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Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite rCo critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined rCo but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a rCLsliderCY into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or, if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr. TrumprCOs threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. TrumprCOs personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. TrumprCOs antagonists, from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps, in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding rCLproof of citizenshiprCY for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a possibility rCo rCLa lot of people are saying rCyMaybe we need a dictatorrCOrCY rCo as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. TrumprCOs behalf, and he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience, defying a Supreme Court ruling rCo maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants rCo
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts committed in his rCLofficial capacity.rCY But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his powers.

Ah, but there are next yearrCOs midterm elections. Mr. TrumprCOs approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can begin.

But you havenrCOt been paying attention. What do you think all that gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026 must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. TrumprCOs view of the rule of law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: ItrCOs only going to get worse. We are still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. TrumprCOs behaviour has grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. TrumprCOs term is supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years. (That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House rCo or perhaps the White House is off it rCo is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesnrCOt. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isnrCOt. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House? I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI. D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention. Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. TrumprCOs dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the hour: How can he be stopped rCo before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of options, and out of time.
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On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08rC>AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25

By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite rCo critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined rCo but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a rCLsliderCY into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or, if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr. TrumprCOs threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is increasingly seen as Mr. TrumprCOs personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. TrumprCOs antagonists, from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding rCLproof of citizenshiprCY for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a possibility rCo rCLa lot of people are saying rCyMaybe we need a dictatorrCOrCY rCo as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. TrumprCOs behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience, defying a Supreme Court ruling rCo maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants rCo
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts committed in his rCLofficial capacity.rCY But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans, and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his powers.

Ah, but there are next yearrCOs midterm elections. Mr. TrumprCOs approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can begin.

But you havenrCOt been paying attention. What do you think all that gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026 must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. TrumprCOs view of the rule of law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: ItrCOs only going to get worse. We are still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. TrumprCOs behaviour has grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. TrumprCOs term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House rCo or perhaps
the White House is off it rCo is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesnrCOt. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isnrCOt. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention. Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. TrumprCOs dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the hour: How can he be stopped rCo before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many. American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite u critics of the President remain at large, the courts >> are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and >> 2028 elections have not yet been determined u but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a oslideo into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. >> Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the >> Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by >> convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump >> and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of >> major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr. >> TrumpAs threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The >> D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) >> agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their >> domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. TrumpAs personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. TrumpAs antagonists, >> from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for >> fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has >> since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal >> Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. >> central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being >> in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding oproof of >> citizenshipo for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment >> numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise >> disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility u oa lot of people are saying aMaybe we need a dictatorAo u as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating >> them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. TrumpAs behalf, and >> he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling u maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants u >> and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the >> Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his oofficial capacity.o But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with >> political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans, >> and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share >> his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his >> powers.

Ah, but there are next yearAs midterm elections. Mr. TrumpAs approval rating >> is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can >> begin.

But you havenAt been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026 >> must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. TrumpAs view of the rule of >> law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: ItAs only going to get worse. We are >> still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. TrumpAs behaviour has >> grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over >> boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more
outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. TrumpAs term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House u or perhaps
the White House is off it u is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the >> political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in >> violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesnAt. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isnAt. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But
whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention. >> Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. TrumpAs dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped u before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising >> creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is >a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many. >American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands >an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump >will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens >who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped. Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

AmericaAs shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isnAt but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is AmericaAs shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesnAt just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had othe right to do anything I want to do.o

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"IAm the President of the United States. If I think our countryAs in
danger u and it is in danger in these cities u I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if theyAd call in and say, oWould you do it?o And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52rC>AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the >>> dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite -u critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined -u but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a -oslide-o into authoritarianism, as if it were >>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. >>> Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the >>> Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of >>> major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr. >>> Trump-As threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The >>> D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) >>> agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their >>> domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. Trump-As personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump-As antagonists, >>> from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for >>> fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. >>> central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the >>> rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had >>> acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even >>> corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding -oproof of
citizenship-o for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment >>> numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise >>> disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for >>> which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. >>> Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility -u -oa lot of people are saying -aMaybe we need a dictator-A-o -u as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump-As behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling -u maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants -u
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the >>> Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his -oofficial capacity.-o But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with >>> political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans, >>> and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share >>> his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his >>> powers.

Ah, but there are next year-As midterm elections. Mr. Trump-As approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven-At been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By >>> appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump-As view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It-As only going to get worse. We are >>> still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump-As behaviour has >>> grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over >>> boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more
outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump-As term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been >>> carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House -u or perhaps
the White House is off it -u is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in >>> violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn-At. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn-At. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But
whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention. >>> Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump-As dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped -u before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of >>> options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands >> an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding
politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens >> who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America-As shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn-At but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America-As shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn-At just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump said he had -othe right to do anything I want to do.-o

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.

