@jbh @rbreich We are not another banana republic. Rather, we are a banana republic without the bananas. I once made a tee shirt showing a U.S. flag, but with the blue area with stars replaced with a bunch of bananas. The caption was a quote from an old song: "Yes, we have no bananas".
One person thought the bananas were marijuana leaves - a warning regarding my artistic abilities.
Old enough to remember when we lived in a free country.
@rbreich
Sir, you're correct. Trump is staging a coup. He's making a lot of progress replacing civilian and military leadership with loyalists, and he's sending troops into every city he'll want to seize to prevent a fair election.
It's a coup. They're illegally arresting protesters. They're arresting civilians without a warrant simply because they disagree with what they were saying.
They won't stop the coup just because we point it out. What should we DO about it? What's our NEXT step?
This is ALL made possible through the blunt force power of rampant capitalism.
But unlike the 'social safety net', curbing capitalism has become the new Third Rail.
You have my consensus about the problem, but until you acknowledge the REAL problem—and its long-overdue solution—this is not a serious call to action.
attempting to rig elections? I think Musk paid a bunch of money to the company that made the changes to the swing state machines so that Harris votes became trump votes. There is an outfit researching this you can look up. Their data is awfully interesting. Check it out.
It’s obvious…
Level of corruption.