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Are we now in full blown fascist totalitarianism?

steve_bank said:
I don't think so. We are a republic of highly autonomous states.

It would be difficult for a Mussolini or a Hitler or Trump to take total power.

Trump is crazy and consumed with personal power, no doubt about that.

The framers of COTUS set up the balance of power to limit a Trump. For the balance of power to work congress has to reign in Trump.

As we know Republicans in congress tend to be scarred puppies when it comes to Trump, they fear hiscidnatiin and loss of voter support.
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The GOP in Congress want this. They are as much part of this as Trump and the Project 2025 think tanks.
 
Could someone in a car drive up, seize you off the streets, and then ship you to El Salvador? In spite of the fact that you are a native born citizen, and that your family has lived in the US for many generations? Who would or could stop them from doing so, if the SCOTUS won't? No one is safe any longer.
 
WAB said:
Tigers! said:
Politesse said:
What gave it away? The rabid gun culture? Our perpetual flirtation with fascism? All the genocides and concentration camps?
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Your bastardisation of the English language? Sticking with imperial measurements?
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Imperial measurements are better for rock lyrics. I mean, can you imagine Robert Plant singing, "I'm gonna give you every centimeter of my love..."?

In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of any metric system terms used in rock lyrics.

"I would walk five hundred kilometres,
And I would walk five hundred more..."

Nope, just doesn't work. 😋
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Oh really??

Then why are the music industry's top awards called the Grammys, and not the Ouncies or the Poundies? :p
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
steve_bank said:
I don't think so. We are a republic of highly autonomous states.

It would be difficult for a Mussolini or a Hitler or Trump to take total power.

Trump is crazy and consumed with personal power, no doubt about that.

The framers of COTUS set up the balance of power to limit a Trump. For the balance of power to work congress has to reign in Trump.

As we know Republicans in congress tend to be scarred puppies when it comes to Trump, they fear hiscidnatiin and loss of voter support.
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The GOP in Congress want this. They are as much part of this as Trump and the Project 2025 think tanks.
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In some ways not unlike Germany and Nazis.

Christian, business and political leadership jumped on the Nazi platform for perosnal gain.
 
bilby said:
WAB said:
Tigers! said:
Politesse said:
What gave it away? The rabid gun culture? Our perpetual flirtation with fascism? All the genocides and concentration camps?
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Your bastardisation of the English language? Sticking with imperial measurements?
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Imperial measurements are better for rock lyrics. I mean, can you imagine Robert Plant singing, "I'm gonna give you every centimeter of my love..."?

In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of any metric system terms used in rock lyrics.

"I would walk five hundred kilometres,
And I would walk five hundred more..."

Nope, just doesn't work. 😋
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Oh really??

Then why are the music industry's top awards called the Grammys, and not the Ouncies or the Poundies? :p
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Fun fact: they were originally going to be called the Eddies, after Edison.
 
bilby said:
WAB said:
Tigers! said:
Politesse said:
What gave it away? The rabid gun culture? Our perpetual flirtation with fascism? All the genocides and concentration camps?
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Your bastardisation of the English language? Sticking with imperial measurements?
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Imperial measurements are better for rock lyrics. I mean, can you imagine Robert Plant singing, "I'm gonna give you every centimeter of my love..."?

In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of any metric system terms used in rock lyrics.

"I would walk five hundred kilometres,
And I would walk five hundred more..."

Nope, just doesn't work. 😋
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Oh really??

Then why are the music industry's top awards called the Grammys, and not the Ouncies or the Poundies? :p
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Since the subject’s been broached, I’ve been wondering for some time now how y’all go halfsies on anything? :unsure:
 
US Citizen released after ICE hold lifted.
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Florida authorities detained a U.S.-born citizen on the charge of entering the state as an “unauthorized alien,” forcing him to spend more than 24 hours in a county jail on an immigration hold, despite the man having proof of his citizenship through his birth certificate and social security card, his attorney and an advocacy group said Friday.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol on Wednesday when a trooper pulled over the car he was a passenger in for speeding, his attorney, Mutaqee Akbar, told The Washington Post.
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If this person didn't have the actions afforded by Due Process, might have been heading to El Salvador.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
US Citizen released after ICE hold lifted.
article said:
Florida authorities detained a U.S.-born citizen on the charge of entering the state as an “unauthorized alien,” forcing him to spend more than 24 hours in a county jail on an immigration hold, despite the man having proof of his citizenship through his birth certificate and social security card, his attorney and an advocacy group said Friday.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol on Wednesday when a trooper pulled over the car he was a passenger in for speeding, his attorney, Mutaqee Akbar, told The Washington Post.
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If this person didn't have the actions afforded by Due Process, might have been heading to El Salvador.
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Now it's time for the trooper who arrested him to sit in the tank for a few days, and have time to consider another line of work.
 
WAB said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
US Citizen released after ICE hold lifted.
article said:
Florida authorities detained a U.S.-born citizen on the charge of entering the state as an “unauthorized alien,” forcing him to spend more than 24 hours in a county jail on an immigration hold, despite the man having proof of his citizenship through his birth certificate and social security card, his attorney and an advocacy group said Friday.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol on Wednesday when a trooper pulled over the car he was a passenger in for speeding, his attorney, Mutaqee Akbar, told The Washington Post.
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If this person didn't have the actions afforded by Due Process, might have been heading to El Salvador.
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Now it's time for the trooper who arrested him to sit in the tank for a few days, and have time to consider another line of work.
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This commits the Just a Bad Apple fallacy. There are a lot of law enforcement out there who are in the tank for Trump.
 
Brazen and open defiance by the White House of the Supreme Court order to facilitate his release and return

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So at this point, with openly defying SCOTUS, the executive is taking the position that it is above the law and can do anything it wants. What more proof do people need that we live in a dictatorship?

The idea that we will have free and fair elections in 2026 is looking less and less likely.
 
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