They also aren’t too fond of the Constitution, which is the other essential part of America. One would think their declared patriotism somewhat overstated.
The fetishization of the Constitution has got to stop. It just has to. It's invoked to justify every selfish, grotesque act people can come up with. The Constitution doesn't give you a license to be a shithead. I wonder how many of these people have read the entire thing, and not just the Bill of Rights, and not just the fucking Second Amendment.
I suspect that, to them, the Constitution is an idea that they can twist into anything they want it to be. That being the case, actually READING it would work against what they want.
I think all republicans and other Trumpites will soon be wanting to literally, formally replace the rule of law, with their Project 25: manual for dictatorship. Good-bye U.S., hello Trumpland Plantation.
He needs to be branded a traitor, along with anyone who is enabling him. At this point I call anyone who voted for him this last time a traitor because he told us what he was going to do.
So what of us they won't accept as part of Us? Are we supposed to still consider them part of us? They've declared themselves as Them, regardless of what we want.
This is nothing but the naked plans of Project 2025 put into one of Dear leader's Edicts. It has basically identified what The Regime considers thought crimes.
By regulation, they are not supposed to applaud political statements. But the looks on their faces ranged from shock and disbelieve to "What the fuck?"
That, actually, historically was the way countries got rid of their violent, dangerous, younger men. There was pope, who in conjunction with the king of France, declared a crusade, because the young, bored trained nobles had switched from killing peasants to robbing the well to do.
Trump is the domestic enemy that I swore an oath to defend against when I enlisted in the military and again when they sent me to Vietnam for a year (unlike the 5-deferment draft dodger with the bone spurs).
I am an US citizen and a retired US Army veteran. Trump has unequivocally declared war on me and my family. By not providing the required check on the Executive branch the Supreme court, the Senate and the House are complicit in this act of treason. Right now our best course is to get out and vote against the Republicans at every turn. It's an uphill fight because the State has their own propaganda network that has brainwashed millions of people who think they are intelligent because they believe in lies, bullshit and conspiracy nonsense.
If we can get the Democrats back in power, then and only then can we start to have dialog about how to move the country forward from this brush with fascism. Our first priority needs to be crushing the Republican party and hold them accountable for this act of treason. Any Democrat that 'reaches' across the isle is providing aid and comfort to the enemy of the state. Instead, those Democrats that are more conservative need to reach across the isle to those of us who feel we have zero representation right now.
You want to declare me your enemy Donald? I do the same.
Further Thought: This memorandum could, if carried to its logical conclusion, paint a target on organizations such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Americans United, American Atheists, and even the ACLU.
This cannot be tolerated and it needs to be dealt with IMMEDIATELY.
Americans United, American Atheists, ACLU, all from the land mass call America with two 35 American countries and two continents. The MAGA cult is strong. 🤣
There it is in black and white. Trump not only can't deal with opposing opinions; he wants any such expressions to be ILLEGAL, and that includes those of us who don't subscribe to religion and indeed, point out the multiple problems that religion has demonstrated. This goes past "state-sanctioned persecution of critics."
And into state-sanctioned PROSECUTION of critics. Just as illegal and just as in need of confrontation and countering.
The way it’s worded it would be an attack on the current Republican and MAGA folks. Anti-traditional American values = fascism. Baked right into our government is freedom to critique religion, and politicians. This very memo is anti-American values.
But hey, these people confuse being loud with being a majority.
You know it as well as I do: when Trump endorses free speech, he means HIS free speech. Anyone else and especially anyone with an alternative opinion doesn't qualify.
How many people that I know thought I was being hyperbolic when I told them that the Regime was pushing for an authoritarian theocracy where I could be imprisoned for my lack of belief? Well, here it is. An explicit directive from the president himself ordering law enforcement to target me for imprisonment, just because I disagree with him.
This really is Trump attempting to fulfill his campaign promises. This is what he said he'd do, this is who he said he'd go after, none of this should come as any kind of shock. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓.
As noted, this type of memo is normally kept secret, and similar memos released long after use has caused nationwide scandals before. I have no doubt at all that Trump announced this one entirely intentionally, and half the point is to shut people up by frightening them into submission. That's how bullies work; it's often less the bully himself, and more the threat of the bully deciding to do something that actually chills commentary. Trump and his military/police machine can't be everywhere at once, so using threats to enforce certain behavior becomes necessary.
The MAGA crowd doesn't yet appear to have figured out just how dangerous the government they've voted in will be for them, but they will. Nobody is coming to save the US from itself and rightly so; this is a mess of our own making. (Though admittedly, some more than others.)
