Retired medical writer, vegan, ailurophile. Politically eclectic, anti-theocratic, anti-fascist, anti-Trump. Author, "Doctrine Impossible" https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Impossible-Dogmatic-Religiosity-Spirituality-ebook/dp/B076Y5RPQG/ref=sr_1_1
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Five steps to fascism: 1. Sew distrust and create chaos. 2. Blame political foes for the chaos. 3. Declare a national emergency. 4. Demand absolute authority to restore order. 5. Impose martial law and cancel elections. Then, as we mourn the death of democracy, the fascists will piss on its grave.
He won't be stopped as long as he is doing exactly what Trump wants--promote distrust of science and facts, create chaos, and instigate rage so that Trump can declare a national emergency requiring imposition of martial law.
Absolutely. And how long until cadres of Trump-jungend are organized in schools, with official recognition and privileges?
Another reason to go #vegan: The government oversight of poultry and dairy has been significantly reduced. As a vegan, this doesn’t affect me as directly, but it’s an industry that’s destroying the planet, and now the chances of it destroying the health of individuals have been multiplied. 🌱☯️⚖️
I'm guessing that he will announce that he has carefully reviewed all the files, and that they show how he had urged Epstein to renounce sin and accept Jesus Christ as his savior. MAGA will cheer in joyful relief.
youtube.com/shorts/eHNAP... Arrest Trump, Republicans JD Vance, Johnson, all of them, they are treasonous traitors!
If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
📢 GOTV #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory 👇🏾CANNOT
Festive occasion! Trump gives Guiliani the Medal of Freedom on the same day that he awards himself TWO Nobel Prizes (Peace and Economics).
Stocks down because of tariffs. Prices up despite “all the money pouring in.” Canada and other countries going elsewhere because of tariffs. National debt going up, not down. Mr. Trump, your tariffs SUCK.
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To me, Nimoy's trilogy of godawful early films includes "Zombies of the Stratosphere," "The Brain Eaters," and "Kid Monk Baroni." But he really was a good actor.
I agree with Sen. Smith…..
Nicely done!
"Price I'm willing to pay" is the rhetoric of 2A (second-clause only) fanatics who blather on about having weapons to fight against tyranny... and cheer in delight as Trump imposes tyranny on America.
It was never about science or health; the point has always been to promote distrust of any independent source of factual information. This is basic to fascism--the autocrat proclaims "Everyone except me is lying to you. I am the only person telling you the truth."
Jill Stein and her ilk are all about proclaiming their ideological purity. Her attitude is that anyone can dump on Trump, but dumping on Harris demonstrates the fervor of her pure progressivism.
I was born in the final months of WW2, and perhaps partly because of our name, Tiger, the story of the Flying Tigers was well known and well loved in my family throughout my childhood.
My bad! I thought that was called the Mariphasa lupine lumina.
Well, you see, that's how the news media prove they are not "liberal biased"--give Trumpublican lies and treason uncritical coverage while subjecting every Dem hiccup to full-blown investigative coverage.
Mike Johnson refuses to put up a plaque honoring Capitol Police’s sacrifice on Jan. 6. Yet, Ashley Babbit’s family gets a $5M settlement & a full military honors funeral for her being part of a riotous mob trying to break into the House chamber. This country’s so fuct thanks to GOP enablers.
But also think about this: The MAGA cult would not care one bit. They might even cheer each new revelation of Trump's crimes.
Affording Ashli Babbit military honors would be like honoring the pilots from 9/11.
Science is real
Great! But it means nothing if squads of armed and masked ICE-goons go on kidnapping unarmed civilians. Will the police stop these kidnappings? Demand that the ICE-goons unmask, identify themselves by name and badge number, and show written authorization to make arrests--or face arrest themselves?
The administration's final take on the Epstein files: "There are no Epstein files. There never were any Epstein files. It is all a lie invented by the Democrats.... And the files prove that President Trump repeatedly tried to get Epstein to renounce sin and accept Jesus Christ as his savior."
Sadly, no. It is a spoof (as per Snopes).
The story about 600 federal judges signing a petition calling for Roberts to be impeached SHOULD be true... but it is not (as per Snopes).
Traitor to our nation along with 5 other justices on the bench.. you know who they are.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
Murkowski saying that it "raises considerable questions" is the exemplar of political cowardice. It does not raise questions; it screams of ignorance and fanaticism running rampant in the agency. Any politician who uses polite language to describe what is happening should be flushed away like shit.
J6 survivor, former DC cop helps launch campaign targeting masked officers www.wusa9.com/article/news...
J.D. Vance and the Trump administration are working to Make Americans Slaves Again. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-make...
I remember this! Great old b&w horror classic.
Exactly so. Constitutional checks-and-balances have been rendered meaningless by the cowardice and corruption of the legislature and judiciary, which now serve as agencies dedicated to the support of autocrat Trump.
If Trump dies, I fear MAGA has long moved past the need for him, he‘d likely become a martyr, and it‘s not him who decides on any policies to begin with. We’d suddenly have Vance who can actually string together sentences. It might turn into even more overt Soviet Union revolving door leadership.
Should we hold our collective breath wondering whether this Supreme Court will rule against Trump?
