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submitted 21 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Summary

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Tim Walz warns that Trump may soon arrest political opponents and potentially groom one of his sons, likely Donald Jr., as a successor.

"It's going to get very dark," Walz told CNN, citing Trump's defiance of a judge's order on Venezuelan migrants and calls to impeach a federal judge as evidence of authoritarian tendencies.

He expressed concern that Democratic leaders underestimate Trump’s authoritarianism and public frustration with both parties.

Walz criticized Schumer’s handling of the GOP spending bill and questioned how Democrats will rebuild institutions damaged by Trump.

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[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Could trump be our hoover/Reagan and Walz end up being our Roosevelt/Gore?

History rhymes, but I'm not saying we're gonna see ground breaking changes that bring the federal government back from the brink. Walz just seems like a possible candidate for garnering mass approval across the board and potentially unopposed enough to social programs to maybe implement some.

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 12 points 8 hours ago

There could be several people Trump has in mind for the first political enemy to be arrested, but my money would be on Anthony Fauci. They have been setting this guy up in a very elaborate way for years, but especially since last summer.

Below is a comment I made about the autopen pardon claim, but I'm just pasting it here so that more people can be aware of some facts before Trump starts making more bs claims to justify his bs policies:

Not sure if he has already said anything about the Fauci pardon, but almost certainly will be making the argument against him too.

I wrote about it a little in the post I made and plan to update with more information in a longer follow up post.

So Biden’s pardon to Fauci is backdated to 2014, the year the NIH issued pause on funding for gain of function (GOF) research. The pause was only meant to apply to research that increased the contagion or virulence of a pathogen with enhanced pandemic potential (ePPP).

From the time the notice was issued, many scientists were worried about the use of the term GOF because most virology and vaccine research involves what is by definition GOF research. Any modification of genetic material during an experiment could meet the definition of GOF. Whether it is traditional vaccine research where genetic alteration is used to increase yields for vaccine strains or even steps of genetic modification for mRNA vaccines which don’t require an inactive or weak pathogen to create a vaccine.

Anyway, this past summer during House Oversight COVID-19 Select Subcommitee Hearings into the NIH funding for the EcoHealth Alliance collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology, the subcommitee asked the deputy director of the NIH this question:

Rep Lesko: “Dr. Tabak, did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through EcoHealth?” Dr. Tabak: “It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research. If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did…the generic term is research that goes on in many, many labs around the country. It is not regulated. And the reason it’s not regulated is it poses no threat or harm to anybody.” https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-nih-repeatedly-refutes-ecohealth-alliance-president-dr-peter-daszaks-testimony-tabak-testimony-reveals-federal-grant-procedures-in-need-of-serious-reform/

The Subcommitee claims this contradicts previous testimony given by Anthony Fauci. It seems pretty clear Fauci was referring to GOF as it was used in the 2014 NIH pause and Tabak was using it regarding the broad definition. However, the conclusion of many is that Fauci willingly misled the American public when he said the NIH does not support GOF research.

Biden has never acknowledged this is what the pardon was about, but it would be quite the coincidence if the 2014 backdate had nothing to do with this.

And of course the Heritage Foundation has jumped on to the we need to end dangerous GOF funding train https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/president-trump-should-reinstate-president-obamas-moratorium-risky

Out of a concern for public safety of course.

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 24 points 13 hours ago

I wouldn't be surprised to see political opponents falling from windows before the next midterms.

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Nah, unless some things change very quickly, he will want to make retaliation against famous political enemies very public

Falling out of windows will be reserved for lesser known journalists, citizens, and even Republican law makers that dare to speak out against any of his policies.

I imagine famous political enemies at best night experience something like Putin's wet dream from The 3rd empire novel:

"representatives of the American elite: President [George] Bush III and former presidents Bill Clinton, Bush Junior, and Hillary Clinton; current and former members of the cabinet, the House, and the Senate; bankers and industrialists; newspaper commentators and television anchors; famous attorneys and top models; pop singers and Hollywood actresses. All of them passed through Red Square in shackles and with nameplates around their necks. … The Russian government was letting its own citizens and the whole world know that Russia had fought with and vanquished not only the American army but the American civilization."

Here is a snapshot of an Atlantic article from a few years ago about the novel. It seems to quite literally be Putin's playbook with some fanfiction about his deepest hopes and desires. The lady that wrote it is a professor in the U.S. that fled Russia and has been trying and failing to warn people about this book for years.

https://archive.is/CSBaa

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 41 points 15 hours ago

If democrats are underestimating him then they're stupid as fuck.

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 15 points 8 hours ago

Guess what. They are stupid as fuck.

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago
[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

That was horrifying. Thank you for sharing. Krasnov is frothing at the mouth to attempt that.

[-] techclothes@lemmy.world 23 points 13 hours ago

It really pisses me off they were sounding the alarms during the election. Then he was elected and the majority of them just go on as if nothing of not happened.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

It's almost as though they were never serious about stopping fascism and never will be.

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Idk what happened, idk if they're just seeing the writing on the wall and trying to cover they're asses or if it was all just a performance from the beginning, but most of them are complicit at this point in my book.

[-] tiefling 6 points 13 hours ago

Most of them never cared. Liberals are as useful as a wet tissue

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

I'm talking about Democrats, not liberals. Two different things; the Democrat party consists of more than just liberals. Don't conflate the two.

[-] sovereign@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The Democrat party is run by liberals though. Their base is primarily liberal, or at least they think it is. The Democrat party may be a "big tent" party but they do not actually act like one.

