"As part of an extensive interview with Time Magazine, former President Donald Trump expanded on what abortion access would look like in the United States in a potential second term. Trump laid out a dystopian vision where pregnant women could be placed under state surveillance and then subjected to criminal punishment for any transgressions."
"Trump’s own words prove the truth of what careful observers have been saying about his plans based on their examination of MAGA Republicans’ speeches, interviews, Project 2025, and so on, often to find themselves accused of a liberal bias that makes them exaggerate the dangers of a second Trump presidency."
"On a day of many important stories, the most important news came from Donald Trump's interview with Time Magazine. See Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME. In the interview, Trump confirmed that he will attempt to exercise dictatorial powers in a second term.
We have been warned.
We ignore Trump's threats at our peril and the peril of our democracy."
#Trump warned that Biden & family could face criminal prosecutions unless the US supreme court awards Trump #immunity in his own criminal trials
Interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his 2nd term including he may let states monitor #pregnant women to enforce #abortion laws.
Eric Cortellessa of Time says Trumps plans are “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world”
#America (as a nation) born in rebellion against a #monarchical#dictatorship
paying freedom and #Democracy
with blood.
'#Founding#Fathers' created gardrail (The #US#Constitution)
to prevent political/religious dictatorship from being re-established
Today
ONLY 6 people are enough (the #SCOTS)
'decide' to give back 'Immunity' to a single person
(practically authorize -absolute power- dictatorial 'monarchy')
erasing in an instant
the very soul of America.
...
easy...
I was thinking about the present conditions of #India when I suddenly thought of revisiting this #movie by #SatyajitRay. "Hirak Rajar Deshe" (In the Land of the Diamond-King). Its portrayal of moving to dictatorial rule is dangerously accurate.
I really wanted to share this#song from the #film. It is in #bengali so I shall provide a translation.
I see such funny things in the world.
Everywhere I look, I am confused beyond words.
I can't make sense of this world.
Oh brother!
Look at the good fellows stuck in their dilapidated homes.
The evil one ascends the throne.
The wheat farmer can't manage two square meals.
The diamond mine's labours are living in poverty.
Oh Brother, how funny is our world!
“Ukrainians are also fighting for our safety and for everyone’s freedom. By resisting #Russian#dictatorship, they show that #democracy can defend itself…they protect #Europe. By showing how hard offensive operations are, Ukrainians make a Chinese #war in the Pacific less likely. By fighting a conventional war against a nuclear power, they are making #nuclear#proliferation and nuclear war less likely.”
Tell Speaker Johnson to support #Ukraine now:
+1-202-225-4000
#Trump has said that he thinks both #Russia & #Ukraine “want to save face, they want a way out,” [everything’s about ego to Trump] & that people in parts of Ukraine would be okay w/being part of Russia….
Accepting Russian control over parts of Ukraine would expand #Putin’s #dictatorship after what has been the biggest #LandWar in #Europe since #WWII. Some of Trump’s supporters have been trying to persuade him against such an outcome.
The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to “build huge camps to detain people,” and “to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.”
How many people? “Millions” writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.
Today in Labor History April 2, 1903: Mexican police fired on more than 10,000 protestors, killing 15 and wounding many more. People had been protesting the reelection of General Bernardo Reyes as governor of Nuevo Leon, who was aligned with Mexico's brutal dictator, Porfirio Diaz.
Anti-surveillance sticker spotted in Burnie, Tasmania.
We've got a bunch of copies of these stickers, and numerous other designs.
If anyone is interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out: https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com/
Stamp out government mass surveillance and censorship everywhere!
It's not just the Trumps, Orbans, Putins, Tusks, Modis, and Bolsonaros that we need to resist. Mass surveillance and censorship are hallmarks and weapons of totalitarianism police states. And both have been growing in popularity among liberals throughout the world, including most of the elected Democrats in the U.S.
Partner of #Trump’s Project 2025 calls for abolishing the 22nd Amendment, allowing Trump to be in office forever
The American Conservative headline: "Trump 2028" with the byline: "The Twenty-second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve nonconsecutive terms-and on democracy itself."
"We face here in America an important election, probably the most important one in our lifetimes, no matter what age you are. We face clear choices this cycle about who we are as a nation, as people, and as what we want the nations’s future to be."
"Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it." #Democracy#Dictatorship#Trump
"The reality of an American #dictatorship is not some kind of MSNBC-watching #Trump Resistance dystopian alarmist fantasy. Instead, we know Trump’s third run for the White House centers on plans to rule as an autocratic “Red Caesar” because he has told this to voters in rallies and interviews, again and again. What’s more, the specific blueprint is hardly secret, but spelled out explicitly by the candidate’s advisers in reams upon reams of publicly available documents"
@raymondpert I guess #orban just wants a #democracy where one person decides everything, that is completely different from #dictatorship which has just one person deciding everything 😂
The new leadership team at the #RNC — handpicked by #Trump — started firing dozens of employees days after taking over
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed….
One of the people familiar w/the firings said data, political & communications staffers were affected, & notifications were made on Mon by #ChrisLaCivita, a snr Trump adviser.
Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought war back to Europe and is transforming Russia itself— dissent is crushed, propaganda is raging and fear is everywhere.
Filmed over 12 months with unparalleled access, VICE News documents how this war is pushing the country from authoritarianism to dictatorship.
If Trump is de facto immune, well then SO IS BIDEN. Time to start acting accordingly, President For Life Biden. 🤷🏽 This what they want. Give it to them.