The Resistance 2.0!

[Abbot Mythos]

Yes, it's time to muster with our old brothers in arms, and fight the good fight once again!

I know it appears to be a very minor issue, but it occurred to me that, this time around, we really need to refer to ourselves with some unassailable labels. I do believe, and will continue to preach, "An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance."

And, I'm writing this because it didn't feel to me like our previous "Antifa" label really did us much good. First of all, I suspect that attaching the prefix "anti" to our label automatically produced a negative response in a lot of people. Second, many of the people we're trying to influence don't even know what the word "fascism" even means. And last, it appears to me that "Antifa" has already been largely forgotten. So, this time around, I feel we need to mimic what the Republicult™ does, and put words like "freedom," "liberty," "truth," etc. in our own labels.

Right now, I'm spitballing along the lines of, "The Truth, Justice, and the American Way League." That phrase isn't copyrighted, by the way, but I think we should  be able to come up with something(s) just as good, if not better.

So, any suggestions?

[Abbot Mythos]

Even as I post this article, I'm not 100% convinced that it's true:

"The Onion wins bidding for Infowars assets"

As per this article:

"Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars.
 
The Onion's bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. CNN was first to report the humor web site had entered the bidding.
 
The purchase acquires the company's intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory and certain social media accounts, as well as the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The amount of the bid was not announced.
 
"The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site's users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash," said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. "Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.""

Here's the link to this article:      The Onion Won the Auction for Infowars

Long live the Resistance!

[Doktor Howl]

It's true.

And GLORIOUS.

[Bruno]

I'm expecting Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (DJT) to just be a series of pumps and dumps for the next 4 years and possibly beyond. He sold the hotel, so it seems to be the main avenue for people to curry his favor, financially.

In fact, I'd say that is probably the sole purpose for its existence.

I also expect certain members of the administration (Musk) to be actively manipulating crypto in a similar fashion.

[Doktor Howl]

Resist all you like, nobody will care.

The rules changed, and nobody seems to have noticed.  Trump and his cronies don't care about the forms of law, because he has already proven to his own satisfaction that laws don't apply to him.

There is no peaceful way to dislodge him, and our nation at this point cannot survive a civil war.  I do not say "win or lose," I say "Cannot maintain vital services and remain a functional political entity."

Cities have enough food in them for 18 hours.  And isolating cities is painfully simple.

For example, if you were to blow the bridge above the I90 passing under Indiana 80 and tear up 100 meters of track to the North, you cut the country in half unless Denver and the tracks heading East remain intact (good luck).  If the Eisenhower cutoff is also blown, you can't bring food into the metro area fast enough, even at starvation rations, to break even.

All those people aren't going to sit and starve quietly.  No, they will head East into the rest of Chicagoland under the mistaken impression that there will be food there.

Almost every city has an achilles heel like this.

The moment a proper insurrection begins, our cities turn into roaming mobs of starvation-desperate people.

So there is neither a peaceful way out nor a violent one.

There is no resistance.  The time for that was the last 6 months and, unhappily, 14 million people thought it wasn't worth it because of <insert niche issue here>.

The whole country is dumb as fuck and now we're all going to get the government we deserve.  Good & hard.

[Abbot Mythos]

I'm expecting Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (DJT) to just be a series of pumps and dumps for the next 4 years and possibly beyond. He sold the hotel, so it seems to be the main avenue for people to curry his favor, financially.

In fact, I'd say that is probably the sole purpose for its existence.

I also expect certain members of the administration (Musk) to be actively manipulating crypto in a similar fashion.

I think you're right about DJT.

I have no intention in ever investing in crypto, so I don't pay attention to it. But, you're probably right about about the oligarchs manipulating it.

I also skimmed an article on a financial site today about Elmo actively working to kill the existing federal Electric Vehicle tax credit. I haven't had time to research this issue in detail, but I got the impression that Elmo thinks it will hurt his competition more than it will hurt Tesla. Again, I have yet to researched this in detail.

[Doktor Howl]

RFK Jr has been nominated for HHS.

I live in a fucking cartoon.   

[Abbot Mythos]

I'm not surprised someone else also used the name "Resistance 2.0." It's not a case of "great minds think alike." It's "adding 2.0 was low hanging fruit."

Anyway, I just found this article:

"Resistance 2.0"

"Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error."

As per this article:

"It's still early, but we need to quickly get past the Kübler-Ross stages of denial and grief, and above all to reject the final stage—acceptance. To contain Trump's threats to democracy and rebuild credibility with workaday voters looking forward to the 2026 midterms, we need hard thinking and strategic work on two fronts."

