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kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:45 am
Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 6:33 am
I'll go there all day long. Unlike you, I'll defend him when necessary. On policies, idea, or directives that are common sense. I will also point out the ridiculous like trying to make Canada the 51st state or annexing Greenland.

I could also break it down to the many demonstrable and unhidden ways he in no way threatens democracy, but as usual, you would never listen.

The deep state shadow cabal running the government was immensely powerful, but nobody said they were smart. They anointed (not elected) a half-drunk nitwit cackling clown as their Manchurian nominee. They were infinitely more of a threat to democracy than Donald Trump could ever be.
You’ll defend him when he applies common sense to government? That’s a fairly low bar.

Pick any fascist dictator/strong man leader in history and you’ll find at least a little common sense. However, 2020 election denial, pardoning J6ers, suing media outlets who cast him in an unfavorable light, pulling funding from research universities, claiming Ukraine started the war, attempting to gut the DOJ and FBI, withholding federal funds like FEMA aid to states governed against his issues, permitting ICE to violate due process and deporting accused illegal AND legal immigrants to domestic and foreign prisons, eliminating or slashing funding to entire government agencies he disagrees with, taking personal conttol of the FEC and SEC…(the list goes on.) are more important than visiting the aftermath of the Texas Floods.
Denying the 2020 election was ridiculous. So was the 2016 election denial, but nobody seems to talk about that. You actually had sitting members of Congress who refused to certify the election claiming the election was stolen. The 2016 candidate claimed Trump was illegitimate, and please don't get me started on Stacy Abrams.
The vast majority of J6ers did hard time and/or had their lives ruined by the DOJ for committing the horrible crime of trespassing. That's very fascisty.
It is a shame that Trump is suing these 'media' outlets, but it's also interesting that they all are settling the cases right before the discovery process. I wonder why??? I wonder what they're hiding?
I could go on and on, but I just don't have the time.
klam wrote:Now, you can try and argue whether you think any of these actions are anti-democratic or fascist in nature. I think taken together and in view of historical and recent authoritarian leaders they obviously do. Has it affected me personally yet? No. But I give a shit about EVERYONE’s rights and our standing as a democracy, a free press, non partisan federal spending, science based policies, etc. so to get even remotely close fascism is unacceptable.

Every serious scholar who’s made it their life’s work to study these things agrees with me.
Every serious scholar agrees with you? JFC, you sound as narcissistic at Trump.

There is a long list of 'serious scholars' who absolutely do not agree with you. I'm sure you feel they really aren't all that serious because they don't agree with you, right?
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Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:00 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:45 am

You’ll defend him when he applies common sense to government? That’s a fairly low bar.

Pick any fascist dictator/strong man leader in history and you’ll find at least a little common sense. However, 2020 election denial, pardoning J6ers, suing media outlets who cast him in an unfavorable light, pulling funding from research universities, claiming Ukraine started the war, attempting to gut the DOJ and FBI, withholding federal funds like FEMA aid to states governed against his issues, permitting ICE to violate due process and deporting accused illegal AND legal immigrants to domestic and foreign prisons, eliminating or slashing funding to entire government agencies he disagrees with, taking personal conttol of the FEC and SEC…(the list goes on.) are more important than visiting the aftermath of the Texas Floods.
Denying the 2020 election was ridiculous. So was the 2016 election denial, but nobody seems to talk about that. You actually had sitting members of Congress who refused to certify the election claiming the election was stolen. The 2016 candidate claimed Trump was illegitimate, and please don't get me started on Stacy Abrams.
The vast majority of J6ers did hard time and/or had their lives ruined by the DOJ for committing the horrible crime of trespassing. That's very fascisty.
It is a shame that Trump is suing these 'media' outlets, but it's also interesting that they all are settling the cases right before the discovery process. I wonder why??? I wonder what they're hiding?
I could go on and on, but I just don't have the time.
klam wrote:Now, you can try and argue whether you think any of these actions are anti-democratic or fascist in nature. I think taken together and in view of historical and recent authoritarian leaders they obviously do. Has it affected me personally yet? No. But I give a shit about EVERYONE’s rights and our standing as a democracy, a free press, non partisan federal spending, science based policies, etc. so to get even remotely close fascism is unacceptable.

