Stopping Trump's Move Toward Authoritarianism

[75thru79]

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

-- Malcolm X

 

[Its On A Slab]

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

-- Malcolm X

Ironic that he said this just a few months before the 1964 general election, when the Dixiecrats started filing out of the Democratic Party.

 

[92tide]

the cruelty is the point with these chuds


JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

 

[75thru79]

the cruelty is the point with these chuds

I love the smell of cruelty in the morning!

I love the smell of cruelty in the morning...

 

[92tide]

nothing to see here folks. and but the democrats

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

theintercept.com

 

[92tide]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984578727955546305

 

[92tide]

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005

 

[CrimsonNagus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984578727955546305

These are the types of people that should be rounded up and kicked out of the country. Racist, bigoted scumbags.

 

[92tide]

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force

A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.

www.propublica.org

 

[CrimsonNagus]

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force

A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.

www.propublica.org

We live in a military state now, and it will only get worse. All while the brainwashed conservatives across this country are applauding it.

Come on Trump supporters, tell us how great this is. You all have wanted this since the end of slavery. Put the brown and black skinned people back in their place, right?

I mean, your continued support of this corrupt administration and a scumbag president, the silence about all this horrible, disgusting stuff he is doing, signals you support for it all, right?

Keep only mentioning the supposed good, like the "lowest gas prices in decades", even though that is not true, and the majority of "good" stuff can be disproven with facts. Keep focusing on the crumbs while the walls are falling behind you.

Your silence is deafening.

 

[Its On A Slab]

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005

History tells us that Lincoln dictated The Emancipation Proclamation while sitting on this very fabulous golden bidet.

 

[Maudiemae]

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005

Apparently, there were so many horrified people complaining, the Hanover Borough condemned it and issued a statement.

 

[92tide]

laws are for the little people​

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Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and over 75 others involved in fake elector scheme

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disbarred and disgraced former attorney, joins other Trumpworld loyalists in receiving an unconditional pardon

www.independent.co.uk

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[JDCrimson]

Republicans Trump Assaulting Voting as Mid Terms Approach

 

[92tide]

MSN

Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.
.......
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places like Russia, India, and Nigeria.

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with its nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe.

 

[jthomas666]

MSN

Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.
.......
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places like Russia, India, and Nigeria.

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with its nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe.

Shocking...

 

[arthurdawg]

Not surprised at all... It has been apparent for years that many of the most inflammatory social media sites are put out by Putin, Xi, and Kim...

And we've set back and watched and recently ordered our cybersecurity forces to stand down on all of this.

 

[Huckleberry]

The Price of American Authoritarianism

What can reverse democratic decline?

www.foreignaffairs.com

The Price of American Authoritarianism​

What Can Reverse Democratic Decline?​

When Donald Trump won reelection in November 2024, much of the American establishment responded with a shrug. After all, Trump had been democratically elected, even winning the popular vote. And democracy had survived the chaos of his first term, including the shocking events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Surely, then, it would survive a second Trump presidency.

That was not the case. In Trump’s second term, the United States has descended into competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but incumbents routinely abuse their power to punish critics and tilt the playing field against their opposition. Competitive authoritarian regimes emerged in the early twenty-first century in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, Viktor Orban’s Hungary, and Narendra Modi’s India. Not only did the United States follow a similar path under Trump in 2025, but its authoritarian turn was faster and farther-reaching than those that occurred in the first year of these other regimes.

The game, however, is far from up. The fact that the United States has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism does not mean that its democratic decline has reached a point of no return. Trump’s authoritarian offensive is now unmistakable, but it is reversible.

Two things can be true at once. First, Americans face an authoritarian government. In 2025, the United States ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies. Second, as the Democratic Party’s success in the November 2025 elections shows, multiple channels remain through which opposition forces can contest—and potentially defeat—Trump’s increasingly authoritarian government. Indeed, the existence of avenues for contestation is in the very nature of competitive authoritarianism.

 

[92tide]

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