#outrageous behavior

[shrinkrants]

It can be overwhelming. Trump is trying to “flood the zone” so we focus on a few outrages that we find most offensive and lose sight of the big picture — the larger strategy he and Musk and their cronies are pursuing.

Their major goal is not only or even mainly to impose white Christian nationalism on America, nor to downsize the federal government, nor to wreak vengeance on Trump’s enemies.

It is to concentrate ever more power in Trump’s hands, so he can concentrate ever more wealth in the oligarchy’s hands.

The overall strategy boils down to five tactics.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[The Daily Don] :: [Primetime material]

[FACE IT: HE HAS NO "BOTTOM" ::  TCINLA]

The Cretin News Network, mired in third place in the ratings and in danger of dropping to fourth place behind NewsMax, took an hour tonight to deliver “ratings” to their corporate overlord, “Reality” TV King David Zaslav. They did it by allowing anyone who could stomach looking to see that the monster known as Donald J. Trump has no “bottom,” that there is no line he will not cross repeatedly, that there is no proven lie he will not continue to spew, that he is not only completely and totally unfit to hold any office or position of responsibility, but is incapable of achieving the minimum behavior standards for inclusion as a member of the species.

And as he did all that, the lifetime losers, the escapees from Flyover Loserville, the senile old white male boomers who were fuckwits when I knew them 60 years ago in high school, are actually all worse than he is; they are people completely bereft of any moral sensibility, so mired in ignorance, mendacity and maliciousness, whose malign view of the world is so skewed, that they laughed and applauded the serial lies and threats to the country they claim to love that were spewed by the monster who sat in front of them.

Asked if he owed Mike Pence an apology for January 6, Trump launched into an attack on Pence, justifying the cries of the insurrectionist mob he called into existence that day to “Hang Mike Pence!” by claiming Pence didn’t “do the right thing,” “He could have sent the votes back to the states, he had the power to do that, and we would have had a much different outcome!”

And the audience of mental defectives applauded that.

Asked if he would recognize the result of the 2024 election regardless of the outcome, he refused to say he would. Just as he refused to say he would recognize the result in 2016 and 2020 unless he was declared the winner.

And the audience of moral defectives applauded that.

Asked about the judgement yesterday in the civil trial in New York, he again declared he didn’t know who E. Jean Carroll is, and then proceeded to defame her anew by calling her a ‘whack job” and then accusing her of being a “bad person” because “who would invite a man into a dressing room of a major department store in New York?”

And the audience of malicious morons laughed and applauded.

When he declared that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists, who he declared were all patriotic Americans upset at “losing our country,” almost including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keeper - the convicted seditionists - on the list of those whose crimes against the country he took an oath to protect he would pardon, the audience cheered and applauded.

The only people worse than the monster Trump are the 74 million who are so debased, so depraved, so lacking in all morality and intelligence, who voted for him after watching his assault on the United States and American society, the 74 million who support him for hating the people they hate.

These people see every crime he commits and applaud him. There will never be forgiveness for any of them, no “De-Trumpization” program that can restore them to participation in civilized society. That they have done what they have done over these past eight years since the monster first came down his golden escalator is proof they never were who any of us thought they were.

[cam-arts]

8 Palms

[realbeefman]

if i was mr lapsed catholic failed priest Robert Chase and dr gregory house, guy-shaped-like-my-dad who FIRED me after years of workplace harassment, called me the “prodigal son returned home” when i managed to crawl back into his lap. casting himself as a merciful, generous, loving man whose fortunes I had squandered?????? i think i wouldve crashed out.

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Bruce falls through the multiverse and realizes that Jason stayed dead in every single one except his own universe.

[mxtxfanatic]

This was cute:

The clan had never had such a guest before, so all the juniors involved in pushing, shoving, and pulling Wei Wuxian in found the experience novel and a great deal of fun. Were it not for their clan’s strict rules, they would have giggled the entire way.

—Chapt. 11: Elegance I, fanyiyi

[chronomally]

Reverse transmigration but this time your husband is the one that turns into a fish

[prolibytherium]

I'm going to be real I don't have any doubts that there are trans people on the tumblr/auttomatic staff who sincerely want to improve circumstances for trans users on this site but I'm really not going to care about apologetic gestures until there is material improvement. I won't trust vague assurances of improving anti-harassment measures until I see it. It's not like any of these patterns of abusive moderation against the most vulnerable demographics is new.

