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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne of the most scary things I have ever read. We are well down the road to a Police State.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142431046So Rudy G. is now free to get paid by Russia to bring back Russian propaganda and
feed those lies to Bill Barr and the D.O.J. in order to hurt people who that Trump/Putin
see as enemies. I.O.W. now that the Republicans in the Senate voted to acquit Trump
the D.O.J. is going to do the exact same things that Trump was impeached for and now
do it in the open.
Jesus this is scary shit.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)And get derided for being hysterical or defeatist.
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)too.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)theories.
some seriously fucked up shit going on. i hope if we manage to get a Demo president and congress that said president will work with Congress to take away a lot of these bullshit "executive powers" that now basically seem to mean "there is no oversight anymore". Like this nonsence of saying everything is "privileged" and spend a year in court if you want to see it is downright dangerous to the nation. even if drumpf LOSES in the courts, look how much damage he does in the year the cases spend there!
2naSalit
(86,777 posts)waking up every day to find out new horrors... which is exactly what they want. This is 1984, Animal Farm and The Shock Doctrine all at once on fucking steroids.
We had better fight it with all we've got because this is the fight for our lives on every level.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)I think I can guess but I'll check that one out.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)2naSalit
(86,777 posts)I'll put it on my list anyway, not sure I am done being overwhelmed by the past ten days yet.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)The network is confounding but there are forensic experts who can ferret out the starting point for hidden money making, which Moneyland explains.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)a television program, I say to my husband, "What did the son of a bitch do NOW?"
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)murielm99
(30,761 posts)but that will only be the beginning. It will take years to repair the damage. Then, we will have to be sure that it never happens again.
I hope it can be accomplished in what is left of my lifetime.
Desert grandma
(804 posts)we can always go to Mexico or Canada and ask for asylum. "Sarcasm"
wnylib
(21,606 posts)and it has crossed my mind, without sarcasm.
Remember, in Nov, 2016, that the Canadian website on immigration crashed from all the Americans checking it out?
Then, during the Muslim ban soon after inauguration, Canada was flooded with Muslims from the US seeking asylum. Canada accepted them.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I think we live less than 50 miles apart (I'm about 25 miles west of Rochester), and I'm seriously considering moving to Canada if Trump (Dog forbid) gets re-elected. I can't take another 4 years of this, and you know it's going to get much worse.
wnylib
(21,606 posts)Who knows? We might meet some day in Ontario.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)She is in the process of applying for Canadian citizenship.
But why would they want me in Canada? I have nothing to contribute, and I am elderly.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Every country needs volunteers, and as long as you pay taxes there I don't see why they wouldn't allow you to stay. Say you're a caregiver for your daughter's children (if they have any, or are planning on any). Anything is worth a shot. The U.S. has failed us, that's for sure.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)I was a literacy volunteer. I helped adults learn to read.
But for most of my life, my volunteering has been limited to political activism. I am a low level grassroots activist. I started out helping my dad when he volunteered for Adlai Stevenson. I was eight years old. I am proud of my activism, and I will continue it until I can no longer do so. But I can't see that being an asset in Canada.
wnylib
(21,606 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...under Moscow Mitch, Putin's Bitch has been stacking the federal courts with dominionist-fascists at an alarming rate.
Lifetime appointments.
EndlessWire
(6,565 posts)Let's have term limits on the SC.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Term limits and public funding of elections are two things we need immediately. Of course with rethuglicans in charge there's absolutely no chance of that happening.
Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)The stupid mixed with big $ and foreign policy is at DEFCON 1 in this country. The opposition to Democrats will be just as strong and absurd as their support of a chrisofascist state is.
We are going to have to fight with all we have for the next decade plus to just hold on to what we have right now.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I was a Bernie supporter.
I voted for Hillary.
I talked other Bernie supporters in to voting for Hillary.
I knew what was coming.
I didn't like Hillary.
I cried for 3 days when she lost.
I knew what was coming.
I wish I was wrong.
Exact same experience.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)It has been a nightmare and they are feeling emboldened.
They are capable of anything.
They don't think like we do.
They don't value what we value.
They don't believe in democracy.
They don't believe in freedom.
The White Supremacists have grown in numbers.
His cult will do anything for him and they are all heavily armed.
Trump makes threats out in the open.
It is truly terrifying how fast things will change.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)and have been screaming inside ever since.
For millions, the house was so comfortable they left the back door open.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)We will be under a dictatorship in the midst of abrupt and irreversible climate change.
What a fucking twofer.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)My comfort was reading to sort out thinking, and music to sort out feeling.
I think of CSNY's "Carry On."
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)I knew I wasn't wrong. I knew a Trump presidency would end badly.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I said I wish I was wrong.
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)I didn't mean to imply that you did.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I figured you just read it incorrectly.
Thanks.
aggiesal
(8,923 posts)to quote Nixon
Whenever the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Celerity
(43,499 posts)aggiesal
(8,923 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)notinkansas
(1,096 posts)who voted 'not guilty' needs to lose their seat. No exceptions.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And trump, so this shouldn't be a surprise he has trump trying to hurt his political opponents , especially ones putin hates the most. We're being brought to the same thing putin has done to russia, where opponents and opposition become criminals by having manufactured false evidence to use against them with. If trump gets in again from rigging this election he'll start trying to criminalize Obama, and others in his administration and other presidents he'll claim were corrupt, why , because he knows he's corrupt and it will be exposed he's the corrupt one.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)Big business has been in control. Police have always been brutal.
Men have been misogynist for ever. Women were underclass. Gays were subject to unspeakable brutality. Blacks, Hispanic and Asians lived under constant threat. They lived and worked as quietly as they could and stayed under the radar.
Now it is just out in the open. And it's pretty ugly.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Now that Trump has been vindicated, he's going to go full asshole, and he will use his executive powers to do some unspeakable things. It's going to get very ugly very quickly.
blm
(113,091 posts)So effed and the news media cant even cover it all.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)of egomaniac lawyers that are going to be disbarred and will never practice law again. THIS will happen.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Trump is exploiting the fact that the courts and one house of Congress won't do a thing to stop him.
As it says in scripture...This too shall pass.