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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>NYT piece asks 35 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> scholars about the most <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> things <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has done in his first 100 days.</p><p>Spoiler, there are a lot.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/felon47" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>felon47</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8.BRGY.Cbz0hJdXsWxX&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8.BRGY.Cbz0hJdXsWxX&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Turns out I'm still a writer. New today on NIDC:</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16/fascist-word-games-and-the-birth-of-an-american-dictatorship/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16</span><span class="invisible">/fascist-word-games-and-the-birth-of-an-american-dictatorship/</span></a></p><p>Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship</p><p>"Step by step the Christian Nationalist Trump regime has followed a playbook that transforms fascist propaganda into administrative reality, while purposely fracturing the rule of law to liberate itself from judicial oversight. If the United States was a Middle Eastern oil-producing nation full of Muslims, our government would be openly advocating for an invasion to “liberate” the American people and stop “tyranny.” Of course, maybe none of that matters anyway because unless someone stops him, there will be no law in this country except Trump’s word, and no America to save, except what Trump wills America to be."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbregoGarcia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lawless</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Unreality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unreality</span></a></p>
Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS<p>I'm so amazed that the Libertarian Party in Texas had the cojones to pass the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resolution</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pronouncements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pronouncements</span></a> that "violate the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/constitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constitutional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/separation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>separation</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>powers</span></a>." ... <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mujcx4za" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/mujcx4za</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (2/3)</p>
Nonilex<p>…More significantly, if the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin can defy court orders with impunity, &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> is unwilling to act, there is no reason for it to respect the constitutional rights of American citizens either. The Roberts Court will now have to decide whether to side with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> or with a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> president asserting the power to disappear people at will. This is not a power that any person, much less an American president, is meant to have.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a></p>
RonSupportsYou<p>Jesse Lee: "Trump is asserting his right to disappear *people he knows are innocent* to dictatorial prisons abroad, never to be seen again, and neither the Supreme Court nor anybody else can do anything about it."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
kctipton<p>Video: ICE agents smash a car window to detain a Maryland woman - The Baltimore Banner <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/video-ice-arrest-wesminster-elsy-noemi-berrios-QJ7CIME76ZGPZEBW5C3REEPZ6E/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebaltimorebanner.com/communi</span><span class="invisible">ty/local-news/video-ice-arrest-wesminster-elsy-noemi-berrios-QJ7CIME76ZGPZEBW5C3REEPZ6E/</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a></p>
Jeffa<p>The <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bible</span></a> warns us about being manipulated by the <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> people.<br>"There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Scriptures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scriptures</span></a>.<br>You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability." <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Evangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evangelical</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/southernbaptist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>southernbaptist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catholic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jesus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/lent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lent</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/easter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>easter</span></a><br><a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-peter/passage/?q=2+peter+3:15-17" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biblestudytools.com/esv/2-pete</span><span class="invisible">r/passage/?q=2+peter+3:15-17</span></a></p>
RonSupportsYou<p>Steve Vladeck: "There were 46 cases in which federal judges blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges, appointed by 5 different presidents, of both parties, to 11 different district courts, in 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?" <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In this prerogative state, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a> &amp; other legal actors deferred to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> hierarchies &amp; ruthless expediencies of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> regime.</p><p>The key here is that this prerogative state does not immediately &amp; completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Fraenkel argued, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorships</span></a> create a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> zone that runs alongside the normative state. The 2 states cohabit uneasily &amp; unstably. On any given day, people or cases could be jerked out of the normative state &amp; into the prerogative one.</p>
Nonilex<p>Academic in tone, The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DualState</span></a> sketches a template of emerging <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> distilled from bloody &amp; horrifying experience.</p><p>As Fraenkel explained it, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> system of rules, procedures, &amp; precedents. To the contrary, that system—which he called the “normative state”—remains in place while dictatorial power spreads across society. What happens, Fraenkel explained, is insidious.</p>
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3<p>I feel like throwing an eraser at these sleeping <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influencers</span></a> like one of my professors did at <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/HowardU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HowardU</span></a> BITD. Hello? Have you been paying attention? The current <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> regime is, whelp, <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a>. They are busy <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/deporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deporting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/legalimmigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legalimmigrants</span></a> &amp; threatening to <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizens</span></a>. They have illegally fired <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/civilservants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservants</span></a>. Why would they, on god's green earth, be constrained by <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/treaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treaties</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/IARU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IARU</span></a> agreements or listen to suggestions from <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/hams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hams</span></a>?</p>
RonSupportsYou<p>"On a podcast in April 2024, Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, praised a rancher for killing an unarmed migrant who trespassed on his property and said the rancher should have gotten the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedalOfHonor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedalOfHonor</span></a>": <br><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/03/17/the-benefits-of-bukeles-bromance-with-trump-00233651" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/newsletters/natio</span><span class="invisible">nal-security-daily/2025/03/17/the-benefits-of-bukeles-bromance-with-trump-00233651</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monsters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a></p>
David August<p>DUI hire Pete can’t rehire the 16 provisional employees they unlawfully fired as the court requires them to because the mighty US military can’t handle making them new badges. </p><p>China, russia and Iran could not be reached for comment but I’m sure are quaking in their boots. </p><p>Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges. </p><p><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/pete-hegseths-dod-says-it-is-too-fragile-to-make-16-new-badges/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/pete</span><span class="invisible">-hegseths-dod-says-it-is-too-fragile-to-make-16-new-badges/</span></a> </p><p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emptywheel</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hegseth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a></p>
NotImpressed<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> </p><p>"Syrian women fear leaving the house at night amid a rash of kidnappings and ongoing security vacuum"<br>"Crime and insecurity have worsened since Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, took power in December"<br>"HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa created a security vacuum by dismissing all government police and security officials and emptying the country’s prisons, both of political prisoners and criminals"</p><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/no-safe-streets-lawlessness-takes-hold-of-syria-under-hts-led-government" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thecradle.co/articles/no-safe-</span><span class="invisible">streets-lawlessness-takes-hold-of-syria-under-hts-led-government</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> rampage of the second <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Admin has already touched everything from rangers at America’s treasured national parks to the very pillars of the decades-old transatlantic <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/alliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alliance</span></a>.</p><p>But you wouldn’t have known it from hearing Trump wind his way through nearly a hundred minutes of mostly standard-issue Fox News culture-war talking points &amp; alpha-male American exceptionalism.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unfit</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/delusional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>delusional</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/megalomaniac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megalomaniac</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/narcissist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narcissist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a></p>
OUR COMMON GROUND<p>:coffeev60: <br>WE have a criminal regime in place.<br>Them: "Who's gonna stop us?"<br>Disobedience of any court order is the order of the day.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lawless</span></a></p>