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Rhiannon12866

(241,194 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:46 PM Aug 9

'Our country is transforming before our eyes': The rise of the Revenge Presidency - Velshi - MSNBC



Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff turned whistleblower in the first Trump administration, says even he’s surprised by the “breakneck pace” at which democracy is being dismantled in the name of revenge. Taylor says what worries him most is what Trump hasn’t done yet.

The founders warned about the dangers of revenge, and "here we are--we're living it,” says Taylor. Regardless of the truth behind the Justice Department’s accusations against Trump’s foes, Taylor stresses that’s not the point of Trump’s revenge spree: “The process is the punishment.” - Aired on 08/09/2025.

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yellow dahlia

(2,676 posts)
1. The second hour of Velshi was intense this morning. Great discussions w/ Miles Taylor and Lisa Rubin.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:51 PM
Aug 9

Velshi is on top of the take over. He calls it like it is.

Rhiannon12866

(241,194 posts)
2. Agree, he really is excellent. He's even able to quote from certain pages of Project 2025
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:56 PM
Aug 9

He actually has gone out of his way to teach his viewers all about what's in it. We can learn so much from Velshi's lessons.

Rhiannon12866

(241,194 posts)
4. Agreed. Every time you think he can't possibly get worse, break norms and actual laws, he does
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 11:38 PM
Aug 9

There are so many that it's gotten tough to keep track - and every one is shocking.

cliffside

(1,282 posts)
8. Adding a link to the site Miles Taylor mentioned to help those who are being targeted ...
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 12:28 AM
Aug 10

"The legal defense fund to end presidential revenge against Miles Taylor & others"

https://endpresidentialrevenge.org


jfz9580m

(15,789 posts)
11. So lame
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 01:26 AM
Aug 10


I am taking a leaf out of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and going with gallows humor to weather this ;-/.

For those of us who aren’t retired (which isn’t very many people on DU ), partly how Trump and that type of male anywhere on the planet (including these unsavory little male creeps local to me) work their magic is by ensuring you pay attention to them.

Going forward I’ll count it as a day I spent supporting Trump (and by extension his creepy local analogs) every time I spend a day procrastinating wrt work, not exercising, eating junk or generally embracing learned helplessness.

Aside from popping onto DU to offer moral support (I am far from Trump) a few times daily, I am ignoring Trump and all other creeps. I have put Trump, Putin, Xi Ping, that El Salvador creep, Musk, my communist CM, all those creepy, technocratic leeches etc on permanent ignore.

No one should have to think this much about the dullest and creepiest men ever..


(I am off my emoji strike ;-/…..too many damn protests weighing me down)
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