An excerpt from the excellent book, "How Democracies Die"

[Billiejeens]

It is an interesting study of the mental illness of the Left that their own cognitive dissonance perpetually prevents them from ever seeing their own hypocrisy or having any introspective self-judgement at all. Their hallmark is that whatever the outcome, they absolutely never question their own ideas nor methods, but just march ahead, redoubling their efforts.

It the power of the protection of their echo chamber Cult.

No undesirable outcome is ever their fault.

 

[struth]

Trump can fire these fools.

There is nothing authoritarian about it. The power of the Executive vest in A President....not a bunch of unelected attorneys at the DOJ that can go after political rivals.

 

[struth]

A plurality wanted something done about inflation and illegal immigration. They didn't vote for trump's illegal acts. Though I have no doubt you did.

Agreed, there were no illegal acts of Trump to vote on.

They did vote on the accusations and lawfare from the demafacsist and many of us weren't surprised that Xiden had to give blanket pardons to many in his admin, his family, and dems on the hill, for crimes against the United States.

American voted to end their Stalinist tactics.

 

[berg80]

The fact this democracy still exists after the first time you leftists claimed it died when he was elected means you're still as full of crap as the last time you said it.

You have to remember there were guardrails in place the first time around since much of the admin was staffed with institutionalists who mostly kept Dotard in line for the first few years.

By the time his tenure was nearly over look what happened. He tried to steal the election. When it was about half over he tried to extort Zelensky. He fired IG's. He had already fired all but the most ardent sycophants by the end. This time around he's starting off being surrounded by the worst possible sycophants. It's why he's already committed numerous illegal and unethical acts.

 

[Billiejeens]

Imagine that The Bush administration had put together a team of prosecutors who's prime directive was to use the DOJ to "prove" that Obama had not been born in the USA.
Wonder how long into the Obama administration those folks would have lasted.

 

[toobfreak]

Are banning smoking in public spaces and the seatbelt law tyranny?

Of a kind. Restaurants had smoking sections for smokers with air filters that kept the smoke from traveling elsewhere that was working just fine, and it is your own business if you want or need to wear a seat belt, not the government's.

 

[Mr. Friscus]

A plurality wanted something done about inflation and illegal immigration.

Those, and to fight against DEI/woke norms being socially engineered and injected into institutions.

Democrats are for they/them, Trump is for you

But Yep, that’s why Trump won, because Biden/Harris caused and supported all of those bad things happening. Did you vote for Harris? Why would you with her ideology causing so much harm?

They didn't vote for trump's illegal acts. Though I have no doubt you did.

More whining and tantrums

 

[Mr. Friscus]

It was a public safety measure. Are banning smoking in public spaces and the seatbelt law tyranny?

LMAO.

The pathetic depths you’d have to go to in order to think those are comparable is… shocking

“Inject this uncertain, often unnecessary, rushed, new vaccine into your body or you are fired”

It’s a stain of the presidency in US history, and Biden/Democrats will own it. Biden is the most radical, pathetic president in my lifetime easily.

 

[Independent thinker]

It is an interesting study of the mental illness of the Left that their own cognitive dissonance perpetually prevents them from ever seeing their own hypocrisy or having any introspective self-judgement at all. Their hallmark is that whatever the outcome, they absolutely never question their own ideas nor methods, but just march ahead, redoubling their efforts.

It was only a messaging problem. Well, yeah, their message sucked.

 

[toobfreak]

It the power of the protection of their echo chamber Cult.

Well sure--- their echo chamber is their chief recruitment tool, without that, there could be no leftist movement.
I became a conservative simply by stopping listening to leftists and removing myself from their echo chamber
into the fresh air of just my own independent thoughts.

After a time, I began to notice that there were other people who came to the exact same conclusions as me!

Conservatives.

 

[Mr. Friscus]

When they do what I said they're going to do, you'll see. You're stupid.

You're stupid for the simple fact you praised Reagan, Bush and Trump but bashed Clinton, Obama and Biden.

I'm well off enough I get to say I told you so when Republicans fuck your broke little ass. How about that? Oh yea, suddenly every one of you mother fuckers is doing just dandy. Some might say you did GREAT on Biden's watch.

You sound like a whiney emotional child. Grow up if you want to be at the adult table

 

[sealybobo]

^^^The cult is STILL pushing the 2000 election denial! LOL! Hard to believe, but I admire your dedication to your conspiracy theories, I guess.

Hard to believe you don't see it, but you believed Trump when he accused Biden of using a lot of the dirty tricks that Bush used in 2000 and 2004.

Trump was a Democrat back then who said Bush lied us into Iraq. I'm sure he agreed with me, at least back then, that Bush stole 2000 and 2004. Why else would Trump not trust Dominion? Could it be the bad taste Diebold voting machines left in our mouths?

 

[berg80]

Those, and to fight against DEI/woke norms being socially engineered and injected into institutions.

Democrats are for they/them, Trump is for you

But Yep, that’s why Trump won, because Biden/Harris caused and supported all of those bad things happening. Did you vote for Harris? Why would you with her ideology causing so much harm?

More whining and tantrums

Trump moves to fire members of EEOC and NLRB, breaking with precedent

President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, an extraordinary break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans control over boards that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

On Monday night, he dismissed two of the three Democrats on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows, formerly the chair, the White House confirmed Tuesday. He also fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat, an NLRB spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
All three said they are exploring their legal options against the administration — cases that legal scholars say could reach as far as the Supreme Court.

