It’s so surreal that everyone is just zombie walking into this dystopia.
I vote all blue in a very red district and county, what else can I do? They’re too stupid to understand how dangerous their red vote is, and there is no changing their minds.
I’d recommend moving just for your own personal safety, after that consider running for office yourself!
Are you linked up with Dems or any activist groups on the local level (city, county, etc)? Communication & organization will be key
I emigrated as soon as RBG died. I am not coming back, except maybe as that gyrocopter dude from Mad Max.
when the oceans dry out, you might even make it by car. i’m gonna build a gigahorse.
Where’d you go?
To the other place I happen to be a citizen: the UK.
It’s not like a million times better. But my kid calls them tomahtoes now, which is mildly amusing.
You can get that just by watching enough Peppa Pig tho
We’ll dig up the road!
I’ll take my chances with the Home Office
Don’t worry, gun owners have pinkie promised they’ll overthrow any tyrants, right after they’ve finished enthusiastically voting for them.
All these years gun owners saying they’re needed to protect the populace from a tyrannical government. The irony.
The weird thing with these gun nuts is many of them support arming the government via the police and military. Which is their enemy.
“Over-throwing” the government is a dog whistle for “anyone they disagree with”.
It’s rebellion against the “tyranny” of facing social consequences for saying the N-Word
It’s almost like it was just a lie they told to make all the school shootings sound worth it.
Everybody? C’mon. Many many people are paying attention.
Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, is director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, a conservative think tank organizing dozens of partners who have joined the effort to build this government in waiting.
Rename it all you want. It’s still Project 2025, and it’s fascist as fuck.
Literal takeover of the government is being planned in the open. Why aren’t they in prison?
Because no one has committed a crime?
You mean other than fomenting a coup against the U.S. government, hiring fake electors and trying to get Georgia officials to commit election fraud?
Those are not directly relevant to what this think tank is doing, which is what I was replying to. The think tank has broken no laws, so there is no crime to be pursued.
Conspiracy to commit a felony is a crime.
A conspiracy occurs when two or more people agree to commit an illegal act and take some step toward its completion. Conspiracy is an inchoate crime because it does not require that the illegal act actually have been completed.
Yet he’ll run without a platform the way he did last time.
I think we’ve heard the platform: punish enemies and dismantle democracy.
And for reference:
30% of the country actively want that after 3 decades of Fox News and AM radio, and 15% are too deluded to think it would never happen and are just sleepwalking towards it on party-line R votes. Which comes to ~45%.
On the other side we have 5-10% who don’t want it but are going to protest third party vote, or apathetically not turn out because they don’t feel Biden is close enough to perfect and can’t forgive him for being just good. Which comes to 45-50%.
Hope we have good turnout…
Just because heard it doesn’t make it a platform
You know… Stan Lee was talking about when they were comming up with Dr Doom. “Isn’t it weird you can’t be put in jail for saying you want to do world domination?” and that keeps replaying in my head. Well that and Trump being the least like Dr Doom a person can get aside from wanting to rule everything.
Fun fact - talking about overthrowing the government is legal
However, if you actually try to do it - like calling out people to do so - then that talking retroactively becomes a crime of conspiracy to commit (eg treason). That was a Supreme Court decision from early in US history.
I’m pretty sure Dr. Doom would be insulted enough by the comparison to personally vaporize tangelini for being the subject he was compared to and then you for having made the comparison
Pairs well with this - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-truth-social-dictatorship/
Holy shit, are we gonna see the sequel to the dictator, Sulla?
I think it would be the dark parody
you would think that the democrats would be pulling the power away from the president currently
How? And I imagine many of the things Trump would do would be constitutional. Immoral and unethical as fuck, but constitutional. Most of our government is predicated upon raging, corrupt assholes not getting into power.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Trump mocked fears about his authoritarianism tendencies at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday, stating he’d be a dictator only on “Day 1” so that he could close the border and start drilling.
The fiery language is not new, but he and a group of Trump insiders are working behind the scenes on plans to amass his power so that he can carry out an unprecedented restructuring of the U.S. government.
A key part of this effort revolves around reinstituting an executive order known as Schedule F, which would reclassify a large chunk of those federal staff members as at-will employees.
It’s not that the federal service isn’t in need of reforms, says Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, is director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, a conservative think tank organizing dozens of partners who have joined the effort to build this government in waiting.
The federal workforce is made up of tens of thousands of nonpolitical career civil servants who remain on their jobs regardless of who is the president.
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