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He literally tried an autogolpe. I saw it, live, on TV with my own eyes and ears. He's currently promising to pardon the people that participated in it that hav
by laidoffamazon 2y ago
He literally tried an autogolpe. I saw it, live, on TV with my own eyes and ears. He's currently promising to pardon the people that participated in it that have been prosecuted while pardoning himself due to his own immune status.
That's how a Banana Republic functions.
- warner25 2y agoThat and talking about prosecuting the political opposition along with journalists, poll workers, and career public servants just for doing their jobs. And using the military to do it. I don't actually think he'll be able to end democracy, because I think a sufficient number of Americans (including in the military) will stand up to him, but I do believe he'd like to.
- archagon 2y agoAt the very least, we’ll feel the damage from a supermajority far-right judicial system for generations.
- dragonwriter 2y agoHe'a also promised to purge the civil service and replace it entirely with personal loyalists, and to conduct ethnic cleansing on a world-historic scale.