And yet they will not, because there are no consequences for their criminality.
I don’t understand how the federal government gets a pass breaking all these fucking laws. It was ALREADY the law! Where are the consequences? Rule of law my fucking ass. Are the officers that arrested Representative LaMonica McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka facing ANY consequences?
It’s the ✨unitary executive theory✨
In other countries they call that dictatorship.
Its only dictatorship if it comes from the Diktorovce region of Hungary.
Otherwise its just sparkling authoritarianism.
For sure. Reading recent right-wing “political theory” is wild because UET is very transparently an argument for dictatorship, and it’s not even particularly hard to see, even from just reading what the actual euphemism says, word-for-word, out of context.
The mystery that has always confounded me is why anyone supports this. Time and again history has demonstrated that there are enough people who WANT dictators that they spring up all the time, but I still don’t understand what the actual perceived benefit is.
My guess is that the perceived benefit is the that the dictator will enforce things they want, hurt people they want hurt, etc, with the (false) belief that there will be no negatives for them.
Social identity and cognitive biases. They want to be on the winning side, they seek answers which already confirm their preconceived notions. It’s the same with cults and fandom at large.
But aren’t rich people ALREADY on the winning side?
I thought you meant Joe schmo, what does he get out of a fascist dictatorship. Billionaires are all absolutely corrupted by wealth. Smeagols chasing the ring.
The right wing authoritarians love it. I think it should be treated like a mental disorder.
Read Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians, it is freely available on his site.
people with diagnosed mental illness do fall in to right wing fundamentalism quite often,.
I’m going to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.
From the beginning of his book published in 2004. This has been brewing for a long time.
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Trump said he wanted to be a dictator only for one day, so it’s clearly not that.
Fuck this Calvinball bullshit
To my understanding (not saying I agree with it, just trying to make the logic understood for awareness)…
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Congress passed a law allocating funding, but also requiring access for Congressional inspections without notice
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More funding was later allocated, and it explicitly was not conditioned on access for inspections
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Noem took that to mean allowing inspections without notice were no longer required, despite the initial funding with the requirement still being in place
When your entire agenda relies on exploiting whatever loopholes you can invent, you’re probably doing something wrong.
Mom can I have Jeremy come over, “sure but you have to leave your door open.” Mom, Jacob is with is with Jeremy, is that okay? “Okay that’s fine”
Kid closes door because you didn’t go out of your way to specify again that the door must stay open.
Why was that how I read your description, haha
I suppose, but if you want to keep the nuance, the kid is a teenage girl, Jeremy is the boyfriend, and Jacob is hella gay and the parents have said they don’t care. One kid explicitly not having a condition (the second bill specifically said it’s not subject to those conditions) doesn’t mean the other magically went away
…to the parent. The girl’s going to argue otherwise when she gets caught out.
As Noem is doing now.
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the barest of minimums.
We’re in the phase of descent into fascism of: “so what? what you are gonna do about it? who’s gonna enforce the law?”
The answer to that is not something I can say online
Are you referring to Kevin Robert’s public statement about the left?
“Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks. Lick on deez nutz and suck the dick.”
~ Kevin Roberts
The other Kevin Robert’s :)
Who’s getting punished for breaking the already existing laws? If the answer is no one, this will just happen again under slightly different circumstances and added charges to the reps that dare to show up.
And let someone interrupt their behavior toward women in cages? I think we all know what’s happening.
Didn’t he get something slipped into his “big beautiful bill” which exempts him from court-injunctions?
Why should he have to comply?
Why should any of his regime have to comply?
The more that people hold they have to comply, the sooner they “have to” invoke the Insurrection Act, right?
That’s the logic they’re running on, anyways…
People’ll see: escalation on both sides is going to produce a crossing-of-the-tippingpoint, & then it’ll be Civil War Part2, but only Republicans will be legal to own guns ( everybody else “de-naturalized” with that law he’s holding in reserve, so that once everybody else is denaturalized, then everybody else can be ICE’d. So long as he holds-back on using that de-naturalization law, it’ll remain on the books, for when he needs it. & if his 1st-use of it removes all non-Republican judges, then … it’ll never get overthrown, will it? )
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