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barbtries

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22. it's hard to tell the difference.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:29 AM
Jan 8

I think oh this greenland, canada, panama BS is just deflection, but ... is it? how can we really know? he's so bent there is literally no way to know how the next several years will play out. will the Courts throw enough wrenches into his plans to keep us fed, housed, and whole? Will he throw his political enemies into gulags? Will he shut down every avenue for democrats and the opposition to organize and resist his worst impulses? Will we even have access to news sources that will report the truth?

how do we know? what is the important stuff?

I'm reading The Book Thief. it's a story that takes place in Germany during the Nazis. it was a devastating time in history. It was sort of a coincidence that I picked up this book at this time, and maybe if I'd known more about what it was I wouldn't have read it at this time. But it is a good book, engaging enough to carry me past the foreboding toward the ending. I still don't know if that ending will be everyone dies or just almost everyone dies. What I cannot do is avoid applying, or comparing this history to this actual historical moment in our history.

There's an old saying that history repeats itself. For years the parallels have been noted and discussed, and here we are. He's going to be president again, after having tried to take down democracy violently just 4 years ago. What will he do now without any guardrails in the form of a cabinet that respects the Constitution and the law? They won't be there this time around. only sycophants and oligarchs. Now add in the richest megalomaniac in the world as his insane sidekick.

How do we know?

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