I told you the moment Trump won that he was an orange fascist.
This is unhinged and incredibly dangerous…
‘Dangerous abuse of power’: lawmakers sound alarm over Comey indictment
Democrats and legal experts say indictment is latest sign Trump is turning justice system into weapon to silence critics
…his insane UN rant and claims that Climate Change is a hoax…
Trump called climate change a ‘con job’ at the United Nations. Here are the facts and context
Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.
But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn’t match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.
“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
…his attempt to silence Kimmel and his Autism claims all prove that Trump’s delusional connection to reality are based upon the fascist belief that big lies can allow you to get away with murdering the truth.
Look at how Axios described Trump’s abuse of power…
Not since America’s founding 250 years ago has a U.S. president expanded power — and punished critics — in more unprecedented ways than Donald J. Trump, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a “Behind the Curtain” column.
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- Why it matters: Yes, most presidents stretch the power of the White House and, on rare occasions, blatantly target U.S. critics on U.S. soil. But Trump has veered, often suddenly, proudly and loudly, into unprecedented territory in at least 15 different areas.
No president in peacetime has done this much in one year of one term.
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- Trump has done this in eight short months, often with the loyal backing of a compliant Republican-led Congress and validated by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court.
- Trump has 40 more months — four-fifths of his term — left to stretch it further. White House officials tell us they’re just getting going. They see chaos as their brand and “consequence culture” taking root.
🖼️ The big picture: Trump vs. Democrats — and the media, Congress, the courts, law firms, colleges and critics — seems likely to escalate, pushing America deeper into unprecedented territory.
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- Trump advisers know there are few brakes left, particularly if Trump precedents prevail at the Supreme Court, or if Republicans keep control of Congress 14 months from now.
The two of us have written extensively in these “Behind the Curtain” columns about the new rules being set, both for this administration and future ones.
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- We’ve been careful to differentiate threats and hyperbole from actual actions. And we’ve been clear in reminding Republicans that all these powers could one day soon be used against them just as aggressively.
- Truth is, we’ve been writing for 25 years about the ever-expanding imperial presidency. Trump officials tell us they’re simply doing or expanding upon what’s been before. But that’s the point: The founders never envisioned a federal government this big and this powerful, or a president this unchecked.
- Here are 15 big ways Trump is shattering precedents, synthesized and narrated by Axios’ Zachary Basu:
🥊 1. Executive power: Trump has declared nine national emergencies in his first eight months in office, stretching the definition of “emergency” in creative and aggressive ways.
- Historical analogy: Since 1980, presidents have declared an average of seven in a four-year term. Trump’s 200+ executive orders fall far short of the thousands issued by FDR (a wartime president elected to four terms), but Trump’s pace — 142 in his first 100 days — is the highest on record.
- New precedent: Future presidents can use loosely defined “emergencies” as a routine tool to bypass Congress and unlock extraordinary powers governing trade, immigration, mineral extraction and foreign disputes.
🗞️ 2. Free-press crackdown: Trump has waged the most aggressive government campaignagainst mainstream media in modern U.S. history — stripping funding from public outlets, pushing the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses over negative coverage, and personally suing CBS/Paramount, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times while in office.
- Historical analogy: No modern president has deployed such a mix of lawsuits and regulatory muscle. Even Richard Nixon, who targeted The Washington Post and CBS through the IRS and FCC, never sued multiple networks directly.
- New precedent: Future presidents can use lawsuits, regulatory threats, and funding pressure to bring independent media to heel.
🏛️ 3. Seizing congressional purse strings: Trump has tried to freeze or redirect billions in congressionally appropriated funds, from public health to foreign aid to university research.
- Historical analogy: The closest precedent is Nixon, who tried to “impound” funds in the early 1970s. Congress responded by passing the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 — which the Trump White House claims is unconstitutional — to stop presidents from unilaterally withholding money. No president since has attempted impoundments at this scale, or with such open defiance of Congress and the courts.
- New precedent: Future presidents can treat Congress’s “power of the purse” as optional, withholding or redirecting funds to pressure states, institutions or foreign governments.
🌐 4. Tariffs: Trump has effectively seized the authority over tariffs that the Constitution gives to Congress, wielding tariffs to reshape global trade and punish countries for political or economic disputes.
- Historical analogy: The last sweeping tariff shock was Smoot–Hawley, which President Hoover signed in 1930 and wound up worsening the Great Depression. Since then, presidents have used delegated powers narrowly — including President Reagan’s selective tariffs on Japanese motorcycles and semiconductors in the 1980s to try to protect American manufacturing. Trump is the first to use emergency authorities to impose broad tariffs without new congressional legislation.
- New precedent: Future presidents can bypass Congress to unilaterally set tariff policy, erasing one of the legislature’s core constitutional powers.
…Axios are hardly a card carrying member of the Communist Party, their analysis is that Trump has gone further than almost any President in the Republic’s History to abuse so much power in such. short period of time.
