The Trump Presidency

[goldfly]

Looking more like a $#'thole country everyday.

it really isn't anywhere close to great


and is just getting worse with what we have "leading" it

[The Chosen One]

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-count...erant-14535512 zahra

Great stuff.

[goldfly]

Can’t upset your base

[BedellBrave]

"The administration wasn't interested..."

[cajunrevenge]

https://theweek.com/speedreads/85837...-exercises-end




Trump letting a hostile dictator dictate US foreign policy yet again. What a weak President. He is practically a Saudi puppet based on his actions. He takes Putins word over his own intelligence agency. He is going to cancel joint US drills to appease a Dictator who literally just started firing off missiles to have something to bargain with. And Trunp is siding with Kim Jong-Un.

[nsacpi]

so Trump tweeting about the Clintons killing Epstein...confirms something I've long suspected

thethe = Trump

[nsacpi]

the most interesting aspect of this is the White House staff was monitoring the flow of conspiracy theories on social media and speculating how long it would be before their boss joined in the fun

[57Brave]

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

The 14 characteristics are:

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

Corporate Power is Protected
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

Labor Power is Suppressed
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .

Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.




Copyright © 2003 Free Inquiry magazine
Reprinted for Fair Use Only

[goldfly]

[cajunrevenge]

Well going by Trumps logic it's the Presidents fault when anything bad happens. Or atleast it was until he became President.

[goldfly]

[57Brave]

I am looking for HRC voters that will switch.
Have been since 2017 when the idea of Trump's base not as solid as described.
The wild card is the people that are Trumpers that are to embarrassed to ay so .
We are seeeing that in donors as well as acknoledged by Silver (I think it was him)

Jill Stein and Gary Johnson's are a far gone conclusion.
She is beholden to Russia and he is a (R) owing his soul to Koch

[nsacpi]

[zitothebrave]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...nced-dangerous

[goldfly]

[thethe]

Brilliant idea...i dont care what you look like. If you can sustain yourself then welcome to the american dream.

[sturg33]

About time

[goldfly]

might as well change:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

to this garbage take:

If you can sustain yourself then welcome to the american dream.

[thethe]

might as well change:



to this garbage take:

Did it say to mooch off of the rest of the nation?

Its like you don't even know what type of support system were in place when Lady Liberty was put into place.

But, keep your stupid talking points of calling everyone bigots and evil people. Thats why you'll continue to lose elections around the globe. Well, unless of course you succeed by displacing the western world with the third world.

[cajunrevenge]

Federal deficit has already reached last years total. Cant wait till Trump is gone when all of a sudden it will be a big deal again.