How Democracy dies after 2024
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How Democracy Dies the First Month of the Next Trump or GOP Presidency
From the article by Thom Hartmann:
Earlier this week, The New York Times published a partial exposé of Trump’s plans for his second administration. It involved basically turning America into Russia or Hungary, where the president becomes the singular center of federal power, eclipsing Congress and the Courts.
For example, the Times writes:
“Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.”
How would this play out? The FCC has power over the internet, as well as all broadcast media in America; it’s how the Trump administration killed Net Neutrality and gave the giant Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the legal right to track everything you do and say on the web right down to the last keystroke of your posts and your every email.
Thus, President Trump could mandate that any media critical of him — including online media like Daily Kos, Raw Story, or Common Dreams — must be heavily “regulated,” just like in Russia and Hungary. And he could do this in the first weeks of his presidency, to tamp down the ability to organize protests around his other fascist policies.
And he’d get a pardon as well, despite not being a thing he could legally do himself.
You see, a Vice President could do it for him while Trump was put under to get a root canal.
Yep…it’s important he not be reelected.
BUT, now we have a serious threat to Biden, RFK Jr. running as a Democrat who might put a dent in the Democratic vote and Cornell West running as a Green Party candidate.
Oh, why oh why don’t the Dems put up someone who is clean and who could wipe the floor with Trump or any other GOP candidate, like ex-astronaut Mark Kelly?
If I end up voting for Biden, I’ll have fingers crossed behind my back with one hand and I’ll pinching my nose with the other hand.
I have a (used to be) “friend” who thinks Trump was “the best President ever.” This guy is not a hick, he’s an environmental attorney (the kind who defends companies in court). He’s an ex-Navy SEAL who owns many guns (no idea exactly how many, but he posts pictures of new acquisitions so frequently that I wouldn’t be surprised if it were hundreds). He can hit targets with his sniper rifle from huge distances, and he thinks it’s important to have guns in case the government needs to be overthrown.
So, he believes we deserve to be governed by whoever shows up with the most guns. Totally unelected “patriots” with possibly dictatorial ideas about how to run a country after they win.
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