I don’t see any new authorities being invented out of thin air, though. Power has been being egregiously abused for the last ten years at least. This is what I’d call a good reaction to it, even if I put on my 1990’s secular-progressive hat.
There are a lot of related issues in play, even probably Epstein.
We don’t need to imagine. As more evidence gets released like the fact that 274 federal agents - not informants, agents in plainclothes - were present during J6, which was kept from the public during the ridiculous J6 committee. Russiagate was pretty easy to spot as being a hoax when it was running, at least for those of us paying attention to the supporting facts. Trump’s 34 felonies were a Stalinist mockery of the legal system. Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime kind of stuff.
This on top of comparing him to Hitler for a decade and promoting a vast number of media narratives completely unsupported by facts, then trying to kill him. All tactics straight out the CIA’s regime-change playbook that’s been fucking with other countries for decades, turned on to the American public.
From everything I’ve been able to observe for the last decade, Trump was the X factor nobody ever thought possible. A uniparty has ruled over the public at the federal level for decades, and all of the expanding Executive Branch powers were supposed to be wielded by a member of the uniparty. Now they’re getting used to destroy the uniparty, aka “the swamp”.
We all get to learn together if your prediction will become reality, but I don’t think it will in the way you’re describing. You are correct that he is doing “new shit”, which is what he was elected to do.
Trump is attacking multiple Democrat power centers at once, and it seems to be working so far. You can indict a ham sandwich, so who knows what comes out of it, but so far it looks like there may be a case, despite what Maine Public Radio told me on my ride home.
So I’m talking to my family members who are either veterans, or current military, and they all say this is a dumb optics stunt. It’s just meant to be televised, not significant at all.
Have any of you seen anything about this story in the news? Three muslims opened fire on a Little League game here in Katy, TX while a coach was leading his team in prayer. I haven’t seen anything outside of the local are.
Yeah. My biggest gripe with Trump is that he rules via executive order vs changing law.
Fortunately he’s been able to see some fundamentally directional rulings through the Supreme Court, however. And unless the DNC succeeds with railroading a court packing initiative at some point, it appears many of those precedents are here to stay for bulk of our remaining lives.
I think this is pretty nieve. Remember when Obama got the nobel peace prize then turned around and then expanded the president’s war powers given to Bush? Same thing is going to happen.
Bingo. I get that it’s one of limited options when you’re a deeply disliked by a majority of the country, but it’s not good for the country long term.
I think the problem is it doesn’t have long term effect. Like DEI and the woke initiatives are disliked by the majority of the country, but instead of really hammering a nail in that propagated coffin he’s largely using temporary influence as a reductionist measure to long term detriment. We all know the septum rings with nothing to lose will be back with a big, gay vengeance.
I think you’re underestimating what Trump has done and is doing to dismantle woke power structures. Closing the border and mass deportation is already a massive blow, especially in Maine. Democrats aren’t importing new voters here in Maine except by poaching them from other states and Gen Z is already heavily pro Trump. Last year’s mock election was Trump by 11 pts over Harris in one of the most heavily indoctrinated states.
Huge financial pressure by withholding federal funds for DEI and transgender policies, too.
Currently suing Maine and other obviously rigged states for voter data.
Pressuring universities to stop teaching woke.
Cut funding to NPR.
Cut funding to NGO’s that function as woke activists with public money.
Every state that gets voter id passed is a massive defeat for woke.
Gerrymandering should pick up several seats and the Dems are mostly already gerrymandered to the max.
New census that doesn’t count illegals should have a big impact on congressional seats for some states.
It’s possible that Democrats’ cries of “fascism” will grow in acceptance, but they were already rejected in 2024, when the woke propaganda machine was at its most powerful and well funded.
I’m fully aware. And I remember being the dissenting voice on these threads that “woke” was just a trending ideology and generational thing. Like goths and hippies. Then starting thread highlighting activity across groups at the reversal onset.
However, while I do see Trump tamping down, I’m seeing temporary overture vs permanent fix. Like DEI being defunded but not outlawed as a racist and discriminatory tool for example. It will be back without permanent legal structuring. As soon as preferential treatment is once again monetized, corporations for sure will dust off old playbooks.
You can’t outlaw ideas in the USA and I wouldn’t be on board with anything like that. Existing laws that are designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of race just need to be applied, as the Trump admin is doing.
I don’t think we need to outlaw wokeism, either. Clean elections and defunding political radicalism ought to do the job, along with the natural death of the entire political narrative machine.
We have outlawed race and gender based discrimination though. Then we brought it back but called it DEI and aimed it at straight, white males. This has currently been tamped down by deemphasizing monetary reward to corporations and other institutions who practiced it, but without legal action there are no real guardrails. When the next progressive dem takes office they’ll just reinstate everything and voila, the furry queers are back in business.
