There are no Republicans in the Senate except Romney. Romney is the only man to hold to orginal Republican beliefs. The rest of the Senate Republicans are "Trump bots."
Trump has tweeted thousands of nasty threats, hosted over 50 political rallies for hate and divisiveness, stated publicly over 16K and increasing truthful hyperbole which his name for lies. These are Trump's shit legacy.
Do Americans have to watch "Mindhunter" on Netflix to see Tweety Trump is a serial shyster, a con man, "killing" our American democracy AND THE RULE OF LAW with GOP help, essentially becoming the "Boss King."
Can we say "mafia?"
I am not going to say Tweety IS an autocrat, but if it walks like a duck . . .
"So you want to be an autocrat? Here’s the 10-point checklist"
November 19, 2019 9.05am EST
Shelley Inglis - Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
http://theconversation.com/so-you-want-to-be-an-autocrat-heres-the-10-point-checklist-125908
"1. Extend executive power
The mainstay of today’s authoritarianism is strengthening your power while simultaneously weakening government institutions, such as parliaments and judiciaries, that provide checks and balances.
The key is to use legal means [Our Justice Department, serving as Trump's "Public Defender."] that ultimately give democratic legitimacy to the power grab. Extreme forms of this include abolishing presidential term limits, which was done in China; and regressive constitutional reforms to expand presidential power, like in Turkey.
2. Repress dissent and citizen efforts to hold government accountable
Restrictions on funding and other bureaucratic limitations silence the ability of the people to hold accountable those in power. More than 50 countries have passed laws that stifle citizen groups. Democracies have also jumped on this bandwagon. Limitations on permits for public protest, detention of protesters and excessive use of force to break up demonstrations are frequently used tools.
3. Capture elite support and, when needed, demonize them too
Economic growth and prosperity are critical to retaining elite or oligarchical support for autocratic leaders. Whether through state-owned businesses, media conglomerates [Sinclair Broadcasting Group] . . .
. . . or more sophisticated connections between governments and free-market corporations, money and politics, translated into government favors for the rich, can be a toxic mix for democracy.
Ironically, popular distaste with elite corruption is so high that modern autocratic populists, such as President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, have even risen to power on anti-corruption promises.
4. Appeal to populism and nationalism
Most would-be autocratic leaders today exploit existing tensions within complex societies [Trump has milked the tribalism in America which until his Presidency was somewhat controlled, unseen, unheard, and inactive. Trump pulled off the "band-aid" hiding America's worst self! We are a nation with a large power base in White Nationalism where we are becoming more "brown" every day.] in order to solidify their support.
In many places, fears of migrants and refugees have fueled resurgent nationalism [White Nationalism . . . ], driving policies like U.K.‘s Brexit. In India, religiously based nationalism has maintained the power of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Blaming external forces for a country’s problems, such as Hungarian leader Viktor Orban’s demonization of George Soros, a Hungarian-born philanthropist who supports democracy-building, is also common.
5. Control information at home; misinform abroad
While propaganda and state-owned media is not new, control of modern technology and information has become a key battleground.
"The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President"
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
Illustration: Mishko; Hanna Alandi / Getty - Story by McKay Coppins
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
China has developed sophisticated technologies to censor and prevent the circulation of unwanted information and to track individuals in society.
Russia is at the vanguard of state media control at home while generating misinformation abroad. Many smaller countries have used internet blackouts to block organizing and communicating by social movements.
6. Cripple the opposition
Damaging the opposition parties, while not completely destroying them, is now essential. Infiltrating parties, co-opting members and using pure scare tactics [Trump admires the hefty, football player size politician that body slammed a slightly built male reporter? Pompeo yells at a female NPR reporter because she asked him to defend his lack of defending employees in the State Department, and them Pompeo lies about the interview and his yelling after it was over; Trump praises him!] are some possible actions in the autocrat’s playbook. This serves the purpose of retaining a target for pseudo-political competition while also stymieing the potential for new, more democratic forces to gain traction.
7. Covert election manipulation
Mostly gone are the days of vote-rigging and vote-buying as a path to power. Would-be autocrats have found cleverer ways to tilt the playing field in their favor. These new tactics include hampering media access, gerrymandering, changing election and voter eligibility rules and placing allies on electoral commissions.
