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"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Wow!

And I say this with 15 years of experience in teaching public speaking and rhetoric.

It was, if anything, a school book example of how to appear guilty.

"In the moment, Trump was terrified of being convicted and still seethes at the humiliation he faced."

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) Cause for concern

How is Miller like Stalin?

Vahva suositus Snyderin videon katsomiselle!

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Now, imagine that! 😆

To be serious, I would love if they gave it to Greta Thunberg. She clearly has done more than most.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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Must-read on Trump’s lawless Chicago invasion: “The president instructed federal agents to use extralegal violence against immigrants & citizens, pitting armed soldiers from 1 state against citizens of another… rubicons can’t be uncrossed.” www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Disturbing, seriously disturbing, behaviour.

Tämän nojalla Suomessa voitaisiin hakea asiaan erillispäätöstä sillä, että täällä pihvi ei tarkoita lihaa vaan tehdyn ruoan muotoa.

Kotus näyttää katsovan sen tarkoittavan mm. mistä vain murketaikinasta tehtyä pihviä, esimerkiksi "Kasvis-, seitanpihvi."

www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi#/pihvi?searc...

Bondi Refuses to Answer One Easy Question on Trump Deploying Troops Attorney General Pam Bondi was grilled on Trump’s decision to deploy troops to Illinois and Chicago.

How to appear so, so guilty? Act just like this:

"The fact that the attorney general can not give a basic justification for the president’s decision to flood American streets with the military suggests either her own incompetence or complicity, likely both."

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Yhdysvallat | Fasismi on vielä väärä sana kuvaamaan Yhdysvaltoja: ”Tähtäin on väärässä paikassa” Asiantuntijoiden mielestä Yhdysvaltain demokratia on heikentynyt merkittävästi Trumpin toisen kauden aikana.

Tulee mieleen Marxin veljesten kuuluista lainaus: "He might look like a fool, talk like a fool, act like a fool. But don't let that fool you. He is a fool."

Korvaa vain f-sanan toisella...

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Schiff gets Bondi so flustered that she starts blurting things out while he details what a farce this "oversight" hearing has been and the Republican members' lack of interest in doing their jobs

I would not buy a used car from this woman.

This is a school book example of how to look guilty.

As Hell.

Precisely!

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

The fast pace is a clear sign that the US Presidental administration is, in fact, weaker than it tries to appear.

Most similar governmental takeovers by the executive (in Turkey, Hungary and Russia) have been much slower, because they had more power.

And the fast pace might be its downfall.

To lie to congress, now that would be illegal.

It's better to refuse to answer... 🙄

Hirono to Bondi: "It's very clear to me that when the president posts something like, that he considers the DOJ to be his law firm and you his lawyer."

Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his own personal vendetta machine. And Pam Bondi has been happy to go along for the ride.

We're witnessing the most egregious politicization of the DOJ in recent memory — and I lived through the Nixon years.

Hirono: "I have to conclude that, since no wrongdoing was determined, that Homan kept the money. And I hope he will put that on his tax returns as income."

Level of corruption is... and the answer... 🙄

Pam Bondi wasn't going to answer any questions today. We all knew that in advance. People can watch the hearing if they want to, but the idea that this is an Attorney General testifying before Congress is laughable. This is just a Trump personal lawyer putting on a performance for her client on TV.

Trump's Plan To invoke the Insurrection Act

Robert Reich on the current situation in the USA:

"I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. "

robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Straight out of a bad thriller searies:
Deranged President is sending troops to a peaceful city. Only a lone judge stands between this horrible tide and the citizens.

You could not make for worse optics. Not to mention act in more unconstitutional manner. Cannont not watch! The World is watching!

It can be stopped, and it has been stopped before.

Stay calm and demonstrate – peacefully – that this is not what you want.

Nothing is such an anathema to police state as a massive, peaceful demonstration, boycott, strikes and, yes, music and performance on the streets!