MAGA logic ..

I believe Trump really can reduce crime in America. He just needs to stop doing it !

The same sort of people who hated wearing masks to protect the vulnerable now love wearing masks to oppress the vulnerable. Strange, that 🤔

Once a liberal democracy has been eroded, it’s very difficult to restore it. Destruction is so much easier than construction.

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes." .. (Steven Levitsky)

In Britain, PM Keir Starmer and his ministers are now attacking mass demonstrations against the genocide in Gaza as 'unbritish'. No Keir, what is 'unbritish' is failing to clearly condemn a genocidal regime and not cutting off all aid and support to it. That's 'unbritish'.

Trump's America, marching boldly towards fascism ..

Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages on 7-10-2023. Israel attacked Gaza and has so far killed over 67,000, wounded 170,000 more, committed war crimes almost daily, pounded Gaza to rubble, made hundreds of thousands refugees, and starved children to death. Just stop !

Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have spoken out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans.

“The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times stupid, meandering, couldn’t hold a thought together,” ..(Barry McCaffrey, a retired general, speaking of Trumps recent speech in Virginia to the country’s top military leaders)

Trump is the enemy within that is destroying America.

"They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”.. (Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Gaza food-aid flotilla) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction .. no longer exists”. .. (Hannah Arendt)

The loathsome JD Vance has crawled out from whatever rock he was festering under to lie to the media and public again, trying to pin the blame for the Trump shutdown on Democrats. Sorry, J.D. .. nobody who isn't afflicted by MAGA'itis will believe that whopper .. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one who has to get people together!” .. (Donald Trump, from a 2011 interview with NBC)

Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize like sending the military into peaceful American towns with instructions to use 'full force' against their citizens.

If Israel's leaders are war criminals for their genocide in Gaza, what does that make the USA for supplying the weapons and unconditional support that enable it ..

It's going well so far ..

“To be woke means to see the world for what it is, not for what you want it to be.” .. (Michelle Obama)

Fascists hate being called Fascists ..

"Joe Manchin says Democrats need to "move to the center" to win. I've watched corporate Democrats like him peddle this baloney for 50 years. Instead of caving to Big Money, Democrats should fight back against Trump and the oligarchs rigging the system." .. (Robert Reich)

"Donald Trump is making every possible effort to silence and intimidate his critics, and anyone else who stands up to him. I won’t back down." .. (Adam Schiff)

"Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results." ..(Margaret Atwood)

"I can completely understand why anyone would want to bury their head in the sand right now. I sometimes do too. But this is exactly the moment when your involvement, your activism, and your courage are most needed." .. (Robert Reich)

"This is what authoritarianism is about: government silencing dissenting voices. .. Too many people have fought and died to defend freedom. We won’t let Trump take it away." .. (Bernie Sanders)

“There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.” .. (Fidel Castro)

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by the Fascist mentality." .. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)

"The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals." .. (William Blum)

"No American politician has done more to normalize political violence in this country than Donald J. Trump." .. (Mike Fanone, victim of Trump's Jan 6th insurrection violence)

"The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy." .. (Zara Sultana, UK MP)

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes.".. (Steven Levitsky)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ..(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

A joint public statement by 9 former leaders of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr is "endangering every American's health."

"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed." .. (Clarence Darrow)

As long as Israel is unconditionally supported and protected by the USA, it will continue to commit war crimes and genocide. Condemn Israel for its barbaric actions, but condemn the USA as strongly for it's complicity too.

“Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.” .. (Pope Francis)

“Want to know what it’s like to live in a police state? Look around you. Like the legendary frog, Americans have remained content to sit in the pot while the temperature has gradually increased, and we’re all well and truly cooking now." .. (Maggie McNeill)

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”  .. (quote attributed to Seneca)

“Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.“ ..  (quote Judge Sturgess)

“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.” - (quote Helen Keller)

“For Republicans, life begins at conception but ends at birth.” .. (quote J. Adam Snyder)

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." ..(Voltaire)

"Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder." .. (James Carville)

“Mail in voter fraud rate: 0.0025%. We don't have a problem with mail-in voting fraud. We have a problem with a president who is a pathological liar and is actively trying to suppress the vote.” .. (quote Senator Bernie Sanders)