Can Dictatorship/Authoritarianism Happen in the US?

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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    We very well may be on the way
    Finally someone who doesn’t think am nuts...

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  • VocalImagery
    VocalImagery Posts: 2
    We're already there
    Um all I know is my Smart Samsung TV interacted with me in 2013. I was in my living room on New Years Eve and I screamed “I’m still grieving” and Anderson Cooper popped up on the screen and said “Blanket apologizes across the board” I traded the TV for $300 worth of weed with full disclosure “It’s Interactive” Best decision I ever made! 😂
  • VocalImagery
    VocalImagery Posts: 2
    We're already there

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,674
    We very well may be on the way
    Yep. All the signs are pointing in that direction right now. It's not inevitable yet, but it wouldn't take long for the line to be crossed.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    We very well may be on the way
    We have, for the last decade, completely fucking ignored how every dictator in the history of dictators came into power.  We've brushed every single warning sign aside because we're the mighty USA and nothing can happen to us.  Time to stop living in denial and wake the fuck up! 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,472
    Kat said:
     What's going on now is disgusting. I never thought I'd see the day. 

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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,235
    Did you hear the dog whistle last night? “We’re never going back.”
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,625
    We very well may be on the way
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Did you hear the dog whistle last night? “We’re never going back.”
    Yep mass shootings are part of everyday life like reading a paper or putting on shoes ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • erocshifty
    erocshifty Posts: 1,170
    We very well may be on the way
    The people currently in charge keep moving the goal posts and are very brazen in their attempts to create an *Us vs. Them* reality. Hope cooler heads prevail and we can find a place of mutual respect and peace within our culture again. 
    "It's best to live in grace before you're forced to." EV- 10/09/2014 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    We very well may be on the way
    If you're on FaceBook, check out Bill Maher's "Why Republicans Hate Democracy".  Answer's the thread question in both the present, and the affirmative.  Strange days.
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  • Matts3221
    Matts3221 Posts: 658
    We very well may be on the way

    Remember Dec 2015?

    Everyone was saying " Don't forget this is not normal , do not normalize this person " , we have become so numb to this man's actions , the GOP is nothing but cowards who refuse to stand up for what they believe in.

    In this day and age it is so easy to see footage from 2015 , every GOP member pretty much hated him , said he was a racist , sexist monster who had no place in politics let along the white house. Now Ted Cruz is fighting for him , wondering if he remembers when Trump said that Ted Cruz's father may have been the second shooter for JFK just before the Texas primary.

    I feel this country could barley take the past four years , if reelection is won I do fear we will start to go down the path of " we should change the rules to more than two terms , because they used to "

    I also fear him losing the election and not accepting the results , or differing the election because well he can pretty much do whatever he wants or at least that is the message the GOP and his supports give him everyday.

  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,914
    We very well may be on the way
    Matts3221 said:

    Remember Dec 2015?

    Everyone was saying " Don't forget this is not normal , do not normalize this person " , we have become so numb to this man's actions , the GOP is nothing but cowards who refuse to stand up for what they believe in.

    In this day and age it is so easy to see footage from 2015 , every GOP member pretty much hated him , said he was a racist , sexist monster who had no place in politics let along the white house. Now Ted Cruz is fighting for him , wondering if he remembers when Trump said that Ted Cruz's father may have been the second shooter for JFK just before the Texas primary.

    I feel this country could barley take the past four years , if reelection is won I do fear we will start to go down the path of " we should change the rules to more than two terms , because they used to "

    I also fear him losing the election and not accepting the results , or differing the election because well he can pretty much do whatever he wants or at least that is the message the GOP and his supports give him everyday.

    if (god help us all and hopefully it's actually 'when') he loses there is no way he isn't claiming it was rigged. no way right off the bat is he accepting the results. it's going to be Bush-Gore all over again the courts will be the deciding factor. and they will side with the election results but i agree it could get real ugly
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478

    Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing

    The revised sentencing memorandum, which is expected to be filed in Washington federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the recommendation, and the move will again raise questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html

    Banana republic.
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,235
    dignin said:

    Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing

    The revised sentencing memorandum, which is expected to be filed in Washington federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the recommendation, and the move will again raise questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html

    Banana republic.
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  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    dignin said:

    Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing

    The revised sentencing memorandum, which is expected to be filed in Washington federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the recommendation, and the move will again raise questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html

    Banana republic.
    Rotten banana republic.
    Barrana republic?
  • Matts3221
    Matts3221 Posts: 658
    We very well may be on the way
    pjhawks said:
    Matts3221 said:

    Remember Dec 2015?

