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Bill Maher warns the GOP they’re "way past flirting with authoritarianism."
"You must know we are really on the edge of a dictatorship here, and you're the only ones who can stop it."
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“Calling people a fascist is dangerous, violent rhetoric.”
Ok.
Here is a compilation of Trump doing precisely that:
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Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of this website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. In moments like this, we should be lowering the temperature and finding our shared humanity — not fueling more hatred and violence.
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everyone in politics and journalism who has downplayed the threat Trump poses to our democracy needs to reflect on their foolishness and beg their kids and grandkids for forgiveness
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Confused about what happened at the "very unusual" Trump-Putin summit? Listen to what Fox's Bret Baier, Brian Kilmeade, and Jacqui Heinrich said about it:
"It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled."
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To their credit, the Founding Fathers always knew a king-like tyrant would one day try to rule as personal dictator and use the powers of the presidency to live above the law.
But they never foresaw an entire branch of government abdicating oath in favor of partisan complicity and grift, and they certainly never foresaw algorithmic media producing a citizenry so manipulated by obvious deceit.
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Without Putin having made any concessions but on the basis of dumbwit Witkoff's misunderstandings, Trump is now inviting sanctioned international criminal Putin to meet him on US ground for the first time since 2003.
What an embarrassment for the US! /5
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Those of you who don't know what authoritarianism looks like...this is it. All the gaslighting about previous presidents "what about...!!! Is bullshit. I've been talking about the slide towards NOW for 30+ years. Those earlier concerns were nothing. Now we are HERE.
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In a desperate attempt to convince Americans to ignore the latest bad jobs report, Trump grabs a chart, shows it to the cameras, no idea what it says, no attempt to explain: “But this chart is pretty amazing. Right here. All new numbers”
Beyond parody
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NPR obtained bodycam footage showing Jared Wise beating police officers on Jan. 6 and yelling “kill ’em” as rioters attacked.
He now works as a senior adviser in Trump’s DOJ.
“Back the blue,” right?
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This is it! Why he is loved as a coach why he was able to get the most out of unique group of great talented men. Celebrates the unique qualities and abilities of each person. Great coach!
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Widespread Panic first covered Black Sabbath on Halloween 1987 at the Uptown Lounge in Athens, playing Paranoid and Black Sabbath to close their second set.
They played another Sabbath classic, Sweet Leaf, every Halloween from 1989 through 1995, with the exception of '91 when they opened for Blues Traveler in NYC. In fact, the boys played Sweet Leaf three nights in a row in 1993 - 10/31, 11/1, 11/2.
Here's a clip of Sweet Leaf from Halloween 1992 at the Georgia Theatre. Some mind blowing visuals were projected above the stage.
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Trump often insults his own supporters’ intelligence, but I can’t remember a time when he’s so blatantly and clumsily treated them like such complete idiots
If you have the facts of the case on your side, then you pound on the facts. If you have the law on your side, you pound on the law. But when you have neither on your side you pound on the table!
Ty Cobb himself has confirmed that he said this in recent days.
Ty Cobb: Former member of the Trump legal team speaks out...
"[Trump} is worse than anyone in our history in my experience and opinion. As people seem to have forgotten, I was very critical of Biden and despite knowing him and his family well, I spent 4 years writing about his cognitive decline and weak foreign policy. He had competent advisors though including very decent men as AG and head of the FBI.
While you could fairly question their effectiveness you couldn’t doubt their character.
Trump has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions and just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid, eliminated child food support and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases including Ebola (among countless other dangerous things). His tariffs, like his bibles, crypto and extortion of colleges and media companies and his efforts to rewrite history, are purely personal, corrupt and have zero policy-based support.
They are just exercises in the power he craves so intensely.
He has and will continue to damage our economy and the world’s, and our culture, until and unless he is stopped.
Fortunately, the courts have shut down his Constitutional overreach in over 180 cases—96% of the cases he has brought or defended in the last six months—but without Congress, which has been neutered by its collective cowardice, the tide cannot turn completely.
We are more vulnerable economically and on national security than ever before in history as he and Hegseth have rendered the military unprepared by eliminating the majority of its most experienced and enlightened leaders.
Healthcare is in the toilet under RFK JR and many diseases are or soon will be on the rise due to the elimination of vaccines and the defunding of the sciences which made our energy, environment and healthcare the envy of the world.
And, finally his Bible and crypto grifts to name a few are pure greed. His net worth is up over $3 billion since taking office 6 months ago. No one has ever seen corruption at this level by a President. Most of these actions have been pure exercises in power and greed and have no guiding principle beyond self interest and vengeance.
Competence, leadership, science, and the rule of law which historically distinguished us from petty dictatorships have all been abandoned or curtailed to serve his ego and narcissism.
His narcissism is so real and so extreme it dominates and is at the heart of everything he does and always has been.
We can only hope the norms he has broken and the damage already done to us economically and to our stature in the world (where we have gone from the beacon of liberty to isolated bully in just months) can be restored perhaps in a generation and that the damage yet to come will be less severe, but the country is in real trouble and sadly the weakest among us will feel it the worst.
Moreover, the cognitive decline we saw in Biden is very real with Trump, as well.
His US-versus-THEM approach to Americans has been more divisive than any prior President. Just yesterday he announced how much he “hates” all Democrats. “
“Hate” worked for Hitler, briefly, but no one considers it a leadership trait. His racism is palpable. The country needs new leaders with character and I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats, never have.
Just want someone honest, principled, intelligent and compassionate who can unite us. Trump in my experience is none of those things.
This is what I believe and why I am engaged. I could of course be tilting at windmills, but don’t really have much choice if I want to sleep at night given the stakes as I see them."
July 5 at 2:22 p.m.
