“If we had smarter fascists in charge right now, we'd be finished.” To watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social cover the Trump admin’s Signal chat scandal, ICE raids, Gaza and the West Bank, and the general state of democracy, go to zeteo.com/p/hed-v1-meh... - ThreadSky

zeteo.com • 9 days ago

“If we had smarter fascists in charge right now, we'd be finished.”

To watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social cover the Trump admin’s Signal chat scandal, ICE raids, Gaza and the West Bank, and the general state of democracy, go to https://zeteo.com/p/hed-v1-mehdi-talks-about-the-shitshow

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albelarmi.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ok. But move fast because they can learn.

anicka79.bsky.social•9 days ago

Don’t forget the "democratic" Nato-member and ally of Turkey that jail journalists wanting to cover the ongoing protests https://bsky.app/profile/etc.se/post/3llgzdeo2m725 BBC also had a run-in with the authorities of freedom of press.

bigsis1.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is true...when I start to freak out about all the horrors going on these past 60 days, the thing that calms me down is reminding myself what a bunch of BUNGLING IDIOTS they all are, and have been for years...
And then I wait for tomorrow, and the next monumental fuck up...
On and on

myblueeyes.bsky.social•9 days ago

nathanhardee.bsky.social•8 days ago

YW,TJLYO,M

knightwizard1.bsky.social•9 days ago

OMG, that's what I was thinking. We have very few saving graces and that is probably the best one we have at the moment. Our judicial branch can only buy us so much time until they are sent to a concentration camp. We out number them but that won't matter if we wait for them to pick us off.

knightwizard1.bsky.social•9 days ago

We need total maximum civic engagement. Our window is closing to save our country. The establishment Dems Need to swallow their pride and put our country first. If they won't stand up to tyranny then they are enablers. We all deserve better than this, America was meant to be empowering for us.

knightwizard1.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is essentially America's ultimate test, and we must help our country overcome it. We are the last line , the last check left after the judicial branch. We can't wait for the republican majority Congress or some one on the supreme Court to have a moral epiphany in the comfort of their manor.

knightwizard1.bsky.social•9 days ago

If we lose our country we lose ourselves and scatter to the winds of a new fascist order. If we save it, we save the world and perhaps have the biggest opportunity to not only save America but to drain and cure it of all that ails us. This country's best days lay ahead if we keep fighting for it.👊🔥🇺🇸

tvarol.bsky.social•9 days ago

They become smarter every year if they manage to stay in power. Just look at Turkey.

drewxray.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://youtu.be/feQN4Uc_BVo?feature=shared

fuckswasticars.bsky.social•9 days ago

I've told people the first "emperor" of the United States can only come form the DNC. The GOP wants to run a dictatorship but is too brain dead and unpopular to do so. Imagine if these actions were being done by a competent Democrat? You'd have Augustus instead of Commodus.

jrfree.bsky.social•8 days ago

Project 2025 is certainly capable enough to wreak havoc to our institutions

peter-maurer.bsky.social•9 days ago

🎯

adamdoctolero.bsky.social•9 days ago

Shhh, damn it.

princehalbert.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can't help but wonder if fascism itself stems from lower than average critical thinking skills. It would make sense for people of lower IQ to band together based on emotion rather than thought.

jayzbee.bsky.social•8 days ago

It certainly helps. Remember MAGA is the culmination of a decades long project of programming the susceptible, selling ignorant whites on victimhood rage. LBJ understood that "if you give them someone to look down on they will empty their pockets for you" Time for the Oligarchs to collect the spoils

profjoe.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://politizoom.com/first-they-came-for-the-green-card-holders-and-you-know-the-rest/

good-trouble-1918.bsky.social•8 days ago

The problem is that the people who are trying to become fascist are as dumb as a box of rocks. You can actually Google which political party is more educated.

bluewizardsii.bsky.social•9 days ago

Good point. They have a playbook and probably read it a few times, but have fumbled the ball quite often. The referees are getting in the way (The Courts) and the fans are rioting. The referees should have brought more red flags or yellow and red cards.

bebetr.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yup, but the thing is, the smarter you really are, the lest likely, imo, you are to be racist.

kimberleelynn.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is true. If we had anything other than the Marx Brothers running the country we'd be learning Russian.

aegontheconqueror.com•9 days ago

This is why JD was forced on Trump.

kimberleelynn.bsky.social•8 days ago

I thought he was "suggested" by DJTJ.

aegontheconqueror.com•8 days ago

Yeah DJTJ was the vessel for delivering the suggestion, but the tech Oligarchs were pushing for him specifically

babak-g-lavasani.bsky.social•8 days ago

As @olbermann.bsky.social always says if our democracy survive is not because of our great effort of those of us trying to preserve it but because of the stupidity of those who try to destroy it.

bibanez.bsky.social•9 days ago

You assume there are smarter fascists.

bigtentsocialist.bsky.social•9 days ago

We can’t know whether we’re finished until we see what the final deal between Trump and the Supreme Court is going to be.

ausnuck.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thank God for dumb fascists; if Trump was smart, he would have consolidated his power before doing incredibly unpopular things.

cantstandyaaaa.bsky.social•9 days ago

If they were smarter they wouldn’t be fascist though. The black and white thinking and flattening of nuance that define fascism don’t appeal to smart people. Morons can still take over and destroy our current forms of government and society though. They have strength in numbers.

iveseenenough.bsky.social•9 days ago

Unfortunately I don’t think fascism ever relies on smarts when it takes over.

shychko.bsky.social•9 days ago

Watching Mehdi speak with the never trumpers this morning reminds me that we are going to need to get a little messy with our alliances to survive this cluster.
I also learned what ζητέω means.

domainophile.bsky.social•9 days ago

The smart poser fascists come later after the stupid desperado fascists who got in early (because they were stupid) when success was improbable succeed.

nomadico323.bsky.social•9 days ago

the problem is they always fail up... it's not enough to watch them do what they always do and still keep going

toneleone.bsky.social•8 days ago

It’s like a bad Hulu miniseries with a shit script and cut-rate Hollywood has-beens playing the corrupt POTUS and his henchmen.

But it’s all too real.

daggydame.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ssshhhh Mehdi not so loud. We don't want to tell them they are going about it the wrong way! Let them stay the dumb bastards that they are

laurisebastian.bsky.social•8 days ago

The fact that dumb fascist are winning says a lot about how lost the Democratic opposition party is?

kauffy.us•9 days ago

You are absolutely right. And I said this during the first Trump administration that he was so stupid, and doesn't know how to operate the dials and levers of government, that he will actually be in the way of them getting most of their stuff done.
Anybody who thinks Musk is even bright is a dimwit.

menckenfan.bsky.social•8 days ago

Absolutely. If he was smart, he would have had everything locked up in the first term. He had BOTH houses of Congress and yet didn't get anything done except for tax cuts for the rich bitches. His incompetence (and his other personality traits) may yet be how we survive the next couple of years.

kauffy.us•4 days ago

I think it's because he wasn't running to win, and didn't expect to. And American hold-my-beer'd.

From Reagan to Bush, the front guy was a figurehead for actual "deep state" neocons-- Trump wasn't surrounded by those people. He's the Usefulest Idiot now for a different shadowy cadre.

guitarnut.bsky.social•8 days ago

Dont underestimate the orcs from the heritage foundation , they control the puppets.
Step 1 already done, dissolve habeas corpus.
As demoed by this monster

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