Cuomo has the support of the guy who, less than a full day after the attack, was in an interview gloating about how he was so happy that he had the tallest building in Manhattan now.

Quite literally every budget, from what I understand. They’re robbing pretty much every project that’s been appropriated already so they can pay ICE and the military.

Call it what it is: an intimidation tactic.

I honestly don’t disagree with people who point out that we need to get massive protests. General strikes, campaigns to grind entire cities to a halt. Take a look at France, at Italy, even at the modern conservative movements in the US - we could and arguably should shut down the entire country until things get WAY better. Days without a government might not matter to a lot of people, a day without work might not impact much, but when you even get 5% of the population just not doing their jobs, not contributing to the economy, or out in the streets actively making it harder for OTHER PEOPLE to do their jobs, suddenly the impact magnifies immensely.

I agree with the other commenters that he’s just not that smart. I legitimately cannot see an administration of, basically, bullies trying to blackmail anyone into anything, because it doesn’t fit their MO. They don’t go for emotional blackmail, it’s all threats because that’s what they’re best at. Kidnap and implicitly threaten the kids or the wife so the guy you’re trying to deport comes out. Threaten the reporters or the onlookers with implied violent force. Threaten the people being mean to you on social media with that same violent force. It’s all they know how to do, and they know it works very well so long as you have what they’ve had most or all of their lives: privilege and power to back it up.

Trump was right in that he could’ve shot someone in broad daylight and gotten off. Any of these rich fascist fucks could - RFK Jr might have, allegedly. Not because they have millions of adoring fans, but because they’re bullies and can monetarily and violently threaten people into silence pretty easily with the wealth, access, and privilege that they have.

Yes but it doesn’t matter if people THINK it’s good. Enough of his voters are still delusional enough that they think the high prices are Democrat’s Fault Stuff, and everything will be Fine once we have all the Hated Enemies out of our country in a year or so. My mother and stepfather think this way.

There’s also the third option of “we saw a diagram of a monopolar electrosurgical unit at one point and decided that was magic that can cure stuff”.

Basically, yes. This is quite literally what he’s thinking of it as, I think - the grand throne room at Versailles, where the corporate nobility and other world leaders come to grovel at his feet for his mercy.

No no Guardian, don’t play their game. Ethnic cleansing was literally not a term until the 90s. The Clinton admin made it up out of nothing to justify why the US didn’t have to intervene in Rwanda, and everyone else went with it because it was convenient for them, because everyone else was trying to figure out how they didn’t have to intervene as well. “Ethnic cleansing” is just genocide in a wrapper.

Yeah, this sounds like an end run to “justify” blue states not being counted.

They’ve been trying to spin literally any protests or even just token resistance as criminal, and rural voters, by and large, absolutely believe that cities are hives of crime and iniquity.

Yup, “move fast and break things”, legal system style. Turns out if you throw someone on a plane and into a foreign prison before the court date even arrives, it’s actually really hard to get them back out, because now “it’s a state department issue”.

What’s worse is that this is coming from the Communications Director. A spokesperson shouldn’t be using language like this, ever, especially if we’re still pretending at the whole “government as a business” thing.

Of course, this is how Trump runs all his businesses, so.

Yeah, this is another tendril of American exceptionalism, that we MUST somehow have a link to the biblical era (although some are happy linking the Bible to whiteness somewhere instead). This is where you get Joseph Smith claiming that the Native Americans are the lost 12th tribe, or the Templars burying the treasures of Jerusalem in Canada, or “the British people are the Twelfth Tribe” or whatever.

Anyone into ballistae? Trebuchets are cool, but have you put a small tree into someone’s living room?

Honestly have to agree. Do it anyway. Make them stop you. Then ignore their court order. Make the police stop you.

And to suppress registration within blue areas even further, yes.

The bigger issue is that even if this does collapse quickly, the damage is largely done. Who knows how much data and accumulated years of knowledge are gone, to say nothing of all the agencies and policies that are just burnt to the ground. It took DECADES to get the EPA to even a level that was largely useful. Even if we come out the other side of this, it’ll be in a radically changed form, possibly not even as the United States. I can very easily see a power vacuum and federal collapse from the fact that the federal government, aside from the actual levers of power like the judiciary and the military, is just a skeleton now.

Evil, no. Money, yes.

Bingo. The main body of the cult truly bought into the idea that Trump is either God’s handpicked man, a prophet, or Jesus Christ Himself. Morality doesn’t apply to the Selected.