Every serious scholar who’s made it their life’s work to study these things agrees with me.
Every serious scholar agrees with you? JFC, you sound as narcissistic at Trump.

There is a long list of 'serious scholars' who absolutely do not agree with you. I'm sure you feel they really aren't all that serious because they don't agree with you, right?
2016 election denial lasted about minute and had little mass appeal. False equivalency.

ABC settling for $15 million is a cheap PR decision. Not worth the controversy Trump would turn it into. That’s one of his strengths.

How many scholarly articles are there defending Trump’s defense of democracy? Feel free to post some up.
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kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:28 am
Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:00 am
Denying the 2020 election was ridiculous. So was the 2016 election denial, but nobody seems to talk about that. You actually had sitting members of Congress who refused to certify the election claiming the election was stolen. The 2016 candidate claimed Trump was illegitimate, and please don't get me started on Stacy Abrams.
The vast majority of J6ers did hard time and/or had their lives ruined by the DOJ for committing the horrible crime of trespassing. That's very fascisty.
It is a shame that Trump is suing these 'media' outlets, but it's also interesting that they all are settling the cases right before the discovery process. I wonder why??? I wonder what they're hiding?
I could go on and on, but I just don't have the time.


Every serious scholar agrees with you? JFC, you sound as narcissistic at Trump.

There is a long list of 'serious scholars' who absolutely do not agree with you. I'm sure you feel they really aren't all that serious because they don't agree with you, right?
2016 election denial lasted about minute and had little mass appeal. False equivalency.

ABC settling for $15 million is a cheap PR decision. Not worth the controversy Trump would turn it into. That’s one of his strengths.

How many scholarly articles are there defending Trump’s defense of democracy? Feel free to post some up.
LoL 2016 lasted years. See the thread on here. Driven by the deep state‘s Trump/Russia collusion hoax.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-j ... ump-framed

How about CBS for their blatant selective editing of cackles interview to try to make her look better. But somehow Trump‘s suing makes him a fascist?

Long read, so only pasted a portion with highlights. 88 different works cited.
Trump, Violence and Neoliberalism

Much of the scholarly response to such arguments,
especially among specialists on fascism, was and is highly sceptical (see Matthews Citation2020). One of the world’s foremost authorities on Nazism, Richard Evans (Citation2021), warned against labelling Trump and Trumpism as fascist and noted that the ‘majority of genuine specialists, including the historians Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman, Stanley Payne and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, agree that whatever else he is, Trump is not a fascist’.Footnote2 These scholars suggest that while ‘fascism’ might be an emotionally satisfying word to apply to those we despise, its contemporary use is based on shallow historical analogizing that mistakes form for substance (Riley Citation2018, 5; Jager Citation2024, 6). Scholars of classical fascism during the interwar period point out that Trumpism and the first Trump presidency exhibited significant differences from both fascist movements and regimes of that period, and from the conditions under which they emerged (Evans Citation2021; Riley Citation2018). Unlike them, Trump had not ridden to power on the back of a mass mobilization in the context of acute economic and political crisis and a growing revolutionary ferment following war, and nor did he outlaw other parties and overthrow the constitution and oppositional media once in power. The majority of his supporters did not and do not conform to the aesthetic norms of the movements led by Hitler, Mussolini, Mosley and others, with their penchant for uniforms, pageantry, and choregraphed national spectacles. Trump’s foreign policy was and is more isolationist than aggressively expansionist they say, the political-economy he champions was and is market- rather than state-oriented, and Trumpism was not and is not marked by the systematic deployment of organized street violence so typical of the paramilitary wings of inter-war fascist movements. Or so it seemed….

……. There are two areas, however, where the equating of Trumpism and fascism is, at this point in time, more of a stretch.

