If anyone actually thinks is just a few pointing out all the ways Trump is actually announcing he will, be a Hitler like dictator they really should get out and take a look around. In fact they might want to take a look at the latest Lincoln Project ad "And so God made a dictator." The comparison to other world dictators is unmistakable.

Its the experts pointing out Trump and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are embracing full flown fascism with Trump as a dictator. And its really easy to spot the true haters of the United States of America because they either support Trump as a dictator or refuse to stand up for the United States of America, our Constitution, and our democracy. They have no real love of your country and never did.



‘Jailing and killing Americans’: Expert issues warning on Trump’s latest claim

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
January 18, 2024 2:11PM ET



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Donald Trump's latest pronouncement, an overnight outburst directed at the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming he is entitled to "complete and total immunity" because he was president, even if he "crossed the line," is being seen as a dangerous and deadly threat and a harbinger of what a second Trump presidential term would mean.

Critics on Thursday have been highly-focused on the ex-president's remarks, which he posted just before 2 AM on his Truth Social website, with many now sounding the alarm.

"A President of the United States must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him/her to properly function," Trump wrote, in all-caps. "Even events that 'cross the line' must fall under total immunity, or it will be years of trauma trying to determine good from bad."

"All presidents must have complete & total presidential immunity, or the authority & decisiveness of a president of the United States will be stripped & gone forever. Hopefully this will be an easy decision. God bless the Supreme Court!" insisted the ex-president, a recently-adjudicated rapist who is facing 91 federal and state criminal charges in four cases across three jurisdictions, not to mention the civil trials that may end up costing him part of his real estate empire, and possibly hundreds of millions of dollars.

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New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat "writes about fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and the threats these present to democracies around the world," her bio reads. She has become a go-to expert on cable news and is an MSNBC columnist.

Professor Ben-Ghiat did not mince words on Thursday.

"Trump is telling Americans very clearly that he will be jailing and killing Americans," she warned. "Anyone who votes for him is complicit with these future crimes because of this transparency & these threats. Americans cannot say they did not know ahead of time."

"This is the dream of every authoritarian and why they do what they do to arrange things so they seem untouchable," she added, pointing to her book, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present."

The Atlantic's Brian Klaas, a University College London professor, wrote: "Let’s not mince words: Trump is literally endorsing the idea of a dictatorship in which presidents are shielded from prosecution, no matter which crimes they commit. He said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. He wants that to be legal precedent."

Ben-Ghiat endorsed that post, writing: "100%."

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait notes that "every previous president has managed to conduct his job without ever having been assured he is free from prosecution. This only became a problem when we elected a career criminal as president."

"The Trump argument is that as an elected president he should be permitted to commit any crimes whatsoever, and there should be no legal consequences. What do you call a system in which the chief executive is not bound by law?"

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Just last week Trump's attorney told judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals of the ex-president's claims of absolute immunity.

Trump and his attorneys argued he has “presidential immunity,” and therefore cannot be charged, prosecuted, or tried in the federal (and state) trials he is facing for election subversion and other unlawful acts surrounding the 2020 election and January 6 insurrection.

Asked if Trump, or another president, who "ordered S.E.A.L. Team 6 to assassinate a political rival" could be "subject to criminal prosecution," the ex-president's lawyer said only after he had been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Roll Call reported judges on the appeals court last week sounded "skeptical" of the immunity claims.


https://www.rawstory.com/jailing-and-americans-expert-issues-warning-on-trumps-latest-claim/

 

American hater plays the hitler card.
Next up, the sex card and then the race card.
TWAT

 

This would not even be legal let alone Constitutional so how does MTG and Trump think they can accomplish it? Trump declares the Insurrection Act, suspends the Constitution, and sends the military out on American streets. Just like any dictator would.



Greene says Trump will perform ‘mass deportations on day 1’ if reelected
Nick Robertson
Mon, January 15, 2024 at 8:28 PM MST·2 min read
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Greene says Trump will perform ‘mass deportations on day 1’ if reelected

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Rep. leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom">Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) hyped up Iowa caucusgoers Monday with a rousing speech praising former President Trump, urging the voters to caucus for Trump and reelect him in 2024.

The congresswoman focused on immigration policy in her speech in Boone, pledging her and Trump’s support for “mass deportations” if he is reelection.

