Open Thread | Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

If you don’t follow Propane Jane on Twitter, you are missing out. She is…the truth.

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 2:36 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
A lot of folk seem to think that repeating “I support Trump/DOGE/the GOP’s funding cuts b/c there’s too much fraud, waste & abuse in government” makes them sound reasonable and fiscally responsible when really all they’re doing is parroting Southern Strategy dog whistles. 🙃
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898472854716354902?t=9vJjyNu9Z0uFNDOAxATwrw&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 2:58 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
For context, watch this👇🏾clip. It’s the most commonly executed mental gymnastics routine in these interviews of FAFO MAGAts who still don’t wanna admit they’ve been brainwashed by the GOP (and Fox) into supporting the dismantling of their entire government-dependent livelihood.🤸 https://t.co/1icT48hBvZ
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898478441491534267?t=HqYmR-T69LH4rx98l4SIbA&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 3:13 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
Not only is there a shit ton of fraud/waste/abuse in the private sector that they hypocritically pretend is infallible & superior to the public services they divest from (b/c they think it hurts ‘those’ people), *they* end up reliant on those same underfunded public resources.
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898482352059215996?t=eKfvR1yjMKPrriuWbhaqJQ&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 3:28 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
These people are still drunk on “welfare queen” propaganda, so when they harp on waste/fraud/abuse, please understand they’re envisioning a Black woman buying lobster tails with an EBT card, NOT themselves. This is why they’re so shocked and awed that what’s being cut is the WWC. https://t.co/9FkYe4ukY9
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898485902294290689?t=6qM_fFponkLiVB8Qres7IQ&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 3:47 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
The other common theme in these #MAGARemorse sob stories is “yes I voted for him/these cuts BUT he didn’t say he was gonna cut [insert job/program they personally rely on] 😢😩”. This is precisely how the Southern Strategy works, ABSTRACT “concepts of a plan” coated in racism. https://t.co/f5g71TsTBx
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898490872972321053?t=6UsLEKqP4OR1tlHjb9Cxjw&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 3:55 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
Republican voters have a Pavlovian response to abstract austerity that lures them in on an assumption that unspecified “cuts” will really be specifically tailored to exclude the WWC from harm. The GOP’s Southern Strategy trained them to believe an egregiously self-sabotaging lie.
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898492730499887612?t=cQm5opDMbk6KvmeEgjCBxg&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 4:02 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
Which ultimately points the finger right back at America’s bullshit MSM b/c how many of these FAFO exposés are y’all gonna bring us before you become self-aware enough to realize you’re the problem? How could this many millions be this fucking brainwashed w/out your complicity? https://t.co/TfijBT8oAc
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898494505227375021?t=do6M-CeY7Oo1spUsIxwfTQ&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 4:22 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
Instead of speaking truth about the GOP’s abysmal economic record (that spans decades) at both the federal and state level, the MSM’s conspired with them to foist vulture capitalism onto the whole world despite knowing full well the sheer magnitude of destruction it’s caused. https://t.co/9XyuSRvpEx
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898499576157630687?t=hJjmiAEsauj-HmIY3c6qXA&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 4:34 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
Bottom line is Trump didn’t need to be specific about the “cuts” b/c no Republican who came before him ever had to, it’s just always been assumed that the cuts would never be drastic enough to unseat White “moderates” from their perch of privilege. That’s #SouthernStrategy101 📚
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898502511415152750?t=ok1di6hnmp_dvmCcsykWhg&s=03)

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 5:03 PM on Sat, Mar 08, 2025:
When you pierce through the fog of “fiscally conservative” abstraction, it turns out the “cuts” are to the very lifeblood the WWC claimed they wanted the government to keep its filthy hands off of (as they voted 3 times for a self-proclaimed pussy grabber). Who woulda thunk?! 🤷🏾‍♀️
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1898509785453973598?t=A45uKvY5i69HQTNF_I1bfQ&s=03)

At the bottom of everything of why we can’t have nice things is White Supremacy.
At every turn.
Under every rock.
Around every corner.

Why doesn’t America have a stronger Safety Net? White Supremacy.

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31 Responses to Open Thread | Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

  1. rikyrah says:

    CoffeyTimeNews
    @CoffeyTimeNews
    BREAKING:

    Top Tesla investor calls for ‘divisive’ Elon Musk to step down as CEO as stocks keep plunging

    And so it begins.
    5:37 PM · Mar 18, 2025
    https://x.com/CoffeyTimeNews/status/1902127224024662121

  2. rikyrah says:

    TC BUTLER
    @todd_butler
    You see how Andy Beshear couldn’t even say VP Kamala Harris’s name. Called her Trump’s opponent. That some straight up bullshit. Now that is the “moderate” that MLK was talking about.
    5:35 AM · Mar 19, 2025
    https://x.com/todd_butler/status/1902307976263651421

    🐝 Sigmundine🐝
    @Sigmundine2
    I’ve noticed a deliberate belittlement, erasure & condescension toward Kamala Harris. She was thrown into an unprecedented situatio, did a tremendous job & got close to the same number of votes as Trump. I’m putting the Democratic Party on notice. Don’t disrespect Kamala Harris.
    https://x.com/Sigmundine2/status/1902347678878454121

  3. rikyrah says:

    John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) posted at 11:53 AM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    If 5 billionaires can lose $210 billion
    and not even feel it
    they can afford to be taxed more
    and they still won’t feel it.
    (https://x.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1901678264147402925?t=D24wHEYrX3Ru7rdJkz_aLg&s=03)

  4. Arthur Knowlson says:

    All these links to “X”

    Have you thought of linking to Bluesky instead?

