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It's frightening how a dictatorship is setting itself up in plain sight, at an accelerated pace, almost hour after hour, and nobody does a damn thing about it.
These are fascist purges. The way a military dictatorship would take over. This kind of thing is what you see in undeveloped poor countries, banana republics.
Well that tracks since the US is a poor, underdeveloped country that spent all its money on a Gucci belt.
We've had failing grades on infrastructure like bridges since the god damn Bush Jr. era. That's pushing 20 years and no maintenance has been done.
Didn't Biden pass an infrastructure act to fix these bridges? Granted, I expect it'll take more than a year or two.
Musk is literally hijacking the treasury right now so it's more likely it'll just have the funding cut out from under it.
Trump is literally enacting Project 2025 right now, purging people like crazy, and people are like "What about how things normally work, though?" If it's not clear they're not going to work normally from here on out I don't know what to tell you other than: wake up.
You just can't say "no maintenance has been done." It has, with more planned.
Had we elected Kamala, this was one of the things that would continue to get fixed. Just seems you don't want to give credit where credit is due. Not sure if you're going for a "both sides" angle or what. But if you are, you don't get to conflate that with the current bullshit.
Gonna be real with you: Too little too late coming between Trump's first term and Trump's second.
Accomplishments are only accomplishments if they are seen through to the end. If Trump and Musk gut the funding for half the government overnight to pocket the difference, how's any of that going to happen? And if it doesn't happen, what's there to crow about in terms of accomplishments? Great job, we got two years in on 20+ years of maintenance backlogs.
Keep pretending things are normal or it matters when the whole point is we didn't get shit like that soon enough to keep people's faith in the government. Instead they got mad and voted for a mad clown to tear it all down after we pissed away trillions on pointless wars in the middle east that even conservatives claim they never supported now.
Nobody's gonna care what Biden wanted to do if Trump tears it all down anyway.
This kind of thing is what you see in undeveloped poor countries, banana republics ^after the dictator backed by the US takes over.
You forgot that last part
Yeah it's honestly pretty fucked to use Banana Republic as an insult from the nation that did the military invasions.
As it turns out, American exceptionalism is bullshit propaganda.
There's so many parts and pieces that all failed to get to where we are today. Each time you reflect a moment and realize that we shouldn't be be here in the first place:
- The FBI // justice department shouldn't be a tool of personal revenge.
- But wait Trump/Musk shouldn't have become presidents to begin with.
- Voters should be educated and well informed enough to simply not vote for an autocrat.
- Merrick Garland should never have become attorney general and even so Biden should have pressured him hard to do his job.
- Trump should have been impeached multiple times already.
- But the democrats too should have had a better alternative candidate.
- The democrats should have had a real primary contest.
- Biden should have never announced to run for another term out of the blue.
- And his handlers shouldn't have tried to hide his frailty for so long.
- If only Donald Trump should have been sentenced for his many crimes.
- And he shouldn't have had the backing of the Republican party for this long.
- Arguably voters should have realized he's inept the first time around.
- The media shouldn't have sensationalized him as much when he first ran as a publicity stunt
The list is not exhaustive and goes on and on...
And in the background there's all the systemic failures and problems that enabled this: terrible public education, ignoring a large chunk of the electorate for too long, citizens united, social media and outrage culture, rampant disinformation and propaganda disguised as news, the electoral college and de facto 2 party system, too few checks and balances being hard codified, obvious loop holes like presidential pardons, ...
Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations. If we will still live in a world where historians are allowed to about their work freely.
Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations
Historians have studied the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis in, out, up, down and sideways for 92 years and it amounted to a big fat nothing, as here we are again, dealing with the exact same shit today.
Don't get your hopes high.
The majority of Germans thought Hitler was an idiot. It was the idiots who followed him who brought him to power. Just like maga. The fact is that a few generations from now another idiot fascist will rise to power and another group of people will be equally astonished at the stupidity of their voters.
It'll go something like: "Oh my god WTF are you thinking!?! He's doing exactly the same thing as trump and Hitler!! He's a fucking fascist!! He just did a fucking maga salute FFS !!!"
