i think you're absolutely right. while we are in very very dangerous territory, the continued overplaying of their hand will backfire spectacularly. notice how everyone is now talking about freespeech and suddenly ck is last weeks news(finally) .
Right now they don't have to worry about opposition. Congress is largely controlled, and the President can just veto anything that might get through that body anyway to try to constrain him. The courts are captured. Any protest or resistance--peaceful or not--to the regime's next moves will be spun, by an increasingly captured media, as more evidence of the "violent left" and "antifa terrorists". Elections aren't for another year, giving time for states to further crack down on the ability to vote, with the courts signing off on all of it at the top.
It's depressing to think that the only realistic way out of this spiral for my southern neighbours would be a military coup, and after that you have a shadow of a democracy at best.
“Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner publicly slammed current CEO Bob Iger over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, asking “Where has all the leadership gone?” and criticizing the “out-of-control intimidation” following FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to Disney.”
While I agree, MAGA has jumped the shark, we may be too late to reverse course. MAGA has consolidated power and is essentially unchecked; they control every lever of power.
And this Kirk fiasco was the last straw. Ironically, Eisner was CEO at Disney we he cancelled Bill Mahar’s show Politically Incorrect (24 years ago), only to be replaced by Jimmy Kimmel; Mahar made a tasteless joke about the suicide bombers after 9/11 (pressure from Bush Whitehouse).
And now we have Eisner criticizing Iger, and Mahar siding with the fascists and thinking Kimmel was wrong for saying that republicans were doing their damndest to lay blame at the democrats feet; which they did. We’ve gone full circle!
This is reminiscent of Horst Wessel who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Now we have Kirk, and god forbid we speak poorly of either man.
WTF just happened?????? As Mark Twain famously said, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but if often rhymes!…:)
Maybe. I think the White House is just having a psychotic break, unable to process the breakdown from their own hands. They have spent so much time gaslighting everyone in sight that they've completely lost the thread of public reality. If friggin' Ted Cruz can say what he said, we're in Bizzaro World. If Disney bounces back, it's curtains.
Can anyone explain why even the 'royal family' is sucking up to him? They all know what frauds the tRUMPS are! Seems like the only people not intimidated by this shit show are people not motivated by money. It was bad enough he disrespected Queen Elizabeth...Charles said...my turn! And of course the classless tRUMPs delivered...'people are saying'...
The UK really wants a favourable trade deal with the US. Trump admires the UK Royal Family (he wants his family to be the US equivalent; see also Mark Carney referencing only two specific locations as not being for sale when he met with Trump, those being the White House and Buckingham Palace) and they know it, so buttering him up like that is a political decision. The monarch largely acts on the advice of the government of the day.
This came up some months ago when Charles, as King of Canada, read the Speech from the Throne to open Parliament here back in May. (The speech itself was nothing remarkable. It was largely a Mark Carney campaign speech read in an extremely proper upper-class English accent, minus the ice hockey references, and also peppered with references to his mother's 1957 tour.) It is his constitutional duty to do so if requested (though normally one delegated to the viceroy) but it was a diplomatic risk because if Trump assumed that he was doing it as King of the United Kingdom (which is what he is primarily known as, at least outside the Commonwealth; it was remarkable when Charles went to Italy and referred to his Canadian title explicitly), and he didn't like what he heard from his "51st state", he might take out his retaliation not just on Canada but also the United Kingdom (and who knows, maybe other Commonwealth realms, too).
i think you're absolutely right. while we are in very very dangerous territory, the continued overplaying of their hand will backfire spectacularly. notice how everyone is now talking about freespeech and suddenly ck is last weeks news(finally) .
Right now they don't have to worry about opposition. Congress is largely controlled, and the President can just veto anything that might get through that body anyway to try to constrain him. The courts are captured. Any protest or resistance--peaceful or not--to the regime's next moves will be spun, by an increasingly captured media, as more evidence of the "violent left" and "antifa terrorists". Elections aren't for another year, giving time for states to further crack down on the ability to vote, with the courts signing off on all of it at the top.
It's depressing to think that the only realistic way out of this spiral for my southern neighbours would be a military coup, and after that you have a shadow of a democracy at best.
“Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner publicly slammed current CEO Bob Iger over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, asking “Where has all the leadership gone?” and criticizing the “out-of-control intimidation” following FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to Disney.”
While I agree, MAGA has jumped the shark, we may be too late to reverse course. MAGA has consolidated power and is essentially unchecked; they control every lever of power.
And this Kirk fiasco was the last straw. Ironically, Eisner was CEO at Disney we he cancelled Bill Mahar’s show Politically Incorrect (24 years ago), only to be replaced by Jimmy Kimmel; Mahar made a tasteless joke about the suicide bombers after 9/11 (pressure from Bush Whitehouse).
And now we have Eisner criticizing Iger, and Mahar siding with the fascists and thinking Kimmel was wrong for saying that republicans were doing their damndest to lay blame at the democrats feet; which they did. We’ve gone full circle!
This is reminiscent of Horst Wessel who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Now we have Kirk, and god forbid we speak poorly of either man.
WTF just happened?????? As Mark Twain famously said, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but if often rhymes!…:)
Maybe. I think the White House is just having a psychotic break, unable to process the breakdown from their own hands. They have spent so much time gaslighting everyone in sight that they've completely lost the thread of public reality. If friggin' Ted Cruz can say what he said, we're in Bizzaro World. If Disney bounces back, it's curtains.
Appreciate the more positive outlook here. Have to keep remembering that nothing’s set in stone and we do still have the power to save this democracy.
Thanks for this excellent article which gives reason for some optimism.
Can anyone explain why even the 'royal family' is sucking up to him? They all know what frauds the tRUMPS are! Seems like the only people not intimidated by this shit show are people not motivated by money. It was bad enough he disrespected Queen Elizabeth...Charles said...my turn! And of course the classless tRUMPs delivered...'people are saying'...
The Brits want more favorable tariffs.
The UK really wants a favourable trade deal with the US. Trump admires the UK Royal Family (he wants his family to be the US equivalent; see also Mark Carney referencing only two specific locations as not being for sale when he met with Trump, those being the White House and Buckingham Palace) and they know it, so buttering him up like that is a political decision. The monarch largely acts on the advice of the government of the day.
This came up some months ago when Charles, as King of Canada, read the Speech from the Throne to open Parliament here back in May. (The speech itself was nothing remarkable. It was largely a Mark Carney campaign speech read in an extremely proper upper-class English accent, minus the ice hockey references, and also peppered with references to his mother's 1957 tour.) It is his constitutional duty to do so if requested (though normally one delegated to the viceroy) but it was a diplomatic risk because if Trump assumed that he was doing it as King of the United Kingdom (which is what he is primarily known as, at least outside the Commonwealth; it was remarkable when Charles went to Italy and referred to his Canadian title explicitly), and he didn't like what he heard from his "51st state", he might take out his retaliation not just on Canada but also the United Kingdom (and who knows, maybe other Commonwealth realms, too).
Pretty optimistic
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