Showing posts with label Autocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autocracy. Show all posts
Monday, October 13, 2025

Democrats are aghast at the lack of coordinated pushback from their GOP colleagues against the Trump administration's aggressive incursion into the power of the purse

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The GOP wants autocracy, and boy are they ever giving it to us, in the name of cutting duly authorized spending of already appropriated fund...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Do you not see what's happening here? The Trump administration is declaring everything it doesn't like to be terrorism in order to justify autocratic repression of it using the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force

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The run of the mill narco smugglers from Venezuela suddenly are terrorists under Trump, so they blow them up. Suddenly the left wing Charlie...
Monday, September 15, 2025

More autocratic rule by national emergency from Mad King Ludwig

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Is that national emergency #53? I'm losing count.  Trump vows national emergency in Washington, D.C. over ICE dispute    
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Andrew Sullivan makes Trump subhuman the way Mark Levin and Michael Savage have made their enemies subhuman, says the American people no longer want to govern themselves

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They shoot wild boar in Texas from helicopters, don't they?    The Permanent Stain  ... Trump is conservatism’s actual nemesis: a wild b...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko agrees with Ukraine's military commander in chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi against Zelensky that the war with Russia is at a stalemate

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 But despite his litany of grievances, the mayor stopped short of calling for Zelensky’s immediate ouster. “The president has an important f...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

LOL, in article supposedly touting the Cornel West threat, clueless former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader says he prefers Biden autocracy to Trump fascism

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 “I know the difference between fascism and autocracy, and I’ll take autocracy any time,” Nader said, according to the outlet. “Fascism is w...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Bloomberg economic model forecasts 25% tariffs between democratic and autocratic countries would roll back globalization to 1990s levels and leave the world 3.5% poorer

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Arguably that would be a good thing for American workers, but Bloomberg doesn't care about that.   For three decades, a defining featur...
Monday, June 7, 2021

The default position of liberalism is to blame obstruction by reactionaries for republican failure, not the revolutionary impulses of the autocrat

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"The republicans made me seize power". You know whose side they are on when people talk like this. Spengler long ago observed how ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Rush Limbaugh on Michael Bloomberg on China: "Nobody is this stupid to think communism is the equivalent of democratic or representative republican freedom"

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Rush, winning this year's tin ear of politics award today of all days with Trump making communism acceptable and not threatening: ...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

Trump doubles down on autocratic rule in China, says "I think it's great"

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If you're not offended by Trump's casual flaunting of the seriousness of his role as "leader of the free world" by now, ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Leader of the free world my foot: Trump White House says it's up to China if it wants to turn back toward autocracy

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Li Datong, a former editor at the state-run China Youth Daily, posted a draft letter urging legislators to vote against the move -- which ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Neocon insanity: Krauthammer blows a gasket, says Russia trying to expand hegemony in Syria

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Oh yeah, like Syria is somehow Ukraine. The USSR is alive and well, but only in the fevered minds of the neoconservatives. Here : ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Libertarian Ben Domenech, like every sick liberal does, descends into the politics of personal destruction

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Libertarian Ben Domenech, here , sensing his own marginality, states quite seriously that deporting law-breakers and enforcing the constit...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Present Day Tea Party's Connection to the Past

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The author inhabits the world the Tea Party opposes, but provides a sympathetic accounting nonetheless, which originally appeared here . It ...