Yes agree, this is what they voted for, but that was expected after decades of underfunding and demonising of public services such as education
& collective bargaining for workers, while at the same time implementing laws on the poor & deregulating all business rules and practices so that the wealth and subsequent social gap widens.
And within all this and more, the inner core of DP turned their backs on millions of working people and either sat silent or voted in support of GOP domestic and international
policies. The result, a political food desert. Yes, morons, racist, misogynist, etc, abound. But there is also plenty of sin to go around with the core element of the DP clearly in the mix.
I ditched social media a few years ago, but I still think I've got a better than even chance of ending up on a government watchlist or three. I mean, with that vague and broad a list of thought crimes, it'd be hard not to- and I'm sure that's the point. Just about anyone could run afoul of this regime's definition of "terrorism," including the MAGAt faithful, over something as petty as being insufficiently deferential when talking to an agent of the regime. Flew a pride flag? That's a terrorism. Sat down for the Pledge of Allegiance? That's a terrorism. Parked in a Republican's favorite spot at the grocery store? That's a terrorism, too. Rolled your eyes at Dear Leader's latest speechification? That's 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 a terrorism!
Watch lists, known & recorded enemies, pusedo storm troppers & marshal law. Could all this and more progree to become like the USSR under Stalin where a family became terrified to hear heavy banging on their front door at 2am and then relived by the fact it was only their next door neighbour wanting to tell them that their house was on fire.
Couldn't happen and experience something like that here? 🤔
From Trump's memo, without any apparent irony? "support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender". Should the President expect a visit from the FBI?
Where there is the expectation of privilege, equality will be seen as persecution. No group expects privilege quite like evangelical Christians. Personally, I think people like Trump, Charlie Kirk and many others who cannot shut up about their religiosity make compelling cases for atheism.
“I don’t want to sound hyperbolic but the plain truth is that NSPM-7 is a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda. Yes, it repeats the word “violent” over and over to purport only to go after citizens who are moved to take up arms, but it also directs monitoring and intelligence collection to map and target the new “evildoers,” to borrow a Bush label he took from the Bible just days after 9/11.”
He also said that the deportations were only for criminals, but we see how that’s working out. They’ve extended the definition of criminal to mean anyone who “broke the law to enter the country” (which isn’t a criminal offense) and then still targeted folks who haven’t even done that, citizens and green card holders, and people with still valid visas and such. This will not be any different. It will be anyone who isn’t actively groveling at his feet, worshiping him. This is a direct attack on our country. It’s time for a coup.
Said my congressman, “This is absurd. It goes against the First Amendment in so many ways. The lawlessness of this president needs to stop but I will absolutely support him even if it doesn’t.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Christian Nationalists. Fuck "Free" market capitalist corporatist bullshit that leaves people broken, poor, and struggling to survive.
That will only get worse when the infrastructure is decimated by the coming war. That's why so many are sticking their heads in the sand and trying to pretend this is normal.
Simply put: Donald Trump has declared war on both the United States and the people within its borders.
Let him be branded as the evil fascist he is, along with all those who stand by him
Republicans claim to love America but somehow manage to hate just about everyone living here.
They also aren’t too fond of the Constitution, which is the other essential part of America. One would think their declared patriotism somewhat overstated.
It's not patriotism. It's jingoism and zealotry in the service of a madman.
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The fetishization of the Constitution has got to stop. It just has to. It's invoked to justify every selfish, grotesque act people can come up with. The Constitution doesn't give you a license to be a shithead. I wonder how many of these people have read the entire thing, and not just the Bill of Rights, and not just the fucking Second Amendment.
I suspect that, to them, the Constitution is an idea that they can twist into anything they want it to be. That being the case, actually READING it would work against what they want.
Just like they do with the bible.
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“I suspect that, to them, the Constitution is an idea that they can twist into anything they want it to be.”
And not coincidentally, they do the same with Christianity.
See: Antonin Scalia and the Heller decision, and the whole "originalism: bullshit.
Yes, "essential part of America" the United States and the Americans living there. MAGA is alive and well!
God Bless America? 🤔
I think all republicans and other Trumpites will soon be wanting to literally, formally replace the rule of law, with their Project 25: manual for dictatorship. Good-bye U.S., hello Trumpland Plantation.
Mad Magazine knew about those people since 1968: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cce723836775dc953a9b59c9dbef5c0a9ed0c473d88cfe9ba6c6a83d69841e18.jpg
MAD was my training manual.
KKKristers are full of hatred
He needs to be branded a traitor, along with anyone who is enabling him. At this point I call anyone who voted for him this last time a traitor because he told us what he was going to do.
Us vs Them.
