haenzApr 15, 2025
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here: Sadly, we were warned.

"But what’s clear is that this is brutal and lawless behavior — the kind of arbitrary arrest and punishment that’s common in authoritarian regimes.

The second thing that should scare you is the lawlessness.

That means that Trump could grab you, or me, or anyone else off the street and put us on a plane to El Salvador, and then argue that no U.S. court has the right..."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-authoritarian-takeover-attempt

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here

Sadly, we were warned.

Noahpinion
Apr 15, 2025 at 11:25amWeb
Show threadManuel 'HonkHase' AtugApr 15, 2025

"to order us back, because once we’re on foreign soil it’s the domain of foreign policy. If so, it means that due process and the rule of law in America are effectively dead; the President can simply do anything to anyone, for any reason.

Trump is arresting people who haven’t been accused of any crime, this means that Trump is asserting the power to unilaterally and arbitrarily send any American citizen to a Salvadoran prison for any reason. That is the power of a dictator..."

Show threadManuel 'HonkHase' AtugApr 15, 2025
"Meanwhile, a Trump ally reportedly told CNN’s parent company that they could get back in Trump’s good graces and avoid future lawsuits by making a documentary about Melania Trump, or a TV show about Donald Trump, Jr. — either of which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money. This fits with a general pattern of extreme corruption in the Trump administration, but it’s also an attempt to use presidential power to turn the media into outlets for regime propaganda..."
Show threadManuel 'HonkHase' AtugApr 15, 2025
"The big worry, when Trump took office three months ago, was that in his second term his instincts would be just as authoritarian, but his competence would receive a massive boost from the alliance with Elon Musk and the Tech Right. Elon’s government-slashing DOGE blitz in the early days of the administration seemed to confirm that Trump 2.0 had the technical chops that Trump 1.0 had lacked..."
Show threadManuel 'HonkHase' AtugApr 15, 2025

"He’s not benign, but he’s probably not invincible either.

It is upon this thin thread that we must hang our hopes for democracy."

Show threadTom_HuthApr 15, 2025
@HonkHase Was muss noch gesagt werden?
https://mastodon.social/@AJ_andrew69/114338788080745802
Show threadC.Suthorn Apr 15, 2025

@Tom_Huth @HonkHase

Aber im März 2016 hat Trump es doch gesagt: ich kann menschen auf der 5th avenue erschießen und niemand kümmert es.

Und 2017 bis 2020 hat er beispielsweise veteranen mit purple heart übelst beleidigt und die army hat nur mit den schultern gezuckt.

2020 bis 2024 wurde zwar gegen ihn ermittelt, aber mehr als ein urteil ist nicht rumgekommen und da ist nie ein strafmaß festgesetzt worden, geschweigedenn umgesetzt.

Und jetzt muss ich weiter die unverbotene afd argumentativ stellen gehen.