#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
#Biden leads the #UnitedStates as the American century is fading into an uncertain future, a changing world of #threats, opportunities, & #power shifts. At 81, he holds fast to a vision that has reigned since WWII, in which a rich & powerful America leads an #alliance of #democracies to safeguard the globe from #tyranny.
Jak już pisałem, #DiscoElysium, choć ciekawe w wielu aspektach, jednak nie przypadło mi do gustu. Teraz czas na #Tyranny - słyszałem opinie, że jest lepsze niż Pillarsy, które w sumie całkiem polubiłem. #giereczkowo#cRPG
If you live in tyranny, like Russia - then only death means something. It is a death race between you and the tyrant, who will die first?- How much years will you lose before the tyrant perish? What will left from you and your life in the end? Is it really worth waiting ? Maybe a flash of glorious self-destructing rebellion is preferable, while you still have some dignity to light it? #russia#anarchism#tyranny#rebellion#resistance#revolution#rebellious
#Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over #Trump attacks on #law
Federal DC Judge #ReggieWalton warned Trump’s attacks on #HushMoney trial judge & others could lead to #violence.
The Republican-appointed judge denounced Trump’s attacks against the judge presiding over his hush money trial in Manhattan & his daughter, calling them assaults on the #RuleOfLaw that could lead to violence & #tyranny.
“The #RuleOfLaw can only be maintained if we have #independent#judicial officers who are able to do their job & ensure that the #laws are in fact enforced & that the laws are applied equally to everybody who appears in our courthouse,” #ReggieWalton told CNN. He was prompted to speak out of concern for the “future of our country & the future of #democracy in our country,” Walton said, “because if we don’t have a viable court system that’s able to function efficiently, then we have #tyranny.”
The turn to fascism in America isn’t coming just (or even primarily) from crazed fanatics. It’s coming from well funded “think tanks” full of well dressed and well fed pseudoscholars who imagine themselves to be reasonable and mannerly. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112124274481988039
Not unlike Germany in 1933. Germany`s ultra-wealthy were fascist to a man, including the media owners. Even more disgusting, several of the initial wealthy backers were later deported for religious reasons. When personal wealth and low taxes are all that are important, one gets tyranny. Full stop. #wealth #tyranny #fascism #hitler
The police presence appeared heavy for the service. Some attendees shouted, “No to war” & “#Russia will be free” as they marched to the cemetery where the opposition leader was to be buried.
A photograph taken inside the church & shown on #Navalny’s YouTube channel showed him in an open coffin, lying in repose w/flowers over his body. His parents held lit candles. His widow, #YuliaNavalnaya, who has vowed to carry on his #political activities, & his children, Daria & Zakhar, who no longer
live in #Russia, did not appear to be present.
#POTUS Joe Biden was leading #Michigan's Democratic presidential primary contest Tues, as expected, w/the #ProtestVote against him pulling about 7% of the tally.
Biden had 88% of the vote, followed by 7% #uncommitted, 2% for Minnesota US Rep Dean Phillips & 2.4% for self-help guru Marianne Williamson, with 3% of precincts reporting.
A 2020 general rematch between #Trump & President Joe #Biden is becoming increasingly #inevitable. #NikkiHaley has vowed to stay in the race through at least the batch of primaries on March 5, known as #SuperTuesday, but was unable to dent Trump’s momentum in #SouthCarolina, her home state, despite holding far more campaign events & arguing that the #indictments against Trump will hamstring him against Biden.
#Trump grotesquely likened a #civil#fraud judgment against him to #Navalny’s death. When asked by #FauxNews personality #LauraIngraham how he would come up w/ the $364 million in penalties, plus interest, in a #NewYork judge’s Feb 16 verdict, TFG replied: “It is a form of Navalny. It is a form of communism or fascism.”
"History will teach us, that … of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their carreer [sic], by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing Demagogues and ending Tyrants."
— Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1 —
"The key to the Founders’ fear of the demagogue was not merely that he might secure high office, but that the means by which he would attain it – appeal to the mob – would allow him to corrupt or overthrow the Republic in order to transform himself into a dictator. The source of the demagogue’s power does not expire if he is expelled from office; so long as he retains the loyalty of the mob, he may return to power.
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Trump was the man against whom the founding generation armed the constitution with the disqualification clause. They would surely think anyone quite mad for suggesting that a president who actively sought the overthrow of democracy could not be disqualified from trying again because the failed plot reached its crescendo too close to the expiration of his term."
The Founders would've found the madmen suggesting, that a president, who actively sought the overthrow of democracy could not be disqualified from trying again in the majority of contemporary Senate "Republicans" & the majority of their House "Republican" accomplices.
Studies of various historical forms of governments & their respective leaders enabled Hamilton & other Founders to identify & even foresee worse & worst examples of self-centered reckless sociopathic ruling figures like Trump, Putin, Stalin, Hitler & other tyrants the empires of whom thankfully were never allowed to make it to eternity.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lesson from the Twentieth Century
"One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some
This is not the end, but a beginning. “The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come, let’s go together.”