"Trump has threatened to imprison his political opponent (Joe Biden), his opponent's family (Hunter Biden), his predecessor (Obama), and his former opponent (HRC). Trump is the only POTUS to ever threaten these actions." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"The US has a long history of corruption. But it's never had such a fundamental abuse of power and threats of violence toward political rivals coming from the executive branch. Because that's what dictators do." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump is the first POTUS to encourage Americans to vote illegally -- both so he can win illegally and so he can contest the legitimacy of the result if he loses. He's the first POTUS to order the destruction of election infrastructure." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump is the only POTUS to be impeached for soliciting illegal aid from a foreign state, to win an election due to illicit foreign aid, and to pressure foreign leaders for dirt on the aforementioned rival that he seeks to imprison." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump is the first POTUS to vow to contest any election he doesn't win, the first to threaten to postpone an election, the first to threaten to serve three terms instead of the constitutionally mandated two. All very obvious attempts at dictatorship!" patreon.com/posts/john-rob…
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"The danger is that Dems will forfeit the fight before it starts, that they'll pre-surrender. If journalists want to be useful, quit asking Biden about nonsense and ask him about maintaining election integrity." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"A Biden admin must be pushed to bring rigorous investigations of the crimes Trump admin members committed while in office -- and to tell the public the truth about US institutional complicity in transnational organized crime." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump was embedded in organized crime for decades. Yet the institutions tasked with protecting us had no qualms about Trump having access to classified intelligence or holding sway over US national security." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"The primary thing guiding the political culture of the US -- and this has been happening for a long time, long before Trump -- is fear of abandonment." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"It's the fear not of suffering in silence, but of suffering and screaming for help while people cover their ears or pretend they can't hear you or look the other way. Because that's how government and corporations treat people." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"This apathy to suffering is increasingly how everyday people have treated each other over the past two decades. Social media has made it worse, dehumanizing people and normalizing mob harassment." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"Don't give up on yourself. Don't give up on the idea of a better future for yourself in the US. It is *your country*. You still have rights, despite what Mike Lee tells you. And you will have to be very resolute in fighting for them." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"We keep telling you, this is a transnational crime syndicate! It's *transnational*. That means if you leave the US, you're not going to escape it. They have their eyes on Canada and the rest of Europe too." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"In autocratic countries, the judicial system functions as the cage bars. If you have courts packed with fascist sympathizers selected to sustain that system, where do you go to fight for your rights?" -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"If confirmed, ACB will be the third SCOTUS justice to have worked directly on the Bush v Gore case that handed the election to the GOP. ACB is being put in place as Trump suggests that SCOTUS will decide his election." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"Autocracy is legalized corruption. They bend and change the laws, ignore the laws, or use the laws to their own ends, because in an autocratic system judges are controlled by the crime family in power." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"The US hasn't had, as a nation, a collective mourning for the victims of this pandemic. We haven't had a lowering of the flag. We've had none of the symbolic actions that bind a country together in a time of tragedy." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"We're a country which doesn't have trust in authority and doesn't have authorities we can trust. We've lost sources of trust like local news. If we had it, people would have known what was happening early in the pandemic." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"Truth is about courage. Truth is not about accepting the obvious or the apparent or what other people think. Truth is about courage -- it's about saying the thing that people *don't* want to hear." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…