It's weird watching on as America allows itself to be gutted without any pushback.
All this talk about protecting yourselves from tyranny and then when the moment comes... nothing.
People are being dragged from their homes, marched out of their jobs, their identities and individuality stripped from them, they're being priced out of living, entire governmental departments are disappearing and money being syphoned off.
And they just ask "well, what can I do?"
Shit, people were doing more to stop it during the election campaign. Let someone with a steady hand have a go.
Tell me, oh wise one, what can I do?
The Dems have started writing legislation.
The Courts have started to block his Executive Orders.
What has he done that has been agreed is illegal, yet?
And, what does one do when he “owns” the democratically elected levers of power and is free to appoint imbeciles to positions of extraordinary power?
The REAL problem is that the “system” shouldn’t allow a convicted felon to run for President, but the Founding Fathers didn’t believe a gentleman (and who else would Americans elect as President but a gentleman?!) would ever be a convicted felon.
Nor should the system allow one branch of government to have the kind of nebulous power the Executive Branch has with both the Executive Order and the Power to Pardon, which requires no checks or balances, beyond Congress seeking an injunction to an Executive Order IF they believe it violates the Constitution.
The problem, of course, is that no-one has previously gone near the guardrails on these issues, while Trump’s evil backroom zealots have spent years trying to figure out how to obliterate guardrails that may or may not be there, as they’ve never been tested, and were always considered “convention” not law!
Trump is far too dumb to think this stuff up on his own, but the bigots, zealots and Bible-punchers lurking in the shadows, whom he is letting gut the country’s institutions and conventions, have been stroking themselves over this moment for their entire adult lives!
Stephen Miller, who shows you in his face and demeanor just how evil he is, is matched only by the affable and smiling demon seed that is JD Vance, the hypocritical opportunist who called Trump “Hitler” before he realized Trump was going to let the fundamentalists do whatever they wanted, as long as he could keep the money rolling into the Trump Crime Family.
So, while I don’t speak for “America,” I find it amusing, yet not very funny, that you seem to believe so many of us are somehow “too chicken” to do something about a crime that’s not been committed or a soft coup, from the inside, that hasn’t done anything one can say has been so outrageous as to impeach him…and that will DEFINITELY NOT HAPPEN AGAIN while Republicans control both houses and the Judiciary!
America is open for business, Baby, if your business is oligopoly and kleptocracy at the very top of the wealth scale…and there’s not a damned thing most of us can do about it!
You know what keeps us from total autocracy and dictatorship? Good people taking correct actions, but most of them have some power to effect change, or stop it, as the case may be.