…….But these far-right extremist groups are presently small, fragmented, politically weak and insignificant relative to the organized violence that Trump has now come to command through electoral methods – the United States military, the various intelligence agencies, the FBI and the federal judiciary. It is more likely, perhaps even inevitable, that Trump wields the coercive and institutional power of the latter, rather than building relationships with the former, to consolidate his power, destroy his opponents and stifle dissent. This is a frightening prospect, but it lacks a key ingredient, we have suggested, of fascism strictly construed….

…..And yet, for the reasons we have cited here, Trumpism is not the fully formed fascist phenomenon that so many of its detractors take it to be..

Notes on contributors

Lloyd Cox
Lloyd Cox is a senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on US Politics, US-Australia Relations, political emotions, and nationalism, including his 2021 book Nationalism: Themes, Theories, and Controversies (Palgrave).

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Brendon O'Connor is a Professor of US Politics and US Foreign Relations in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is the editor of seven books on anti-Americanism and has also published articles and books on American welfare policy, presidential politics, US foreign policy, and Australian-American relations.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... frontnotes

Oxford professor mentioned in the above article widely acknowledged to be one of the world's foremost experts on the socio-historical and ideological dynamics of fascism.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/roger-griffin
He‘s been cited in a # of articles (not right wing sources, NPR was one, you can look them up) calling Trump many not nice things, but arguing Trump doesn‘t fit the definition of a fascist.
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BDKJMU wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:29 pm
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:28 am
2016 election denial lasted about minute and had little mass appeal. False equivalency.

ABC settling for $15 million is a cheap PR decision. Not worth the controversy Trump would turn it into. That’s one of his strengths.

How many scholarly articles are there defending Trump’s defense of democracy? Feel free to post some up.
LoL 2016 lasted years. See the thread on here. Driven by the deep state‘s Trump/Russia collusion hoax.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-j ... ump-framed

How about CBS for their blatant selective editing of cackles interview to try to make her look better. But somehow Trump‘s suing makes him a fascist?

Long read, so only pasted a portion with highlights. 88 different works cited.
Trump, Violence and Neoliberalism

Much of the scholarly response to such arguments,
especially among specialists on fascism, was and is highly sceptical (see Matthews Citation2020). One of the world’s foremost authorities on Nazism, Richard Evans (Citation2021), warned against labelling Trump and Trumpism as fascist and noted that the ‘majority of genuine specialists, including the historians Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman, Stanley Payne and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, agree that whatever else he is, Trump is not a fascist’.Footnote2 These scholars suggest that while ‘fascism’ might be an emotionally satisfying word to apply to those we despise, its contemporary use is based on shallow historical analogizing that mistakes form for substance (Riley Citation2018, 5; Jager Citation2024, 6). Scholars of classical fascism during the interwar period point out that Trumpism and the first Trump presidency exhibited significant differences from both fascist movements and regimes of that period, and from the conditions under which they emerged (Evans Citation2021; Riley Citation2018). Unlike them, Trump had not ridden to power on the back of a mass mobilization in the context of acute economic and political crisis and a growing revolutionary ferment following war, and nor did he outlaw other parties and overthrow the constitution and oppositional media once in power. The majority of his supporters did not and do not conform to the aesthetic norms of the movements led by Hitler, Mussolini, Mosley and others, with their penchant for uniforms, pageantry, and choregraphed national spectacles. Trump’s foreign policy was and is more isolationist than aggressively expansionist they say, the political-economy he champions was and is market- rather than state-oriented, and Trumpism was not and is not marked by the systematic deployment of organized street violence so typical of the paramilitary wings of inter-war fascist movements. Or so it seemed….

……. There are two areas, however, where the equating of Trumpism and fascism is, at this point in time, more of a stretch.

…….But these far-right extremist groups are presently small, fragmented, politically weak and insignificant relative to the organized violence that Trump has now come to command through electoral methods – the United States military, the various intelligence agencies, the FBI and the federal judiciary. It is more likely, perhaps even inevitable, that Trump wields the coercive and institutional power of the latter, rather than building relationships with the former, to consolidate his power, destroy his opponents and stifle dissent. This is a frightening prospect, but it lacks a key ingredient, we have suggested, of fascism strictly construed….

