Ziggy58
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A prayer for today, in the era of Trump-ian fascism, in the style of Upton Sinclair.
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A prayer for today, in the era of Trump-ian fascism, in the style of Upton Sinclair.
Yes taking Rob Reiner's words and acting on them is essential to the survival of USA. The Trump Truth Social post used his murder to state that righteous rage and murder against people who criticse Trump is understandable.
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Yes taking Rob Reiner's words and acting on them is essential to the survival of USA. The Trump Truth Social post used his murder to state that righteous rage and murder against people who criticse Trump is understandable.
1/ Trump's Truth Social post on the murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner justifies "righteous anger" against criticism of him as a valid excuse for murder. This comes on top of last week's NSS that made support for the far-right in Europe official policy.
December 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
1/ Trump's Truth Social post on the murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner justifies "righteous anger" against criticism of him as a valid excuse for murder. This comes on top of last week's NSS that made support for the far-right in Europe official policy.
1/ Last week Trump’s administration released the National Security Strategy which showed that official foreign policy would now be to support far-right parties in Europe. This week Trump justified his supporters murdering his opponents. The post below is genuine according to CNN,..
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
1/ Last week Trump’s administration released the National Security Strategy which showed that official foreign policy would now be to support far-right parties in Europe. This week Trump justified his supporters murdering his opponents. The post below is genuine according to CNN,..
4/ .... and want American democracy to go from being ill to being dead. The problem is that ordinary people would rather fight each other, than get what this is about, and do something about it before elections are totally rigged.
December 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
4/ .... and want American democracy to go from being ill to being dead. The problem is that ordinary people would rather fight each other, than get what this is about, and do something about it before elections are totally rigged.
3/ ....identity blind equal opportunity poverty or for some wealth. America has got to the stage where its democracy cannot survive more debt and inequality dumped on it without major economic redistribution. Trump is there to serve the super-rich who know this ....
December 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
3/ ....identity blind equal opportunity poverty or for some wealth. America has got to the stage where its democracy cannot survive more debt and inequality dumped on it without major economic redistribution. Trump is there to serve the super-rich who know this ....
2/ .... wanted the Republicans and Democracts to move to the neoliberal right on econmics. Both parties then changed their focus to conflicting identity politics to fill the gap left by economics. Republicans went for MAGA white-culture nationalism. Democrats went for ....
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
2/ .... wanted the Republicans and Democracts to move to the neoliberal right on econmics. Both parties then changed their focus to conflicting identity politics to fill the gap left by economics. Republicans went for MAGA white-culture nationalism. Democrats went for ....
1/ Trump is in the White House with a stronger more toxic version of MAGA, because of inequality. Inequality made the super-rich, it made high public and private debt, it made people feel their economic status was threatened, inequality lead to more money in politics from the super-rich who ...
December 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
1/ Trump is in the White House with a stronger more toxic version of MAGA, because of inequality. Inequality made the super-rich, it made high public and private debt, it made people feel their economic status was threatened, inequality lead to more money in politics from the super-rich who ...
1/ When people say they are willing to give the radical right a chance in government, what they are actually saying is that are willing to give the radical right the keys to their democracy, who then in power morph to the extreme right. To give to people who care nothing ....
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
1/ When people say they are willing to give the radical right a chance in government, what they are actually saying is that are willing to give the radical right the keys to their democracy, who then in power morph to the extreme right. To give to people who care nothing ....
Schematic of the argument extreme inequality leads to dismantling democracy.
December 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Schematic of the argument extreme inequality leads to dismantling democracy.
Extract UN report on inequality and the venomous rise of the far-right...
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Extract UN report on inequality and the venomous rise of the far-right...
Extract UN report on inequality and the venomous rise of the far-right..
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Extract UN report on inequality and the venomous rise of the far-right..
