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I don’t understand. Congress is supposed to decide how we spend money and how much we tax. Why is the president doing those things?
Because Congress is letting him.
And the citizens are letting Congress do it.
At this point, the citizens have lost all power. They elected people based on their promises, which they haven’t upheld. We have no mechanism to remove corrupt officials except violence
The French will shut down their entire country if politicians try to increase the retirement age. Americans witness the collapse of democracy and do nothing.
We need to bring back the old “France Surrenders” meme and replace it with “Americans”.
We need to bring back the old “France Surrenders” meme and replace it with “Americans”.
“Home of the brave”
Not anymore.
The other option is to boycott everything — bring the entire economy to a halt. Don’t show up to work, don’t shop, block the highways, stop paying taxes, etc. I guarantee the entire situation would be fixed in under a week.
Of course, this requires critical mass. And everyone is so conditioned to get to work on time and not endanger their next paycheck, that it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. Things will have to get worse before they get better.
Oh, they have upheld their promises - Project 2025’s agenda was in the open well in advance. Too many people actively voted for that - i can only guess at their reasons, but racism and hatred come to mind. And too many people stayed home when they shouldn’t have, closing their eyes to what was happening.
It was very in the open, but Trump said he didn’t know anything about it, so the sycophants believed him.
Because the United States is a genuine dictatorship. The only thing that matters is spat out by royal decree.
Congress the rubberstamp org ?
Why do we even need that,
to sell positions has favour to the king ?
obviously nobody believes in that parasitic institution
Why do the Russians keep the Duma ?
To shove the edicts of the king
down the throat of the population ? The broken remains of the “country” need to face it
FEDUSA is deadthats how the nazi ran thier congress, hitler has the congress rubber stamp, of course they both can make death threats agains tthem too.
The time of words is almost over
soon the time of lead will be at hand
It’s not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.
Having said that, I’ve never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we’re collapsing.
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
Talk about a short-sighted admin.
It’s easy for old people to be short-sighted. They don’t have to take responsibility for fucking things up in the long term, because they’ll be dead.
Stable governments should elect people that have a reason to plan long term.
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
It’s actually much worse than that. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
We’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
Like ivermectin?
Every fucking day these pieces of shit show us new and creative ways of destroying this country.
And everyday, they are getting away with it…
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are systematically enshitifying everything that made America great.
MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN
Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.
In the end the US will look like late stage USSR, with apparatchiks having to sign off everything, years of waiting time and mile long waiting lines to have a chance to get whatever the supermarket currently has in stock, and it’s never what you actually need, so most people have to use facebook marketplace to barter goods
Look at the Pythia rat to see how badly this affects real science. Unreality makes it quite difficult to observe reality
If you don’t get rid of that government soon (the whole thing, the democrats are complicit), you won’t get rid of them anymore.
Trump literally controls the national guard. Good fucking luck…
Yeah it’s too late. All the delusional gun-slinging second-amendment-spoiting idiots can think they can overthrow a government somehow.
The last chance to stop this was 13th of July last year.
Gun nuts simply don’t talk that way, let alone believe it. You do not have a cute talking point, you have a fabricated talking point. You have a picture of gun owners that only exists in liberal echo chambers. I invite you to hop on YouTube and see what we actually discuss and believe. Warning: It’ll probably be as boring as paste to most.
If we’re going by what the utterly fringe, utterly unserious nuts talk about? I can find fruitcakes spouting any nonsense you like, any topic. Give me a few minutes with a search engine.
What we can do is defend our families, neighbors and ourselves when ICE comes knocking. The fact that so many of us have guns is a massive deterrent. Notice ICE isn’t raiding places where people are well armed?
Think the cops and fascists (I repeat myself) are bad now? How do you think they would act if they knew they could kick down any door with no danger to themselves? You might notice how well fucking behaved they are when citizens are openly armed at a protest. Suddenly they just want everything peaceable. Aww, aren’t they sweet?
I heard that argument so often that the second amendment is there to overthrow tyrannical governments and I heard that from the people claiming that they need guns for that explicit purpose. For work reasons I have quite a bit to do with people from the mountain west and that’s a very common talking point there.
