If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:

1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.

You almost wish the Founding Fathers would have written some sort of document that would have established three separate and independent bodies of government to check and balance each other so that no one person could become a tyrant by taking over the entire government.

I remember when this happened.

@aoc.bsky.social: "For a party that loves to talk about free speech, they lay down the hardest hammer in trying to intimidate and punish anyone who does anything that they don't like. And the point of it is trying to make an example out of one person so that none of us stand up."

One of these things is not like the other.

How much longer til America is great?

You have $100 in your checking account.

One day, you check your balance and it's $60. You haven't made any withdrawals.

You call the bank. They say $40 was taken as part of their "waste, fraud and abuse" program.

Would you be ok with it?

Coz it's happening to your social security and Medicaid.

They need us more than we need them!