"LOCK HIM UP!" Imagine you're a white-collar crook doing time in a federal penitentiary, and your new celly is Donald Trump. Talk about cruel & unusual punishment...
"Repugs want to return to days of Ozzie and Harriett but with Archie Bunker" It's like they cryogenically froze Joe McCarthy's DNA, and these people (Vance, MTG, Hegseth, Miller, et al) are his bastard offspring.
"This is what Autocracy/Fascism looks like" I'd like to think that a reasonably well-run fascist autocracy would work a little better than this one, with less head-scratching and rolling of eyes from it's increasingly flummoxed adherents.
à redclay56 :That's right, Rod. You misspelled one word, but let not your heart be troubled, as I've interceded on your behalf, thus, The Big Man Upstairs shall absolve you. What you quoted is from the Beatitudes (blessings) from The Sermon on the Mount. In said notable oration, one of the 9 blessings of JC was: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” ~ Matthew 5:9
à redclay56 :Rod, I commend you for not being a judgmental arse, mate. What you said reminds me of one of the various things that JC said in the Sermon on the Mount: “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured unto you.” ~ Matthew 7:1-2
à stephenbi69 :I try not to judge a man on his hair-do choices unless I have walked a mile in his Bruno Magli loafers. There, but for the grace of merciful god, go I...
à redclay56 :We are back to dog eat dog. A society that supports genocide by proxy is not a society that can survive. It has started to eat itself. The rich will retreat to their redoubts and emerge later.
à Onlooker2022 :I have been stockpiling an arsenal of rocks. Storing most of them go under the sink, but I'm keeping a few buckets around the house for when the brownshirted gunthugs bust down the door...
"America trans to Fascism/Authoritarianism - Trump, inc." People don't give a rat-fuck, they just want a dozen eggs for $1.59 and trans-free bathrooms. It's the Land of The Free & The Home of The Whopper.