Minneapolis showed that the sundowning pedophile wanna be dictator can be kicked to the curb. There will be some incredibly difficult moments we experience, but people are waking up to the power we have when we stand together.
Eastern_Bet678 on
How about we ask – is the US upholding democracy?
All of the activity is around tearing down democracy. The Republican controlled executive, legislative, and to some extent judicial (hi SCOTUS), branches are hammering on every democratic lever that exists to break it.
AceofKnaves44 on
This is not how a democracy functions.
dblan9 on
That’s like asking in May of 1912 if the Titanic is going to sink.
AcanthisittaNo6653 on
It’s been a year, where have you been?
Angstrom_Wither on
Maybe this is sacrilege to say, but Terry Gross has, over the years, become the voice of ineffectual liberalism. That specific Menshevik strain of “wait and see” Democrats sits right along side this kind of media apparatus where people with calm voices talk about existential issues in the calm, even tone that they use to share bland recipes.
NPR, despite having every reason to pull out all the stops as they’re being attacked and gutted, maliciously, chooses instead of have the dulcet tones of Terry Gross ask, in kind of a roundabout way, if the thing everyone can see happening is really happening.
NPR is less public radio and more a “keep calm and carry on” broadcast in the face of people who actually want you or someone you know dead.
MuddVader on
We’re already there, but they’re lightly playing within certain boundaries because they know they don’t have the sort of support they need to full on come out and say it and begin to act with absolute impunity. They need to convince the loyal that this is business as usual and push the line further and further until the people are all broken and fall in line with their will.
The problem with that is the people may never be broken, and opposition rises in response to their behaviors instead of cowering like they’d hoped.
The supreme court may be disappointing, more oft than not, but the rest of the Judicial branch has done a helluva job resisting this metamorphosis. Without all those federal judges taking a stand we wouldn’t have made it this long.
restore_democracy on
The US is in a dictatorship. Are you not paying attention?
mosen66 on
Heading…?
Ihavenolifes on
We went from flirting with idea to know having an open relationship with it. We can break it up before it goes long term commitment but we have to act now.
Wrongallalong on
There goal is to make us feel hopeless and defeated so that we don’t fight back. Never give up without a fight. Check the comment history of the defeatest bots with their low effort responses.
returnofthecursed on
I’m slightly optimistic that the worst result can still be averted, that we can cling to the brink and pull ourselves back up. But there’s a weird intrusive thought related to this, one I’ve had for a while now.
If we manage to weather the storm, how many people will say (and start to believe) that we weren’t actually on the brink?
“Trump’s in jail now, you were over-reacting. We don’t need to change anything. It failed this time and it will fail next time.”
It worries me a little.
pile_of_fish on
We arent there. 2026 is an inflection point. The heritage-tech cabal definitely want to end democracy. Popular resistance short of civil war is not doomed, however. The best comparison to our current situation. Might be Ukraine right before the Maidan. Hell, we even have putin playing roughly the same role.
simplepimple2025 on
Does a bear shit in the woods? Does a senile pedo president shit in his pants?
salcorrea on
Americans are about to find out in 10 months…
For now, let’s pretend that a man with a $100 billion private army and all the crimes already committed will be gracious enough to permit an election and face the prospect of jail time.
marshallaw215 on
Fuck no
Look at our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis
Acceptable-Cream6179 on
Yes BUT it can be stopped. Blue wave in the mid terms and remove that pedophile out of the White House!
LatterTarget7 on
When you have the president violating the constitution, targeting political opponents, an armed militia detaining/killing/harassing citizens and his associates wanting armed guards at the polls I think it’s already there
ilikestatic on
My biggest concern right now is what Trump will do when he’s backed into a corner. Everything seems to be falling apart around him and it looks like Republicans could get obliterated in the midterms.
Trump has to know this would be a disaster for him, and he would be facing impeachment and possibly criminal prosecution.
What would he be willing to do in order to stop it? What about all those other Republicans in the Epstein files? What lengths would they go to in order to save themselves?
CapableAd9294 on
The Epstein files make it pretty clear that the men who committed these crimes are surrounded by weak men who enabled it and covered for them. Continue to do business with them. Allowed them in their circles. Just like the Republican Congress is doing. Accepting it. The president won reelection in an unheard of multiple swing state ticket splitting which everyone pretended was normal. And now he’s unleashed armed masked thugs that are disappearing people. Including children. 2300 court cases so far of illegal detainment. Those are just the ones with resources. He refused to leave peacefully last time. We are way past dictatorship. Feels like a full on civil war to me.
MyFirstCarWasA_Vega on
Wow. That this is even still being discussed as a “possibility” blows anyone’s mind who has their eyes open and sees what is going on.
The easier question is, “What action has Trump taken or directed to be taken, in the past 6 months, that is not intended to assist him in becoming a full fledged dictator running America?”
If you have to even THINK about this answer for a few seconds, you have your answer. And for the vast majority of people, there is NOTHING they can come up with to answer that question.
Sharp-Mountain1841 on
Heading??? Where the fuck have you been for the past year?
Steveonthetoast on
Heading? Wake the fuck up
mankowonameru on
Well we sure as shit ain’t heading into a progressive democracy.
CrankyVince2 on
Not gonna bother reading this because I already know the article’s conclusion will be “some say we are, some say we aren’t”
xGray3 on
ITT: People commenting on the headline instead of the actual conversation (the headline is decieving – the interviewee doesn’t hesitate to state plainly that the US is already under a dictatorship and that the only question that remains is whether the people will wrest back control before it entrenches itself).
Im_Ashe_Man on
It’s already here.
AINonsense on
This headline must be from a year ago.
Yet. It was.
And it arrived.
