If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Like how they told us they'd do it in Heritage's Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership 2+ years ago?
he needs to be stopped, you don’t want to follow the first amendment, you have others, check out the others see if something else will end this catastrophe
Exact same happening in Pakistan too.
It’s in the Fascist playbook.
And have a tacky rose garden built by the Oval Office.
No shit Sherlock. We told you so, but nooooo we’re fear mongerers and doom and gloom dealers. 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽 You were too busy “living your best life” to worry about the legitimate fears of the undocumented and trans people, and constantly told us to shut up. He’s kidnapping people. Wake the FU.
All of this is still true , let's not forget ICE , Steven Miller. Secretary of education Linda McMahon. J.D.Vance who seems to be doing the sofa tour , Leavitt his propaganda minister , little Marco , Pam Bondi , Kristi Noem and all of the proud boys who have joined ICE .
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Seems to remind me of someone…in the White house….
Check.
Ya think🧐
6. Attempt to rewrite history.
What is viktor orban’s Hungary?
Why is the Police Department and Army complicit in this coup?
Because both are only there to protect the capital of the owner class.
Wonder where they learned this? Gilead?
Right on Ian!
Hes done all those and he still isnt effective 😂😂😂😂
1st Act ⚠️ Coercive funding freezes ⚠️ Ideological purges, forced exits ⚠️ ICE intimidation campaigns ⚠️ Federal coercion of adversaries ⚠️ Local police co-opted ⚠️ FBI raids Coming Soon from Trump 🔥 Sham trials, politicized verdicts 🔥 IRS audits, asset seizures 🔥 Televised spectacles of violence
Sounds like we are there already.
Yep
Every one of us who did our required reading in high school saw this coming years ago. 1984, The Diary of Anne Frank, Fahrenheit 451, and Animal Farm are all the background one needed to see this. My completely mediocre public school required these books in Middle School.
Wake up America! This is happening now! Rise up and fight this MONSTER.
There’s a reason I’m following you. Many don’t understand 2+2. It won’t happen here. Well it is and you proved it.
Tbf, there are a lot more who DO understand 2+2.
I sure as hell hope so.
Just like his heroes Orban in Hungary and Milei in Argentina.
U forgot Putin
The Trump regime is batting 1000… 5 for 5!
Wow.
USSR
I am scared that trump actually did something right.
Ummm…
Seeing it right before our eyes because ‘stupid uneducated trump voters’ believed 💩corrupt, senile, bigoted Felon trump was going to help and work for Americans!🤬 instead he is causing Chaos, Hate raids, beat downs using our own military & law enforcement!
Indeed. What does it say about the state of our democracy that he told us in advance that he was going to do all of these things and America elected him anyway?
6. Co-opt and control entertainment and arts.
Hmmm that sounds so familiar...
The playbook has been seen on his nightstand.
5. Let his ankles get really fat. 6. Give a PG rated blowjob to a dictator in public. 7. Scramble to hide/destroy the evidence that indicates he is a child rapist. A raper of children. #EndFascists #EndOligarchs #EndNeoliberals
Trump is following this pattern perfectly
...6. Take advantage of a complacent opposition who have not taken precautionary measures. After Jan 6, and Trump 1.0, US liberals smugly patted themselves on the head about how they "Great American Experiment" had been "stress-tested" and survived. How does THAT look now?
Not your fault, and I agree with your list, but all through this era, Americans have said "We've REALLY got him this time" (they haven't), dithered about prosecuting him from Day1, and thought he was so inept that a half-assed campaign about "joy", and celebrity endorsement would beat him easily.
And he wasn't beaten, and now he is checking off your list, persecuting opponents, and intimidating the rest of the world into nauseating displays of fealty. And arms deals - his only allegiance to NATO is as a customer to be milked for the US military-indiustrial complex,
Yep.
whatisfascism.org/docs/Warning... Here's a clear list of what to watch for in becoming Fescist, oops, Fascist...the root meaning of fascist from the Roman weapon 'fasces.' trump likes to play with 'feces'
Uhh , sounds familiar......
In all seriousness..good luck guys
Hmmm. 😡
Things missing from the list. Threats to keeping the power must be in control. Politics is not at the top of the list. It is the people, police, military and the super rich. Ensure complete loyalty from the military.
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Welcome to the American dictatorship!!!
The Universe is ~13.8 billion years old; our time here a fleeting blip. Yet we let a foul speck like Trump wreak havoc? Heard of Revolution? Mobilise—kick it out before history marks you cowards
bsky.app/profile/mjkw...
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Boy, that sure sounds like the career criminal currently in the White House … 🤔
Hang on a cott'n-pickin' minute. As a Brit, I thought your 2nd amendment, allowing all Americans to be gun-toting cowboys, was there to actively oppose this sort of stuff.
