This is how democracies die. Step 1: Dislike the facts. Step 2: Attack the fact-finders. Step 3: Replace them with loyalists. Step 4: Control the "truth."
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Good news- “I did it.” Bad news- “fake news” and “you’re fired”. Heads, I win. Tails, you lose. When will we collectively see through this nonsense?
aug 2, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
Beware: He will seriously destabilize the economy with whomever he picks to replace Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve. He’s an idiot.
aug 1, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
then mass reproduce it and sell it as needed
aug 1, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view
The Heritage Foundation and their ilk learned well the lessons of Hungary's slide from a liberal democracy towards an authoritarian regime under their hero Viktor Orbán. "Project 2025? I never heard of it, know nothing about it, never read it, have no idea who is behind it" - The Orange Menace
aug 1, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 2 • view
And this is the Republican from the Heritage Foundation who reportedly conceived “most”of the evil included in Project 2025 which has served as a road map that Trump has followed explicitly in the first 6 months of his train wreck — and he said he’d never heard of it. He lied. Russel Vought
aug 1, 2025, 11:47 pm • 3 1 • view
Or, an alternative: 1. Deny deny deny 2. Lie lie lie 3. Fire fire fire
aug 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Step 5: Unleash the secret police (ICE) on Americans on Election Day I believed him when he was saying vote for him and we would never have to vote again…
aug 2, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
That your „State of the Union“.
aug 2, 2025, 8:51 am • 2 0 • view
That’s …
aug 2, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
Step 4 is force the lies there will be no truth
aug 2, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell-1984
aug 2, 2025, 2:28 am • 5 1 • view
1) This is the Oligarchs' plan. Destroy the U.S. federal gov in order to create a Libertarian state funded by consumption taxes rather than income taxes. Each citizen is only able to get the services that they can afford and are operated for profit by others. Science to be funded by the...
aug 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
2)... private sector, not the public sector. The public sector will be smaller, funded by consumption taxes with the money spent as ordered by the executive. Every action is focused on moving all products & services to the private sector. Shrinking the federal gov down to a size that eliminates...
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3)... the need for the Senate & the House. Congress will either be eliminated or become what the GOP has made it, a jobs program for the Regime's sycophants. The oligarchy wants to be able to sell what are currently gov services to citizens for profit. 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷
aug 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
look the other way on unprecedented personal profiting which is the least political thing he could have been ended on besides the child r-pe of course
aug 1, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 1:16 am • 4 0 • view
That’s about it! And the MAGA voters believe! Make America Gullible Again. And the coward GOP senators and Congress members just let it happen. Americans need to be in the streets every day and protest peacefully! #8647Now
aug 2, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 1 • view
Yes, Andrew, and then we wake up tomorrow, and Trump is a dictator, and all the borders are closed. There is no way out ever
aug 2, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
Yes 🤨
aug 1, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a ferocious takedown of Democrats and Republicans.
aug 1, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Doesn’t change the reality behind the facts.
aug 2, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
Step 5: The opposition carries on as if everything's normal.
aug 2, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
Democracy always had an expiration date bud
aug 1, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Every dictator does this!
aug 2, 2025, 12:54 am • 1 0 • view
The Forgetting Time is here. Made up "good" data. Remove knowledge from museums and libraries. Only Dear Leader information to be found or displayed. Ban science. Dark Ages in America are here.
aug 1, 2025, 10:05 pm • 6 4 • view
Buy every goddamn history book/download every scientific journal/important literary work before it’s #gone Essential we preserve every bit of it before it’s erased/disappears. Copy of the Constitution/Federalist Papers in your personal library. All will eventually be considered contraband.
aug 1, 2025, 11:27 pm • 2 0 • view
WE ALL FUCKING KNOW THIS. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT!?!?!?!?!
aug 2, 2025, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
Just wait...nobody in, nobody out is coming!
aug 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok, check on all three and society remains passive
aug 2, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
It happened today when Trump fired the person who wrote the Jobs report
aug 1, 2025, 8:22 pm • 8 1 • view
I take it you don’t invest unless you do it passively.
aug 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 3 2 • view
He wants to fire the poor sap that reports the job numbers. As if there won't be a recession if no one reports rising unemployment and falling gdp. Same thing as Covid. This babboon said if we wouldn't test so many people for Covid we wouldn't have such a high rate of infection.
aug 1, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
RIP democracy.😥
aug 2, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
That's part of it but the main reason democracies die is because people just stand back and let it happen.
