I think last time trump ran as a publicity stunt but he liked the power.
He’s zero policies but this time he’s been surrounded with far more dangerous types who may actually cause a lot trouble for the world.
I thought in a world war type situation it’s preferable elections don’t go ahead.
If it’s any consolidation these lads take celebrity love island about as seriously as they take us politics. What happens in a ww3 scenario is about as significant as jade two-timing dwayne
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I think there’s a very good chance of that, yes, and I certainly think he will attempt it.
A majority of Americans probably wouldn’t be fine with it, and many would be extremely hostile, but in an effective dictatorship you don’t need a majority of people to rule, you only need threat, you only need the majority of the people to submit. Eventually you wear them down. People in eastern Europe after the war didn’t want dictatorships, but that’s what they got, and they endured for 44 years.
Trump and the Republicans are quite open about their intentions. Trump openly says he plans to be a dictator.
The “intellectual” driving force behind JD Vance is Curtis Yarvin, who is openly rabidly anti-democracy and proposes a dictatorship of tech bros, and who believes Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre in Norway in 2011 didn’t go nearly far enough.
The tech bros backing Trump also fancy a dictatorship of tech bros.
It’s now mainstream belief among online right-wingers that democracy should be abolished.
Trump’s modus operandi is the construction of a fact free world where nothing is true and everything is possible, in the words of the Peter Pomeranstev book about Russian propaganda.
The belief that such an open fascist who has created this fantasy world will somehow govern in a liberal democratic manner is so deluded it’s beyond belief. He didn’t before and as bad as he was before, the gloves will be properly off this time. We see right now with Netanyahu’s genocidal evil what a fascist lunatic does when their personal freedom is threatened.
Shur lookit we’ll see how it pans out.
I would have thought that anybody who has any sort of interest in good governance anywhere in the world, ever, would class a demagogue who promises to be a dictator and whose main “intellectual” driving force is a “Breivik was too much of a bleeding heart” online headcase, would take the threat of Trump seriously.
It’s a demonstration of how much fascist tactics work on populations that we have self styled “serious” lads queueing up here to gaslight that Trump and his fascist cult are not a mortal threat to free society everywhere.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last decade it’s that self styled “adults in the room” who baselessly dismiss these threats are all total simpletons ruled by their childish desire to be popular with other simpletons.
There’s no shortage of these MAGA headbangers who would happily see Trump and his kids run the place for years to come. I remember seeing them being interviewed last time and they even had t-shirts done up with Trump 2020, Trump 2024, Trump 2028 and Trump 2032 and the kids names in small print.
I told yis about Curtis Yarvin the same day JD Vance was announced as Trump’s running mate.
Here’s some more about him. Strongly recommended listening.
Bullet point: He’s basically an incel Nazi who has been hanging around online message boards since 1989.
Putting this here because it’s such a barefaced demonstration that the Republican party today, being a “right winger”, being a “conservative”, amounts to no more than a comic book version of evil, of being a Skeletor or Dalek caricature.
The Execution of Marcellus Williams: Missouri’s Dark Legacy of Race, Justice, and Power
Marcellus Williams was fifty-four when Missouri took his life on a late September Tuesday in 2024. Execution, they called it—but was it justice or something far more sinister? For over two decades, Williams sat on death row, convicted of a crime he swore he didn’t commit: the brutal 1998 stabbing of Felicia Gayle, a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. Even as DNA evidence ruled him out as the source of the male DNA found on the murder weapon, Missouri’s legal machine plowed ahead, indifferent to the growing doubts about whether they were about to kill an innocent man.
But Williams was never just an inmate defined by his cell and a death sentence hanging over his head. Over the years, he earned two college degrees, transforming his time in prison into a story of resilience and redemption. He became a mentor to younger inmates, preaching the power of education as a path to reclaiming their humanity in a system determined to strip it away. His sister, Patricia Davis, said, “Marcellus never gave up on hope. He believed the truth would set him free.” And even as his legal team fought relentlessly to prove his innocence, it was his light that continued to shine for others, showing that despite the system’s cruelty, the human spirit could still rise above it.
Despite this, the state remained unmoved. Even the victim’s own family, who had suffered a heartbreaking loss, began to question Williams’ guilt. As the DNA evidence emerged, excluding him as the source of the male DNA on the murder weapon, the Gayle family pleaded for leniency, suggesting life without parole would be more just given the uncertainty. But Missouri pressed forward, sparking nationwide outrage among those who had followed the case and could see the cracks in its foundation.
Felicia Gayle’s murder remains a tragedy, and the quest for justice in her name is understandable. But the rush to execute Williams—without fully considering the implications of new evidence—raises a haunting question: is the real murderer still out there? By closing the case so quickly, the state of Missouri may have failed both the Williams and Gayle families. Instead of delivering justice, the system may have sealed its failure, leaving both families with unresolved pain and a legal process that never truly sought the truth.
Williams’ execution did not happen in isolation—it is part of a much larger, deeply troubling legacy of racial injustice within Missouri’s legal system. His conviction was largely based on the shaky testimony of two jailhouse informants who had much to gain by implicating him. No physical evidence ever linked Williams to the crime. Despite the critical DNA testing showing that Williams’ genetic profile did not match the male DNA on the murder weapon, Missouri’s courts refused to conduct a full review. The state, it seemed, was more interested in upholding the status quo than seeking real justice.
