Are we there yet...

[gothuevos]

Doomer take.

But accurate.

Just enjoy your family/friends, it's all we got.

 

[HomerJS]

I’m going to go ahead and call it now. We are there.

When the BLS puts out numbers the dictator doesn’t like he puts someone in who will put out the numbers he likes and there will be zero push back for doing so.

Now he is placing federal agents around DC under the false claims of rising crime, again with zero push back.

We are cooked and we are in the stage of normalizing. People think these mid term elections will be a check, they won’t be.

Welcome to the new America.

Agreed

 

[trenchfoot]

Agreed

X2, although I still have a candle burning hoping beyond hope that this oligarch led coup will drop dead well before the finish line.

The thing that concerns me most is if our leaders in the DNC have enough of the right stuff to fend off the corporate corrupters that keep waving those huge stacks of legally available campaign cash in their faces.

edit - corrected syntax

 

[Jaskalas]

Just MAGA Nazis, giving Nazi statements. This admin openly declares that this nation is ruled by one person with unlimited power.

Homan: “President Trump doesn’t have a limitation on his authority to make this country safe. There’s no limitation.”

 

[Jaskalas]

Guess Republican leadership is still hesitant to make that final leap towards militarism and instead want to play a PR game where locals "rise up" and demand a takeover by federal troops.
Congress may want to play that game, will Demented Don wait that long before attacking Chicago? Top comment is regarding burning homes in Nepal. Americans may want to look into that.

Mike Johnson: "Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced."​

 

[Fenixgoon]

Guess Republican leadership is still hesitant to make that final leap towards militarism and instead want to play a PR game where locals "rise up" and demand a takeover by federal troops.
Congress may want to play that game, will Demented Don wait that long before attacking Chicago? Top comment is regarding burning homes in Nepal. Americans may want to look into that.

Mike Johnson: "Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced."​

So Johnson's home city will be the first to call for federalization...right?

 

[Jaskalas]

Illinois is less than thrilled to have military on the streets.
Governor has some words to describe the criminal activity.
Trump calls for / orders further escalating crimes.

• PRITZKER: TRUMP DEMENTIA BEHIND TROOP DEPLOYMENT

Pritzker said. “But we are monitoring everything they’re doing, and using that monitoring to win in court.”​

• DERANGED DON WANTS GOVERNOR JAILED

President Donald Trump called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to be jailed Wednesday morning while accusing the Democrats of failing to protect ICE agents.​

 

[HomerJS]

Illinois is less than thrilled to have military on the streets.
Governor has some words to describe the criminal activity.
Trump calls for / orders further escalating crimes.

• PRITZKER: TRUMP DEMENTIA BEHIND TROOP DEPLOYMENT

Pritzker said. “But we are monitoring everything they’re doing, and using that monitoring to win in court.”​

• DERANGED DON WANTS GOVERNOR JAILED

President Donald Trump called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to be jailed Wednesday morning while accusing the Democrats of failing to protect ICE agents.​

Chicago Mayor should have a presser outside and just say "Screw you Trump. Arrest me. I dare you"

Make a spectacle of it. Show people what we are dealing with.

 

[Jaskalas]

"Are we there yet?"
Yeah, we've fucking arrived. From attacking the notion of citizenship to election interference. Nazis going to Nazi.

House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship​

‘We need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens… any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport’ ​

And so it begins​

 

[HomerJS]

If Kavanagh is confirmed, would that be the moment we cross over into fascism? I know that sounds extreme and alarmist but allow me to explain.

Fascism doesn't happen via a hostile takeover where one day everything is fine and the next day we have a military coup. It happens slowly and fascist leaders are elected by the normal processes. These leaders may even come across as good people at first but then something happens. Institutions and norms are brought down, they are discredited and their check on democracy no longer becomes a check but rather a means to an end.

So so far we have a president that was duly elected and he's managed to destroy almost every political norm one can imagine and he's managed to discredit institutions like the press, like the FBI, he's managed to discredit any opposition. And now we have a supreme court nomination that will taint the supreme court, not because of the allegations made against him by multiple women but because of his extreme (especially for a supreme court judge) partisanship (which he put on full display at his hearing and because of his history with the bush admin and Kenneth Starr).

I bring this up because I was listening to a podcast with Richard Clark and Madeline Albright about a book she had written that spoke about fascism. They discussed the rise of fascism in other countries and they drew parallels to what's happening here. In their discussion they talked about turkey and edrogan and how he discredited various institutions and the last one he attacked was the courts which got me thinking about Kavanagh.

So my question is; if Kavanagh is confirmed, have we crossed the line into fascism and if not how much further do we need to go?

You can listen to the podcast yourself here:
https://futurestatepodcast.com/#ep5

From her book:


More from her book:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/madeleine-albright-warns-of-a-new-fascism-and-trump

Kudos to you. On top of this early.

 

[ivwshane]

Kudos to you. On top of this early.

I’d rather have been wrong.

 

[VRAMdemon]

"Are we there yet?"
Yeah, we've fucking arrived. From attacking the notion of citizenship to election interference. Nazis going to Nazi.

House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship​

‘We need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens… any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport’ ​

And so it begins​

Going by some of the shit Trump has said about this election and this guy Mamdani, it's going to be interesting to see what he does if/when this dude wins. I'm wondering what everyone's bingo card looks like?

So what is Trump planning on? Vetoing the election results? Declaring war on Manhattan? Imposing tariffs on NYC? Stay tuned, I guess.

Trump said Mamdani is a communist. Trump also said that he feels the President has some power over who is Mayor of New York City.

Trump:

"Well, I looked at the polls and looks like we’re going to have a communist as the mayor of New York. It’ll be very interesting. But here’s the good news. He’s got to go through the White House, everything goes through the White House. At least this White House, it does."

"With the communist in charge… look, you just go back a thousand years. I mean, it’s been done many times, a thousand years. It’s never worked once. So it’s not going to work now."

Welp, I guess we can add communism to the list of things Trump doesn’t understand. (What volume are we on now?)

Lol! A thousand years ago!!

Just know that Trump’s decision will be based on a special genius level knowledge of history. Such as the fact that communism has been around since the middle ages.

 

[cytg111]

I dont know where else to put this.

But the AI displacement has already begun, the mass firings has started.

And where do you think these displaced human beings is going to end up?

I have an idea.

Camps.

Utah Gov. Cox says homeless campus — envisioned to fulfill Trump’s order — is a ‘top priority’

As Utah has garnered national attention for Republican state leaders’ eagerness to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” Gov. Spencer Cox says their vision for a yet-to-be built 1,300-bed homeless campus in northwest Salt Lake...

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