Trump does, it’s why he does it. Authoritarians aren’t authoritarians because of popularity contests. He wants to make the US authoritarian and it will all depend on how much police departments, the FBI, ICE, and states go along with it.
Cults work like that.
It isn’t complete. They don’t have a super majority in the senate, so any impeachments just won’t get carried out. It’s also unclear how with all major federal agencies compromised by cronies it would be carried out.
It’s good news because it shows how incompetent Trump is at securing his own authoritarian bid, but it is not a victory for democrats. Supreme Court is still stuffed, and worse, all federal agencies have been compromised. I doubt it will simply be a lame duck presidency if federal agencies continue to follow presidential decrees while ignoring congress unless the Supreme Court tells them to. Impeachments can’t go through, Trump can still create exceptions from having to follow the law with “pre-emptive pardons”, he can still prolong signing bills until he eventually vetoes them, and any investigations preceding impeachments are going to be heavily MAGA partisan by the federal agencies in charge.
The more people hear of “Democrats winning”, the more MAGA will spin bad things as “it’s their fault, things are now much worse after they won, you can thank us because it’s not even worse”. That won’t matter right now, but in several years, people have shit memories. Democrats haven’t won yet, they’ve just made it harder for Trump after and if they get sworn in next year.
“Pre-emptive pardon” is just another way of saying you are giving someone an exemption from having to follow the law.
Don’t stop there, call their deportation of illegal immigrants to unrelated African countries for what it is - slave trade. Slavery was never outlawed, it was just tucked into the prison and detainment system and called prison labor.
https://sentientmedia.org/people-in-ice-detention-forced-to-work/
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-paying-detainee-workers-1-dollar-per-day-under-scrutiny-10996243
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/latin-american-migrants-deported-liberia/
Moving slaves across international borders does what it has always done: it’s a way to hide, muddle, and ignore any remaining rights and available legal recourse they still had. Some remain detained in now completely foreign countries, cementing their slave status, others remain “free”, a freedom with an implied economic surcharge.
Has he tried renaming it to “super duper intelligence”?
Now? He’s made it clear where he was heading since last year.
He’s the one casting Stupefy.
Your comment reminds me of the people who criticize a bare majority leader of acting like a dictator. Mamdani didn’t wave a magic wand that was able to suddenly replace how every single police department ran things the moment he was elected, just like there are plenty of state law enforcement agencies kneeling to federal orders when they should be heeding state orders. They also weren’t arrested for protesting Netanyahu, they were arrested for blocking a main road into the UN.
Your gaslighting is bad and you should feel bad. You don’t need to commit a genocide to handle a terrorist group. There are people who have rescinded their support for Israel after initially giving it to them after the 7th of October.
To paraphrase myself from other comments:
Israel won’t let the UN step in. UN buildings, programs, and investigators were some of the first targeted, and the US has veto power within the UN. One side has the capacity and is committing genocide, and when you bother to look at what they are saying in Israeli social networks, they are not shy about it. Israel also killed the alternatives for Hamas, bolstering it over the PA to prevent the possibility of a legitimate Palestinian state from rising.
To be completely honest, one, I’ve blocked you now, and two, I find your arguments to be several years out of place. Ask most of the UN members who stepped out if they still work.
So in other words, only Israel has the capacity to and is committing genocide and Hamas doesn’t.
Why don’t you just admit you want to whatabout into justifying genocide? It would be more honest with yourself. A group who fantasizes about committing genocide is very different from a group capable of and actively committing it.
Israel won’t let the UN step in. UN buildings, programs, and investigators were some of the first targeted, and the US has veto power within the UN. One side has the capacity and is committing genocide, and when you bother to look at what they are saying in Israeli social networks, they are not shy about it. Israel also killed the alternatives for Hamas, bolstering it over the PA to prevent the possibility of a legitimate Palestinian state from rising.
Some of us do. The problem is that only Israel has the capacity to and is committing genocide.
Maybe he can explain the Haavara Agreement to you then.