"The only institutions that will try to hold Trump accountable are powerless, while the only ones with the power to punish him will never do it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The only institutions that will try to hold Trump accountable are powerless, while the only ones with the power to punish him will never do it. ...

To say we’re in an unprecedented place is vastly understating it. We are in a place where no proper democracy has ever been or should ever be."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #LawandOrder #Constitution #SupremeCourt #corruption #autocracy
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https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=ebd6d2f5d60ff9afaeda1a81fc53e2d0.1248&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"We are about to have a president for whom there are utterly and literally no expectations. No one expects him to behave well. No one expects him to uphold normal standards of decency."

#Trump #LawandOrder #Constitution #SupremeCourt #corruption #autocracy
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"At a time when the country and the globe faces real challenges—and I would put the existential threat of climate change among the the top few—we will be saddled with a man who denies climate change, despises science and expertise, and expresses his disdain for and works to further undermine an educated, informed citizenry."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #truth #facts #disinformation #ClimateChange #science
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/on-love-loss-and-failed-leadership

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Zuckerberg, Bezos, and other billionaires would do well to read up on Nazi Germany and how Hitler rose to power thanks to industrialists who were later tried as war criminals in Nuremberg."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #EconomicElites #MarkZuckerberg #JeffBezos #Hitler
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/zuck-is-a-cuck-metas-billionaire

[bob_sequious@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Musk/Trump fans should also Google "night of the long knives"/"operation hummingbird"

[yuhasz01@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Also for Trump: ultimate fates of Mussolini and Hitler not so nice.....Emperors rise and they fall

[bafpudvhe@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
They know, but they believe that they will never face a trial in court.

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy The rich industrialists thought they could control Hitler.

They were wrong.

Are the likes of Zuckerberg and Bezos repeating this mistake or just being sycophants?

[cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net]

@wdlindsy there's only so many options available to big tech. Abide by the rules of country of origin or cease to operate. This book spells it out for the world in easy to understand language. Sadly, it's beginning to look like the EU is the only group still looking out for its own. Everyone else is being loaded up like batteries in a flashlight pointed at global domination.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/113489473420052381

#DigitalEmpires #BigTech #AnuBradford #AGI

[leefellerguy@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Accountability, integrity and compassion are not allowed in the room with Capitalists, the GOP, Billionaires, they use fear and hate to divide we the people for their own profit and power.

[paxil@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy This is what happens when we 'both sides' 77 million #fascist Americans; 12 million of us stay home. In all fairness the 12 million never really stood a chance with complete media suffocation, but the blame lies at the feet of the white #fash and the white #christofash. They look like us, they live amongst us, they might even be in our family, but that's where the similarities end they are monsters.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Paxil Yes. Well-stated. I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Leefellerguy I agree. Well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@cmthiede Yes, the EU is pointing the way, and I suspect this is at least one of a number of reasons that Trump, Thiel, Bannon, Musk et al. are doing all they can to undercut the EU. Thank you for the book recommendation, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y Precisely. I suspect that Zuckerberg and Bezos think they can outsmart history. Hubris is always so blinding.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bafpudvhe Precisely.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@yuhasz01 Yes, indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Bob_Sequious Yes.