Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics

[Fosto]

I'll take it over blind fanaticism any day. Yes, employing critical thinking around most topics takes a lot more energy then just blind obeisance to the party line, no doubt. Still it's worth the effort. You should try it sometime.

There is nothing thoughtful about both-sideism. It's the easiest ideology in the world. The exhausting part is finding new ways to say "both sides are bad" regardless of the evidence in front of you.

 

[LogGrad98]

There is nothing thoughtful about both-sideism. It's the easiest ideology in the world. The exhausting part is finding new ways to say "both sides are bad" regardless of the evidence in front of you.

The fact that all you can see is "both-sideism" shows how deep in your self-righteous ideology you are. You have lost the ability to discern nuance and you swallow the propaganda like it's gospel. I'd hate for my politics to be my defacto religion. You have my pity sir.

 

[Fosto]

The fact that all you can see is "both-sideism" shows how deep in your self-righteous ideology you are. You have lost the ability to discern nuance and you swallow the propaganda like it's gospel. I'd hate for my politics to be my defacto religion. You have my pity sir.

This is so vapid and childish I'm just going to step out. Enjoy your crusade against "extremism on all sides" lol

 

[Deleted member 365]

OK….




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Imagine if Obama had done that…

I just wished we had adult leadership. And a religious people that cared. I’m guessing most Catholics will give him a free pass because he’s seen as being in their tribe.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I was more than ready to make good and move on, but in response to your post above?

GFYS

You compared me to PJF. You know that’s absurd. I’m not going to let you move on without addressing that. You don’t get to do a drive by hit and run like that dude. If you don’t have the character to apologize for that, then here, I’ll spell it out for you:

Go **** yourself. Go **** yourself from Miami to Seattle buddy.

 

[Sardines]

You compared me to PJF. You know that’s absurd. I’m not going to let you move on without addressing that. You don’t get to do a drive by hit and run like that dude. If you don’t have the character to apologize for that, then here, I’ll spell it out for you:

Go **** yourself. Go **** yourself from Miami to Seattle buddy.

You are like PJF in your approach to political dialogue. You are as blind to your own bias as they are.

I am never going to apologize to you.

 

[Fosto]

Some good news.

'Null and void': Judge forcefully rejects Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie

"Settling personal vendettas by targeting a disliked business or individual for punitive government action is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President."

lawandcrime.com

 

[Deleted member 365]

Interesting analysis:

“his useful graph from Bobby Kogan of the Center for American Progress, which shows how the Trump budget proposal dramatically cuts spending on domestic discretionary spending, a broad category that includes education, science research, environmental protection, child care, national parks, housing and regulation. It illustrates an almost halving of support from the historic benchmark, a huge walk-back from some of the key policies that support a modern society...

Trump’s budget echoes Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which used propaganda to justify an attack on higher education, fueling a lost decade for Chinese research and a much longer period of damage to state capacity and innovation. America is now pressing the self-destruct button on science just in time for China’s careful decades-long reinvestment to allow it to take the lead from us. Imagine a Sputnik moment, but where an American President leads a propaganda campaign to not compete with Russia.

There is a broader pattern here: the embrace of propaganda has become the default tone of an administration no longer hiding its authoritarian impulses. Government press releases sound like unhinged Truth Social posts, likely because many of those writing the press releases were social media posters. White House Cabinet meetings and press events increasingly sound like something out of North Korea.”

Budgets as Propaganda

Trump's budget proposal formalizes the paranoid style as government policy

donmoynihan.substack.com

 

[LogGrad98]

This is so vapid and childish I'm just going to step out. Enjoy your crusade against "extremism on all sides" lol

Enjoy your blinders. They are clearly all you can see.

 

[fishonjazz]

Some good news.

'Null and void': Judge forcefully rejects Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie

"Settling personal vendettas by targeting a disliked business or individual for punitive government action is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President."

lawandcrime.com

Nice to see.

 

[LogGrad98]

Some good news.

'Null and void': Judge forcefully rejects Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie

"Settling personal vendettas by targeting a disliked business or individual for punitive government action is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President."

lawandcrime.com

Hopefully Congress pulls their heads out of their asses and starts attempting stronger ways to push back instead of just writing "strongly worded" letters. We need actual action at some point. Severely disappointing how entrenched the Republicans are in their cult.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Elections have consequences.

I hope producers feel it good and hard.


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