“We have to fight for a secure border, and President Trump will do that, and he will start mass deportations on day 1,” she said, to roaring applause. “And I can’t wait to see it happen.”


Trump has doubled down on harsh immigration rhetoric during his 2024 campaign, pledging the largest deportation campaign in American history if he is reelected and using increasingly authoritarian rhetoric surrounding the issue.

The former president has said migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a sentiment that has proved popular with his base despite drawing critical comparisons to Nazi rhetoric.

He has also pledged a return and expansion of the travel ban that targeted Muslim countries, which was denounced by civil rights groups as racist and xenophobic when he first introduced it in 2017, as well as promised to end birthright citizenship.

Greene, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in Congress, called migrants “terrorists” in the Monday speech and directly compared them to Hamas militants.

“They’re in our country, and you can bet many of them are terrorists who would like to attack our country here just like Israel was attacked by the Hamas terrorists over there,” she said.

Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses Monday.

“The people of Iowa sent a clear message tonight: Donald Trump will be the next Republican nominee for President. It’s now time to make him the next President of the United States,” Alex Pfeiffer, communications director for the pro-Trump super PAC Make A


https://www.yahoo.com/news/greene-says-trump-perform-mass-032824165.html

 

Accused of Dictatorial Ambitions, Trump Doubles Down on Authoritarianism
Jacob Sullum
Tue, January 23, 2024 at 10:01 PM MST·3 min read
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leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom">Donald Trump, a longtime admirer of foreign autocrats, recently has been inveighing against the dangers of holding politicians and police officers accountable for breaking the law. If the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee wants to convince general election voters that there is nothing to charges that he harbors dictatorial ambitions, this is probably not the best way to go about it.

To some extent, Trump's argument that "A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY," as he put it in an all-caps Truth Social post last week, mirrors the position his lawyers have taken in seeking dismissal of federal charges stemming from his attempts to remain in office after losing reelection in 2020. Although a former president can be prosecuted for "purely private conduct," they say, he can be prosecuted for "official acts" only if they resulted in impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate.

As one judge noted when a skeptical D.C. Circuit panel probed the implications of that position earlier this month, it could literally give presidents a license to kill by ordering the assassination of their political opponents. Trump's understanding of presidential immunity is, if anything, even broader.


"ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY," Trump says, even when their actions "CROSS THE LINE" between legitimate exercises of presidential power and criminality. Otherwise, he warns, presidential "AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS" will be "STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER."

Tellingly, Trump draws an analogy between a former president's criminal liability and safeguards aimed at preventing police officers from violating people's constitutional rights. "YOU CAN'T STOP POLICE FROM DOING THE JOB OF STRONG & EFFECTIVE CRIME PREVENTION BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GUARD AGAINST THE OCCASIONAL 'ROGUE COP' OR 'BAD APPLE,'" he says. "SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH 'GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT.'"

In Trump's view, remedies for police abuse, such as insisting that officers obey the Constitution or authorizing criminal charges and civil rights lawsuits when they don't, are dangerous to public order. Just as presidents should not have to worry about criminal prosecution when they "CROSS THE LINE," he thinks, police officers should not have to worry that they could face charges or litigation simply because they broke the law, and maybe a few heads, while doing their jobs.

Trump has promised to "restore law and order" by indemnifying police officers "against any and all liability." Without such protection, he says, cops are "forced to let a lot of bad people do what they want to do."

That claim is doubly mistaken. Thanks to "qualified immunity," which allows federal civil rights claims against police officers only when their alleged misconduct violated "clearly established" law, suing cops is much harder than Trump implies. And even when victims of police abuse manage to overcome that barrier, officers already are routinely indemnified by their employers.

As Trump sees it, however, accountability is the enemy of effectiveness for cops as well as presidents. That view is consistent with Trump's praise of brutal rulers who take decisive action, unencumbered by statutory or constitutional constraints.

China's leaders "almost blew it" during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Trump told Playboy in 1990, before they realized that maintaining order required a "vicious" and "horrible" response, which "shows you the power of strength." Trump also admires the strength of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he described in 2016 as "very much of a leader" with "very strong control over a country."