    Everyone was saying " Don't forget this is not normal , do not normalize this person " , we have become so numb to this man's actions , the GOP is nothing but cowards who refuse to stand up for what they believe in.

    In this day and age it is so easy to see footage from 2015 , every GOP member pretty much hated him , said he was a racist , sexist monster who had no place in politics let along the white house. Now Ted Cruz is fighting for him , wondering if he remembers when Trump said that Ted Cruz's father may have been the second shooter for JFK just before the Texas primary.

    I feel this country could barley take the past four years , if reelection is won I do fear we will start to go down the path of " we should change the rules to more than two terms , because they used to "

    I also fear him losing the election and not accepting the results , or differing the election because well he can pretty much do whatever he wants or at least that is the message the GOP and his supports give him everyday.

    if (god help us all and hopefully it's actually 'when') he loses there is no way he isn't claiming it was rigged. no way right off the bat is he accepting the results. it's going to be Bush-Gore all over again the courts will be the deciding factor. and they will side with the election results but i agree it could get real ugly


    I keep telling my wife , even if he loses it is going to be so ugly , I hate to say it but come October and how much Trump will lash out at everyone and everything is scary to me.

    I truly hope this is his only term but I just don't know , again fraud election , stolen from me , executive order  , get supreme court involved. With our luck it will be Florida again. If any thinks Rick Scott would not fuck us all over to get him back in office. It really will be Bush V Gore again.

  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Anything's possible, but not time to worry
    Matts3221 said:
    pjhawks said:
    Matts3221 said:

    Remember Dec 2015?

    Everyone was saying " Don't forget this is not normal , do not normalize this person " , we have become so numb to this man's actions , the GOP is nothing but cowards who refuse to stand up for what they believe in.

    In this day and age it is so easy to see footage from 2015 , every GOP member pretty much hated him , said he was a racist , sexist monster who had no place in politics let along the white house. Now Ted Cruz is fighting for him , wondering if he remembers when Trump said that Ted Cruz's father may have been the second shooter for JFK just before the Texas primary.

    I feel this country could barley take the past four years , if reelection is won I do fear we will start to go down the path of " we should change the rules to more than two terms , because they used to "

    I also fear him losing the election and not accepting the results , or differing the election because well he can pretty much do whatever he wants or at least that is the message the GOP and his supports give him everyday.

    if (god help us all and hopefully it's actually 'when') he loses there is no way he isn't claiming it was rigged. no way right off the bat is he accepting the results. it's going to be Bush-Gore all over again the courts will be the deciding factor. and they will side with the election results but i agree it could get real ugly


    I keep telling my wife , even if he loses it is going to be so ugly , I hate to say it but come October and how much Trump will lash out at everyone and everything is scary to me.

    I truly hope this is his only term but I just don't know , again fraud election , stolen from me , executive order  , get supreme court involved. With our luck it will be Florida again. If any thinks Rick Scott would not fuck us all over to get him back in office. It really will be Bush V Gore again.

    and a conservative stacked SCOTUS
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  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,890
    We very well may be on the way
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    dignin said:

    Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing

    The revised sentencing memorandum, which is expected to be filed in Washington federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the recommendation, and the move will again raise questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html

    Banana republic.
    Rotten banana republic.

    A sad day to be an American.
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    We very well may be on the way
    https://www.businessinsider.com/authoritarianism-experts-say-time-running-out-americans-to-stop-trump-2020-2?fbclid=IwAR2YL6dme0W1fAVy1ItPbR4rTwQXQMwHnM6_-UmHOwrbk18sOOvBS-M33l0
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,097
    We very well may be on the way
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    dignin said:

    Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing

    The revised sentencing memorandum, which is expected to be filed in Washington federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the recommendation, and the move will again raise questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html

    Banana republic.
    Rotten banana republic.
    did someone say banana hammock?
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