For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I-Am the President of the United States. If I think our country-As in
danger -u and it is in danger in these cities -u I can do it, no problem going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they-Ad call in and say, -oWould you do it?-o And we'd do it in conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:31:52 -0400, Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st>
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the >>> dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite u critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined u but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a oslideo into authoritarianism, as if it were >>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. >>> Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the >>> Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of >>> major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr. >>> TrumpAs threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The >>> D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) >>> agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their >>> domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. TrumpAs personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. TrumpAs antagonists, >>> from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for >>> fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. >>> central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the >>> rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had >>> acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even >>> corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding oproof of >>> citizenshipo for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment >>> numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise >>> disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for >>> which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. >>> Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility u oa lot of people are saying aMaybe we need a dictatorAo u as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. TrumpAs behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling u maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants u
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the >>> Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his oofficial capacity.o But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with >>> political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans, >>> and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share >>> his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his >>> powers.

Ah, but there are next yearAs midterm elections. Mr. TrumpAs approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you havenAt been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By >>> appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. TrumpAs view of the rule of >>> law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: ItAs only going to get worse. We are >>> still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. TrumpAs behaviour has >>> grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over >>> boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more
outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. TrumpAs term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been >>> carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House u or perhaps
the White House is off it u is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in >>> violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesnAt. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isnAt. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But
whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention. >>> Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. TrumpAs dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped u before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of >>> options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many. >>American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands >>an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump >>will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens >>who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped. Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

AmericaAs shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isnAt but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is AmericaAs shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesnAt just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >Chicago, Trump said he had othe right to do anything I want to do.o

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.

For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"IAm the President of the United States. If I think our countryAs in
danger u and it is in danger in these cities u I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if theyAd call in and say, oWould you do it?o And we'd do it in >conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

Hey, wilson, care to tell us andy's list did not happen? I'm waiting
for the fun of your denials.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the >>>> dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were >>>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. >>>> Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the >>>> Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of >>>> major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) >>>> agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists, >>>> from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. >>>> central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the >>>> rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had >>>> acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even >>>> corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment >>>> numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise >>>> disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for >>>> which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. >>>> Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with >>>> political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By >>>> appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are >>>> still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has >>>> grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been >>>> carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of >>>> options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding
politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens >>> who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say >No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in
danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote: >>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the >>>>> dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were >>>>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>>>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>>>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>>>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the >>>>> rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had >>>>> acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even >>>>> corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for >>>>> which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>>>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. >>>>> Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>>>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>>>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>>>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By >>>>> appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been >>>>> carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of >>>>> options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in
danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

On Aug 29, 2025 at 11:00:22rC>AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote: >>>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were >>>>>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>>>>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>>>>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>>>>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>>>>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>>>>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>>>>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>>>>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

David and Goliath. David had the brains and used them.

--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote: >>>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were >>>>>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>>>>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>>>>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>>>>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>>>>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>>>>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>>>>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>>>>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in
danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On 8/29/2025 8:05 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote: >>>>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>>>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>>>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>>>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

The problem is voter apathy. How did we get here? Because many people apparently failed to vote in US elections.

Vote for the party, not the man, or woman. At present, the Democratic
Party does not have a winning platform message.

Sorry Charlie!
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:53:43 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 8:05 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>>>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.? >>>>>>
Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

The problem is voter apathy. How did we get here? Because many people >apparently failed to vote in US elections.

Wrong.

Vote for the party, not the man, or woman. At present, the Democratic
Party does not have a winning platform message.

Sorry Charlie!

I see a contradiction there. If you are voting for the party, why
does it matter whether you think the candidate can win? Under what circumstances would a thinking person ever vote r since the r's seem
to have forgotten their moral compass at the whore house.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote: >>>>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>>>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>>>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>>>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

Where is the vulnerability of the Maga people. I doubt loss of the rule of
law would change how they see him. So, itrCOs the economy, stupid. If they suffer economically in their personal lives, that would be the Democrats
sling shot.

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On 8/29/2025 12:46 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:53:43 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 8:05 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> >>>>>>> wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings. >>>>>>>>>
Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you. >>>>>>>>>
Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more
outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But
whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding
politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is >>>>>>> right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>>>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.? >>>>>>>
Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>>>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>>>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo >>>>>>> doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office. >>>>

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

The problem is voter apathy. How did we get here? Because many people
apparently failed to vote in US elections.

Wrong.

Vote for the party, not the man, or woman. At present, the Democratic
Party does not have a winning platform message.

Sorry Charlie!

I see a contradiction there. If you are voting for the party, why
does it matter whether you think the candidate can win? Under what circumstances would a thinking person ever vote r since the r's seem
to have forgotten their moral compass at the whore house.

It doesn't matter what you think of Bill and Monica in the Oval Office.

To "vote for the party, not the man" means to cast your vote based on a political party's platform and principles rather than the specific
individual qualities, personality, or character of the candidate.