  5. rikyrah says:

    Minding My Black Business (@lacadri34) posted at 6:19 AM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    The American judiciary isn’t prepared to deal with a lawless, fascist dictator. Therefore, our institutions aren’t able to save us. The Trump administration is literally ignoring court orders in real time and nothing is being done about it.
    (https://x.com/lacadri34/status/1901594224610386022?t=Vz2D24yR0U4j5ihIY79trg&s=03)

  6. rikyrah says:

    David Frum (@davidfrum) posted at 8:27 AM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Trump claims power to overturn Article I of the Constitution (Congress’s authority over spending); Article II (predecessor’s pardon power); and Article III (by defying a federal court order).
    (https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1901626358196810224?t=mDgdTbtyrPTy744uUhG8Dw&s=03)

  7. rikyrah says:

    Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 7:59 PM on Sun, Mar 16, 2025:
    I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status.

    I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.
    (https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1901438162230001783?t=x_6IpofM7t6AzLLO93qiTg&s=03)

  8. rikyrah says:

    The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 10:14 AM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Anglophone South African whites ≠ Afrikaners; they’re from different Northern European countries

    but it’s a distinction without a difference, though most of the Anglophones have since used their British passports to leave SA

    it was the caste culture of “white” that bound them
    (https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1901653268205564043?t=G86m-i1RhZnCwXgk7I8_8Q&s=03)

  9. rikyrah says:

    Old Man Lefty (@OldManLefty1) posted at 11:43 PM on Sun, Mar 16, 2025:
    Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer. https://t.co/oeLq3Odegs
    (https://x.com/OldManLefty1/status/1901494652412559377?t=7U80aGtDeYdo22kEGwjM8w&s=03)

  10. rikyrah says:

    Harrison Berger (@BergerPosts) posted at 0:08 PM on Sun, Mar 16, 2025:
    AP reporting how parents of children with special needs are having increasing difficulty getting access to Department of Education staff to assist with their cases because of DOGE cuts and because:

    “the staff has been directed to prioritize antisemitism cases” https://t.co/ezAgsSfZif
    (https://x.com/BergerPosts/status/1901319622214762509?t=izcBY9ulSUKVDIDcba-JRA&s

  11. rikyrah says:

    Pastor Ben (@BenjaminPDixon) posted at 9:14 PM on Sun, Mar 16, 2025:
    Is it clear to everyone now that there are white Americans who hate blackness so much they would rather destroy the United States of America than have any measure of equity or justice?

    The only question now is if there are as many white folk willing to stop them in 2025 as there were during the Civil War
    (https://x.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1901456993799270835?t=QXRMG3_sMq56wgV50_h0dg&s=03)

  12. rikyrah says:

    The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) posted at 5:45 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:
    The Department of Justice argued Tuesday that President Donald Trump would be well within his authority to fire all agency chiefs who are women—or over the age of 40.
    https://t.co/FGM9YnTmiL
    (https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1902129366181495004?t=eyhQuoqjLyn-bG4aiVYOfQ&s=03)

  13. rikyrah says:

    Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep (@RossKneeDeep) posted at 2:50 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:

    Here’s a little perspective on race in America. As a child, I rarely saw a black person on TV. I grew up in the 60s. Every now and then, my mom would yell out, “There’s a black person on TV.” We’d all race to that 25-inch Motorola TV, just to see something we hardly ever saw. Basically, that was only 60 years ago. Times have truly changed.
    (https://x.com/RossKneeDeep/status/1902085159316492451?t=TVPX5cOgmQevr78qXc0XDw&s=03)

  14. rikyrah says:

    WGN TV News (@WGNNews) posted at 7:04 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:
    A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked implementation of President Trump’s executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, a stark blow to the administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights.
    https://t.co/16OwL7P1os
    (https://x.com/WGNNews/status/1902149016592294016?t=OmsTcJo0xeVVdARbFoxPGA&s=03)

  15. rikyrah says:

    Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 7:00 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:
    Breaking:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judge blocks President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service.
    (https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1902148022860911079?t=xHo8iBDmNJX0E2VuCpV9jA&s=03)

  16. rikyrah says:

    Robert Reich (@RBReich) posted at 4:15 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:
    Why have Musk-backed PACs spent $10M on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race?

    It’s not just to uphold WI’s abortion ban and gerrymandered maps.

