I’m haven’t finished reading your thesis on why the sky is blue . Not to be too snarky, however you can’t give us a silly line like the above . We are Dems with functioning brains.
We‘re long past that point to ask IF there is an attack on democracy in the US. The question is whether it can be stopped and if yes, how bloody this is gonna get.
Democracy is under attack. America is under attack. Americans are under attack. Voting is under attack. Education is under attack. Musk Trump are the leaders of the attacks. Republicans are the quisling followers. Republicans are thieves.
PROJECT 2025 framers are behind TRUMP, he's following all the objectives they have proposed. Why is NO one calling them out so they can be seen by every American. We're being attacked by billionaires behind the scenes. THEOCRACY is the goal, at any price.
Yes very much so.
Although I was distracted by all the disruption back then & by the time I found you here it was already on our shores, in our govt. An election looms & will be a chance to hold it back but damage to poor/minority folks is happening. Community focus til then https://bsky.app/profile/memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social/post/3lm76g36jxc2y
Fire defense lawyers. Replace independent journalists with 'friendly' ones. Ban books. Fire teachers who weren't embracing party's propaganda. Be against the whole world. Forced labor camps and prisons. Etc, etc.
1945, how dictatorship came in power in my country.
Mine has told me that he will not discuss it with me until his first year is up. After constant MAGA talk during every conversation throughout Biden entire term. Driving around with Trump shit all over his vehicle.
Now politics off limits.
Weak ass shit!!!
How can something that has never been put into genuine play like democracy be under attack though?
The government's violent response to the Whiskey Insurrection made it REAL clear we got rid of monarchy in favor of an oligarchy pretending VERY poorly to be a democracy.
haha yeah, it’s definitely feeling harder to deny these days, whether you’re looking at the laws being passed or just the emotional climate. feels like the ground’s been shifting for a while now.
Yes! The kids are being given electronic “portals” to “tell on their teachers” if they are being taught anything “DEI”
This to me sounds like what they asked the Nazi youth to do. Rat out your parents and teachers and find books to burn..! There is no difference. History repeats.
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I can't believe how few people seem to grasp that this is a coordinated attack by Republicans as agents of Russia, China, and assorted authoritarian-neoNazi regimes.
Very Serious People seem like they have precious few street smarts left.
With the Gustapo-esque kidnapping of people, the dehumanizing minority groups, the alienation of allies and the unconstitutional absconding of funds thusly appropriated by Congress, I would say … give it another year. I don’t want to be an alarmist, but maybe we are inching closer.
I think a differentiated, historically informed analysis is required, and we should not jump to conclusions that will compel me to do inconvenient things. 😁
"Democracy" in America died at the Constitutional Convention. Both factions of the "two party system" are vehemently opposed to it. No, it's not "under attack". We're just dropping the pretense.
I would argue that "Citizens United" was pretty much the end of pretending we were anything but what we were. I think a lot of what happened in the last few decades was the USA just dropping the pretense that we were every anything else.
I think it was built upon telling White men that at least they have it better than Native Americans, Black people, and women so keep voting for the rich! "Better Angles" are a third party.
Maybe.
I am going to need you to provide more data points - you can just make them up if you want.
And please bully and insult experts, scientists and academics.
Also, maybe throw in some alternative facts so that I can stomach the results a little better.
Can you publish your findings on Fox News?
Remember early on in Trump.2 they were doing trial balloons that indigenous people aren’t citizens. I’m a member of a federally recognized tribe. I can’t sleep. I admitted to my mom recently that I’m scared. She said she was too. Bc she’d lose me, my dad, and brothers
Looking pretty accurate. Here’s a fun thought to make it worse… what if the chaos in the market is purposeful to push money into treasuries so Trump can default on the debt between July-Oct when the debt ceiling will hit? That would be a death blow to the economy. MAGA messaging already prepping it.
Everything Trump is doing is highly consistent with the actions of a highly compromised Russian asset acting to destroy the United States. Literally nothing he does builds the nation.
I blame the History Channel for mainstreaming that Ancient Aliens bullshit.
Maybe I'm half joking, but 20+ years of "black/brown non-European people are too stupid to accomplish anything so it must have been aliens" will fuck some people up.
I don't think I ask for a lot from people around here besides the choicest shitposts I can find, but I have something to ask for now: if you have someone in your life whose noxious politics you've been forced to tolerate for years, please rub in how bad they fucked up once they start whining
The only two Trumpers I know are my uncles who both died a couple of years ago. Thinking of holding a seance to tell them how badly Trump is fucking his base.
They are human trafficking people. These are not deportations. They are done without due process which is illegal. Trafficking is moving people across state lines illegally. They are trafficking people into slavery at concentration camps. Call it what it is. Change their narrative.
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This was always gonna happen.
"Well yes but a democratic republic..?"
They'd just smile. Variants on this have happened many times over the years. This "attack on democracy" has been a long time coming.
And to think that Fox News only started a month before the 1996 election!
Although I was distracted by all the disruption back then & by the time I found you here it was already on our shores, in our govt. An election looms & will be a chance to hold it back but damage to poor/minority folks is happening. Community focus til then
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Couldn’t even keep a straight face.
It's dead... no one wants to call the time of death as "hope" springs eternal.
Choices & Consequences
Now I'm laughing cause that won't happen. Our hours are being cut and they've cracked down on overtime! 🤣
1945, how dictatorship came in power in my country.
Now politics off limits.
Weak ass shit!!!
The government's violent response to the Whiskey Insurrection made it REAL clear we got rid of monarchy in favor of an oligarchy pretending VERY poorly to be a democracy.
This to me sounds like what they asked the Nazi youth to do. Rat out your parents and teachers and find books to burn..! There is no difference. History repeats.
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We're past that now.
...not beyond repair yet, but it has been officially broken.
The issue we have today is there is no party in opposition
Just a headless feckless group of “oh well we tried” politicians
Very Serious People seem like they have precious few street smarts left.
Clear proof that we've never been an upwardly mobile society.
Too bad we let the white supremacists & the National Association of Manufacturers run the country for decades and break the backs of our unions.
Heez a jeenyus, you just don't get it.
BTW, where'd Q go?
Have been saying this
For a decade
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Democracy died on J6!
NO LAW ENFORCMENT!
Does that count?
I am going to need you to provide more data points - you can just make them up if you want.
And please bully and insult experts, scientists and academics.
Also, maybe throw in some alternative facts so that I can stomach the results a little better.
Can you publish your findings on Fox News?
Maybe I'm half joking, but 20+ years of "black/brown non-European people are too stupid to accomplish anything so it must have been aliens" will fuck some people up.
We should have a highlights reel of the moments Trump said what he was gonna do during the campaign for this.
Of course it would help to use this chance to pull people away from the death cult but i might have a little gloat, as a treat
He’s a financial advisor.
Sadly, my ultraCONservative neighbour has been oddly silent of late
Canada...
He's more of a Marlaina Kolodnicki/Stephen Harper/Pierre Poilievre stan
still contemplating a dog poop situation on their porch
not my dog though, she would never
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And pretending you have had one is naive bullshit