I agree, but there’s a difference. Trump is a figurehead. It’s not his team. Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation are the “deep state” that the right voters were convinced were controlling them through the dems. Peter Thiel, Putin, the Koch, Scaife, Uihlein, Bradley families and/or foundations, Barre Seid, Leonard Leo, Coors, Walmart, Exxon mobile, etc etc they’re all financing and guiding the hydra.

Trump goes away and Peter Thiel wormtongues Vance into doing the same shit

I can't wait for Nuremberg 2: electric boogaloo

As always, the cruelty is the point

its a great distraction for the dumpy supporters, so they arnt focused on the actual things that mattered.

Obama should have done a lot of things. I'm happy he did Obamacare but man he could have been so much more. Such a wasted chance. And making Biden his VP was a catastrophic error. Biden sabotaged the shit out of everything he touched.

It would have been good if the Obama administration had at least walked back the massive erosion of freedom, civil liberty, and the breaches of international law that happened under Bush.

But it didn't. No one has. Administrations from both parties seem to have kept it as a new status quo.

You could look at it from the perspective of the moral foundations.

• Care/harm✅
• Fairness/cheating✅
• Loyalty?/betrayal?
• Authority?/subversion?
• Sanctity?/degradation?
• Liberty/oppression✅

Only about half of these are clear to me. I think Trump needs to step up his game if he wants to get to the worst outcome possible.

Can we not relitigate this. I remember this from like 18 years ago. It was not a good time.

I was hoping this would happen after his first term. However it will never, ever, EVER, happen. There just isn't anyone with a spine who will do anything about him.

Now I'm hoping he gets a debilitating stroke/heart attack.
Or a long painful death. Colon cancer is fine, anything that can't be treated.
Last resort is assassination, not because I'm above such things or find it distasteful etc. I was, but not anymore. No, it's because if that happens then it'll probably be quick and painless. And that racist rapist kiddie fiddler doesn't fucking deserve that mercy.

Guillotine

Who's gonna do it? Democrats? Ha.

They're too busy fucking over David Hogg to care.

To torture people, of course.

State terrorism, plain and simple

Not letting torture stop the US from forcing them out.

I was thinking feeding him McDonald hamburgers, Matilda style.

Wouldn't you rather use something more reliable? What if it rains?

I would suggest a Swasty-truck, but they keep breaking down

Shit. That is going to work. The SCOTUS will want to suck Trumps balls a little after telling him "no" 5-6 times ... to make it up to him. I bet they are going to pass this.

Props to Hitchens for actually going through with it when he made that bet.

Not before me you don't!

Yes. A lot of the Trump stuff is building on existing violations of international law that started with Bush II and were continued by each subsequent administration.

They are being forced to bring prisoners/ witnesses back to the US. They need to have their ducks in a row.

WHYYYYYYYYUUHHHHH

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.

George Orwell, 1984

What are you doing about it? I ask you because I ask myself regularly.

The War Against Terrorism, also known as T.W.A.T., but most people don't like to talk about such vulgar things.

Maybe they want to talk about it

As an American, I have no faith in any of us either.

People really don't want to believe that there is no electoral solution anymore. People really don't want to believe that it's too late to save the illusion of peace any longer. This is a late af wake up call to how incredibly fucked we are, and many people will still hit snooze.

For what it's worth, speech doesn't mean as much anymore, as we now live in a time where violence is the dominant form of power. For this reason, peaceful protests will do little, and mass riots can easily help the oppressors escalate even further. Fighting the incredibly militarized federal and local governments is practically untenable. Over half a century of cowardly libs empowering anti-riot forces has made this a nightmare scenario for resistance.

There is so little recourse at this point that the best thing we can do is prioritize not dying so we can outlive Trump's reign. We'll need luck and cooperation to survive the infectious diseases, natural disasters, and economic devastation that the state will do less than nothing to mitigate. It's up to us to support each other, because there is no social contract left.