8. Play the emergency card
Some autocratic leaders continue to use traditional strong-arm tactics, like declaring states of emergency [Wall! Bolton book next?], to enable further repression.
Since 2001, using the threat of terrorism or organized crime has played well for furthering autocratic rule. President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, which seems to have resulted in thousands dead in the Philippines, is one illustration.
Since an attempted coup in 2016 up until 2018, for example, Turkey was under a state of emergency which enabled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to jail and persecute academics, government officials, media and human rights advocates.
9. Extend your model and influence
Today’s autocratic rulers are not keeping to themselves.
Using the international stage and their growing economic prowess, countries like China are spreading their influence through funding initiatives such as the Belt and Road to build infrastructure across Asia to Europe. They’re hiring professional consultants to advise and lobby foreign capitals for policies that reinforce their power.
10. Learn and share
Characterized as “autocratic learning” by scholars, national authorities from Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Belarus, Syria and other places are developing and exchanging models for containing threats of social movements and the so-called “color revolutions.”
International meetings and intergovernmental clubs can provide a platform for exchange. For example, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia has successfully rallied neighbor governments to help oppress opposition to his rule using the regional organization ASEAN. Government officials in Malaysia recently blocked Cambodian opposition members from returning to their country via Malaysia."
Ignore or go along with what is happening under the Trump-Barr-Pompeo administration attack on our freedoms at your risk!
Here's my rough draft - I need to clean it up of course. It is growing!
1. Look at the first "case" of enforcing Trump/Barr the amended Civil Rights Act of 1964 where Trump and Barr added "protection" for Jews. Google it yourself. A college professor (in California of course - the state Tweety loves to hate) criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Everyone criticizes Israel's treatment of Palestinians because Israel treats Palestinians cruelly. The professor is being "investigated," more like harassed, by the US Justice Department for saying what everyone knows.
2. Once DARPA figures out how to infiltrate and control the internet, Trump and Barr will require DoD internet searches to do their dirty work finding free speech they don't like. This will be the new "freedom" from "persecution" that terrible California professor spoke. Poor Israel. "Freedom of Speech" will be monitored by the "Trump rules." Trump rules require loyalty and fealty. will be for those who will only speak the controlled, allowed speech, "Trump Speech."
3. Trump dislikes any media, electronic or paper outlet that shows him doing dumb things like looking at an eclipse with his wife and son next to him, and saying idiotic nasty things like Nancy broke the law tearing up his State of the Union 2020. Trump cannot take anyone criticizing him. Under trump the TV news media will be whittled to one network if Tweety and Barr have their way, Fox News.
4. The TV network and written media outlets will be whittled to those who do not criticize Tweety.
5. Tweety has said he wants, and he still wants to change libel laws so he can sue everyone that criticizes him.
6. Trump and Barr want cell phone companies to help them break into and read messages in encrypted phones. So far the cell phone companies have resisted Trump and Barr attempts to give the state a way to spy on us. Guess what they will do with such a capability if they get it? I know, but maybe you don't.
7. Trump and Barr want sole power to call people traitors, and they chant lock them up and worse at Trump rallies.
8. Trump was acquitted by the Senate, therefore Trump is free to do anything. The GOP is enabling and asking Trump to seek help from any foreign power to get help for re-election in 2020. How many more elections will Trump Sr. run for? Trump Sr. can continue to be re-elected by proxy as Trump Jr. runs for the Presidency. Eric . . . daughter . . . grandkids . . .
9. Can Trump also recruit foreign powers to tap cell phones as it is possible, feasible, even likely now that we have seen the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hack Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo's phone recently.
9 . The Oct 1, 2020 Transportation Security Administration "REAL ID" requirement is a tool to be used by government to manage and control, but they can also LIMIT travel and freedom if it chooses to do so. I can imagine a list from our government limiting immigrants or Trump's "enemies" from travelling freely.
This list of infringements grows almost daily!
#10 Trump seeks easier access to libel laws so he can sue CNN for showing him talking dumb and nasty.
#11 Interestingly “law enforcement” requests, numbering 75,000 requests, asked Google to give up customer data; "law enforcement" used subpoenas, wiretaps, and search warrants, but under Trump, with Barr's hep they may be able to order Google to give up personal info.
