this is insane due to the fact that he has put together a more authoritarian agenda and government than his first term one. is everyone losing their minds and living in a different reality than the one we live in?
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NPR CEO Katherine Maher says she regrets her years-old tweets calling Trump a fascist and a deranged racist: "I regret those tweets, I wouldn't tweet them against today. They represented a time when I was reflecting on something that the president had said rather than who he is."
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But he's a bully. And if you stand up to him you are landed in court. But he's losing in court. So just stand up to him.
Fascists make you grovel and then they kill you for your weakness.
I’m not sure what the solution to all of this is going to look like. I’m not sure anyone knows. But I do know that people shouldn’t simply lie down and take it.
even at the time i found it hard to believe, and even as it happens, i find it so hard to believe they're actually doing it
This is the skeet I saw directly above yours: https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3llcdhbuxfk27
My favorite congressional hearing story is when they asked Richard Posner whether, if confirmed, he would apply the law as written, and he gave like five pages of transcript talking about linguistic indeterminacy
Revised and extended version: yes
1. Dismantle checks and balances
2. Engineer economic collapse
3. Blame Biden to rally public anger.
4. Declare a national emergency
5. Push for centralised authoritarian control
6. Seize dictatorial authority
So when pressed......
(this is at least how it went here in Germany. I did expect Americans to give more resistance than we did, but maybe it is just human that most cave in)
now they know he's an *authoritarian* authoritarian and all that implies so they're tucking their tails and falling in line to save their own asses like the cowars they are