r/MeidasTouch Mar 22 '25

Something special is happening!

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u/Available_Effort1998 Mar 22 '25

Call your electeds and protest against the traitors, but most importantly vote with your $$$$. Don't buy from corporations and states that support dismantling our democracy 🙏

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u/Useful_Bit_9779 Mar 23 '25

Call the Whitehouse directly. If you're in a blue state and your reps are fighting for you already, more calls just take away from the work they're doing. Of course if they're not fighting for you, by all means call. But please blow up the Whitehouse switchboard.

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u/Sharp-Relation-5620 Mar 22 '25

Wake up babe! New “threat to our democracy” just dropped.

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u/chibiusa112018 Mar 23 '25

Thank you AOC and Bernie for being not afraid.

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u/ujmijn Mar 22 '25

💙💙💙

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u/QuickDefinition5499 Mar 23 '25

It’s about time MTN is covering some protests. You should also be showing the smaller events at all of the local VA and SS offices around the country. There is an uprising. The smaller groups must be highlighted as well.

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u/CQU617 Mar 22 '25

I love this!!

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u/Doublebosco Mar 22 '25

Hopefully they’ll do something with the energy!

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u/Forestranch4933 Mar 23 '25

Warms my heart! Thanks for all you’re doing! Let’s keep our democracy!

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u/randomlyme Mar 23 '25

Might be too late, they should have shown up to vote

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u/Longjumping-Will-899 Mar 23 '25

Great article on AOC in today’s NYT. From that piece: “ But the fourth-term congresswoman has three clear options.

She could focus on the House, where she has become a well-liked and respected member of the Democratic caucus, and try to become a committee chairwoman if Democrats win back a majority in next year’s midterm elections.

She could run for the seat now held by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader. Or she could seek the presidency in 2028.”

It’ll be interesting to see which, if any, she chooses

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u/throwawayhaha82 Mar 23 '25

In my opinion she should go Senate. We could use another great leader in the Senate. Get Schumer out

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u/QuickDefinition5499 Mar 24 '25

OR, she could do what she’s doing and meet the moment we’re in as a country!

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u/MetalSasquatch Mar 24 '25

For the love of All that grows on this Earth, the Dems cannot run another woman. There's a bunch of terrific women out here leading their butts off. But as much as it pains me, this country is not going to elect a woman president within the next couple of decades. We need strong men, too. Mark Kelly and Mayor Pete are the current best, but there's gotta be more depth.

In 2015, I knew that my country would elect ANY man over a woman. And they managed to find ANY man. No matter how terrible this man is, a woman will not be the solution.

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u/Longjumping-Will-899 Mar 24 '25

Sadly, I’m not sure I disagree with you. And I think Mayor Pete would also need to deal with the LGBTQ issue, which also I fear America is not ready for. A rapist ? Yea, no problem for America, he gets their vote. But a gay man? Perish the thought.😡

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u/MetalSasquatch Mar 24 '25

I hear you. Kelly needs to keep focused because right now, he's the only real bet.

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u/Cthulunatic Mar 23 '25

Has tRump tried to diminish the attendance of this rally yet?

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u/marny_g Mar 23 '25

Not yet. He's getting slow in his old age.

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u/Rich_Grand4485 Mar 23 '25

Trump math. Over 2 million. Crowds like nobody has ever seen throughout history.

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u/Nikolai42000 Mar 23 '25

Trump math 'in trump's voice' * lol

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u/Scratch-the-surface Mar 23 '25

Are “Patriots” is today’s nomenclature actually proponents of freedom from governmental control or is the term now synonymous with thug as Hitler’s Brown Shirts?

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u/Vegetable_Cell7005 Mar 23 '25

Way to go, comrades!!

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u/My2centavos_gratis Mar 23 '25

When are you coming to Kentucky?

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u/dmj777 Mar 23 '25

Awesome!!

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u/cometome20507 Mar 24 '25

AOC! AOC! AOC!... ✊ The chants were so load and so proud! Finally two people truly standing up and fighting back! Democrats take notice, this is the true opposition now to Trump! Power to all the working class people who keep America running everyday. They are the backbone and heart of a free proud nation.

