation against groups that document issues like corruption, human rights abuses and electoral fraud — and…

[in4newz]

[klbmsw]

THIS

[shortnailsforfuntimes]

yall i don't normally do political posts but considering everything currently going on please please take action do whatever you can

sign a petition join a protest hell even supporting trans and gay youth does wonders

link to the trevor project site on propellor

http://propeller.la/2ghpj:2va4i

[ilovewomen--8]

If we as a people buy out a shitload of hitmen and make their target Trump one of them has to work