As I keep saying... SO WHAT if a court rules against Trump? If he ignores their rulings, will federal marshals be sent to arrest him? No, of course not. So the ruling will never be enforced, and that means it is just legalistic noise.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Robert Fuckin’Mengele Kennedy
What if the school district defies the ruling? Will the court order federal marshals to enforce the ruling? What happens when DOJ refuses to send out marshals? Will the court then order DOJ to arrest themselves for defying court orders? Without enforcement, court rulings are just legalistic noise.
Dear Denmark: please issue an international warrant. To the Olympic committee, please pull the Olympics from America. This behavior CANNOT be rewarded.
The sitting President of the United States raped children and he’s in no danger of being held accountable for it.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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My goodness! Does this mean Johnson is actually not quite the devout and moral Christian he claims to be?
Group hatred of any kind makes people blind, stupid, and easily manipulated. That's why demagogues pander to hatred.
Spot on. Here is a more detailed commentary from the same source--absolutely worth reading: www.reddit.com/r/mopolitics...
We are not moving toward autocracy--we are there, because Republicans in the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government have eagerly jettisoned their constitutional responsibilities to serve an autocrat.
Trump didn't appoint Republican legislators. Those corrupt cowards voluntarily--maybe eagerly--jettisoned their constitutional responsibilities to serve a fascist conman.
And there goes the last hope of rescuing America.
Why can’t people see that the level of incompetence in this administration has lead to irreparable harm & more is to come?!
Asserting what it means to be American is EXACTLY what a sane and effective political party must do. The Democrats are sane but ineffective--all they offer is a random bunch of policy proposals. The Republicans are effective but insane--their idea of what it means to be American is phony and vile.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
#nationalparks
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
Geoinsider BREAKING; Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebello, de Sousa accuses US president Donald Trump of acting as a Soviet/Russian asset in the Ukraine war, claiming the current US leadership has strategically favored Russia while sidelining Ukraine and Europe in recent negotiations
WRONG! Trump is unbridled evil, but he has not PREVENTED the legislative and judicial branches of government from fulfilling their constitutional responsibilities. They have CHOSEN to betray America.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
No, it's not how democracy works. But Trump is not even pretending to care about democracy, the Constitution, or the rule of law; and his MAGA cult is howling in glee about it.
Okay, so DOJ was forbidden from deporting the man. What happens if/when DOJ ignores that court order? Will DOJ send out federal marshals to arrest DOJ leaders who ordered the deportation? Court orders are just noisy legalistic posturing if they are not enforced.
Fascism has been here for the past 7 months, growing ever-more strident. It has happened because the craven traitors in the Repub-led legislature and the rightwing bloc on SCOTUS have sneeringly jettisoned their constitutional responsibilities in favor of serving a faux-pious fascistic dictator.
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
A pardon AND an offer of a high-paying job as an ICE goon, with a fat sign-on bonus.
We have had 7 months of wake-up calls. And none of it matters, because the legal and constitutional safeguards against treason have, in effect, been repealed. The legislative and judicial branches of government have shamelessly betrayed America, jettisoning their responsibilities to serve Trump.
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is planning to use the US military to invade US cities that vote Democratic because, in addition to raping children, two things that animate him most are rectifying narcissistic injury and hating Black people. Call your reps 202-224-3121 #RemoveTrump
The DOJ didn’t “lose” the truth — they butchered it. ✂️ Epstein’s jail video? Cut to pieces. ✂️ Maxwell/Blanche transcript? Edited to oblivion. This isn’t “justice.” This is a cover-up in plain sight. #EpsteinCoverUp #DOJ
MAGA is a textbook example of a cult. Most cultists worship Trump while the relative few who are appalled at what is happening are too chicken-shit to speak out. They would rather betray their country and desecrate their faith than defy the cult. So fuck all of them.
Suppose everything about Trump/Epstein is released to the public. What would Trump do? Knowing that some of his political base promotes child marriage; that all of his cult cheers anything he does; and that the legal system will never touch him, he might just brag about raping teenage girls.
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
The famous lesson of Santayana, about people who fail to learn from the past.
Also important to note: Hitler was an incomparably evil fascist, but he probably thought he really was Making Germany Great Again. Trump's fascist agenda has nothing to do with Making America Great Again and everything to do with looting America to further enrich himself.
MAGA is not a political movement; it has no coherent agenda other than worshipful submission to Donald Trump. That is the very definition of a cult. And as in any other cult, they will happily follow their leader even as he destroys our nation, our society, our livelihood, and our freedom.
MAGA: "We are patriots, constitutional conservatives who hate tyranny. We are making America great again." They support a traitor who hates the Constitution. They are populists, the opposite of conservatism. They cheer as a police state is installed. And they think these things make America great.
Shall we hold our breath waiting for the place to shut down?
Proud to join Denmark Foreign Affairs Minister @lars-loekke.bsky.social and Ambassador Sørensen to sign a new partnership between California and Denmark. Our message to the rest of the world is clear: California is a stable, reliable partner — no matter who's in the White House.
How exciting! Now explain to me why this is relevant, given that the Supreme Court has given Trump virtually unlimited authority to do any damned thing he wants, regardless of the law and Constitution.
Here, fixed it.
