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appmanga

(1,256 posts) Mon Sep 8, 2025, 12:40 PM 12 hrs ago

Stop Acting Like This is Normal The Ezra Klein Show

While I disagree with the title, since I believe most anyone with a brain realizes by now this isn't normal and aren't acting like it, I think it's a much watch.

What would it take for Democratic leadership to say what Klein says plainly and without hyperbolics: this is an authoritarian government, and a commitment to the the Constitution compels them to fight against it. Klein, and many others, have already written the script and talking points. Maybe some stagecraft is needed, but how much spoon feeding should people perceived to be competent in a profession have to get from others?

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Stop Acting Like This is Normal The Ezra Klein Show (Original Post) appmanga 12 hrs ago OP

Gavin Newsom is not pulling punches but he's not a national Eliot Rosewater 12 hrs ago #1

Corporate media is shameless Johnny2X2X 12 hrs ago #2

Flashback from the late Robert Jay Lifton Oct 13, 2017 Uncle Joe 11 hrs ago #3

It's Time To Run This Government Like Mr.Bee 9 hrs ago #4

This is what authoritarians do. Eko 8 hrs ago #5

Eliot Rosewater

(33,872 posts)

1. Gavin Newsom is not pulling punches but he's not a national

Reply to appmanga (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 12:46 PM

12 hrs ago

Politician and cannot do a goddamn thing about the piece of shit as much as he wants to.

I have no idea what the Democratic Party is planning on now, as an uNCONDITIONAL supporter of the party for decades, as someone who will try to shut someone up if they attack the party because all that does is help Nazis, I’m starting to lose Any hope that they will be a part of this solution if there ever is one.

Johnny2X2X

(23,291 posts)

2. Corporate media is shameless

Reply to appmanga (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 12:52 PM

12 hrs ago

He's sending the military into liberal cities as revenge on liberals, has nothing to do with crime or they'd be invading the highest crime areas which are almost all in red states.

Yet all we hear from the mainstream media is how this is a crime crackdown.

Uncle Joe

(63,091 posts)

3. Flashback from the late Robert Jay Lifton Oct 13, 2017

Reply to appmanga (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 01:21 PM

11 hrs ago

As Vanity Fair reports some of President Trump’s closest aides and advisers say he is “unstable” and “unraveling,” and that the White House is increasingly consumed by chaos, we speak with Robert Jay Lifton, a leading American psychiatrist and author of more than 20 books about the effects of nuclear war, terrorism and genocide.

Thanks for the thread appmanga