This is excellent. I’ll be sharing it. My only suggestion is that for number 45 about Doge, maybe consider calling it a pseudo department because only congress has the authority to create and fund departments. For these reasons and others, Doge is wholly illegitimate and illegal.
It’s the human nature, a combination of different human psyches: the misplaced believe in a system that “can’t fail” (our democracy is the best of the world and can’t fail), being cocky, being ignorant, holding on to power instead of fighting for civil rights and the people, a steady and slow disconnection from a denial stage etc etc. Selfishness as well. Even with the bill, they focus only on the devastating consequences of the cuts on healthcare etc, thinking they can fight the GOP with attacking their lies and saying healthcare is needed. Not realizing the GOP doesn’t give a shit. The cuts are a decoy to install more ICE Gestapo and as such consolidating fascist power.
In the end it’s a failure of understanding history and history should be a collective memory and conscience of the errors we made as a society. We didn’t learn shit.
We're learning today that there are big MAGA plans to completely restructure America's voting system with the obvious intent to rig the results in 2026, Kremlin-style. So the suspicion grows that the entire Republican Senate and House have been assuming some-such, and that their seats are safe. Despicable.
It's difficult to argue in any substantive sense with your comments here. As for origins of the current madness, I can't escape the conviction that Trump has unleashed a terrible, dark psychological force into the American polity.
For those who give credence to typologies of mental illness, he is a classic malignant narcissist, with the onset of dementia to boot. Thoughts flit in and out like butterflies, or more likely, moths. And he's a superspreader of his illness.
Here's a link to an article from a Canadian publication named The Tyee. The title is
"Back to the Führer?"
I wish the title wasn't so apt; it's a review of a book by William L. Shirer - he of 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' that I didn't know about. Anyway, thanks for your note... and take care. The fat lady may never get to sing, God willing...
This is excellent. I’ll be sharing it. My only suggestion is that for number 45 about Doge, maybe consider calling it a pseudo department because only congress has the authority to create and fund departments. For these reasons and others, Doge is wholly illegitimate and illegal.
Thanks for the support and the feedback! I agree with you!
There are answers out there …in the UK, Wales is in the process of legislating to prevent autocracy with a simple but innovative legal solution…
https://justhinkin.substack.com/p/has-wales-found-the-solution-to-autocracy?r=3cs2wr
Thank you, I will check it out!
Thankful for your work…! 🤩🤩🤩🤩👍
Thank you for your kind words!
https://youtu.be/yUJSEvYIiy8?si=NOxMpTb7USD4BiVv
Thank you for this timeline. It provides a stable base for understanding what will come next.
Is it possible that the entire Republican Senate and House are also assuming they have no need to fear yhe ballot box in 2026 or 2028?
How else to explain their readiness to sign off on a s bill that will cause immense harm to their constituencies?
That's the only thing that makes sense. Ultimately, they've signed off on authoritarianism.
It’s the human nature, a combination of different human psyches: the misplaced believe in a system that “can’t fail” (our democracy is the best of the world and can’t fail), being cocky, being ignorant, holding on to power instead of fighting for civil rights and the people, a steady and slow disconnection from a denial stage etc etc. Selfishness as well. Even with the bill, they focus only on the devastating consequences of the cuts on healthcare etc, thinking they can fight the GOP with attacking their lies and saying healthcare is needed. Not realizing the GOP doesn’t give a shit. The cuts are a decoy to install more ICE Gestapo and as such consolidating fascist power.
In the end it’s a failure of understanding history and history should be a collective memory and conscience of the errors we made as a society. We didn’t learn shit.
We're learning today that there are big MAGA plans to completely restructure America's voting system with the obvious intent to rig the results in 2026, Kremlin-style. So the suspicion grows that the entire Republican Senate and House have been assuming some-such, and that their seats are safe. Despicable.
It's difficult to argue in any substantive sense with your comments here. As for origins of the current madness, I can't escape the conviction that Trump has unleashed a terrible, dark psychological force into the American polity.
For those who give credence to typologies of mental illness, he is a classic malignant narcissist, with the onset of dementia to boot. Thoughts flit in and out like butterflies, or more likely, moths. And he's a superspreader of his illness.
Here's a link to an article from a Canadian publication named The Tyee. The title is
"Back to the Führer?"
I wish the title wasn't so apt; it's a review of a book by William L. Shirer - he of 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' that I didn't know about. Anyway, thanks for your note... and take care. The fat lady may never get to sing, God willing...
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/07/04/Back-Fuhrer/
Wow!!!!! This is a good read.
Thank you Deb!