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buzzycrumbhunger

(1,367 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:38 PM Sep 18

WTAF?

So I’m scrolling through my emails to weed out garbage (I really need to lay off the petition signing because it only gets me spam...), and what do I find? An email from Charlie Kirk’s widow (via Turning Point), thanking me for loving her husband and… I’m sure there was a plea for money or something but I was so creeped out that I jettisoned it to the spam folder before it smeared shit on my phone. How did I manage to be subscribed to Turning Point, anyway? I sure as hell didn’t sign up myself. 🤨

I figured this mediocre hatemonger would be yesterday’s news by now, but apparently, this is the cause they’re rallying around to escalate shit, fuel their agenda, and complete the fascist takeover before the orange bawbag croaks and/or they finally unleash the fkg Epstein files and everything blows up.

I’m creeped out and disgusted.

Is it time to get out the guillotines yet, or do we follow Nepal and just burn everything to the ground? The White House needs a complete do-over now it’s been decorated like a fucking bordello, anyway.

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Walleye

(42,618 posts)
1. I really wish Democrats would come out more strongly and oppose everything Republicans try to do.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:41 PM
Sep 18

There’s no place to compromise with these jerks. And I don’t think we should cooperate at all with any of them until they can say the words “the Democratic Party“.

kerouac2

(1,292 posts)
2. Rw tactic is to spam everyone
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:49 PM
Sep 18

They add you to their mailing lists for newsletters from their websites that you never even visited. I imagine that half the people don't bother to unsubscribe and get brainwashed by their click bait headlines. It's awful.

Woodycall

(566 posts)
4. Howard Beale...
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:33 PM
Sep 18

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it!

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad.

They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.!

Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

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