One of the first things the fascist playbook says to do is get rid of political opponents.
Trump's team very carefully which Court orders to initially openly defy. Lots of people don't see the urgency in defending the rights of "gang members." But what he's doing is setting the precedent that people can be sent to overseas labor camps without ANY due process.
Lots of American citizens may soon find themselves being accused of being Venezuelan gang members or agents of foreign "terrorist" groups.
Or a member of Hamas or some other actual terrorist groups because they sent a text that said "Israel is commiting genocide"
We’re watching the Hans litten part play out.
Any violence in retaliation against then will be their rachstag and there’s no turning back.
I formally invite, on behalf of all Canadians, Both Mr. Waltz and Mrs. Harris to come to Canada.
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.
I find it odd that you equate Roosevelt and Gore? Is it because of his climate work?
Yeah, mostly. I understand they were politically very different. My main lense I was looking through in this case was progressive policy vs regressive policy.
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.
Nah Fauci is powerless to do anything, and is useful as a punching bag. The first political opponent trump arrests will be a Republican, that's the real danger to him.
or Hilary Clinton
Yeah there is a big list of people he might choose from, but I just feel like there has been such an obvious attempt lately to steer public attention towards Fauci and the NIH. I haven't heard Hilary's name mentioned in a while. I think the first will be a recipient of more recent public attention to test the waters. If the public doesn't push back on it then he starts going after anyone he wants. This is why it's never a good idea to encourage people to be quiet and keep their heads down when their head aren't on the chopping block (yet).
They are pushing some very questionable and some outright incorrect theories as fact, so that when the "hammer of justice" comes down on Fauci, the public isn't just expecting it, they're cheering it.
https://heartland.org/publications/85800/
And then this one 🙄 jfc: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3350311/coordinated-plan-to-hide-governments-transgender-mice/
I wouldn't be surprised to see political opponents falling from windows before the next midterms.
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 sprinkled with some fanfiction about his deepest hopes and desires. The person that wrote the article is a professor in the U.S. that fled Russia and has been trying and failing to warn people about this book for years.
Jesus maybe they shouldn't have fucking muzzled this guy during the election.
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."
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.
centrists see the excitement behind AOC and want to prevent her from running. That's all this is about.
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.
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?
The alt-reich.
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