Capitalism evolves into authoritarianism.

Less than one year in office and prices are soaring, government shutting down, and America looks like a nation of fools for electing a known liar and giving power to a narcissist.

imagine being a member of Seal Team 6 and having some alcoholic Fox News host make you sit in a theater while he calls you a fat pussy.

I wrote in the @nytimes.com about DoD's restrictions on what its press can report. Amid the many headlines from the Pentagon, this kind of overreach can quietly, but steadily, corrode our democratic norms, potentially compounding over time if left in place. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days. Mike Johnson voted “no” on that. They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

If you think we can wait for the 2026 election to DO something, then YOU are part of the problem. That will be WAAAAAY toooo late.

How is this sustainable?

America is so partisan and so desensitized we can't even agree a president as evil and broken as Trump obviously is, should not be the president.

A drunk on power narcissist will let a government shut down. Very normal. As things rot perhaps Americans will awaken to the fact that Trump can't govern, he has no skill, he's a hammer that hits everything but the nail he's aiming at.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund and a recently naturalized citizen and voter, my law firm has moved to intervene against a DOJ lawsuit seeking access to the state's voter registration data. www.democracydocket.com/cases/minnes...

The thing about ‘reducing crime’ through ‘crackdowns,’ ‘sweeps,’ or even full on military occupation is that it doesn’t address the root causes … you have to keep applying force forever. Which is, of course, the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

Scenario. U.S. war of choice in Venezuela gets bogged down, strikes become limited invasion, become forever counter insurgency war…. U.S. less able to come to Taiwan’s aid (which is questionable anyway)… China wins big How many people in USA care about Venezuela?!?!

Democratic U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, from Montgomery County, on Tuesday confronted Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson about President Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated deepfake video on Truth Social showing House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero with a fake mustache.

🧵 In a massive rebuke of the German auto giant, the National Labor Relations Board has found Volkswagen to have egregiously violated the law in intimidating, disciplining, and threatening workers at its Parts Distribution Center in Cranbury, New Jersey, earlier this year.

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend those states against this attack on federalism in 6 of those states: ME, MI, MN, NH, OR and PA. I suggest that tomorrow DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining two: CA and NY.

Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, NY, Maine, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Nebraska, Montana, Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Arkansas Wyoming, Louisiana Texas, Minnesota, Michigan Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania Massachusetts, Alaska

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Trump knows how to divert and distract. Right Epstein?

Trump has so desensitized this nation that a central theme of his address to our military was the idea of an “enemy from within,” which he described as a domestic threat more insidious than foreign adversaries because they “don’t wear uniforms”. We know who he means. Dems. We've lost our minds.

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

AOC: When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves

Democrats stop taking abuse from Trump.

Ask yourself one question. Why would a guy who lives and owns a place like this spend his time railing against a system that has created a world where he lives like a king? Answer me this Batman.

This is a blatant lie — but that's the point. It's Authoritarianism 101. Trump lives to sow chaos and act like a strongman to cover for his rapidly declining popularity. He needs to "other" his political opponents and stoke fear in order to hide his failures. This is why we must not give in.

Power is all that matters. White is right. We are gods amongst nations. We are above the law. We are above the law. We are above the law. Our mission is sacred. Anything goes. The thoughts of the White Supremacist.

Hegseth: "Any place where tried & true physical standards were altered, especially since 15 when combat arms standards were changed to ensure females could qualify, must be returned to their original standard. Other standards have been manipulated to hit racial quotas, which is just as unacceptable"

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

Close down the show. Put it to bed. Restart the system. Turn it off, wait awhile, then hopefully, when the virus is gone turn it on again. America is one sick puppy. America is broken. America is ruled by a madman drunk on power whose sole aim is to divide this nation and tear us down.

open.substack.com/pub/thenatio... In philosophy, the Nietzschean Übermensch frees himself from the pedestrian bounds of humanity to become a superior being that can rule us mere mortals. In our reality, the men who fancy themselves Übermenschen—and who, unfortunately, are

America: let’s put a moronic criminal in charge of our finest men and women in uniform. Also America: let’s hope our finest men and women in uniform do not listen to the moronic criminal we put in charge of them.

Ask yourself one question, why do people who already possess power and wealth, purposely lie and deceive in order to divide Americans? What do they gain?

Until poor people stop blaming other poor people for their poverty nothing is going to change. Your enemy is not other Americans. It's ignorance.

America listen up. We are not going to survive 3 more years of Trump. No way. No how. This is the moment when America decides what kind of people we are.

Weak, broken, insecure men who get power and use it to cosplay. That's what we have.

NEWS: Trump sends out a fundraising email touting the prosecution of James Comey

I hope our military leaders love America.

This photo just about sums it up

America is the 1st empire in history to fall even as our fall is described, foot by foot, with uncanny accuracy, detailed each step of the way, till splat! An AI will write a thesis describing how Americans documented each step of surrender to a totalitarian madman drunk on power, and quite mad.

Anyone who studied history knows that this is the LITERAL NAZI PLAYBOOK. And I mean LITERAL. He even used the words "the enemy within."

A letter of support from Fetterman.

I'm sure that the democratic leaders are even now working on a letter to mildly disagree with this.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

Trump told military leaders other Americans were the enemy.