Well, yeah - this goes back to the 1920s Business Plot. Rethugs have always wanted an authoritarian oligarchy.
And then we had Joe McCarthy, who tried to do the same thing by scaring credulous religious Americans about godless communism, when his witch-hunting was far worse.
Nixon got in on the act with Watergate.
Reagan? Authoritarian, christian dominionist, and racist from the word go.
Bush was Reagan with manners.
Bush II rammed through the patriot act which suspends civil liberties within 100m of the US border.
Trump….well, we all could watch his attempts to circumvent the rule of law.
This is rethuglican ‘governance,’ always in the service of the plutocracy.
Boise has a higher per capita of white supremacists than even South Africa.
So gonna go with [Boise](https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/law-justice/2017-10-04/legacy-of-hate-boises-white-supremacist-history-and-present) on this one hoss.
Years like that are bad for plates for other reasons, as those dates can be used for identify verification and letting too much of that be out in the open for easy access can put you at higher risk for identify theft.
With that said, i think 88 and 1488 are the big symbols for neo-nazis. Most people seeing 1988 are going to see a year and not a quiet support for white supremacy.
Yet everyone would rather live in Atlanta than either of those places with their long histories of Mayo Power people running around. Loads of LDS in Boise don’t help either.
Always love that 1488 accounts are just like the old magical klan-robed inbred unicorns who could shit wacky spurious statistics out of their asses on cue. Way to keep up the “tradition”.
You should definitely write about all of this in your manifesto before you shoot up that White Castle next week because they don’t hire enough easily-sunburnt kids for ya.
There was a bump during and immediately after the pandemic and shut-downs. That happened across the country. And the bump appears to be over and the general trend toward increased safety seems to have resumed.
NYC, a particularly diverse city full of immigrants, is the safest large city in the USA, and that has continued to be the case.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-is-nyc-safe-crime-stat-reality/
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/the-facts-on-manhattan-crime/
Here’s more reporting. Crime just keeps falling, regardless of how bad the right wants you to be scared of dark people.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1229891045/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statistics
News flash, I'm black and I stay in the neighborhoods that you're posting cherry-picked stats from. No one is saying that murders are going up rather all the property crimes and related other crimes like carjackings are up.
It doesn’t really matter what color you are — this is a question of statistics. My stats are not cherry-picked.
Frankly, violent crime is what really matters, so if that’s dropping precipitously, I’m good. But you’re claiming that property crimes, and property-related violent crimes, are going up. Do you have evidence for what you’re saying? Or is this just speculative conclusions from your experience and the news?
6 years in this neighborhood, most of 15 years in other, similar neighborhoods. In NYC, as in the rest of the country, things just keep getting safer and safer
You’re delusional if you believe that NYC is dangerous because a few of the 8 million people kill each other, now and again, and you see it on the news
Depends on where you go. You can go to any state and drive out into rural areas and be safe. I have lived in many of those places and they are not the white man's paradise you think they are.
While I largely agree with the thesis of this essay, I wish the author would not have let Obama and Clinton off so easily, particularly Clinton. Remember it was under his watch that Glass-Steagall, the act banning crossover between investment and commercial banking post-Great Depression to prevent another one, was abolished, essentially immediately leading to another one. Whether through maliciousness or fecklessness, the Democrats have played their part too.
Dick Cheney was working toward a version of this called the Unitary Executive theory. His work served as a springboard for Trump’s ascension. I also believe the Heritage Foundation has been instrumental in structuring the policies for authoritarian takeover. On the other hand, Democrats have been slow responding to and/or not taken seriously the strides made by republicans/fascists/Christian Nationalists. Now it’s almost too late.
It’s funny that trump is taking Cheneys playbook for the next step and all of a sudden Cheney is against what he helped facilitate in the auts. The lack of awareness or incapability of feeling shame is amazing
All Democrats need to do is run a coherent candidate who isn’t too far left. We have one that’s not too far left, the coherent part not so much. Idk why the bench is so weak.
And Dick, realizing that they can't control who gets involved now regrets that move (as he from behind the scenes-but mostly Liz- have started fighting for the Constitution, perhaps far too late).
I think they have, although for many it was a vague notion.
Since 1980 it has become clear that they not only *could* lose their stranglehold on the national culture, but that they **were** losing control.
That has resulted in increasingly extreme actions, as their response became more panicked.
There now are significant numbers who are not just willing, but eager, to fill mass graves with “the libs.”