The following year, Trump bragged about his "great relationship" with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who likened himself to Adolf Hitler while urging the murder of drug users. Trump thought Duterte had done an "unbelievable job on the drug problem."

Trump's notion of strong leadership, like his understanding of what it takes to be an effective cop or president, reflects authoritarian impulses that should repel anyone who values civil liberties and the rule of law. This election is a test of how much voters care about those things


https://www.yahoo.com/news/accused-dictatorial-ambitions-trump-doubles-050149642.html

 

How do we know treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are embracing fascism and want Trump to be an authoritarian dictator? Because they already tried. They tired to get Trump to declare martial law and use the US military to overthrow the results of a free and fair election, prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and make Trump dictator for life. And if people like this could have actually gotten to Trump he would have had news for them. He already tried to declarer martial law and send the US military out to confiscate voting machines. And kill Americans who tried to protest. But the US military was already one step ahead of him. Two steps ahead of Trump actually. One was the DoD had already made public statements that they could not be used to interfere in a domestic election. That was truly unprecedented. The first time in US history the US military felt they needed to publicly say that. But the other step was more important because behind the scenes the DoD told Trump if he tried to use the military to overthrow the election they would consider that an illegal order, refuse to follow it, and go public with what Trump was trying to do. So Trump had to back off and go to plan B which was call his followers to DC and incite an armed violent deadly insurrection. That is the only reason we are not living in a Trump dictatorship right now. A handful and a very small handful of people at that chose their oath to the Constitution over loyalty to Trump. Which is what the experts on fascism are warning about right now. If Trump were ever elected president again he will not make that mistake again. He will make sure there is only people loyal to him above all else in positions of power.



GOP lawmaker shut down by CNN's Kaitlan Collins in fiery exchange over 'martial law' text

M.L. Nestel
January 24, 2024 11:03PM ET



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A fiery exchange between Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins occurred on Wednesday over the intention and lack of contrition over sending a text message to then Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows days before Biden was set to be inaugurated as president to compel the president to bring in the U.S. troops to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

"It was three days before President Biden was inaugurated and you were urging the White House to use the U.S. military to prevent the peaceful transfer of power," said Collins. "Do you regret sending that text?"

Norman responded quickly.

"The only thing I regret, I misspelled 'martial law,'" he said. "Everything happened so quick."

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"The time that was given to see if the ballots were real... you see there's a lot of questions."

The Jan. 17, 2021 text Norman sent reads: “Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of no return in saving our Republic!!” ... “Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall [sic] Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!”

Norman brought up a movie "2000 Mules" centered on exposing the election fraud that was helmed by Dinesh D'Souza.

Collins was quick to remind him the creator was pardoned by Trump and that the movie "is not based in reality."

She added: "There is no election fraud. Courts have proven that. Republican judges, they were appointed by Republican presidents, have noted that."

"There was no evidence of that by the time January 17th rolled around, Congressman."

But Norman said there "were questions throughout the election process," citing Arizona and Georgia abnormalities.

Collins reminded him that Biden won the 2020 election.

"Calling for martial law because you have questions about the election I think most people would agree is subverting the will of voters that you talk about," she told him.

He attempted to answer back.

"Look, I texted Mark Meadows, that's the only person," he said, appearing to undermine its potency. "He didn't have the power. I asked him."

Collins cut in. "He was the chief of staff. Did he respond to your message?"

"I don't think he did," he ultimately replied.




https://www.rawstory.com/ralph-norman-kaitlan-collins-cnn-shut-down/

 

Opinion
Trump ramps up the threats of violence — and as usual, the media looks away
Chauncey DeVega
Thu, January 25, 2024 at 3:45 AM MST·10 min read
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Donald Trump is continuing his campaign of public threats to injure, imprison or kill his perceived personal enemies, and other foes of the MAGA movement, if and when he takes power a year from now. The most recent example came in a series of posts on Truth Social last Thursday morning. Although certain aspects of these posts made headlines with respect to Trump's preposterous claims of immunity, the full context is important.

In his trademark all-caps prose, Trump proposed that any U.S president "MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION." It's unusually generous, by Trump's standards, even to consider other actual or hypothetical presidents. Then he continued:

ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE” MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD. THERE MUST BE CERTAINTY. EXAMPLE: YOU CAN’T STOP POLICE FROM DOING THE JOB OF STRONG & EFFECTIVE CRIME PREVENTION BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GUARD AGAINST THE OCCASIONAL “ROGUE COP” OR “BAD APPLE.” SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH “GREAT BUT SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT.” ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, OR THE AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE AN EASY DECISION. GOD BLESS THE SUPREME COURT! [Emphasis added.]