If he wanted to STAY a dictator, he would need to watch his fat ass 24/7.
Trump and the Koch Machine via Heritage Foundation, have been allowed to turn our military into a personal revenge police force attacking the citizens who fund it. They will not voluntarily cede power ! Watch "Death of a Dictator" documentary.
First, seek out the most greedy, shortsighted political party most eager to control humans. Tempt, bait, and record their easily corrupted characters. Promise them money and positions in exchange for destroying democracy. ...easy GOPeasy... Rino's were greedy but patriotic.
Well, hello America… THIS is precisely what the trump regime is doing, quite easily, given the lack of any meaningful opposition. And now might even be too late, since they’ve begun militarizing the country, and the potential bloodshed could be horrific. Of letting democracy drown in silence 😞
America used to wonder how so many Germans stood by, helped or cheered Hitler and the death and destruction that followed. America used to wonder how so many German institutions stood by, enabled, cheered or even profited from the Nazi takeover. Wonder no more. This is exactly how it happened.
... And he's doing it much faster than Hitler, it took him years, not a few months.
A single company owning more than one 'social' media organization is a recipe for social manipulation and potentially freedom of speech and thought
You mean pull a Putin
Hmmm, I think you’re on to something.
We see this now! We are at the beginning of this military takeover!! We must hold the line!!!
These historical facts must be part of every dialogue about the administration. Over and over and over.
Running against an opponent that did not support releasing the Epstein files will be easy.
Sounds like dump himself 💯👹🤬
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Awesome! We’re now a dictatorship🤬
The first thing above all and must be done for anyone to become a dictator is to remove the 2nd amendment and make everyone hand in their guns. So that hasn’t happened, there is no dictatorship in the White House….
There are always collaborators.
Promise made, promise kept 😏
That's ridiculous. You're overreacting. It's not that bad /s
Trump is paranoid & doubling down to take full control of the nation. Trump wants to make sure his deconstruction of the government is not overturned & to insure he is not convicted of his past & present crimes. This is a fascist Coup d'état, enabled by the religious right nationalists.
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Nixon was paranoid- trump is doing everything to destroy our secular nation. He wants to be a dictator & congress / SCOTUS have enabled this Magats don’t care re inflation as long as they have ‘evangelical faith’. MN evangelical pastor shot 4 & murdered 2 - “I am going to war” Same as ISIS
Consider the Art of the Con Distract & Normalize trump needs the focus away from Epstein Just as texAss Gov needs distractions away from Uvalde mass shooting NON RELEASE of internal communications Failed emergency services re recent floodings & deaths They consider this “win-win”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: her great book, “Strongmen” Leaders facing loss may resort to extreme measures to cling to power, often employing authoritarian tactics. As their grip weakens, such leaders may incite violence or conflict to rally support or distract from their failures. 💪KEEP FIGHTING 💪
Now you know so Now What?
Oh ya mean the hat he’s trying right now then? Just curious 🤷🏻♀️
Putin did exact same thing
Well that just about covers it except you left out the national guards and military taking over cities and getting sanctuary cities to heel or else!
There's also a 900+page book on how to do it all. Not sure what page Trump has read up to yet but him and his team are following it. The title is Project 2025
Project 2025, according to the Heritage Foundation’s President and the brain BEHIND it, said specifically this is the 2nd American Revolution. The revolution is not done, but we sure as hell need to get off our collective asses and pay attention. There’s no time left to dither. #Resist #NoKings
Aren't the NRA into the 2nd Amendment. Where is their trained militia to stop the MAGArites
6. He comes up short on this one, as all American Dictators would: Surrender all weapons while swallowing his jizz. If you think about the 2nd amendment part of this, the resistance grows by quite a lot.
Does it? He just took all those “militia” idiots who were “training” to fight the government when Biden was president and made them ICE agents. America’s too infested with gullible trigger-happy idiots and it’ll be the end of us.
Based on the past six months, it's hard to imagine a worse political ticket than the one we elected .. perhaps Putin-Xi?
I think you're onto something
bsky.app/profile/samc...
Duh. And that's why we have a dictatorship in America. The question is are you able to recognize it and say we're living in a dictatorship currently and we need to destroy it rather than saying that we could slip into dictatorship?
Sounds about right.
you left out wag the dog... Oops that's next week's abomination...
Takeover ownership of key parts of the economy like the good closet socialist he is.
I can’t believe that this continues to happen…that no rogue/secret team hasn’t shown up by now. There is a reason why the USA is the strongest country…THIS ISN’T IT.
😡💯👏🏿👏🏿✌🏿🥂🍾 5 for 5.
Oh hey, I resemble that remark -Trump, if he had any self-awareness.
6. Stonewall subpoena response to #ReleaseTrumpEpsteinFiles
Not to mention the attacks on law firms.