This is also known as "straight-ticket voting," where a voter chooses
all candidates from a single political party on the ballot.
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:33:48 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 12:46 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:53:43 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 8:05 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> >>>>>>>> wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control. >>>>>>>>>>
Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings. >>>>>>>>>>
Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you. >>>>>>>>>>
Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more
outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But
whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding
politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be >>>>>>>> somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like >>>>>>>> gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is >>>>>>>> right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>>>>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.? >>>>>>>>
Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>>>>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>>>>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in >>>>>>>> conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo >>>>>>>> doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office. >>>>>

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

The problem is voter apathy. How did we get here? Because many people
apparently failed to vote in US elections.

Wrong.

Vote for the party, not the man, or woman. At present, the Democratic
Party does not have a winning platform message.

Sorry Charlie!

I see a contradiction there. If you are voting for the party, why
does it matter whether you think the candidate can win? Under what
circumstances would a thinking person ever vote r since the r's seem
to have forgotten their moral compass at the whore house.

It doesn't matter what you think of Bill and Monica in the Oval Office.

To "vote for the party, not the man" means to cast your vote based on a >political party's platform and principles rather than the specific >individual qualities, personality, or character of the candidate.

This is also known as "straight-ticket voting," where a voter chooses
all candidates from a single political party on the ballot.

So who cares is the candidate can win?
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On 8/29/2025 2:39 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:33:48 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 12:46 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:53:43 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 8:05 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> >>>>>>> wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> >>>>>>>>> wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control. >>>>>>>>>>>
Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings. >>>>>>>>>>>
Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above. >>>>>>>>>>>
Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you. >>>>>>>>>>>
Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more
outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But
whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the
question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding
politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be >>>>>>>>> somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an >>>>>>>>> ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a >>>>>>>>> draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of >>>>>>>>> a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all >>>>>>>>> spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county >>>>>>>>> fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough- >>>>>>>>> ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like >>>>>>>>> gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin >>>>>>>>> idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this >>>>>>>>> bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is >>>>>>>>> right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.? >>>>>>>>>
Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>>>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>>>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in >>>>>>>>> conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo >>>>>>>>> doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office. >>>>>>

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

The problem is voter apathy. How did we get here? Because many people
apparently failed to vote in US elections.

Wrong.

Vote for the party, not the man, or woman. At present, the Democratic
Party does not have a winning platform message.

Sorry Charlie!

I see a contradiction there. If you are voting for the party, why
does it matter whether you think the candidate can win? Under what
circumstances would a thinking person ever vote r since the r's seem
to have forgotten their moral compass at the whore house.

It doesn't matter what you think of Bill and Monica in the Oval Office.

To "vote for the party, not the man" means to cast your vote based on a
political party's platform and principles rather than the specific
individual qualities, personality, or character of the candidate.

This is also known as "straight-ticket voting," where a voter chooses
all candidates from a single political party on the ballot.

So who cares is the candidate can win?

Some people care if the candidate is a man or a woman or something else
or black or white. But, it's the party platform that is important.

Voters need to examine the party platform, not follow a personal bias.
Vote for party, not the man, or woman. Many people vote straight ticket.
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On 8/29/2025 2:14 PM, Tara wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:22 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 10:31:52?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the
dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were
something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a
cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so. >>>>>>>>
The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been
conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is >>>>>>>> increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic
Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the
rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had
acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even
corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for
which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must
constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no >>>>>>>> constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing
himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant
portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated
others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether. >>>>>>>>
Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the
Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that >>>>>>>> gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in
ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By
appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been
carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of
options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>>>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped.

Never say never (or cannot) - Where there's a will, there's a way, - Just say
No - Get off your ass and do it!.......stuff like that.

My will and my way cannot change how half the country thinks.

Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to >>>>>> Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.? >>>>>>
Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian >>>>>> window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in >>>>>> danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem >>>>>> going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice >>>>>> if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

David and Goliath. David had the brains.

Well, he had a sling shot. Goliath had the vulnerability.

Where is the vulnerability of the Maga people. I doubt loss of the rule of law would change how they see him. So, itrCOs the economy, stupid. If they suffer economically in their personal lives, that would be the Democrats sling shot.

You have simply got o stop making sense like that!

