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The other 151 will avoid the US.
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damn! i think Senator Whitehouse has the republican scheme against Social Security down exactly. …here’s hoping that his reveal will skew their course a bit; but they’re not known for adapting.
and here’s also hoping that there’s a step “Six:” huge crowds of pitchfork/guillotine bearing citizens bear down on the capitol and republican district offices in general until they reverse course. Social security is a bank account (of sorts) that the people pay into and now they are effectively saying: “too bad, we’re stealing your savings… bwahahah” @#$!!!
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I skip most videos, preferring to read. That was worth my time.
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Sounds about right, except the last bit about checks. Weren’t they planning to force everyone to use crypto?
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TrumpCoin, then.
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Don’t judges in these cases have the option of dragging those responsible to court and holding them in contempt? (And if they do, they need to note that fines are meaningless and jail time is the only thing that will get the message across.)
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I think that’s the only thing left that surprises me - just how petty he can be. How he now won’t let past even the smallest perceived slight (i.e. lack of fawning) without a huge punitive reaction.
I’m getting better at predicting Trump’s pettiness - when the VOA reporter asked him the question about his previously stated plans to expel Palestinians, and Trump denied them and took umbrage, asking him where he was from (and then responding “Oh, no wonder”), my immediate thought was, “Well, that’s the end of Voice of America.”
I thought that was behind a lot of the administration’s games they’ve been playing about who is calling the shots with DOGE - they keep presenting testimony then withdrawing it when people are asked to testify. If you don’t know who’s responsible for the illegal actions, you can’t jail them, after all…
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Will “Where do we go from here #4” discuss how ignoring and defying court orders means we now have a constitutional crisis? Cuz it seems the (left-leaning) preeminent legal minds in our country are just whistling past the graveyard of our democracy.
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Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge’s order to turn back deportation flights
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/trump-white-house-defy-judge-deport-venezuelans
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Are we at full-on “Constitutional crisis” mode yet?
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What??
I’m not about to click on that shit.
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Wow, Vox, I expected better of y’all.
Seriously?
Is this a rationalizing of authoritarian rule?
FTA:
… The answer to the question “will ‘the people’ tolerate authoritarian rule?” is yes, absolutely.
Americans need not look far to see what this kind of boring authoritarianism looks like. As University of Michigan political scientist Robert Mickey has argued, swaths of the US South were effectively under one-party rule during parts of the 20th century. These regions slipped into authoritarianism quietly, as local politicians sought to advance their careers and the interests of their supporters. It took not just the civil rights movement but also dedicated struggle to bring these pockets of authoritarianism to an end. …
Ugh.
People were killed during the civil rights movement.
People were beaten within an inch of their lives during the civil rights movement.
What this article barely mentions is authoritarian violence against the out-group by the in-group (see “Wilhoit’s Law” etc.). Which apparently the MAGAs are ok with, as we have learned, repeatedly, in past years and in this one.
Ye gods I hate this timeline…
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Eita. What’s the problem with this site? I mean, I am not used to the american sites/média outlets. The big newspapers, for example, they changed a lot in the last years.
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