Rich

Rich

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1) Trumps goal: amass all wealth and power via a gangster syndicate (his administration,…) 2) Destroy the country to weaken and conquer it 3) Con supporters and hide plan by demonizing the vulnerable and any opposition

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If someone says they are a Centrist you can safely bet that they have fallen for propaganda suggesting there is a “far left” equally as bad as a “far right”. Reducing all issues to just these two poles is enough evidence alone that they are being emotionally manipulated.

To the degree our government has failed the American people, clearly acting outside what the constitution intended, it is no longer legitimate and thus Americans need not heed it and rightfully can do whatever is necessary to restore democracy (and hopefully make it more democratic than before)

I think it’s very dangerous to assume these tariffs are the result of idiocy. That is the more comfortable explanation, but the better supported explanation is this is a well executed component of Project 2025 to weaken the US while distracting so P2025 can succeed.

The one thing Americans need to realize: Trump’s only goal is to destroy the country. I repeat: TRUMP’S ONLY GOAL IS TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY! Don’t settle for the comfort of denial - the evidence is his every action.

Trump achieves subservience with fear. It’s way past time for the opposition to take off the gloves and do the same. Make it clear when we regain power, AND WE WILL, we’re coming after them with maximum retribution. They need to question if Trump loyalty is safe.

Unwavering loyalty = lies. In order to be 100% loyal , you could never tell the truth about something that could be perceived as disloyal to Trump. When someone lies sometimes, you have to assume they lie all the time. Thus you must assume anything Team Fascism says is a lie. (It is)

Dem leaders not treating the fascist coup as a fascist coup are sending the message that it isn’t a fascist coup so why would anyone know there was a fascist coup?!? We’re screwed.

We’ve been slow-boiled into accepting that every company and institution in America must be a wealth/power-concentrating authoritarian dictatorship. Imagine if instead they were all democratically run, or at least run by a democratically electing governing body.

Why Dems in government need to walk out and start organizing grass roots resistance. Government is 100% compromised and illegitimate. It sends a powerful unambiguous message. Team Fascism unambiguously own the mess. Continuing to participate sends message “it’s not dire yet”

If Trump is above the law and does whatever he wants with impunity and fills his government with unwavering loyalists, doesn’t that render the constitution inoperable and define an illegitimate government in which case we are free to resist in any manner that restores a legitimate government?

Most Americans spend their day in an authoritarian work place then come home and watch 2.8 hours of TV … meanwhile, they are oblivious or catatonic as a fascist coup is in its final stages which will usher in an era of dystopian hell unlike anything we could have imagined.

A civil war is actively underway. Once side is pulling out all the stops and taking no prisoners. The other side isn’t even aware they are in a war, are being rapidly outflanked and will soon be annihilated.

It always amazes me when intelligent people are surprised by the obvious consequences of wealth/power concentrating capitalism which creates an obvious evolutionary force to put narcissistic delusional psychopaths in power. And here we are. Alternative: institute.coop/about-worker...

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Saw a video of a Palestinian child trying to pick up the scraps of flesh that were left of his mother. And I live in a country where if you call this barbarism you risk arrest & deportation, where protest is ‘anti-Semitism’ & colleges turn students over to the gestapo. Fascism? We need new a word

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

chronicle.comOpinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: ServilityIn 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

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So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.

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#tdih 1942, more than 1,300 Norwegian teachers were arrested by German Nazi-installed gov't after 12,000 of 14,000 nationwide had refused to join new Nazi-oriented teachers’ association & resisted Nazification of the curriculum. Teaching is not neutral. #Resist www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/no...

zinnedproject.orgMarch 15, 1942: Norwegian Teachers Resist Nazi CurriculumMore than 1,300 Norwegian teachers were arrested by the German Nazi-installed government.

A fallacy Americans have to overcome if they want to survive Team Fascism‘s blitzkrieg destruction of the U.S. is the notion that efforts for change must be constrained to the corrupted political system where they have zero influence. However, you can control what you buy/invest-in, & where you work

All of the fronts on which Trump’s fascist regime is attacking are important to defend … which is precisely why we can’t. Defending each worthy cause can only be done if and when we oust them and defending each worthy cause now prevents that. We only win with one concentrated effort to oust them.

Steve Bannon clearly stated the strategy of the fascist coup was to “flood the zone” to divide the opposition and diffuse any defense. Dem leaders should stop falling for that. Focus on one goal: oust Trump by abandoning the sunk ship and uniting the country in this one purpose joining Bernie & AOC.

The political system is fully compromised by the fascists in power. Do you think your time and energy invested there is going to be effective? They crave money and power so outflank them by directly targeting that. Boycott, divest, strike and build democratically-run companies, like worker coops.

I would like to see a fund like DEMZ, but that omits any company supporting anyone involved in the extreme fascist coop underway. I would divest from everything else and invest in that.

People are finally realizing how little power they’ve had in a rigged two party-only winner-take-all political system controlled by corporate $$ and now fully compromised by Trump’s thugs, and that the real power lies in what they buy, invest in and where they work - economic democracy!

I just listened to the Trump press conference with Starmer. He sounds like a complete moron, utterly insane, or just spewing word salad to sound like he knows something when he knows nothing. HOW DOES ANYONE TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY AND NOT CALL HIM OUT ON THIS?!? Surreal

The Trump administration is in no way legitimate. As long as Dem leaders continue to lend legitimacy to this utterly illegitimate fascist dictatorship by participating in it, they are complicit in treason. Time to join the resistance and form a shadow government in exile.

Anyone using X is simply a traitor. The best way, perhaps only way given the political system is 100% COMPROMISED, to stop the fascist coup is to defund them. GET OFF X AND ON TO BLUESKY ONLY! Tell everyone this. And divest, boycott and strike (because your life depends on it)!

Trump has made it very clear in his every action and by his own admission that his fealty is to Putin on whose behalf he is destroying the U.S. with earnestness and haste. How is this not the top and only issue that everyone, including Republicans, are screaming about?!?

With his every action, especially made clear by his declaration of fealty to Putin in the recent public Zelensky meeting and confirmed by Susan Rice, there is no doubt Trump is destroying the country as planned. Stop being distracted - #1 effort must be organizing resistance to jail this traitor.

Divide the population to the brink of civil war. Alienate their closest allies. Dismantle the government. Install ultra-loyalists in your administration. Declare fealty to the leader of an enemy country. Sound like an agent of that enemy country by any chance?!?

Americans simply don’t realize the scale of horrors they’re in for from this current violent fascist totalitarian regime. Their strategy, that they were open about, was a no-prisoners blitzkrieg attack, so intense, fast and horrible that people are paralyzed. General strike now or game over.