aug 1, 2025, 9:00 pm • 5 1 • view
It is dead
aug 1, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
No matter, we are all out here and will know the truth.
aug 1, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
That proberbly worked in 1800, but now that the world has access to records as they happened you cant undo them.
aug 2, 2025, 9:53 am • 2 1 • view
Step 5: Have a population unwilling to do anything about it because they are too stuck in their comfort zones
aug 2, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 0 • view
#IStandAgainstTrumpism
aug 2, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Corporate America is cooperating with his every desire, universities, museums. We need the democrats to roll out the plan. My fear is there is no End Fascism plan and only the white supremest have a plan. The democrats want to cannibalize one another.
aug 1, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Power is a reflection of the people - the source and legitimacy of power ultimately reside with the people it governs. Power is not inherent in rulers or institutions, but rather granted to them by the populace. This idea is central to democratic ideals - "consent of the governed."
aug 2, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 1 • view
"REPUBLICANS" Republicans are the enemy of America and Americans. They are purposely trying to hurt YOU, legally!
aug 1, 2025, 10:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Currently in process...
aug 2, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
If you are trying to claim the position of factfinder I will need a massive mea culpa for the Lefts pat 10 Hoaxes and the one they are running right now. Are you really this narcissistic.
aug 1, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
How do we get this country back from what feels like dictatorship?
aug 1, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Remember Russian Active Measures…yep
aug 2, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 0 • view
Spot on. And they are painting free Americans into a corner from which there may be only one way out.
aug 1, 2025, 9:30 pm • 32 14 • view
Trump is corrupt to the core.
aug 2, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
scratch disobedience. try a different 3 letter word.
aug 1, 2025, 9:56 pm • 3 1 • view
I don’t know what the hell we’re waiting for. American institutions are being dismantled/shuttered/or bowing the knee one by one as we speak. A pretty strong indication the People will #DoTheSame as he inoculates us against one horrific executive order after another. The #TippingPoint is upon us.
aug 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The new normal can’t be normalized. He will only become more unhinged.
aug 1, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Welcome to 1984 and the ministry of truth…
aug 2, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view
what a useless post TELL US WHAT TO DO CONCRETE SPECIFIC THINGS WE CAN DO
aug 2, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
First, Spend 20 Years Dumbing Down The Population With Misinformation From Faux News....
aug 1, 2025, 9:48 pm • 3 1 • view
250 years. We had a good run.
aug 1, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
It all leads to rewriting history.
aug 1, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
America democracy died when Trump was elected
aug 1, 2025, 8:25 pm • 10 2 • view
Which time? 😏
aug 2, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
hope your wrong but it doesn't look good
aug 1, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Guess people stopped reading "1984" after 1985. 🤔
aug 2, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
This is getting more and more a banana republic...
aug 1, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
You mean - make Lies the truth. - You can’t control the truth.
aug 1, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Orwell could never have imagined it be done by people this stupid
aug 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Well MAGA will tell you there is no democracy to die. We don’t have one we are a Republic which they believe is a white fascist Christian authoritarian utopia form of government.
aug 2, 2025, 11:14 am • 1 0 • view
You are already at Step 4 And all indicators point to the death of you democracy theconversation.com/us-swing-tow...
aug 1, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
What goes around appears to come around, eh?
aug 1, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 1 • view
And loyalist lackeys in Congress.
aug 1, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Step 4 is actually Step 1
aug 1, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Like now?
aug 1, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
No one can control the truth, Andrew.
aug 2, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
👍💯
aug 1, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
You know he's in trouble when Kevin o lurid, er o Leary criticizes him for firing the messenger.
aug 2, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Step 5: Kill the messenger
aug 1, 2025, 8:31 pm • 5 0 • view
... the US descended into Dictatorship with a parking lot, Russian whores, and lots of tacky gold
aug 2, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' 1984
aug 1, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Step 5: Martial law when someone has an "Opinion" Step 6: Wall off the country.
aug 1, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
We are well on our way.
aug 2, 2025, 12:50 am • 1 0 • view
Democracy is dead. Where have you been?
aug 1, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
They've certainly stacked the deck.
aug 2, 2025, 12:07 am • 1 0 • view
And the opposition contents itself with writing sternly worded statements (and doing jack shit, @schumer.senate.gov).
aug 1, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
According to many people in the US, intersex people do not exist. They are considered either a biological impossibility, or a minority so tiny they can be ignored. The people who believe this are often the same ones who say "facts don't care about your feelings"
aug 3, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
#pedopotus
aug 2, 2025, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
That all happened five years ago. This is what happens when democracies are dead.
aug 1, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Looks like we’re just about there. We had a good run!
