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Americans will have to tear it all down. CNN, SCROTUS, all institutions where he’s installed syncophants-everything he has touched. Anything less will be enabling fascism.
Because “blatantly illegal” has been such a stopping force so far.
as long as there are no checks and balances, as long as no one exists with the will and sense of duty to do their job, there is no distinction between legal and illegal.
Every election, it's the year of "stolen elections" in the upcoming election, even as they argue about the "stolen election" the last election.
Why do the corporate-owned networks allow such a news story on such a steady basis? Is the election almost stolen every couple years? Is the election never stolen? Do they steal the elections sometimes but at other times have fair elections?
I don't think there's ever any stealing, I think it's purchased, every time. And THAT is why stolen elections are a constant news story.
Yesterday I saw a Hitler/Mussolini Documentary. It's crazy how much similarity between this administration and the fascist ideas.
It's legal if no one has the balls to shut it down.
Calling a thing "unconstitutional" just spurs that orange jackass forward
Sure seems like getting trained up and in shape would be a good idea. Just in case, ya know.
Didn’t I see some meme about how things end every 250 years??
Empires don't fall by themselves. People burn them down.
If everyone in America is waiting for "somebody" to fix everything for them then there's a good chance America is going to exceed that 250 year mark.
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within" ― Will Durant
If that doesnt work it was nice knowing there was an Iran once
They can't steal and election if we steal it first...Genius.
States run elections
Yea, I feel like this has some civil war outcomes possible.
I don't know if blue states have steeled themselves enough for it yet, but I don't think they will take this lying down.
And who the fuck is going to stop him? He's been doing shit that's unconstitutional this whole time. He's going to rig the election and have a third term, and all our politicians will do is write strongly worded letters.
If it makes you feel any better, an EO like that needs people on the ground to enforce it. Even his thug army, ICE, doesn't have the man power to control every polling station.
What will happen is that duly elected representatives and senators will show up and they'll refuse to seat them. At that point, there's nothing left of a real government and shit will really pop off.
He doesn't need to control every polling station. He doesn't even need to control half. He only needs to control enough blues to as to make a point.
And what will happen next is that either someone in the USA Luigis him, or he will Luigi the USA.
Nothing popped off for the time they didn't swear in Adelita Grijalva. What makes you think it will if that happens for someone else?
Because it's going to be far more than one person. And, if the universe obliges, Dems will be voted to control the Senate.
Attempting to subvert that will remove any restraint because there's nothing left that can stop this. Except a military coup, I guess, but that's a different kind of emergency.
Until people like you are thinking "It's gonna have to be me" then the situation will not likely improve.
That wasnt very specific. :(
Do you mean "it's gonna have to be me" like that guy who tried to sneak into Mara a Lago and was shot by the secret service? Or maybe that guy who missed his shot?
Or do you mean that me specifically is going to have to rally people in my neighborhood, then my city, my state, and then most of the country to physically resist and arrest our leaders and have them stand trial for their crimes while having the bravery to leave your wife and kids behind to potentially die trying seems a little beyond my scope to be honest.
Well, I think you’re saying those are things that you can’t do. And thats fine, but a lot if poeple need to take ownership of what they can do and figure out how to cooperate appropriately to get some things done.
New leaders need to emerge thats true, but they will need support as well in various ways.
But all those people will all have to take ownership for making this stop and figure out how to fight back.
I get safety/security is a concern, but things are in a circumstance now where you will probably get fucked either way.
As long as everyone keeps waiting for someone else to do something real, youre all screwed.
This would be the end of a free USA. Real authoritarianism. The end. Fake elections from here on, just like Russia, Venezuela, etc. We are screwed if this happens. The fascists are winning.
Is this meant to be in character, or did you seriously only realize the USA was authoritarian when it started being mean to white people?
Authoritarianism is a spectrum. We are more authoritarian than ever.
That doesn't mean we weren't authoritarian before.
I have a feeling you knew all that and just wanted to fight CptOblivius, though.
"More authoritarian than ever." Please, tell me how you argue for a measurable difference in the severity of authoritarianism between current day and early- to mid-nineteenth century US slave states. Is there, perhaps, a particular group effected that makes this more severe? Is it worse because white citizens are victimised now? Wasn't authoritarian when they used Zyklon B as part of southern-border security in the twentieth century? Is it the technological difference? Do you even know how surveillant the US has been in the past?
So fucking obnoxious and sneering to suggest you know more about something without clearly ever fucking learning about it. Go on though, explain how the slave-state wasn't as bad.
The Enabling Act