Thank goodness none of that would happen in America! Oh. . .
He would also collaborate with his enemy to carve up a disputed territory. Hitler did just that with Stalin in 1939 over Poland. Today it’s Ukraine. Someone has read Hitler’s playbook to him before bedtime
In case you forgot or weren't feeling the ill winds that *pervade the United States at this time. * "the sense of crisis that pervaded Europe in the 1930s" #Fascism #Project2025 #1930sGermany #TrumpHitler #Hitler2.0
Check. Check. Check. Check. And Check.
Thank God we kicked out Obsama and #Trump is draining the deep state swamp!
We are definitely there!
I imagine if I were trying to create a distraction from THE EPSTEIN FILES, I would do similar, and more. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
And here we are. This is the scariest political place I have ever been. . . . Who turns off and shuts down the ICE nationalized gestapo? Who protects the constitution for all? What is the work of congress?
youtu.be/O6EzqLPbMt8?...
Well, yeah. People warned about this exact thing way before the election.. and it was obvious it would happen since trump *said* he’d do exactly this.
Now what on earth would make you think that maybe things you have seen 🤔
And if as stupid as ours is... have a detailed plan written out & implemented by less stupid people (Project 2025).
like. they told us what they were going to do . . . but NOW some folks are mad and “activated” because they are doing what they said they would do .
Exactly
Just like how Trump said right out loud he was going to "seek retribution" in his next term.
on more than one occasion . Americans have selective hearing and long term memory issues. Maybe its the fluoride in the water ? I’m sure RFK Jr will figure it out in no time . . .
...and others just ignore the grift. Trump TOLD US what he was planning to do...
Exactly…I remember him telling them everything that he would do and in all caps too 🤦🏽♀️
If he launched a war on Iran or Venezuela the opposition would fall in line to support him. 15 House Democrats flew to Israel for a photo op. If you can't oppose a genocide you can't stop fascism.
Sounds familiar
6. Lie & project relentlessly, so as to convince large swaths of the public that the actual truth is not susceptible of discernment (& have them ultimately stop trying). 7. Demonize specific minority groups & foment anger toward them. Pit cohorts of the public agst each other (ergo not agst you).
✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ pedophile president checks the boxes.
Wait a minute…🤔
Oh boy!
No president would ever even try that right?
Really????
Oh, wait! He did.
You forgot “stack the courts” / “political coup of the courts” Mitch McConnell is a key reason Trump can become a fascist authoritarian. But, yeah, this is basically the key factors that have ended democracies recently. Plus Russian disinformation campaigns.
And MAGA is fine with all of this, because its their guy doing it.
Now, why does all of this sound so familiar? 🤔
Gee...that all sounds so familiar.
yeah duh, BINGO.
Yes, this is definitely the fourth Reich. They can still be stopped. Hopefully we will.
Done
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And if a president wanted to spend his term unproductively, he would pass a lot of great legislation, but see it all reversed in six months because he refused to demand prosecution for MAGA criminal insurrection leaders, giving them the opportunity to retake control of our democracy to destroy it.
. ***NO MORE VOTING*** - Dictator Trump "In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good you won't have to vote." - Trump, 7/27/24 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7x...
. AND have a special force to carry out his dastardly deeds: With ICE's expanded, almost endless budget, if you say anything bad about Trump, he will just say the word and you will disappear, no trace, never heard of again. Dictator Trump's Gestapo.
It’s not “if” and not “wanted” and not “effectively”. It’s “when a president becomes a dictator…“. Stop hedging your language. We live in a dictatorship. Our fight is now to overthrow it.
Wasn't that his point?
I’d say the 🇺🇸 is well into # 5 🇺🇸 - Wake up!
Watch a successful judicial coup from 25 years ago go unremarked upon and realize there are no limits
Sounds familiar, swear I just saw all those events recently. Damn, where are we??
Hello!
Trump got that memo
And here we are
You are so afraid that the GOVT Might Function at the level we are paying for aren't you...
Sounds like Putin. Oh! It’s Trump
This is such a great list and we need to watch out for these warning signs...wait a minute...uh oh...
Based on what he's already done, and the opposition that he is getting right now (i.e. effectively none), I'd say he already won.
Two ICE agents were shot and killed by homeowner in Houston tonight. The revolution is beginning.
Between steps 3 and 4, I fear a new kind of vigilantism emerging where people who’ve had enough feeling powerless and begin pulling out guns and weapons on these so-called masked ICE enforcers, calling it self-defense, because there is no law enforcement they can trust.
Remember, the US is a country where justice in based on a jury and you are free to do the fuck you want as a jury Racist juries have always decided that even with evidence, whenever a black, indian or woman was killed, it was not a crime
Our history, which trump and the Project 2025 are eager to bury, is full of atrocities. Where I live, the Civil War is called the Lost Cause, a “States’ Rights” issue, ignoring that the root of that war was driven by the wealthy 1%’s justification for capitalism based on the enslavement of people.