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Step 0.7: Gullible voters. Step 0.8: Feckless media. Step 0.9: Voters let it happen. Step 5: People wake up and take control.
aug 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
Capitalism.
aug 1, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
“oH yOu MeAn LiKe If YoU lIkE yOuR pLaN yOu CaN kEeP iT jUsSiE sMoLlEt NiChOlAs SaNdMaN mOsTlY pEaCeFuL pRoTeStS”
aug 1, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Can confirm, I just watched this happen in America. 🫣
aug 1, 2025, 10:43 pm • 3 0 • view
And the public does nothing creating sense of inevitability
aug 2, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Rigged elections.
aug 2, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view
Has do fascist dictators end? Assassination? Just curious what history shows.
aug 2, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
Mussolini.
aug 2, 2025, 11:20 am • 0 0 • view
*How
aug 2, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
We desperately need a hero. Just saying.
aug 3, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump exists because his MAGA cultists are too stupid to know what is true and what is false -- that, as well as being supported by low-life, feckless, money and power-hungry MAGA Republicans
aug 1, 2025, 8:27 pm • 5 1 • view
Watching it in real time, and it looks more like murder to me...
aug 1, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
It's already dead.
aug 2, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
Donald J.Trump, sadly doesn't understand what the truth is.
aug 1, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s how American democracy DIED - past tense!
aug 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, we're in this mess
aug 2, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Democracy in the United States is already dead. If you want to bring it back, the corruption throughout the government and the oligarchs behind it has to be stopped. And that can only be done if the MAJORITY of Americans refuse to allow it to continue.
aug 1, 2025, 9:44 pm • 15 5 • view
That’s called disobedience
aug 2, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 6 1 • view
ditto
aug 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
aug 2, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It is not only how democracy dies, it is how USA dies, the States will leave!
aug 1, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Sooner or later they'll have to try to unarm US citizens won't that be fun
aug 1, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Step 5: It all blows up in their face.
aug 1, 2025, 8:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Ready for this now.
aug 2, 2025, 1:26 am • 2 0 • view
Correct.
aug 1, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
They already have..
aug 1, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Democrats have been doing this since LBJ.
aug 2, 2025, 12:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Comrades! We will fulfill the five-year plan in three years under the heroic leadership of a new commissar!
aug 1, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Attack the 2020 election (which was free and fair). Scum media outlets help push the lies. Loathsome scum who are not rejected by society as a whole (which should be Trump and his enablers at Fox). 2023: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
aug 2, 2025, 8:36 am • 2 1 • view
It’s barely holding on.
aug 1, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Then the US is dead.
aug 1, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The truth is the POTUS is a serial child rapist and the entire Republican Party is complicit in the cover-up.
aug 1, 2025, 9:07 pm • 2 1 • view
I thought democracies die when an authoritarian party comes to power and the opposition party decides that they aren’t going to fight, and maybe they have some good points about how leftists are the actual problem.
aug 1, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Going to be awkward when they release January 6th tapes showing all the Israeli activity at the Capitol. Maybe that’s the reason that Netanyahu asset Kevin McCarthy refused to release the tapes? - Charles Johnson This why the FBI fired C.J. as a C.I.? 👇 Buma www.docdroid.net/hbEcLPL/jona...
aug 1, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
charlesjohnson.substack.com/p/lets-talk-... The world FAILED to follow through on adjudicating Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, or at the ICC. Now, justice world-wide has been perverted by this war criminal. This begins and ends with Netanyahu. PERIOD. 😡 And the eyes of the world are watching now.
aug 1, 2025, 8:36 pm • 2 1 • view
I saw this happen on a much smaller scale at a tech company where I worked. New management began fixing the revenues, hiding the truth and eventually laid off half the company before selling it in a fire sale years later.
aug 2, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
Erika McEntarfer should be the center of a new, not for profit, independent organization to report on labor statistics and other related data.
aug 2, 2025, 1:05 am • 1 0 • view
With so many forms of media these days, it’s hard to determine what is truth, the facts, or just political opinion
aug 1, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Next month jobs report: Are you ready media? ONE BILLION jobs added!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✊✊✊
aug 1, 2025, 8:22 pm • 8 0 • view
Jobs from all those new factories & chimney sweeps
aug 2, 2025, 3:11 am • 3 0 • view
💯!! And don’t forget… the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones…
aug 2, 2025, 4:01 am • 3 0 • view
we are now the living dead...political zombies...
