Yeah, America is in the midst of a fascist coup .... the question is not if or when it is happening (it's already started) .... the question is when the people will react to it to stop it or let it all just fester and go on until it's way too late to do anything about it all.

The latter. They think they can still vote their way out of fascism in 2026 and 2028. Until they experience a famine caused by the GOP and oligarchs running the economy into the ground, people are not going to be pissed off enough to do anything of consequence.

Wag that finger!

Even if Trump came out tomorrow and say "I am now your dictator. I am going to enslave you all, and if you don't agree, you'll go to a deathcamp where you'll be starved, tortured and worked to death". Americans would still just be a bit pissy, and half the country would still make excuses for him like "It's going to make everything much more efficient". While the other half are whining about not being able to resist, because things could always get worse for them personally.

The bread and circuses is still going strong in the US.

More like wag the dog

This is shamelessly stolen from two posts earlier in my timeline.

Credit card debt too high for that.

The worst thing is it's going to work. Again.

Takes a few missed meals. It'll happen.

Yes it is bullshit we will just sit here a take a big bite and not say anything. We need to take action we need to untie regardless of political affiliation or gender identity. If not we will all be marched into the prison camps while looking at our phones.

“Work”?

It’s nothing but theater. The only thing it does is fuel the Official State Fascism Faux News channel bullshit and lies.

Watch for continued demonization of the left and then an ever-so-slight lift to the 2A winguts so that the regime can call on them to become a giant shitty posse to suppress anyone who thinks they might have rights.

That's how it works... It's all theatre, always has been. And it works. Look how many people are head over heels for pretty much anything this administration does. Actual outcomes don't matter. Consequences don't matter until it guts them personally, and even then sometimes it doesn't matter. All that matters is how it looks in the media and the theatre makes it look damn good to their demographic and they love it.

It will let met invade Chicago without consequences. And that's a first step in taking control over Democrat run states and cities.

Alas! Verily our cup overfloweth with accusations! Were we not so o’er wrought and engorged on aspersions flung, we mayn’t find such callous rebukes so lacking in labour and easily loosened from their prison of parlance!

Go now we demand! Say not the things wished upon those who adversary your designs! Act instead as an extension of those that saw fit to place you in the very position to do so!

(There was zero use of AI in writhing this by the way. It sucks we now have to disclaimer our creativity. I was simply bored. That’s it)

But honestly, would you rather have a fascist dictator and be able to feed and shelter yourself, or have no food and in a violent domestic war? Just something to consider. When people get hungry that's when action happens as has been historically shown, but who knows what comes after that.

It'd be great if they were toppled and some form of competent leadership and "normalcy" (when was the last normal period that we'd like to return to even?), but with violence comes further instability, death, imprisonment, etc. Ideally we can do everything non-violently within the system, but that hasn't really worked so... I don't know...

(Un)fortunately not enough people across the country have personally experienced severe negative consequences yet. I give it like 6 more months (optimistically) until it gets bad enough for everyone to start mobilizing.