I want the Lost Cause to be reduced to a shameful chapter in history books and museums next to exhibits that honor the heroism of women, people of color, LGBT people, and people of all faiths who got out of their silos and fought to make our country a better place.
As far as I know, we are the only country that allows statues and images of the losers. Germany has displayed standards about what can be displayed. Anything Nazi is taken down very quickly. They may be experiencing some unrest, but I hope these values remain in place.
This was done by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, they take over the state included, taking legality as a form of weapon that could replace anyone and use the rules to change the rules until just their rules matter
They're prepared to do a lot more than just change the election rules
Are we at the point where we can shoot him and it'd be considered constitutional? I know the other 3 Republicans who tried to attempt to a bit too early.
Gee, all of that sounds familiar, but I don't remember where any of that is happening! This country needs another massive NO KINGS protest to shove this point into the flaming dumpster fire commonly known as the trump admin face!!!
Oh wait … wait …
by co incidence, this was the immediately adjacent post in my time line this guy is doing something useful; you are not worthless over eductated beltway pundits
OK so what do we do ? what concrete steps do I take ? this post of yours is what, the 10,000th post more or less repeating the same stuff, but not one word of what to do
And recruit oligarchs into the system though threat and tangled obligations through a system of state capitalism
There's rumours that he might have 6-8 months before he croaks, let's hope it's sooner.
People are saying he has CHF & CKD. 6-8 months is certainly possible; however, I knew someone who had both & lingered for 2 years with it. At one point she became wheelchair bound, then finally bedbound. Wonder what will happen to him.
Where did the rumor come from?
How would we be any better off? We'd still have JD & the whole pack of villains, the ones calling the shots for Trump - the billionaire technobros, the authors of Project 2025, the corrupt Supreme Court. Not since Marvel Comics have we seen such an assortment of baddies intent on World Domination!
Trump is 5 for 5.
And...here we are.
We are there . . .
People are talking about rising up with violence, taking the 2nd amendment. But this seems to be a trap that trump wants. While he'll be sitting safe in a bunker somewhere, all the blues will have labels slapped on them justifying harsher measures
Fortunately the NRA has been anticipating this. I’m sure they’ll start resisting any moment.
6 get rid of all the pictures of ones who had the job before if they a different color 7 this
Yeah, you got it.
Sounds familiar.
Trump has got to go
A proven recipe done many times before. Tragically, never here, until now.
Yep. That’s what he’s been doing. Any student of global history has seen it since, at the very least, January 20th. I’ve called it since 2015.
Yep, I picked up on it during my social studies lesson to students.
I’ve been calling this since Ronnie Ray-gun. I was a kid got Nixon, but I saw the writing even then. My dad, who was a Marine, agreed with me. #Resist #NoKings
So did i
Check mark on all 5 points!
Without a doubt!
thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...
Note that that does not mean he will succeed.
You mean succeed further? He’s already succeeded at dismantling great institutions and the rule of law, and has made it clear to the world that any treaties and agreements with the US cannot be trusted. It will take decades to undo the damage he’s already caused.
6. Demand the big corporations pay for favors or even give up shares of the business to the government. (See Mussolini)
Oh man, you shouldn’t have posted this.. you don’t want to give anyone any ideas…
Exactly opposite of our Constitution...!!! The Trillionaire Class, whom donold represents, HATE Our Constitution cuz it's based on majority Rule. . That's intolerable...!!! . They and they ALONE must Rule...not a majority vote. . So...domination is their assurance.... . But...They're doomed.
Like Just Jack says! Please keep hammering it in 🧐 Thank you 💙🌟💙🌟💙
6. Prepare in advance to do all those things by having supporters travel to Hungary for a big 2024 authoritarian coordination conference. www.voanews.com/amp/trump-or... And CPAC went back to Hungary in 2025.
This is so true trump n his unqualified team of followers have taken over our government which was corrupt to begin with but now it's a CLEAR n PRESENT DANGER to all AMERICANS IMPEACH THE PEDOPHILE FELON NOW!!!!!!!!
OMG 😳
Ugh
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And here we are in the hands of a dictator witnessing our democracy being ripped away. The important question: Will America rise or fall?
When do the rest of the world's nations storm the beaches to save us?
They’re not coming. This is a battle that US citizens have to take on. We’ve pissed away all of our goodwill overseas. It’s the US citizens vs EVERYBODY to varying degrees.
They’re more than likely not coming.
Hmmm, what have we got going on here then 🤔
Now doesn’t that just scream DICTATORSHIP!
Hey, wait a minute … I think … we …
