Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.
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Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.
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Straight up authoritarianism.
The difficulty is pragmatically the pipes - all electronic - go from wherever to the Treasury. There's no state-level bearing surfaces to exert friction upon... more or less.
Individuals corporate or actual would have to act, and in numbers.
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Not saying there's no way - saying it's going to have to be a other way.
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He has revived forms that go beyond modern dictatorships. They belong to absolute monarchies.
Gratitude and forgiveness can only be understood within that framework (which is theocratic)
He's been dictatoring for 2 months now, destroying all of the departments that actually do make America great.
You watched the National Parks service destroyed and just shrugged.
You might want to do something?
when this can happen, you do NOT live in a Republic... certainly not one where the President supposedly represents us all without fear or favor
trump is not following the Constitution so you could make the case that the states are no longer bound to the federal government.
It would be great if some leaders began looking at things that way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_warship,_go_fuck_yourself#
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#Secession
Every court order he defies… it’s never over.
Every one of us he sends to El Salvador… it’s never over.
It’s over when we give up. We have size and time and history on our side.
It never has to be over.
It's time for the sleeping giant to awaken once more to shake off tyranny, but it's going to take all of us.
ie: where are calls for recalls as during the TP years?
Americans will stand up, for Democ,
Americans will stand up, for Democ,
Social Security will.
The average age for a combat veteran in the US right now is 65.
Our government is not functioning as it should. We cannot go back, we have to fight and move forward
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Collins is playing games again while people are hurting & she’s letting a bully dictate funding.
We must take the gavel back!
All I can do is continue to call for the arrest, trial, and conviction of the parties who are destroying the country.
Yes, capping off a decade of denial and being frogs in a frying pan.
BUT a significant number of the Democratic Senate leadership ARE in denial about how much time they have and are wasting letting Trump/Musk ravage the government.