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[-] SnotFlickerman 232 points 21 hours ago

Jesus maybe they shouldn't have fucking muzzled this guy during the election.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 45 points 18 hours ago

It became pretty clear, pretty quickly, that he was by far the more compelling candidate for president. If the Dems would put aside their obssession with only offering presidential nominations to minorities and women, they could do a lot more good for those constituencies by getting elected over empty election martyrdom. They need to be reminded that the first rule of politics is "Get Elected," not making futile, empty gestures of being "first."

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 hours ago

Stop spreading this bullshit. Her being a minority had nothing to do with her losing. She lost totally on her own merit. Fearmongering about minorities losing elections only creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where no minority can run. Also, they chose Biden, a straight white man, so no they don't only run minorities.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

centrists see the excitement behind AOC and want to prevent her from running. That's all this is about.

[-] h6pw5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

That Dems are more opposed to supporting an actual progressive candidate than they are to the current administration (if we can still call it that) is very telling.

The right had a vision, a story (a dark one but nonetheless). The dems platformed on nothing in particular. Obama won overwhelmingly on Hope and Change (only to squander much of it trying to cross the aisle). Having a vision makes all the difference.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

I dosnt say she lost because she was a minority, she lost because the Democratic party would rather skip their best candidates in favor of being the first woman, or black, or black woman, etc. president. At this point in history, we need someone who the electorate will perceive as strong enough to stand up to our enemies, and a woman is probably doesn't going to generate that perception. I hate saying that, but with two losing women candidates, the Dems have to stop shoving that issue down everyone's throats, amd consider some new strategies for WINNING.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago

I wouldn't so much blame Democrats as a whole, but definitely Biden. He dropped out late and then "crowned" his successor. I didn't mind her all that much, compared to the orange nightmare, but I was still pretty pissed the Democrats essentially bypassed a democratic process of choosing a nominee.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I didn't mind it too much (the naming Kamela part - Biden staying in the race for so long with a dead campaign was a travesty). As Vice President she was already voted by the American people to be his successor, so making her the nominee was just asking the public if that was still the case. With so little time before the election, avoiding factionalizing the Democratic party was important - people will eventually get over their candidate losing and vote for the winning nominee, but there wasn't time for a nomination and for those feelings to fade before November.

I only wish she'd kept the energy and progressive drive of the first few days of her candidacy rather than falling victim to the same advisors that ruined Hillary and Biden's runs. This election should have been an easy win for even the lamest Democratic candidate, but it seems Democrats learned nothing from Obama's success (well, unless you count "shut down progressives early before they gain momentum").

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 156 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Immigrants are being loaded onto planes and shipped off to places they probably won't return from - without having even been accused of a crime, much less tried in court. Supporters of the president don't care because they're immigrants.

Now swap "immigrants" with "jews", "planes" with "trains", and "president" with "chancellor", and what do you get?

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 21 hours ago

The alt-reich.

[-] prole 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

In some cases, to places they've never even been to.

It's purposely cruel.

[-] Houseman@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago

That prison in El Salvador is a damn death camp.

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[-] prole 32 points 18 hours ago

We need more people with platforms saying this shit.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 30 points 19 hours ago

Its crazy that the republicans even at this point is not impeaching him. He has definitively ignored a court order. The only lever left is impeachment to retain our system.

[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 19 points 18 hours ago

Its crazy that the republicans even at this point is not impeaching him.

Why? They don't give a shit about the laws. With Trump in power, they stay on his good side, they have run of the place.

The USA we all knew is now dead. There is no coming back from this. If you have money in US funds or US companies, move it. It won't be worth anything after civil war break out - and it will.

[-] alkbch@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

That's quite the doom and gloom take.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago

being a congressman won't mean anything if the executive controls all. this is their last chance at relevance.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

Crazy that we're watching the death of an empire in real time. Would be kinda interesting if it weren't for the needless human suffering and that whole existential threat to civilisation thing.

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That's not the only lever. Nom nom.

[-] sovereign@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Its the only *legal lever

  • except according to the man in question you commit no crime when saving the country so executing him in public would be legal.
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[-] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 52 points 21 hours ago

We know Tim. We know.

But hey, our representatives are voting as hard as they can, right? That'll show em!

[-] kriz@slrpnk.net 17 points 20 hours ago

It's so frustrating. You don't have to warn anybody, it's already happening! You have to do something.

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[-] Dragomus@lemmy.world 39 points 20 hours ago

There were warnings at least a year before the election, many people laid out what is to come, it was barely taken serious, mostly ignored. And even now the media and government types are doing mostly a half assed "we're stunned he's doing this, but oh well, another day another decree"

It is too late, there will come an indefinite next term of Trump's hegemony, and when he dies his son will take over as new/official king. He himself might not want to take up the title soon but when his next in line is ready it will start to be brandished about.

The writing is on the wall with how he is already tearing up any legal restrictions laid on him.

The current "proposals" for a 3rd term are only there to get people acquainted with it under the guise of "let him finish the job" but it will get hammered through, objections will not be tolerated.

[-] sovereign@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

The fucking MAGAts said so many times that project 2025 was not going to happen.

[-] JT571024LF@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I can't tell you how many times I was told I was being dramatic and/or crazy. All I have is a bunch of fuck you's for all the people who would not listen to me. I'm so angry seeing "in four years" statements when I know damn well there will be no more legit voting. I am still wanting to slap everyone for being so fucking dense to the reality. I don't think usa is worth saving at this point, everyone is just too fucking stupid and I'm tired of swimming upsteam.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 38 points 21 hours ago

Political opponents are already being targeted.

They're just going to ramp it up.

[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

Democrats won't do a thing. They are in on it. They have been ratcheting towards oligarchy little by little.

They need to be replaced.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Most of them, but there are ones like him who still have integrity. Don't toss them aside.

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