…..And yet, for the reasons we have cited here, Trumpism is not the fully formed fascist phenomenon that so many of its detractors take it to be. We are not there yet.

Notes on contributors

Lloyd Cox
Lloyd Cox is a senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on US Politics, US-Australia Relations, political emotions, and nationalism, including his 2021 book Nationalism: Themes, Theories, and Controversies (Palgrave).

Brendon O’Connor
Brendon O'Connor is a Professor of US Politics and US Foreign Relations in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is the editor of seven books on anti-Americanism and has also published articles and books on American welfare policy, presidential politics, US foreign policy, and Australian-American relations.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... frontnotes

Oxford professor mentioned in the above article widely acknowledged to be one of the world's foremost experts on the socio-historical and ideological dynamics of fascism.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/roger-griffin
He‘s been cited in a # of articles (not right wing sources, NPR was one, you can look them up) calling Trump many not nice things, but arguing Trump doesn‘t fit the definition of a fascist.
There you go erroneously labeling russia collusion a hoax. There were proven connections/communications between the trump campaign and russia in 2016. Not enough for an indictment but enough to say it wasn't a hoax.

I do agree that the 1st impeachment and all of the other caterwauling over russia collusion was hysterically out of proportion. Just like the caterwauling over biden and China is hysterically out of proportion. Just more examples of Republicans and Democrats being peas in a pod when it comes to faux outrage and indignance.

IMO, CBS would have won in court but they settled (for pennies on the dollar compared to Fox New's settlement with Dominion) in order to grease the skids for the Skydance merger. What the trump regime did could be considered extortion.

Your article might not be one you want to use because it clearly states trumpism isn't fully-formed fascism YET!
After President Trump’s incitement of mob violence at the Capitol building on 6 January 2021, many journalists – and even a few hitherto sceptical fascism scholars, we observed above – concluded that Trump and Trumpism had cleared a final threshold to fascism. Commentators were galvanized in this judgment by the fact that many participants on the day were armed in advance and coordinated their activities, and that militant far-right groups like the Proud Boys participated in the violence. They could also point to Trump’s long record of encouraging and condoning violence at his rallies, and his history of giving a nod and a wink to white supremacist militant groups. Yet none of this, as disturbing as it is, comports with the kind of extra-systemic mass violence and para-militarism that is constitutive of genuine, fully-formed fascism. Not yet.
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And yet, for the reasons we have cited here, Trumpism is not the fully formed fascist phenomenon that so many of its detractors take it to be. We are not there yet. Rather, it is, at this point in time (the first weeks of his new presidential term), a proto-fascist phenomenon that bears some family resemblance to fascism, but is markedly different in other respects. This is why the stark binary choice of presence or absence, so engrained in the current debate about Trump and fascism, should be transcended. We use the modifier ‘proto’ to draw attention to the incipient fascistic tendencies of Trumpism which, given Trump’s language and actions cited above, are difficult to deny. ‘Proto-fascism’ serves as a sensible warning about where such political language and actions can lead. But that is a latent potential that has not yet been fully realized. There is always contingency in politics, and there is no inevitable fascist-producing teleology to Trumpism or, for that matter, neoliberalism. Yet, as long as neoliberalism continues to be the hegemonic rationality governing political economy in the United states and elsewhere, it will continue to produce the resentment and rage on which authoritarian, proto-fascists like Trump prosper.
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UNI88 wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:58 pm
BDKJMU wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:29 pm
LoL 2016 lasted years. See the thread on here. Driven by the deep state‘s Trump/Russia collusion hoax.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-j ... ump-framed

How about CBS for their blatant selective editing of cackles interview to try to make her look better. But somehow Trump‘s suing makes him a fascist?

Long read, so only pasted a portion with highlights. 88 different works cited.


