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Eric's avatar

We are not one step closer to authoritarianism. We are in it.

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Dana Bennett's avatar

Sadly, true - “very sick man”. Most people do NOT know what a “narcissist” is all about. It’s about ENVY - Trump is so weak, he WANTS what others have. I had a narcissist mother - believe me when I say she WANTED all my natural, born-with talents and high intelligence. And she was mean, mean, mean. But I persevered with my musical talent, learned to read by age 4, and built my OWN life. It wasnt easy & I had a brilliant therapist starting in my 30s. And a MALIGNANT narcissist is even WORSE. That’s Trump. He is a very weak person. He’s all bluster and projection. And of course - LIAR LIAR LIAR. You cannot trust anything about him. The Rethugs are just addicted to him. This country is heading the wrong way - BUT we can turn this around. Look at the MILLIONS of Americans who protested in the No Kings March. Join up!

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Melissa's avatar

We can see the lies there is something deeply wrong here with these bombings clearly mission wasn't accomplished and they still stand down. 🤔🤔🤔🤔Lies, lies, lies 💯!

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Steph Jay's avatar

Yes, Trump is a malignant narcissist. Malignant narcissists are pathological liars, paranoid, and sadistic in addition to have zero ability to feel remorse and empathy. WE ALL NEED TO STAND TOGETHER AND PROTEST! The No Kings Day protests were huge, and many people are tired, but WE need more people in the street joining us!

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LSW's avatar

Thanks for sharing. A family member is a narcissist bully and a master manipulator. I’ve had to cut off any contact with her as an act of self preservation. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others. So very sad.

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LSW's avatar

Also, I learned too late about becoming a ‘gray rock’ but I don’t regret my decision

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Ss's avatar

Got my covert narcissism experience from a son-in-law. I KNOW and SEE Trump for the piece of shit he is. His only concern is what/who he’s able to use and control to get his jolly’s. Nothing else matters. Waiting to see what shit storm he causes today. He always leaves a narrative for his tRumpers to chew and rant on all weekend.

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Penny's avatar

Thank you for saying it. At this point talking about 'steps' toward authoritarianism, is gaslighting. Aaron why are you & other media using cautious language like this?

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Steph Jay's avatar

Tune into Lev Remembers

If you are not familiar with Lev, you may want to familiarize yourself with him. (See "From Russia with Lev" on YouTube.

I understand your frustration, bur PLEASE remember that Aaron is doing so much to bring US the news an a reporter. and that he works tirelessly to bring US the news.

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Penny's avatar

Aaron's is my top favorite news source, the one I look to first. And I have really great sources. (Including Lev's.) I'm too sleepy to write much rn but I wanted to tell you we're in agreement.

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Steph Jay's avatar

Thank you. I had just gotten home from my office and jumped on Bluesky to try to catch up on today. Tonight's Lev Remembers mapped Putin's orcastration of all that's occurring, including bombing Iran, and if you haven't seen it, I think you'd really find it interesting. I know I.did!

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Penny's avatar

Lev knows his shit, pardon my expletive. And you might need to remember to sleep & eat, you look busy. Thanks for what you do 💪🏼

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JoAnn Baker Paul's avatar

I have heard President Dump will be killed this year

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Penny's avatar

We don't want him killed, hurt or martyred. We want him in prison along with his staff and friends.

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JoAnn Baker Paul's avatar

🤞🏽

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JoAnn Britt's avatar

Trump is such a freak. People are gonna disagree that doesn’t mean you get them fired. Those people were just reporting what they heard. Trump is a very sick sick man.

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Reality's avatar

That’s the mentality of a dictator fascist supreme leader. The fact that the owners of these stream media companies boss to him should be of grave concern to all people. Look at Terry Moran who was fired from ABC because of his post on X criticizing Trump and his immigration policy maker Stephen Miller. It’s as though the occupant of the White House dictates what can be said by people and those who oppose him should be punished. This is history 1933-1945 repeating itself in plain sight. And, should be extremely to all who values democracy

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Kathy Bailey's avatar

He is crazy and so are the people that are supporting him!

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Emma Ray's avatar

He's a malignant narcissist....this description totally applies to him, so disgusting!!

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Judy Steiner's avatar

Putin's dissents find themselves too close to windows in high-rise buildings. Trump would love to have this power. I am so tired of the "greatest" in history and the likes of which no one has seen before. He lives in a bubble and an alternate reality.

His comment about firing reporters who report the truth is tyrannical.

Trump should talk with General Eisenhour. Operational Overlord was years in the planning and proved to be an overwhelming success. Fifteen hundred soldiers landed at five beaches in Normandy on June 9th, 1944. That is courage, resolve, and sacrifice. "Flying Coffins" are often left out of the success. These were gliders sent over enemy lines, bringing in troops and equipment to fight the enemy. "Flying Coffins" is a reference to many who died as the gliders tried to land and others through bullets and partial fire. That is the ultimate sacrifice for Democracy. It was the turning point of the war. That was a foothold that secured control of enemy territory, ultimately ending the war six months later. We need to teach this in schools. We need to read "The Prince" by Machivalli and "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. We need to prepare for the Great War and World War II. Yes, it's boring, but it's necessary. How can we determine a democratic path forward without knowing where we came from?

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Dorothy's avatar

Exactly what I was complelled to post!

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Terry's avatar

They reported the truth.