#12 There are too many lobbyists, such as 60 health care companies and trade organizations that spent $309 million in 2019 to manipulate what is beneficial to these companies, not necessarily beneficial to the public.
#13 The US government does a lot of suspicious things, and the DoD does bad things too, so I do not put it past to them to lie about Huawei, or any company the US Government is not doing well, so they control the competition by taking legal action. The US government is mot even clever about this devious stuff, they are obvious. The Trump regime see legal action as a way to control international trade, manipulate the market by jailing the competition.
#14 Trump is abusing the term "national security" as a justifications for tariffs and what else in the future without good reason. Trump diminishes what we should be concerned about, and confuses us what is a real threat. Tariffs are a Congressional purview and Congress administers tariffs. Trump despises the separation of powers, he wants ALL power. Trump is fighting to prohibit Europe from reasonably taxing Google - see Paul Krugman’s “our real trade policy: l’etat, cest Trump."
#15 Trump is abusing "national emergency." Trump grabbed Wall funding by declaring a “national emergency.” So much damage to the government occurs when anyone blithely declares a national emergency with no cause.
#16 The GOP wants to rescind Section 230 of ? [source the statute] - see David French in Time magazine - GOP wants to control Facebook and Google and when Trump and Barr get to decide what Facebook and Google controls and censors, guess what will happen. You will lose freedoms and the "legal" freedom of speech will be "Trump speech."
#17 Trump is stacking the Supreme Court and Federal Courts with extreme conservatives expecting the judges to do HIS bidding, not the bidding of the law and Lady Justice, and the Constitution.
#18 Trump and Pompeo are cutting State Dept funding, not filling job openings, and cutting foreign aid to increase our dependence on DoD. This helps DoD take over our country.
#19 Whatever else the Trump-Barr-Pompeo team are doing to limit our freedoms, we see Pompeo dislikes tough women reporters. Pompeo tried to intimidate an NPR reporter, but failed. He then lied about the scene he made. Then Trump praised him and Dershowitz patted Pompeo on the back. Dershowitz, the guy who took a 17 year old girl from Epstein for sex.
#20 Trump sponsors attacks on business competitors who are doing better than US: “U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks” – really? Trump administration ramps up push for allies to block Chinese company – do we believe this? Can we?
#21 Trump sending in “Storm Troops” to Boston to round up immigrants! ICE calls in reinforcements in Boston, other cities Officials target sanctuary jurisdictions for immigration enforcement, Feb 14, 2020
#22 Trump threatens lawsuits over Mueller probe - The president's posts represent the latest development in his renewed assault against the former special counsel's work. Trump sues his own government!
#23 Trump is trying to block publication of the Bolton book using the security reason, it is "classified." Trump can use "classified" for anything written.
Examine the checklist above, read the relevant history, and watch the documentaries about Tito, Franco, Hitler, and other dictators and you can see a pattern of behavior that makes Tweety Trump a "serial killer" of our Democracy. Do we want more money in the pockets of the rich for the sake of a diminished democracy?
The tweets, rallies, and truthful hyperbole, plus sarcasm and brashness on TV is like watching a government "make sausage." The United States government process has always been ugly, but now we have to watch.
Americans can be very, very ugly, and now we have to watch.
Congress continues to do nothing, but now it is more in the open, even declared, and we have to watch.
Trump Twitter Archive -
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/
"Retaliation
It makes me feel so good to hit "sleazebags" back -- much better than seeing a psychiatrist (which I never have!)
I went to Wharton, made over $8 billion, employ thousands of people & get insulted by morons who can’t get enough of me on twitter...!
Isn't it crazy, I'm worth billions of dollars, employ thousands of people, and get libeled by moron bloggers who can't afford a suit! WILD.
Isn't it crazy that people of little or no talent or success can be so critical of those whose accomplishments are great with no retribution
When someone attacks me, I always attack back...except 100x more. This has nothing to do with a tirade but rather, a way of life!
When somebody challenges you unfairly, fight back - be brutal, be tough - don't take it. It is always important to WIN!
I am a very calm person but love tweeting about both scum and positive subjects. Whenever I tweet, some call it a tirade..totally dishonest!