aug 1, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, The TYRANT play book😧👎
aug 2, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view
THIS. IS. FASCISM.
aug 1, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
@nytimes.com Why doesn’t anybody post this hostage holocaust. Held over 600 days. #gaza #gazagenocide @nypost.com @washingtonpost.com
aug 2, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
This is real look it up : (DARVO) DENY ATTACK REVERSE VICTIM AND OFFENDER
aug 1, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Your democracy died ages ago It failed over 4 years to hold Trump and family accountable for the insurrection and corruption in office You had plenty of time Any other functional legal system would be done trials held
aug 2, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
We'll never know going forward if the numbers we get are the real numbers.
aug 2, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
We have always been at war with Oceania.
aug 2, 2025, 1:09 am • 1 1 • view
Probably best to use the past tense.
aug 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Step 1: Rig the election Step 2: Install a hateful, bigoted, corrupt, crooked, pedophile monster. Step 3: Dig in while the raving lunatic you installed destroys every institution he can whilst robbing the country blind.
aug 1, 2025, 9:04 pm • 6 3 • view
Democracy also dies because of complacency and ignorance. We have those in abundance here in America.
aug 2, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 0 • view
Done, done, done, and done.
aug 2, 2025, 12:23 am • 1 0 • view
T admin and his supporting cast of characters are bringing this all down upon us.
aug 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
In the terminally ill when they’re in the last hours of life, they can be heard emitting what is called a death rattle. It feels like we are edging ever closer to that. With every destroyed service. Every firing of a qualified person to be replaced with inexperience and loyalty we creep. #saveusa
aug 1, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
And Trump firing Erika McEntarfer, Commissioner for the Bureau of Labour Statistics is another step in that direction.
aug 1, 2025, 8:41 pm • 8 0 • view
A step in getting a banana republic
aug 1, 2025, 9:40 pm • 4 0 • view
This outlines to a ‘T’ how my parents treated me my whole life … explains a lot.
aug 2, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
That's scary!!😡😥🇺🇸
aug 1, 2025, 9:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Good job on electing a felon buffoon USA. 👍
aug 1, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
The only safeguard is that bond and equity markets are ruthlessly apolitical.
aug 2, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
It’s worse than that. He’s mentally unhinged, and completely out of anyone’s control.
aug 1, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Cook the books...
aug 1, 2025, 8:50 pm • 7 2 • view
We are already dead.
aug 2, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
Stop trump now
aug 2, 2025, 1:09 am • 2 1 • view
Exactly. Now what are WE going to do to stop this. Who is going to "jump on the grenade"? Who's going to sacrifice their life for what remains of OUR Democracy.
aug 2, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
Pretty sure if you have slavery it's already dead
aug 2, 2025, 2:17 am • 1 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Ignorance among the masses is going to end us. How they cannot see what is happening is mind boggling. The very reason people want to come here is because we are a democracy. No one with half a brain would want to come here now and I imagine most of us will want to leave sooner than later.
aug 1, 2025, 9:42 pm • 2 2 • view
I mean the US has never been a democracy it has always been an oligarchy
aug 1, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
We're beyond Step 4
aug 1, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
…so Democrats?
aug 1, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
And lie
aug 1, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 11:11 pm • 2 0 • view
So you think we lie and we prove to you the Russian collusion was brought to us by the Clinton and Obama admins. Proven fact and you continue to make up lies. Wow. Ignorance
aug 2, 2025, 11:46 am • 0 0 • view
I think his administration has been cooking the books for months. There's no way the economy is as strong as he says it is. Just take a walk through the supermarket. Prices are ridiculous and they're not getting better.
aug 1, 2025, 8:26 pm • 3 0 • view
This is Nazi stuff
aug 2, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
I do have to say I don't think our democracy is going to die but DAMN! Americans need to wake the fuck up.
aug 2, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 0 • view
I’m actually surprised she wasn’t fired sooner…
aug 2, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
But it’s not working. We’re gonna be ok.
aug 1, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
aka: the Trump Administration! BUT “We will WIN”, “We the People”, We will VOTE “PROJECT 2025” OUT!! America VOTE, VOTE, VOTE: COUNTRY OVER PARTY; 2025, 2026, 2028!! For DEMOCRACY SAKE!!
aug 1, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
While everyone goes about their day instead of protesting in the streets everyday Every single day!
aug 1, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
You described both parties in a nutshell..
aug 2, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
this is just how presidential administrations change when a new one is democratically elected
aug 2, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view