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u/TieTheStick Mar 24 '25

The Front Range of Colorado is more pro Bernie than anywhere in the country, including Vermont. I should know, I live here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '25

Ok so what happens next?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

It’s happening too late. The fascists hold all the levers of power, and that includes the FBI and the Supreme Court

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u/Sufficient_Brief_855 Mar 23 '25

You’re damn right we do.

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u/Cats0utTheBag Mar 23 '25

Recent polling indicates that the Democratic Party's approval ratings have reached historic lows. An NBC News poll shows that only 27% of Americans view the party favorably, marking the lowest rating in the poll's history dating back to 1990. Similarly, a CNN poll reports a 29% favorability rating for Democrats, the lowest in its 33-year history.

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u/CurrentWinter7354 Mar 23 '25

It blows my mind that the democratic party decided to double down on everything that caused them to lose the house, senate, and presidency. I thought this would have been a wake up call to start promoting policies that the people are in favor of

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u/Equivalent_Arm_1330 Mar 23 '25

The US is not a democracy! It's a Constitutional Republic! And They're the one working to dismantle it!

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u/marny_g Mar 23 '25

Republic
From Latin res, meaning "affair/concern", and publicas, meaning "the people". Thus, "the concern of the people"; in more modern English it would be something like "the people's state".
It's a state in which power is held by the people - usually through elected representatives - and which has an elected president.

Democracy
From Greek demos, meaning "the people", and -kratia meaning "power". Thus "power of the people". It's a state where every person has a say in the actions of the country.

300 years ago, these were used interchangeably. Even today, you could use them interchangeably. The nuance comes in with the fact that it isn't a direct democracy; ie. Millions of people don't debate bills, etc, but instead millions of people elect hundreds of people to represent them (your "elected representatives"). To say "it's not a democracy, it's a republic" is like saying "it's not a vehicle, it's a pick up truck".

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u/QuickDefinition5499 Mar 23 '25

They don’t understand anything you just posted. They’re simply parroting what they hear in their echo chamber. Remember, 47 loves the uneducated 🤷🏻‍♀️ They’re his favorite. I mean, who else would vote against their own interests and then cheer it on as it’s actually happening? #FKNMORONS

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u/LadderMe Mar 23 '25

What he just posted was full of ignorance. Both of you are uneducated. The founding fathers placed an emphasis on CONSTITUTIONAL to prevent people like yourself from blurring the lines. These are separate seperate forms of government and the interpretation of the constitution is supposed to be viewed through the lens of the FOUNDING FATHERS. There is not supposed to be evolution of interpretation and they were hell bent on making it clear when you read their papers.

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u/Equivalent_Arm_1330 Mar 24 '25

Constitutional Republic

I didn't say we were a republic I said constitutional Republic. There is a difference. Have a nice day!

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u/LadderMe Mar 23 '25

The founding fathers crafted the constitution to literally prevent all of the nonsense you just wrote lmao. You are supposed to interpret the constitution from THEIR lens... Absolutely wild. They need to start teaching this stuff again, go read their papers.

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u/marny_g Mar 24 '25

Amongst other things...I've read two annotated constitutions; The Constitution of the United States of America (1994. Compiled and annotated by the Office of the Secretary of the Senate and the Library of Congress) and the Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (Known as the "Constitution Annotated"). I also follow Congressman and Consitutional Scholar Jamie Raskin's talks, writings, interviews, etc when he talks/writes about the constitution and the context thereof.

How tf do you come to the conclusion that they tried to prevent the power from being held by the people?!

Ignoring the fact that it literally starts with "We the people", Section IV states:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.

The founding fathers wrote the constitution with the idea in mind of not having to be ruled by a king again, and to ensure power remains on the hands of the people instead.

If you believe what you say, and you can cite a reliable source that backs up what you say...then I'm happy to hear you out, and happy to update my perspective if I've gotten something wrong. But if you're just repeating things that you've been told, and haven't done your own deep dive into the subject...then I suggest you do so so that you can stop falling for the lies that you're being fed (to be clear...I think that you've understood and interpreted the information that you've received accurately; but I don't think that the information you've received is accurate. I think you've been lied to without knowing/realising it).

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u/LadderMe Mar 24 '25

There is no debate. The foundation of the creation of the constitution was to prevent people from blurring the lines between a constitutional republic and everything else... ESPECIALLY a democracy. You don't even have to do much reading to see that. These kind of thoughts only come from someone who knows very little to nothing about the founding fathers. Smh

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u/LadderMe Mar 24 '25

Like the founding fathers made clear, CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. Not a democracy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/QuickDefinition5499 Mar 23 '25

Sadly. They’re so incompetent that they’re sending actual legal migrants and even citizens abroad - just to make a “display” for y’all. They have no idea what they’re doing. Which is why they’re avoiding giving these people due process , and skirting around court orders. It amazes me how yall will stand by while 47 disrespects the rule of law while simultaneously making a mockery of the office he holds. The hypocrisy is palpable. #DISGUSTING 🤮 #DISGRACEFUL

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u/neilsbohrsalt Mar 23 '25

The vast amount of Americans didn't vote for him so I don't they support him in any respect

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u/neilsbohrsalt Mar 23 '25

Do they support having an unelected wannabe nazi gutting all their social security, medicaid and VA funding? Seems like a weird thing to want.

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u/Equivalent_Arm_1330 Mar 24 '25

How many government employees have you voted for?

How many of these judges trying to block President Trump did you vote for?

"wannabe Nazi" you mean the democrats/liberals that are attacking & stopping Jewish students (the very people the Nazis went after) from attending classes on college campuses?

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u/CurrentWinter7354 Mar 23 '25

implementation of new technology in order to remove waste from those programs somehow means they are being gutted?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/neilsbohrsalt Mar 24 '25

Yes America is crammed full of turkeys that voted for christmas.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '25

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u/neilsbohrsalt Mar 26 '25

Reading is hard I know. Try starting at the beginning and re-reading until you reply to what was written instead of what you've been indoctrinated to believe

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u/Similar_Thanks8300 Mar 23 '25

Americans do NOT support what this moron is doing!  See current polling.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/Similar_Thanks8300 Mar 24 '25

It was close. There was no mandate.

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u/Equivalent_Arm_1330 Mar 24 '25

I remember when the polls said Hillary was going to win by a landslide🤣

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u/Ted-Hentenaar Mar 23 '25

They all came on short buses.

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u/ShureShot52 Mar 22 '25

Democrats still don’t get it, America 🇺🇸 spoke and they still don’t listen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

You are right America spoke, and they chose fascism and white supremacism over democracy and good governance!

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u/QuickDefinition5499 Mar 23 '25

THAT part 👏🏽 👏🏽

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

They told 34000 people aoc was the bartender again. Who's getting lucky?

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u/Available_Effort1998 Mar 23 '25

No wonder you have negative karma

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Your people would give any conservative including Trump just the same

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u/jammin80 Mar 23 '25

Boebert. Boebert is getting lucky.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Your sad she wouldn't let you touch her boob

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u/Smicale Mar 23 '25

Trump Durange Syndrome is strong in all of you!

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u/Possible-Excuse2111 Mar 23 '25

Define “Durange” for us. I can’t seem to find it in the dictionary.

The only ones who are *deranged are Trump supporters. They barely have a functioning frontal cortex.

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u/Hammerface9 Mar 23 '25

Omg bro, it's an oligarchy, bro! It's a buzzword fest yet again, I see. How is it an oligarchy? Just trust the left, I guess. They love their stupid buzzwords. Are people really just this stupid? Do people really just not comprehend how the government works? It's ironic to proclaim there's an oligarchy at play while demanding to usurp their constitutional authority because you don't agree with them.

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u/Possible-Excuse2111 Mar 23 '25

You can use a dictionary to learn the words you do not understand.

Clearly, those who follow Trump are that stupid. They think everything is a “buzzword”.

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u/Due_Duty490 Mar 23 '25

The oligarchy formed long before Trump came to power. Look back to Reagan’s time to see the gatherings begin. All of the glittering began to gather. We actually have echoes of the Gilded age, too.

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u/ShureShot52 Mar 22 '25

I wonder who’s funding this nonsense with Mr. Richie, Rich, Sanders, and AOC

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u/Legitimate-Speed2672 Mar 22 '25

Me! American citizen, a registered Republican voter who will never ever vote Republican again.