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Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08rC>AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties. Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the
founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections. The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world similarly.
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On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08rC>AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties. Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections. The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you
wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks
like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up
what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:31:52 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be
stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to
the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical
possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite -u critics of the President remain at large, the
courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of
the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined -u but the
pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a -oslide-o into authoritarianism, as if it
were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more
like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of
margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that
beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of
the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it,
and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they
become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de
facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a
colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that
point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr.
Trump and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the
centre of major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington,
and soon (if Mr. Trump-As threats are to be believed) Chicago,
Baltimore and New York, under the guise of fighting crime. Some of the
guardsmen are armed; some have been conducting arrests, for which they
have neither training nor authority. The D.C. police force was
likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without
markings, to be sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps,
in some cases to their domestic counterparts, without trial, without
even charges. ICE is increasingly seen as Mr. Trump-As personal police
force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump-As
antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted
him for fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him
for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of
classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former
national security adviser who has since become one of his severest
critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic Senator and lead manager on
his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor who
stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for
bringing the Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a
blanket pardon for the rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated
him with suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who
had acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal,
or even corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their
electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into
being in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump
talks openly of banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive
orders demanding -oproof of citizenship-o for voting and requiring
federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing
unemployment numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the
Defence Intelligence Agency for issuing after-action reports on the
U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes
for which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that
must constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been
furnishing himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator,
from the giant portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the
gold-encrusted palace that was once the White House, to the military
parade on his birthday, to the endless public displays of sycophancy
he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility -u -oa lot of people are saying -aMaybe we need a dictator-A-o >>> -u as if he were not just trying out the description with the public,
but habituating them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump-As
behalf, and he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or
prevent it, and he will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him,
or represent his critics in court, and he will lean on the
organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them,
intimidated others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that
remain. You can see him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of
revolutionary disobedience, defying a Supreme Court ruling -u maybe
over tariffs, or illegal immigrants -u and with it finally dispatching
with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal
liability: the Court has already found that he is immune from
prosecution, at least for acts committed in his -oofficial capacity.-o
But who would even attempt to bring him to justice? The senior levels
of the Department of Justice are filled with political allies or his
personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the
Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a
President of their own party, the current GOP is made up of
individuals who either share his dictatorial world view or are too
frightened of him, and even more of his followers, to stand up to him.
That is only likely to grow in line with his powers.

Ah, but there are next year-As midterm elections. Mr. Trump-As approval
rating is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but
surely the Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling
in Mr. Trump can begin.

But you haven-At been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about
mail-in ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the
state level, out of reach of the national media? The chances of a free
and fair election in 2026 must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their
will on a President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of
Congress? By appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump-As
view of the rule of law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court
have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It-As only going to get worse. We
are still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump-As
behaviour has grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing
norms and stepping over boundaries previously considered inviolable
even by him. How much more outlandish is it likely to get between now
and 2028, when Mr. Trump-As term is supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not
been carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in
three-and-a-bit years. (That US$200-million ballroom he is building
off the White House -u or perhaps the White House is off it -u is a
clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the political opposition his
actions have aroused, except to revel in the possibilities for
repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes
muses, in violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn-At. Maybe
the election is free and fair, or maybe it isn-At. Maybe he just stays
on, indefinitely. But whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be
removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the
military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of
the FBI. D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who,
or what, is going to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying
attention. Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone
precedent. Mr. Trump-As dash for dictatorship is rapidly approaching
the point of no return. So the question that has always hovered in the
air is now the urgent question of the hour: How can he be stopped -u
before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in
doubt. That he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If
democracy in America is to be saved, its defenders must pour all their
thought and energy into devising creative ways to frustrate his
ambitions. Because they are running out of options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin
- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald
Trump is a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the >>part of many. American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A >>democracy demands an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying >>informed and holding politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate
that role, leaders like Trump will step into that vacuum and exploit
power. Ultimately, it is US citizens who will have to correct this >>situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped. Many americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be somewhere else.

America-As shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft
dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism
of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed
of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a
prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn-At but has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel.
It is America-As shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that
when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn-At just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is right
on.

I came across this:

https://imgur.com/a/XWgRyKP

I think someone is channelling Ned.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump said he had -othe right to do anything I want to do.-o

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.

For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I-Am the President of the United States. If I think our country-As in
danger -u and it is in danger in these cities -u I can do it, no problem going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they-Ad call in and say, -oWould you do it?-o And we'd do it in conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

--
-c
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:18:35 GMT, Creon <creon@creon.earth> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:31:52 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be
stopped?

