"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"
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Who exactly is now head of the Democratic party and leading the political opposition?
From the UK we see no one. It's all demonstrations lead by local people. Am i wrong about that? We obviously don't get all the news from the US.
Harris seems to be invisible since she lost.
That’s the important part. He is a cult leader, and when he ends, so does his cult (I mean, there will still be stupid people, but there won’t be MAGA). No one can take his place, just ask Ron DeSantis.
John McCain was the last honorable Republican. Sad!
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-pause-waco/
1. Grab power
2. Put down descent
3. Enrich themselves and their family members
The GOPQ Senators need to stop him. They don't want to. Neither does the Roberts' court.
So how exactly do the rest of us stop him?
Yeah, I Crave the trial of them. Which, huh, would be more torturous to Them, wouldn't it? Moving them on, & fvck I Get That! Seems... too easy?
Dunno... they're so cartoonishly evil
We've past the point of educating on how they fail. That's so 2021.
But it doesn't tell us why dictatorships fail.
#tariffs #recession
China & EU bypassing tariffs with free trade deal, should be interesting.
Even faint whispers China might start selling US treasuries in retaliation, gives shivers to bond traders & FX.
Lotta shaking going on.
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2fxdua
It also appears that recent protests are on ignore from MSM. A requiem for public protest continues on 4/19, to probable greater numbers. It might not be a good time to be a republican either. Underestimate public sentiment at your own risk
(TLDR, democracy is fucked as a reliable system in the internet age.)
„Offenbar ist niemand bereit, einen einzelnen Mann daran zu hindern, die Weltwirtschaft zu zerstören, die Finanzmärkte zu ruinieren und dieses und andere Länder in eine Rezession zu treiben, wenn ihm morgen früh danach ist.“
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
#handsoff
UNBELIEVABLE
https://apple.news/AddUYrpiTQKGY1xIbhMSmSA
And accurate.
And that isn’t happening.
I believe America, in time, has UNLEARNED about Nixon. This combined with hyper-partisan cultish mold of Repubs now…
Disaster.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-took-a-long-time-for-republicans-to-abandon-nixon/
Has any one human been despised by so many at any point in history? Shockingly, I think not.
Congress, maybe?
I think I'll complain about the color of the sky today.
We're on it.
No one sane trust the u.s. anymore.
Please wake up, take decisive action. Pontificating analysis isn’t enough because this is about much more than one cruel, lying narcissist.
He’s a very effective tool, a useful idiot for some very powerful people.
Let’s make this bigger than 4/5. We need to keep up the pressure bc it all comes down to We The People!
In our present crisis, the constitution is not the solution to our problem, the constitution is the problem.
It will take relentless and massive protests, probably a general strike, and a good dose of civil disobedience.
But the alternative seems to be years or even decades of uncertainty, economic chaos, brutality, and tyranny.
Every day!
All Day!
100 Million Strong
#USARiseUp
The US public has to do something similar to counter him.
That Roberts himself has such deep rooted proclivity against liberalism that he would rather support corrupt grifters and autocrats rather than uphold the constitution is is the biggest disappointment!
#ThisIsTheMoment
#MakeYourStand
We also learn that even fewer rich people are principled and brave.
Finally we learn that no really, really rich people are principled and brave.
It is almost as if courage and being principled is inversely related to wealth.
I tried to work through some of that in a recent piece:
The Club I Thought I’d Joined
https://www.brittleviews.com/p/the-club-i-thought-id-joined
Or jellyfish: No spines, no hearts, no brains.
Have you no real sense of patriotism?
“Have You No Sense of Decency?"
Other countries : do not give our oligarchs haven. Let them suffer in a third world US. They demanded the fall of the US government because they believe they are superior to the common citizen in every way that counts.
But it is on the GOP.
Everyone with an R by their name who has passively acceded to this.
Everyone, national, state & local.
Every R voter.
Rs own this.
Whether gleefully or silently, every R owns this.
https://bsky.app/profile/rollingstone.com/post/3lmi7q7msak2d
seems highly unlikely those will happen - this is, after all, a coup being executed by intelligent men with near-infinite resources. trump is just a useful idiot.
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But you fail to see and express THE REASON we’re here—dictatorship.
Here 👇you express the very same concept the founders warned us of—“disorders and miseries” that would result if we allowed political party control of govt functions & power. Pres. Washington 👇
Returning to the ATOMIZED power structure originally intended.
From this concentration of power in parties.
No more control of power by party.
That’s the answer.
http://www.realindependent.com