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... frontnotes

Oxford professor mentioned in the above article widely acknowledged to be one of the world's foremost experts on the socio-historical and ideological dynamics of fascism.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/roger-griffin
He‘s been cited in a # of articles (not right wing sources, NPR was one, you can look them up) calling Trump many not nice things, but arguing Trump doesn‘t fit the definition of a fascist.
There you go erroneously labeling russia collusion a hoax. There were proven connections/communications between the trump campaign and russia in 2016. Not enough for an indictment but enough to say it wasn't a hoax.

I do agree that the 1st impeachment and all of the other caterwauling over russia collusion was hysterically out of proportion. Just like the caterwauling over biden and China is hysterically out of proportion. Just more examples of Republicans and Democrats being peas in a pod when it comes to faux outrage and indignance.

IMO, CBS would have won in court but they settled (for pennies on the dollar compared to Fox New's settlement with Dominion) in order to grease the skids for the Skydance merger. What the trump regime did could be considered extortion.

Your article might not be one you want to use because it clearly states trumpism isn't fully-formed fascism YET!
After President Trump’s incitement of mob violence at the Capitol building on 6 January 2021, many journalists – and even a few hitherto sceptical fascism scholars, we observed above – concluded that Trump and Trumpism had cleared a final threshold to fascism. Commentators were galvanized in this judgment by the fact that many participants on the day were armed in advance and coordinated their activities, and that militant far-right groups like the Proud Boys participated in the violence. They could also point to Trump’s long record of encouraging and condoning violence at his rallies, and his history of giving a nod and a wink to white supremacist militant groups. Yet none of this, as disturbing as it is, comports with the kind of extra-systemic mass violence and para-militarism that is constitutive of genuine, fully-formed fascism. Not yet.
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And yet, for the reasons we have cited here, Trumpism is not the fully formed fascist phenomenon that so many of its detractors take it to be. We are not there yet. Rather, it is, at this point in time (the first weeks of his new presidential term), a proto-fascist phenomenon that bears some family resemblance to fascism, but is markedly different in other respects. This is why the stark binary choice of presence or absence, so engrained in the current debate about Trump and fascism, should be transcended. We use the modifier ‘proto’ to draw attention to the incipient fascistic tendencies of Trumpism which, given Trump’s language and actions cited above, are difficult to deny. ‘Proto-fascism’ serves as a sensible warning about where such political language and actions can lead. But that is a latent potential that has not yet been fully realized. There is always contingency in politics, and there is no inevitable fascist-producing teleology to Trumpism or, for that matter, neoliberalism. Yet, as long as neoliberalism continues to be the hegemonic rationality governing political economy in the United states and elsewhere, it will continue to produce the resentment and rage on which authoritarian, proto-fascists like Trump prosper.
There you go again, making statements you can't back up.
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SeattleGriz wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:13 pm
UNI88 wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:58 pm
There you go erroneously labeling russia collusion a hoax. There were proven connections/communications between the trump campaign and russia in 2016. Not enough for an indictment but enough to say it wasn't a hoax.

I do agree that the 1st impeachment and all of the other caterwauling over russia collusion was hysterically out of proportion. Just like the caterwauling over biden and China is hysterically out of proportion. Just more examples of Republicans and Democrats being peas in a pod when it comes to faux outrage and indignance.

IMO, CBS would have won in court but they settled (for pennies on the dollar compared to Fox New's settlement with Dominion) in order to grease the skids for the Skydance merger. What the trump regime did could be considered extortion.

Your article might not be one you want to use because it clearly states trumpism isn't fully-formed fascism YET!
There you go again, making statements you can't back up.
That statement is so solid that it can get up and walk all on it's own.

And they're even in picture format to help simpleminded MAQA yahoos understand ...

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More proof of connections between trump and russia/putin then there is the 2020 election was stolen. How long did you peddle that HOAX for?

This is where you start throwing individuals under the bus because they later had a falling out with trump.
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kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:45 am
Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 6:33 am
I'll go there all day long. Unlike you, I'll defend him when necessary. On policies, idea, or directives that are common sense. I will also point out the ridiculous like trying to make Canada the 51st state or annexing Greenland.