“Removing me from my position before the expiration of my Congressionally directed term is unprecedented, violates the law, and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the EEOC as an independent agency — one that is not controlled by a single Cabinet secretary but operates as a multimember body whose varying views are baked into the Commission’s design,” Samuels wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/28/trump-fire-eeoc-nlrb-board-members/

This is beginning to look like a strategy to get cases in front of his SC so they can once again disregard precedent and existing law in trump's favor. He's trying to expand the power of the presidency beyond what was intended. Because..........of course he is. It's what authoritarians do.

 

[jknowgood]

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt: 9781524762940 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE •...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

For some context, the authors are speaking of the litmus test used to identify authoritarian leaders.

"The final warning sign is a readiness to curtail the civil liberties of rivals and critics. One thing that separates contemporary autocrats from democratic leaders is their intolerance of criticism, and their readiness to use their power to punish those......in the opposition, media, or civil society..........who criticize them."

Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations​

The acting attorney general on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said.

Justice Department veterans called the firings an egregious violation of well-established laws meant to preserve the integrity and professionalism of government agencies.

What made it all the more jarring, current and former officials said, was that such a momentous and aggressive step had been initiated by an obscure acting attorney general, James McHenry, operating on behalf of a president with a stated desire for vengeance, and few advisers with the stature or inclination to restrain him.

Greg Brower, who was a U.S. attorney during the George W. Bush administration, said the move was unheard-of.

“This is unprecedented, given the career status of these people, which makes them not subject to dismissal by the president, and the apparent lack of any cause that the department has been able to articulate,” Mr. Brower said. “And so I suspect we will see them exercise their rights to appeal” to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that reviews the claims of dismissed civil service workers and can reinstate them.

Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

www.nytimes.com

A word to trump supporters. I know you know this is wrong. The reason I know is if a Dem prez did it you would rightly be calling this an abuse of power. Because it is.

Are you going to keep allowing trump to get away with things like this without speaking up? How far he goes really is up to you. If you collectively make it known you disapprove he will stop. Or you can do nothing and idly watch this orgy of revenge continue.

After the witch hunt you loons did on Trump. I hope he crushes your party.

 

[Billiejeens]

Trump moves to fire members of EEOC and NLRB, breaking with precedent

President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, an extraordinary break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans control over boards that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

On Monday night, he dismissed two of the three Democrats on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows, formerly the chair, the White House confirmed Tuesday. He also fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat, an NLRB spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
All three said they are exploring their legal options against the administration — cases that legal scholars say could reach as far as the Supreme Court.

“Removing me from my position before the expiration of my Congressionally directed term is unprecedented, violates the law, and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the EEOC as an independent agency — one that is not controlled by a single Cabinet secretary but operates as a multimember body whose varying views are baked into the Commission’s design,” Samuels wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/28/trump-fire-eeoc-nlrb-board-members/

This is beginning to look like a strategy to get cases in front of his SC so they can once again disregard precedent and existing law in trump's favor. He's trying to expand the power of the presidency beyond what was intended. Because..........of course he is. It's what authoritarians do.

We hired him to break precedent.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!

 

[Nostra]

Insane. This proves how fucking stupid humans are. I used to wonder how Germans in 1941 could be so stupid. Now I know.

How did that Nazi card work out for ya in November, Simp?

 

[berg80]

I know you know this is wrong.

Hegseth takes actions against Trump foe Mark Milley

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has decided to remove retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s security detail, suspend his security clearance, and order an inspector general inquiry into his behavior as the Pentagon’s top officer, senior defense officials said Tuesday, taking extraordinary action against a frequent target of President Donald Trump.

The move comes after years of Trump criticizing Milley for perceived disloyalty and Milley acknowledging in congressional testimony that he had served as a source for several unflattering books about the first Trump administration. Milley, 66, retired in 2023 following four tumultuous years as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both Trump and President Joe Biden.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/28/mark-milley-hegseth-trump/

This is why Biden pardoned Milley.

trump is trying to turn us in to an autocracy at lightning speed.

 

[jknowgood]

I know you know this is wrong.

Hegseth takes actions against Trump foe Mark Milley

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has decided to remove retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s security detail, suspend his security clearance, and order an inspector general inquiry into his behavior as the Pentagon’s top officer, senior defense officials said Tuesday, taking extraordinary action against a frequent target of President Donald Trump.

The move comes after years of Trump criticizing Milley for perceived disloyalty and Milley acknowledging in congressional testimony that he had served as a source for several unflattering books about the first Trump administration. Milley, 66, retired in 2023 following four tumultuous years as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both Trump and President Joe Biden.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/28/mark-milley-hegseth-trump/

This is why Biden pardoned Milley.

trump is trying to turn us in to an autocracy at lightning speed.

Milley admitted he would commit treason. He should be executed.

 

[Billiejeens]

This is why Biden pardoned Milley.


Yes
Because Biden's people knew that Milley committed serious crimes.

 

[sealybobo]

How did that Nazi card work out for ya in November, Simp?

It didn't. I said in October if Trump wins, now I know how Hitler did it. I used to wonder what the fuck was wrong with the German people in 1939 to like that obviously evil prick. Well now look at America. We have an evil prick as our President.