Antanicus
@antanicus@puntarella.party  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"The motivation for Donald Trump’s plan to “federalize” Washington, D.C., is same as his motivation for sending active-duty troops into Los Angeles, deporting people to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador, his politicization of the Department of Justice, and nearly every other authoritarian overreach of the last six months. He is testing the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy. He’s feeling out what the Supreme Court, Congress, and the public will let him get away with. And so far, he’s been able to do what he pleases."

https://theintercept.com/2025/08/11/trump-washington-dc-federalization-national-guard-troops/
loStronzoRocco
@desantis@mastodon.bida.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@antanicus It’s amazing how quickly movements such as Black Lives Matter, #Metoo, LGBTQIA, etc., are called out immediately, as anti american - yet the outright fascism and constant erosion of our democracy and government gets treated like something in its death throes… Instead of the entire population stepping up to fix this mess, the majority of the population is just watching idly and waiting for the last breath.
Antanicus
@antanicus@puntarella.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@desantis I recall reading a piece about how our brain is unable to grasp climate change because the very idea is too big and we essentially distract ourselves to avoid having to think about the matter too much.

I'm under the impression the same thing is somehow happening when people are faced with the implications of Trump's presidency