How come every time I show anger, disgust or impatience, enemies say I had a tantrum or meltdown—stupid or dishonest people?
It’s amazing that people can say such bad things about me but if I say bad things about them, it becomes a national incident.
I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention. Am I not allowed to respond? Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!
"@danrpriest: @realDonaldTrump Just out of curiosity, what makes you care so much about what they think?" I study cowards and stupid people
"@MrMarin88: Why does @realDonaldTrump always insist on calling ppl names and trying to taunt like a kid in a schoolyard? Only stupid people
Pigs get slaughtered … again. Ft Lauderdale plaintiffs must pay me close to $400k in legal fees after Trump trial victory.
Many journalists are honest and great - but some are knowingly dishonest and basic scum. They should.be weeded out!"
Why does a President hold rallies just after and often after he is elected? He's a "showman" Prez, not a real President.
"Trump Web Page for Rallies'
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/
OK, it's not illegal, but should your Prez be running for Prez the entire time he is Prez? What doe she do for the country at these rallies? It costs maybe millions of tax dollars (security at a minimum, not to mention his Mar-o-Lago trips) and local community dollars (local security and businesses suffer) for every rally - for what purpose?
This is a list of rallies - check the public record. What Prez does this?
"List of post-election Donald Trump rallies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-election_Donald_Trump_rallies
Read the list - it is a LONG one. These rallies divide the country, they do not good, and they inspire violence.
"Taking Back Hyperbole from Trump: “Truthful Hyperbole” is Hyperbolic Projection"
By Eugene Brent Young 16 April 2018
"While the never-ending debate about whether Trump is a compulsive eight-year-old with a Twitter account or a diabolical media operator rages on, perhaps another focus ought simply to be on his tactics, and how to respond. One of those tactics involves what, in The Art of the Deal, he notoriously called “truthful hyperbole,” which “play[s] to people’s fantasies” and impresses those who “may not always think big themselves.”[i] The assumption here is that your life is bad: think of how much bigger it could be if you win huge at my casino, or how “great” America could be “again.” But such hyperbole—in its actual usage on Trump’s political stage—is couched less in fantasy than in a much more negative, toxic tactic: projection."
"How 9 "Art of the Deal" quotes explain the Trump presidency"
Nicholas Johnston 26 June 2017
"A friend of Axios took the time to read Trump's 1987 book "Art of the Deal." Here are the passages that stood out now that Trump is president:
1. On a daily schedule: "I try not to schedule too many meetings. I leave my door open. You can't be imaginative or entrepreneurial if you've got too much structure. I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops."
2. On critics: "The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn't I be able to say what I want to about theirs?"
3. On flexibility: "I never get too attached to one deal or one approach. For starters, I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first."
4. On the press: "One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It's in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
5. On bad press: [F]rom a pure business point of view, the benefits of being written about have far outweighed the drawbacks. It's really quite simple ... The funny thing is that even a critical story, which may be hurtful personally, can be very valuable to your business."
6. On exaggeration: "The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration, and a very effective form of promotion."
7. On fighting back: "[W]hen people treat me badly or unfairly or try to take advantage of me, my general attitude, all my life, has been to fight back very hard. The risk is you'll make a bad situation worse, and I certainly don't recommend this approach to everyone. But my experience is that if you're fighting for something you believe in — even if it means alienating some people along the way — things usually work out for the best in the end."
8. On results: "You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."
9. On competing: "I'm the first to admit that I am very competitive and that I'll do nearly anything within legal bounds to win. Sometimes, part of making a deal is denigrating your competition.""
Think about these . . . Think about "truthful hyperbole."
"President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years"
[Trump is sarcastic, comedic, but mostly full of "truthful hyperbole," none distinguishable one from the other.]
By Glenn Kessler - The Fact Checker, Salvador Rizzo - Reporter for The Fact Checker,
Meg Kell - Video editor for The Fact Checker, January 20, 2020
I do not need to show you his lies, you can see them on TV when he talks, and read them in his speech's and tweets. Do your homework if yu care about your century.
How bad has the Trump influence gotten?
"More than 1,100 former DOJ employees call for Barr’s resignation over handling of Roger Stone case"
By: Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Published: February 16, 2020 6:23 PM
Photo Credit: Susan Walsh/AP, File