-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to
the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical
possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the
courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of >>>> the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the
pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it
were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more >>>> like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of
margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that
beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of >>>> the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it,
and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they
become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de
facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that
point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. >>>> Trump and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the
centre of major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington,
and soon (if Mr. Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago,
Baltimore and New York, under the guise of fighting crime. Some of the >>>> guardsmen are armed; some have been conducting arrests, for which they >>>> have neither training nor authority. The D.C. police force was
likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without
markings, to be sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps,
in some cases to their domestic counterparts, without trial, without
even charges. ICE is increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police
force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s
antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted
him for fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him
for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of >>>> classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former
national security adviser who has since become one of his severest
critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic Senator and lead manager on
his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor who
stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for
bringing the Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a
blanket pardon for the rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated
him with suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who
had acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal,
or even corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their
electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into >>>> being in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump
talks openly of banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive
orders demanding ?proof of citizenship? for voting and requiring
federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing
unemployment numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the
Defence Intelligence Agency for issuing after-action reports on the
U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes
for which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that >>>> must constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been
furnishing himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator,
from the giant portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the >>>> gold-encrusted palace that was once the White House, to the military
parade on his birthday, to the endless public displays of sycophancy
he requires of his cabinet members.
Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator??
? as if he were not just trying out the description with the public,
but habituating them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s
behalf, and he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or >>>> prevent it, and he will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him,
or represent his critics in court, and he will lean on the
organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them,
intimidated others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that >>>> remain. You can see him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of
revolutionary disobedience, defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe
over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ? and with it finally dispatching
with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal
liability: the Court has already found that he is immune from
prosecution, at least for acts committed in his ?official capacity.?
But who would even attempt to bring him to justice? The senior levels
of the Department of Justice are filled with political allies or his
personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the
Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a
President of their own party, the current GOP is made up of
individuals who either share his dictatorial world view or are too
frightened of him, and even more of his followers, to stand up to him. >>>> That is only likely to grow in line with his powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval
rating is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but
surely the Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling >>>> in Mr. Trump can begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about
mail-in ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the
state level, out of reach of the national media? The chances of a free >>>> and fair election in 2026 must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their
will on a President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of >>>> Congress? By appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s
view of the rule of law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court
have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We >>>> are still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s
behaviour has grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing
norms and stepping over boundaries previously considered inviolable
even by him. How much more outlandish is it likely to get between now
and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not
been carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in
three-and-a-bit years. (That US$200-million ballroom he is building
off the White House ? or perhaps the White House is off it ? is a
clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the political opposition his
actions have aroused, except to revel in the possibilities for
repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes
muses, in violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe
the election is free and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays
on, indefinitely. But whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be >>>> removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of
the FBI. D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who,
or what, is going to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying
attention. Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone
precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash for dictatorship is rapidly approaching
the point of no return. So the question that has always hovered in the >>>> air is now the urgent question of the hour: How can he be stopped ?
before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in
doubt. That he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If
democracy in America is to be saved, its defenders must pour all their >>>> thought and energy into devising creative ways to frustrate his
ambitions. Because they are running out of options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>- "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald >>>Trump is a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the >>>part of many. American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A >>>democracy demands an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying >>>informed and holding politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate
that role, leaders like Trump will step into that vacuum and exploit >>>power. Ultimately, it is US citizens who will have to correct this >>>situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped. Many americans
simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft
dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism
of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed
of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a
prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the
diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but has
always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel.
It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that
when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated
obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is right
on.

I came across this:

https://imgur.com/a/XWgRyKP

I think someone is channelling Ned.

Caught ya ned. You didn't provide a reference. Of course ollie could
have gotten it from chatty himself.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in
danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties. >> Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are >> unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass >> anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the
founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer >> the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may >> do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue >> for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for
elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with
interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections. >> The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own >> interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues >> better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world >> similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking >watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you
wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks
like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up
what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are >>> unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass >>> anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the
founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer >>> the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for >>> elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with >>> interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues >>> better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world >>> similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking
watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you
wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks
like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up
what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your
thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to
talk to you anyway.
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are
unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass >>>> anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the
founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer
the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for >>>> elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with >>>> interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues
better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world >>>> similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking
watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you
wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks
like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up
what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world >domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your >thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to
talk to you anyway.

The point is that you are one more guy running around yelling, the end
is nigh! You need a poster board. Save your voice.

Not that xi doesn't have ambitions, but I have no doubt that he has
not told you what they are.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On 8/30/2025 11:16 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are
unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass
anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the >>>>> founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer
the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for >>>>> elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with >>>>> interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues
better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world
similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking >>>> watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you
wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks
like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up
what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world
domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your
thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to
talk to you anyway.

The point is that you are one more guy running around yelling, the end
is nigh! You need a poster board. Save your voice.

You're posting more crazy responses every day, getting closer to crashed.

Why would I need a sign when XI is standing up on a stage holding hands
with Kim and Vlad viewing the world's largest military parade, with a
huge scroll that reads "Long live Communism"?

Not that xi doesn't have ambitions, but I have no doubt that he has
not told you what they are.

What does this mean to you?

There's Xi, Kim and Vlad saluting the world's largest military parade as
it passes in Peking, at the same time Putin is killing civilians in
Ukraine, China has Taiwan surrounded and Kim has eight nuclear bomb
missiles aimed at Seoul?
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:31:05 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/30/2025 11:16 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me: >>>>>>

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are
unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass
anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the >>>>>> founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer
the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for
elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with
interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues
better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world
similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking >>>>> watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you >>>>> wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks >>>>> like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up >>>>> what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world
domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your
thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to
talk to you anyway.

The point is that you are one more guy running around yelling, the end
is nigh! You need a poster board. Save your voice.

You're posting more crazy responses every day, getting closer to crashed.

Why would I need a sign when XI is standing up on a stage holding hands
with Kim and Vlad viewing the world's largest military parade, with a
huge scroll that reads "Long live Communism"?

Because you simply have no idea what he might do, and neither does
anybody on x or telegraph.

Not that xi doesn't have ambitions, but I have no doubt that he has
not told you what they are.

What does this mean to you?