The problem is that the people who really need to learn from history don't see any need to. It's the idiots who repeat history and we have to sit here watching them stick their dick in a beehive, knowing that everyone is about to get stung.
Well someone is going to do something, likely a lawsuit because these firings are pretty clearly illegal. Now if the Supreme Court (again) decides the law doesn't apply to Trump, then maybe it's time to freak out. But that'll take over a year and then it'll be midterms time. And as terrible as Democrats are at winning, they'll have to really suck to screw that up.
Why? It's literally what half the country voted for
Half the country didn't vote. A quarter of the country voted for this.
Half the country didn't vote for fascism. Half the country voted for anyone who promised to lower the price of fucking groceries, danger and morals be damned.
Yes, half of the country is thick as pig shit. But they're not all fascist to the core.
Does that matter anymore?
It does because at some point, those people who voted Trump will need to realize what they did and feel the shame.
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Yep, the USA is heading toward a 3rd World dictatorship at full steam.
3rd world? We're about to invent the 4th world (or 4th reich, either term works)
Yep, I'm all for it. 4th World it is.
The night of the long knives.
Fun Hitler fact (as if there is such a thing): the phrase "Night of the Long Knives" was coined by Hitler himself in a speech given shortly after the event, although he used the phrase to describe what Ernst Rohm had allegedly been planning himself. The media instead attached the phrase to Hitler's actions, much against his wishes.
Longer knives.
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You slow walk it for him and this is the thanks you get.
Lol really. I understand there's probably a lot of nuance but for the majority of us laymen this is what we saw the whole 4 years Biden was in office. Nothing was done to prevent a return of Trump. Which speaks volumes about those in power even when a democrat is in power.
they must all be in on it… how else could it take them so long to prosecute him on anything?
how has musk taken control of the federal payment system that pays social security and trillions of other dollars? what about security clearances? locking employees out of computers? are they modifying the system?
i know if i sneezed in the same room as one of those computers id be arrested….
they took that over and the media only cares about tariffs and stock prices….
This has to be illegal in soooo many ways.
It's completely illegal.
Who's gonna do something about it? The FBI?
The supreme... Oh wait.
Congr.... Oh Ya they are part the problem.
That’s the thing,, the system of checks and balances broke down. Even in the scenario where one party captured all three branches we assumed they would at least have the ego to protect their own power.
Trump is not just illegally usurping congress's’ power for a lot of these but they are willingly giving up their power
Their own "night of the long knives" but with mere illegal firings.
This is what happens when you lose a class war.
Disgruntled FBI agent returns to "finish the case' 🤞
If only this was some Movie/TV Show where a "Good Cop" gets fired by the "One Corrupt Government Official" and they somehow gather enough evidence and get rid of the Corrupt Official, and they get restored in their position, and get a promotion, and then the Happily Ever After ending!
Just that One corrupt official ruining everything, everything else in the system is perfectly fine and there are zero corrupt people left... Totally perfect hollywood logic.
This is not at all worrying /s
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives?wprov=sfti1
Wonder what they could be purging dissidents for? 🤔
And I suppose we'll get more feigned surprise in the "liberal media", pretending they didn't know that donvict is a vengeful asshole that plans on doing NOTHING for the American people and everything to enrich the broligarchy and make others suffer, all while carrying out revenge on anyone he thinks "wronged" him.
Oh, and I'm sure we'll get more gaslighting and total lack of any apology from the idiots that were telling everyone bOtHsIdEs in the run up to the election, because the Democratic Party didn't promise them a pretty pony.
The FBI is just another group of cops that are assholes. The ones that "went after Trump", didn't do shit for 4 years, and those that didn't want to will be wishing they had once they cross Trump for some other bullshit and find themselves on the chopping block.
When you support corruption you'll get fucked by a corrupt fucker sooner or later.
I wouldn't say the FBI are good people, but these agents that are removed are probably at least not anti-constitution.
Merrick Garland fucked it up. FBI doesn't prosecute, the DoJ does. Fuck Garland.
(Also: Is Biden an idiot? What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?)
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