neonchaos

Fair point. I apologize to President Camacho.

The US is following the playbook by the letter. The biggest difference between nascent Nazi Germany and the US today? We’ve had 80+ years to build up military power which we’ll use to crush any who stand against us, while Germany was still fighting against crippling debt and hoping not to generate too much notice as they built up their military power. While the Nazi’s had to coax, cajole, and bully the media into speaking or reporting on them favorably, this administration has managed to get the media to eagerly accede to demands that haven’t been made. The government shuts down, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho Mayor McCheese will declare a state of emergency that includes the criminalization of the opposition party for causing the shutdown, then he’ll cite whatever war Secretary HePronoun Removed-Man has started as the reason for a full martial law implementation and the military annexation of Canada for “Secure the Borders!”. In this scenario US=Germany, Canada=Poland, and we just skip the Sudetenland and The Anschluss (though to the administration, they’ll expect that the annexation of Canada will equate to The Anschluss) and go right to the need for “Lebensraum”

He doesn’t just want to be a dictator, he is actively taking steps to entrench and enshrine himself as one; and our feckless SCrOTUS and Congress are only too happy to do whatever is necessary to further this agenda. For those that support him, the math is simple: “Being in his favor may yield rewards.” For those that oppose him the math is still simple, “He’s going to leave office eventually, then it’ll ‘our turn’ and we’ll be able to rule an authoritarian state with absolute power and a fully functioning surveillance network.” The American Experiment has failed…miserably. The US and indeed the rest of the world need to stop pretending that this is suddenly going to end, or cooler heads will prevail. The US is a threat to global stability, peace, and prosperity. Any state, government, monarch, or political body that hasn’t accepted that this is the new reality is deluding themselves. This is the new normal and we only become more fascist, draconian, and totalitarian as the days go by. President Thunder Thighs still has 3+ more years left in his Constitutionally mandated term, and it’s only taken him 9 months to dismantle everything resembling functional representative democracy. By the time his term is “up” there will be one party rule, lifetime appointments to office, the dissolution of all other branches of governments, and the complete closure of borders (publicly to keep undesirables out, but functionally to prevent brain drain and keep everyone in). Everyday he and his cronies find some new way to assume more power, and there is no check or balance to combat that. While many will say “it’s defeatist” or “don’t give up”, we’re watching in real time as the mechanisms for voicing and acting on dissent are being dismantled or criminalized. They come back harder after every set back and it’s only a matter of time before even this comment becomes a crime against the state.

Christianity - A doomsday cult so committed to fulfilling prophecy that they’ll kill all of us for the chance to prove their interpretation of God has a bigger dick than every other deity ever conceived. /s

By Tuberville’s logic, “Hitler was one of the most influential people in Poland”

If only. My fondest wish is that this kind of brinkmanship further stresses the already weak systems and further drives the most disillusioned to complete despondency and we usher in a complete and total collapse of the country. I’m further hoping that the knock-on effect of having the world’s biggest economy go tits up is enough to strain and stress the other capitalist states and help usher in something new. While the revolution won’t be bloodless or televised, the hope is that when the dust settles we’re finally in a place to deliver on the promise of a better future.