#DemsUnited The case for US democracy •Strong Institutional framework •The rigid Constitution •Judicial independence •The military’s discipline •States and civil organizations that can fight back! 🎁 wapo.st/4g8CYkZ - ThreadSky

marikosegawa.bsky.social • 92 days ago

#DemsUnited
The case for US democracy

•Strong Institutional framework
•The rigid Constitution
•Judicial independence
•The military’s discipline
•States and civil organizations that can fight back!

🎁 https://wapo.st/4g8CYkZ

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prompterchick.bsky.social•91 days ago

Those guardrails will be dismantled.
After the inauguration, democracy will be like a ghost in the wind and not be a tangible object that it has been for 248 years.
Am I being fatalistic? Yup.
But also realistic.
I hope I’m wrong.

tyronespaghetti.bsky.social•91 days ago

I've never wanted to be wrong more in my entire life.

bernardleclair.bsky.social•92 days ago

Trump will adjourn Congress (Art II Section 3)and proceed with his recess appointments. He will then suspend the Constitution (no more 2nd A) He will come for the guns unless you are a recognized Patriot! You might get a whole new Justice system.

rhettoreck.bsky.social•90 days ago

WAPO would say that. Gotta keep the consumers from worrying their way into foregoing their shopping. The Constitution is not rigid. It's as malleable as this fascist SCROTUS wants it to be. Our judiciary consists of a lot of cultists, right up to SCROTUS. Hardly independent. I could go on.

bendupuis.bsky.social•92 days ago

I mostly agree with the WP. BUT in many coups, the high ranked generals opposing the President get arrested and replaced by stooges. I have no insight into the mind of your military. Did they vote en masse for trump? Would they actually resist? That's the key thing for an illegal coup.🙏🤞

rhettoreck.bsky.social•90 days ago

Trump and his thugs do have plans to arrest, court-martial and execute Generals he considers disloyal to him. The military reeks of magats, but they're being controlled. When trump finishes his purge of the brass, that will change and we'll see the military used like they were in 1970s Latin America

bendupuis.bsky.social•90 days ago

In that case,i am not even sure that Canada is safe. I mean, we all heard calls to "liberate" Canada from Trump , Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Nothing new here.

rhettoreck.bsky.social•89 days ago

But then again, I can't even vote, yet we elected a criminal with a record of crimes orders of magnitude worse than anything I ever even considered.

The problem with fleeing the US is that, then, you've subjected yourself to US foreign policy.

So, yes. No place, nor the planet itself is safe.

rhettoreck.bsky.social•89 days ago

Didn't I hear Canada just told Candace Owens to fuck off when she tried to get an entertainment visa for one of their fascist rallies? Canada has some sense. I can't have lunch in Newfoundland over some petty, non-violent drug deal 45 years ago, but maga gangsters have free reign? I don't get it.

strangebrickdroog.bsky.social•89 days ago

This may help you understand

rhettoreck.bsky.social•88 days ago

That explains a lot. It's so astute that I used to attribute it to Margaret Mead!
It's on my top 20 list for sure, up there with some Twain and Mencken in the "Pithy Observations on Stupidity", aka the POS category.

rhettoreck.bsky.social•90 days ago

I would trust no military of trump and his magats. No fucking way. Nor will I trust or respect anyone who enlists in a military they know damn well will be turned against the public.
The military magats will be unleashed when the big magat returns. I will consider them occupiers, not to be trusted.

liliththeserpent.bsky.social•90 days ago

I wouldn't bet on that..

https://youtu.be/BB2r_eOjsPw?si=1Mep9W6kSFBQ3JuY

marshallmattdillon.bsky.social•91 days ago

Dont be so sure. Tens of millions of truly stupid Americans feel (have been conned) otherwise

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