And, further along in this article:

"After a year or two of Trump, workaday voters are likely to be in an even more sour mood than they are now. Progressives and Democrats need to keep precise track of all of this and hang it around Trump's neck. We need to drive wedges in the Trump coalition."

Here's the link to this article:        Another Guy on the Resistance 2.0

It's a long article, but for people in the Resistance 2.0, I think it's worth a read.

[Abbot Mythos]

Even as I post this article, I'm not 100% convinced that it's true:

"The Onion wins bidding for Infowars assets"

As per this article:

"Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars.
 
The Onion's bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. CNN was first to report the humor web site had entered the bidding.
 
The purchase acquires the company's intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory and certain social media accounts, as well as the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The amount of the bid was not announced.
 
"The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site's users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash," said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. "Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.""

Here's the link to this article:        The Onion Won the Auction for Infowars

Long live the Resistance!

The CEO of The Onion took a victory lap, and rubbed some salt in the MAGAts' wounds in its formal takeover announcement:

Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'

I'm not going to cut & paste a representative paragraph, or two, from this announcement, as I found it to be so enjoyable that I believe it should be read in its entirety. Enjoy!

[Bruno]

If the stock market starts to take a shit at any time during the incoming administration, I'll be reminding Trumpers that loyal patriots have Diamond Hands right after I set my 401k to Stable Value 100%.

At this point, I just want this to hurt them more than it hurts us.

[Abbot Mythos]

If the stock market starts to take a shit at any time during the incoming administration, I'll be reminding Trumpers that loyal patriots have Diamond Hands right after I set my 401k to Stable Value 100%.

At this point, I just want this to hurt them more than it hurts us.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I don't believe we'll have to wait too, too long before the market takes a major hit. And, by major hit, I mean way more than a typical 10% plus stock market correction.

It's my opinion that most of the popularly traded stocks on the market are grossly overvalued. And, unfortunately, stocks that are not grossly overvalued will take that major hit along with everything else. For what it's worth, I'm almost completely out of the stock market already. But, I freely admit, at my age I am risk adverse.

[Abbot Mythos]

Buyer's Remorse Alert! Buyer's Remorse Alert!

"US Muslims Who Voted For Trump Now Upset With His Pro-Israel Cabinet"

"We are very disappointed. It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people."

I'm really tempted to make more fun of them for the choice they made. But, they were far from being the only group who made that exact same choice, and have already come to regret it.

Here's the link to this article:      US Muslims Who Voted for TSF Now Upset

The Resistance 2.0 is going to have to make contact with, and enlist these people in our cause. And, I don't foresee it being very long before they're ready to disavow the "Dark Side." My hope is that the Democratic Party doesn't simply use them, and then abandon them again.

[Pergamos]

Buyer's Remorse Alert! Buyer's Remorse Alert!

"US Muslims Who Voted For Trump Now Upset With His Pro-Israel Cabinet"

"We are very disappointed. It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people."

I'm really tempted to make more fun of them for the choice they made. But, they were far from being the only group who made that exact same choice, and have already come to regret it.

Here's the link to this article:      US Muslims Who Voted for TSF Now Upset

The Resistance 2.0 is going to have to make contact with, and enlist these people in our cause. And, I don't foresee it being very long before they're ready to disavow the "Dark Side." My hope is that the Democratic Party doesn't simply use them, and then abandon them again.

Of course it will, and it will do the same to you.  If you think the Democrats are a resistance you aren't at all serious about resisting.

[Abbot Mythos]

Buyer's Remorse Alert! Buyer's Remorse Alert!

"US Muslims Who Voted For Trump Now Upset With His Pro-Israel Cabinet"

"We are very disappointed. It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people."

I'm really tempted to make more fun of them for the choice they made. But, they were far from being the only group who made that exact same choice, and have already come to regret it.

Here's the link to this article:        US Muslims Who Voted for TSF Now Upset

The Resistance 2.0 is going to have to make contact with, and enlist these people in our cause. And, I don't foresee it being very long before they're ready to disavow the "Dark Side." My hope is that the Democratic Party doesn't simply use them, and then abandon them again.

Of course it will, and it will do the same to you.  If you think the Democrats are a resistance you aren't at all serious about resisting.

If you're going to demand perfection from a political party, I advise you to be prepared to be disappointed.

[Doktor Howl]

Of course it will, and it will do the same to you.  If you think the Democrats are a resistance you aren't at all serious about resisting.

So, how's that philosophy been working out for everyone recently?