This miscarriage of justice is far from an isolated incident. Missouri has long targeted Black men in its criminal justice system, incarcerating them at five times the rate of white men. When it comes to the death penalty, the odds are even more stacked: Black defendants convicted of killing white victims are significantly more likely to be sentenced to death than white defendants convicted of killing Black victims. Williams’ story is just one of many that highlight the racial disparities that turn life-or-death decisions into statistical certainties.
Meanwhile, the contrasting treatment of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a wealthy white couple who brandished guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters, lays bare the glaring double standards at work. In 2020, the McCloskeys pointed firearms at unarmed protesters outside their St. Louis mansion, a scene captured on video and widely circulated. Instead of facing significant consequences, they were turned into conservative icons. Governor Mike Parson swiftly pardoned them after they pled guilty to misdemeanor charges. The same governor who granted clemency to the McCloskeys refused to consider the new DNA evidence in Williams’ case, ensuring his execution would go forward. The message is crystal clear: while the McCloskeys were given a free pass for threatening violence, Williams was denied any chance of justice, even as evidence of his innocence mounted.
Josh Hawley, the U.S. Senator who had served as Missouri’s Attorney General during key moments in Williams’ case, played an equally damning role. Hawley’s office fiercely opposed efforts to overturn Williams’ conviction, even as the new DNA evidence raised serious doubts. As a Senator, Hawley has continued to align himself with controversial figures, from the McCloskeys to the January 6 rioters. He was famously photographed raising his fist in solidarity with the rioters before the violence broke out at the Capitol—a moment that encapsulated his far-right allegiances. The troubling irony is that Hawley, who once stood with those who stormed the Capitol and defended the McCloskeys, was also eager to see Williams executed despite the glaring questions surrounding his guilt. The image of Hawley running away from the very rioters he had supported underscores the deep hypocrisy at the heart of his political career.
This stark contrast between the cases of Marcellus Williams and the McCloskeys illustrates everything wrong with Missouri’s justice system. A Black man, convicted on the basis of unreliable informants, was executed despite DNA evidence pointing to his innocence. Meanwhile, a wealthy white couple, who threatened peaceful protesters with violence, were pardoned and celebrated. This is not just a story of Missouri—it’s a reflection of racial privilege and injustice deeply embedded in the fabric of America.
Missouri’s history is stained with racial injustice, from the infamous Dred Scott decision, which declared that Black people had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect,” to the present-day application of the death penalty. Nationally, Black defendants convicted of killing white victims are far more likely to face execution than their white counterparts convicted of killing Black victims. These disparities aren’t just numbers—they carry devastating, life-and-death consequences. And in Marcellus Williams’ case, they cost a man his life.
So why did Missouri ignore the DNA evidence that could have freed Williams? Why did a wealthy white couple receive clemency for threatening violence while a Black man was executed despite mounting evidence of his innocence? The answers lie in the very structure of Missouri’s justice system—a system that has long been skewed by race, determining who is granted mercy and who is condemned.
Tonight, Missouri may have killed an innocent man. But Marcellus Williams’ death is not just a singular tragedy—it is a testament to a system that delivers justice unequally, one that must be confronted if true justice is ever to be achieved. Until these disparities are eradicated, Williams’ execution will not be the last. And the McCloskeys of the world will continue to walk free.
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Simeon Burke listed off a more impressive legal resume in his most recent address on Monday than that of some of those more recent Supreme Court appointees.
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This fella is an elected US congressman for the Republican party and he is the mainstream opinion in his party. But sure, no threat of fascist dictatorship at all.
His supreme court has literally already ruled he has immunity for any act he carries out as president. So no, absolutely checks or balances.
I’d even forgotten that though it’s as almost as blatant a declaration of the Republicans’ desire for dictatorship as you can get bar Trump declaring that he will be a dictator, which he has done. It just shows what a never ending blizzard of insanity Trump has unleashed. It’s designed to fry people’s minds, to make them numb, to stun them into not believing Trump and the Republicans plan what they plan.
The evidence that Trump is a Nazi bastard who will take America and the world into the abyss is staring people in the face and way too many refuse to see it because they’ve spent far too much of their lives watching dumb entertainment and they think fascism is a meme, something from another world.
White Irish middle aged men who don’t feel threatened by Trump and thus dismiss his threat is the very definition of privilege. These are the same people who are petrified by the sight of a few teenagers wearing hoodies hanging around.
Mayor of New York indicted on corruption charges, getting arrested tomorrow, red or blue they’re all the same
Head of police too isn’t he?
They need this guy
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Hard to believe Ghoulianni and Bloomberg were the last 2 good Mayor’s of NYC
Trump has 3 nominees on US Supreme Court. Out of 9.
Roe v Wade was decided in 1973. It was a stretch on any interpretation of Constitution.
There were 50 years to enshrine a right to abortion in federal law instead of relying on a constitutional interpretation. It’s a failure of 50 years of US politics that allowed the row back.
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It was bad management by the Dems and ego trips by the individuals.
And there were already 3 other headbangers on the court appointed by the Bushes.