    Tesla is suing WI over a state law that hurts its bottom line — a case that could be decided by its Supreme Court.

    Follow the money.
    (https://x.com/RBReich/status/1902106509942911160?t=N_E1RFEyz–zIRcR0EdUiw&s=03)

  17. rikyrah says:

    Acyn
    @Acyn
    Musk: I always thought that Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy.. I’ve never done anything harmful, I’ve only done productive things: this doesn’t make any sense. I think there are larger forces at work.
    https://x.com/Acyn/status/1902172877698560287

    John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) posted at 11:01 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:
    Hey, you delusional, unelected dingbat, cars don’t merit empathy.
    The empathy we have is for human f*ckin’ beings—the tens of millions you are terrorizing, displacing, and driving into poverty.
    The “larger forces” are the citizens of this country who have had it with your Nazi
    (https://x.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1902208879359836176?t=0X0t4qeznyz0LAfvLuejDA&s=03)

  18. rikyrah says:

    Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) posted at 10:47 PM on Tue, Mar 18, 2025:
    This used to be the URL for a story on the @DeptofDefense website about Jackie Robinson’s time in the Army. The story has been removed. The ghouls who did this should be ashamed. Jackie Robinson was the embodiment of an American hero. Fix this now. https://t.co/rEpZFUbJ8h
    (https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1902205262221439452?s=02)

  19. rikyrah says:

    Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) posted at 6:21 AM on Wed, Mar 19, 2025:
    “[Putin] was waiting to see if there would be a major change. He thought the Europeans would probably fold, or Ukraine would collapse. And instead, it’s been the US suddenly and rather dramatically switching sides,” said Fiona Hill. https://t.co/4bGG7ng5vS
    (https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1902319591482679776?t=_DOUxGH5aewCkbgj6zZmYA&s=03)

  20. rikyrah says:

    Badlydone Emma is with her #Harris2024 (@chemimommy) posted at 9:10 AM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    only reason y’all want Kamala, Joe and Obama to say something is because y’all just need more material for your sad, sad, dry podcasts. You just want them to say something so you can nitpick and blame Democrats some more.

    “Don’t elect fascists” was all that needed to be said
    (https://x.com/chemimommy/status/1901637164997194145?t=D4QdkjedSdsTcZQwSXGmrg&s=03)

  21. rikyrah says:

    Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 1:41 PM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Note that @PressSec doesn’t answer the question of whether White House lawyers told Trump he has the authority to undo Biden’s preemptive pardons. That will now be the focus of relentless scrutiny, I imagine. Nice work by Leavitt in opening that door.
    (https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1901705522446795133?t=ei1FSol67Grt5jjug9umxA&s=03)

  22. rikyrah says:

    Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 1:41 PM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Note that @PressSec doesn’t answer the question of whether White House lawyers told Trump he has the authority to undo Biden’s preemptive pardons. That will now be the focus of relentless scrutiny, I imagine. Nice work by Leavitt in opening that door.
    (https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1901705522446795133?t=GHos0XsqO1SHNjfauyA3tw&s=03)

  23. rikyrah says:

    Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) posted at 0:38 PM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Well, this is embarrassing.

    Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to push Russian propaganda about Ukrainian nazis, and is completely shut down by Holocaust Historian and the Leading Scholar on Ukrainian Nationalism in America, Dr. Snyder. https://t.co/ZPjjt9XznY
    (https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1901689552026116505?t=IoKE-pM-VY4Uol7vR40LmQ&s=03)

  24. rikyrah says:

    No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) posted at 6:39 PM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.

    Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits. https://t.co/rKMj8Z5QIh
    (https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1901780454677635243?t=c2eTHduaAuIv_YhGzVtPzQ&s=03)

  25. rikyrah says:

    Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) posted at 7:45 AM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Ouch! JP Morgan expects $TSLA to report its worst quarterly deliveries in three years:

    “We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly.” https://t.co/1yxKoIc0X4
    (https://x.com/Mayhem4Markets/status/1901615874659786986?t=4N7UewuTR4EQRIMEZfME7w&s=03)

  26. rikyrah says:

    Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) posted at 7:16 PM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    DOJ drops fight against Texas political maps as Trump administration retreats from voting rights cases. @VotebeatUS https://t.co/RK3aM10if6
    (https://x.com/TexasTribune/status/1901789649045192972?t=0WaRhhzTFf_tI6D9kLbCAw&s=03)

  27. rikyrah says:

    Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) posted at 10:19 PM on Mon, Mar 17, 2025:
    Tony Buzbee has withdrawn as an attorney in a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs after the judge ordered him to explain why he didn’t disclose he’s not admitted to practice in SDNY federal court.

    Notice filed tonight, just before deadline. https://t.co/tSEBrIXuCL
    (https://x.com/meghanncuniff/status/1901835886519611789?t=KHKvfeUp9vViMJLRYdVkkQ&s=03)

  28. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

  29. drspittle4dbb2d2cd4 says:

    Propane Jane is the best!

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