The US is stuck in the past. Their language is disconnected with today's role of royals in society.
Kings and queens these days are ceremonial in their role.
What the US voted into Office is not a king in the modern sense. What Trump is aspiring to is a cross of Pinochet, Hitler and Putin — a cruel, murderous, moron, racist dictator.
Republican Lamppost at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain
A small but stubborn relic of Spain’s turbulent past hides in plain sight.#lamppost #light #warhistory #fascism #dictators #spanishcivilwar #section-Atlas
Republican Lamppost at the Royal Palace
#PopeFrancis has died.
As a lifelong Catholic I ask:
Where are the brave #religious leaders with moral courage to stand up to #dictators?
We just lost one.
Will the next genuflect to Fascists & Nazis or stand and fight using the words of Jesus Christ himself?
@Nonilex oh yeah, now they figured that #europe will never cave to #dictators threatening to nuke #EU cities - go figure
The Real Reason El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Cozied Up to Trump
The self-described “coolest dictator” has big secrets to hide, according to one journalist who spoke to Al Letson.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-trump-deportation/ #Bukele #ElSalvador #Trump #Dictators #Politics
I remember trial with Saddam Hussein and his execution by hanging...
I remember Gaddafi and how he was treated after he failed to flee...
I sometimes think about Nicolae Ceaușescu in front of firing squad...
Or Mussolini's body hanging at Piazzale Loreto...
End of #dictators is full of pain and blood. And that's comforting idea.
I can't wait for the same destiny for #Trump, #Vance, #Musk, and assholes from #HeritageFoundation who are behind all this suffering.
#Elsalvador is being used by tRump like pUtin is using #Belarus; two #NarcissisticPsychopath-ic #dictators driving global citizens to follow #Fascist ideology through #gaslighting, #manipulation and #CoerciveControl, which will end in global #CollectiveGenocide if we don't fight back.
#Educate #organise #resist
#press #news #BreakingNews
https://youtu.be/axBPZh0FQlQ?si=h-kLrqCvQQiNbwWx
@clintruin @emptywheel.bsky.social Since you asked, it is not yet curtains. Really really close, but not yet. It is true that the rule of #law is hanging on by a slender thread. It is true that #Congress is fully subverted. It is true that the institutions of federal government that provide essential services to us are being systematically erased. Very hard times are ahead.
But… I keep returning to the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence. #Patriots sacrificed, fought, died, and ultimately prevailed to achieve what it says. Please read the brief document (link below) because this is why I believe our situation not yet checkmate: the power of the people to consent or not.
“[…] when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute #Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
I have no idea how this will be done, or when, or how long it will take. Nevertheless, I place my ultimate #trust, my #hope, in the power, right and duty of people to choose.
“One thing that characterizes all #dictators: lack of fundamental humanity. Putin poison or defenestrates dissidents, throws Russians as cannon fodder in waves to die in UA. Xi sends Ms of Uighurs to conc camps. Kim tortures, executes his own with glee.
Trump sends an innocent & decent man to forced labor & torture in a Salvadoran prison & fights every effort to bring him back. That’s only one ex of the lack of humanity & decency. Behaving just like his role models.”
-N Ornstein
The cult of personality. Just like Lenin and Stalin, and Mao, and all the other petty and not so petty dictators.
It might be time to start wearing my cult of Jerry Garcia lapel pin now, or maybe Alfred E. Neumann.
#USPol #Trump #Fascism #Dictators https://sauropods.win/@dinogami/114319808690392058
Trump orders investigations into 2 Trump1 officials
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-taylor-krebs-justice-department-1.7506594
* targets: fmr DHS official Miles Taylor; fmr former top cybersecurity official Chris Krebs
* escalation, Trump campaign of retribution
* Taylor: authored anonymous 2018 NYT op-ed
* 2019 book A Warning under the pen name Anonymous
* Krebs called 2020 election "most secure in American history"
#TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide #revenge #ElectoralFraud #ElectionDenial #dictators
Trump explained. Seriously.
(Fascinating article)
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-people-cant-stop-lying
It was a mistake, I think, to hang Mussolini from a lamppost. Perhaps it would have been a better example to future wannabe #fascist #dictators if we had watched Mussolini die slowly of old age in prison, getting weaker and more irrelevant every day.
That is my wish for #Trump: death by old age in prison, an example to others.
(Of course, I want every one of his present day #collaborators in prison as well, an example to future collaborators.)
Peter Brookes @BrookesTimes on #Putin #Trump #Xijinping #Erdogan #Dictators @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
How To Kill A #Democracy
“They are copying the path taken by other would-be #dictators like Viktor Orbán,” said Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut. “You have a move towards state-controlled media. You have a judiciary and law enforcement that seems poised to prioritise the prosecution of political opponents. You have the executive seizure of spending power so the leader and only the leader gets to dictate who gets money.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/trump-viktor-orban-electoral-autocracy
Chris Hayes of MSNBC highlights some of Donald Trump's latest efforts to try to make America Russia. He saves the most absurd bit for last – the crackdown on woke zoos.
#DonaldTrump #Autocracy #MAGA #Republicans #WokeZoos #Dictators #ChrisHayes #USPolitics #MakeAmericaRussia
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