GonzoVeritas

Around September, in the weeks running up to the midterms, the price and supply shocks that reverberate from the US closing the Strait of Hormuz will start to be fully felt. It will be bad.

It's terrible timing for the GOP. It will be disastrous. People will feel the pain, and most likely vote against the GOP because of it. Dems will benefit.

But, on the downside for the Dems, the huge Medicaid and other cuts from the BBB kick in right after the midterms. There will be massive hospital closings, and millions upon millions without any healthcare at all, and all sorts of other economic landmines.

When the Dems win in November, they will immediately be faced with a huge crisis, and the right wing media will place the blame at their feet. They will blame 'Obamacare'.

The timing was all planned.

If we had an electorate and press with a memory longer than a goldfish and more critical thinking skills than a toaster, Trump's favorability would then fail even with hardcore MAGA, and the GOP would be relegated to the dustbin of history.

BUT - History tells us that GOP destroys the economy, blames the Dems when they have to spend all their efforts cleaning up the mess, and then they ride back in screaming that 'government doesn't work', 'trans folk and Dems did this', rinse and repeat.

Ditto

Yeah. I'm not under 30 50. I have absolutely zero problems with Jewish people.

But I definitely have problems with the government of Israel and their actions.

And here's the deal, more and more damning information is coming out of Gaza and Lebanon, and it won't stay hidden forever.

The truth has a way of making itself known. It may not be tomorrow, it may not be this year, but soon enough all Americans will see it, know it, and it won't sit well with the vast majority. There will have to be a reckoning.

It happened because people organized, some had revolutions. It had been made clear to the landed gentry that they could suffer a very undesirable fate should they try to maintain the status quo.

They leave the details of the Suffragette movement out of school books, but those women used bombs, gas, and rocks to blow up buildings, burn factories, and smash institutions that stood in their way.

It was particularly intense in Britain:

Members planted explosive devices and committed arson at politicians' homes, post offices, train stations, and public buildings. Some activists, such as Kitty Marion, were involved in systemic and widespread bombing campaigns.

Suffragettes cut telegraph wires, poured acid into mailboxes, and set fire to grandstands and male-only golf courses.

Protesters regularly clashed with police, famously on "Black Friday" in 1910 when 300 women attempted to storm Parliament. Activists also assaulted politicians, with one suffragette whipping future Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Bristol railway station.

The British government retaliated aggressively, often arresting activists who subsequently went on hunger strikes. In response, authorities implemented brutal force-feeding methods inside prisons, causing widespread public sympathy for the women's harsh treatment.

Those same history books gloss over the violence of the state upon the people, the struggle of unions, and years of strikes and protests that ended disenfranchisement, and delivered power to the populace.

They will gladly take it all away if they can. Eliminating women's control over their own reproduction was certainly a start. They will take the vote if given the chance.

And regarding

"If you're not on the side of everyone being held down, you're on the side of those who would hold us down."

Yes. 100%, yes.