And it’s a total mess of corruption, spite, and dumbass insane fuckery, presided over by a spoiled imbecile infant in 24hr tantrum drive.
Reasonable-Leg-2002 on
Yeah, it’s kinda over. We may get over the dictatorship hump or not, but we won’t regain the good life we used to have here, as global leader in culture, finance, alliances, opportunity.. Trump flushed that all away
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Did the sun come up yesterday?
Heading…?
Brother we are fully submerged in the bullshit
yes
Minneapolis showed that the sundowning pedophile wanna be dictator can be kicked to the curb. There will be some incredibly difficult moments we experience, but people are waking up to the power we have when we stand together.
How about we ask – is the US upholding democracy?
All of the activity is around tearing down democracy. The Republican controlled executive, legislative, and to some extent judicial (hi SCOTUS), branches are hammering on every democratic lever that exists to break it.
This is not how a democracy functions.
That’s like asking in May of 1912 if the Titanic is going to sink.
It’s been a year, where have you been?
Maybe this is sacrilege to say, but Terry Gross has, over the years, become the voice of ineffectual liberalism. That specific Menshevik strain of “wait and see” Democrats sits right along side this kind of media apparatus where people with calm voices talk about existential issues in the calm, even tone that they use to share bland recipes.
NPR, despite having every reason to pull out all the stops as they’re being attacked and gutted, maliciously, chooses instead of have the dulcet tones of Terry Gross ask, in kind of a roundabout way, if the thing everyone can see happening is really happening.
NPR is less public radio and more a “keep calm and carry on” broadcast in the face of people who actually want you or someone you know dead.
We’re already there, but they’re lightly playing within certain boundaries because they know they don’t have the sort of support they need to full on come out and say it and begin to act with absolute impunity. They need to convince the loyal that this is business as usual and push the line further and further until the people are all broken and fall in line with their will.
The problem with that is the people may never be broken, and opposition rises in response to their behaviors instead of cowering like they’d hoped.
The supreme court may be disappointing, more oft than not, but the rest of the Judicial branch has done a helluva job resisting this metamorphosis. Without all those federal judges taking a stand we wouldn’t have made it this long.
The US is in a dictatorship. Are you not paying attention?
Heading…?
We went from flirting with idea to know having an open relationship with it. We can break it up before it goes long term commitment but we have to act now.
There goal is to make us feel hopeless and defeated so that we don’t fight back. Never give up without a fight. Check the comment history of the defeatest bots with their low effort responses.
I’m slightly optimistic that the worst result can still be averted, that we can cling to the brink and pull ourselves back up. But there’s a weird intrusive thought related to this, one I’ve had for a while now.
If we manage to weather the storm, how many people will say (and start to believe) that we weren’t actually on the brink?
“Trump’s in jail now, you were over-reacting. We don’t need to change anything. It failed this time and it will fail next time.”
It worries me a little.
We arent there. 2026 is an inflection point. The heritage-tech cabal definitely want to end democracy. Popular resistance short of civil war is not doomed, however. The best comparison to our current situation. Might be Ukraine right before the Maidan. Hell, we even have putin playing roughly the same role.
Does a bear shit in the woods? Does a senile pedo president shit in his pants?
Americans are about to find out in 10 months…
For now, let’s pretend that a man with a $100 billion private army and all the crimes already committed will be gracious enough to permit an election and face the prospect of jail time.
Fuck no
Look at our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis
Yes BUT it can be stopped. Blue wave in the mid terms and remove that pedophile out of the White House!
When you have the president violating the constitution, targeting political opponents, an armed militia detaining/killing/harassing citizens and his associates wanting armed guards at the polls I think it’s already there
My biggest concern right now is what Trump will do when he’s backed into a corner. Everything seems to be falling apart around him and it looks like Republicans could get obliterated in the midterms.
Trump has to know this would be a disaster for him, and he would be facing impeachment and possibly criminal prosecution.
What would he be willing to do in order to stop it? What about all those other Republicans in the Epstein files? What lengths would they go to in order to save themselves?
The Epstein files make it pretty clear that the men who committed these crimes are surrounded by weak men who enabled it and covered for them. Continue to do business with them. Allowed them in their circles. Just like the Republican Congress is doing. Accepting it. The president won reelection in an unheard of multiple swing state ticket splitting which everyone pretended was normal. And now he’s unleashed armed masked thugs that are disappearing people. Including children. 2300 court cases so far of illegal detainment. Those are just the ones with resources. He refused to leave peacefully last time. We are way past dictatorship. Feels like a full on civil war to me.
Wow. That this is even still being discussed as a “possibility” blows anyone’s mind who has their eyes open and sees what is going on.
The easier question is, “What action has Trump taken or directed to be taken, in the past 6 months, that is not intended to assist him in becoming a full fledged dictator running America?”
If you have to even THINK about this answer for a few seconds, you have your answer. And for the vast majority of people, there is NOTHING they can come up with to answer that question.
Heading??? Where the fuck have you been for the past year?
Heading? Wake the fuck up
Well we sure as shit ain’t heading into a progressive democracy.
Not gonna bother reading this because I already know the article’s conclusion will be “some say we are, some say we aren’t”
ITT: People commenting on the headline instead of the actual conversation (the headline is decieving – the interviewee doesn’t hesitate to state plainly that the US is already under a dictatorship and that the only question that remains is whether the people will wrest back control before it entrenches itself).
It’s already here.
This headline must be from a year ago.
Yet. It was.
And it arrived.
And it’s a total mess of corruption, spite, and dumbass insane fuckery, presided over by a spoiled imbecile infant in 24hr tantrum drive.
Yeah, it’s kinda over. We may get over the dictatorship hump or not, but we won’t regain the good life we used to have here, as global leader in culture, finance, alliances, opportunity.. Trump flushed that all away