LegalEagle just released a video dissecting the legal satire in Helldivers 2, and the real-life absurdities that inspired it. It's all based on that Wilhoit's Law that @pluralistic was talking about a few days ago. They even quote it at the end.
LegalEagle just released a video dissecting the legal satire in Helldivers 2, and the real-life absurdities that inspired it. It's all based on that Wilhoit's Law that @pluralistic was talking about a few days ago. They even quote it at the end.
"If we ever got to the point in which a president was sending the military into cities for purely political reasons, aggressive policing wouldn’t be our most urgent problem. Our most urgent problem would be authoritarianism.
And so here we are."
~ Radley Balko
#Trump#WashingtonDC #military #authoritarianism #fascism
#Trump #Biden #health #media #fascism
/9
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberals-cannot-stop-authoritarianism
"The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.
There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/12
"The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.
There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/12
“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'
With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/11
"Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said:"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/10
"Why is Donald Trump trying to break the will of the Federal Reserve? Because he wants to be able to set the nation’s interest rates according to his momentary political interests—a tectonic disruption of America’s financial system that could permanently destroy America’s reputation as an economic safe haven and cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#FederalReserve#LisaCook
/8
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator
"The sight of soldiers on American streets—camouflage-clad, armed and patrolling the same avenues where tourists once lined up for food trucks—should never have become normal. Yet under Donald Trump’s leadership, Washington, DC was transformed from a civic capital into a stage set for authoritarian theater."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/9
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-normalization-of-trumps
"The single word I’d most like to retire from the vocabulary of journalists covering fascism’s quickening consolidation of power is 'unprecedented.' The United States in 1925 isn’t Germany in 1933; our moment, like all moments, is its own. And yet we hear the echoes. The precedents."
~ Jeff Sharlet
https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/babel-kafka-and-kilmar-abrego-garcia
"This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections."
~ J.B. Pritzker via Heather Cox Richardson
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
"He is de-professionalizing the US military and federal law enforcement and federal emergency response. while he is turning those kinds of forces against the american people on american soil. And and why would you do that? ...
The reason a leader would do something like that is because that leader wants to use those forces differently than what they've been trained for, differently than what they've been used for before.
~ Rachel Maddow
"A leader trying to professionalize the sharp end of the spear, de-professionalizing law enforcement and the military, does so because he wants to remove any professional restraint or internal ethics or culture that might otherwis hold those forces back from what he is now going to ask them to do."
"It’s time for 'We the people…' to talk about this fascist tyranny, and then get rid of it.
This is our moral and patriotic duty to one another, our national heritage, and to our posterity."
~ Wendell Griffen
https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/this-is-what-we-should-be-doing-now
"He is de-professionalizing the US military and federal law enforcement and federal emergency response. while he is turning those kinds of forces against the american people on american soil. And and why would you do that? ...
The reason a leader would do something like that is because that leader wants to use those forces differently than what they've been trained for, differently than what they've been used for before.
~ Rachel Maddow
"The single word I’d most like to retire from the vocabulary of journalists covering fascism’s quickening consolidation of power is 'unprecedented.' The United States in 1925 isn’t Germany in 1933; our moment, like all moments, is its own. And yet we hear the echoes. The precedents."
~ Jeff Sharlet
https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/babel-kafka-and-kilmar-abrego-garcia
"It’s time for 'We the people…' to talk about this fascist tyranny, and then get rid of it.
This is our moral and patriotic duty to one another, our national heritage, and to our posterity."
~ Wendell Griffen
https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/this-is-what-we-should-be-doing-now
"They would rather send the military against Americans than stand with Ukraine against Putin. They would rather attack disabled people and marginalized communities than confront real problems facing Americans that require difficult solutions. When you go on offense against Trump and MAGA, they quickly play the role of victim and show what sociopaths they are."
~ Ben Meiselas
"The single word I’d most like to retire from the vocabulary of journalists covering fascism’s quickening consolidation of power is 'unprecedented.' The United States in 1925 isn’t Germany in 1933; our moment, like all moments, is its own. And yet we hear the echoes. The precedents."
~ Jeff Sharlet
https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/babel-kafka-and-kilmar-abrego-garcia
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
"They would rather send the military against Americans than stand with Ukraine against Putin. They would rather attack disabled people and marginalized communities than confront real problems facing Americans that require difficult solutions. When you go on offense against Trump and MAGA, they quickly play the role of victim and show what sociopaths they are."
~ Ben Meiselas
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
"This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections."
~ J.B. Pritzker via Heather Cox Richardson
"Something shifted between last week and this one. Almost overnight, a growing chorus of political elites became comfortable calling America under Trump a fascist state or an authoritarian state. Trump’s escalation is terrible, but it’s an objectively good thing to see more elected officials and public figures acknowledge what’s happening and sound the alarm."
~ Melissa Ryan
https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/video-how-to-organize-in-an-authoritarian
"If the deployments were really about crime, he would be threatening to occupy cities with rates much higher than that of DC, like Memphis, Cleveland, and Hattiesburg, but instead those GOP states have sent their guard members to DC. ...
DC is just the beginning, an appetizer before the main course."
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