There's Xi, Kim and Vlad saluting the world's largest military parade as
it passes in Peking, at the same time Putin is killing civilians in
Ukraine, China has Taiwan surrounded and Kim has eight nuclear bomb
missiles aimed at Seoul?

It means xi is a communist dictator who like most of his kind likes
that kind of show, same a himbo.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:31:05 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/30/2025 11:16 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me: >>>>>>

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are
unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass
anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the >>>>>> founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer
the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for
elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with
interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues
better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world
similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking >>>>> watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you >>>>> wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks >>>>> like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up >>>>> what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world
domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your
thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to
talk to you anyway.

The point is that you are one more guy running around yelling, the end
is nigh! You need a poster board. Save your voice.

You're posting more crazy responses every day, getting closer to crashed.

Too late, tang already made that pronouncement shortly before he went
away to talk to philosophers. Wilson too. We are a happy club.

Why would I need a sign when XI is standing up on a stage holding hands
with Kim and Vlad viewing the world's largest military parade, with a
huge scroll that reads "Long live Communism"?

Not that xi doesn't have ambitions, but I have no doubt that he has
not told you what they are.

What does this mean to you?

There's Xi, Kim and Vlad saluting the world's largest military parade as
it passes in Peking, at the same time Putin is killing civilians in
Ukraine, China has Taiwan surrounded and Kim has eight nuclear bomb
missiles aimed at Seoul?

--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:31:52 -0400, Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st>
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the >>>> dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite -u critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined -u but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a -oslide-o into authoritarianism, as if it were >>>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. >>>> Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the >>>> Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of >>>> major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump-As threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the
snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) >>>> agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. Trump-As personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump-As antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S. >>>> central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the >>>> rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had >>>> acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even >>>> corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding -oproof of
citizenship-o for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment >>>> numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise >>>> disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for >>>> which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. >>>> Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a
possibility -u -oa lot of people are saying -aMaybe we need a dictator-A-o -u as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump-As behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling -u maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants -u
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his -oofficial capacity.-o But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with >>>> political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year-As midterm elections. Mr. Trump-As approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven-At been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By >>>> appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump-As view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It-As only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump-As behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump-As term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been >>>> carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House -u or perhaps
the White House is off it -u is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the
possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn-At. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn-At. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump-As dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped -u before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of >>>> options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding
politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens >>> who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped. Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America-As shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn-At but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America-As shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn-At just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had -othe right to do anything I want to do.-o

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I-Am the President of the United States. If I think our country-As in
danger -u and it is in danger in these cities -u I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they-Ad call in and say, -oWould you do it?-o And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

Hey, wilson, care to tell us andy's list did not happen? I'm waiting
for the fun of your denials.

What is the motivation on both sides?

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Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/30/2025 11:16 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me: >>>>>>

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are
unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass
anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the >>>>>> founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer
the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for
elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with
interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues
better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world
similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking >>>>> watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you >>>>> wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks >>>>> like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up >>>>> what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price,
though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world
domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your
thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to
talk to you anyway.

The point is that you are one more guy running around yelling, the end
is nigh! You need a poster board. Save your voice.

You're posting more crazy responses every day, getting closer to crashed.

Why would I need a sign when XI is standing up on a stage holding hands
with Kim and Vlad viewing the world's largest military parade, with a
huge scroll that reads "Long live Communism"?

No donrCOt you see? ObamarCOs going to save us.


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On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:51:59 -0000 (UTC), Wilson
<absfg_wilson@yahoo.com> wrote:

Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:31:52 -0400, Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st>
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca>
wrote:

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? >>>>>
-Andrew Coyne - Globe & Mail - Aug 29/25


By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the >>>>> dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a
distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite ? critics of the President remain at large, the courts
are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and
2028 elections have not yet been determined ? but the pieces are being put in
place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a ?slide? into authoritarianism, as if it were >>>>> something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a >>>>> cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr.
Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each
new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the
Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long
as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by
convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into
the de jure.

At some point, American democracy will find it is caught, immovably, a >>>>> colossus in quicksand. The question is whether it has reached that point, or,
if it has not reached it yet, whether it can still avoid doing so.

The examples pile up by the day. In recent days, weeks and months, Mr. Trump
and his officials have:

Installed National Guard troops and other military forces in the centre of
major American cities, first Los Angeles, then Washington, and soon (if Mr.
Trump?s threats are to be believed) Chicago, Baltimore and New York, under the
guise of fighting crime. Some of the guardsmen are armed; some have been >>>>> conducting arrests, for which they have neither training nor authority. The
D.C. police force was likewise taken under federal control.

Seized thousands of suspected illegal immigrants off the streets, the >>>>> snatchings carried out by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents without badges, their victims bundled into cars without markings, to be
sent in some cases to barbaric foreign prison camps, in some cases to their
domestic counterparts, without trial, without even charges. ICE is
increasingly seen as Mr. Trump?s personal police force.

