All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[macdoc]

looks like it's lawless now

Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky
"Right Now, the U.S. Is Ceasing to Be a Democracy"
Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the authoritarian playbook to do so.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/wo ... bf5179ddbd

[Tero]

It's a cult

13gaganmeetsingh
16h
The new CBS News poll has some very scary numbers.
-52% of Rs say it’s acceptable if legal US residents are mistakenly detained
-59% of Rs approve of efforts to impeach & remove federal judges who rule against Trump’s policies
-44% of Rs say federal judges shouldn’t be allowed to review Trump’s policies
-37% of Rs say congressional Republicans should support whatever Trump wants, even when they disagree with him

[Brian Peacock]

You'd think the country that gave us the X-Men would show a bit more respect towards their freak and mutant class, eh?

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone

Twelve days before Donald Trump took office, Charlie Kirk, media personality and rightwing activist, complained on his eponymous show about the presence of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters at emergency press briefings for the Los Angeles fires. Another rightwing activist, Christopher Rufo, took his cue on X, calling interpreters “wild human gesticulators” who turned briefings into a “farce”. The rightwing theorist and Origins of Woke author Richard Hanania, quote-tweeting Rufo, declared ASL interpretation an “absurdity”.

Around this time, Elon Musk was skulking around the platform, campaigning to bring back the R-word. Use of the slur tripled on X after his post.

To those with less knowledge of disability history, these attacks might read as gross, but ultimately toothless. Activists, though, quickly sounded the alarm: the incoming administration would be coming for disabled people. “To the deaf community, the fight for accessibility is nothing new,” said Sara Miller, deaf educator and community advocate.

...

Manufacturing cultural outrage to justify policy that would have previously been considered too cruel or damaging is a staple of the far-right playbook: most recently, the US has seen the move used to bolster book bans and outlaw Black history and gender-affirming care.

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Alongside “diversity” and “women”, words like “accessibility” and “disability” have also been listed as grounds to flag or reject grant applications at the National Science Foundation, sparking concerns at other federal agencies and research institutions. And last week, the Department of Justice, which is charged with enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), began to rescind key guidance, justifying the move by suggesting that accessibility is the reason for cost-of-living increases...

[Cunt]

so it was ok to force all grant applications to include a diversity statement? But not to exclude such irrelevant prose?

Gotcha.

[Brian Peacock]

Who are you talking to? And who are you talking about? And what point are you trying to make?

[Cunt]

Who are you talking to? And who are you talking about? And what point are you trying to make?

It's ok pal, I understand your confusion. Sometimes

[Brian Peacock]

Those are not rhetorical questions btw.

[Cunt]

The freak and mutant class don't need to have namecalling applied to be respected.

Just like grant applications don't need a 'diversity statement' to be clear and complete. Of course, those are often needed for approval lol

[Brian Peacock]

This member of the freak and mutant class has no problem with either sarcasm or irony. Rather than tone-policing my freedom of expression how about you comment on the right-o-sphere's denigration of, and the Trump administration's policy towards, disabled people as highlighted in the article I posted?

[Tero]

Trump on emissions standards for cars: "It doesn't mean a damn bit of difference to the environment. It doesn't matter."

And "we have the best air."

[Tyrannical]

Fifth Amendment:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

No criminal case is involved which is what the 5th amendment is about. The Secretary of State ordered the suspension of the visa and the removal of the alien.

[Tyrannical]

. The 'judge' is just illegally delaying the inevitable.

If that turns out to be the case, I would wager there will be no negative consequences for that judge's illegal actions.

Of course not, the judge just gets 'over ruled' eventually.

Though there is always that chance the Justice Department decides it wants to play too and could have the FBI launch an investigation. It's Trump times so who knows what can happen

[Tero]

Trump signs thing
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/po ... pOrlmJUxSg
....and has suffered so much.

[Tyrannical]

Trump signs thing
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/po ... pOrlmJUxSg

Better than Biden may or may not have authorized the use of the auto pen, and even less likely he remembered

[Cunt]

This member of the freak and mutant class has no problem with either sarcasm or irony. Rather than tone-policing my freedom of expression how about you comment on the right-o-sphere's denigration of, and the Trump administration's policy towards, disabled people as highlighted in the article I posted?

I don't see anything about their policy toward disabled people. I do see some language policing, which is usually tolerated only by the left, but meh.

I'm glad only scientists willing to include a diversity statement are awarded funding these days. Shows you who is willing to say whatever they are told, in exchange for money.

Of course a high percentage of science funding authors are in agreement, but the fact that there is no disagreement, is the same as saying there are no real scientists.