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Now that Trump is the President-elect...MAGA kingdom doesn't seem interested in vaccinated & boosted people suddenly dying. Doctors for Trump stated he has elevated Cholesterol levels and plague in his arteries. Also, Trump and his family are fully vaccinated & boosted too. Yet, I wonder if Trump suddenly died as MAGA has been accusing everyone else of suddenly dying while vaccinated...would MAGA blame vaccines, democrats or Trump was just too fat. ??? wrbtrader
The US will survive only if villainy is outmatched by incompetence. We’ve Never Been Here Before: The Zero-Accountability Presidency The only institutions that will try to hold Trump accountable are powerless, while the only ones with the power to punish him will never do it. https://newrepublic.com/post/190086/trump-zero-accountability-presidency
How do you get onto Donald's blacklist? Well, you will need to do more than simply posting Trump memes on ET. Donald Trump Posts ‘Blacklist’ Online And Critics Fear The Same Thing https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-blacklist-white-house_n_6788d859e4b0583ca53bab43
That's funny because the United States has +3 million government workers. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-government/ Also, we have +15 million military veterans in the United States who are probably scratching their heads about what they've seen about Trump since the November 2024 elections...some riot at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 and a few recently became home grown terrorists (e.g. New Orleans, Las Vegas) after being Trump supporters. A few of those military veterans are members of the Proud Boys (far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence) watching closely what Trump will be doing in his first 100 days after January 20th... Maybe Kash Patel has everyone of them on his famous enemy's list. It's a sad day in America to see some of our U.S. military Veterans resort to violence like that...against fellow Americans who they once served to defend. This is our new America. #chaos wrbtrader
The first victims of Trump's hit list https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trumps-hit-list/ It may seem counter-intuitive, given that most people think of dictators as bad guys themselves, but the simple reality is that without proclaiming enemies — larger than life enemies — dictators have a hard time hanging onto power and accomplishing the things they want to do. Hitler had Jews. Mussolini had the Italian Socialist Party. For Duterte it was drug dealers. Stalin vilified the “Kulaks” (wealthy peasants) as a threat to the Soviet Union. Mao blamed the bourgeoisie. Pol Pot said intellectuals were the enemy and so ordered everybody who could read killed. Idi Amin blamed Indians and Asians for the problems of Uganda. Robert Mugabe said white farmers were destroying Zimbabwe. Slobodan Milošević pointed to the Kosovo Albanians. Pinochet blamed the trade unions for Chile’s struggles. Trump has flirted with condemning several different groups over the years, primarily using brown-skinned immigrants as his bogeymen, although the GOP has also vilified queer people, Black people, academics, journalists, teachers, and liberals to motivate the hatred of their base. I learned about the importance of a good enemy when taking a creative writing class from the late Robert B. Parker in the 1970s. At the time, he was working on his third Spenser novel and hadn’t yet really hit it big, so a few of us who signed up for his weekend seminar were able to sit at his feet and learn from the man who became one of America’s great masters of fiction. While the hero of the story is important, Parker told us, it’s the antihero — the bad guy or antagonist — who makes real for the reader the goodness of the hero. He said that Superman, for example, would have just been a boring guy who stopped bank robberies if it weren’t for Lex Luthor. Batman would only be a rich guy with a fancy car and a weird outfit if it weren’t for the Joker. Without Moby Dick, Captain Ahab was merely another whaler. Sherlock Holmes would have been a weird but boring private eye were it not for Professor Moriarty, “the Napoleon of Crime.” You get the idea. The hero can only be as good as the bad guy is bad. Every superhero requires a super-antihero. A larger-than-life bad guy. Genuine evil. Even beginning novelists and screenwriters know this. And so does every dictator, including wannabe dictator Trump. It was a lesson George W. Bush learned and used after 9/11 to lie us into two unnecessary wars, make billions for Cheney’s near-bankrupt Halliburton, and destroy our reputation around the world. Today, it’s why the GOP is making such a big deal about Laken Riley, the white woman killed by an Hispanic “illegal” immigrant, going so far as to name legislation after her. See how terrible these “invaders” are? They try to rape white women and when they don’t get their way, they kill them! It’s why Trump, when he first announced his candidacy in 2015, characterized Latino immigrants as rapists and murderers. Its why Nancy Mace is constantly talking about “predators with penises” being in women’s restrooms. It’s why rightwingers claim books in our schools are “indoctrinating” our children. It’s why Trump still claims the Central Park Five should have been executed. When a dictator wants to rally the people — particularly so they’ll support him in doing something dreadful — he must first convince them that the common enemy he’s identified is super evil. To successfully claim to fight evil, he must first identify that evil in terms everybody understands. And it can’t be ordinary evil; his opponents must be super-evil incarnate: Monstrous. Depraved. Malefic. Diabolical. Satanic. When Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 the first group he and his Nazis went after weren’t the Jews or even the communists. There were supporters of both groups across the country at the time, and he needed a genuinely “other” minority group to attack first, one that only a small handful of people would ever rise to defend. So, he went after trans people. The famous book-burning picture is from in front of the Berlin Institute of Sexology, where Magnus Hirschfield was supporting trans people undergoing the first sexual reassignment surgeries in the modern world. Fascists always start by declaring themselves the victims of evil “others.” Victimhood is essential to the fascist worldview; it’s at its core. And it’s their excuse for destroying other people’s lives. They then cast the weakest and least popular minorities in a society as the victimizers of the fascists. Fascism is never directed against the rich or powerful, but always against those least able to defend themselves. It’s bullying turned into a political movement. Trump has gone after multiple groups during his political career, including trans people, Black Haitian immigrants, Central- and South American immigrants, teachers, librarians, Muslims, Black Lives Matter protestors, the media, and Democrats generally. To really turn America into a hotbed of violence and retribution, though, he’s going to need to infamize groups one at a time. Where will he begin? Who will he turn into the first super-villains? Will it be members of the press, dragged before congressional committees and subject to millions in lawsuits? Will he join Nancy Mace in demonizing queer people? Will he join Putin in calling Ukrainians Nazis? Can he convince enough people that Democrats are a danger to America that elected officials will shut up and hide the way so many did in 1930s Germany? Trump and his bully boys have big plans for America, and getting people behind more tax cuts for billionaires, mass deportations, killing Obamacare and Medicaid, imprisoning the press, and gutting our civil and human rights will be a big lift. He’s going to have to identify his enemies in terms that are so stark that few Americans will dare speak up. So, where do you think he’ll begin? Who will be his first victims, justifying his going beyond the law and the Constitution? Post your thoughts below in our comments section.
How Trump could try to stay in power after his second term ends https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-could-try-stay-power-150736715.html