[doctorodyssey]

ALSO LIKE, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?!?!!? HOW HAVE THEY SUPPORTED GAZANS??? like, instead of shitting on fans using their reach and resources to incentivise people to donate to a cause, maybe just don't? or come up with something better? organise something yourself and see how hard it is? jfc

I KNOOOOW like i seriously cannot understand the logic and thought process it takes to DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM DONATING TO GAZA 😭 maybe they should start their own fan project and try to raise more if they truly think $5k is unimportant and the mods are sooo unprofessional and they could do sooooo much better

[demonwebs-a]

well , well , well ---- forgive him if he expected some undivided attention from his favorite little bard . upon realizing she'd started playing her flute , mid conversation , mind you , his expression grows positively sullen .

❝ ---- by the hells ... are you honoring the dead sheep again ? ❞ a vexed knot sits between his dark brows . ❝ ---- they're dead . how much more honor do they need ? ❞

@faeswoon. closed starter .

[90363462]

Shouldn’t have used them folks voice with AI inthe first place

Drake will never be anywhere near Tupac level

plus Tupac for all his short lived career was never close to being the cornball biiitchmade rapper that Drake is.

Btw the usage of artificial intelligence without permission is exactly one of if not the main reason why we had a writers and actors strike last year in the first place!

[kaydot]

Only letting one out the chamber.

Fully unedited. Raw as it comes.

Anissa and I are gonna GO CRAZY EVERY TIME!

DotsEye_

[professionalspiraler]

Made the discovery a couple weeks ago that I was SA’d in my last relationship, and whats even worse is that it happened so many times and all bc I never really realised how bad it was. I let it happen bc I couldn’t stand up for myself. But now I cry myself to sleep every night and dread every gyno appointment I have because I don’t want to be touched. Still recovering from something that I let happen to myself and I don’t think I’ll ever be okay again. I miss the person I was before I realised all this. I still feel so stupid and naive and dirty. Like filth I’ll never wash off. How am I ever meant to let this go when I never got to properly grieve at the time?

[arishemmo]

i still can’t believe Luke is doing a wfttwtaf one night only show and i won’t be there like??? 🥺🤧

[starscelly]

it’s late enough that i want to talk my shit. can we talk abt how annoying men go around “why can’t people grow and change? how can you hate people for something that happened so long ago! grow up!” for. unsavory characters in the league (particularly like, pkane) and basically go on stupid rants abt cancel culture in the nhl of all things. but then make fun of women and/or queer ppl for being fans of tyler seguin… even though he got torn apart by the media for YEARS and had to apologize for a million and one problematic things. like he probably would not have the demographic he currently has if he was still regularly making jokes based in homophobia or anything like that. but because his change and forgiveness came in the form of being more openly supportive of the queer community, actively supporting the hda, going to protests, kneeling for the anthem, etc. suddenly forgiving is? cringe? we only appreciate it because he’s hot? like we have DONE the things you beg for with your “cancel culture” rants because somebody has actually SHOWN CHANGE. just be honest and say you don’t want them to change, you just want them to get away with it! also, objectively, his past crimes ARE things you can be redeemed from, they have not irrevocably ruined the lives of other people. nobody who complains about not being able to recover from being cancelled is actually talking about people who want to and are capable of recovering and changing and growing.

[jlf23tumble]

>> To me, it reads more like people who don't follow other artists or go to other concerts. If your head is buried up the ass of One Direction, and you're used to being entitled and indulged

Ohhh, this tracks, ok! I'm a very new fan and couldn't figure it out, thanks for your thoughts.

Yeah, someone just reblogged my earlier post with a lengthy set of tags, saying that canceling one show v a whole leg isn't the same thing, and for real, true! BUT there are other examples of whole legs and whole tours, too (Jesus, that Adele debacle alone).... I'm not gonna sit here and pull every receipt, but examples abound! (And to the anon about the fine print, you take your chances when you buy a ticket, YOU ARE RIGHT, I'm on my phone and accidentally deleted your ask, but yessss. 100000%)