Richard Ellis
@ellisphotos.bsky.social
Photographer. Charleston South Carolina resident for past 20-years. Have lived in Hong Kong, China, India, Russia and UK. Liberal progressive to the core. Believer in reality. Opposed to stupid.
Reposted by Richard Ellis
The authoritarian script:
1) Court rules against leader
2) Attack judges as biased/dangerous
3) Delegitimize judicial system
4) Create permission for threats
5) IF NO MASS RESISTANCE → Purge the courts
6) IF MASS RESISTANCE → Forced to retreat
1) Court rules against leader
2) Attack judges as biased/dangerous
3) Delegitimize judicial system
4) Create permission for threats
5) IF NO MASS RESISTANCE → Purge the courts
6) IF MASS RESISTANCE → Forced to retreat
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The authoritarian script:
1) Court rules against leader
2) Attack judges as biased/dangerous
3) Delegitimize judicial system
4) Create permission for threats
5) IF NO MASS RESISTANCE → Purge the courts
6) IF MASS RESISTANCE → Forced to retreat
1) Court rules against leader
2) Attack judges as biased/dangerous
3) Delegitimize judicial system
4) Create permission for threats
5) IF NO MASS RESISTANCE → Purge the courts
6) IF MASS RESISTANCE → Forced to retreat
Führerprinzip. The Nazi leadership principles that Trump is using now. Great read from 2016 which is more relevant today than ever.
direct.mit.edu/daed/article...
direct.mit.edu/daed/article...
Against the Führerprinzip: For Collective Leadership
Abstract. The Führerprinzip has not been confined to Nazi Germany. The cult of the strong leader thrives in many authoritarian regimes and has its echoes even in contemporary democracies. The belief t...
direct.mit.edu
April 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Führerprinzip. The Nazi leadership principles that Trump is using now. Great read from 2016 which is more relevant today than ever.
direct.mit.edu/daed/article...
direct.mit.edu/daed/article...
Anyone notice that only Russia escaped the tariff stick?
April 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Anyone notice that only Russia escaped the tariff stick?
I don't know about you, but I am so excited about getting one of those new jobs working in a sweatshop making clothing. No need to move to Bangladesh now since the jobs are coming home.....
April 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I don't know about you, but I am so excited about getting one of those new jobs working in a sweatshop making clothing. No need to move to Bangladesh now since the jobs are coming home.....
Happy Liberation Day!
I know I feel totally liberated from the consumer economy and may never afford to buy anything again!
I know I feel totally liberated from the consumer economy and may never afford to buy anything again!
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy Liberation Day!
I know I feel totally liberated from the consumer economy and may never afford to buy anything again!
I know I feel totally liberated from the consumer economy and may never afford to buy anything again!
Before J.D Vance criticizes Denmark on the treatment of Greenland lets's look closer to home.
www.ksmu.org/2025-03-28/f...
www.ksmu.org/2025-03-28/f...
Former hostage Paul Whelan returns home, to a web of bureaucracy
Paul Whelan was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War. But since coming home, Whelan says he's still imprisoned — by bureaucracy.
www.ksmu.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Before J.D Vance criticizes Denmark on the treatment of Greenland lets's look closer to home.
www.ksmu.org/2025-03-28/f...
www.ksmu.org/2025-03-28/f...
If J.D Vance wants to fix the security issue in the Arctic he needs to build more ice breakers, not squeeze Greenland.
www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...
The U.S. is falling behind in the competition for 'control' of the Arctic
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks retired U.S. naval officer Peter Rybski why the Coast Guard has fallen behind on producing icebreakers and what that means for U.S. influence in the Arctic.
www.npr.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If J.D Vance wants to fix the security issue in the Arctic he needs to build more ice breakers, not squeeze Greenland.
www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...
Most important thing I've read in ages. Glad someone is paying attention.
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Most important thing I've read in ages. Glad someone is paying attention.
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
At least someone is happy about the DOGE cuts... Perhaps Elon will get his self-driving tech approved in China now!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump's cuts to Voice of America
State newspaper gloated that the network has "now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag".
www.bbc.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
At least someone is happy about the DOGE cuts... Perhaps Elon will get his self-driving tech approved in China now!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This doesn't count that Tesla's are the most likely to be set on fire as well....
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Exclusive: Tesla trade-ins on pace for record high amid Musk backlash
Motorists have traded in a record number of Tesla electric vehicles this month, Edmunds data showed, amid a wave of protests against CEO Elon Musk's work as an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This doesn't count that Tesla's are the most likely to be set on fire as well....
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Pretty much sums it up....
March 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pretty much sums it up....
What's with dictators and posing with children?
March 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What's with dictators and posing with children?
Whoops! Someone should have through this through before making the offer!
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump's plan to give them refugee status
The U.S. Embassy in South Africa says it has received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white mino...
apnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Whoops! Someone should have through this through before making the offer!
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
People of New Jersey. Drones are stealing your thoughts. Time to defend yourselves.
December 20, 2024 at 6:20 PM
People of New Jersey. Drones are stealing your thoughts. Time to defend yourselves.
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” - Thomas Paine
December 20, 2024 at 11:17 AM
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” - Thomas Paine
Today's bucket of beach trash from my morning walk on Isle of Palms Beach, South Carolina.
November 15, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Today's bucket of beach trash from my morning walk on Isle of Palms Beach, South Carolina.
November 14, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Great read.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-submis...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-submis...
The Submission Chain
The Transitive Property and Trump
snyder.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Great read.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-submis...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-submis...