You must be blind and deaf. Or the rest of the world is wrong about the megalomaniac moron.
DEA or FBI?
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
But Trump is anything but a regular politician and this has been anything but a regular election. Trump will be only the fourth candidate in history and the second in more than a century to win the presidency after losing the popular vote. He is also probably the first candidate in history to win the presidency despite having been shown repeatedly by the national media to be a chronic liar, sexual predator, serial tax-avoider, and race-baiter who has attracted the likes of the Ku Klux Klan. Most important, Trump is the first candidate in memory who ran not for president but for autocrat—and won.
I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. It might be worth considering them now:
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Dems had ample time to investigate purported russia involvement WHILE OBAMA WAS STILL IN OFFICE = wiretapsI'm worried. I'm not kidding around. I'm deeply concerned about the actions of our new president. If he can fire the man who heads up the investigation of possible collusion and replace him with someone who is going to stomewall the investigation the system is broken.
In the end I don't think it will happen, but I may be wrong.
It's mothers day brothers. Don't forget.
What if he makes it?The second falsehood is the pretense that America is starting from scratch and its president-elect is a tabula rasa. Or we are: “we owe him an open mind.” It was as though Donald Trump had not, in the course of his campaign, promised to deport US citizens, promised to create a system of surveillance targeted specifically at Muslim Americans, promised to build a wall on the border with Mexico, advocated war crimes, endorsed torture, and repeatedly threatened to jail Hillary Clinton herself. It was as though those statements and many more could be written off as so much campaign hyperbole and now that the campaign was over, Trump would be eager to become a regular, rule-abiding politician of the pre-Trump era.
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Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization. This will happen often: humans seem to have evolved to practice denial when confronted publicly with the unacceptable.
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Rule #2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality.
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Rule #3: Institutions will not save you.
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The national press is likely to be among the first institutional victims of Trumpism. There is no law that requires the presidential administration to hold daily briefings, none that guarantees media access to the White House. Many journalists may soon face a dilemma long familiar to those of us who have worked under autocracies: fall in line or forfeit access. There is no good solution (even if there is a right answer), for journalism is difficult and sometimes impossible without access to information.
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Rule #4: Be outraged. If you follow Rule #1 and believe what the autocrat-elect is saying, you will not be surprised. But in the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun to be the only hysterical person in the room. Prepare yourself.
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Rule #5: Don’t make compromises.
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Rule #6: Remember the future. Nothing lasts forever. Donald Trump certainly will not, and Trumpism, to the extent that it is centered on Trump’s persona, will not either. Failure to imagine the future may have lost the Democrats this election. They offered no vision of the future to counterbalance Trump’s all-too-familiar white-populist vision of an imaginary past. They had also long ignored the strange and outdated institutions of American democracy that call out for reform—like the electoral college, which has now cost the Democratic Party two elections in which Republicans won with the minority of the popular vote. That should not be normal. But resistance—stubborn, uncompromising, outraged—should be.
What if he makes it?
Will YOU survive 8 years without a nervous breakdown?
The fat lady has yet to sing. This is just starting.NO EVIDENCE INDICTING TRUMP HIMSELF WAS FOUND.
Now your talking. you do mean trump right.Are you kidding me? He's already spending most of his life endlessly retweeting useless drivel that only like 3 antifas see and anyone could read for themselves. That is someone that's already had a breakdown.
It has changed. There is so much division now in society and there is no middle ground.I have been here in this country for only 12 years. (Legally ... I have a Green Card so let's not start ... [emoji12])
There was a time—not 200 years ago, but in our lifetimes—when people - like me - looked at the United States and thought: this is a country of freedom, of opportunity, this is a country that believes in truth. I fear that the values we were respected for all over are now being diminished.
And it pains me that many do not see it...