For my first screaming into the void current event post of the new year, let's have some good news...
Trump says he’s dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now. I mean, he's threatening to come back "when it's needed", of course. And this is only happening because the courts have been pushing back. It never should have come to this, but I guess people needed to see the authoritarian overreach before they really got it. But I'm going to be happy for this win anyway.
Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year. The next lines of this article are great: "He was counting on a nation of haters. He was wrong." I'm proud of us for that. Enough of us have pushed back that he was unable to fulfill his goals. Now, that's not to say that he hasn't done a lot of real damage, but it would have been so much worse if we did not fight back. And we need to continue to do so until he's being tried for his crimes.
And finally, We Are Going to Win. I mean, I hope so. The bit under the headline, "Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us," rings the most true. I look forward to getting past this era, but it's going to be a lot to clean all of this up and make sure it never happens again.
Any other good news? Please link in the comments.
I HOPE SO!
ReplyDeleteThanks for some good news! I don't see much of that when I check the headlines.
ReplyDeleteWe need some good news and this is all good-but then along came Venezuela and Greenland. We are still on the long and painful road.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wrote this before all that news broke. But it is important to remember the wins.
DeleteThe good news never lasts long.. the orange buffoon is staring a war.
ReplyDeleteWe are living in interesting times
ReplyDeleteThere's always something else bad happening somewhere. I don't think the good news lasts long.
ReplyDeleteBest news is when he goes away.
ReplyDeleteYes, a lot of people are waiting for good news! We desperately need some. For that to happen, there has to be a strong and viable alternative. I hope the Democrats are getting their acts together. A splintered and a weak opposition is as much a danger to democracy as an authoritarian government.
ReplyDeleteWell, I checked the obituaries and didn't see his name, so no good news from me. I've read that ICE idiots aren't supposed to wear their KKK hood/masks anymore, but I guess we'll see on that. - I can't wait until it dawns on the regime that the supreme court only gave the orange cheeto immunity, not them. As usual, he avoids prison, his "friends" end up there.
ReplyDeleteAlas, they're challenging the no masks mandate in the courts.
DeleteResist and Persist!
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