The Man In the Yellow Jacket

i have a job interview in 2 minutes i’m gonna cry

this is what i saw immediately after leaving the interview. do you guys think it’s a good omen

Musk is off by 92.5%.

$150 billion is 7.5% of two trillion.

All that chaos. All those jobs lost. For a fraction of what they promised.

Cruelty and Chaos are the hallmarks of Fascism.

Evil and stupid is a lethal combo.

ON WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what I mean by right wingers being the MOST out-of-touch!!!! Journalists who interviewed Wisconsin voters are saying that voters for both candidates were really turned-off by Musk's role in the race, and that they thought it was clear he was trying to buy their election. Musk and DOGE are getting booed in town halls in deep, deep red districts. These Republican Party officials are failing to listen to their own voters, not even just Democrats or swing voters, when they say these things. The only way you'd fail to recognize that Musk is unpopular throughout the American populace and its political spectrum is if you're in a far-right echo chamber, probably online. If you're just straight-up not leaving the house to get your impressions of how people vote.

Story below the cut to avoid a paywall.

[ID: The first photo is a black and white picture of Adolf Hitler and the owner of VW smiling in a car with many Nazis behind them. The second photo is color picture of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in a red Tesla. Musk is smiling while Trump is looking forward with his mouth open. End ID]

Image ID by @qquesadilla

~sigh~

Not "the owner of VW", that's Ferdinand Porsche the INVENTOR of the VW and Porsche.

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

Reminds me of when "can I change my vote?" and "who pays for tariffs?" were search trending right after the election last year

MSNBC covered this story yesterday. Unfuckingbelievable

Don't buy your advisors on Amazon

you know in hindsight it was very easy to see that Donald Trump was going to blow up the economy. it was also very easy to see that Donald Trump was going to blow up the economy with any foresight too if you weren't a raging moron dismissing that for stupid personal reasons.

Republicans want public schools to fail.

Red States will not protect students, and the quality of education will drop off a cliff.

White culture needs so much inequity and exclusion to survive.

Tyrants view educated citizens are their greatest enemy.

The myth of white superiority depends on giving unserious mediocre white men a double standard and treating them with kid gloves.

no one follows the trees warning

You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN

I feel like a dumbass, but @rapidashmascot just revolutionised my understanding of that parable.