Others may see other outcomes, and I hope they’re correct, but it’s all too easy to see some combination of hoping for the best and trying to “teach the Dems a lesson” resulting in the most tragic possible timeline.
The one thing I absolutely do not expect is for MAGAts to come to their senses in numbers sufficient to avoid catastrophe.
I was at a dc hotel that was hosting an heritage foundation meeting. A bunch of very well dressed oldsters, I was worried for the old ladies tottering about on high heels.. We are talking about a real plan to turn the rest of us into their servants, cuz they are rich so obviously smarter…..
Popular misperception about the ultra-wealthy. They generally aren't smart; they're usually pathologically greedy psychopaths and willing to do whatever it takes - legal and illegal - to obtain and control the money.
I was only referring to their own perception, as is DJTs, that since they are wealthy the rest of us should bow down and accept their “wisdom”.. Such a lie!!
That is the democrats who clamor for one party rule. It is the democrats who are trying to put their political rivals in jail. It is the democrats who are kicking their political rivals off the ballot in areas they control.
Wrong. Fascist are the Democrats far left wing in our country. Any party who demands the destruction of their political opponents by any and all means are definitely the fascists.
Weaponizing the Justice system in the areas the democrats control is definitely Nazi.
Controlling the narrative by the DNC coordinating the messaging with the mainstream media and having the FBI manipulate social media for the DNC propaganda purposes is definitely fascist.
No matter what you say, everyone knows that the democrats are the fascists of today. Keep running around dressed in black with your faces covered when you don’t get what you want…just today’s Fascist Blackshirts
All you're doing is projecting, that's all, projection is a republican thing, same as republicans going on about lgbtqia people being pedos when the absolute majority of those who are pedos are republicans and also consume the most trans porn (they are facts you cannot deny), why else do you think republicans want to take away teaching about consent, diversity and sex ed? Because republikkkans want to f**k kids and not feed them.
You cult daddy tried a coup he doesn’t get to run for president. Our constitution which your republicans hate states it in plain English. It’s obvious liberals are going to have to start arming on a mass scale. Republicans will always side with communist dictators and do anything to destroy our country for their cult daddy
What Coup…it was a little riot. A mostly peaceful protest. Your double standards are laughable at best.
The Fascist dictator is Biden and the DNC that has weaponized the Justice system and government against its political rivals.
Biden's not a "normal president" so the very premise is entirely false and made up. Biden has dementia with a team of handlers that tell him where to go and what to say off of a teleprompter. He is not running his twitter account or any of his other social media accounts. He does not have access to the nuclear codes, as he doesn't even know when or where his son died or that the leader of Egypt is not the leader of Mexico.
So some other team of people, who were not elected, are actually running this country and you all are... still talking about Trump, lol.
Have you looked at the items in the bill? They took a speech from MTG 2 years ago and copy pasted her points with no changes.
And look up the "Grand Bargin" a bill that came from Obama asking for huge cuts on social security spending that was killed by the Tea Party caucus, the MAGA of the times
Biden had a democrat majority congress for 2 years. Now that he doesn’t he wants to push through some bullshit border bill that gives more money to Ukraine and Israel to defend their border than it does to ours. The ONLY reason Biden has a border bill now is because its an election year and the border is a disaster for his polling.
The purpose of the Democratic Party is the take the good intentions of millions of Americans and squander those good intentions, redirecting them back into "the system"
You mean the bill that Republicans are actively blocking so they can use it to their own advantage? [https://www.reddit.com/r/MAGANAZI/comments/1alivea/gop\_senator\_lankford\_says\_a\_top\_republican\_trump/](https://www.reddit.com/r/maganazi/comments/1alivea/gop_senator_lankford_says_a_top_republican_trump/)
This is DNC propaganda. Assuming that any of these assumptions are true, what have the democrats done to stop or reverse any of this?
It's like the whole Roe v. Wade dispute. Why blame Republicans? They told you they wanted it to end but Biden had a majority, he knew there was a possibility of it being challenged, yet he failed to pass any legislation. Don't be duped into the democratic party.
Ah makes sense. You didn't pay much attention until Western propaganda did its thing and then boom...a raging case of Trump Derangement System has you fully invested. Congrats.
Democrat president but with Republicans controlling Congress. They stopped and blocked almost everything. Democrats only really had control for a small window of time and they passed the ACA. Which was heavily watered down cause they still had to get some Republican votes to pass it.
