They used to say “you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich” but these sleazeballs can’t even do that. It’s not just this case or this jurisdiction, too.

Conservatives probably want to go back to the times where there was no genuine correspondence between the media and the military. Back then, everything about war that was released to the public was carefully curated to ensure the taxpayer never lost faith in our troops or lost the appetite for more war. They think allowing independent journalism into their business was a key mistake that helped lose them the war in Vietnam.

Fascists don’t deal in journalism, they deal in propaganda. You don’t need Pentagon access to get marching orders from the Ministry of Truth, and this is likely the start of that, and why de-facto state media like Newsmax and Fox aren’t interested in keeping their connections.

More objective evidence that he very explicitly thinks he is above the law, all law. Basically academic at this point in time, but the regime will collapse some day and it will be important to take count.

Conservatives have wanted to gut the Fed with a bowie knife since fucking Andrew Jackson, so this isn’t a blunder to them.

I can’t decide whether Fox and Friends or The Five is the worst segment on Fox. Seems like they’re in competition for the title. The both of them are technically comedy or even satire segments, but of course they use that as a shield from criticism. “No reasonable person would take this seriously”, just like they argue in court when they get sued for the raw sewage they spew into public discourse.

But “Kill all of the homeless” and “destroy the UN and everyone who’s part of it” are only jokes if you find those actions amusing.

Red Note banned a lot of people for wrongspeak during that exodus. Westerners are used to speaking their minds online for better or worse.

Speaking of banning, saying the “CPC” is awfully authoritarian and all that shit would normally be a permabanning offense in .ml, but I’m willing to bet that the admins will let it slide because you’re disingenuously pushing Chinese influence on the libshit gweilo.

My understanding is that they basically always were. The South has historically refused to purchase learning material that is “too harsh” on them regarding the Civil War, and so the companies making said material, in order to make the most money, have modified the material to suit that customer base for a long time.

My amateur read would be that Trump is far more useful to Russia alive as the credulous creature he is than dead. Letting Vance carry on the MAGA legacy would be risky for Putin’s ambitions, so long as Trump is handily disrupting any hope of Ukrainian self determination, why rock the boat?

It’s not just immigrants at this point, he is implying that anyone who isn’t MAGA is outside of tolerable politics (unAmerican) and they deserve to get deported. Fascism.

“Thing that everyone said was going to happen happens, but now it’s happened to one of our betters so it’s news.”

Haven’t kids been killing themselves over deepfake porn being passed around school for years?

You, I, or any other American could have done something at a line in the sand that was crossed in reality (like secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and shipping them to gulags), rather than imagining we would do something in a hypothetical line in the sand that they may cross at some point. But we didn’t, and the very few of us who did were almost completely impotent.

Texas Rangers could round them all up, kneel them down in the parking lot and execute them with shotguns live on Fox News, and I’d still bet money on nobody actually doing anything about it.

The average person needs to be truly desperate and not just slightly to moderately struggling for that to kick off.

There is also the slim chance that him worrying causes a cardiovascular event that fucking kills him. Slim, but probably more likely than anyone tangibly holding him to account.

Yeah, this is the point in the police interrogation where the detective shrinks back, shuts up, and lets the recording soak everything up.

The demented rapist might perjure himself more critically if he keeps it up.

Germany was a broken country when it fell to Nazism. They were quite thoroughly demilitarized before kicking things off. While it was impressive what they were able to pull out of a hat as far as war materiel goes, it was ultimately failing logistics that killed them.

The US is one of the strongest economies in the world, in spite of what orange man is doing. We have sizeable oil reserves, unlike Germany. We have ten times the weapons that the next 10 military powers have combined. We are separated from our biggest adversaries by oceans, which we own by virtue of having 10 times the naval vessels.

I’m not sure an antifascist victory is guaranteed, at least in the short term.

There is probably an unspoken rule of geopolitics to the effect of “Don’t start assassinating foreign dignitaries and heads of state unless you want everyone else to declare open season on you and yours.” And it seems like we’re getting closer to breaking that rule by the month.

You’ll be lucky if the Democratic Party is even allowed to exist by 2028, you worthless puke.

They should also remember that murder peaked immediately post WWII in Europe as people got even with their Nazi tormenters.

If red states had to support themselves without any federal money, they would be failed states on the level of Somalia within a decade. They already suck with federal money.

Conservative fiscal policy is anathema to success.

It is becoming glaringly obvious that the purpose the Democratic Party serves for at least the last two decades is to quash any progressive aspiration. If they learn anything, it will be that they need to stomp down harder.

On that note, if this guy manages to actually win the election he is going to be murdered. Fascism will be too far along and he does not have the unwavering support of the NYPD to protect him. In fact they are the most likely party to orchestrate it.