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This consolidation of control is to overturn the election results later this year in a coup.
Good thing we're all just going to sit here and watch it happen.
It's time for the military to honour it's pledge then, send every tank, plane and ship to Washington and start shooting and don't stop until they surrender.
Then move on to the regime hangers-on, backers and supporters and hunt them with drones, dogs and special forces, let musk and theil know there is nowhere in the universe they can hide, take everything they own
I'm firmly of the belief only a military coup and a rewrite of the constitution forcing the states to sign at gunpoint if necessary will fix America.
MAGA is a terrorist network, take the country back from them.
What was that about the army being politically neutral?
This will be quite the ride in 2028 when trump won't go away.
It won't get that far. They'll seize control this year.
They already have.
Held up in his ballroom fortress calling the shots and sending his fans to their deaths?
Where air goes in so can aerosolised fentanyl
How you doing Republicans, feeling safe in this world you created?
They can't hear you. They are currently doing Trump's "beat off two dudes" dance.
Gotta fill those spots with more sycophants and morons. Gotta love the fact if some other country did decide to attack us, the mushroom-fluffers would have no idea what to fucking do. They'd probably end up bombing US, the citizens.
Fucking disgraceful. Hope the military is happy that they get to go fight fake wars for the Epstein class and die to cover up the pedophiles in office.
The only competence these people have is creating fascist power structures, because as psychopaths, that (and not competence in any meaningful field) is the one thing they've been training their whole lives for. Their fragile egos combined with sociopathic fixation on authority and loyalty means that everything needs to be a performative demonstration of masculinity and power.
Or more succinctly: They get off on people having to do what they say, preferably against their will, and we all have to suffer so they can feel good.
All of these actions just self-identify Hegseth and the rest of Trump's gallery of rogues as weak, pathetic, sadistic children.
I just can't help seeing Hegseth as Soltan Gris, the incompetent drunk alien CIA operative who manages to lie, embezzle, and grift himself to riches on the planet he is meant to be saving
L Ron Hubbard was a rapist and a grifter. But NEGL his Mission Earth is a great read (yes, all 10 books of it) and it's insane how relevant it is under Trump 2.0
I enjoyed Battlefield Earth (the book, not whatever that movie was), even with its issues. I read the first of Mission Earth when it came out. I don't remember why it didn't click for me, but I never read another.
Actually well written and intelligent science fiction book.
"Stand On Zanzibar" by John Brunner.
Won the 1969 Hugo for best novel.
Set in the 21st Century, it predicted AI, legal marijuana, mass shooters, mass homelessness, personalized ads, and a host of other ideas we now take for granted.
This is all totally normal. Nothing strange about any of this. This is all just to keep USAmericans safe.
Drug test Pete! Dude is drunk off his ass 24/7 and gets to call in drone strikes.
Yes but he relies on the military to issue those strikes, if he has no support in a military committed to standing up to tyranny who is to say he won't one day be the target.
The Untied States continues to march towards dictatorship. If only there was some way it could have been foreseen.
I hope to someday see this traitor swinging from the gallows. Hopefully with a priest excommunicating him, moments before.