I could also break it down to the many demonstrable and unhidden ways he in no way threatens democracy, but as usual, you would never listen.

The deep state shadow cabal running the government was immensely powerful, but nobody said they were smart. They anointed (not elected) a half-drunk nitwit cackling clown as their Manchurian nominee. They were infinitely more of a threat to democracy than Donald Trump could ever be.
You’ll defend him when he applies common sense to government? That’s a fairly low bar.

Pick any fascist dictator/strong man leader in history and you’ll find at least a little common sense. However, 2020 election denial, pardoning J6ers, suing media outlets who cast him in an unfavorable light, pulling funding from research universities, claiming Ukraine started the war, attempting to gut the DOJ and FBI, withholding federal funds like FEMA aid to states governed against his issues, permitting ICE to violate due process and deporting accused illegal AND legal immigrants to domestic and foreign prisons, eliminating or slashing funding to entire government agencies he disagrees with, taking personal conttol of the FEC and SEC…(the list goes on.) are more important than visiting the aftermath of the Texas Floods.

Now, you can try and argue whether you think any of these actions are anti-democratic or fascist in nature. I think taken together and in view of historical and recent authoritarian leaders they obviously do. Has it affected me personally yet? No. But I give a shit about EVERYONE’s rights and our standing as a democracy, a free press, non partisan federal spending, science based policies, etc. so to get even remotely close fascism is unacceptable.

Every serious scholar who’s made it their life’s work to study these things agrees with me.
Klam provides a perfect narcissist like summary of why we have a Donald Trump…. Self appointed genius who is never wrong Only they’re always wrong.

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UNI88 wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:52 pm
SeattleGriz wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:13 pm

There you go again, making statements you can't back up.
That statement is so solid that it can get up and walk all on it's own.

And they're even in picture format to help simpleminded MAQA yahoos understand ...

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More proof of connections between trump and russia/putin then there is the 2020 election was stolen. How long did you peddle that HOAX for?

This is where you start throwing individuals under the bus because they later had a falling out with trump.
You pull that from the Steele dossier?
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I’ll take things that show my ignorance for $600 Bob.
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And none of them have the money
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Caribbean Hen wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:55 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:45 am

You’ll defend him when he applies common sense to government? That’s a fairly low bar.

Pick any fascist dictator/strong man leader in history and you’ll find at least a little common sense. However, 2020 election denial, pardoning J6ers, suing media outlets who cast him in an unfavorable light, pulling funding from research universities, claiming Ukraine started the war, attempting to gut the DOJ and FBI, withholding federal funds like FEMA aid to states governed against his issues, permitting ICE to violate due process and deporting accused illegal AND legal immigrants to domestic and foreign prisons, eliminating or slashing funding to entire government agencies he disagrees with, taking personal conttol of the FEC and SEC…(the list goes on.) are more important than visiting the aftermath of the Texas Floods.

Now, you can try and argue whether you think any of these actions are anti-democratic or fascist in nature. I think taken together and in view of historical and recent authoritarian leaders they obviously do. Has it affected me personally yet? No. But I give a shit about EVERYONE’s rights and our standing as a democracy, a free press, non partisan federal spending, science based policies, etc. so to get even remotely close fascism is unacceptable.

Every serious scholar who’s made it their life’s work to study these things agrees with me.
Klam provides a perfect narcissist like summary of why we have a Donald Trump…. Self appointed genius who is never wrong Only they’re always wrong.

Keep doing your thing as you’re actually a conservative secret weapon :lol:
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SeattleGriz wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:14 pm Best Epstein meme.

Pretty much. :lol:
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Caribbean Hen wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:39 am
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And none of them have the money
And without them the federal government wouldn't have money ...

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kalm wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:39 am
Caribbean Hen wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:55 am

Klam provides a perfect narcissist like summary of why we have a Donald Trump…. Self appointed genius who is never wrong Only they’re always wrong.