A schematic of the connection between income inequality and democratic backsliding (modified from Politics of Boundary Consolidation: Income Inequality, Ethnonationalism, and Radical-Right Voting, Martin Lukk, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A schematic of the connection between income inequality and democratic backsliding (modified from Politics of Boundary Consolidation: Income Inequality, Ethnonationalism, and Radical-Right Voting, Martin Lukk, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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3/ the resources at the command of the federal government without risk, that there will be free and fair elections in 2028 when Trump gets voted out. No one wants to be the first to state the obvious, that the rubicon has been crossed.
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
3/ the resources at the command of the federal government without risk, that there will be free and fair elections in 2028 when Trump gets voted out. No one wants to be the first to state the obvious, that the rubicon has been crossed.
2/ to surrender to the far-right MAGA faction, instruct their Democrat clients to stick with glitzy vacuous joy instead of policies, all to crash US democracy, before it can give them an overdue wealth haircut. Democrats think they can defeat MAGA thuggery backed by .....
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
2/ to surrender to the far-right MAGA faction, instruct their Democrat clients to stick with glitzy vacuous joy instead of policies, all to crash US democracy, before it can give them an overdue wealth haircut. Democrats think they can defeat MAGA thuggery backed by .....
1/ Trump is there because neoliberal economics has run out of inequality and debt it can load on to the country without some pragmatic program of redistribution. So the billionaire donors instruct their clients in the Republican party .....
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
1/ Trump is there because neoliberal economics has run out of inequality and debt it can load on to the country without some pragmatic program of redistribution. So the billionaire donors instruct their clients in the Republican party .....
3/ Do they have to wait till MAGA thugs are seizing voting machines in blue cities, with the military as backup, while Trump claims election fraud?
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
3/ Do they have to wait till MAGA thugs are seizing voting machines in blue cities, with the military as backup, while Trump claims election fraud?
2/ Impeach Trump, his lieutenants, hardliners in congress, SCOTUS judges. How many warnings do people need? Do they have to wait till the 2028 elections are completely rigged?
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
2/ Impeach Trump, his lieutenants, hardliners in congress, SCOTUS judges. How many warnings do people need? Do they have to wait till the 2028 elections are completely rigged?
1/ Trump has declared war on American and European democracy. Why is there still no sense of panic or fury? Why are millions of Americans not marching on Washington and demanding all members of Congress who believe in democracy to Impeach MAGA?
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1/ Trump has declared war on American and European democracy. Why is there still no sense of panic or fury? Why are millions of Americans not marching on Washington and demanding all members of Congress who believe in democracy to Impeach MAGA?
Why the time to act to stop Trump is now.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Why the time to act to stop Trump is now.
open.substack.com/pub/larakell...
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4/ they made their intention clear that America was to be a democracy.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
4/ they made their intention clear that America was to be a democracy.
3/ nothing to lose anymore. There is no safer, more moderate strategy. Remove the fascist king and his minions, before he crushes you. The founding father's gave no explicit mechanism in the constituion to deal with a threat like MAGA, but ....
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
3/ nothing to lose anymore. There is no safer, more moderate strategy. Remove the fascist king and his minions, before he crushes you. The founding father's gave no explicit mechanism in the constituion to deal with a threat like MAGA, but ....
2/ Democrats and Republicans that believe in democracy to impeach Trump, impeach his officials, impeach his hard liners in Congress, impeach MAGA. If they fail to stand up, make them, recruit all those who took an oath to protect the constitution, and march on Washington. There is ....
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2/ Democrats and Republicans that believe in democracy to impeach Trump, impeach his officials, impeach his hard liners in Congress, impeach MAGA. If they fail to stand up, make them, recruit all those who took an oath to protect the constitution, and march on Washington. There is ....
1/ The gun held against the head of America is real, Americans allowed it into the core of federal power and the trigger will be pulled, unless there is total opposition with a super human effort for the minimum of blood shed. Demand of both ....
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
1/ The gun held against the head of America is real, Americans allowed it into the core of federal power and the trigger will be pulled, unless there is total opposition with a super human effort for the minimum of blood shed. Demand of both ....
Trump, MAGA and the end of American democracy.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trump, MAGA and the end of American democracy.