Government Coup

[rosarugosa]

"What next" is all I can say.

So now, the Department of Homeland Security is talking about producing a reality show where three immigrants compete for citizenship?? And will Trump sit behind a desk and say "YOU'RE DEPORTED!" to the ones who don't make the cut? And will the person who wins be the ruthless one who turns in his fellow competitors?

I don't recognize this country anymore.

I read two references to this on social media yesterday, and I fact-checked it because it could not possibly be true, right? There have been so many egregious offenses by this administration in such a short time, but for some reason this one really shook me to the core.

[iris lilies]

I read two references to this on social media yesterday, and I fact-checked it because it could not possibly be true, right? There have been so many egregious offenses by this administration in such a short time, but for some reason this one really shook me to the core.

Thats because you have probably read a dystopian novel that uses this very thing, a government sponsored reality show about hanging on to life, limb, and liberty. Kinda like Hunger Games.

[catherine]

Thats because you have probably read a dystopian novel that uses this very thing, a government sponsored reality show about hanging on to life, limb, and liberty. Kinda like Hunger Games.

Yes... Hunger Games it is! And add to that the Evangelicals trying to get women back to the kitchen where they belong, and we have Hunger Games meets A Handmaid's Tale.

[Rogar]

That was a stupid way to garner attention, especially since there have already been 2 attempts on Trump's life in the past year. And it's not even original! During the last year of Trump's first term Gretchen Whitmer had an 8645 emblem prominently displayed on her desk during a live appearance on 'Meet The Press'. TDS makes people stupid!

Up until this week the only meaning of "86" I'd ever thought of is being removed from and establishment, probably a bar, for drunken disorderly conduct. That seems like the common sense version and hardly implies assassination, although the DOJ's Webster must use a different interpretation. And the reaction is more like a revenge motive than rational motive.

The game show does take the cake, though. Reminds me of The Hunger Games.

[HappyHiker]

Yes... Hunger Games it is! And add to that the Evangelicals trying to get women back to the kitchen where they belong, and we have Hunger Games meets A Handmaid's Tale.

...but I never wanted to live inside a reality show or a dystopian novel...I wanted forward progress...what happened??

[rosarugosa]

...but I never wanted to live inside a reality show or a dystopian novel...I wanted forward progress...what happened??

Same. I'm currently reading the novel The German Wife. I'm at the point in the book where we are in Germany in the early 1930's and I can't help but be struck by how similar the vibe is to current times in the USA. It's not a good feeling.

[sweetana3]

What is the saying "those that forget history are doomed to repeat it" or something like that. Or is it lack of education, lack of healthy skepticism, lack of interest, sheep followers, or whatever. There is a healthy balance to almost anything that is missing in our politics.


Actual quote is "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

[catherine]

What is the saying "those that forget history are doomed to repeat it" or something like that. Or is it lack of education, lack of healthy skepticism, lack of interest, sheep followers, or whatever. There is a healthy balance to almost anything that is missing in our politics.


Actual quote is "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

You know how internet rabbit holes go--yesterday I found myself Wikipedi-ng Franco. Fascinating! I didn't realize he was in power for so long. What prompted me to look into him was a something on TV where Eva Longorio was talking about her show "Finding Spain" and how the regional cuisines (i.e. Basque) didn't return and flourish until after Franco died, because of the nationalistic culture he created.

I found a lot of scary similiarities between Franco's rise to power and what's happening here.

[HappyHiker]

I've been reading about Viktor Orbán, the head of govt. in Hungary. His methodology in repression is darkly similar to what's happening here.

[frugal-one]

https://indivisible.org/statements/i...lag-day-during

Plan on protesting on June 14! No king’s day! Idiot trump wants to spend millions on a stupid parade but cuts funds for medicaid and food programs for children!