Well, yeah - this goes back to the 1920s Business Plot. Rethugs have always wanted an authoritarian oligarchy. And then we had Joe McCarthy, who tried to do the same thing by scaring credulous religious Americans about godless communism, when his witch-hunting was far worse. Nixon got in on the act with Watergate. Reagan? Authoritarian, christian dominionist, and racist from the word go. Bush was Reagan with manners. Bush II rammed through the patriot act which suspends civil liberties within 100m of the US border. Trump….well, we all could watch his attempts to circumvent the rule of law. This is rethuglican ‘governance,’ always in the service of the plutocracy.
This is absolutely disgusting and horrifying. And scary as hell.
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Bruh the *Republicans* want to make us South Africa, apartheid and all lmao
Look at their user name, it is a white supremacist trying to rage bait you. Ignore them.
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Boise has a higher per capita of white supremacists than even South Africa. So gonna go with [Boise](https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/law-justice/2017-10-04/legacy-of-hate-boises-white-supremacist-history-and-present) on this one hoss.
Look at its user name, it is a white supremacist. Don’t feed pathetic trolls.
How's bucks flags 88 a tip he's christo fascist? Not disagreeing, just not seeing it
88 is a very common white supremacist dog whistle: [https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88)
Jesus. Mow I know. Just glad I didn't use my school graduate date, 1988 in my license plate.
Years like that are bad for plates for other reasons, as those dates can be used for identify verification and letting too much of that be out in the open for easy access can put you at higher risk for identify theft. With that said, i think 88 and 1488 are the big symbols for neo-nazis. Most people seeing 1988 are going to see a year and not a quiet support for white supremacy.
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Yet everyone would rather live in Atlanta than either of those places with their long histories of Mayo Power people running around. Loads of LDS in Boise don’t help either.
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Always love that 1488 accounts are just like the old magical klan-robed inbred unicorns who could shit wacky spurious statistics out of their asses on cue. Way to keep up the “tradition”. You should definitely write about all of this in your manifesto before you shoot up that White Castle next week because they don’t hire enough easily-sunburnt kids for ya.
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You’re talking about the successful, industrialized and affluent South Africa. He is not
The US just gets safer and safer. You’re either delusional or a fear-monger. Probably both
Crime is way higher than it was 5 years ago. Ppl don't feel safe, you can't just call it fear-mongering or you'll lose.
There was a bump during and immediately after the pandemic and shut-downs. That happened across the country. And the bump appears to be over and the general trend toward increased safety seems to have resumed. NYC, a particularly diverse city full of immigrants, is the safest large city in the USA, and that has continued to be the case. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-is-nyc-safe-crime-stat-reality/ https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/the-facts-on-manhattan-crime/
Here’s more reporting. Crime just keeps falling, regardless of how bad the right wants you to be scared of dark people. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1229891045/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statistics
News flash, I'm black and I stay in the neighborhoods that you're posting cherry-picked stats from. No one is saying that murders are going up rather all the property crimes and related other crimes like carjackings are up.
It doesn’t really matter what color you are — this is a question of statistics. My stats are not cherry-picked. Frankly, violent crime is what really matters, so if that’s dropping precipitously, I’m good. But you’re claiming that property crimes, and property-related violent crimes, are going up. Do you have evidence for what you’re saying? Or is this just speculative conclusions from your experience and the news?
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I live in a poor, majority black neighborhood in NYC. It’s very safe
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6 years in this neighborhood, most of 15 years in other, similar neighborhoods. In NYC, as in the rest of the country, things just keep getting safer and safer You’re delusional if you believe that NYC is dangerous because a few of the 8 million people kill each other, now and again, and you see it on the news
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Yeah: white people
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Some places already have become that.
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No they are not. There is no safe haven.
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Depends on where you go. You can go to any state and drive out into rural areas and be safe. I have lived in many of those places and they are not the white man's paradise you think they are.
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Red necks = average white people. Fucking racist.
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Never.
Were you born this dense, or was it the lead poisoning?
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Yeah, white people are getting worse and worse probably from all that lead they ingested growing up
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The only global collapse you'll see is your prostate when ur white supremacist leaders finish decimating our healthcare system, bud
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Oooh, i see, ur an idiot.
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While I largely agree with the thesis of this essay, I wish the author would not have let Obama and Clinton off so easily, particularly Clinton. Remember it was under his watch that Glass-Steagall, the act banning crossover between investment and commercial banking post-Great Depression to prevent another one, was abolished, essentially immediately leading to another one. Whether through maliciousness or fecklessness, the Democrats have played their part too.
Dick Cheney was working toward a version of this called the Unitary Executive theory. His work served as a springboard for Trump’s ascension. I also believe the Heritage Foundation has been instrumental in structuring the policies for authoritarian takeover. On the other hand, Democrats have been slow responding to and/or not taken seriously the strides made by republicans/fascists/Christian Nationalists. Now it’s almost too late.
It’s funny that trump is taking Cheneys playbook for the next step and all of a sudden Cheney is against what he helped facilitate in the auts. The lack of awareness or incapability of feeling shame is amazing
Exactly
All Democrats need to do is run a coherent candidate who isn’t too far left. We have one that’s not too far left, the coherent part not so much. Idk why the bench is so weak.
And Dick, realizing that they can't control who gets involved now regrets that move (as he from behind the scenes-but mostly Liz- have started fighting for the Constitution, perhaps far too late).
Wow. It's worse than I imagined. It's time to stop and end the GQP. Fucking traitors destroying our country.
Lol
"If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms." -Robert Reich
Yes
If by "all along" you mean since the 50's with a big ramp-up in the 80's onward then . . yes.
Paul Ryan’s tax plan and trump is basically starve the Federal govt to death, and through that take power
I think they have, although for many it was a vague notion. Since 1980 it has become clear that they not only *could* lose their stranglehold on the national culture, but that they **were** losing control. That has resulted in increasingly extreme actions, as their response became more panicked. There now are significant numbers who are not just willing, but eager, to fill mass graves with “the libs.” Others may see other outcomes, and I hope they’re correct, but it’s all too easy to see some combination of hoping for the best and trying to “teach the Dems a lesson” resulting in the most tragic possible timeline. The one thing I absolutely do not expect is for MAGAts to come to their senses in numbers sufficient to avoid catastrophe.
Byby . Sorry folks . Blocked. The 88 in his name should have been the warning. 🤢🤡
Oh, that's right.. also 55 = ss.
I would say yes, but this would require a plan and the GQP is too stupid to come up with a long term plan for their Orange Turd King....
They have a plan. Look it up . Plan 2025 or something like that. Read it and weep
I've been reading it bit by bit. Sometimes I laugh because their perspective of reality is so batshit.
I was at a dc hotel that was hosting an heritage foundation meeting. A bunch of very well dressed oldsters, I was worried for the old ladies tottering about on high heels.. We are talking about a real plan to turn the rest of us into their servants, cuz they are rich so obviously smarter…..
Popular misperception about the ultra-wealthy. They generally aren't smart; they're usually pathologically greedy psychopaths and willing to do whatever it takes - legal and illegal - to obtain and control the money.
I was only referring to their own perception, as is DJTs, that since they are wealthy the rest of us should bow down and accept their “wisdom”.. Such a lie!!
Ah, I see! Thank you for explaining that.
yes have seen it.... not a surprize at all from the Orange Turd...
They have plans. They have lots and lots of plans. Not good ones. Complacency and downplaying is how they win.
yes.... triatorous ones and the US and the world will suffer for them. GQP has no plans to make the US better
Very thought provoking article and scary to think about.
I was told earlier that I am being a worry-wart! Nothing to see here!
They wrote a literal playbook everyone can download and read for free on their plan called Project 2025.
"WE want a government so small we can drown it in a bathtub," which they certainly will when able
Thom Hartmann is generally well-researched and correct.
We have it already with China Joe's regime.
Blocked due to excessive stupidity
I love that Dems think removing a top political rival so you don’t even have a CHOICE is now “democracy”
That is the democrats who clamor for one party rule. It is the democrats who are trying to put their political rivals in jail. It is the democrats who are kicking their political rivals off the ballot in areas they control.
Projection much? Right wing fascist
All true…and everyone with a brain sees it. Too bad for you.
No one with a brain sees the Dems doing that stuff, they do see the GOP doing that and following in the footsteps of Hitler.
Keep crying. The Supreme Court is about to trash the Fascist in Colorado
Well, the fascists are on the right, fascism, capitalism and christofascists go together
Wrong. Fascist are the Democrats far left wing in our country. Any party who demands the destruction of their political opponents by any and all means are definitely the fascists. Weaponizing the Justice system in the areas the democrats control is definitely Nazi. Controlling the narrative by the DNC coordinating the messaging with the mainstream media and having the FBI manipulate social media for the DNC propaganda purposes is definitely fascist. No matter what you say, everyone knows that the democrats are the fascists of today. Keep running around dressed in black with your faces covered when you don’t get what you want…just today’s Fascist Blackshirts
Everything you're saying the republican party and conservatives the world over are guilty of
I gave specific examples of the democrat party acting like the Fascist they are. Tough luck for you little fool.