For Trump to claim that police must be allowed free rein to commit acts of violence with impunity was not a random "example." Its implications should be obvious. This from the same man whose attorney recently argued in federal court that Trump, as president, could have ordered political rivals executed and accepted bribes without being held accountable before the law. (Under this ludicrous theory, impeachment is the only recourse against a criminal or corrupt president.)


This also from the same man who publicly threatened the life of Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for alleged disloyalty because Milley refused to support a coup attempt against American democracy and the Constitution. And from the same man who has repeatedly threatened to have President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith, the judges and prosecutors in his various trials and virtually anyone else (including journalists) who attempts to hold him responsible for his crimes prosecuted for “treason.” As Trump is well aware, the traditional punishment for treason is execution.

Trump no longer bothers to conceal his desire to rule as dictator of a virtual police state, and to claim the right and power to imprison, torture and execute any and all who oppose him.

NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a leading expert on fascism, discussed Trump’s murderous intent in a Thursday social media post:

Trump is telling Americans very clearly that he will be jailing and killing Americans. Anyone who votes for him is complicit with these future crimes because of this transparency & these threats. Americans cannot say they did not know ahead of time.

Journalist Luke Zaleski echoed that warning:

Trump is telling you he’s gonna send his hessians to abuse you without due process. He’s a dictator emerging to take revenge on US citizens. Trump wants revenge. He’s a sick puppy, folks — and he’ll sic his dogs on anyone who fights to save America from him.

This “right” of the leader and ruling party to kill or abuse members of the public with impunity, and to reshape the law to their purposes, is a defining feature of dictatorships and autocracies.

Trump’s most recent threats against the American people (and, by implication, against democracy and civil society) attracted some mainstream news coverage for a day or so before disappearing down the memory hole. (Zeeshan Aleem’s essay at MSNBC was a notable exception).

Even so, there was little discussion of Trump’s specific threat or his self-comparison to a violent "rogue cop," licensed to beat, torture, abduct or murder citizens with "total immunity" from prosecution. At this point, some of the most stalwart and reliable voices in the mainstream media have fallen into the trap of normalizing Trump’s deviant behavior. One prominent commentator, for example, wrote about Trump’s most recent threats while entirely ignoring his "bad apple" analogy. That commentator also never offered any clear statement or interpretation of what Trump's promises of violent revenge will mean for the American people in practice. Instead, this journalist relied on quoting someone else, in rather too oblique a fashion, to get nearer the point.

That kind of political ventriloquism is utterly inadequate to the task of defeating Trumpism and the larger neofascist movement. Those people with a public platform who claim to defend democracy have a responsibility to be direct, bold and consistent in their truth-telling.

Why do we still face this problem? Why has the mainstream news media as an institution so consistently failed to focus on the MAGA movement’s promises, threats and acts of political violence and thuggery?

There are many reasons. Even after almost nine years of Trump's central role in our political life, many in the mainstream media still believe that "normal" politics and the supposed institutions of democracy will be enough stop Trump and today’s Republican fascists. What follows from that is the naive hope or belief that continuing to cover Trump as a normal candidate, according to obsolete horserace standards of “fairness” and “balance,” will somehow cause our democracy crisis to go away. Coverage of the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, as Trump's rivals have fallen away, represented a brief return to familiar and comfortable terrain for the mainstream news media. But there is nothing familiar or comfortable about the Trumpocene era, and that security blanket will shortly be ripped away.

Of course there's also the ad revenue, along with the clicks, shares and "traffic" — the material incentives, in other words — that may flow from normalizing Trump and his behavior. This is motivated, not unreasonably, by a fear that telling the American people what they need to hear about this worsening crisis, instead of what they want to hear, will result in backlash and buzzkill, meaning lower revenues. The attention economy, like other aspects of consumer capitalism, is demand-driven. As I have repeatedly warned in this space and elsewhere, hope-peddling, happy-pill selling and catering to the emotional immaturity of the American public can be a lucrative business.