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Ty's avatar

Demented Donnie is ALWAYS right. He has to have anyone who disagrees with him fired cuz Donnie cannot be challenged! Notice how any one who challenges Donnie is always low IQ? He has decimated our media. Anyone telling the truth gets fired by their network cowards who rather pay Donnie millions than stand up for their journalists who actually provide facts to the public. No great surprise that the only network Donnie likes are those that that lie for him at every opportunity- RW media & FOX. Just like all his complicit corrupt cabinet staffers. All liars & All corrupt. Anything to lick fascist Donnie’s butt. What would Donnie know about Iran & their stash of nuclear capabilities? How would Donnie know if they moved everything before his bombers struck? He wouldn’t. He won’t even listen to our own security personnel. He already knows more than them and more than all our generals because Donnie is a self appointed genius. The most knowledgeable man on the whole damn planet! Sure Jan! Hilarious!!

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Brenda Brown's avatar

When are we going to admit that we ARE under authoritarianism?We are no longer heading toward it,we are there. There is a concentration camp,Alligator Alcatraz already being built in the Florida Everglades. Stephen Miller invests in this for profit prison along with who knows who investing from Congress. Is America great again yet,MAGA?!!?

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Toni W.'s avatar

You are right. And putting GPS trackers on people? That's like something out of a dystopian sci-fy novel, but it may actually happen! In America! It's horrific. What's even scarier is all the Americans who STILL support this Stalinesque regime.

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Kathy Bailey's avatar

It’s sick!!

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Nancy Villella's avatar

Absolutely 100% agree with you if this isn’t authoritarianism then what the hell is it?

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Janice Darling's avatar

and who gave permission for this to happen in a National Parl/protected lands?

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Deborah Curtis's avatar

I live in Miami and, unfortunately, this part of the Everglades is owned by Miami-Dade county. The county legally gave them permission. Many of us protested here once we realized it was happening so many, many here are outraged! It’s legal but that doesn’t make it right. It’s horrifying what will happen to those people put in there. Of course all of these detention centers are horrible. But he said he was gonna do this!

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Janice zdarling's avatar

It is such blatant cruelty//I don’t know —do men actually sign up to be an ICE agent to live out sadistic tendencies, to compensate for being ignored all their lives, to engage in racist violence for thrills ?? And the ice cold masterminds-/how do they live with themselves?

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Disguy Ovahea's avatar

CNN and NYT had better hold the line. Compliance emboldens fascism.

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Simone's avatar

He’s so jealous of Obama it’s pathetic!

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Mandy G's avatar

It wasn't secret at all 🤣 he gave us a play by play on his social media platform the entire time.

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Dorothy's avatar

Also spelled out in his "concept of a plan" called Project 2025.

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Brittanie / 5am's avatar

Bless you Aaron for keeping ppl updated on this sh*t show

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Emma Ray's avatar

Aaron is a national treasure!

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Johnny Canuck's avatar

Since they know nothing about history I guess they have never heard of D-Day which was just a tad more complex.

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Nancy Villella's avatar

Along with capturing Osama Bin Laden

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Toni W.'s avatar

😂🙌

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Tina Hollandsworth's avatar

Shame on this administration for deporting people who honorably served this country. It’s beyond my comprehension watching the way people are being abducted and disappeared by ICE! America is better than this!

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Terry's avatar

The USA used to be better than this. trump has turned what was a fairly good country, into hell. Deporting vets now? It proves that he thinks nothing of them, the statement attributed to him, suckers and losers, you now know was 100% without a shadow of a doubt, accurate.

I have never been more disgusted to be a US citizen than these last 5 months, living this hell under trump.

Other countries look at us in horror with an absolute right to do so.

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Dorothy's avatar

Agree, and feel exactly the same. The U.S. has always had a dark history, which is why many once-ethical Congresses kept adding Constitutional Amendments in order to right many wrongs. The GOP is no longer an ethical party and is not interested in making things better for We The People.

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Erica's avatar

Okay so what is going to be done about these human rights violations?

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Cheryl Beck-Ruff's avatar

To me, this is THE most important question. This not America. We protect human rights, not torture people. It is grotesque and shameful.

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Erica's avatar

YES. I 100% agree with you

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Lucy's avatar

Every single person who hates these HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS need to voice their concerns to the ICC asap

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Dorothy's avatar

The U.S. does not recognize the ICC. You will be wasting your time. At this point, a military coup is probably needed, since Congress is lost to the MAGAT Republicans and 9 SCOTUS Justices are owned by the Dictator in Chief. This country will not last until the midterms unless something drastic happens.

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Rochelle's avatar

I hate it here.

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

Me too Rochelle not the country I grew up in anymore

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Lynn Capani-Czebiniak's avatar

Me too

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Dorothy's avatar

Me too. I want to leave, but don't know where I could go at age 70.

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Shells9542's avatar

The widow of a Capitol police officer who died due to his experience of Jan 6th gets 500,000 but the mother of an insurrectionist gets millions? Shameful!

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Taya's avatar

The media needs to stop agreeing with this stupid ass and stand up for themselves like wtf

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Shari Bardash-Eivers's avatar

I can’t even recognize this country anymore! Deporting a Purple Heart recipient … demanding the firing of reporters … ICE kidnappings … vaccine efficacy denials. We are not devolving into an authoritarian regime. We are there.

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Dorothy's avatar

FUBAR.

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Sarah's avatar

I should not have taken a sip of coffee when you said Pete said it was the most secretive. I almost sprayed my laptop.

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eve's avatar

this is why you don’t go and support parties or politicians that don’t want you here

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Carol Gamm's avatar

Many think it will never be them. It will be someone else who will be detained by ICE. Some will never get it.

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eve's avatar

this mentality is actually so much more prevalent in immigrants than you think…this sense of entitlement is what will lead them to their demise

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