What we can do is defend our families, neighbors and ourselves when ICE comes knocking.
That’s seriously even more whack than thinking a bunch of gun nuts could overthrow the government with a “well regulated militia”.
When you start shooting at ICE, you get another Waco massacre.
Look at any (and I repeat ANY) other example of a country sliding into fascism. Name even one where owning a gun and “defending” yourself or your family lead to anything but all of them laying dead on the floor.
OK, I’ll grant that I don’t talk to people from your region, so I can believe that. My point was about talking points in the wider gun nut world. Yeah, sometimes on obscure forums you might see that as a cheesy post signature, but that’s about it. None of the mainstream GunTubers give the idea so much as a passing mention. And as for anecdotes, I’m not sure I’ve heard the idea expressed IRL. LOL, and I’m originally from Oklahoma!
If you want to dig through my comments, I have plainly stated, many times, that I understand armed resistance would end my life. And that idea scares the crap out of me. I am well aware that I’d be shaking life a leaf. OTOH, I’ve faced certain death twice and saved my own life, did quite well. (Not that I’d get out of an ICE firefight alive!)
I’ve thought on this much, got a dog in this fight, and I’ve drawn a line in the sand. If warrantless, masked men come to our home to take my wife, I’m fighting. One would have a very hard time getting me to draw my weapon, but that scenario would git 'er done.
So if that’s whack, what would you do? Lay down and trust the rule of law to work out? I’m betting we agree that said “rule of law” is getting close to over, and it’s already over if you’re brown. Could you live with yourself if your immigrant wife was dragged from your living room, screaming and terrified, to be sent to a concentration camp? I’ve decided to die with my boots on.
And what might the imagined firefight accomplish other than my immediate death? I have no idea, never can tell what stories gain traction and what stories are told as “a lone nut”, but the telling would likely end up more like Ruby Ridge than Waco. And this particular story hasn’t been told yet, which is surprising. Maybe I’ll be the one to tell it? Gods I hope not.
So what happens in reality is that once you draw the gun, you and your family are dead. By drawing a gun you doomed them.
If you value your family, you get out early. Pack up, move to a different country. It might be difficult, it might take a while, but if you start early enough you might just make it.
The Jews who moved out of Germany in 1933 could still sell of their homes and belongings, get a passport and visa comparatively easily and got out. The Jews who tried that in 1939 were in a much tougher spot and a staggering amount of them didn’t make it any more.
So if you expect that there is a realistic chance that your family is sent to a concentration camp, get your family to safety instead of hanging around until it’s too late and then get them and yourself killed. You don’t become a hero for killing a few low-level grunts while dooming your family.
Ruby Ridge happened in a relatively free country. It was a huge misstep of a government agency and this went through the media.
If you kill some ICE people, then the telling will be that you are a crazy leftist terrorist who harboured illegal criminal rapists and that you then murdered some officers in a terrorist attack. The USA is not a free country any more.
Look at German newspaper reports from 1933 through 1939 to see what you can expect within the next months and years in the USA.
When the right wing dictatorship has safely grabbed full power, they are very likely to eventually take everyone’s guns away just because they can. They will suddenly start telling everyone that we have always been at war with East Asia and you better be a team player. And all the conservatives who have been conditioned to chase the Party Line in goose step formation and forfeit their previous principles will fall in line just like they always do. And within a few years 99% of everyone’s guns will be gone except for the regime.
June 13th?
I think @squaresinger@lemmy.world meant July 13th. Relevant news article
Sorry, yes, by bad. Fixed the typo.
No worries.
Ahh, that tracks. Thanks so much.
I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don’t even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.
This doesn’t belong in this community, does it?
Guess Trump is OK with China being the dominant scientific force in the world though.
MIT gets plenty of grants.
Somewhere in there, Ars should have noted that this does not mean literally ALL grants, but all federal grants as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 (which isn’t to say they won’t change that definition).
We will be going to floppy disks, fax machines, typewriters and snail mails
But they’re gonna kill the US post so you’ll have to pay more to ship by FedEx.
They are going to make their own Post Office “Fox Post” and it will charge us ten times more
Aka: a Politruk
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