Initiated criminal investigations into various of Mr. Trump?s antagonists,
from Letitia James, the Attorney-General of New York who prosecuted him for
fraud, to Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted him for his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election and for his handling of classified documents at
Mar-a-Lago, to John Bolton, his own former national security adviser who has
since become one of his severest critics, to Adam Schiff, the Democratic >>>>> Senator and lead manager on his first impeachment, to Lisa Cook, the Federal
Reserve governor who stands in the way of his desired takeover of the U.S.
central bank.

Fired or demoted police officers and prosecutors responsible for bringing the
Jan. 6 rioters to justice, having earlier issued a blanket pardon for the >>>>> rioters themselves.

Threatened television networks whose programs or performers irritated him with
suspension of their licences, or adverse regulatory rulings.

Extorted massive settlements from the same networks, or law firms who had >>>>> acted for his antagonists, or universities he deemed too liberal, or even >>>>> corporations, like Intel, he fancied a piece of.

Demanded Texas, Florida, Indiana and other states redraw their electoral maps,
in a transparent attempt to gerrymander more Republican districts into being
in time for the midterm elections; at the same time, Mr. Trump talks openly of
banning mail-in ballots, while issuing executive orders demanding ?proof of
citizenship? for voting and requiring federal review of state electoral rolls.

Fired the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics for issuing unemployment
numbers that displeased him; fired the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency
for issuing after-action reports on the U.S. bombing of Iran that likewise
disagreed with Trumpian dogma.

Defied court orders with regard to various of the above.

Defied Congress with regard to the spending of money for the purposes for >>>>> which it was appropriated by Congress, while imposing tariffs that must >>>>> constitutionally be approved by Congress.

Issued a series of executive orders for which he has likewise no
constitutional authority.

As if to give visible signs of his intent, Mr. Trump has been furnishing >>>>> himself with various of the accoutrements of a dictator, from the giant >>>>> portraits that now hang on government buildings, to the gold-encrusted palace
that was once the White House, to the military parade on his birthday, to the
endless public displays of sycophancy he requires of his cabinet members. >>>>> Indeed, he has taken in recent days to musing about dictatorship as a >>>>> possibility ? ?a lot of people are saying ?Maybe we need a dictator?? ? as if
he were not just trying out the description with the public, but habituating
them to it.

Indeed, the portents are ominous. Commit violence on Mr. Trump?s behalf, and
he will see that you suffer no penalty. Attempt to stop or prevent it, and he
will have you fired or prosecuted. Criticize him, or represent his critics in
court, and he will lean on the organization that employs you.

Think the courts will save you? He has stacked many of them, intimidated >>>>> others, and will have no hesitation in ignoring those that remain. You can see
him lining up a test case for the ultimate act of revolutionary disobedience,
defying a Supreme Court ruling ? maybe over tariffs, or illegal immigrants ?
and with it finally dispatching with the rule of law altogether.

Certainly he need have no worry about his own personal legal liability: the
Court has already found that he is immune from prosecution, at least for acts
committed in his ?official capacity.? But who would even attempt to bring him
to justice? The senior levels of the Department of Justice are filled with
political allies or his personal lawyers.

The Congress? But both houses are controlled, narrowly, by the Republicans,
and while Congresses in the past have been willing to face down a President of
their own party, the current GOP is made up of individuals who either share
his dictatorial world view or are too frightened of him, and even more of his
followers, to stand up to him. That is only likely to grow in line with his
powers.

Ah, but there are next year?s midterm elections. Mr. Trump?s approval rating
is mired in the high-30s. The Senate may be out of reach, but surely the >>>>> Democrats can retake the House. Then the process of reeling in Mr. Trump can
begin.

But you haven?t been paying attention. What do you think all that
gerrymandering is about? Why do you think Trump is ranting about mail-in >>>>> ballots? What else do you suppose is being arranged at the state level, out of
reach of the national media? The chances of a free and fair election in 2026
must be rated at 50-50 at best.

Suppose the Democrats do retake the House. How do they enforce their will on a
President who does not recognize the legitimate authority of Congress? By >>>>> appealing to the Supreme Court? But we know Mr. Trump?s view of the rule of
law. How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

And as you ponder all this, remember: It?s only going to get worse. We are
still in the very early days of this presidency. Mr. Trump?s behaviour has
grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over
boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more >>>>> outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028, when Mr. Trump?s term is
supposed to end?

Emphasis on: supposed to. As others have observed, Mr. Trump has not been >>>>> carrying on like someone who expects to leave office in three-and-a-bit years.
(That US$200-million ballroom he is building off the White House ? or perhaps
the White House is off it ? is a clue.) He seems entirely unconcerned by the
political opposition his actions have aroused, except to revel in the >>>>> possibilities for repression they open up.

So 2028 rolls around. Maybe Mr. Trump runs again, as he sometimes muses, in
violation of the Constitution. Or maybe he doesn?t. Maybe the election is free
and fair, or maybe it isn?t. Maybe he just stays on, indefinitely. But >>>>> whatever happens, how exactly is Mr. Trump to be removed from the White House?
I mean physically.

