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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's be frank. This president could shoot and murder someone on U.S. streets and get away with it
...with the present balance of power in the legislature and the courts.
He's just killed 11 people in international waters using the same provably false claim he's used against Venezuelan immigrants here in the U.S. of being drug gang members, without presenting a shred of proof.
The maga majority on the sitting Supreme Court has granted this president invented immunity for 'official acts,' and he's using that impunity to trample all over Americans, and now, ostensibly, wherever in the world he chooses using his own warped view of history, events, and circumstances to place this country in an offensive posture against everyone except the dictatorial regimes that have been regarded as military adversaries by successive presidents for decades; Democratic and republican.
This is the result of unbridled, unchecked power assumed by just one man, and it's not going to end tomorrow. Anyone and everyone who openly opposes this regime is in danger, to the degree that their very lives may be at risk.
It's not as if they even have to directly confront Trump, he's a roving danger with an eye toward hurting people he opposes for any variety of reasons, and he's wielding the power we pay for to perpetrate this totalitarianism against Americans and others in his and his administration's autocratic sights.
There is no justice or relief in sight as the maga majority on the Court that enabled Trump into office and granted him these invented immunities are still in place to enable him even further.
It's a crime against democracy that we're all forced to wait like peasants for their final judgment on EVERYTHING essential and vital to our democracy; this Supreme Court majority having already demonstrated their contempt for the people and our ELECTED legislature by knocking down lower court rulings against Donald Trump like kings, without any explanation at all.
There are no rights that can be defended with surety against this abusive and coercive government, and we are all at an incredible risk of being completely devastated, to the point of losing our very lives and livelihoods, by a government concerned only with what THEY want, and whatever this president decides.

Ocelot II
(126,980 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(20,645 posts)If Dems resist having hearings because been there, done that, then they dont deserve to gain the majority.
a kennedy
(34,328 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
Iris
(16,605 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(178,175 posts)And he's only going to get worse the more he's allowed to get away with his crimes.
GreenWave
(11,457 posts)https://www.prensalibre.com/internacional/como-reacciono-venezuela-al-ataque-de-ee-uu-contra-supuestos-miembros-del-tren-de-aragua-en-el-atlantico/?cx_testId=28&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s
Let's see if I can translate this puppy" The government of Venezuela accused the United States of creating an artificial intelligence video published this Tuesday by the President of the North American county, Donald Trump, with images of the announced attack against a boat that according to Washington was carrying drugs and had left the South American nation.
Diraven
(1,537 posts)If it's already perfectly legal and acceptable to summarily execute suspected gang members in international waters, it's just a matter of time before they decide it's ok to do the same within our own country. Just have to call them "terrorists". And after that even more groups will be labeled terrorists too ...
BlueTsunami2018
(4,581 posts)And theres only one way to deal with fascists. I think deep down everyone here knows this. I know there are a lot of pacifists here and I sympathize with that stance but thats just not going to cut it, not against these guys.
This is going to end badly for everyone but itll be so much worse than if we dont fight these assholes. And we should be doing it right now.