Exactly what They Want.
So what of us they won't accept as part of Us? Are we supposed to still consider them part of us? They've declared themselves as Them, regardless of what we want.
I believe this sort of divide has happened before: the U.S. Civil War.
This is nothing but the naked plans of Project 2025 put into one of Dear leader's Edicts. It has basically identified what The Regime considers thought crimes.
His speech to the Generals should have been a catalyst for them. But they’re still just blather.
Notice how those generals didn’t applaud either Trump or Hegseth for their rants? Dead silence. Maybe the wheels are turning in their heads.
By regulation, they are not supposed to applaud political statements. But the looks on their faces ranged from shock and disbelieve to "What the fuck?"
I admired their self control in not rolling their eyes. I looked at any video I found for eye rolling but didn’t see any.
There was at least one facepalm, though.
I thought so too. Kinda disguised as a forehead rub.
Does that only go for the officers? Because those deep-fried MAGA cadets sure applauded and were used as props.
The wheels need to be spinning quite a bit faster.
They already started to turn* during the 2017-2021 farce. Too bad it wasn't enough.
* Defense secretary Mattis, conservative, dragging his feet when drumpster wanted to ban transgender from serving.
Looks like he is on track to ban women, gays, and blacks. He wants a whole army of straight, white, christian nationalist men.
Then when he attacks some country and our troops suffer casualties, who's will there be less of in this country?
That, actually, historically was the way countries got rid of their violent, dangerous, younger men. There was pope, who in conjunction with the king of France, declared a crusade, because the young, bored trained nobles had switched from killing peasants to robbing the well to do.
We all know who he’s been talking about as “the enemy within”.
Trump is the domestic enemy that I swore an oath to defend against when I enlisted in the military and again when they sent me to Vietnam for a year (unlike the 5-deferment draft dodger with the bone spurs).
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AKA those of us with our critical thinking skills still intact and developed emotional intelligence ✨
I am an US citizen and a retired US Army veteran. Trump has unequivocally declared war on me and my family. By not providing the required check on the Executive branch the Supreme court, the Senate and the House are complicit in this act of treason. Right now our best course is to get out and vote against the Republicans at every turn. It's an uphill fight because the State has their own propaganda network that has brainwashed millions of people who think they are intelligent because they believe in lies, bullshit and conspiracy nonsense.
If we can get the Democrats back in power, then and only then can we start to have dialog about how to move the country forward from this brush with fascism. Our first priority needs to be crushing the Republican party and hold them accountable for this act of treason. Any Democrat that 'reaches' across the isle is providing aid and comfort to the enemy of the state. Instead, those Democrats that are more conservative need to reach across the isle to those of us who feel we have zero representation right now.
You want to declare me your enemy Donald? I do the same.
I am S̶p̶a̶r̶t̶a̶c̶u̶s̶ Antifa.
Exactly! Well said. We need to stop thinking this self-declared enemy is willing to compromise at all. VOTE! IMPEACH! REMOVE!
I find it hilarious that the serial psychopath, is going after something he doesn’t believe in. Total Fraud TACO ✌🏻
Not hilarious. Horrifying.
My exact thought. This memorandum is FUCKING DANGEROUS and needs to be treated as such!
It’s a bit of both.
Further Thought: This memorandum could, if carried to its logical conclusion, paint a target on organizations such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Americans United, American Atheists, and even the ACLU.
This cannot be tolerated and it needs to be dealt with IMMEDIATELY.
I see other targets : the Democratic party as a whole and the Freethought caucus.
Well put and on point!
Americans United, American Atheists, ACLU, all from the land mass call America with two 35 American countries and two continents. The MAGA cult is strong. 🤣
There it is in black and white. Trump not only can't deal with opposing opinions; he wants any such expressions to be ILLEGAL, and that includes those of us who don't subscribe to religion and indeed, point out the multiple problems that religion has demonstrated. This goes past "state-sanctioned persecution of critics."
And into state-sanctioned PROSECUTION of critics. Just as illegal and just as in need of confrontation and countering.
The way it’s worded it would be an attack on the current Republican and MAGA folks. Anti-traditional American values = fascism. Baked right into our government is freedom to critique religion, and politicians. This very memo is anti-American values.
But hey, these people confuse being loud with being a majority.
You know it as well as I do: when Trump endorses free speech, he means HIS free speech. Anyone else and especially anyone with an alternative opinion doesn't qualify.
𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡. 𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑙, 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛.
How many people that I know thought I was being hyperbolic when I told them that the Regime was pushing for an authoritarian theocracy where I could be imprisoned for my lack of belief? Well, here it is. An explicit directive from the president himself ordering law enforcement to target me for imprisonment, just because I disagree with him.