By that time he will have replaced the entire command structure of the >>>>> military with his loyalists. And of the intelligence agencies. And of the FBI.
D.C. will have been under martial law for three years. Who, or what, is going
to arrest him?

If this sounds over the top, then again you have not been paying attention.
Everything Mr. Trump does defies belief, let alone precedent. Mr. Trump?s dash
for dictatorship is rapidly approaching the point of no return. So the >>>>> question that has always hovered in the air is now the urgent question of the
hour: How can he be stopped ? before it is too late?

That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That
he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to
be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising
creative ways to frustrate his ambitions. Because they are running out of >>>>> options, and out of time.

To date - the most respected comment on this article is from Janet Irwin >>>> - "While Mr. Coyne rightly points out Trump's abuses of power, Donald Trump is
a symptom of a US political system suffering from apathy on the part of many.
American citizens are ultimately to blame for this mess. A democracy demands
an engaged citizenry that does the work of staying informed and holding >>>> politicians accountable. When citizens abdicate that role, leaders like Trump
will step into that vacuum and exploit power. Ultimately, it is US citizens
who will have to correct this situation."

This is how he was elected and now he cannot be stopped. Many
americans simply like him and what he does. Good reason to be
somewhere else.

America?s shadow made flesh

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an
ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a
draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a
Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of
a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all
spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county
fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased
distillation of everything this country swears it isn?t but
has always been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism,
stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as tough-
ness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like
gospel. It is America?s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin
idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power,
and spite, it doesn?t just lose its soul - it shits out this
bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

I was wondering if ned got that out of ai. Doesn't matter, it is
right on.

And finally,

NY Times,

During televised cabinet meeting,

During the meeting, when discussing deploying National Guard troops to
Chicago, Trump said he had ?the right to do anything I want to do.?

Himbo pushed, "Nobody is above the law", out of a tenth story rusian
window.


For instance, this is how americans like himbo:

"OH NO!

"I?m the President of the United States. If I think our country?s in
danger ? and it is in danger in these cities ? I can do it, no problem
going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice
if they?d call in and say, ?Would you do it?? And we'd do it in
conjunction."

It's a totalitarian takeover any day now, for years."

This love of himbo is almost sexual. The orgasm comes when himbo
doesn't bother with a third term election, simply remains in office.

Hey, wilson, care to tell us andy's list did not happen? I'm waiting
for the fun of your denials.

What is the motivation on both sides?

Did you have an excuse you wanted to mention?
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:02:59 -0000 (UTC), Wilson
<absfg_wilson@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/30/2025 11:16 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:57:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/29/2025 7:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:44 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>

On 8/29/2025 5:14 PM, David LaRue wrote:

Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote in news:108sa7c$20t6r$1@dont-email.me: >>>>>>>

On Aug 29, 2025 at 9:28:08?AM EDT, "Tara" <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote: >>>>>>>>

<snip>

Trump is doing what he can IMHO to address lax situations from both parties.
Now it should be obvious to most people that both parties in the Senate are
unable to agree on solutions to most issues and can't or likely won't pass
anything to the president to fix certain issues. It is sad that the >>>>>>> founder's view of limited government and limited participants are no longer
the norm. The president has term limits but no one else. Everyone else may
do something while in office but will surely stop prior to solving any issue
for which they must be reelected to address in future terms. Funding for
elections have become exorbitant to where only the wealthy companies with
interests, not even the wealthy candidates, have influence on the elections.
The will of people is no longer as important.

Local issues are funded by developers.

Regional issues are funded by special interests.

National issues are funded by international corporations intent on thier own
interest, not the public, in mind.

If you are the public and think otherwise perhaps you should explore issues
better without the media directing your actions.

IMHO the USA will not last much longer. Many governments around the world
similarly.

It looks like the end is near - there's Xi with Kim and Vlad in Peking >>>>>> watching the world's largest military parade. It's enough to make you >>>>>> wonder if they have big plans for a New World Order.

Xi already owns North Korea but he wants to own Russia too. It looks >>>>>> like Xi is setting up Kim and Vlad for a big fall and Xi can pick up >>>>>> what's left after the big blow out, namely the oil in Russia.

Who is going to stop Xi?

I have a special deal for you on those hang over shoulder front and
back signboards. You must commit to buy before I tell you the price, >>>>> though.

That's one solution, but I don't think that will stop Xi and his world >>>> domination agenda. Your deal sounds a like a Trump deal. Hey, it's your >>>> thread - you can make it a troll if you want to. There's nobody here to >>>> talk to you anyway.

The point is that you are one more guy running around yelling, the end
is nigh! You need a poster board. Save your voice.

You're posting more crazy responses every day, getting closer to crashed.

Why would I need a sign when XI is standing up on a stage holding hands
with Kim and Vlad viewing the world's largest military parade, with a
huge scroll that reads "Long live Communism"?

No donAt you see? ObamaAs going to save us.

Obama is busy, so is michelle. They knows the thanks that people get
when they come out of retirement.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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