Let's not overlook that the “news media” consists of real people and human organizations: Trump's threats against his supposed enemies, which surely include journalists, are frightening and upsetting. Ignoring or downplaying the seriousness of those threats is an understandable reaction to stress that makes it easier to go to work every day. Responding appropriately to this crisis is, without question, damaging to one’s emotional, spiritual and physical health.


Realpolitik and self-interest may also be at play. Some reporters, editors and producers in mainstream media are positioning themselves with the expectation that Trump will win the election. They want access to his regime; the first Trump presidency was a media feeding frenzy.

Furthermore, many leading voices in the media, especially the professional centrists and institutionalists, have been conditioned by privilege to believe they are immune from any possible danger or threat, even from a dictatorial regime. Because of their skin color, their gender and sexual orientation, their class backgrounds and their lives rich with social and cultural capital, they cannot imagine they ever could become targets of state-sponsored violence. They may well learn otherwise.

As historian Heather Cox Richardson told me recently:

A lot of privileged white men simply do not believe that there's a different way to look at the world than theirs. And they also don't believe that anything could happen to them. ... [M]any of them, in my experience, seem to believe that everybody ideally lives in a world in which they make all their own decisions, and they have no demands on them. … Now, I don't know a woman who approaches the world that way. Because there are always family demands and friends’ demands and children and work demands. There's a web of demands on you. You start from a position in which you can't imagine that you can do whatever you want under any circumstances. And then if you take a step beyond that and you actually add into it, people who wish you ill ... the world feels much more like a web than a world in which you can do anything you want. I can imagine a world in which I am not either allowed to do what I want, but also in which my very life is at stake. I sometimes think that that's much easier for somebody like me to imagine, who's worked as a waitress ... than for somebody who came from a middle class suburb and went to a good school and has a good solid job.

In a series of essays at The American Prospect, historian Rick Perlstein shared a conversation he had with journalist Jeff Sharlet about the New York Times and its failings. Sharlet told him that on many previous occasions he had resisted others' use of the word "fascist," until he finally concluded that, in the Trump era, "This is the real deal. There’s a real fascist movement. And I don’t think we have on the table all the storytelling tools we need to counter it."

The result was Sharlet's book "The Undertow," based on holding "hundreds of conversations, witnessing dozens of political and church services, and logging thousands of miles on the road." But in a public discussion with Sharlet, an unnamed New York Times journalist — who evidently had not read Sharlet's book — rejected the word "fascism":

He was especially smug in the first utterance he offered to the audience: “Yeah, I don’t know if I would use that word” — his eyebrows arched disapprovingly — “it’s not a word we use in The New York Times.”

Then he practically giggled.

Sharlet then directed a question to him — “with love and affection for The New York Times and the dilemma that you’re in: What is the argument against calling that ‘fascism’?” ...

“For the same reason we don’t call Trump ‘racist.’ It’s more powerful to say what something is than to offer a label on it that is going to be debated, you know, and distract from the reporting that goes into it."

Sharlet: “Who is debating Trump’s racism right now?”

Mr. Times: “You can say something is ‘racist.’ You can say something is a racist thing. But putting a label on someone is distorting from the reporting that we do. And the reporting is much harder. And much more powerful than the writing” — what he implied was the only thing Sharlet did, perhaps in an armchair in a book-lined study, smoking a pipe, mongering labels. “And people are welcome to label things however they want, but there’s frankly nobody else doing the reporting that we do. ... That’s what ten million people are subscribing to The New York Times for … And not to like sound too high and mighty, but the market has spoken, and they like what we’re doing.”

Privilege is the ability to avoid discomfort, and to bend subjective reality to fit your whims and desires. Black and brown people, Muslims, Jews, women, the LGBTQ community and members of other marginalized and targeted groups lack such a luxury. The mainstream media’s willful blindness to the threat of Trump and his movement, and what it will mean if he takes power in 2025, is creating the conditions for an American dictatorship and its reign of terror.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ramps-threats-violence-usual-104503284.html

 

Yes america, despicables really are that stupid. They are beginning to believe their own propaganda.

 

On the subject of just how stupid do treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans think we are just look at what we have going on here. First it is the sole responsibility of the Supreme Court to decide what is and is not Constitutional. And so if the Supreme Court rules a president can't fire a general then the president can't fire the general and the only LEGAL recourse is to amend the Constitutions not defy the Supreme Court.