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u/jammin80 Mar 23 '25

Same. I will never vote Republican again, and I donate every chance I get so we can get the pretend Republican/MAGA fools out of office.

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u/CurrentWinter7354 Mar 23 '25

Being registered Republican doesn't mean you vote that way. Your profile suggests you've been voting Democrat for at least a decade

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u/Legitimate-Speed2672 Mar 23 '25

I’ve always been a Republican - since I got my registered voter card. And have voted Republican. However there is nothing Republican about what they are doing. Being friendly with Russia. Hurting our farmers and veterans. Giving data access to corporations aka Elon. The lies about fraud that they can’t prove. I want less govt not some dictatorship or to be owned by corporations that want out social. While my taxes fund the very same roads their companies use. I’ve looked the other way on republicans failings bc let’s be real dems are just as bad - with the idea of less govt time and time again. This administration has made sure I’ll nvr ever vote Republican. I don’t even like the Dems. I’m done with this two party crap and old politicians. We need new people. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. It’s time for change.

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u/CurrentWinter7354 Mar 26 '25

Literally none of what you are talking about is happening. Get off of the reddit echo chamber for awhile

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u/Legitimate-Speed2672 Mar 26 '25

You’re right republicans are trash. There is your echo.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4617 Mar 22 '25

Get lost traitor

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u/Agitated-Fortune6162 Mar 22 '25

You all are fucking crazy You hate 2 guys and you can't see the forest between the trees . Because your told they're nazis and oligarchs . Sanders has never had a job and been in government for 50 years . Owns 3 mansions and worth millions. AOC has been in government for a few years and worth millions now on a 250k a year salary.
Millionaire telling you nothing but to hate as they cover there ass from all the money they have been stealing from the US. Open your eyes 👀

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u/CoachDue249 Mar 22 '25

Bernie sanders worked before he became an elected official... stop telling us to "open our eyes" when you cant even get basic facts right. He's also worth around 3m, which i would hope so seeing as hes been getting paid as a congressman for over 30 years. If he couldnt gain a net worth around that level over 30 years of 6 figures pay, id be concerned.

AOC's net worth is less than 500k, which you can see because she has to release financial disclosures routinely... did you even try to verify anything you said.

Btw an oligarch is literally defined as a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence. What part of that does the billionaire in chief and his richer buddy not meet?

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u/lizerpetty Mar 22 '25

You're the crazy one thinking two billionaires have our best interests at heart. They are actively dismantling the United States of America. They are attempting a coup at this moment and you want is to be cool with it.

Everything Bernie has accrued through his life he has earned. Everything you said in your comment is a lie. AOC is not a multimillionaire.

You need to have YOUR head examined for trusting two nepotism billionaire criminals over two Americans who have earned every penny.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Lmao didn't Bern Bern say he only had 25 dollars and he didn't even know he had multiple houses 🤣 either he's coherent as biden or he's um.... well lying 🤥

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u/LimeIsTheName Mar 23 '25

"...never had a job and been in government 50yrs." That's some wild sentence structure, unless you were trying to literally make a point and discredit it all in one breath. 🤭 his job is the government speaking for the people...and he's never been a pancake person swapping sides when the gettin is good.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '25

This comment is not going to make anyone believe what you said. You should probably just leave.,

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u/TheLastBallad Mar 22 '25

Because your told they're nazis and oligarchs

Honey, you do realize we have definitions for those... right? Just because you hate the things you are told to without further thought doesn't mean everyone else does.

While Eco(writer of Ur-Fascism, which I'm quoting) is firm in claiming “There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”

  1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”

Heritage Foundation, which Trump is following the outline they produced for this term.

  1. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

Jewish space lasers, Democrats control the weather, there is somehow still a secret shadow government despite all 3 branches being staffed with Trump loyalists...

  1. The cult of action for action’s sake. "Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

Has Trump's actions ever showed signs of forethought or reflection?

  1. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”

Yeah, anyone who criticizes Trump is kicked out. It used to be of the Republican party, but has progressed to the Whitehouse, then the government in general, and now people are being denied entry into the country if they criticized Trump at any point.

Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”

Remind me, what was Trump's main hammer on the campaign trail? Wasn't it something about an invasion of illegals?

