Dot Calm's Page of Truth & Sedition: LAUGH at the fascists--DO NOT fear them, and DO NOT OBEY them! Why? BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID.

It's laughable how stupid republicans are.

Republican politicians think we don't care about our lives or our loved ones because they themselves don't have lives or loved ones: all they have are fear, shame, and transactions. They think we're sub-human because they themselves are sub-human.

Republican voters think that the only way they'll prosper is to give all their rights and money to the republican politicians who want to steal and arrogate all their rights and money, padding their own already-overstuffed pockets with money they neither earned nor need.

And they all keep saying and doing stupid things despite relentless evidence showing time and time again that they're dead wrong.

Sometimes, I wonder whether it wouldn't be better just to quietly institutionalize them all: let them all think that they're running the show and hurting and killing the rest of us while compartmentalizing them for the safety of the nation and the world and letting the sane, rational, capable, compassionate, empathetic adults--the true alphas (usually women)--run the show.

I hope I live to see the last part of that statement at least--letting the sane, rational, capable, compassionate, empathetic adults, especially true alpha women, run the show.

*sigh*

So, FFS, do NOT fear these poor benighted souls. They are neither intelligent nor capable enough to deserve your fear. They're not even as scary as cartoon villains. They're just sick, sad, frightened, ashamed, abandoned little children hiding from monsters under the bed and screaming for the mommy who never comes to love and comfort them.

With that, here are today's selected videos and memes to edify and enrage.

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Don't forget--Obama Day is coming! Every June 14 celebration and protest that promotes democracy, fairness, and goodness ruins that day for the fascists.

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Whether you're committed to dirty, obsolete technologies or to exciting green technologies, you'll want to watch Belle of the Ranch: "Let's talk about spies, grids, solar, and the future...."

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Let's talk about the GOP being surprised by the GOP bill....

(And they and the equally fascist media love to lie and claim that it's the Democrats who are in disarray....)

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From attorney Marc Elias via Angela at Parkrose Permaculture: 10 things we all can do to save democracy

madame president* trump is weak, and she knows it. She's counting on us to be stupid or lazy--methinks she has underestimated us bigly.

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What comes after trump? Dude is speaking to us from a hospital bed, on oxygen--now, that's dedication! The TL;DR is that it's really up to us--we can't afford to go into autopilot once trump is no longer a factor.

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TRUMP IS NOTHING BUT A BIG FAT LYING FRAUD!!!!!

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America: socialism for the rich; rugged individualism for everyone else

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Good parenting is a radical act in 2025. The kinds of people who fall for authoritarianism are the ones who were raised in shaming, punitive households that attack a child's very being. Think evangelicals, for example.

"That 'G' is SOLID." I just LOVE this video!!!!!

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Whoa--House Dems have raised 7 articles of impeachment against trump. A lot of people think this is useless performative politics, but, even though republicans in the house and senate are just as sadistic, treasonous, hateful, and corrupt as trump is, methinks it's high time to do SOMETHING to push back on trump. This will get everyone on record, so I agree with David Pakman that impeaching orange foolius is Democrats' Constitutional duty. It's the literal least they can do.

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Protest Erupts at RFK Jr Senate Hearing. 7 arrested.

Just when I thought I couldn't love Ben Cohen more, I find that I suddenly do.

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Tim Miller: Why is Trump Making China STRONGER?

I'm old enough to remember trump taking money from China, having all his products made in China, having Ivanka's overpriced fake designer knock-off shoe and purse patents given to her by China--not to mention her patents on coffins, of all things. As I've said before, trump ceded our technical edge in medical and other scientific research to China by defunding it here. You know he wouldn't fight for the independence of Taiwan from China one iota more than he's fought for Ukraine's sovereignty against miss putin's invasion. So, from where I sit, it looks like trump has deliberately handed our leadership position in the world to China.

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Thom Hartmann: Did Trump's Presidential Immunity Ruling Just Bite Him in the Ass?

madame president* trump's lawyers argued that she has immunity for her actions in office because judges do...so a judge is now pushing back by claiming the same argument for judges' actions while in office.

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Republicans intend to use YOUR tax money that YOU earned to defund the services that YOU need and YOU paid for to fund their tax cuts for billionaires who neither need nor earned YOUR money.

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WHY does trump LOVE TERRORISTS? WHY does trump insist on bringing terrorists INTO the United States????? (Hint: trump lurves anyone who greases his fat, greasy palm--especially terrorists!)

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Not even the highest bidder--trump is too starry-eyed with greed to understand that the "flying palace" Qatar wants to give her is their cast-off garbage...old, obsolete, tacky, and good enough for a yutz like trump but not nearly nice enough for Qatari royalty...

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I'm old enough to remember when trump breached protocol bigly by saluting a North Korean officer...! She calls our own people in the armed services losers and suckers, but she's more than happy to salute foreign dictators' military....

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Are Gen Z cheating their way through college with ChatGPT?

LLMs use a LOT of water and other natural resources, and they are NOT reliably accurate--AI like ChatGPT WILL answer you, but there's zero guarantee that that answer will be accurate or useful.

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