Keep doing your thing as you’re actually a conservative secret weapon :lol:
‘Rather than provide a counter argument to the obvious, I’ll just insult.’ ‘That’s a winning strategy, right?’ :lol:
It’s pointless really

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Caribbean Hen wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:55 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:45 am
You’ll defend him when he applies common sense to government? That’s a fairly low bar.

Pick any fascist dictator/strong man leader in history and you’ll find at least a little common sense. However, 2020 election denial, pardoning J6ers, suing media outlets who cast him in an unfavorable light, pulling funding from research universities, claiming Ukraine started the war, attempting to gut the DOJ and FBI, withholding federal funds like FEMA aid to states governed against his issues, permitting ICE to violate due process and deporting accused illegal AND legal immigrants to domestic and foreign prisons, eliminating or slashing funding to entire government agencies he disagrees with, taking personal conttol of the FEC and SEC…(the list goes on.) are more important than visiting the aftermath of the Texas Floods.

Now, you can try and argue whether you think any of these actions are anti-democratic or fascist in nature. I think taken together and in view of historical and recent authoritarian leaders they obviously do. Has it affected me personally yet? No. But I give a shit about EVERYONE’s rights and our standing as a democracy, a free press, non partisan federal spending, science based policies, etc. so to get even remotely close fascism is unacceptable.

Every serious scholar who’s made it their life’s work to study these things agrees with me.
Klam provides a perfect narcissist like summary of why we have a Donald Trump…. Self appointed genius who is never wrong Only they’re always wrong.

Keep doing your thing as you’re actually a conservative secret weapon :lol:
You are correct, trump is a "Self appointed (stable) genius who is never wrong Only they're always wrong." :D
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UNI88 wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:50 am
Caribbean Hen wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:39 am

And none of them have the money
And without them the federal government wouldn't have money ...

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BDKJMU wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:29 am
UNI88 wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:52 pm
That statement is so solid that it can get up and walk all on it's own.

And they're even in picture format to help simpleminded MAQA yahoos understand ...

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More proof of connections between trump and russia/putin then there is the 2020 election was stolen. How long did you peddle that HOAX for?

This is where you start throwing individuals under the bus because they later had a falling out with trump.
You pull that from the Steele dossier?
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You left off the part where Trump uses Russian dressing on his salad.
The old let's try to put everything under the steele dossier so we can dismiss it rather than addressing the uncomfortable truths.

trump/russia was never a HOAX. The only HOAX is MAQA yahoos trying to dismiss it as one.
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UNI88 wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:54 am
BDKJMU wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:29 am
You pull that from the Steele dossier?
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You left off the part where Trump uses Russian dressing on his salad.
The old let's try to put everything under the steele dossier so we can dismiss it rather than addressing the uncomfortable truths.

trump/russia was never a HOAX. The only HOAX is MAQA yahoos trying to dismiss it as one.
Lol this are hundreds of people who work on a campaign/admin 5-6 years. You could literally do the multiple degrees of separation with tenuous ties to a large # of countries for every admin.
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UNI88 wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:54 am
BDKJMU wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:29 am
You pull that from the Steele dossier?
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You left off the part where Trump uses Russian dressing on his salad.
The old let's try to put everything under the steele dossier so we can dismiss it rather than addressing the uncomfortable truths.

trump/russia was never a HOAX. The only HOAX is MAQA yahoos trying to dismiss it as one.
Lol there are hundreds of people who work on a campaign/admin 5-6 years. You could literally do the multiple degrees of separation with tenuous ties to a large # of countries for every admin.
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Caribbean Hen wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:50 am
kalm wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:39 am

‘Rather than provide a counter argument to the obvious, I’ll just insult.’ ‘That’s a winning strategy, right?’ :lol:
It’s pointless really

you don’t read and when you do, you don’t remember
You’re probably right. Tracking all of your misdirections and retreats when faced with questions that challenge your closely held beliefs and veracity of information/free associations is a thankless task.
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