And then the dangerous and treasonous lie. There was no question about the the electors or the election results. All 50 states had certified their election results and appointed their electors. There was no controversy. There was an attempted coup where Trump and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans were trying to use totally fake electors to try and overthrow the results of a free and fair election. The fake electors weren't part of any official state objection. They were totally fake coming from nothing but the Trump campaign and memes of the state Republican parties.

It shouldn't be just people like Liz Cheney challenging and speaking out against peo0pe like Vance. Its actually the responsibility of every person who does love this country, who do honor and obey our Constitution, and give a shit about the United States of America to be speaking out. And those who don't or worse try to defend things like this are traitors pure and simply.


'That's tyranny': Liz Cheney wrecks GOP senator who pushed rejecting election results

Kathleen Culliton
February 5, 2024 1:56PM ET



Then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks during a Constitution Day lecture at American Enterprise Institute on September 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. Cheney spoke on a variety of topics, including the threat former President Donald Trump poses to the Republican Party and American democracy. Drew Angerer/Getty Images




Liz Cheney, the former Republican lawmaker who has positioned herself as a political opponent to Donald Trump, summed up Sen. J.D. Vance's position on presidents obeying Supreme Court rulings in two words

“That’s tyranny,” Cheney wrote Monday on Twitter.

Cheney was addressing Vance after he went on ABC News Sunday and told George Stephanopoulos that a sitting president could defy rulings from the Supreme Court.

“If the Supreme Court said that the president of the United States can’t fire a general,” Vance said, “that would be an illegitimate ruling and the president has to have Article 2 prerogative under the Constitution to actually run the military as he sees fit.”

Vance also asserted he would not have certified President Joe Biden’s election had he been vice president on Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Mike Pence from doing just that.

READ MORE: A Republican invasion of self-defeating immorality

“If I had been Vice President,” Vance said, “I would have told the states…we needed to have multiple slates of electors.”

Those multiple elector slates are at the heart of two criminal court cases Trump faces in Georgia and Washington D.C. where the former president faces election interference charges, as Cheney pointed out Monday.

“Vance also admitted he would have done what VP Pence refused to do on January 6th—help Trump illegally seize power,” Cheney wrote on X. “Neither Trump nor Vance is fit to serve.”

Vance’s controversial Supreme Court statement spurred Stephanopoulos to cut the interview short, snapping at the Republican lawmaker, “You’ve made it very clear: You believe the president can defy the Supreme Court.”

Vance is one of several Republicans vying to be Trump's running mate on the 2024 presidential ballot.



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Kay. Cmon. Admit it. You laughed.

 

I never laugh at fascism and treason against the United States of America. I believe we have a good thing going here and are the greatest country on earth. I want that for my kids and grand kids. And it is just sickening and disgusting to me treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are willing to throw all that away because Trump lost an election.


GOP voters are 'happily consuming' Trump's pro-dictatorship 'Kool-Aid': pollster

Kathleen Culliton
February 7, 2024 1:08PM ET



Thousands of Trump supporters gather at the Supreme Court to show their support for President Trump after the election. (Shutterstock.com)




The majority of Republicans think a day of a Donald Trump dictatorship is probably a good idea, a new poll shows.

Trump’s controversial quip that he would be a dictator only on the first day of his second term is considered “definitely a good idea” by 35 percent of newly surveyed Republicans and “probably a good idea” by 39 percent, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst poll released Wednesday.

That means 74 percent of polled Republicans link the words “dictator” and "good,” poll co-director and UMass Amherst professor Alexander Theodoridis noted in a press release.

“Most rank-and-file Republicans,” Theodoridis added, “appear to continue happily consuming Donald Trump's Kool-Aid.”

The poll highlights a concerning campaign tactic of the former president’s, according to a Washington Post analysis.

READ MORE: Maxwell Frost is Biden's Gen Z super weapon — and occasional critic

“Trump discovered that people liked the line — dictator for a day! — and so he has at times sprinkled it into his patter at rallies,” writes columnist Philip Bump. “That’s how his politics work: He angles for applause and, if the crowd likes something, it’s on the path to potential policy implementation.”