Gilead is now here.
This really is Trump attempting to fulfill his campaign promises. This is what he said he'd do, this is who he said he'd go after, none of this should come as any kind of shock. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓.
As noted, this type of memo is normally kept secret, and similar memos released long after use has caused nationwide scandals before. I have no doubt at all that Trump announced this one entirely intentionally, and half the point is to shut people up by frightening them into submission. That's how bullies work; it's often less the bully himself, and more the threat of the bully deciding to do something that actually chills commentary. Trump and his military/police machine can't be everywhere at once, so using threats to enforce certain behavior becomes necessary.
The MAGA crowd doesn't yet appear to have figured out just how dangerous the government they've voted in will be for them, but they will. Nobody is coming to save the US from itself and rightly so; this is a mess of our own making. (Though admittedly, some more than others.)
Yes agree, this is what they voted for, but that was expected after decades of underfunding and demonising of public services such as education
& collective bargaining for workers, while at the same time implementing laws on the poor & deregulating all business rules and practices so that the wealth and subsequent social gap widens.
And within all this and more, the inner core of DP turned their backs on millions of working people and either sat silent or voted in support of GOP domestic and international
policies. The result, a political food desert. Yes, morons, racist, misogynist, etc, abound. But there is also plenty of sin to go around with the core element of the DP clearly in the mix.
I ditched social media a few years ago, but I still think I've got a better than even chance of ending up on a government watchlist or three. I mean, with that vague and broad a list of thought crimes, it'd be hard not to- and I'm sure that's the point. Just about anyone could run afoul of this regime's definition of "terrorism," including the MAGAt faithful, over something as petty as being insufficiently deferential when talking to an agent of the regime. Flew a pride flag? That's a terrorism. Sat down for the Pledge of Allegiance? That's a terrorism. Parked in a Republican's favorite spot at the grocery store? That's a terrorism, too. Rolled your eyes at Dear Leader's latest speechification? That's 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 a terrorism!
Watch lists, known & recorded enemies, pusedo storm troppers & marshal law. Could all this and more progree to become like the USSR under Stalin where a family became terrified to hear heavy banging on their front door at 2am and then relived by the fact it was only their next door neighbour wanting to tell them that their house was on fire.
Couldn't happen and experience something like that here? 🤔
Eye roll of mass destruction.
Shit, your nym is probably enough to get you arrested sometime in the future.
Farting in their general direction warrants immediate execution.
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From Trump's memo, without any apparent irony? "support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender". Should the President expect a visit from the FBI?
I am S̶p̶a̶r̶t̶a̶c̶u̶s̶ Antifa.
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
Sparty! I didn't know you went to Michigan State.
My first wife was a sophomore there when we met.
Where there is the expectation of privilege, equality will be seen as persecution. No group expects privilege quite like evangelical Christians. Personally, I think people like Trump, Charlie Kirk and many others who cannot shut up about their religiosity make compelling cases for atheism.
Indeed they do. Fucking hate-mongers.
“I don’t want to sound hyperbolic but the plain truth is that NSPM-7 is a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda. Yes, it repeats the word “violent” over and over to purport only to go after citizens who are moved to take up arms, but it also directs monitoring and intelligence collection to map and target the new “evildoers,” to borrow a Bush label he took from the Bible just days after 9/11.”
He also said that the deportations were only for criminals, but we see how that’s working out. They’ve extended the definition of criminal to mean anyone who “broke the law to enter the country” (which isn’t a criminal offense) and then still targeted folks who haven’t even done that, citizens and green card holders, and people with still valid visas and such. This will not be any different. It will be anyone who isn’t actively groveling at his feet, worshiping him. This is a direct attack on our country. It’s time for a coup.
"“domestic terrorism and organized political violence” in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk."
I mourn Charlie Kirk, not because he is dead but because he was born.
Said my congressman, “This is absurd. It goes against the First Amendment in so many ways. The lawlessness of this president needs to stop but I will absolutely support him even if it doesn’t.
What is the name of your Congresscritter?
Oh, SWELL ... 😖
If they are republican that’s all of them. We won’t forget who they are.
Wut?
Freedom of speech is the freedom to say what the government tells you to say.
Seems to me as though it's about time for some very considered and serious civil disobedience. Whatcha think?
Yep.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Christian Nationalists. Fuck "Free" market capitalist corporatist bullshit that leaves people broken, poor, and struggling to survive.
That will only get worse when the infrastructure is decimated by the coming war. That's why so many are sticking their heads in the sand and trying to pretend this is normal.
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