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If you're in a building, when should you pull the fire alarm? When you smell smoke? When you see smoke? When smoke bellows? When a door is hot to the touch? Onl

If you're in a building, when should you pull the fire alarm? When you smell smoke? When you see smoke? When smoke bellows? When a door is hot to the touch? Only once you see flame? If an arsonist threatened to burn down your house, should you only call the police once the house is on fire? Is it possible by taking action earlier you could prevent disaster and loss of well being. The people who wrote the plan this administration is following said: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."[1] The threat has been credibly made and they appear to be successfully carrying it out with minimal forceful resistance. People who study Fascism, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe are fleeing the country including Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder.[2] Trump has stated he wished he had Hitler's generals.[3] A second in command of the United States armed forces as well as America's top military advisor have both called him a threat to the constitution. [4][5] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/heritage-foundation-2025-policy-america.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/heritage-foun... [2] https://archive.is/jb23b https://archive.is/jb23b -- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-... [3] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-some-good-things-and-wanted-generals-like-the-nazis-former-chief-of-staff-kelly-claims https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-... [4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/12/mark-milley-donald-trump-fascist/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/12/mark-milley... [5] https://archive.is/d6f9J https://archive.is/d6f9J -- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-m...

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reed1234 2y ago
There is definitely cause to sound the alarm, but I didn’t think it’s a full blown constitutional crisis. It’s one district judge against one action by the administration. That doesn’t mean ignore court orders is acceptable and there should be backlash. However, I view a constitutional crisis in this case as more of universal contempt of court. Maybe that is just a semantic argument but this seems to be a discussion about semantics.

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reed1234 2y ago

There is definitely cause to sound the alarm, but I didn’t think it’s a full blown constitutional crisis. It’s one district judge against one action by the administration. That doesn’t mean ignore court orders is acceptable and there should be backlash. However, I view a constitutional crisis in this case as more of universal contempt of court. Maybe that is just a semantic argument but this seems to be a discussion about semantics.