Tyranny Expert Sums Up A Trump Win With 2 Ominous Words: "America Ends"
Tyranny Expert Sums Up A Trump Win With 2 Ominous Words: "America Ends"
Timothy Snyder succinctly predicted what will happen “unless Trump loses.”
I really feel like his coup attempt should at the fucken least bar him from running. This race really shouldnt be happening right now and we all know it. I fucken hate this place. He should have had harsh consequences, not whatever the fuck we're looking at now.
Whatever is tolerating his candidacy it's not the same constitutional republic anymore. Congress has a duty to call a 14a3 vote and Congress is all taking dark money not to do their salaried jobs.
In the past, the coup attempt would have barred him from running again because when he was impeached after it, the Senate would have unanimously convicted him which would have disqualified him. But since the entire republican party is complicit, they acquitted him instead, which allowed him to run again.
The entire republican party and 2/3 of the Supreme Court are completely on board with project 2025 establishing an authoritarian christian dominionist regime, which means the normal government checks and balances have already been corrupted and neutralized.
We the voters are the only remaining barrier that can stop it, the only way to do that is keep the Democratic party in power. We did it in 2020, partly in 2022 (we lost the House), we have to do it again now in 2024, and we'll have to keep doing it every election until they are finally destroyed as a viable party. We've been barely hanging on with the thinnest of margins.
They can keep trying again and again--we can only fail once (like we did in 2016). One more failure and they win for good because they'll implement Project 2025 and it's over.
We the voters are the only remaining barrier that can stop it,
Trump himself thinks there is a second option for dealing with a problematic presidential candidate.
Yeah I'm not doing that. Fuck eternal vigilance. If the Republicans dont stop they should be dissolved as a party. If I have to spend every election like this, I will instead advocate for eliminating the domestic terrorists. We deserve real choices with real candidates that really care about the American people. This is not it in the slightest. I've only ever gotten to vote against this shit stain. I want real choices. And I'll fucken carve them out of my state, my country, if I have to and I won't be alone. In reality I'll probably be arrested after my first Molotov but I dont see the FBI acting which means they're compromised too.
He should literally HANG for it, along with everyone else that assisted in it.
Yeah we used to straight up kill traitors to the nation instead of propping them up and trying to get them elected a second time like republicans are doing.
Add to that the fact that he is a child rapist and a conman fraudster who doesn't even have the intelligence of a fourth grader.
I always used to think republicans are dumb but Jesus fucking Christ they're really off the rails. All republicans now are either idiots that have been brainwashed by conservative propaganda or straight up evil villains. There isn't a single positive reason to support trump.
Well meeting people in private to swap dry ice bomb recipes isn't going to solve this problem... unless....
I can't believe he didn't even get charged or investigated immediately. Another win for garland
Garland’s need to have the entire case in perfect alignment has screwed over this whole thing. It took him so long to deal with the OKC bombing case. He did a great job, but holy shit it took way too long.
The Rosenbergs were executed for treason. A former President should be treated no differently considering all the shit Trump has done since Jan. 6.
The reason he is allowed to run is because the voting public is entrusted with the power to choose whether or not to elect an authoritarian dictator. Bizarrely, it turns out that was a huge mistake.
The best argument I've ever seen against democracy is watching people in Miami try to use a self checkout.
If people aren't willing to go to pitchforks and torches nothings going to happen.
Life isn't fair. It's even less fair when you are poor or ugly.
He said he wanted to be a Dictator on Day 1. How many dictators have you ever heard of that gave up power? The American Experiment (executive leaders peacefully giving up power) was such a unique thing because it's so unheard of. Also fitting that Trump ended that tradition on Jan 06.
If Trump or any Republican gets elected again, expect the end of our democracy and the start of the fascist dictatorship. I wish I could convey how absolutely literal I'm being.
How many dictators have you ever heard of that gave up power?
I get what you are saying and agree, but it is kind of noteworthy that basically every dictator before Caesar did that. Famously there was some retired consul or something in the early republic who was granted the dictatorship, saved Rome from seemingly assured destruction in combat, and then immediately retired back to his farm. Always forget the name... But even people like Sulla, who used his dictatorship to wage a civil war and is to my knowledge the first Roman general to march troops into Rome, eventually resigned their dictatorship. It was originally never intended to be a permanent position, which is why Caesar claiming it for life was such a turn of an era.
I guess what I'm saying overall is Trump might, even if elected to a second term, still turn out to be the American Sulla instead of the American Caesar if you catch my drift.
Disclaimer: Non-American here. Dictatorship bad. All of this is bad.
Cincinnatus. That was the hero one-battle dictator who went back to his farm after.
I don’t know the history well enough to know how common it was or how real the story is to the way things played out. But I always sort of suspected that the Cincinnatus story was played up so much that we still know it thousands of years later, because of later Roman dictators who really wanted to plant it in the public imagination that benevolent dictators were real, and a totally excellent idea
I disagree with Snyder. The crowing of the president as king via Extreme Court's immunity decision was the end. Biden is too good to take advantage, but others besides Trump will.
We can say who the others are. Republicans.
Republikkklowns
I highly recommend Timothy Snyder's book: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century"
It is quite short and everyone should read it. If you can't get the book, he reads it on his YouTube channel.
sum up the GOP's response to that: "We Know"
Big Gretch summed it up this morning as "America Fails". Pretty much the same thing.
Better way to put it, because America wouldn't end. America as we know it would.
All empires have shifts in power. It wouldn't surprise me. But historically it's not unheard of. I would prefer preventing that, but I am just one person.
But Biden is so slightly older than trump.
He's raspy sometimes.....
Yup. And the world had much rejoicing.
Fool, what replaces it has just as much technical power as America, but even less concerns of morality.
At least, for a while.
and yet Biden... "I think I can win. and if not, MEH!" (paraphrasing.)
I prefer that over "I'll decide if I trust the results based on if I win or not"
-binker bitch
There’s absolutely no question that Trump is an awful candidate and should have been hanged as a traitor long ago.
Trump is in the top 1% of “worst possible candidates”, and the only reason he’s not there as the worst… is because as hard as it is to believe, there are people who are in fact more evil (not to mention potentially competent.)
If Trump wins, he will drag this country into violence and howling barbarism, and “… if I lose, I know I tried my best and oh well.” Doesn’t convey the sense of urgency we need.
It’s the kind of thing you tell a kid competing in family reunion sack race.
If the fascist orange fuck wins, he will consign this country to a dark age we might not survive. We need, and deserve a candidate who behaves with the proper urgency and “Meh.” Doesn’t reflect that.