Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Friday, February 21, 2025

 



"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. 

Democracy requires your courage." --Marc Elias

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

When one realizes fear is but an illusion until lack of appropriate action turns that which is feared into reality one has realized truth.

Fear is but a belief in something before it actually has happened. IOW's an illusion.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Tyranny requires Cancel Culture? Who knew?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Tyranny requires "political correctness" too. I never wudda thunkit!

Shaw Kenawe said...

Are you really so blind that you don’t see the Trump/ Musk Regime cancelling America? They’re gutting the FAA, ffs, as well as other vital government agencies under the lie that they’re saving money. In fact they’ve cancelling for cancellin’s sake without any proof whatsoever of cost savings.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Oh, you mean like the political correctness of unilaterally renaming a body of water, then punishing an international news organization for not following Trump’s megalomania idiocy? That kind of cancelling? It’s just flipped to a cancel culture you approve of, you silly man.

skudrunner said...

Wow, that is quite profound , makes no sense but is profound

Joe Conservative said...

I understand the President's role in our Constitutional Republic as that of a Unitary Executive. Perhaps you need to familiarize yourself with the concept and propose a Constitutional Amendment.

In other words, if Trump fails to "prove his case", you'll get your chance of replacing him at your next opportunity in 2028, or diminishing his current almost iron-clad support in 2026.

Shaw Kenawe said...

I understand there are 3 equal branches of government. And the president is NOT A KING. People who crave authoritarian daddys and need a POTUS wielding a sledgehammer and sword to smite their enemies are attracted to fascists like Trump and Musk. Enjoy your king for the moment. We who do not support kings are the majority.

Joe Conservative said...

Seems to me that the Left has been smugly "cancelling" people for over a decade now. Megalomania has an actual meaning, and only revealed itself many years later in the NATO expansion that started 30 years ago under Clinton and that Trump is threatening to reverse. It didn't begin with the renaming of a body of water a month ago.... although it is sometimes important to watch for changing maps.

But still Acta non Verba should be the watchwords for megalomaniacs. And not the invasions that follow 8 years after the coup.

As for that body of water...in the "acta non verba" sense, whose Navy actually controls it? But if the Mexican don't change their maps, what do I care?

Anonymous said...

The authoritarian fascist are now fully out in the open and mimicking the crazy ass bullshit their Fuhrer/King and his sidekick oligarch Musk(rat) feed their feeble minds.

Sorry skud my words are too profound for your conditioned mind and reified beliefs to grasp. Try to thaw your frozen illusions and perhaps reality will bloom for you.

Craig said...

Joe, no need for a constitutional amendment. Read Article II. The Unitary Executive is a fringe legal theory that has gained some traction among conservatives. The Supremes have slapped down presidents who have overstepped on the grounds of Presidential Privilege and Unitary Executive.

The lawsuits now working their way up may finally codify it with this Supreme Court. Until then, it ain't a thing.

ralph said...

Les, I will take it you are fine spending millions to house and feed criminals but not for using that money to help our veterans and homeless. Guess it is because it is someone else's money including the rich and the 51% who pay FIT.
Again, I find you post above profound.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

At least the fuhrer king isn't a Fisher king waiting for a Parsifal to stumble over the missing holy grail. He's found it.

Shaw Kenawe said...

The only thing Trump’s found is his insatiable desire to be the world’s biggest trou de cul.

Joe Conservative said...

Think Washington and Lincoln were simply nice guys?

As Hamlet would say, "Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake. "

Shaw Kenawe said...

If you think Trump is capable of greatness , then you’re sillier than we thought. Trump is nothing more than a petty little tyrant with outsized power now. He’s already overreached with his juvenile proclamation that he’s a king. He’ll fly too close to the sun, and we will watch his ending with deep satisfaction.

Shaw Kenawe said...

It “seems” to you because you’re living an aggrieved life, and everything that is counter to your ideology “seems” a slight and threat. Trump is cancelling everything America has held dear, including not taking the side of murderous dictators against our allies. You seem not to notice that Trump and his goons have turned most of the world’s democracies against A America. You silly, silly Trumper.