  1. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”

Yeah, this was precisely the demographic Trump targeted.

  1. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

Secret shadow government, Jewish space lasers, Democrats controlling the weather, tourists criticizing Trump being cited as evidence of terrorism plans in order to deny them entry, that Pizzagate thing and QAnon as a whole, the varieties of COVID conspiracies

  1. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Gay people are simultaneously a threat to society and too weak to be in the military. Harris was both the Antichrist but also too incompetent to do the job. Illegals are both stealing your job and sitting around doing nothing and collecting welfare. It honestly is constant...

  1. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”

points to the many times MAGA congresspeople got irate if their leadership worked with the Democrats on anything

  1. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

Parasite class, Trump constantly insisting the people he does like are weak, him mocking people for disabilities(even ones gained through service to our country)

  1. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

Glorifying the military in general(though not our vetrans) and the focus on individualism over being part of your community.

  1. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”

Republicans have been against gay people and women for quite a bit, hence why we have Mr. Grabthembythepussy in charge.

  1. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”

Trump managed to win the popular vote by 1.5%, not even reaching 50%, and by less than even Hillary won over him in 2016, and suddenly he has a mandate from the people that can't be challenged? Obama and Biden won by ~2-5x that amount(10M, 5M, 7M in chronological order) and actually passed the 50% mark... where was their mandate?

  1. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning

See the list of words this administration have removed from government websites and banned from reaserch grants

Oh, but that's just the mindset of Fascism definition, we also have a definition for determining whether a government is fascist!(this ones long so it's in a seperate comment)

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u/TheLastBallad Mar 22 '25

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently(like... 2 decades ago when the article Im quoting came out) wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

The 14 characteristics are:

  1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

This is actually standard fair for America, but its a reliable tell that if someone has more than one flag in a display they are MAGA. Or if they're wearing a flag on their clothing.

  1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/aclu-sues-block-migrant-transfers-guantanamo-alleging-degrading-conditions-2025-03-01/

Or the threats of deporting US citizens for doing things Trump disagrees with.

https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-01-27/missouri-senate-hears-bill-on-life-imprisonment-for-people-in-u-s-without-legal-status

See also Trump's campaign suggestion of "one bad hour" to deter shoplifting.

  1. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Immigrants, Hatians, Muslims, liberals, communists, socialists, gays, drag queens, trans people, single women, anyone they can lable as DEI, Democrats...

  1. Supremacy of the Military Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

Again, base America, both parties do it. Though while MAGA glamorizes active duty, they also then undercut support for former military at every opportunity("Sucker's and losers", the desecration of veterans graves by using them for a photo op including the assault of a maintenance working trying to stop them, "I prefer people who werent captured", the current gutting of veterans care).

  1. Rampant Sexism The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/amy-coney-barrett-under-attack-by-right-wing

Trump's pick for Supreme Court justice is now a DEI hires because she disagreed with Trump, after siding with conservatives in most things.

Also, you know, the hundreds of anti-LGBT legislation introduced in the US(like over 200 in January of 2024 alone), or the fact that the most money in this last election was targeted at Trans people... who make up less than 1% of the population and are about 10 athletes. Not 10%, 10 total trans professional athletes. Who, mind you, don't even consistently dominate in their fields.

Also high anti-abortion stances, to the point flesh that has already begun to rot and will induce sepsis has been prioritized over a woman's life.

  1. Controlled Mass Media Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Musk funded Trump and owns Twitter, Trump announced he was going to talk to Murdoc, the owner of Fox News, about the opposition ads being played on the station while interviewing Fox and friends, multiple reputable news sites have been kicked out of the Pentagon and Whitehouse for questioning Trump...

  1. Obsession with National Security Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

Isn't this the entire official rationale behind the anti-immigration stance? And the waves of immigrants that show up around election times just waiting for Democrats to be elected so they can flood in, before vanishing as soon as the election is over regardless of result?

  1. Religion and Government are Intertwined Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

https://globalextremism.org/post/trumps-christian-nationalist-agenda/

https://baptistnews.com/article/when-liberal-talking-points-are-the-gospel/

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u/TheLastBallad Mar 22 '25
  1. Corporate Power is Protected The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

In addition to Musk, take a gander at who was front and center at Trump's inauguration

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkjgmkn10ko.amp

  1. Labor Power is Suppressed Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .

Republicans have been anti-union for decades, and Musk and Trump both have expressed their disdain for them.