Bump notes the unlikelihood of a day-one dictatorship considering Trump’s documented troubles getting things done in the White House, as well as the U.S.'s system of checks and balances.

“He can’t be ‘dictator for a day’ except to issue mandates that could then be challenged in court,” Bump writes. “He can try to mandate that a wall be built on the border with Mexico, but he tried that when he was president, too.”

The Washington Post columnist argues Trump doesn’t have concrete plans, he just likes saying what his followers like to hear.

“Think of it less as a plan than as an aspiration,” Bump concludes. “One that most of his party views positively.”



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dictator-2667192029/

 

Sobering poll shows there's 'a significant market' for Trump's Hitler talk

Travis Gettys
February 12, 2024 1:20PM ET



A demonstrator holds a placard showing a picture of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump modified to add a swastika and an Adolf Hitler-style mustache during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London November 9, 2016. (Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images)




Donald Trump's fascist rhetoric about immigrants has been polling frighteningly well, according to a sobering new survey.

More than a third of the former president's 2020 voters – 35 percent – agree that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country, according to a survey by University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll, while just 32 percent of Trump voters and 37 percent of Republicans disagreed with the Nazi slogan, reported Rolling Stone.

“There is a significant market for openly authoritarian ideologies in the United States,” said UMass Amherst political science professor Jesse Rhodes, who oversaw the poll. “It would be naive to think that these ideas will eventually just wither away on their own."

Trump started ratcheting up his attacks on immigrants, whom he has previously derided as “rapists,” “murderers” or “animals," and a source previously told the magazine that Trump believed the blood-poisoning line echoing Adolf Hitler was a "great line."

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More than half of Americans overall – 54 percent – disagree with that statement, and 39 percent "strongly" disagree, but 25 percent “neither agree nor disagree” with that sentiment, which indicates his fascist rhetoric may not turn off voters who don't already dislike him.

The poll found 64 percent of Latinos disagree, and 80 percent of liberals do.

The survey also measured the public acceptance of the white nationalist "great replacement theory," which falsely claims a globalist cabal is flooding the nation with immigrants to undermine the influence of white Americans, and the idea has been pushed into the mainstream by Trump and other GOP politicians and right-wing broadcasters like Tucker Carlson.

Two-thirds of Trump voters agree the U.S. is "in danger of losing its culture and identity," while 76 percent of them believe elected officials wanted to bring in more immigrants to serve as "obedient voters," and a plurality of Americans – 43 percent – either strongly or somewhat believe in the "obedient voters" theory, but only 29 percent of voters reject the idea.

“It would be easy to dismiss the great replacement theory as a white supremacist fever dream," Rhodes said. "But this simplistic view would significantly understate the theory’s appeal."

The poll found 24 percent of Democrats and 41 percent of independents are drawn to the false theory, and so are substantial numbers of Black, Asian, and Latino voters.

"The great replacement theory doesn’t fall neatly on ideological lines — its appeal is much broader" Rhodes said. "[The idea] works like a conspiracy theory ‘should,’ providing a neat, tidy explanation for events — and identifying the culprits for the instability.”



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hitler-rhetoric-2667264000/

 

Trump giving Putin the green light for 'torture, mass murder, and rape': Yale historian

M.L. Nestel
February 13, 2024 6:15AM ET



U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva




If Trump returns to D.C to once again lead the free world, he could shatter longstanding treaties and disrupt peace, warned Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder on Monday evening.

"I think the worst of it might be do whatever the hell you want," he said while appearing on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell. "Because the whole point of a mutual defense treaty is to assure your allies that you will be there for them, not to invite a potential aggressor to attack."

On Saturday Donald Trump, who continues leading UN Ambassador Nikki Haley to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, claimed he would allow Russia to run rip-shod over any NATO member nation that is “delinquent” in paying 2 percent of their gross domestic product to defense.

“‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’” Trump he told a crowd during a rally in South Carolina. “‘No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills.’”

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Snyder, who previously said Vladimir Putin is pulling for a Trump win because he shows our "system is rotten", thinks Trump isn't waxing tough talk.

"In Russia's case, whatever the hell you want includes the destruction of cities, torture, mass murder, and rape," said Snyder, in an apparent reference to Russia's actions in Ukraine.

