As a PSA I am not going to be checking this bluesky account for some time. Mental health demands it.
Yeah I keep seeing this reaction, but it’s wholly at odds with the history of these things. The bump Reagan got was short lived and that was the exception to the rule. TR, George Wallace, Gerald Ford all survived attacks but did not win their races.
My best plan is to stay right where I am. I've thought for years about what I could do to protect myself, and the sad conclusion is that I am safest where I am, in the US, in this blue state. Short of someone taking me in abroad and letting me hide if things go full fash, I have no other options.
They are about to redefine violence as anything that is done to them and anything they do as retribution and justice.
If Joe Biden is killed, it's game over. Harris will almost certainly be killed in short order after that. Which means Johnson, and that's the end.
The election doesn't matter anymore. If it happens, vote, 100%, all that can must do so. But in reality, it's extremely unlikely that the election will decide who is in charge. Violence will determine it.
It’s hard to overstate what a victory for democracy it is that in France the far right lost to both the center and the left. working together to reject these fascists is key if America does the right thing we can, and will dismantle the worldwide fascist movement and destroy any chance they have had
Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.
The far right stochastic network is starting to push its followers into participatory events that are crimes. We are starting to see the game plan for the rights attempt to disrupt the election nationwide not just the process to make it law. This has the hallmark beginning of something really dark.