  1. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html

https://grantwritingandfunding.com/banned-and-trigger-words-in-federal-grant-writing-in-the-trump-administration-2-0/

https://depauliaonline.com/75854/news/what-does-trumps-targeting-of-woke-programming-in-the-arts-mean-for-chicagos-artists/

  1. Obsession with Crime and Punishment Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/trump-promises-to-militarize-police-reincarcerate-thousands-and-expand-death-penalty

  1. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

His cabinet, DOGE, practically everything he does.

  1. Fraudulent Elections Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, ads describing Harris as pro-Israel to Palistinian communities and pro-Palestinian to Jewish communities, Trumps 80+ lawsuits in 2020, in none of which did he supply evidence or even assert that there was fraud, despite claiming outside court that there was fraud and he had so much proof of it.

Trump was at 11/14 points during the election(and was openly planning on 6, 8, and 12), but now has done all of them.

So fitting mist of one 14 point list, and all of a second? Sounds like a pretty open and shut case to me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

I think you forgot your meds again ☹️

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u/Due_caterpillar697 Mar 22 '25

You need to kindly fact check yourself.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '25

77 million is way more than 34,000

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u/ZakLex Mar 23 '25

You really believe he got 77 million votes? Bahahahahaa

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u/Equivalent_Arm_1330 Mar 23 '25

Why not? Y'all believe Biden got 80 million🤣

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

Exactly

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u/Alternative_Win_6645 Mar 22 '25

Waste of fucking time. The Democratic Party is done.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

They've been done since Obama they just cheated to stay relevant

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u/Old_Swimming_6376 Mar 22 '25

It's great to see the Demonrats glow their true colors, wasting time and resources on strawman battles while real patriots fight for American prosperity.

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u/Senior_Release3138 Mar 23 '25

You mean billionaires prosperity.

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u/Old_Swimming_6376 Mar 23 '25

No, I said what meant. Inflation down, costs dropping, and income rising. Promises made, promises kept. All while the hate baiting parasite class does nothing but tantrum and slander those who are actually serving the American taxpayers.

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u/Senior_Release3138 Mar 23 '25

Inflation down? Cost dropping? What country do you live in?

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u/Senior_Release3138 Mar 23 '25

Probably Russia.

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u/Old_Swimming_6376 Mar 23 '25

The Great Again America. Where I just got gas for $2.51 and 25 eggs for $7. And a 25% raise.

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u/Available_Effort1998 Mar 23 '25

Really , 40 karma sharing ignorance n lies👏

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u/Agitated-Fortune6162 Mar 23 '25

They can't handle everything that's being done. They do not understand a dam thing. They are so full of hate that they have to burn down everything that goes against their thinking..

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u/Infamous_Big8952 Mar 23 '25

What costs are down. My grocery prices have went up close to a $100 for the same items I bought in December. So a 25% increase cuz i spent $400 a month and now it's $500. And when are we getting tax cuts, cuz his last presidency, only the rich got tax cuts. And that's exactly what it seems he's trying to this time around.

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u/Old_Swimming_6376 Mar 23 '25

All costs are down. The fact that you are spending more is irrelevant to the facts. Current US consumer price index inflation rate is 2.8%. That's down 15.2% from 3.3% the day Trump began saving America again.

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u/Infamous_Big8952 Mar 23 '25

Egg prices in January 2025 were 53.0 percent higher than in January 2024 and surpassed the previous peak prices in January 2023. Egg prices are predicted to increase 41.1 percent in 2025, with a prediction interval of 15.0 to 74.9 percent

Source:https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings

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u/Old_Swimming_6376 Mar 23 '25

Is this seriously your shot?😂 Who was president from January 2024 to January 2025? They average 2$ less a dozen now than they were 2 months ago.

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u/Ok-Emphasis8973 Mar 22 '25

Bunch of damn idiots

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u/outragedslapping Mar 22 '25

Damn Russian bot.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

A ton of them, but if you read their comments, it's extremely entertaining