"Right now when we talk about these abstractions, like how much is 2 percent of GDP, right now, the Ukrainians are paying a real price in a real war," said Snyder. "There are men and women being killed right now as we speak, absorbing a full-scale Russian attack, doing everything that NATO was supposed to be doing."

Currently, aid intended to support Ukraine on the battlefield is being opposed by a small faction of GOP Congress members despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) advising of the negative consequences of abandoning longtime US allies in Europe.

For Snyder, Trump's rhetoric distracts from the crisis that's raging on many NATO countries' doorsteps.

"The reason we are not doing a thing is because he and his allies in Congress are stopping us from doing something," he concluded. "That's the reality."

Watch the video below or at this link.





https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2667266793/

 

Trump Says America Is ‘Just So Pathetic’ Before Touting Relationship With Autocrats
Charisma Madarang
February 5, 2024·2 min read
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After denouncing a bipartisan deal that would impose new U.S. border restrictions, leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump called America “pathetic” when claiming police and border patrol were not “allowed to do their work.”

Last month, Rolling Stone reported that Trump wanted to kill the Biden-endorsed immigration reform package and privately grumbled to his advisers that in supporting the proposed legislation, “stupid” Republicans could be handing Biden a major victory in the race for presidency.

Despite actively opposing reform that would provide federal authorities $20 billion in emergency funding to hire thousands of Border Patrol agents and resources that would essentially help them do their jobs, Trump complained during his interview with Newsmax on Monday that law enforcement officials are unable to “do their job.”


After referring to an alleged migrant attack on New York City officers, the former president told host Rob Schmitt, “We’re so pathetic as a country in terms of law and order.” He said, “We have the greatest police in the world, but they’re not allowed to do their jobs.”

“The police, you know, are dying to do their work, just like Border Patrol,” he continued. “The police want to do the job and they’re not doing it. They’re not allowed to do it.” After pausing, he added, “The country is just so pathetic.”

The ex-president proceeded to tout his friendly relationship with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and talk with Taliban leader and founding member, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. He also repeated his since refuted claim that “I didn’t have one person, one soldier shot in 18 months in Afghanistan.”


Trump has continued to put pressure on Republicans to block the potential PR victory for the Biden administration, despite many in his party previously demanding for increased security measures the bill would provide. While the ex-president continues to grouse over the state of law enforcement and immigrants seeking refuge in the U.S., it appears he remains interested in curbing illegal immigration only when it helps him politically.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-america-just-pathetic-044416904.html

 

Authoritarianism Expert Exposes Cruel Tactic Used By Both Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin
Lee Moran
Fri, February 16, 2024 at 3:37 AM MST·2 min read
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Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in the latest edition of her “Lucid” email newsletter, examined how both former President leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin often publicly humiliate even their allies to retain control.

Recent examples include the four-times-indicted Trump’s onstage mockery of Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Putin’s mid-interview taunting of former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson.

“These two episodes introduce us to a favorite strongman sport: ritual humiliation,” wrote Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and the author of the 2021 book “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”


Then-President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin pictured in 2018.
Then-President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin pictured in 2018.

“Autocrats are fragile and insecure creatures who are always looking over their shoulder to see who is after them,” she explained. “To build themselves up and deter others from challenging their power, they take others down in public, letting them know exactly where they stand and how much they scorn them.”

Ben-Ghiat has long warned of what may happen if Trump wins back the White House in November as a rematch of the 2020 election between Trump and President Joe Biden becomes increasingly likely.

Trump, who is the clear GOP front-runner despite his myriad legal woes, will seek to finish the job of “not just destroying democracy internally” but by also removing America from “the realm of democratic internationalism and align it with autocracies,” the professor last year said she feared.

The GOP, meanwhile, is “an autocratic party operating in a democracy,” she added on another occasion. “They have talking points just like the Kremlin does, and we have seen everybody use the same language about the weaponization of government.”

Putin has said he’d prefer Biden to stay in the White House because he’s a “more predictable” president.

Trump interpreted Putin’s comment as “a great compliment.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/authoritarianism-expert-exposes-cruel-tactic-103714237.html

 

And yet you have no problem when Trump and his repuke enablers played the Hitler card when they tried to subvert our very government, eh

 

Crazy camp follower dismissed.

 

Attaboy