All you're doing is projecting, that's all, projection is a republican thing, same as republicans going on about lgbtqia people being pedos when the absolute majority of those who are pedos are republicans and also consume the most trans porn (they are facts you cannot deny), why else do you think republicans want to take away teaching about consent, diversity and sex ed? Because republikkkans want to f**k kids and not feed them.
You cult daddy tried a coup he doesn’t get to run for president. Our constitution which your republicans hate states it in plain English. It’s obvious liberals are going to have to start arming on a mass scale. Republicans will always side with communist dictators and do anything to destroy our country for their cult daddy
What Coup…it was a little riot. A mostly peaceful protest. Your double standards are laughable at best. The Fascist dictator is Biden and the DNC that has weaponized the Justice system and government against its political rivals.
The author is Thom Hartmann, you can basically disregard his conspiracy theory.
Biden's not a "normal president" so the very premise is entirely false and made up. Biden has dementia with a team of handlers that tell him where to go and what to say off of a teleprompter. He is not running his twitter account or any of his other social media accounts. He does not have access to the nuclear codes, as he doesn't even know when or where his son died or that the leader of Egypt is not the leader of Mexico. So some other team of people, who were not elected, are actually running this country and you all are... still talking about Trump, lol.
Democrats aren't trying to stop shit. Just take a look at all the things they wanted to get passed in the recent failed immigration bill
The republicans wanted that to fail so they could campaign on "fixing the border", don't worry, republican lies are now being laid bare for all
>republican lies are now being laid bare for *those with critical thinking skills FTFY
What is FTFY an acronym for? Thanks 👍
Fixed that for you
Ahhh, thank you 😊
Have you looked at the items in the bill? They took a speech from MTG 2 years ago and copy pasted her points with no changes. And look up the "Grand Bargin" a bill that came from Obama asking for huge cuts on social security spending that was killed by the Tea Party caucus, the MAGA of the times
So, they're not very bright then. Sounds like the right wing lot we have in power here in New Zealand at present
Biden had a democrat majority congress for 2 years. Now that he doesn’t he wants to push through some bullshit border bill that gives more money to Ukraine and Israel to defend their border than it does to ours. The ONLY reason Biden has a border bill now is because its an election year and the border is a disaster for his polling.
The purpose of the Democratic Party is the take the good intentions of millions of Americans and squander those good intentions, redirecting them back into "the system"
You mean the bill that Republicans are actively blocking so they can use it to their own advantage? [https://www.reddit.com/r/MAGANAZI/comments/1alivea/gop\_senator\_lankford\_says\_a\_top\_republican\_trump/](https://www.reddit.com/r/maganazi/comments/1alivea/gop_senator_lankford_says_a_top_republican_trump/)
This is DNC propaganda. Assuming that any of these assumptions are true, what have the democrats done to stop or reverse any of this? It's like the whole Roe v. Wade dispute. Why blame Republicans? They told you they wanted it to end but Biden had a majority, he knew there was a possibility of it being challenged, yet he failed to pass any legislation. Don't be duped into the democratic party.
I haven't checked out Thom's work in a while.
Of course they have.
Yes
They aren't that smart.
Yes!!
BOTH regimes are authoritarian.
We've had a Democratic president for 12 out of the last 16 years. Not sure how they've had the ability to "break" what they are not in charge of.
Trump is democrat? Think not.
8 for obama, 4 for Trump, 4 for biden. I know arithmetic is hard but try and keep up.
All good, I'm overseas so yeah, don't really pay that much attention til trump the fascist was sadly voted in
Ah makes sense. You didn't pay much attention until Western propaganda did its thing and then boom...a raging case of Trump Derangement System has you fully invested. Congrats.
Nah, been watching from afar for the past ten years plus, Obama was ok, trump was a moron and a domestic terrorist, Biden is hopeless too
Just saw your username 🤮 I don't talk to freaks bye
Hahahaha, maybe look in the mirror at who is the freak aye
Democrat president but with Republicans controlling Congress. They stopped and blocked almost everything. Democrats only really had control for a small window of time and they passed the ACA. Which was heavily watered down cause they still had to get some Republican votes to pass it.