America’s system is set up to STOP someone like Trump from ever doing what he is doing, not celebrate and enable him.
Trump is only going to get worse.
Meanwhile – what is this new hell?
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s surprise gathering of hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia next week is being called so he can describe the administration’s reinvention of the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” and outline new standards for military personnel, according to half a dozen people familiar with the planning.
“It’s meant to be a show of force of what the new military now looks like under the president,” a White House official told CNN.
The meeting is expected to resemble “a pep rally” where Hegseth will underscore the importance of the “warrior ethos” and outline a new vision for the US military, said three of the sources. He is expected to discuss new readiness, fitness and grooming standards the officers are expected to adhere to and enforce.
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” said a defense official familiar with the planning. “And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.”
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The biggest problem facing the United States political scene is how appallingly bad the Democrats were and still are.
‘The biggest problem facing the United States political scene is how appallingly bad the Democrats were and still are.’
The evidence for that being ……………………………………?
Bob the First prize winner in competition for excessive public masturbation(Im right was lined up for second place until organisers found it was the same person as Bob).
What the fuck would you know? You can’t even find the balls to describe how just how corrupt AO/NZ is. You waffle on about our disastrous politico / economy as if ordinary people did [it] but in reality, it was deodorant soaked Herne Bay ball-cuppers to the riche privateers who’ve done it.
AO/NZ’s bigger problems are that you and your back-door-entry-only minions have now gone too far and have fucked our fragile economy. You and your kind make trump look like an amateur.
That’s silly David
BtF you can blame the democrats for being Zionist sell outs and warmongers but you can’t blame them for Trump being a lying fascist. When it suits the Republicans say Obama deported more people than anyone and Biden also deported loads. Somehow when campaigning they were saying the exact opposite.
At least with Democrats you would still live in country where you can vote them out. The inbred god-bothering dickheads have appointed a fascist who even attempted a coup the first time around and then convinced the small minded that tariffs would make things cheaper. He needs to be gone.
Rational observers determined many years ago that Trump is psychologically deranged and a sociopath..
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See? That’s how the USA got trump. You’ve seen the circus freaks who adore trump and wear all that pro trump paraphernalia. They look like psycho Morris dancers who’ve just discovered LSD.
It’s also how we got 40 years of neoliberalism slipped in by a traitor Labour party finance minister who went on to spurt out ACT and now we have a deodorant sales-‘man’ as our PM.
Evil prevails when good people can’t be arsed to act or have been convinced of ” What the fuck’s the point” .
If you’re the kind of person who believes there’s no point in voting, then you’re exactly the kind of person who should.
Winnie has just got my vote next year!
No NZ recognition of Palestine state.
WELL DONE WINSTONE!!
Your poll numbers will now swell with all of us Israel supporters.
I told you Winston Peters was an arse licker for the Yanks.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574305/nz-not-yet-recognising-palestinian-state-foreign-minister-winston-peters-announces
He’s an unhinged narcissist. One can only hope he has some medical event that takes him out.
I do not get the fuss.
Trump is just unmasking what the US as a regime already is. His faction believe it is time for grabbing and looting or the US will lose power, the other side still believed in the tatty figleaf of liberalism. They are all serving the same grubby global banksters, oppressing the population and the world on their behalf.
What is the big deal.
It’s a long time since the US has had an administration as openly imperialist as the Trump administration, both the Bush administrations, as well Nixon/Kissinger administration has been there, McKiinley and Monroe were both arch imperialsts, but few as nakedly imperialist as the Trump America First administration.
Winston Peters kissing up to the far right Trump administration before the whole world at the UN, loyally fawning over Trump, as Trump denies climate change, and then using Trump’s climate change denial as an excuse for New Zealand not doing anything about climate change, and following Trump in not recognising Palestine, does not bode well for New Zealand having an independent foreign policy.
Do Putin and Xi next, you hypocritical bussy boy 😉
The promotion of Trump by the Republicans show how they created an appallingly bad and repulsive the United States political scene . In fact Trump and the Republicans have created the Divided States of America. Deflecting onto the Democrats when you have a narcissist in charge who now has become a dictator is clearly not the most intelligent thing to say.
This is Trump getting the democrats’ back for their lawfare.
Trump is only the corresponding opposite extreme lurch that leftists are.
Hegseth’s assembled the heads of the military so Orange Caligula can begin carving out his Praetorian Guard. Trump wants the military to be unswervingly loyal to him, and him alone — basically a giant fist he can use to smash anyone who dares defy him, domestically or internationally. The Constitution? Fuck that. The so-called “international rules-based order”? Fuck that, too. He just wants a force of heavily-armed thugs he can use to bludgeon into submission anyone who dissents.
Of course, the obese tangerine man-child is ignorant of history (along with almost everything else), so he’s probably unaware of what befell the actual Caligula at the hands of his own Praetorian Guard. Hopefully, enough of the American top brass still has a tentative grasp on reality and understands the likely consequences of surrendering to Trump’s whims.