Dictatorship updates: MAGA attacks and abandons NATO; The DoJ attacks the rule of law

In yet another clear, undeniable sign of authoritarianism controlling American politics, the NYT reports that MAGA has rejected NATO because it is pro-democracy:

The leaders of many of Europe’s biggest countries on Monday will descend on Paris in an effort to forge a strategy for their own security as President Trump’s envoys prepared for talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine without them.

The meeting in Paris was pulled together rapidly, after Vice President JD Vance’s scathing speech in Munich criticizing Europe’s exclusion of far-right groups from power and the fast-emerging American plans to begin peace talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia this week, without the presence of Ukrainian or European leaders.

In a recent NATO meeting in Germany, Vance brutally attacked Germany for resisting the rise of the authoritarian neo-Nazi AfD party. The AfD’s rhetoric and policies significantly overlap historical far-right and neo-Nazi ideologies, especially anti-immigrant policy and radical nationalism. Vance’s attack stunned hundreds of attendees at the Munich Security Conference. The top-level politicians, diplomats and analysts expected to hear DJT’s plans to (i) end the Ukraine war, and (ii) bolster Europe’s defense against rising Russian threats. Instead, they got a hard kick in the nuts. Vance told the conference that “there is no room for firewalls” against extremist authoritarian groups like the AfD.

In my opinion, this constitutes a major rejection of democracy and the NATO alliance by DJT and MAGA elites. They are openly supporting bigoted, radical authoritarianism not just in the US, but also everywhere else. This is a very big deal, not just a big deal.

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Within the last hour or so, DJT through his corrupt MAGA thug subordinate Pam Bondi or one of her subordinate thugs, probably Emil Bove, has ordered all Integrity Section lawyers, I think in the DC office, to get into a room and decide who among them will dismiss the criminal prosecution of New York City's corrupt mayor Eric Adams. If no one chooses to dismiss the case, all of the DoJ lawyers in that room will be fired. 

This is an absolute catastrophe for the rule of law. Our democracy is rotting away in front of our eyes. And there still are tens of millions of American who cannot see it, don't believe it or don't care. That is evidence of the deadly serious rot and weakness in democracy. This is also evidence of the failure of the MSM to inform the American people and the Dem Party to have avoided this disaster when they could. Now it is too late. DJT and MAGA elites are going to do their very best to kill our democracy and rule of law. Civil liberties will fall shortly thereafter.

Apparently, at least one has pre-emptively resign instead of doing DJT's corrupt bidding.

DJT wants the Adams prosecution stopped because Adams is his political ally. No doubt, DJT and MAGA elites want all of those lawyers fired and replaced with loyal, corrupt MAGA thugs. 

Canards and Tropes

 

canard

noun

: a false or unfounded report or story

: a groundless rumor or belief

trope

noun

a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

a significant or recurrent theme; a motif.

More and more lately I have wanted to stay away from Politics. I got into it with someone I consider a friend yesterday. In my opinion he was displaying some canards that I found offensive but he didn't see them as such.

AND I GET IT!

When some whitey calls a black criminal a thug......... that is viewed nowadays as a "trope". Yet the literal meaning of the word is race free. 

It's how it is used.

Same with canards. The BLM riots were violent. Yes, some were, but any analysis of those riots would dispel the notion that the BLM protests were "riots" except in isolated instances. Yet the canard persists.

I am NOT here today to get into it again with anyone! I just wanted to express my frustration with our tendencies to use canards and tropes in order to prove a point.

AND while the worst examples may be found on the Right, the Left has their canards and tropes they use on Trump voters or Republicans, or those who lean Right.

BUT......................... and this is a big BUT.............

When heated debates happen, we have the tendency to lean on canards and tropes and characterizations and stereotypes and beliefs that this group of people or that group of people are this or that.

Why discussing politics, particularly in THIS era, cannot be civil.

Am I wrong? 

Simple question ........................ YET not so simple.

 The quote, “He who saves his country does not violate any law,” which Bonaparte used during his reign as emperor, was shared by Trump on his Truth Social platform.

So............................

Is it time for the Left, the Democrats, even normally civil-minded people, to start breaking the law in order to "save" the country from Trump?

Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rely on the same institutional and procedural maneuvers they used during the first Trump term, and how much are they willing to wield their own wrecking balls?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/democrats-strategy-powerless-trump/index.html

And what would breaking the law to save the country from Trump look like?

Dictatorship bits: Vicious retribution; DoJ's subversion; Crapifying jobs; MAGA gits ’er done

The AP reports that DJT has banned the AP from access to the Oval Office and Air Force One because an AP reporter used the phrase Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America:

The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion. It represented a significant escalation by the White House in a four-day dispute with the AP over access to the presidency. 

AP reporters and photographers travel with the president virtually everywhere as part of a press “pool” and have for decades. AP journalism serves millions of readers and thousands of news outlets around the world.

Here is the real reason DJT banned the AP:

This is the face of irrational, vindictive American dictatorship under the deeply corrupt DJT and his MAGA.

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The letter I posted about yesterday from DoJ MAGA thug Emil Bove to federal prosecutor Danielle Sasson has really shaken me. To me that evidence is about as clear as possible of how blatantly corrupt, weaponized and politicized the DoJ now is. 

MAGA thug Bove

It blows me away that Bove justified dropping the DoJ's ongoing investigation and prosecution of New York City's corrupt mayor Eric Adams for political reasons. Bove's letter explicitly stated that the ongoing prosecution was “unduly limiting Mayor Adams' ability to focus entirely on the illegal immigration and violent crime that have escalated under the previous administration's policies. .... [prosecuting Adams amounts to] unacceptable threats to public safety, national security, and related federal immigration initiatives and policies.” 

The Adams case is removed from the U.S. attorney's office of the Southern District of New York and transferred to Washington, where it will be dismissed. On the day Bove sent his poison letter, five prosecutors in the Public Integrity unit there also resigned rather than drop the case. 

This is full-blown evisceration of a neutral rule of law in the federal government. Elite friends of DJT and MAGA are now free to commit white collar federal crimes with little to no risk of ever being prosecuted in federal courts.

This letter and some other things are leading me to reassess the human condition and American politics in major ways. I’m starting to that maybe think I’ve been rather blind and naive. 

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Elon Musk plans to reduce the federal work force by making conditions of their work crappy: DOGE looks to shrink the federal workforce by making buildings and commutes ‘so crappy’ that employees will quit, report says -- "Part of the Department of Government Efficiency's plan to slash spending and personnel is to boost attrition by depressing morale, sources told the Washington Post. To do that, up to half of the government's nonmilitary real estate will be liquidated, the report said, resulting in office closures and forcing workers to make longer commutes to comply with President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate. "We’ve heard from them that they want to make the buildings so crappy that people will leave," a senior official at the General Services Administration, which manages federal property, told the Post. "I think that’s the larger goal here, which is bring everybody back, the buildings are going to suck, their commutes are going to suck.""

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From MAGA’s git ’er done files: Among things like Senate Republicans lying to the public as a major part of what they now do, a long Salon article reports about Senate GOP efforts to sanctify conspiracy theories. One planned item is a plan by MAGA crackpot and all around freak Laura Loomer to interview the attending physicians at President John F. Kennedy's deathbed. Thing is though, they’re all dead. Presumably the looney Loomer will find a channel or seer to interview the spirits of the dead folks. 

Rep. Luna appears to suggest that she intends to bring in members of the Warren Commission as part of her JFK investigation pic.twitter.com/9oLjt9rqlJ

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 11, 2025