Trump Says He's 'Entitled' to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree
(www.commondreams.org)
It's very important to make the distinction between Congress failing to hold him accountable and declining to. In the first case Congress is ineffective. In the second, and current situation, it is willfully inept. Big difference.
I'm getting tired of all these assholes calling Americans cowards for not rioting in the streets every day and erecting a guillotine on the ellipse! They tried that during the George Floyd fallout, and the right was quite successful in vilifying them. It was only the glaring racism of Trump's first term that revitalized BLM. His second term has effectively quashed that as well, somehow.
The US population is effectively a hostage, and this started long before Trump. Their livlihoods are financially bound to their employment, which is precarious at best. I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it many more times: US citizens, particularly the ones in the upper-middle class are going to have to be willing to die. It's that simple. If the population "rises up" like all the internet idiots want them to, Trump will implement the Insurrection Act ASAP. The aforementioned willfully inept Congress is highly unlikely to stop him. That's going to result in one or both of a lot of dead citizens or a civil war.
All of this brings me to the midterm elections. Americans are facing the shit sandwich of the current criminal and his willing accomplices in Congress, and the Democrats who:
- Aside from 2 weak funding fights, have refused to act as an opposition party in anywhere near the same manner as the GOP when they're in the minority.
- Are largely funded by the same authoritarians friendly billionaires and tech bros.
- Are unlikely to behave like an opposition party even if the manage to win back both houses of Congress, which is not super likely.
I think a lot of Americans are hoping things improve after the midterms, and I hope they're right. I don't think its going to happen, but I think plenty of people are looking for a reason to not risk their livelihoods, or lives. And that's what its going to be. This criminal has no care for anyone but himself. He has no compassion or empathy. He sees US citizens the same way the worst Kings and Emperors of old did: as expendable. If they get "uppity," he will not lose a wink of sleep ordering the military, National Guard, ICE, police forces, or any armed body he can control to open fire on them. Whether they will or not is a massive question most rational people don't want to see asked.
The US is effectively being run by a mad king, and whatever safeguards used to be in place for such a situation are either complicit, or ineffectual (ie, the courts). People are really hoping that a Dem "wave" in the midterms will somehow fix something. Like I said, I hope they're right.