Richard Ellis
ellisphotos.bsky.social
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
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Dictators never get enough boot licking....
April 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sadly they will ignore it.
April 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Don't worry, more horror to come. We will look back on this day as a blip unless we do something now to stop it.
April 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Sounds like they are begging for a place at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo.....
April 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why would we assume otherwise? Everyone has to stop using old belief sets of right and wrong when you deal with the Trump world. They do not follow any ethics, morals, rules, laws or standards. Always assume the worst.
April 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I bought an Apple Studio computer! Fuckers.
April 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
And what did it change? Did Musk stop being an asshole? Did he shut down Doge?
April 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you say so. It hasn't worked out like that so far. Congress is as effective as who you elect. You pick clowns and you get a circus.
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's about being effective. Standing around at a love fest with signs only gives the feeling that you are doing something. Voting, running for office, even writing or visiting your Congressional delegate does something.
April 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If only that were true. Protests in the USA just make the participants feel better and create a nice photo-op. The Occupy, BLM and others over the past ten years accomplished nothing. Without a specific actionable goal, protests just make noise.
April 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Protests without purpose are meaningless. Best to protest directly outside the White House or outside your congresspersons office. Look at the Occupy movement. Tons of turnout and nothing accomplished. Well actually, perhaps it was yet another reason why Trump won his first term.
April 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"Hey, watch this", is the last thing anyone hears.
April 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Too late. They all voted for him and the missile has been launched.
April 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Puke. That is like saying that Hitler looks sharp in that Nazi uniform.
March 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
No we have crypto so the bags can be recycled....
March 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Every child knows that tariffs are a tax on buyers, not sellers. Capitalism dictates that those that are exempt from tariffs will raise their prices anyway because they can
March 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM