Here's the executive order just signed by Trump.
One of the defining features of fascism is that the discretionary power of the leader always prevails over the rule of law.
One of the defining features of fascism is that the discretionary power of the leader always prevails over the rule of law.
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Dictators always ensure the military is looked after.
And in it creeps!
Otherwise they are toast.
Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 15: Congress has the power to call forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union and suppress Insurrections.
https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/new-executive-order-aims-to-curb-the-authority-of-independent-agencies-including-the-fcc
I wish Trump had taught FJB how to WEAPONIZE the DOJ.
He'd be in prison right now instead of the W.H.
SCOTUS isn't coming in
POTUS acts out every sin
DOGE puts on the swagger...
(Run with it, if you care.)
Hermann Göring
It's Führerprinzip being enacted. (Or at least attempted.)
All opposition parties must be loyal to their country, especially if there's a threat to world peace.
Time to unite, fight plutocracy and Fascists.
But here we are.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/politics/trump-christians-vote-ingraham.html
Let the convicted criminal decide what the law is
...he's had so much criminal experience he knows law-breaking when he sees it
🙄
More than any of us wanted to acknowledge.
s/Attorney General/Reich Minister of Propaganda/a
Why do we ever bother learning history? We are doomed to repeat it regardless.
Interestingly Putin hides his fascist tendency behind thickets of legalism rather than openly flouting it like this.
He understands the world in a way very few do. His stuff with Surkov set the tone for much of Western politics years later.
Would SCOTUS knock it back?
Would the Reps in Congress vote for a bill with this?
Hitler took 53 days
Trump only at 28
And there must be thousands of requests for legal opinions every day...
Is this where we are on the Hitler storyline now?
RIP The USA 1776-2025.
We Brits were your first war; but thereafter we always loved you, and sided with you.
You lost the propaganda war on home soil. There appears no way back.
Gather sudo-military: check
Actual military: check
Media: check
Judiciary: check
Education: check
Claim Emergency Powers or authority over everything forever: check
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
There's hope.
1. genuinely support his many awful policies
2. are in an information silo without any exposure to his extremist stances
3. are sick of the status quo and want to see it all burn down, consequences be damned
The USA, sadly, has a longer history of genocide and racism than it does of tolerance.
I'm horrified but not surprised :(
Same as with Brexit.
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
Thank goodness for Labour
Farage and Badenoch will try it here with the help of Peter Thiel and Louie Mosley.
Already in charge of our NHS data via Palantir
If you saw the #ARCConference yesterday
Anyone who still uses Twitter and engages in these places is lost.
We all need to support @stopfundinghate.bsky.social
https://99-percent.org/uk-politics-its-time-for-a-new-lens/
A reminder here from the immortal Mary Oliver that our good old West was a bit of a scamp well before Trump II
https://www.inequalitymedia.org/wealth-and-poverty
Project 2025... "hysterical Lefty fear mongering"
Putin sympathiser... "hysterical Lefty fear mongering"
Annexation of Canada...
A British Commonwealth country with Charles as HOS...
Patriotic, freedom lovers Farage and Badenoch to the rescue!
The misinformation bot farms spewing vile rhetoric on FB/Twitter about Starmer vs the positive ‘only Reform can save us’ headlines on Twitter/GB news and dodgy foreign made FB forums is pushing a certain generation to support them without question
As my US friends stated recently, it's "a dumpster fire".
Just extraordinary.
'Leaders of the free world'?
Methinks more 'Capitulators to the biggest bullies'...
😔
to be fair, almost nobody gives Asylum to a disabled people...
at this point, I kind of pray for an invasion force--from the north, south, any cardinal direction works.
Tame courts could still give the veneer of a legal process to Presidential edicts.
He didn't need the Executive Order, he controls SCOTUS, Congress & Senate, & the Department of Justice anyhow.
He’s been in power less than a month, your country has a lot lower to go.
US is ultimately heading for another instance of what they once called “the late unpleasantness”.
Judicial challenges to EOs will all finish at the alt right loaded SCOTUS, they win them all.
Legislation is superior to common law, so they have to control or remove congress.
Thats the lawyers delt with, whats next is usually free speech as in reporters.
If I was Canada and Mexico, I would be getting ready for a huge influx of American refugees, soon
How long before the law/constitution is changed so Musk can be nominated as successor or will Trump be too scared of him?
I knew about Papal infallacy but....
But it becomes so when others who might stop it choose not to.
It's like common law here - it's relatively meaningless, but if people treat it as the law, it may as well be.
Giving a convicted felon immunity from prosecution could only end one way. The end of law in America.
What were the Supreme Court thinking? It's this actually what they intended? Did the coup start in Trump's first term?